On the National Geographic website/blog there are details of a discovery made by Camelot historian Chris Gidlow -- the famous table was no table at all.
> King Arthur’s round table located<
However, the source seems to be FOXNEWS, so there is a great chance this is a completely bogus story…
On the National Geographic website/blog there are details of a discovery made by Camelot historian Chris Gidlow -- the famous table was no table at all.
> King Arthur’s round table located<
However, the source seems to be FOXNEWS, so there is a great chance this is a completely bogus story…
Its theory and conjecture - Arthur if he existed at all and documentary evidence is very very scarce and the archaeological evidence is non existent was a Sub Romano/British military leader who had some success against the Anglo/Saxon/Jutish invaders. It is possible but highly unlikely that he existed and it is probable that Arthur is an amalgam of several different "chiefs" for want of a better word. Lancelot was introduced in the 15th Century and the tails have been embellished for over a 1000 years.
I like Robert E Howards description:
"... most of the chiefs are gathering about Arthur Pendragon for a great concerted drive. Pendragon — ha! He's no more Uther Pendragon's son than you [Wulfhere] are. Uther was a black-bearded madman — more Roman than Briton and more Gaul than Roman. Arthur is as fair as Eric there. And he's pure Celt — a waif from one of the wild western tribes that never bowed to Rome. It was Lancelot who put it into his head to make himself king — else he had still been no more than a wild chief raiding the borders."
"Has he become smooth and polished like the Romans were?"
"Arthur? Ha! One of your Danes might seem a gentlewoman beside him. He's a shock-headed savage with a love for battle." Cormac grinned ferociously and touched his scars. "By the blood of the gods, he has a hungry sword! It's little gain we reivers from Erin have gotten on his coasts!"
"Would I could cross steel with him," grunted Wulfhere, thumbing the flaring edge of his great axe. "What of Lancelot?"
"A renegade Gallo-Roman who has made an art of throat-cutting. He varies reading Petronius with plotting and intriguing. Gawaine is a pure-blooded Briton like Arthur, but he has Romanish leanings. You'd laugh to see him aping Lancelot — but he fights like a blood-hungry devil. Without those two, Arthur would have been no more than a bandit chief. He can neither read nor write."
"What of that?" rumbled the Dane. "Neither can I. ..."
Well if nothing else the documentary ought to be interesting for D&D players simply as a mine for ideas. Watching the trailer from one of the links Tenser posted and the scene at the end with an impressive Roman Colosseum that has been converted, long after its abandonment by a now bygone higher civilization, by Dark Age warriors into a fortress bristling with wooden towers was pretty damn compelling. Kind of an ancient version of the 'Road Warrior' mythology so popular during the cold war.
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Well if nothing else the documentary ought to be interesting for D&D players simply as a mine for ideas. Watching the trailer from one of the links Tenser posted and the scene at the end with an impressive Roman Colosseum that has been converted, long after its abandonment by a now bygone higher civilization, by Dark Age warriors into a fortress bristling with wooden towers was pretty damn compelling. Kind of an ancient version of the 'Road Warrior' mythology so popular during the cold war.
I like that...the idea that the local soccer stadium became the fortress for a Warlord...sweet.
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Well if nothing else the documentary ought to be interesting for D&D players simply as a mine for ideas. Watching the trailer from one of the links Tenser posted and the scene at the end with an impressive Roman Colosseum that has been converted, long after its abandonment by a now bygone higher civilization, by Dark Age warriors into a fortress bristling with wooden towers was pretty damn compelling. Kind of an ancient version of the 'Road Warrior' mythology so popular during the cold war.I like that...the idea that the local soccer stadium became the fortress for a Warlord...sweet.
Ever read the novel Ariel then? The main bad guy finds a book of spells in the local library becomes a sorcerer and takes over the north tower of the twin towers as his fortress.