01-23-2008, 04:25 PM
Thanks, Robert. I had already found your "Face of Arthur" site. I will have to look into it when I have more time as it looks really interesting.
May I offer a suggestion to your book list? It is "An Age of Tyrants: Britain and the Britons, A.D. 400-600" by Christopher A. Snyder (Paperback - Jun 1998). It is a discussion of the progressive disintegration of Britain after the Roman collapse there and it takes its title from, IIRC, Bede. It has an interesting appendix entitled "Appendix A: Arthur and Merlin" which takes an academically detached view of the King Arthur question but notes that, with all of the smoke, there must have been some fire of some sort underneath. He notes that the smoke, the mythos, is so thick as to make finding any coals very difficult if not impossible.
May I offer a suggestion to your book list? It is "An Age of Tyrants: Britain and the Britons, A.D. 400-600" by Christopher A. Snyder (Paperback - Jun 1998). It is a discussion of the progressive disintegration of Britain after the Roman collapse there and it takes its title from, IIRC, Bede. It has an interesting appendix entitled "Appendix A: Arthur and Merlin" which takes an academically detached view of the King Arthur question but notes that, with all of the smoke, there must have been some fire of some sort underneath. He notes that the smoke, the mythos, is so thick as to make finding any coals very difficult if not impossible.
