Flint F. Johnson is an independent scholar whose academic areas of interest include post-Roman British history, Heroic Age Greek and Norse history, and the cultures existing before the first river valley civilizations. He lives in Hudson, Wisconsin.

Table of Contents

Source Abbreviations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One : Historicity

1.¿The Historicity of Arthur: The Evidence in Traditional Form

2.¿The British Arthur: An Elusive Hero

3.¿The Heroic Age Phenomenon

4.¿Fionn macCumhail and Arthur

5.¿Arthur and the Superbus Tyrannus

6.¿Drutwas

7.¿The Bards of the Fifth, Sixth and Early Seventh Centuries

8.¿Conclusion: The Historicity of Arthur

Part Two : Geography

9.¿Introduction to a Study of Arthur's Geography

10.¿The Geographical Influence of Geoffrey of Monmouth

11.¿Arthur, the Vitae and Glastonbury Abbey

12.¿Arthur's Geography in the ­Pre-Galfridic Tradition

13.¿Arthur's Men in the Early Welsh Sources

14.¿Culhwch ac Olwen and the Location of Arthur

15.¿Arthur in the Romances

16.¿­Carlisle-Camelot: A New Option

17.¿The Location of Arthur

Part Three : Floruit

18.¿The Chronological Tradition

19.¿The Romanitas of Arthur's Era

20.¿Bardic Chronology

21.¿Caradoc of Llancarfan

22.¿Gildasian Chronology

23.¿Arthur's Expanding Orbit

24.¿Rough Archaeological Dates for Arthur

25.¿The Development of the Historical Horizon

Conclusion

Appendices

A: The Location of Gildas

B: The Transformation of Praise Poetry into Medieval Romances

C: Origins of All Proper Nouns in Culhwch ac Olwen

D: The Dating of Badon

Notes

Bibliography

Index