> I haven't seen the film yet but am intrigued by its claims of
> historicalness. I rather got the impression that the King Arthur
> legend was a mediaeval fiction, inspired by older folklore and set in
> a fantasy past. Which to my uniformed mind, makes all attempts to
> locate and recreate the `original' Arthur and his historical context
> a bit silly - be they Dumbartonian or not.
Not necessarily a contradiction. You could apply the same description to the medieval stories about the magician Vergil, but the author of the Aeneid is historical just the same.
Andrew
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