King Arthur riding a goat & fighting a cat, from the Otranto mosaic, 1163–5, Italy #InternationalCatDay :)pic.twitter.com/jJtwOlk5TV
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King Arthur riding a goat & fighting a cat, from the Otranto mosaic, 1163–5, Italy #InternationalCatDay :)pic.twitter.com/jJtwOlk5TV
The 12th-century Otranto mosaic seems to show King Arthur being killed by the cat! Compare the late 12th-century Romanz des Franceis...pic.twitter.com/NEKdl3ThAm
Ah, the Welsh version is better—Cai defeats it.
Ah, yes, in 'Pa gur?'! :) Fwiw, I'd suggest that all the sources are recounting a generally Arthurian battle, with Cei simply made prominent in Pa gur’s telling and Arthur used elsewhere :)
“Pa Gur”, and I think there is a triad about Cath Palug. As to Cai, well, he does seem to be a Welsh favorite, though I can’t imagine why.
Yes, there is, swimming the Menai Straits! Bromwich compares to monstrous sea-cats of St Brendan with eyes "bigger than a brazen cauldron" :)
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