The Votadini exodus to Wales

[Alanus]

I'm too broke to put money on anything. :lol:

You are probably correct about ficticious daughters, but they were needed: otherwise we'd have no spurious pedigrees at all! Whenever the genealogical "doctors" got ahold of the original Brecan ms., they turned two battles into pedigrees. Somehow, the tribune Marcellus got a sex change and became "Marshall," the daughter of either Tewdrig or Mauric. :roll: She went on to birth Brycon. Then we have "Arthur's" famous sister Anna, who maybe fell out of the Bible while delivering Saint Samson... or was it Saint David? I really can't remember, somewhat confused by the great number of children and saints that all these authentic daughters had.

I know that the genealogies are bogus and inflated, but without them we would have nothing in the way of psudo-history at all. We have good, honest, men like Darrell Wolcott, who study these things with serious dillegence. I applaud them, don't argee with them, but admire their seemingly tail-chasing efforts.

And where would we be without the lovely and talented Rowena? I always believed she was carried back to Wales after the Revenge... where she founded the Glamorgan Knife Shapening School.

If you get the chance, pull up the Iolo Manuscripts on Google Book Search. The faxcimiles of manuscripts 1 and 2 are shown in an illustration. Iolo was a great faker, but he'd have to change his handwriting and penmanship to an extreme to create one and the other.

tight lines,

Alanus, A.J. Campbell