Reviews for King Arthur, king of kings

The average rating for King Arthur, king of kings based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-01-31 00:00:00 charles dye Excellent book. Unlike other books that drag the reader through the dust throwing out names of authors ad infinitum until you can't see straight much remember who is who or who wrote what, Phillips keeps things fairly simple and straight forward though he does tend to tease and reiterate his points from chapter to chapter. I think this bio mystery makes sense. Unlike Geoffrey Ashe, Graham Phillips confines his search to the island of Britain. And tries to limit his investigations to the parts of the legend known to be seminal and completely British without a whiff of the later French cooking. Why should the real Arthur be concerned with wars and troubles in France? He had plenty to worry about with the Saxons and squabbles among the native British tribes. Graham identifies the important places and people in Arthur's story and leads you step-by-step to his conclusions. I am satisfied that Arthur has been found at last!

Review # 2 was written on 2019-02-14 00:00:00 Eric Hudson The early chapters give a fair summing up of early Arthurian literature, and of cross-pollination between Romantic, Celtic and Welsh literature (one way or the other - Avalon = Annwn, etc). A first pricking of my thumb, however, when it does identify Guinevere as Gwenhyfar, but fails to see that the name has the same origin as Ganhumara. The further you go in the book, the more assumption is built on speculation, supported by guesswork, and it becomes a fragile structure indeed. The truth about King Arthur is: if you strip away everything from the legend that we don't know, we remain only with the fact that there once was a warlord called Arthur. Maybe.