Arthuriana has been something of a test case in how people can spin a vision of him based on tenuous and unconnected sources.
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Replying to @DrJTheodore @caitlinrgreen
That "Age of Arthur" book - still very popular to this day - is a prime example.
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Replying to @DrJTheodore
True :-/ Personally, I find the fact that ppl mainly search for a '(pseudo)historical Arthur's & so the rich early legend often receives >
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @DrJTheodore
> little attention most irritating of all: it's fascinating! Eg. PA https://www.academia.edu/24372661/An_Alternative_Interpretation_of_Preideu_Annwfyn_lines_23-28 … Padel's fab 1994 article is rare exception, ofc…
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Replying to @DrJTheodore
No worries, just an example of how rich and allusive some of the early, utterly non-historical, Welsh Arthurian material is :)
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen
It is indeed. And barely discussed outside of very specific academic circles
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Replying to @DrJTheodore
Sadly so,+attempts to do so just don't reach same audience as yet another rehash of Historia's 12 battles "proving" they were fought in XYZ…
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Replying to @DrJTheodore @caitlinrgreen
(I have an unfinished essay sitting on Robert Stephen Hawker & the invention of Arthurian Cornwall)
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I recall you saying! Would be interested to read when it's done :)
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @DrJTheodore
sadly....the REF....you know....? But I will get to it
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