The Men Scryfa at Madron, Cornwall; inscribed RIALOBRANI CVNOVALI FILI and considered by Charles Thomas to probably date from the 6th century AD.pic.twitter.com/KrhY0QrYZw
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> and the fact that here in Cornwall local folklore chooses to associate him with the Vikings is intriguing; it perhaps helps illustrate the process of 'historicisation' argued to lie behind his association with Badon etc? :)
True :) Intriguingly, there is some Hiberno-Norse etc metalwork from western Cornwall, of course...!
It's interesting to ponder -- one theory is that Badon was probably fought by Ambrosius Aurelianus (based on a re-examination of the MS), but that he was too 'Roman' (and had some odd folklore associated with him by the 9thC!), so the author of the HB 'created' a British hero >
> for contemporary British/Welsh kings to emulate by historicising Arthur with Badon and a selection of other battles (with subsequent references to a 'historical Arthur' arguably being derivative of the Historia Brittonum)...
(This is, fwiw, the Padel–Green–Higham model of the development of the early Arthurian legend; other competing theories are, of course, available...! ;) )
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