Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site persci.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tikal!cholula!persci!bill From: bill@persci.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang.celts Subject: Re: King Arthur Message-ID: <227@persci.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 18:39:23 EDT Article-I.D.: persci.227 Posted: Fri Jul 12 18:39:23 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 14:40:01 EDT References: <123@rpics.UUCP> <204@persci.UUCP> <281@rti-sel.UUCP> <432@h-sc1.UUCP> Reply-To: bill@persci.UUCP (Bill Swan) Distribution: net Organization: Personal Scientific, Woodinville WA Lines: 25 Summary: In article <432@h-sc1.UUCP> friedman@h-sc1.UUCP (dawn friedman) writes: > >I've been plowing through a small percentage of the various versions >of the Arthur legend(s) from Malory on -- say, about twenty books in >the past couple of months. One idea that modern writers have picked >up on is that Arthur may have been an actual king of the Celts in >England, around the time that Rome gave up on maintaining a presence >in Britain and the Saxons were able to move in (the Celts having >leaned on Roman protection too long) -- that would be around 400 AD, >I think? But I don't know anything about the evidence they used; [...] ?? I thought that the "Angles" were under protection from the Romans, and that Hadrian's wall (and another, further north, I think, I can't remember what it was called) was built as a defence to keep the Celts and the Picts out. Other than that, I can't argue. It certainly doesn't seem like a Germanic legend. I vaguely remember reading something about 8 to 10 years back, I think, in a newspaper (no, I don't believe all that I read in the newspapers) that some archaelogists had uncovered a grave that for some reason they thought might have belonged to the real king upon which the legend was based. Did anybody else see this? Does anyone remember any details? -- Bill Swan {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill