Or was he real at all? It reminds me of the search for the “historical” Niall of the Nine Hostages...https://twitter.com/EarlyScotland/status/650601834965561344 …
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@caitlinrgreen@EarlyScotland I’ve always found the lack of Arthur in Gildas telling. Though dating & situating Gildas =#canofworms -
@PeritiaEditors@EarlyScotland Yes, it certainly is suggestive, I find--tho' so too is the general presentation of Arthur in the early > -
@PeritiaEditors@EarlyScotland >Welsh etc material, as Oliver Padel long ago observed! Gildas difficult for those reasons+as not historian,> -
@caitlinrgreen@EarlyScotland true & Oliver Padel’s work is class. Dating that Welsh material is so difficult though -
@PeritiaEditors@EarlyScotland It really is great, def inspiring! On dating, agreed tho I still think Koch's *linguistic* work worth noting> -
@PeritiaEditors@EarlyScotland >rejection by Padel et al of his Gododdin focused primarily on textual history aspects, not linguistics iirc> -
@caitlinrgreen@EarlyScotland recently Patrick Sims-Williams gave a great paper where (he cautiously) reaffirmed an early Gododdin -
@PeritiaEditors@EarlyScotland Oh, that's good to know--spent so much time on other stuff recently I missed that! Where was that? I do > - 2 more replies
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