The worst thing about the word "Anglo-Saxon" trending is how it's invited all the racist white people from the UK to weigh in
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I mean that's why it's funny, honestly, the basic situation of Arthur standing against the "invading Saxon hordes" is deeply ingrained in the story, you can't remove it But you have these 15th-century High Middle Ages English toffs imagining Arthur as one of them
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It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever but it's baked into what the whole idea of "King Arthur" is It's like when political cartoonists imagined "Columbia", the anthropomorphic personification of the United States, as a Native woman (in buckskins and whatnot)
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Agreed. My aforementioned notion of "real" is meant to be a REAAAALLY broad concept, in the "fact became history ... became Romanticism ... became a conlanger's reinvention in the 20th century ... became fanfiction" kind of sense that there is some ~ deeper root to most things.
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I think that any argument on "was Arthur real" needs to agree on what exactly is meant by "Arthur" Like, were there some Brythonic leaders in sub-Roman Britain & Brittany who tangled with Germanic and Roman leaders, obviously But that's clearly not all people mean by "Arthur"
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And the earliest stories we have about him are Welsh! (He wasn't named "Arthur" but it's clearly the same story cycle)
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