http://www.grailcode.com/archives/looking-for-arthur-in-the-annals-of-wales The Holy Grail in history and in modern culture Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:00:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://www.grailcode.com/archives/looking-for-arthur-in-the-annals-of-wales#comment-56 Thu, 15 Jun 2006 02:39:09 +0000 http://www.grailcode.com/archives/looking-for-arthur-in-the-annals-of-wales#comment-56 [...] While we were looking for the historical Arthur in the Annals of Wales, we ran into another familiar character: [...] […] While we were looking for the historical Arthur in the Annals of Wales, we ran into another familiar character: […]

]]> http://www.grailcode.com/archives/looking-for-arthur-in-the-annals-of-wales#comment-48 Tue, 30 May 2006 00:53:25 +0000 http://www.grailcode.com/archives/looking-for-arthur-in-the-annals-of-wales#comment-48 [...] Some take “dux bellorum,” which I’ve translated as “commander-in-chief,” as a memory of the old Roman imperial title by that name, and go on from there to imagine Arthur as trying to restore some shadow of the old Roman imperial government in Britain. I won’t draw that conclusion, but I will remember an interesting fact I mentioned earlier: that medieval Welsh legends often call Arthur “emperor.” [...] […] Some take “dux bellorum,” which I’ve translated as “commander-in-chief,” as a memory of the old Roman imperial title by that name, and go on from there to imagine Arthur as trying to restore some shadow of the old Roman imperial government in Britain. I won’t draw that conclusion, but I will remember an interesting fact I mentioned earlier: that medieval Welsh legends often call Arthur “emperor.” […]

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