Gents Mag 1901 part 1 p.103
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Gentleman's Magazine 1901 part 1 p.103
repose on summer grass. The are written as if the "world would never grow old," and as the lady I quote above says, they never do grow old. The knights themselves are said to have died. Witness the lament of Sir Ector over the death of Sir Lancelot in Malory, one of the most priceless things in literature; but the world preferred to believe them still in Avalon, whence the return of Arthur was for centuries anticipated. The Celts are naturally the firmest upholders of the view that Arthur and his principal knights are real, and efforts are made to connect Gawaine with the Cuchullin of Irish legend. If we could indeed transfer the scene of the Arthurian exploits from Cornwall to Ireland many difficulties would vanish, but the references to Cornwall and South Wales are too numerous and too direct to permit any such transference of scene. KING ARTHUR IN SCOTLAND. ONE school of antiquaries would find in Cumbria and Scotland the scene of Arthur's principal exploits, and notably that of his death. According to its members, Glein is Glen in Ayrshire; Dubglas is not, as held by Geoffrey of Monmouth, in Lincolnshire, but Douglas in Lennox; Coit Cebidon is on the Carron in Tweedale, Castle Guinnion is in Wedale, Leogis is at Dumbarton, Treuroit on the banks of the Forth, near Stirling, where Arthur's Round Table is still shown. Agnet is a name for Edinburgh, and Badon Hill is not Bath on the English Avon, but Bowdon Hill in Linlithgow, on the Scottish Avon. These views, expounded in Mr. W. F. Skene's "Four Ancient Books of Wales" and Mr. Stuart Glennie's "Arthurian Scotland," are well summarised by Mr. C. F. Keary in the life of Arthur in the "Dictionary of National Biography." Dr. Dickson favours the view that Arthur's last battle, which was fought, it must be remembered, against a confederacy of Picts, Scots, and Saxons, or renegade Britons, took place at Camelon on the river Carron, in the valley of the Forth. That names and superstitions connected with Arthur and his associates abound in Southern Scotland is clearly shown. ... |
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