Book description
Arthur led the Britons to the brink of victory but was cut down by
treachery and betrayal. Arthurian legends have since been corrupted,
leading to popular but false assumptions about the king and the belief
that his grave could never be found. Drawing on a vast range of
sources and new translations of early British and Gaelic poetry,
Arthur explodes these myths and exposes the shocking truth. In this,
the first full biography of Arthur, Simon Andrew Stirling provides a
range of proofs that Arthur mac Aedain was the original King Arthur;
he identifies the original Camelot, the site of Arthur's last battle
and his precise burial location. For the first time ever, the role
played by the early Church in Arthur's downfall and the fall of North
Britain is also revealed. This included the Church's contribution to
fabricated Arthurian history, the unusual circumstances of his buiral
and the extraordinary history of the sacred isle on which he was buried.
Simon Andrew Stirling has been a professional writer for twenty
years, with credits including science and history programmes for the
Open University and episodes of popular TV drama series. He received a
Writers' Guild Award in 1995 for his work on the BBC's Between the
Lines. He is also a former tour-guide at Barcaldine Castle, Argyll.
