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Paganism in Arthurian Romance (Paperback, New Ed)
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Investigation of literary and archaeological evidence in search of
pagan sources for the Arthurian legend. `Darrah makes the valid
point that episodes in the Arthurian romances read like motifs from
the ancient mythologies...[he] reconstructs a lost British
paganism, grounded in the rivers, hills and woods, and especially
those grey monoliths...reminders of a cosmology vanished from this
island. NIKOLAI TOLSTOY, DAILY TELEGRAPH `Contends, with a good
deal of evidence, that the impact of pre-Christian Welsh, Irish,
Scottish, Cornish and Breton religion is greater than has been
previously thought... Extensively researched and well written.'
CHOICE The origins of Arthurian romance will always be a hotly
disputed subject. The great moments of the legends belong partly to
dimly-remembered history, partly to the poets' imagination down the
ages, yet there is another strand to the stories which goes back
deeper and further: the traces of ancient pagan religion, found
both in Arthurian heroes who have inherited the attributes of gods,
and in episodes which reflect ancient religious rituals. Darrah's
careful study of the thematic relationships of, particularly, the
more obscure episodes of the romances and his identification of the
relative geography of Arthurian Britain as portrayed in the
romances will be valuable even to those who differ with his
conclusions. His most original contribution to an unravelling of a
pagan Arthurian past lies in his appropriation of the fascinating
evidence of standing stones and pagan cultic sites. This is dark
and difficult territory, but building on elusive clues, and tracing
a range of sites, especially in south-west Britain, John Darrah
hasadded a significant new dimension to the search for the sources
of the legends of Arthur and his court. JOHN DARRAH has also
written The Real Camelot.
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