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zenbane 20 minutes ago [-]
No actual evidence in this article that this "PR Move" was anything other than a common garden folly. This article and "research" is long on assumption and speculation and has less evidence than an arthurian tale. Can modern historians provide anything of substance these days?
Ylano 8 hours ago [-]
"Foreign dynasty needs stronger local branding, commissions elaborate content tying itself to beloved national mythology" could almost be a communications strategy written today. Merlin's Cave is just an unusually expensive 18th-century version of it.
The Angles – ancestors of the English were the people whom he was fighting against.
Now was Arthur Roman or Celtic or Welsh etc is up to debate.
The more typical question would be "is Arthur based on any historical events at all?"