There's about as much evidence for King Arthur as there is for that Jesus fellow. And both claimed they'd be back one day. Let's see who gets here first; my money's on the Brit!

Incidentally, Bernard Cornwell wrote a pretty decent version of the King Arthur story. It's called The Winter King.

REX QVONDAM REXQVE FVTVRVS!

Ummm. English king? Fighting the Saxons?

Her general thesis is possibly correct, but I think she is confusing Britain and England. Is she American? The French don't usually confuse "les anglais" and "les brittaniques" in my experience.

Greetings from sunny Wales.

And a flame for all those second homes ...

Peter

NT

The same can be said of just about ANY historical figure. Including, I'm sure, any number of French ones.

Le duh.

I'm glad that the study was so correct as to put Arthur in the Saxon / English camp!

"Arthur was an English King who united all of the Britons - in the British Isles and in Brittany - against the Saxons."

Saxons = English, some historian. Paris, because there's no Britney icon (Brittany - geddit?)

Coat please.

he wasn't a mith, he was a mithter...

/coat, for obvious reasons.

I can understand the French thinking this. I mean, an alleged English warrior King who *didn't* take a small and heavily outnumbered army to France and kick the crap out of them?

Obviously a myth.

For those interested in it, a certain Geoffrey of Monmouth is widely credited with promulgating the Authurion legend. his reason was to promote the Norman conquest as the final victory of the Britons against the hated Saxon invader. In that way the Normans sought to protect and cement their conquest by portraying it as the final chapter in a age long fight twixt the Saxon invader and the native Briton. Indeed a lot of William the Conquerors soldiers came from Brittany an area populated by the Britons following the Saxon takeover of England in the 700s.

Robin of Locksley, a good and proper God-appointed Anglo-Saxon rightful nobleman who stood up against those bloody barbarian frogs like Guy of Gisbourne who had invaded and stolen their land.

Robin Hood is the *real* propaganda.

God the spelling in your message is so terrible, I find it really difficult to tell what you're trying to say.

Calling Arthur an English king is like saying Cornwall is part of England.

Onen Hag Oll

Yes, it does seem rather odd to suggest that the English made up a folk hero whose most important exploit was to beat them up and prevent them from dominating England for a century.

... Arthur and Morgan Le Fay feature in the final series of SG1. Therefore they must be real.

Silly French... dont they watch TV? ;-)

Mines the one with the shoulder harness with P90 strapped to the front.

Looks like Arthur, KING OF THE BRITAINS will have to return from Avalon in this our greatest time of need.

mumble grumble....bloody foreigners... grumble.

Maybe we should point out that their "Joan and her big French Arc" stories aren't very believable either. The bloody cheek.

Paris because there's no Helen Mirren image.

I crown you King of Dyslexia.

Let's face it, the Frogs have no decent legends of their own, so they're reduced to snide sniping from afar (evil grin)

You get a frog to challenge the mythology of this reasonably fair country of ours in a decent traditional English Pub, and the frog'll wind up being used for Longbow target practice that very day, Sunday or not (VERY evil grin)!

Learn how to spell, it's 'myths' not 'miths' and 'logical' not 'logicle'!

Could someone please tell me what exactly that michael chap (4th post) is trying to say? One can only assume that someone's let management near the internet and they're running rampant with "reasions" for "miths", although that may be illogicle (sic).

As alien as a spell checker.

They steal our words, our football chants and now our myths!

100 years, not enough.

That was brilliant, do it again. Also, you appear to have correctly spelled "years"; please try harder. B+

That there's no solid archaeological evidence of the Green Knight.

Mine's the one on the side of that horse.

So what, Napoleon was a midget and and Joan of Arc was gay. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries. Take that, Frenchies.

You don't frighten us, English pig-dog! Go and boil your bottoms, son of a silly person. I blow my nose on you, so-called Arthur-king, you and your silly English K...kaniggets

The spelling is a bit hit and mith.

Those darn Frencies are at it again, Just because they are cultural inept bunch they feel teh need to try & lambaste this fine country's heritage.

Invade France again we could do with a few flags to put our red cross of St George onto. they have loads of those white flags they are always waving.

"Hate to be a pedant, but The Winter King was about King Alfred, not Arther, who did exisit. Still a dam good book though (alont with the rest of the Uthred & Arther books)."

Irony, anyone?

ie a Cymric/Cornish chief, they never said he was English. What they said was he keeps getting ressurected by the English for political purposes, which is ironic since he isn't English etc etc. Common misperception, that. Like Boudica - I read a thread about Mel Gibson's upcoming Boudica movie, and someone said "Finally a pro-English movie from Gibson"... erm.. except Boudica, like Arthur, was a Briton, 500 years before the Saxons came in, 1000 years before there was notion of an "English". Heck, if the Saxons had came in Boudica's time she would have fought them too.

...as Jeanne D'Arc being commanded by God.