Friday, September 27, 2019

MY FINAL STATEMENT REGARDING THE IDENTITY (AND VERACITY) OF UTHER PENDRAGON, ARTHUR'S FATHER

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A great many people have asked me over the years to "finally settle on your best guess for who exactly Uther Pendragon was." ...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019

CRUDELISQUE TYRANNI AND UTHER PENDRAGON: WAS CEREDIG OF STRATHCLYDE ARTHUR'S FATHER?

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Dumbarton Rock and Castle According to Nicholas J. Higham (see https://books.google.com/books?id=dn11DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA186&lpg=PA1...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019

UTHER PENDRAGON AS A POETIC TITLE FOR AMBROSIUS AURELIANUS (An Old Idea Refloated)

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Vortigern, Ambrosius and the Dragons Years ago I wrote the following, suggesting later that Uther Pendragon as a doublet for Ambrosiu...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

The Sword in the Anvil and the Sword in the Floating Stone or How a Lot of Silliness Goes into the Making of a Great Story

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[For my older pieces on Arthur's sword, found in my book THE MYSTERIES OF AVALON, see https://mistshadows.blogspot.com/2020/07/king-a...
Saturday, September 14, 2019

THE DACIAN ANDESITE SUN ALTAR AND ITS STONE RAY: ANOTHER SWORD IN THE STONE?

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Images Courtesy  http://www.cosmopoetry.ro/astrosarmizegetusas/ Many years ago, in my book THE MYSTERIES OF AVALON (due to be r...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

THE COMATI OR 'LONG-HAIRED' ONES: A CLASS OF DACIAN WARRIOR

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A Dacian Warrior 9.1 “Decebalus had sent envoys even before his defeat, not the long-haired men [comati] this time, as before, but th...

Images of the Falx from Ancient Dacia

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https://www.academia.edu/19730425/Dacorum_falces._Armele_%C3%AEncovoiate_ale_dacilor The bottom images are of the falx as found at th...