Fabled King Arthur ‘was a Scottish warlord’

The Scotsman ^ | 11-26-2013 | EMMA COWING

[Renfield]

Ping

[yarddog]

No he is wrong. Camelot was the home of an Irish King from Boston. He was a killed by McOswald.

[a fool in paradise]

Arthur was actually Arthur Mac Aedan, the sixth-century son of an ancient King of Scotland, whose Camelot was a marsh in Argyll.

A boggy swamp? That suits the Kennedy Legacy about right.

[dynachrome]

‘Scots, wha hæ wi Wallace bled,
Scots, wham Bruce has aften led,
Welcome tæ yer gory bed,
Or tæ victorie

[GeronL]

lol

[MUDDOG]

as a Scottish man of the druidic “Old Way”, he was the last of his kind

I never knew Arthur was Druish.

[sten]

an island in the western seas of England?

isle of mann?

[To Hell With Poverty]

Funny, he didn’t look Druish...

[ClearCase_guy]

whose Camelot was a marsh in Argyll

King of Swamp Castle: When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.

[Dysart]

Oh a new King Arthur interpretation and spanking new book to boot. I prefer the traditional one. Otoh, there is the introduction of the murky grassy gnome element in this tale— that troubles me. It just doesn't add up...

[Castlebar]

"If it not Scottish, it's CRAP!"

[MUDDOG]

[Mach9]

Thanks for the post! What seems clear from all the legends and literature is that the one thing he was NOT was English. I’m guessing the Welsh side was the easiest locale for the English to accept (and later push) because they’d been the least ferocious in their hatred of the Sassenach.

[crz]

Nearly all the ancient kings are buried at Iona. As for Kilmartin Glen..I dont know, but, that was the area where the ancient kings ruled. These were the Picts, and the Scotty Irish kicked them out, eventually. The Picts simply vanished over a very short time. Lots of grave slabs over there that are really interesting to look at. Especially at Kilmartin.

[Aria]

LOL!

[GreyFriar]

No the camellot is outside of Riyadh.

[Liberty Valance]

bttt

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for the topic and pings! It's gotten more and more easy to believe that Arthur's story is a composite, some of which is lock stock and barrel borrowed from non-British folklore. And one of the Arthur stories has him conquering Gaul, a distorted recollection of a couple of Roman-era emperor wannabees, while other aspects appear to derive from Pre-Roman British characters. And the placename "Camelot" is obviously Camulodunum, Roman Colchester.

[ZULU]

Sounds interesting, BUT,

“Ardrey, an amateur historian who works as an advocate in Edinburgh”

If he was from France, Arthur would be French, Italy, he would be Italian - I see some chauvanism here.

I think Arthur was a Romano-British Warlord “Dux Bellorum” (Chief of Battles)who fought the Saxons sometime after the Romans pulled out of Britain.

The name Arthur appears related to a Latin word for “bear”, Prior to his activities in the late 5th and early 6th Century, Arthur was a relatively rare name. After that time, every other Celt in Britain was naming his kids after him. I think the best sources are Nennius and Gildas.

Nevertheless, in my efforts to read as much as possible about the REAL Arthur, not the fantasy of Sir Thomas Mallory, I must read this book.