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Graeme Fife’s Arthur the King

Who was the real Arthur? Many authors today dig into history and piece together the fragments they find there. They offer us Arthur as Celtic chieftain or as Roman warlord. They find traces of him in the Mabinogion, and speculate … Continue reading

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O. J. Padel’s Arthur in Medieval Welsh Literature

Lisa Spangenberg penned this review. Since the earliest references to King Arthur occur in medieval Welsh poetry, it has been almost de rigeur to assert that Arthur, and hence the ancestry of Arthurian literature and myth, lies in Celtic tales … Continue reading

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