The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon

[Agraes]

There is actually even less proof of the existence of Uther than of Arthur. He made his first apparences in Welsh litterature and in Monmouth's HRB. There is even a theory that its a mistake from the expression Arthur mab Utr, which can means Arthur son of Uther but also Arthur, terrible son...

And seriously, how can a victorian painting can be a proof for a possible sarmatian origin of Arthur? That's nonsense...

Pendragon means "dragon head", or "head of the dragons", possibly refering to horsemen which used draconarius as enseign. This enseign was of thracian or sarmatian origin but it was adopted by the Romans who pass it to numerous cultures, including the Britons.

"Excalibur" got celtic roots. Its welsh name is Caledfwch, which is the same than the irish Caladbolg, the sword of Fergus mac Roth.


There was probably Sarmatian influence in Britain at some point, either directly or via the Romans, there is even an irish tradition refering to Sarmatians as ancestor of the Dal Riatta tribe. But whole arthurian myth... Shame that theories of this kind bring way more attention from the public than serious studies and true scholarship...