c/joseph-campbell
Mythologist and guide to the hero's journey. Campbell revealed the universal patterns in every culture's greatest stories - and how to live our own.
…people, particularly of Britain, that is the background of the arthurian legend. Arthur is described in the old chronicles, the chronicles of Gildas and Nennius, of his time shortly after, of the 6th and 8th centuries, as a dux bellorum, a leader in war,…
…a man named Arthur. Now he's not a King. This is very clear. There are chronicles that tell us about him. There's a chronicle by a man named Gildas, G I l d a s and another by a man named Nennius N e n I u s and these are from the 6th and 7th…
…Switzerland and Southern France so the two things begin to run together a man with divine powers and we read already in Gildas and Nennius that he served magnificently in twelve battles killing hundreds and hundreds of people and nobody's going to do that…
…We have the britons, the British and the English Arthur. This particular Arthur was not a King. The chroniclers of the time, Gildas and Nennius speak of him, the chroniclers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was a dux bellorum, a leader in…