The Real King Arthur: Ambrosius Aurelianus
The Ancients
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The Origins of Nenius
Trying to piece together how his legacy has developed, has evolved by the time you get to Nenius is very difficult. We know that stories can last for hundreds if not thousands of years, but they gradually change and they mutate into other things. The stories of Ambrosius and the story, later stories of Arthur are written down hundreds of years after they really happened,. so they've mutated into something else. To try and drill back down to the original stories is extremely difficult. If a modern historian or writer takes wholesale sections of someone else's writing without crediting them we recognize it as plagiarism. In medieval writers, especially religious writers, they're not as bothered as today
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