More Arthurian Stuff

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From: baerauble [mailto:baerauble@GEOCITIES.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 7:31 PM
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Subject: [mepbmlist] More Arthurian Stuff

What do you people know ?

bugger all, but don't tell on :slight_smile:

Actually Arthur was an Alien !

That both start with 'a', so maybe arthur started out as an alien, but
changed his name to hide his secret identity ?

He built the Stonehedge and started the Druid career !

He had to build stonehedge since his watch kept on stopping (batteries were
in short supply at that time)

Rumors was that he inspired the Aztecs to build their pyramids.

I thought it was a tax-dodge (it was also a place for the men-folk to go and
avoid the women)

But the Egyptian pyramids had nothing to do with him.

snobs

He later married an oak tree and rooted himself in America.

No comment. Still trying to work out if b.e is aware what 'rooted' means :slight_smile:
Sometimes it means 'not working', sometimes it means 'fixed in place', and
sometimes it means something else.

I actually like the story that the vandals that sacked rome continued to
move west, and they settled in ireland. Or the one that the battle of Troy
actually took place in England over the silver mines (it was england,
europe, and the people in modern norway all fighting).

History is so much fun.
m

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> He later married an oak tree and rooted himself in America.

No comment. Still trying to work out if b.e is aware what 'rooted' means

:slight_smile:

Sometimes it means 'not working', sometimes it means 'fixed in place', and
sometimes it means something else.

I actually like the story that the vandals that sacked rome continued to
move west, and they settled in ireland. Or the one that the battle of Troy
actually took place in England over the silver mines (it was england,
europe, and the people in modern norway all fighting).

History is so much fun.
m

RD: especially when you ignore the facts! OK I know you're talking with
tongue firmly ROOTED in cheek, but you've even got your east and west mixed
up (maybe something to do with living in the wrong hemisphere?).

The Vandals crossed the Rhine in the 4thC, trekked thru Gaul, then looted
and plundered their way thru Spain (from which English lager louts got the
idea). The story about the Germans always getting their towels down on the
beaches before the English also dates from this time. The Vandals moved on
to Africa, and it was here they acquired a navy with which they sacked Rome
in 455.

William Morris in 'Britain in the Age of Arthur' says that there is evidence
that Arthur employed a Vandal navy in the Bristol Channel area to protect it
from Irish pirates.

England has never had any silver mines, but the Romans mined lead here, and
obtained a little silver as a useful by-product. They also mined gold in
Wales for a short time until it became uneconomical. I understand that
wedding rings for the English Royal family are still made of Welsh gold.

The siege of Troy was c1210bc. A few Trojans escaped (I think the leader
was Aeneas but it would take too long to look up the reference). Various
stories state that he founded Rome, married Dido Queen of Carthage and ruled
there for a while, and one of his ancestors named Brutus settled in Devon,
where there is a bridge named after the spot where he is said to have
landed.

One theory about the Tuatha de Danaan (=people of Danu or Diana) who invaded
and settled Ireland is that they originated in Asia Minor, the same area
where Troy was, and from where the Phoenicians set up their vast mercantile
empire spanning the whole of the Mediterranean and are known to have traded
with Britain for tin.

Regards,

Richard