Arthur in Scotland

The MacArthurs claim descent from him, so perhaps it is no surprise that a "round table" has been discovered in Scotland.
The King's Knot, a geometrical earthwork in the former royal gardens below Stirling Castle, has been shrouded in mystery for hundreds of years. Though the Knot as it appears today dates from the 1620s, its flat-topped central mound is thought to be much older. Writers going back more than six centuries have linked the landmark to the legend of King Arthur. Archaeologists from Glasgow University, working with the Stirling Local History Society and Stirling Field and Archaeological Society, conducted the first ever non-invasive survey of the site in May and June in a bid to uncover some of its secrets. Their findings were show there was indeed a round feature on the site that pre-dates the visible earthworks.... It has also been suggested the site is partly Iron Age or medieval, or was used as a Roman fort.

3 comments:

raven said...

Judging from the current accounts, a courageous heart,a strong arm, a bright blade and 100 true men could take that Isle back.

Grim said...

Good. Let's go.

Ymar Sakar said...

Interesting. Gives some lay to the idea that Arthur was a Roman military leader forting up against the barbarians.

Issue is, there must have been a lot of those types of military dynasties around. How to differentiate between them, the French poems probably didn't help when they started mixing stuff up.

Then again, if Islam hadn't cut off sea trade to Egyptian papyrus, maybe people would have had an actual written record...