I don't think people can get very stuck on the historical reality of these stories. The value of these myths is not to tell us anything particularly precise or exact about misty, misty time. Their job is to tell us something about ourselves now. I mean, that is how t they were invoked at the moment t they were being written. And a ew described beautifully with the cordelia, the story and how important it was politically in that moment. It's like that with the arthurian legend. You know, i don't really care whether arthur existed. What is fascinating is how this figure took on, in fiction, a life of its own.