With regard to Old Oswestry being the place "where King Arthur's Guinevere was born", this is an intriguing claim...! Thomas Pennant, an >
@STORI3D_PAST Well, it's an interesting one---earliest evidence suggests Arthur known in S. Wales and S. Scotland in 6thC! Question is, >
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@STORI3D_PAST > what was he famous for? He's absent from Armes Prydein, the great poem of resistance etc, after all, and Saxons get no > -
@STORI3D_PAST > mention in the non-historical materials, so was he famous generally for the non-historical bits? The giant-killing, boar > -
@STORI3D_PAST > hunting, witch slaying and the like of Culhwch, Pa Gur and the like?! An interesting conundrum! :) -
@caitlinrgreen One of the best mysteries of all time! I'm in the Riothamus camp for his origin story. I think R was Briton, not Breton -
@caitlinrgreen How 5th C Riothamus became 6th C "Mt Badon" Arthur is the tricky bit! Maybe his army took his name & used it as their own -
@STORI3D_PAST Riotamus is fascinating! But is he Arthur? Hmm! I kinda like Ambrosius as the victor of Badon & thus a composite Arthur! ;) -
@caitlinrgreen Ambrosius is another one of those gorgeous 5th-6th C conundrums. Perfect Roman name, noble lineage, otherwise mystery!
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