The Welsh are the direct descendants of the Romano-Britons of England and Wales, who were pushed back towards the west of Britain by the Anglo-Saxons in the 5th and 6th centuries.
Although the name ‘Caerleon’ sounds typically Celtic, it is actually a corruption of the Latin words castrum (fortress) and legio (legion). Caerleon, South Walesīoth Geoffrey of Monmouth and Chrétien de Troyes place Camelot, Arthur’s chief court and fortress, in Caerleon, South Wales, one of three Roman legionary forts in Britain. Let us look at the top four contenders for Camelot. Later references date from the early 12th century, and include Geoffrey of Monmouth’s chronicle Historia Regum Britanniae (“History of the Kings of Britain”), and later, the works of Chrétien de Troyes and Thomas Malory. He appears again in the ‘ History of the Britons’, written in AD 830 by Nennius, where he is depicted as a heroic general and a Christian warrior. This is the earliest reference to Arthur. In one of these elegies a reference is made to Arthur, which suggests he was already a famous figure at the time of the poem’s original composition.
Nearly all the Britons were killed and their lands absorbed into the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
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Aneirin’s Y Gododdin is the earliest surviving Welsh poem and consists of a series of separate elegies to the men of the Gododdin who died at the Battle of Catraeth (believed to be modern day Catterick in Yorkshire), fighting against the Angles of Deira and Bernicia. The earliest reference to Arthur is in a poem dating from around AD 594.
Did he exist and if so, who was he? Was he perhaps a Romano-Celtic leader defending his lands from Anglo-Saxon invaders? Perhaps a clue to its possible location might be found in the sources we have for the legend of King Arthur. Camelot was the name of the place where King Arthur held court and was the location of the famous Round Table. Although most scholars regard it as being entirely fictional, there are many locations that have been linked with King Arthur’s Camelot.
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