ENG 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Annales Cambriae, High Middle Ages, Asteroid Family
24 Jun 2016
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What we ultimately see in historical representation of arthur is total chaos. Many of the hypotheses are inconsistent of what we know of the period. We can only surmise that there was an arthur. We only know there was a battle of baden hill. If he was really there, he"d be commander of british forces. Modern writers construct significant pedigrees for arthur, guinevere, but these are futile. Such studies are based on geoffrey of monmouth or medieval attempts to reconcile geoffrey with medieval genealogies. Word of oral transmission makes it easier to add inventions to inventions. So many editions of written works, alterations, that we should think twice for accepting the voracity of this very early material. Historical arthur of central middle ages, had his roots in a roman artorius who had been taken up and developed within british folk tales, and stories already widespread by beginning of 9 th century.
