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Decoding King Arthur and the Grail
How can a Norse god become the famous King Arthur? Easily. A busy librarian on the desk at the Interpretation Centre at the ancient royal burial mounds of pre-Christian Uppsala in Sweden was unaware that she had just thrown a bombshell into my world, and into British history.
For some years I have been an accidental hobbyist collecting evidence with which to decode the origin of Britain’s mythical King Arthur and his quest for the Holy Grail, a quest which is the defining feature of his court and realm. I stress that I am not suggesting yet another “real” Arthur, nor a “real” Holy Grail; in fact, my decoding puts paid to those who hold such hopes. Here I offer a necessarily condensed version of my main approach and some findings which I am currently writing into a book.
This investigation appeared in a recent Quadrant.
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