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The Druids and King Arthur : a new view of early Britain /
- Title
- The Druids and King Arthur : a new view of early Britain / Robin Melrose.
- Author
- Melrose, Robin.
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2011.
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Details
- Description
- v, 214 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This book examines the role the Druids may have played in the story of King Arthur and the founding of Britain. It explains how the Druids originated, bringing to early Britain a cult of an underworld deity, a belief in reincarnation, and a keen interest in astronomy. The work concludes that Arthur was originally a Druid cult figure"--Provided by publisher."
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The dragon star -- The severed head and the bone cave: religion in Roman Britain -- Arthur's voyage: the spoils of Annwn -- Magic mounds, sea people and shape-shifters: the wonderful world of the Mabinogion -- Mounds, mounds, mounds: rubbish heaps, hillforts and the prehistory of Southern England -- Visitors from the East -- Brutus of Troy Town -- Arthur, king of Wessex?
- ISBN
- 9780786458905 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 0786458909 (softcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010043915
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library