Guest strapper Posted January 11, 2010 Report Posted January 11, 2010 very interesting reading of how the most renowned english king was actually welsh. how he had welsh parents and family tree proves this. The Welsh language descends from the Brythonic language, which was the original language of the Britons. Brythonic being the ancestor of modern day Welsh, Breton, and Cornish. The Britons reverted to their old tongue once the Romans left, so presumably he'd have been a Brythonic speaker (assuming he existed, and that he was a Briton). The earliest mentions of Arthur are Welsh/Cumbric (Nennius, Aneirin, etc), and Welsh tradition regarding Arthur extends into the 12th and 13th centuries (Geoffrey of Monmouth, the Mabinogion, the Book of Taliesin, the Black Book of Camarthen, etc). Maybe this points towards Arthur in his earliest form (as a legendary figure) as a Welsh/British folk hero? The stories we associate with him today, though, have been largely influenced by the French (Marie de France, Chretien de Troyes, etc), and have evolved in the English literary/folk tradition, too (as we all know). there have been many questioning arthurs real nationality..maybe the above goes some way to prove it? .......welsh!
Roland Posted January 11, 2010 Report Posted January 11, 2010 Yep, the true English are Welsh so I've always been led to believe. Mind around the time of him and his 'Round Table' they weren't no knight as is so often dispicted. Think they came about 200 years later eh! :-/ Still as long as us so - called English mongels beat them in this next Rugby Seris who cares lol. Mind we certainly had a lot of room and respect for the Archers in Agincourt eh. So Paul it was the English Archers that did so much damage after all with their long bows lol.
Guest bigda Posted January 11, 2010 Report Posted January 11, 2010 think he gave it up, his kingdom for a horse ;D ;D ;D
OLDYELLOW Posted January 11, 2010 Report Posted January 11, 2010 very interesting reading of how the most renowned english king was actually welsh. how he had welsh parents and family tree proves this. The Welsh language descends from the Brythonic language, which was the original language of the Britons. Brythonic being the ancestor of modern day Welsh, Breton, and Cornish. The Britons reverted to their old tongue once the Romans left, so presumably he'd have been a Brythonic speaker (assuming he existed, and that he was a Briton). The earliest mentions of Arthur are Welsh/Cumbric (Nennius, Aneirin, etc), and Welsh tradition regarding Arthur extends into the 12th and 13th centuries (Geoffrey of Monmouth, the Mabinogion, the Book of Taliesin, the Black Book of Camarthen, etc). Maybe this points towards Arthur in his earliest form (as a legendary figure) as a Welsh/British folk hero? The stories we associate with him today, though, have been largely influenced by the French (Marie de France, Chretien de Troyes, etc), and have evolved in the English literary/folk tradition, too (as we all know). there have been many questioning arthurs real nationality..maybe the above goes some way to prove it? .......welsh! bet he was one of the Jones family lol ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Roland Posted January 11, 2010 Report Posted January 11, 2010 think he gave it up, his kingdom for a horse ;D ;D ;D Lol, That was Richard the .... Shakespears... Never mind lol, but he did have the end of the Templars Knights. Even if Bacon supposedly actually wrote the plays etc. that Shakespear nicked.... needed a better knight of honour I guess lol
Guest bigda Posted January 11, 2010 Report Posted January 11, 2010 Lol, That was Richard the .... Shakespears... Never mind lol, but he did have the end of the Templars Knights. Even if Bacon supposedly actually wrote the plays etc. that Shakespear nicked.... needed a better knight of honour I guess lol Francis bacon was he no a founder of the Rosicrucian's
Guest strapper Posted January 11, 2010 Report Posted January 11, 2010 bet he was one of the Jones family lol ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D one of them twice removed lol
Guest strapper Posted January 11, 2010 Report Posted January 11, 2010 Yep, the true English are Welsh so I've always been led to believe. Mind around the time of him and his 'Round Table' they weren't no knight as is so often dispicted. Think they came about 200 years later eh! :-/ Still as long as us so - called English mongels beat them in this next Rugby Seris who cares lol. Mind we certainly had a lot of room and respect for the Archers in Agincourt eh. So Paul it was the English Archers that did so much damage after all with their long bows lol. longbow or was that strongbow? ;D
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