AlpinLuke
Forum Staff
- Oct 2011
- 27,366
- Italy, Lago Maggiore
Today I've had occasion to remember a poster who has been on Historum for a while submitting to our attention a scandal discovery [Da Vinci Code style] about the real identity of King Arthur. He was really interested in the value of such a discovery on the market [I remember he started a thread about the effect of the discovery of the real identity of Arthur].
Now, I',m starting this discussion to reason about "discoveries" in the field of alternative history [so speculative history]. Similarities and wake clues are substantially strong evidences in that environment.
In this case we can even record the presence of a grail ... a blue glass cup from Roman age used by Italian kings from the age of Autari on ... [even Napoleon used it!]. And, what about this ..., a woman carried that glass cup to King Autari in occasion of his coronation [this reminds something of the Arthurian tales ...].
But this is not enough ... Lombards conquered Calabria. You make wonder ... "so what?". Calabria was called Britium because in an ancient past the Breeti lived there. So Arthur [Autari] conquest Britain [Britium ... Calabria!].
These coincidence were the reason why I dared to contact directly Franco Cardini [an Italian senior medievalist] and he rejected, as I expected, the Autari option, but he commented not excluding that a manuscript of Diaconus [who wrote the history of the Lombards in the age of Charlemagne] reached the land of the Anglo-Saxons.
That guy was on a hurry because I understood he had to sign a contract with an editor, anyway ...
How can we consider, from a historical perspective the numerous identifications of King Arthur?
Now, I',m starting this discussion to reason about "discoveries" in the field of alternative history [so speculative history]. Similarities and wake clues are substantially strong evidences in that environment.
In this case we can even record the presence of a grail ... a blue glass cup from Roman age used by Italian kings from the age of Autari on ... [even Napoleon used it!]. And, what about this ..., a woman carried that glass cup to King Autari in occasion of his coronation [this reminds something of the Arthurian tales ...].
But this is not enough ... Lombards conquered Calabria. You make wonder ... "so what?". Calabria was called Britium because in an ancient past the Breeti lived there. So Arthur [Autari] conquest Britain [Britium ... Calabria!].
These coincidence were the reason why I dared to contact directly Franco Cardini [an Italian senior medievalist] and he rejected, as I expected, the Autari option, but he commented not excluding that a manuscript of Diaconus [who wrote the history of the Lombards in the age of Charlemagne] reached the land of the Anglo-Saxons.
That guy was on a hurry because I understood he had to sign a contract with an editor, anyway ...
How can we consider, from a historical perspective the numerous identifications of King Arthur?