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Fabled King Arthur ‘was a Scottish warlord’
The Scotsman ^
| 11-26-2013
| EMMA COWING
Posted on 11/25/2013 6:29:25 PM PST by Renfield
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posted on
11/25/2013 6:29:25 PM PST
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Renfield
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
11/25/2013 6:29:45 PM PST
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Renfield
(Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
To: Renfield
No he is wrong. Camelot was the home of an Irish King from Boston. He was a killed by McOswald.
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posted on
11/25/2013 6:35:34 PM PST
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: Renfield; SunkenCiv; Revolting cat!
Arthur was actually Arthur Mac Aedan, the sixth-century son of an ancient King of Scotland, whose Camelot was a marsh in Argyll. A boggy swamp? That suits the Kennedy Legacy about right.
To: Renfield
‘Scots, wha hæ wi Wallace bled,
Scots, wham Bruce has aften led,
Welcome tæ yer gory bed,
Or tæ victorie
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posted on
11/25/2013 6:44:07 PM PST
by
dynachrome
(Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
To: Renfield
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posted on
11/25/2013 6:44:35 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
To: Renfield
as a Scottish man of the druidic Old Way, he was the last of his kindI never knew Arthur was Druish.
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posted on
11/25/2013 6:49:01 PM PST
by
MUDDOG
To: Renfield
an island in the western seas of England?
isle of mann?
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posted on
11/25/2013 6:52:07 PM PST
by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: MUDDOG
Funny, he didn’t look Druish...
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posted on
11/25/2013 6:54:11 PM PST
by
To Hell With Poverty
(Ephesians 6:12 becomes more real to me with each news cycle.)
To: Renfield
whose Camelot was a marsh in Argyll King of Swamp Castle: When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.
To: Renfield
Oh a new King Arthur interpretation and spanking new book to boot. I prefer the traditional one. Otoh, there is the introduction of the murky grassy gnome element in this tale— that troubles me. It just doesn't add up...
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posted on
11/25/2013 6:58:43 PM PST
by
Dysart
(Obamacare: "We are losing money on every subscriber-- but we will make it up in volume!")
To: Renfield
"If it not Scottish, it's CRAP!"
To: To Hell With Poverty
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posted on
11/25/2013 7:05:45 PM PST
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MUDDOG
To: Renfield
Thanks for the post! What seems clear from all the legends and literature is that the one thing he was NOT was English. I’m guessing the Welsh side was the easiest locale for the English to accept (and later push) because they’d been the least ferocious in their hatred of the Sassenach.
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posted on
11/25/2013 7:17:50 PM PST
by
Mach9
To: Renfield
Nearly all the ancient kings are buried at Iona. As for Kilmartin Glen..I dont know, but, that was the area where the ancient kings ruled. These were the Picts, and the Scotty Irish kicked them out, eventually. The Picts simply vanished over a very short time. Lots of grave slabs over there that are really interesting to look at. Especially at Kilmartin.
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posted on
11/25/2013 7:18:13 PM PST
by
crz
To: yarddog
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posted on
11/25/2013 8:00:04 PM PST
by
Aria
( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
To: yarddog
No the camellot is outside of Riyadh.
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posted on
11/25/2013 8:19:07 PM PST
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: Renfield
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posted on
11/25/2013 9:14:00 PM PST
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Renfield; a fool in paradise; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; ...
Thanks for the topic and pings! It's gotten more and more easy to believe that Arthur's story is a composite, some of which is lock stock and barrel borrowed from non-British folklore. And one of the Arthur stories has him conquering Gaul, a distorted recollection of a couple of Roman-era emperor wannabees, while other aspects appear to derive from Pre-Roman British characters. And the placename "Camelot" is obviously Camulodunum, Roman Colchester.
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posted on
11/25/2013 11:18:57 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
To: Renfield
Sounds interesting, BUT,
“Ardrey, an amateur historian who works as an advocate in Edinburgh”
If he was from France, Arthur would be French, Italy, he would be Italian - I see some chauvanism here.
I think Arthur was a Romano-British Warlord “Dux Bellorum” (Chief of Battles)who fought the Saxons sometime after the Romans pulled out of Britain.
The name Arthur appears related to a Latin word for “bear”, Prior to his activities in the late 5th and early 6th Century, Arthur was a relatively rare name. After that time, every other Celt in Britain was naming his kids after him. I think the best sources are Nennius and Gildas.
Nevertheless, in my efforts to read as much as possible about the REAL Arthur, not the fantasy of Sir Thomas Mallory, I must read this book.
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posted on
11/25/2013 11:41:21 PM PST
by
ZULU
(Impeach that Bastard Barrack Hussein Obama the Doctor Mengele of Medical Care)
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