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Historians claim to have identified the site of the Round Table of King Arthur, at a site near Chester. A recently uncovered collesium like structure is believed the be the fabled location. It could seat about 1,000 people, nobles and retainers mostly, and would have been an assembly area for preparing for war. Thought it was interesting since there has been some interest in Ancient Briton and associated areas.
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Do I Smell a New TS/BC Project?
WOW!
Maybe I should write Persephone and inform her we have a new project for Elva Gunnarson to work on. Perhaps she can dig up some new dirt, (pun intended), on 'Lady' Guinevere.
Nancy Cole
www.nancycole.org
"You may be what you resolve to be."
T.J. Jackson
Something humorous perhaps?
How about Sir Gawaine and the Green Nightie?
:)
Persephone
Non sum qualis eram
Yes Please
Mint-green is my favourite colour.
Then there's always 'Chain male' (ooh, kinky!)
Susie
The round table
I thought the round table was at Anne Boleyn's house, least that's what they told us when we went there.
Ye live an' learn, don'tcha?
I don't just look it, I'm totally into all that Merlin and King Arthur stuff
No it's actually
in my back yard!
S.
When I was at school…
…and visited Winchester Cathedral on one of those wonderful “school trips†that we all loved so much, I am sure we were told that the ginormous “dart board-like thingy†hanging on one of the walls was King Arthur's round table.
Have I lived my life under a sad misapprehension? Hmmm…
Gabi.
Gabi.
King Arthur
OK, can someone help me? How much of this King Arthur story is true? Last week I walked in on the young women I am visiting as they were watching "King Arthur" the Movie, with Sean Connery, and Julia Ormond. (1995). Well, Sean Connery in that movie just makes me puddle up, GASP ! Though I hear that in real life, he is a bastard to women. :( I was so shattered when King Arthur walked in on his wife and L ! How could she !!!
So, how much of the history surrounding the movie is fact? Wasn't burning his body on a boat a Nordic custom? So far, my internet searches seem to be indicating that this was not real history, and I find this profoundly disappointing.
Much Peace
Khadijah Gwen
Arthur is mostly legend
A mixture of native Celtic myths, imports from the Roman empire and later additions, Arthur may also have a historical basis. Some warleader or king, possibly named Artorius Rigotamos, may have pulled the Romanized Celts together after Rome left and apparently was slain by treachery in battle but the nearest written history of this man is 100 years after the facts. Rigotamos is a title meaning High King.
Some of the least likely details of Arthur's story match up closely with similar legends from the Ukraine, and Scythian mercenaries were known to have been part of the Roman forces in Britain. That's weird, huh?
Other parts of the stories appear to have been grafted on later. Galahad is a German legend (Harold), probably added by the Saxons. The Welsh monks of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries loved the stories of Arthur and most likely contributed a lot of the elaborations until the modern fantasists got busy. :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
One known fact about King Arthur & his knights
They ate ham and jam and spam a lot.
(See the archival footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfGpVcdqeS0 )
And remember...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifLqzLEB3E0