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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

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