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King Arthur Pendragon - Born of Fire!
King Arthur Pendragon - Born of Fire!
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Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description
Cyfrol newydd, awdurdodol am y Brenin Arthur. Mae'r awdur yn dadandoddi ac yn dehongli'r prif ffynonellau, yn cynnwys Nennius a Beda.
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
The new definitive and iconic book about King Arthur. The author analyses and interprets the primary sources, including Nennius and Bede.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9780648593003
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9780648593003
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- King Arthur Pendragon - Born of Fire!
- Awdur / Author
- Cunningham, Nigel Dryden
- Current Price ex VAT
- £24.75
- Current Price inc VAT
- £24.75
- Availability Status (EN)
- Available
- Availability Status (CY)
- Ar gael
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2019-10-29
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Asmedia
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 318 pages
- Size
- 153 × 233 mm; depth 15 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Hanes, Hanes Lleol, Arferion Gwlad, Llên Gwerin (yn Saesneg) | EN: History, Welsh Life and Customs, Local History, Folk Tales (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: Arthuraidd (yn Saesneg) | EN: Arthurian (in English)
Cynnwys / Table of Contents
Subjects included: History: King Arthur, Early British Kingdoms, Celtic history, Late Roman history, Welsh history, Scottish history, England history, Royal family, ancestry and genealogy, Scottish clans including the Cunningham clan. Literature: The Matter of Britain, Arthurian Studies, Poetry of Taliesin, Celtic Studies. Language: The Celtic languages and the origins of English.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
The author examines and evaluates the ancient texts which refer to King Arthur, including Gildas, Bede, Nennius, Annales Cambriae and the Anglo Saxon Chronicles. The poetry of Taliesin is evaluated. The author also reviews modern historians accounts of King Arthur and the Britons. The author constructs an accurate timeline and reveals forgotten or overlooked name interpretations. The greater part of the book consists of a narrative history of King Arthur and his Cunedda dynasty over Nennius’s precise timeframe of 146 years. Name Origin King Arthur is remembered from the Gaelic version of his name which is Cion Aodha. Cionaodha is the Gaelic version of the Brythonic name Cunedda. Aodha is pronounced Arthur. The name relates to dragons not bears. The Gaelic and English versions of the name are a perfect match. Einion Yrth ap Cunedda was Uther Pendragon, the father of King Arthur. Yrth is Uther. Cunedda translates as Pendragon. Uther Pendragon had two sons, Owain Ddantgwyn and Cadwallon Lawhir. The name Cadwallon means Battle Leader and Lawhir means long hand. The Leader of Battles with the long hand was King Arthur of Mt Badon. Two matching dynasties The Cunedda dynasty equates to and matches the Arthurian dynasty, on a king by king basis. They are one and the same. The two dynasties are a perfect match both in terms of calendar years and equivalent names, as explained in the book. Cunedda dynasty Arthurian dynasty (see Geoffrey of Monmouth) Cunedda Wledig aka Edern ap Padarn Emperor Constantine 3rd Cunedda ap Edern Emperor Constans Eternus ap Cunedda aka Emrys Wledig Ambrosius Aurelianus Einion Yrth ap Cunedda Uther Pendragon Cadwallon Lawhir ap Einion King Arthur of Mons Badonicus Owain Ddantgwyn ap Einion King Arthur of Camlann Maelgwn Gwynedd Mordred History by the numbers Nennius’s dating of events is precise, consistent and correct. It all reconciles. Geoffrey of Monmouth’s account, which is undated, matches almost perfectly with Nennius’s timeframes and event sequence. There are in fact two parallel timeframes given by Nennius which are separated by 18 years. Each of the timeframes commence with the end of Constantine’s (Edern ap Padarn aka Cunedda Wledig) reign as King of Britons. His reign ended in 411 but his death (as Edern ap Padarn) is recorded in 429. Constans reigned from 412 until he was overthrown by Vortigern in 425. The alternative but incorrect timeframe is 430 until 443. In the fourth year of Vortigern’s reign the Saxons led by Hengist and Horsa came to Britain, which is in 429. The Battle of Mt Badon occurred in 475 which is 46 years after the Saxon Adventus in 429. We know that 429 is the correct year because that is the same year in which St Germanus came to Britain. Vortigern was defeated by Ambrosius Aurelianus 12 years after Vortigern usurped the Crown, which was in 437. This dating is provided by Nennius. Ambrosius reigned as King of Britons from 437 until his death in 451, which was the year of Halley’s Comet as described by Geoffrey of Monmouth. Merlin (according to Geoffrey of Monmouth’s history book) says that the comet heralds Uther’s son, who will become Britain’s greatest leader. Ambrosius was succeeded by his brother Uther Pendragon. The following Easter (452) Uther held a great celebration, which ultimately resulted in him seducing Ygerna at Tintagel Castle one week later. Uther’s seduction of Ygerna led to the birth of King Arthur around New Year 453. This timeframe matches King Arthur with Cadwallon Lawhir, whose name means “Leader of Battles with the long hand”. King Arthur was famously referred to as the “Leader of Battles”. It was also said that 940 Saxons were killed at the Battle of Mons Badonicus by his hand alone. The Bard Taliesin confirms Cadwallon as being King Arthur when he refers to Arthur as “Hu of the expanded wings”. Hugh is a variant name of Aodha/Arthur. Expanded wings refers to Lawhir (long arms). Arthur was crowned King (Regent) at the age of 15, which event can be dated to 468. In 468/469 Riothamus campaigned in Gaul and has been identified as King Arthur by Geoffrey Ashe. Riothamus was not King Arthur but he was Uther Pendragon. Riothamus suffered a crushing defeat in Gaul. He gathered together the survivors of his army and then disappeared, according to a history written by Jordanes. He reappears in Geoffrey’s history book as Uther Pendragon “the half dead king”, which indicates that he was severely injured in the Gallic campaign but managed to return to Britain. Uther died shortly thereafter in 470. It was a young King Arthur who led the Britons to victory over the Saxons and Franks at Mons Badonicus (Mt Badon) in 475. It was Childeric the King of the Franks who was defeated by King Arthur at Mons Badonicus. Prof Charles-Edwards of Oxford University says that the area of Anglo Saxon settlement expanded up to 475. It can be concluded that King Arthurs victory at Mons Badonicus in 475 permanently stopped the territorial expansion of Anglo Saxon settlement. Anglo Saxon Hoax The book also uncovers the Anglo Saxon Hoax thereby providing a double whammy against the Anglo Saxonist “history” of Britain. The Foundation Stone of Britain Almost every page of the book contains valuable information and evidence, which it is not possible to recount in a short summary. The evidence for the true identity of King Arthur is both conclusive and overwhelming. This book restores the foundation stone of Post Roman Britain from the fifth century to the present day. It is that foundation stone on which Britain was built and still stands. It is the same foundation stone from which Britain’s Crown draws its legitimacy and power; the true source of the Once and Future King. Every King or Prince of Wales, and every King of Scotland was descended from King Arthur. All the Kings of Wessex and England claimed descent from Cerdic and his son Cynric. Cerdic was the fifth son of Cunedda, and the brother of Uther Pendragon. The Tudors, the Stuarts, and the present Royal family are all descended from King Arthur. The lineage and lines of descent from King Arthur are disclosed in the book. King Arthur in Literature King Arthur is the foundation stone of Britain’s history and also of Britain’s literature, which combined together constitutes the Matter of Britain. The historical King Arthur is the source and inspiration for the literature. The intrinsic value and the resilience of the literature is derived from its source. The literature cannot be properly understood, studied or evaluated in isolation from its true source. Concluding comment This is a monumental and ground breaking book which repositions, remakes and rewrites, from the ground up, all of British history (from the fifth century of King Arthur to Winston Churchill, and Queen Elizabeth in the twenty-first century). It is therefore desirable and necessary that the book is widely distributed in order to meet the widespread interest and audience which it will inevitably generate.
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