The Vitality of the Arthurian Legend: A SymposiumMette Pors Proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium organised by the Centre for the Study of Vernacular Literature in the Middle Ages held at the Odense University on 16-17 November 1987. |
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... battle took place when So - and so was emperor , or his last when So - and - so was pope . He drifts in a temporal void . There is a further crux . His crowning victory is stated to have been the battle of Badon . This was an actual battle ...
... battle took place when So - and so was emperor , or his last when So - and - so was pope . He drifts in a temporal void . There is a further crux . His crowning victory is stated to have been the battle of Badon . This was an actual battle ...
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... battle near Angers , in which the King's Britons may have played a part . But treachery was undermining him . Arvandus , Gaul's imperial prefect , approached the Visigoths with a proposal for them to crush the British army , then ...
... battle near Angers , in which the King's Britons may have played a part . But treachery was undermining him . Arvandus , Gaul's imperial prefect , approached the Visigoths with a proposal for them to crush the British army , then ...
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... battle of Badon , and also with the " strife of Camlann " said to have occurred twenty - one years afterwards . In Geoffrey's hands they become battles at Bath and on the River Camel in Cornwall , fitted into Arthur's career before and ...
... battle of Badon , and also with the " strife of Camlann " said to have occurred twenty - one years afterwards . In Geoffrey's hands they become battles at Bath and on the River Camel in Cornwall , fitted into Arthur's career before and ...
Contents
An Introduction to the Story of Arthur | 13 |
The Historical Origins of the Arthurian Legend | 25 |
Recent Progress | 45 |
Copyright | |
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