Is camelot true?
The first tales of Arthur were accounts of the British (Welsh) resistance to the widespread invasion and settlement of England by the Anglo-Saxon tribes. Arthur was the hero of the battle of Badon Hill, where he reputedly killed 90 Saxons in a single day. After about 1100 A. D. everyone, including the Saxons, was using him as propaganda. Most of the tales of Parsifal and so forth present him as an exemplar of good governance. Maybe not perfect governance but good governance. Camelot should be understood in that context. I believe four sites have been identified as it, in the recent historical past. I’ve frankly lost interest as to whether there is any consensus behind one of them. All the sites I’ve seen described have intrinsically important historical artifacts and are interesting whether they are Camelot or not. Being the great grandson of an immigrant to America from Wales I certainly want to think there was a Camelot. But most of the detailed stories about it are propaganda. I fou
