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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... question " did King Arthur exist ? " is the right question to ask , and he convincingly discusses his theory put forward in his " The Discovery of King Arthur " published in 1985. In this book Mr. Ashe is the first scholar to take ...
... question " did King Arthur exist ? " is the right question to ask , and he convincingly discusses his theory put forward in his " The Discovery of King Arthur " published in 1985. In this book Mr. Ashe is the first scholar to take ...
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... question . Historians have been right to exclude what is said of him in other Welsh matter , in the penumbra of saga ... questions as whether he went to Oxford or Cambridge . ( It was Oxford , by the way , though the incident proving it ...
... question . Historians have been right to exclude what is said of him in other Welsh matter , in the penumbra of saga ... questions as whether he went to Oxford or Cambridge . ( It was Oxford , by the way , though the incident proving it ...
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... question has altered . Riothamus , the high king , undoubtedly did exist . We even have a letter to him , by Sidonius . The question now is whether , under the name " Arthur " however acquired , he is the starting - point of the leg ...
... question has altered . Riothamus , the high king , undoubtedly did exist . We even have a letter to him , by Sidonius . The question now is whether , under the name " Arthur " however acquired , he is the starting - point of the leg ...
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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