From Scythia to Camelot
Subtitle: A Radical Reassessment of the Legends of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table, and the Holy Grail (Arthurian Characters and Themes)
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: April 28, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780815335665
Subjects: Folklore; Myths & mythology; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History; History: World; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections / General
First sentence: This book argues that the core of the Arthurian and Holy Grail legends derives originally from a region known in antiquity as Scythia, that is, the western portion of the great "sea of grass" that stretches from the Altai Mountains to the Hungarian Plain (see map 1).