Posted on 06/11/2023 6:52:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
As I said, repurposed for different agendas at different times.
https://www.heroofcamelot.com/history/gildas-and-bede
Swords back then were finally balanced. Though heavy, they could be easily manipulated by someone with enough wrist strength.
๐ Well, there is Hadrian's Wall.
***the ridiculous "battle that stopped Rome" cooked up about the miserable failure, flash-in-the-pan turncoat Arminius***
This Arminius?
With that winged helmet he looks a bit like Mercury/Hermes. (I'll fly away, oh glory...)
Magnus Maximus, Emperor of the West
(c.AD 340-388)
(Welsh: Macsen; Latin: Maximus; English: Maximilian)
https://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/bios/maximus.html
Ambrosius Aurelianus and the Apocalypse of King Arthur
Synopsis
Dane R Pestano
https://www.academia.edu/59809654/Ambrosius_Aurelianus_and_the_Apocalypse_of_King_Arthur_Synopsis
https://www.amazon.com/Ambrosius-Aurelianus-Apocalypse-King-Arthur/dp/0957000235/r
‘I hope to shine a proper light of the Medieval origins of King Arthur’
if you want to know about King Arthur, read up on Tolkien’s King Aragorn...basically the same character, with an updated narrative...
Exactly. A 19th century statue built in the wrong place.
Hadrian’s Wall — built to reduce manpower on a mostly quiet border with non-Scots, and regulate trade with them.
In Ireland, the ancestors of the Scots were peeing their kilts in fear until the Romans finally left Britain.
That ain’t no lady, that’s some moistened bink who lobs scimitars.
As for the odd little analog over here, it's not like any of the other markers in the vicinity have been pried. Just that particular one got the treatment.
I even walked by it in the past hour. It's maybe 10 ft off of the road. Still there, holding water.
Also on the walk was something I hadn't notice til yesterday, a paper birch tree growing out of the side of a huge boulder, such that the rock had split. Looked really weird.
Then I realized that it must have been a game of rock paper scissors.
Paper beats rock! Makes perfect sense. ๐คช
Boorman also thought Merlin the most interesting character. Someone who's fatal flaw was that he didn't understand human love or emotion. That's why Morgana so easily tricked the brilliant Merlin. Merlin knew much, but had no knowledge or experience with love. With Morgana, Merlin was like a virgin schoolboy in love for the first time.
The studio compelled Boorman to change the title to Excalibur.
The human race would have died out long ago without us. Hard on everyone? Yes. Does anyone doubt that the human race still needs a good beating? ;^)
Interesting.
The difference between myth and reality... One is fiction, the other is non-fiction. King Arthur is, was and always will be fiction. If Henry the VII’s oldest son had live, then we would’ve had a King Arthur. He didn’t, so we got King Henry the VIII... A murderous sob who made his daughter Bloody Mary look like... Well... Not so bloody.
A serious concern of JRR Tolkien.
Merlin was a ascended being from a people known as the Ancients from the Pegasus galaxy according to the documentary Stargate-Atlantis. He worked with King Arthur.
https://img0.joyreactor.com/pics/post/lonniemillsap-comics-rock-paper-2646107.jpeg
https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-df98325fa0ae56913d6c2ba32999e98d-lq
That sounds like some really poor rationalization, not least because the number of executions ordered by H8 wasn’t 57K as is often claimed, and he ruled for 38 years, compared with the 5 years for Bloody Mary, whose preferred method of murdering Protestants was burning at the stake.
That’s one of the reasons his books are so entertaining. I have (I think...) a couple of paperback books written about T’s work, the Lin Carter one being the better of the two. He discusses how the Elder Edda was the source of a number of T’s character names, including Gandalf, most of the Hobbit’s dwarves, as well as the three backstory dwarves mentioned in Balin’s diary (as it turns out, Carter didn’t notice those I guess).
I think I need something old/new to watch, from childhood:
Elder Edda “catalog of dwarves” (start at stanza 10):
https://genius.com/Anonymous-voluspa-annotated
Rock & Roll
Paper roll
Scissor roll? ๐คจ
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