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Introduction<br />
1 The Kinship of the King<br />
2 Arthur’s Battles<br />
3 The River Glein<br />
4 The River Dubglas<br />
5 Bassas<br />
6 Guinnion<br />
7 Caledonian Wood<br />
8 Loch Lomond<br />
9 Portrush<br />
10 Cwm Kerwyn<br />
11 Caer Legion<br />
12 Tribuit<br />
13 Mount Agned<br />
14 Mount Badon<br />
15 Camlann<br />
Epilogue<br />
Appendices<br />
A Uther Pendragon<br />
B Arthwys, King of the Pennines<br />
C Arthur’s Pilgrimages<br />
D King Arthur’s Bones<br />
INTRODUCTION<br />
Cupbearer, fill these eager mead-horns, for I have a song to sing.<br />
Let us plunge helmet first into the Dark Ages, as the candle of<br />
Roman civilisation goes out over Europe, as an empire finally<br />
fell. The Britons, placid citizens after centuries of the Pax<br />
Romana, are suddenly assaulted on three sides; from the west<br />
the Irish, from the north the Picts & from across the North Sea<br />
the Anglo-Saxons. For almost a century the situation was