Thursday, July 31, 2025

THE HISTORICAL VALUE OF THE WELSH ARTHURIAN TRADITION

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    ANNALS CAMBRIAE HISTORIA BRITTONUM The early Welsh tradition contains many wonderful stories of Arthur.  But to date, after some three d...

Dispensing Entirely with the Galfridian Narrative as Arthurian History

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I had long ago shown that there is simply no reason to continue looking at the pseudo-history of Geoffrey of Monmouth as anything other than...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Dr. Simon Elliott's Lecture on Emperor Severus in Britain

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A nice lecture by Dr. Simon Elliott on the British campaigns of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus. I'm convinced t...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

ON FALLEN HEROES (NO, NOT WHAT YOU'RE THINKING)

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In the course of some three decades, I've gone from seeing Arthur as a great high medieval king defending Britain from all m...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Plan for Final Nonfiction Arthur Book

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Sword in the Stone, Podstrana, Croatia Working title: "LET NOT ANYONE ESCAPE FROM SHEER DESTRUCTION": A NEW ARGUMENT F...
Thursday, July 3, 2025

THE PHILOSOPHICAL QUANDARY: ANNALES CAMBRIAE OR HISTORIA BRITTONUM FOR ARTHUR?

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Badon and Camlan in AC Arthur's Battles in the HB So what do we believe - that Arthur was of the 6th century A.D. and fought at the Lidd...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

IF ARTHUR = CASTUS, HOW DO WE EXPLAIN THE LATER IRISH ARTHURS?

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My readers will be familiar with my past attempts to account for why the Dark Age Arthurs subsequent to the presumed earlier and...