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The Lost Land Of King Arthur By J. Cuming Walters. 1909
"On the one hand we have the man Arthur, ... on the other is a greater Arthur, a more colossal figure, of which we have, so to speak, but a torso, rescued from the wreck of the Celtic Pantheon." PROFESSOR RHYS.
"There is truth enough to make him famous besides that which is fabulous." BACON.
I. OF THE KING AND HIS CHRONICLERS
II. OF LYONNESSE AND CAMELIARD
III. OF ARTHUR .THE KING AND MERLIN THE ENCHANTER
IV. OF TINTAGEL
V. OF CAERLEON-UPON-USK
VI. OF THE ROUND TABLE AND KING ARTHUR'S BATTLES
VII. OF CAMELOT AND ALMESBURY
VIII. OF ST. KNIGHTON'S KIEVE AND THE HOLY GRAIL
IX. OF CAMELFORD AND THE LAST BATTLE 194
X. OF GLASTONBURY AND THE PASSING OF ARTHUR
FOREWORD
WITHIN a small area in the West Country may be found the principal places mentioned in the written chronicles of King Arthur places with strange long histories and of natural charm. In these pages an impressionist view is given of the region once called Cameliard and Lyonnesse. We have ventured into by-ways seldom entered, and we trust to have gathered a few details which may not be wholly without interest in their place.
Facts are meagre about King Arthur, and romance has. so overlaid reality that his realm seems now to be veritably a part of fairy-land. In this respect the journey is profitless, save that, by taking Malory as a guide, we are led to a few delightful and half-forgotten localities out of the ordinary route, from which romance has not been wholly dislodged and where tradition survives and is strong.
