EN231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Glastonbury Abbey, Historia Brittonum, In Camelot
Document Summary
Global phenomenon keeps returning to britain. His mentor is merlin, an old wizard. Leads the knights of the round table- they keep order of the land. Figure of king arthur is dispersed across numerous locations and texts. There is no master text which tells us his story. Historical character- seen as the product of cultural imagination. Literature: the closest we have to a text about arthur is a barebones texts acting like somewhat as a biography, this is where most of what we know about him is. Stonehenge, tintagel, arthur"s seat, cadbury castle, merlin"s cave, carleton, and glastonbury. Abbey and tor: these locations are all throughout the uk. British history until the norman conquest: celtic peoples, roman invasion of britain (44 bc-410 ad, germanic invasions (angles, saxons, frisians, and jutes) (400-1066) Britain resisted the saxon invasion king vortigern was king of the britains. To protect britain from the scandinavians, he invited saxons to live in britain and fight for them.
