I have no particular beliefs of my own about so elusive a ﬁgure, but the signiﬁcance of the title ‘King Arthur in Antiquity’ will scarcely be lost on any reader.

It is not so long ago that an impassioned scholar of ‘Nennius’ urged his fellowscholars not to believe in King Arthur, or at the very least to stop using him in the titles of their books. Tristan and Thraetaona: the Tristan legend in the EastĪppendix 2: More ‘Bear’s Son’ heroes: Theseus, Achilles, Batraz, AlexanderĪppendix 3: Jack the Giant Killer and King ArthurĪppendix 5: The earliest Tristan text: Rhodanes and Sinonis 159 Appendix 6: Mythology in the ‘Nennian’ battle-list Some ancient Gawain-ﬁgures, and an elusive Lancelot ISBN 8-X (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0–415–31714–2 (Print Edition)Īrdus, ‘greatest of knights’: a ﬁrst Artus-ﬁgure British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. © 2004 Graham Anderson All rights reserved.

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