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- If you like Arthur, you may be surprised that some scholars think he wasn't English, but rather he was Cymro/Welsh: https://www.wales.com/about/history-and-heritage/welsh-tradi...by jph
- No actual evidence in this article that this "PR Move" was anything other than a common garden folly. This article and "research" is long on assumption and speculation and has less evidence than an arthurian tale. Can modern historians provide anything of substance these days?by zenbane
- "Foreign dynasty needs stronger local branding, commissions elaborate content tying itself to beloved national mythology" could almost be a communications strategy written today. Merlin's Cave is just an unusually expensive 18th-century version of it.by Ylano