Posted on 01/12/2014 5:38:26 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The Tradition: Geoffrey of Monmouth and other medieval Arthurian writers tell us that Arthur was taken to the Isle of Avalon to be healed of his wounds after the Battle of Camlann. Later tradition assumed that he died and was buried there and identified the place as Glastonbury in Somerset.
The Theory & Discovery: Blackett & Wilson claim that one of the two figures who went to make up "King Arthur" is to be identified with the Emperor Magnus Maximus's son, King Anwn of South Wales. This man, who occasionally may have spelt his name Arthun, they identify with both the real King Arthur and the classical Andragathius who fought for Maximus during his continental campaigns. In searching for his burial-place, Blackett & Wilson claim that the original Glastennen of Arthurian legend became confused with Glastonbury in Somerset. Its original location was at an ancient cemetery called the "Old Bury" near Atherstone in Warwickshire. The village of Glascote stands nearby. They cite the Harleian MS 3859 Pedigree No 25 as proof, by interpreting its last passage "funt glastenic qui uenerunt que uocatur loyt coyt" as meaning that the people of Glastennen lived at a place called Caer-Luit-Coyt, that is nearby Wall in Staffordshire. Blackett & Wilson believe that the Warwickshire Arthurian tradition became absorbed into the tales of the local hero, Guy of Warwick. Final proof came with their apparent discovery of an ancient sub-Roman memorial stone at Old Bury bearing the partial inscription, Artoriu...Iacit in...Maci... - possibly "Artorius lies here (son of) Maci(mus)". Could Atherstone have taken its name from this very monument?
(Excerpt) Read more at earlybritishkingdoms.com ...
Thanks, SunkunCiv!
PINGING a good friend to your thread!
It has been almost 50 years since I read that poem. Thank you.
Kinder and gentler? Obviously you haven’t read “Red Dragon” by Thomas Harris where Hannibal Lecter appears for the first time
as a minor villain.
Made into two pretty good serial killer movies.
Nope, but then again, my family dynamic hasn’t made it into books yet. ;’)
Who knows? Magnus Maximus taking troops to the continent to pursue the throne seems to have begun the period of instability before all the legions left.
Somebody had to...
Arthurian References in the Annales Cambriae (Annals of Wales)
University of Rochester
by: Anonymous (Author), Alan Lupack (Translator)
from: The Camelot Project 2002
http://d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/text/arthurian-references-in-annales-cambriae
516. LXXII. Annus. Bellum Badonis, in quo Arthur portavit crucem Domini nostri Jesu Christi tribus diebus et tribus noctibus in humeros suos et Britones victores fuerunt.
516. The Battle of Badon, in which Arthur carried the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ for three days and three nights on his shoulders and the Britons were victors.
537. XCIII. Annus. Gueith Camlann, in qua Arthur et Medraut corruere; et mortalitas in Brittania et in Hibernia fuit.
537. The Battle of Camlann in which Arthur and Medraut fell, and there was devestation in Britain and in Ireland.
None too good, this video, but the soundtrack is GREAT. Some interesting related vid links.
Oldbury (Near Atherstone) Warwickshire - King Artorius I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EuWwdaTUvg
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