(January 21, 2019 at 10:02 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: That would be a legendary jesus and arthur, not historical. There's an easy way to remember the three tiers of characters in these stories, lol.
Mythical Arthur had a magic sword and fought dragons. This is christ, lol.
Legendary Arthur was a (or a combination of) successful warlord(s). This is a retelling of a or many lives of middle eastern preachers and crackpots for ideological effect.
Historical Arthur was.......Some Guy™. Or, Some Guy™ Named jesus who maybe didn't do -any- of that shit above.
The reason that we can't exchange any of them for each other is that there's simply no way of determining whether they're even the same character (or were ever intended to be). Some Guy telling the story of Mythical Arthur may have based the character off of himself, despite not being a legendary warlord of any kind - for example. There's alot of similarity, just for amusement, between arthur and magic book. Both are establishment myths/legends - which is a highly suspect genre if what we're looking for are historical facts.
They're not really intended to record history, but to justify some (then) present reality. Generally speaking, a movement, a people, or the authorities thereof.
*all of this above refers to arthurian lit before mallory gave it a facelift.
But I never claimed there was a historic Jesus or Arthur, merely that there were historical personages on whom these characters were built (NB: Not based - built)
Boru
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