King Arthur’s legendary battles were fought over food for his people - not land or gold - after a volcanic eruption caused a global famine 1,500 years ago, a Celtic history expert has claimed. Andrew Breeze said a massive volcano eruption in El Salvador in 535 AD spread ash into the atmosphere, obscured the sun and ruined harvests - meaning that Britons were left starving. The British academic claims Arthur’s mission was actually to rustle cattle from neighbouring tribes in Scotland, and he became a hero for helping the people of Strathclyde survive a famine.There's a small problem with this hypothesis as a complete explanation, which has to do with the reality of the Saxon migration. Evidence from graves shows that there was one, and that it reversed during a specific period around the time associated with any historical Arthur.
Still, it might be a partial explanation for some of what went on.
Andrew Breeze said a massive volcano eruption in El Salvador in 535 AD spread ash into the atmosphere, obscured the sun and ruined harvests
ReplyDeleteSome more global warming I see.
Ironic that ta Celtic war hero became a later legend for Anglo Saxons and Franks, those of the Germanic migration.
ReplyDeleteThe Germanic and Slavic migrations were extreme. I wonder if that was because the climate cooled and the game went away. Perhaps they were living up in Siberia at the time, when it was green.
So much Western history was lost due to the Islamic destruction, piracy, and slave raids. To the point where Western descendants have been "proud" of all that Islam "preserved" for them. If only they knew how little that was of the entire whole.