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Camelot Legend
Re: Camelot Legend
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GURPS Camelot covered medieval, cinematic and historical versions of the Arthurian myth; our version of historical was strongly influced by Geoffrey Ashe's work, and overlaps with your friend's view somewhat.
Just a couple points from our research:
The best candidate for a historical Arthur is a war leader called "Riothamus", whose career (as documented by continental historians) parallels that of the earliest accounts of Arthur; Riothamus also has the virtue of having disappeared from the historical record while on a retreat to the French city of Avallon...
The location that seems best suited to have been the "real" Camelot is a hill fort in Southwest England not too far from Cornwall, but it's always been obvious to me that the name itself came from the Roman settlement at Camulodinum. (I think that's the spelling; I'm at work and can't consult my sources.) "Merlin" appears to have been a title, not a name -- and there may have been more than one bearer of the title conflated into a single character in the stories.
I'm out of time. More later.


-- Bob
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Camelot Legend - by Disruptor - 04-14-2004, 03:28 AM
RE: Camelot Legend - by Labster - 02-01-2022, 04:10 PM
Re: Camelot Legend - by Bob Schroeck - 04-14-2004, 02:21 PM
Re: Camelot Legend - by mephron - 04-15-2004, 04:39 PM
Re: Camelot Legend - by Lord Svengali - 05-10-2008, 07:57 PM
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