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Richard D. Hall speaks to Adrian Gilbert about his latest book “The Blood of Avalon”. The book continues on from his earlier work with historians Wilson and Blackett about the real King Arthur in South Wales. He has made some incredible discoveries independent of Wilson and Blackett which provide further evidence that the famous King Arthur legend does in fact originate in Glamorgan. By analysing various place names he has pin pointed the actual location of the Grail Castle spoken of in Arthurian legend. He also explains that the name of the church which Wilson and Blackett excavated in 1990, where Arthurian artefacts were found, is named after Bedivere, one of Arthur’s knights. This area is known in legends as Avalon, and was able to hold onto its original history for many years due to the fact that the land remained for centuries outside of Norman rule. Adrian explains how blood lines are crucially important when making a claim to the throne. The Holy Grail Arthurian bloodline could present a major threat to the current royal bloodline of the UK, which might explain the attempts to bury Wilson and Blackett and their research - and why someone in 2011 detonated a bomb strategically placed under Baram Blacket's bed.
PART 1 OF 3 - Dangerous History
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PART 2 OF 3 - Dangerous History
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PART 3 OF 3 - Dangerous History
Getting it all wrong? "Beginning at around 410BC following the departure of the Romans."????
ReplyDelete@ https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/gzbdxg/king-arthurs-britain-the-truth-unearthed/
REVIEW
by Huw Fullerton
Despite the title, this involving new documentary doesn’t focus that heavily on a certain Mr Pendragon and his knights of the round table, instead delving into the murky historical period that Arthurian legends first sprang from – the Dark Ages.
Beginning at around 410BC following the departure of the Romans, this 200-year period famously saw British society and the economy collapse while bands of overseas invaders put the local Britons through hell (stylishly re-created using animation here), all while the written word nearly died out.
But how true is that interpretation? Professor Alice Roberts isn’t so sure, describing the Dark Ages as “one of the most mysterious and misunderstood periods in British history” – and as she uses the latest archaeological techniques to uncover new secrets, some fresh light is cast on the old stories.
SUMMARY
With access to a major new excavation on the Tintagel peninsula in Cornwall, Professor Alice Roberts pulls together the latest evidence to reveal what Dark Age Britain was really like. Long known to have been a Dark Ages settlement, the new evidence reveals that Tintagel was also a seat of power, and Alice explores the link between the location and Arthurian legend, tracking down the early sources for the period and the first written reference to King Arthur.
CAST & CREW
Presenter Professor Alice Roberts
Director Kenny Scott
Editor Francis Robertson
Editor Andy Lloyd
Editor Hugh Lewis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM6o70AuRBY
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Published on 1 Aug 2014
King Arthur son of Uther Pendragon and his Knights of the Round Table in Camelot, with his advisor Merlin, and his trusty sword Excalibur, has been a fascination to all walks of life for hundreds of years. In the romances King Arthur is married to Guinevere and he successfully warred against the Saxons of South East Britain under their ruler Hengist. The romances tell how Hengist was allowed into this country by invitation of the traitor Vortigern, and who by way of treachery had slain several hundred of the Nobles of Britain. They also tell how Arthur planned a vastly successful campaign of all Britain, Europe, and even Rome itself which culminated in the killing of the Roman Emperor. Many scholars have become perplexed in their searches for a single Arthur who achieved all the above told in the later classics. The reality is a little different. There were several Arthur's of Britain but only two who match the exploits given in the classics. One was a General and son of the British Western Emperor Magnus Maximus, who in the late 4th Century with his armies of Britain set off for Europe and took on the might of Rome, killing its Emperor Gratian.
The later Arthur was a King of the 6th Century. He was the son of Meurig ap Tewdrig and it was this King Arthur that successfully defeated the Saxons. There was in his time a catastrophic natural disaster which hit the Island of Britain at the latter end of the 6th Century, causing terrible fires throughout the land and major flooding in other parts by a massive Tsunami.
The confused histories by later writers such as Geoffrey of Monmouth made a major mistake and accidentally merged these two Arthur's into one Mighty King Arthur. This has caused untold havoc in trying to authenticate British History, which has been compounded even more with the deliberate suffocation of our British Heritage by parties that do not want this story told - the ramifications of what is revealed via this Arthur research is very disturbing for the religious and political powers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxN1EaNxx30
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Published on 20 Nov 2013
Alan Wilson and Baram Blackett discuss their research in the hunt for King Arthur. Artorius Rex had been found and was clearly two separate King Arthur's, one a son of Magnus Maximus of the 4th Century AD, and the other King Arthur (Athrwys ap Meurig) was of the 6th Century AD.
A Resurrection of Wrongly Discarded British History
Sixty years ago an unprecedented onslaught was launched against the most detailed and best preserved history in Western Europe. The attack on South East Wales history was made by G J Williams from North Wales who alleged that a few dark age poems were not of the pre-1367 era, but were instead forgeries written around 1800. This allegation was made over the BBC state-controlled radio and no challenge was allowed. Like a computer virus this then spread to further absurd allegations which gradually encompassed the entire corpus of South East Wales ancient history. Everything was now alleged to be tainted and forged. The result was that academia ran for cover and totally avoided the entire subject.
This book "Artorius Rex Discovered" is the first attempt to resurrect this wrongly murdered and quite innocent dark age history. The fact is that this incredibly detailed history stands up to examination in hundreds of ways whenever tested. If the forgery allegation were true, then we are invited to believe that over a period of 1000 years several hundred scholars, bards, monks and even one King who wrote a history, all combined together from all over Wales to produce a totally interlocking fabricated history, complete with ancient ruined castles, forts, manors, battlesites, graveyards, named grave mounds, churches, ancient inscribed stones, skeletons in stone coffins, and even a vast 2000-year old ancient ironworks!
Hundreds of complex interlocking genealogies - all of which fit together with the records in the ancient poetry, cathedral charters, the histories, the triads, and the inscriptions on over 200 inscribed stones - lay such a solid foundation that there can be no question of forgery.
The only trouble is that this is based on the BBC programme on the Tintagel dig. It confirms what was essentially already known that the defensive promontary was the site of celtic and romano british settlements based around the sought after tin. It added virtually nothing to revealing anything about the legendary king arthur figure, but that was how it was promoted. In fact it promoted the academic establishment view that in reality there was no such historical figure. No mention was made of the hard evidence uncovered - both textual and archeological - to the two Welsh Arthurs, who were regarded as kings of glamorgan in the fifth and sixth centuries. Whether these individuals also controlled their Cornish cousins, or whether in fact they saw them as competitors and adversaries, is unclear. But it does seem that the researches and discoveries of Wilson and Blackett have been actively and violently repressed because of their potential to upset received opinion on the subject. There is also a move in academic circles to suggest there was little in the way of conflict in post roman britain between the romano celts and invading anglo saxons, maybe in the context of the current objective of frustrating brexit, which is in full sail. Cornwall and Wales undoubtedly shared a pre roman celtic culture and language with other areas of europe, which was progressively subsumed and marginalised, first by the romans and then the anglo saxons. It beggars belief that this would not have been resisted militarily, and no military resistance is possible without leadership and coordination. Two king arthurs did exist in wales in the post roman period but they may not have been the only ones. There was also advanced culture west of the Wansdyke just as there was west of offa's dyke, with many documented battles. It would be highly surprising if the leader or leaders of this resistance did not gain mythological status, particularly when their efforts, though heroic, were finally doomed to failure.
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ReplyDeleteTo counter the BBC's suggestion that everything was a process of peaceful assimilation the following is a list of KNOWN battles to decide territory and ascendancy.
ReplyDeleteLargely extracted from https://en.wikipedia.org/.../List_of_battles_301%E2%80...
"455 Battle of Aylesford Britons and Anglo-Saxons battle in Kent, victory is unclear.
466 Battle of Wippedesfleot The Saxons under Hengest battle the Britons, victory is undecided.
485 Battle of Mercredesburne Saxons under Aelle defeats British defenders.
500 Battle of Mons Badonicus or Battle of Mynydd Baddon. British forces defeat the Saxons decisively, ending their advance into British lands. Later connected to King Arthur.
537 Battle of Camlann King Arthur killed, perhaps mythical, by Mordred.
573 Battle of Arfderydd Welsh battle between Christian and non-Christian forces; Gwenddoleu dies.
577 Battle of Deorham West Saxons defeats the Briton Celts in Wiltshire, England.
616 Battle of Chester Aethelfrith defeats the armies of Welsh kingdoms Powys and Rhôs.
633 Battle of Hatfield Chase Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Edwin of Northumbria.
634 Battle of Heavenfield Oswald of Bernicia defeats and kills the Welsh king Cadwallon ap Cadfan of Gwynedd.
642 Battle of Maserfeld
5 August – Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia.
655 Battle of Winwaed Northumbrian King Oswiu defeats and kills pagan Mercian king Penda.
685 Battle of Dun Nechtain Picts defeat Northumbrians in Scotland, killing their leader.
722 Battle of Hehil Britons defeat Anglo-Saxons of Wessex "among the Cornish".
825 Battle of Ellandun Egbert of Wessex defeats Beornwulf of Mercia, ending Mercian supremacy.
838 Battle of Hingston Down Egbert of Wessex defeats a Cornish and Viking army, ending Cornish independence.
870 Battle of Englefield Anglo-Saxons under Æthelwulf defeat the Danelaw Vikings.
871 Battle of Reading Ethelred of Wessex and Alfred the Great are defeated by a Danish army, suffering heavy losses.
878 Battle of Edington West Saxons under Alfred the Great defeat the Danelaw Vikings.
878 Battle of Cynwit West Saxons, said to have been under the command of a certain ealdorman named Odda, defeat a Viking army, killing their leader, an unnamed man who may have been identical to Ubba.
878 Vikings defeat forces of St Cuthbert in West Sussex.
893 Battle of Buttington An army of Mercians, West Saxons and Welsh led by Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians defeats a Viking army.
931 revolt by the Cornish Celts (supported by the Danes) led to a battle southeast of the village of St Buryan at Boleigh where a farm and hamlet now stands. The Saxon king Athelstan crushed the resistance, before continuing on to conquer the Isles of Scilly.
937 Battle of Brunanburh Athelstan of England defeats a combined Norse-Celtic force.
1016 Battle of Ashingdon 18 October – Danes led by Canute the Great defeat an English army led by King Edmund II ('Ironside').
1066 Battle of Stamford Bridge 25 September – Harold Godwinson of England defeats his brother Tostig Godwinson and Harald III of Norway, both are killed.
1066 Battle of Hastings 14 October – Normans under William the Conqueror defeat the Anglo-Saxon army under Harold Godwinson, who is killed.
1068 William I and army of Normans and Englishmen loyal to the king west to force the submission of Exeter, an Anglo Saxon stronghold."
From https://www.history.com/news/possible-6th-century-palace-found-at-site-linked-to-king-arthur
ReplyDelete"There is no contemporary evidence, though, that he (King Arthur)ever existed."
That it would seem, is highly misleading, even intentionally so.
https://beechwood44.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/wilson-and-blackett-for-beginners/
ReplyDeleteI will add this to my blog on the subject, but it does seem to employ the familiar tactics to discredit rather than dealing with their assertions one by one, particularly in relation to Welsh place names and geological features.. In the context of the other efforts to ignore or discredit them, this is not insignificant. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM6o70AuRBY
and come to your own opinion. There is little doubt that both the Anglo Saxons and their Frankish/Viking conquerors and descendants worked consistently to extinguish the celtic culture, so at least that much validates their argument.