The History of Arthur

We have reason to believe that this body of oral testimony about arthur was drawn upon by bth marie de france and cretiene du tois, two of the major arthurian romance authors. So we don't know if that's true. It could all be a hoax. But at the very least, the notion that glastonbury was avalon may have been transmitted, again, by these breton bards and their oral tradition. And because higham ignores the links connecting to these bretonbards and the stories that they were propagating, he makes the mistake repeatedly of assuming that when a claim about arthur first appea s in writing, that must