Friday, May 14, 2021

STIRLING/"STRIVELIN": A THOROUGHLY BRITISH, NOT GAELIC, PLACE-NAME

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Professor Thomas Owen Clancy is, at present, usually considered the man who has produced the best etymology for the obscure place-name Stirl...
Tuesday, May 11, 2021

THE BATTLE OF ARGOET LLWYFAIN

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Bonchester Hill Fort NOTE: The Battle of Argoet Llwyfain In the Taliesin poetry, we learn of a battle fought by Owein, son of Urien, suppose...

GODEU/GODDEU: AN IDENTIFICATION OF PLANT(S) AND PLACE

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Gorse Heather Heather and Gorse Many years ago, I suggested that the place-name and noun Godeu/Goddeu of Welsh poetry and myth was a sort of...
Friday, May 7, 2021

THE STRATEGOS AND LUCIUS ARTORIUS CASTUS: A SELECTION FROM PATRICIA SOUTHERN'S BOOK

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There has been disagreement among Arthurian enthusiasts about the nature of the strategos mentioned in Dio Cassius' biography of Commodu...
Wednesday, May 5, 2021

WAR ON THE WALL, A MUTINY AND THE EXECUTION OF THE PRAETORIAN PREFECT OF ROME: THE BRITISH CAREER OF LUCIUS ARTORIUS CASTUS

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Hadrian's Wall I. THE LUCIUS ARTORIUS STONE INSCRIPTION First off, what the inscription does - and does not - say. It does not say that ...
Thursday, April 29, 2021

A VICTORY IN BRITAIN AND THE EXECUTION OF PERENNIS: COULD LUCIUS ARTORIUS CASTUS HAVE BEEN A PRIMARY ACTOR IN BOTH EVENTS?

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Commodus coin with Felix title, assumed by the Emperor after the killing of Perennis In the following blog piece - https://mistshadows.blogs...