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29: 187:." Flint Johnson disagrees with Breeze's interpretation of Camlann as a cattle raid, but also agrees that the battle was historical and that the causes would have been political, although the date is still uncertain. Johnson concluded: "The most reasonable reason why Arthur's death was associated with 537 is because as a king he was associated with the fertility of his kingdom and 537 was a period of famine. It would have made perfect sense to a medieval scholar with a British cultural background that the death of a renowned king had caused ." 538: 405: 290:(Guinevere), wife of Arthur, as one of the "Three Harmful Blows of the Island of Britain", causing the Strife of Camlann. Calling Camlann one of Britain's "Three Futile Battles", Triad 84 also mentions this dispute between sisters. Triad 54 describes Medrawd raiding Arthur's court, throwing Gwenhwyfar to the ground and beating her. Other Triads in which Camlann is mentioned include Triad 30 ("Three Faithless War Bands") and Triad 59 ("Three Unfortunate Counsels"). 2432: 2444: 2456: 255:, and Cynwyl Sant as the three men who survived Camlann: Morfran because of his fearsome ugliness, Sandde because of his angelic beauty, and Cynwyl because he left Arthur last. This triad shows that Camlann was famous as a battle that few survived. Caitlin Green suggests that "Osfran's son" from the 460:
in south central England (Camlann is not mentioned). The fighting begins by an accident of fate, when a startled knight draws his sword to kill an adder during the standoff negotiations between Mordred and Arthur. After great numbers die on both sides (including several other kings and most of the
456:. He leaves Mordred in charge of Britain when he departs, only for Mordred to betray him and seize the throne. Arthur brings his veteran army back to Britain, where they meet Mordred's forces outnumbering them two-to-one with his British supporters and foreign allies (Saxon and Irish) at 396:(1663–1693). In Layamon's telling, only Arthur and his two nameless knights are left alive after the battle. Wace wrote: "I neither know who lost, nor who gained that day. No man wists the name of overthrower or of overthrown. All alike are forgotten, the victor with him who died." 332:, written circa 1136. Geoffrey's version drew on existing Welsh tradition, but embellished the account with invented details. His focus was not on individuals but the 'character of the British nation'. In Books X and IX, Arthur goes to war against the Roman leader 70:, is only vaguely described in several medieval Welsh texts dating from around the 10th century. The battle's much more detailed depictions have emerged since the 12th century, generally based on that of a catastrophic conflict described in the pseudo-chronicle 336:, leaving his nephew Modredus (Mordred) in charge of Britain. In Arthur's absence, Modredus secretly marries Arthur's wife Guenhuvara (Guinevere) and takes the throne for himself. Arthur returns and his army faces Modredus' at Camblana (the 305:) shows that it was a topic familiar to Welsh writers. The law states "when the queen shall will a song in the chamber, let the bard sing a song respecting Camlan, and that not loud, lest the hall be disturbed." The 15th/16th-century poet 601:) and has been buried there. Geoffrey gives only a hopeful possibility (but not assurance) for Arthur's wounds to be healed eventually, but a successful revival of Arthur by Morgan is stated as a fact in the rewrite of Geoffrey in the 384:, written around 1400. The chronicle tradition typically follows Geoffrey in placing Camlann on the Camel in Cornwall: Wace places it at "Camel, over against the entrance to Cornwall," and Layamon specifies the location as 137:. An entry for the year 537 mentions the "strife of Camlann, in which Arthur and Medraut fell, and there was great mortality in Britain and Ireland." This is also the first written mention of Medraut (the later 578:. Later authors of the prose cycles featured Morgan herself (usually with two or more other ladies with her) arriving in a fairy boat to take the king away, the scene made iconic through its inclusion in 440:(Vulgate) cycle, Arthur goes to France not to fight the Romans, but to pursue his former prime knight Lancelot, who had engaged in an affair with Guinevere and killed Arthur's nephews (Mordred's and 423:. These often follow Geoffrey's blueprint, but alter many of the details. The legend shifts to the 'character of individuals' and the proposed adultery between Guinevere and 315:, the immediate cause of the battle is a deliberate provocation by Arthur's rogue peace envoy named Iddawg (Iddawc Cordd Prydain) who intentionally insulted Medrawd. 282:): Medrawd (Mordred) rebels against Arthur while the latter is campaigning on the continent and usurps the throne, instigating the battle. Triad 53 lists a slap 1129:
Bartrum, Peter C., A Welsh classical dictionary : people in history and legend up to about A.D. 1000, The National library of Wales, 1993, pp. 109-111.
523:, Mordred is actually victorious as he survives Arthur's death in their battle and then becomes the new king, only to be later defeated by Lancelot. 66:, who also perished. The original legend of Camlann, inspired by a purportedly historical event said to have taken place in the early 6th-century 271:, one of the nine men who plotted the Battle of Camlann, suggesting a now-lost tradition of complex intrigue underpinning Arthur's last battle. 815: 496:
This account of Arthur's last battle was adapted into many subsequent works of the period from 13th to 15th century, including the Old French
179:, Breeze concludes: "There is every reason to think that, in 537, when the walls of this stronghold stood high , Arthur was killed by men of 1420: 247:, dated to the 11th or 12th century, mentions the battle twice in connection to heroes who fought there. The text includes a triad naming 469:), Arthur kills Mordred in a duel, but is himself mortally wounded. The dying Arthur tasks his knight (depending on the telling, either 76:. The further greatly embellished variants originate from the later French chivalric romance tradition, in which it became known as the 2233: 1604: 2353: 392:
reports that as signs of the battle "pieces of armour both for horse and man are many times found in digging of the ground" in his
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says that the battle came about through the treachery of Medrod and happened "about two nuts". In the 13th/14th-century Welsh tale
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narration laments that the brutal and bloody battle resulted in the deaths of so many that, afterwards, Arthur's "kingdom of
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offer clues to the alleged cause of the Battle of Camlann. Triad 51 largely reflects (and is derived from) Geoffrey (
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Wilson-Okamura, David Scott (Winter 1997). "Adultery and the Fall of Logres in the Post-Vulgate "Suite du Merlin"".
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in Cornwall). Many are killed, including Modredus; Arthur is mortally wounded and taken to the Isle of
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Geoffrey's work was highly influential, and was adapted into various other languages, including
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elegy or lament about a different Arthur, perhaps one listed in the genealogy of the kings of
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argued that, as Camlann is not mentioned in the list of Arthur's battles in the ninth-century
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and magical isle, in hope that he could be saved. Geoffrey has Arthur delivered to Morgen (
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The earliest dateable reference to the battle is found in the 10th-century Welsh annals
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A Welsh classical dictionary : people in history and legend up to about A.D. 1000
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Lynch, Andrew. “‘… ‘IF INDEED I GO’: ARTHUR’S UNCERTAIN END IN MALORY AND TENNYSON.”
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However, most historians regard Arthur and the Battle of Camlann as legendary.
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Further traditions about Arthur's final battle are developed in the Arthurian
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How Mordred was Slain by Arthur, and How by Him Arthur was Hurt to the Death
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Camlann is mentioned in Peniarth MS.37, a 14th-century copy of the
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included the Battle of Camlann in his pseudo-historical chronicle
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guided by Barinthus, replaced by two unnamed women in the
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was doomed to destruction, and many others with it."
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Index

Camlann Medieval Village

William Hatherell
Welsh
King Arthur
Mordred
Britain
Historia Regum Britanniae
Le Morte d'Arthur
Brittonic
Roman
Camboglanna
Cumbria
Historicity of King Arthur
Annales Cambriae
Mordred
Andrew Breeze
extreme weather events of 535–536
central Britain
R.G. Collingwood
Camboglanna
Hadrian's Wall
Castlesteads
Carlisle
Rheged
Penrith
Nick Higham
Historia Brittonum
Old Welsh
Dyfed

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