King Arthur & the Battle of Mons Badonicus

Britain's favourite myth-history is of King Arthur son of Uther Pendragon and Igraine, who was the wife to Duke Gorlois of Cornwall. Arthur led England against the invading Anglo-Saxons 5th-6th century. 9th-century manuscripts by the Welsh cleric Nennius, record Arthurs twelve battles culminating in the Battle of Mons Badonicus, or Mount Badon, where he is said to have single-handedly killed 960 men. Whilst the Anglo-Saxon period is denoted as the very period initiating 'British' history, only after the conflict settlements, and after the Norman conquest of 1066 were the Anglo-Saxons actually recognised and referred to alone as the creators of the English nation. Accounts of the Invasion of pre-Anglo-Saxon Roman-Briton refer to Ambrosius Aurelianus, Welsh: Emrys Wledig; called Aurelius Ambrosius who in the Historia Regum Britanniae and elsewhere, was the war leader of the Romano-British who won battle against the Anglo-Saxons. Ambrosius was still leading the Britons after this success, but is known to have described his battles as an "unexpected recovery of the island". Gildas describes this period: "From that time, the citizens were sometimes victorious, sometimes the enemy, in order that the Lord, according to His wont, might try in this nation the Israel of to-day, whether it loves Him or not. This continued up to the year of the siege of Badon Hill (obsessionis Badonici montis), and of almost the last great slaughter inflicted upon the rascally crew. And this commences, a fact I know, as the forty-fourth year, with one month now elapsed; it is also the year of my birth".

Bede accounted victory over the Saxons and Picts in a mountain valley to Saint Germanus, who he credits with curbing the threat of invasion for a full generation. However, these victories were overlooked wholly in further descriptions as invasions having been accomplished bloodlessly. It was presumed and often directed to a different occasion by, or from, the General though only if spontaneously assumed of rank. As from Badon if accepted at face value, St. Germanus's involvement would place a real battle around 430. Of those Saxons that went back to "their eastern home". Gildas calls the peace a "grievous divorce with the barbarians". The price of peace, Nick Higham argues, it is a better treaty for the Saxons, giving them the ability to receive tribute from people across the lowlands of Britain. A political treaty ensued by the Council of Leaders in Britain who agreed that some land in the east of southern Britain would be given to the Saxons on the basis of a treaty, a foedus, by which the Saxons would defend the Britons against attacks from the Picts and Scoti in exchange for food supplies. The most contemporaneous textual evidence is the Chronica Gallica of 452 which records for the year 441. The vision of the Anglo-Saxons exercising such extensive political and military power at an early date remains contested. The most developed vision of a continuation in sub-Roman Britain, with control over its own political and military destiny for well over a century, is that of Kenneth Dark, who suggests that the sub-Roman elite survived in culture, politics and military power up to c. 570. (Considering) By the year 400, southern Britain – that is Britain below Hadrian's Wall – was a peripheral part of the Roman Empire in the west, occasionally lost to rebellion or invasion, but until then had always eventually been recovered. It was eventually around 410, that Britain was regarded beyond direct imperial control and termed "sub-Roman". These referrals of alien lineage regard of course a continual appraisal of migrations, likewise regarding necessitation of historical fact, with the Arthurian legend. There remains variant views over how many real migrants came to Britain on whole this period. Heinke Härke suggested that the figure is around 100,000, based on the molecular evidence, whereas archaeologists such as Christine Hills and Richard Hodges suggest the number is nearer 20,000.

Glastonbury, Camelot & the Pendragon Lineage

By around 500 the Anglo-Saxon migrants were established in southern and eastern Britain, in a wholly peaceful accession from the likewise alien Romanish. A grave marked as the resting place of this very King Arthur, was discovered in Glastonbury 1191 and re-interred in 1278 by King Edward I and Queen Eleanor, remaining in the abbey until it was destroyed during the Dissolution in 1539. The abbey of Glastonbury is by the site of the famed Castle Camelot, as is popularly accepted and called the Tor. Within Avalon, lies a rich green land with innumerable fresh water springs and with safe distance to Wales to the West, to the Southern Coast, vast lengths to the North, and of course far from the South-east mainstay and entry into France. At this time its considerably possible that the castle there erected was ruled in the final part by King Arthur, the last of a dynasty of native Britons, and rulers of southern England and Wales (maybe Ireland too), a dynasty well established at the turn of the first millennium, whereby trade routes for Tin was said to reach Israel, a feat no doubt securing great wealth and prestige for the re-assimilated post-Atlantean society. Well aware of and able to manage rising tide waters and minor strait migrations, a trade route of camels across Africas Sahara would have been easily secured and well kept in secret for many a century. In fact the English Tin would have bought by trade a wealth of fabrics and spices from the far east to England, lending both creed and power of never known proportion to the Gaelic lords, those left under Rome to alien-age in Ireland.

As the cross-cultural concentration shifted amidst Gaelic & Latin cultures in the new Anglo-Saxony, the first futhorc runic alphabet was initiated. Said to become popularized by the Anglo-Saxon settlers, only a few samples in short inscriptions have been preserved. The Latin influence consumed this largely deemed pagan cultural precedence, under the influence of Christian missionaries, a proto-English conversion attributable largely to Vikings. The concentration of English recordings during the time of the last Pendragon, were naturally concerned to reverence of a blacksmith, who forged the best swords; a champion weaponsmith by the name of Welund, according to the poem Deor. Tracing the origins back and to the Merovingian line Laurence Gardner an authority in antiquity wrote in his novel titled 'In the Realm of the Ring Lords' that "The Tuatha De Danann (or Dragon Lords of Anu)...[before settling in Ireland (from about 800 B.C.)]...were the...Black Sea princes of Scythia (now Ukraine). Like the original dynastic Pharaohs, they traced their descent from the great Pendragons of Mesopotamia; from them sprang the kingly lines of the Irish Bruithnigh and the Picts of Scotland's Caledonia. In Wales they founded the Royal House of Gwynedd, while in Cornwall in the southwest of England, they were the sacred gentry known as Pict-Sidhe."

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