Finding Arthur (48 page)

Thomas, Charles.
The Early Christian Archaeology of North Britain
. The Hunter Marshall lectures delivered at the University of Glasgow in January 1968. London: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Wace and Lawman.
The Life of King Arthur
. Trans. J. Weiss and R. Allen. Dent, 1997.

Watson, William J.
The History of the Celtic Place Names of Scotland
. Edinburgh: Wm. Blackwood, 1926.

Webb, Albert E.
Glastonbury: Ynyswytryn; Isle of Avalon
. Glastonbury: Avalon, 1929.

Ziegler, Michelle.
Artúr mac Aedan of Dalriada
. From
The Heroic Age
Issue 1, (Spring/Summer 1999).

D
ICTIONARIES

MacBain, Alexander.
An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language
. Glasgow: Gairm Publications, 1896 & 1911.

MacFarlane, Malcolm.
The School Gaelic Dictionary
. Eneas Mckay Bookseller, 1912.

MacLennan, Malcolm.
Gaelic Dictionary
. Edinburgh: Mercat, 2001.

O’Brien, John,
Focalóir Gaoidhilge-Sax-Bhéarla: An Irish-English Dictionary
. Privately printed in Paris, 1768.

W
EBSITES

Finding Merlin
www.finding-merlin.com

Timothy Pont Maps
http://maps.nls.uk/pont/

Blaeu Maps
http://maps.nls.uk/atlas/blaeu/

List of Abbreviations

Notes

I
NTRODUCTION

1
. Richard Barber,
The Figure of Arthur
(London: Longman, 1972), 20.

2
. Lewis Thorpe, introduction to
HRB
, 10.

1. T
HE
F
OUR
H
ORSEMEN OF
H
ISTORY

1
. See
Book of Aneurin
from
FABW
, trans. W. F. Skene (Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, 1868).

2
.
DEB
, 28.

3
. Foreword to
DEB
, viii.

4
.
EHBP
(London: Penguin, revised edn. 1990), 64.

5
. Preface to
HB
, 9.

6
. Richard Barber calls this religious passage “a glaring 9th c. addition.” Barber,
Figure of Arthur
, 101.

7
.
HB
, chap. 56; 35, 76. The names in brackets are the Latin originals.

8
. Nennius,
The “Historia Brittonum,” commonly attributed to Nennius; from a Manuscript Lately Discovered in the Library of the Vatican Palace at Rome; edited in the tenth century by Mark the Hermit
, translation and notes by the Rev. W. Gunn (London: Printed for John and Arthur Arch, 1819), 41–44.

9
.
HB
, chap. 73; 42.

10
.
AC
, 45.

11
. Thorpe, introduction to
HRB
, 19.

12
.
HRB
, book VII, chap. 1.

13
.
HRB
, book XI, chap. 1.

14
. Jocelyn of Furness,
Life of Kentigern
, trans. Cynthia Whiddon Green, as part of a Master’s Thesis at the University of Houston, December 1998.

15
.
LMDA
, bk.1, chap. V.

16
. Alfred Tennyson, “Morte d’Arthur,” from
Poems
(London: Moxon, 1845).

17
.
LMDA
, bk. xxi, chap. 4.

18
.
LMDA
, bk. xxi, chap. 5

2. T
HE
W
OULD
-B
E
A
RTHURS

1
. Guy Halsall,
Worlds of Arthur
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 152.

2
. Ibid.

3
. Geoffrey Ashe,
The Discovery of King Arthur
(Stroud, England: Sutton Publishing, 2005), 192.

4
. Ibid, 120.

5
. Leslie Alcock,
Arthur’s Britain
(1971; reprint, London: Penguin, 2001), 4.

6
. Ashe,
Discovery of King Arthur
, 129.

7
. Thorpe, introduction to
HRB
, 10.

8
.
LMDA
, bk. i, ch. 1.

9
. Ashe,
Discovery of King Arthur
, 123.

10
. Howard Reid,
Arthur, the Dragon King: the Barbarian Roots of Britain’s Greatest Legend
(London: Headline Book Publishing, 2001), 47.

11
. Chrétien de Troyes,
Arthurian Romances, Lancelot or the Knight of the Cart
(London: Penguin, 2004), 207.

12
. Wace,
Roman de Brut: A History of the British
, trans. J. Weiss and R. Allen (University of Exeter Press, 1999).

13
.
CS
, vol. I, 184.

14
. Halsall, Guy,
Worlds of Arthur
, (Oxford, England:, OUP), 24.

15
. Ashe,
Discovery of King Arthur
, 128.

16
. Alcock,
Arthur’s Britain
, 62.

17
.
HB
, ch. 56, 35.

18
. Alistair Moffat,
Arthur and the Lost Kingdoms
(London: Phoenix, 2000), 208.

19
. See Gaelic-English Dictionaries by Alexander MacBain, Patrick MacFarlane, Malcolm MacLennan. Also see Howard Reid,
Arthur the Dragon King
, 58; Graham Phillips and Martin Keatman,
King Arthur: The True Story
(London: Arrow Books, 1993), 75; Keith Snowden,
King Arthur in the North
(Pickering, England: Castleden Publications, 2001), 23.

20
. Goodrich, Norma Lorre,
King Arthur
. (New York: Harper & Row, 1989), 72.

21
. Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon is the most famous.

22
.
HB
, 35, 76.

23
. Morris,
Age of Arthur
, 112.

24
. Alcock,
Arthur’s Britain
, 66.

25
.
HB
, 5.

26
. Alcock,
Arthur’s Britain
, 66.

27
.
Harleian MS 3859
(c. 1100).
HB
, Introduction, 1–3.

28
.
Vatican Reg. 1964
(11th century). c. 945 CE.

29
.
British Library Cotton Caligula A VIII
(12th century).

30
.
HRB
, 79.

31
. Reid,
Arthur, the Dragon King
, 59.

32
. Phillips and Keatman,
King Arthur, The True Story
, 164.

33
. Morris, John,
The Age of Arthur
, 140, 513.

34
. Phillips and Keatman,
King Arthur, The True Story
, 16.

35
. Steve Blake and Scott Lloyd,
The Keys to Avalon
(England: Element Books, 2000).

36
. David Francis Carroll,
Arturius: A Quest for Camelot
(privately printed, 1996).

37
. James McKillop,
Oxford Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
(London: OUP, 1998), 29.

38
. Albert E. Webb,
Glastonbury: Ynyswytryn; Isle of Avalon
(Glastonbury: Avalon, 1929), 11.

39
. McKillop,
Oxford Dictionary
, 29.

40
. MacBain,
Gaelic-English Dictionary
.

41
. Norris J. Lacy, ed.,
Arthurian Encyclopaedia
, 33.

42
. Julian Munby, Richard Barber, and Richard Brown,
Edward III’s Round Table at Windsor
(Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: Boydell Press, 2007).

43
. Peter Berresford Ellis,
The Celts
(London: Constable & Robinson, 2004), 53.

3. W
HY
A
RTHUR
I
S
L
OST TO
H
ISTORY

1
.
LMDA
, bk.1, ch. 5.

2
.
www.nls.uk/pont
Go to “Specialist,” then to map 14.

3
. Letter to AA from Chris Fleet of National Library of Scotland, dated March 28, 2003. “Pont uses both small rectangles and circles (with points inside) to indicate the location of inhabited places, and sometimes both these types have vertical lines above. On Pont 14, along with several others in this area, the circles and squares merge … of the 37 Pont sheets with settlement symbols on them, 23 have rectangles, 12 have circular symbols, and 8 are combined. Do the combined symbols mean anything different? Is it evidence of more than one hand on the map—such as Robert Gordon of Straloch—who we know added to and embellished Pont’s maps? Is it simply inconsistency by Pont …?”

4
. William J. Watson,
The History of the Celtic Place Names of Scotland
(Blackwood, Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1926), 394–5. Also see Adamnan,
Life of Columba
(London: Penguin, 1995), 291, note 136.

5
. John O’Brien,
Focalóir Gaoidhilge-Sax-Bhéarla: An Irish-English Dictionary
(privately printed in Paris, France, 1768), frontispiece.

6
.
Dun Ard Righ
, “Hillfort of the High King,” is always a possibility, but it does not fit as well as
Dun Ard Airigh
when considered with reference to all the other
Ard Airigh
names that run along the spine of Argyll, north to Ardnamurchan.

7
.
DEB
, chap. 26, 28.

8
.
HB
, chap. 56, 35.

9
.
AC
, 45.

10
. Introduction to
DEB
, 1.

11
. Bibliographical foreword to
DEB
, viii.

12
.
DEB
, 13.

13
.
DEB
, 28. J. A. Giles, for no good reason except to place Arthur in the south, translates
Badonis
not as “Badon” but as “Bath-hill”: J. A. Giles,
Six old English chronicles
, London, G. Bell & sons, 1891.

14
. Giles,
Six old English
.

15
.
The English Historical Review
, No. CLXIV, Oct.1926, 497-503.

16
.
DEB
, chap. 26, 28.

17
.
EHBP
, 64.

18
. J. A. Giles,
The Works of Gildas and Nennius
(James Bohm: London, 1841); and Giles,
Six old English
. “Saxons” was a catch-all term used, again by southern writers, to cover Angles, Saxons, and Anglo-Saxons.

19
.
DEB
, 26.

20
. Ibid.

21
. Introduction to
DEB
, 5.

22
. Michael Winterbottom, ed. and trans.,
The Ruin of Britain and Other Documents
, (
Arthurian Period Sources
, Vol. 7, DEB), 29 and 99.

4. A F
RAGMENTED
K
INGDOM