RE: King Arthur & historicity of fictional people
July 19, 2018 at 9:17 am
(This post was last modified: July 19, 2018 at 9:19 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 19, 2018 at 8:54 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: a real person but he wasn't called Arthur, he certainly wasn't a king, he didn't live in Camelot and Avalon around round table, he didn't have a shiny armor, he didn't have twelve knights and Merlin
........and this reminds me rather of our lord jesus.
The strength of these pseudo-historical or legendary characters.....culturally and narratively, all of them, is how many analogs can be projected onto them. They are everymen. One simply adds up known historical referents until one has what they feel to be a full bodied spring of source material, and then assumes that the authors of the character had those people in mind.
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