 | Charles Henry Pearson - 1861 - 502 pages
...charters in his name, we may find another reason for his fame in the respect and gratitude of churchmen.3 But if we venture to assert Arthur's existence, it...him as the petty prince of a Devonian principality, whose wife, the Guenever of romance, was carried off by Maelgoun of Xorth Wales, and scarcely recovered... | |
 | Charles Henry Pearson - 1861 - 500 pages
...charters in his name, we may find another reason for his fame in the respect and gratitude of churchmen. 3 But if we venture to assert Arthur's existence, it...as a pilgrim to Jerusalem, and wearing the Virgin's imago on his shield, ho is already passing into the hero of romance. History only knows him as the... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1867 - 640 pages
...songs the name of the last prince under whom they were independent and lords of the soil." Instead of " the hero of romance, history only knows him as the petty prince of a Devonian principality, whose wife, the Guenever of romance, was carried off by Maelgoum of North Wales, and scarcely recovered... | |
 | 1868 - 874 pages
...south-west of England, of which Camelot or Cadbury, iii Somersetshire, was the capital, maintains that " History only knows him as the petty " prince of a Devonian principality, " whose wife, the Guinevere of romance, " was carried off hy Maelgoum of North " Wales, and scarcely... | |
 | Edward Donald Kennedy - 1996 - 372 pages
...native population, at least in the southwest. (He places Arthur in Somerset.) But, Pearson cautions, ... if we venture to assert Arthur's existence, it is...him as the petty prince of a Devonian principality, whose wife, the Guenever of romance, was carried off by Maelgoun of North Wales, and scarcely recovered... | |
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But if we venture to assert Arthur's existence, it is on condition of restricting his dominions. In the narrative of the ninth century, which describes him as lord-paramount of Britain, fighting twelve battles from the south to Scotland, going as a pilgrim... 