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Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King ...
In medieval novels, Merlin the Magician was far stranger than he appears in modern pop culture. Archivists have discovered new stories about him.
Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), archivists have finally been able to peer inside the obscured texts—without ever ...
Part of a 13th century manuscript containing rare stories about Merlin and King Arthur has been discovered at Cambridge ...
Arthur has been depicted as a legendary Briton ... The fragile document even contains small errors – such as calling the Saxon king Dodalis "Dorilas" – but those errors will only help ...
Arthur was then said to have been crowned as King in the ruins of the Roman fort at Caerleon in Wales. In another version of the story, King Ambrosius Aurelianus led a battle against the Saxons at ...
A fragment of manuscript found in the book binding of a 16th-century archival register was actually a famed King Arthur ...
King Loth, as they fight the Saxon forces of kings Dodalis, Moydas, Oriancés, and Brandalus. Then there’s the story of Merlin at Arthur’s Court, where the famous wizard appears to Arthur's ...
When the Saxons, too, turned their eye on his kingdom ... and even an early form of parliament. His name was King Arthur, and unfortunately he did not exist, at least in a recognizable way.