The Arthur Myth - Is This the Strongest Explanation?

Higham believes the big watershed moment in the development of the arthur myth is geffrey of monmouth's book, historia regum britanie from 11 36. In higham's view, all the later stories and romances about arthur should all be seen as a kind of imaginative, fabulous embe ushments. And hence, they have no historical value. They cannot tell us anything about what was said or known about arthur prior to 11 36. All of this has to be thrown into the ben of unreliable legends and tall tales. Is there no possible historic, actual value to any of them? Well, we have to consider whether there could be other sources