…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, and what is…

…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 centuries and they tell us of this war leader, a dux bellorum a…

…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 twelve always…

…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 war. He…