Finding Arthur

[David Thorpe]

As he did in his earlier work, Finding Merlin, Adam Ardrey again unearths the truth by expertly dissecting the fabrications of medieval religious and political propagandists to reveal the real, historical man behind the myth - an Arthur who was not English, not Christian nor a king. Citing a wealth of literary, archaeological and linguistic evidence, Ardrey makes a compelling case for the real life Arthur - an immensely capable warlord of Dalriadic and Manauan descent who on behalf of his father, the King of Dalriada and Manau, wages a brilliant campaign resulting in the first glimmers of a united Scotland.
If this book does not set the legend on its ear, it will be only because those who through a millenneum of concentrated effort succeeded in creating the pure fantasy of a south Britian "King" Arthur. Some of us prefer the facts.