アーサー王とドルイド The Druids and King Arthur : A New View of Early Britain

Melrose, Robin

McFarland & Co Inc（2010/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 220 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786458905
• DDC分類 942.014

基本説明

Concludes that Arthur was a Druid cult figure and that the descendants of the Druids may have founded the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex.

Full Description

An exploration into the beliefs and origins of the Druids, 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 in eastern Europe around 850 B.C., 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 and that the descendants of the Druids may have founded the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex. The research draws upon a number of sources, including medieval Welsh tales, the archaeology of Stonehenge's Salisbury Plain, the legends surrounding the founding of Britain, the cult of the Thracian Horseman, the oracle of Dodona, popular Arthurian mythology, and the basic principles of prehistoric astronomy.

Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction     

1. The Dragon Star     

2. The Severed Head and the Bone Cave: Religion in Roman Britain     

3. Arthur's Voyage: The Spoils of Annwn     

4. Magic Mounds, Sea People and Shape-Shifters: The Wonderful World of the Mabinogion     

5. Mounds, Mounds, Mounds: Rubbish Heaps, Hillforts and the Prehistory of Southern England     

6. Visitors from the East     

7. Brutus of Troy Town     

8. Arthur, King of Wessex?     

Notes     

Bibliography     

Index