King Authur: Fact or Fiction
...about seven feet into the ground and attached to the other side was an oddly shaped cross with a Latin inscription on it. It is said the inscription states: ‘There is a grave for March, a grave for Gwether, a grave for Gurwan Red-sword; the world’s wonder and a grave for Arthur. Arthur, the King of Camelot and all his adventures, true? No. King Arthur purely fantasy? Never. King Arthur is also thought of as a god instead of a man. Some people believe that King Arthur is so inextricably tied up in Celtic Mythology that he must, in origin, have not been a man at all, but a god. Like so many other characters featured in the Richards Page 2 5/20/2003 Mabinogion, Arthur in his earlier form appears almost entirely mythical. Some theorists claim Arthur was a late addition to the Celtic Pantheon during resurgence in Pagan worship, or the offspring of a human and a bear. There is no evidence to support either of these claims. Now in honor of Arthur and the discovery of the cross, the monks have moved his remains. There is now a place with a tombstone that reads, “Here lies the famous King Arthur, buried on the Isle of Avalon.” While there is much evidence to support Arthur the man, Arthur as purely myth stands solely on it’s own. There are two sources of evidence from the 7th century A.D., which both mention Arthur and connect him with a Kingdom known as Manann or Manau. The first source of evidence is a poem which has been preserved in Wales, but which originates in the land we now know as Scotland. This poem, ‘The Gododdin’, mentions Arthur in one line. The Gododdin were ancient Britons who inhabited the Kingdom of Manann/Manau. We have therefore a con...