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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Replying to @PeritiaEditors
@PeritiaEditors Agreed. I share your scepticism.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @EarlyScotland
@EarlyScotland it’s funny how a new “real” Arthur theory comes round every few years...1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @PeritiaEditors
@PeritiaEditors@EarlyScotland **agrees entirely**1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @caitlinrgreen
@caitlinrgreen@EarlyScotland I’ve always found the lack of Arthur in Gildas telling. Though dating & situating Gildas =#canofworms2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes -
Replying to @PeritiaEditors
@PeritiaEditors@EarlyScotland Yes, it certainly is suggestive, I find--tho' so too is the general presentation of Arthur in the early >1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @caitlinrgreen
@PeritiaEditors@EarlyScotland >Welsh etc material, as Oliver Padel long ago observed! Gildas difficult for those reasons+as not historian,>2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @caitlinrgreen
@caitlinrgreen@EarlyScotland true & Oliver Padel’s work is class. Dating that Welsh material is so difficult though1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @PeritiaEditors
@PeritiaEditors@EarlyScotland It really is great, def inspiring! On dating, agreed tho I still think Koch's *linguistic* work worth noting>1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @caitlinrgreen
@PeritiaEditors@EarlyScotland >rejection by Padel et al of his Gododdin focused primarily on textual history aspects, not linguistics iirc>2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@PeritiaEditors @EarlyScotland >tho' this sometimes seems forgotten. Also find attempts to date vast amounts of W corpus into 12thC a >
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen
@PeritiaEditors@EarlyScotland > little difficult... If everything is 12thC, then what existed before? Just Juvencus & a few other bits?! :)1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @caitlinrgreen
@caitlinrgreen@EarlyScotland yeah it’s a problem. The opposite of Irish really, where even a few early forms are always seized eagerly0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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