Sub-Roman Britain (Cavalry etc)

[Agraes]

Arthuis and Arthur are different names. Same goes for the name Arthnou found on a Tintagel slate fragment. South Cadbury was excavated partially, that's true, yet enough of the hillfort was excavated for Alcock to found a possible aristocratic timber hall remains.

Study of this era really doesn't need to be speculative. Solid methodology is being applied by modern scholars, based on a critical approach of the available sources and archaeology. The only link with Arthur beeing that this is the possible era which had seen him evolves if he ever existed, or at least the era of many characters that inspired the myth.

Folktales are... Folktales. Some may have a true basis, but without any proof to back it up we will never know. There is many supposed resting places of Arthur in the British isles, Brittany and even in Sicilia. Speculation would perhaps explain this was because of the empire Arthur built in Britain and the continent. Scholarship, historiography and hagiography explain it a different way, with the spread of early arthurian legends in the 9th and 10th century in Wales, south-western Scotland, Cornwall and Brittany from the rest of Europe and the creation of the 'Matter of Britain'. Breton knights accompagnied the Normans in their conquest of Sicilia, that's an easier explanation for why Arthurian myth spreads so far south.