The Age of Arthur

AVI posted this site earlier this week, but it belongs at the Hall as well. This entry, which AVI also noted, is a good starting point because it validates the exercise of trying to study the historicity of Arthur. After that there's just a wealth of good information about the era. 

It is an era about which good information is difficult to discern. I believe it was Chesterton who wrote, though I cannot find the reference, that the era was one in which legends were born out of history: one generation was suffused with bureaucratic notes on the logistical shipments from Rome, and within a short time there were the disciplined chronicles of the Anglo-Saxons. Yet for a space, for a while, we have only stories of men striving with giants and dragons: and there among them is Arthur, with the cross pinned to his shoulder, holding against the tide.