Finding Arthur (50 page)

13
.
Historical Manuscripts Commission
, xiii, app.ii, Portland MSS, ii, 56.

14
. RCAHMS website.

15
. The same euphonic pressure that made Cam Lann into Camelon made Cam Loth into Camelot.

16
.
Annals of Tigernach
.
Chirchind
is but another version of
Circenn
—see Bassas chapter.

17
.
Annals of Ulster
596.3. “The slaying of Aedán’s sons,” i.e. Bran and Domangart.

18
.
Annals of Ulster
596.4.

19
. I read
Coraind
and
Corann
as corrupt versions of the same name.

20
. Geoffrey Ashe,
Discovery of Arthur
, 130.

21
. Adamnan,
Life of Columba
.

22
. Ibid.

23
.
The Red Book of Hergest
(c. 1425), col. 588–600.

24
.
Triad 5
, trans. by J. Rhys and J. G. Evans (1887).

25
.
HB
, chap. 63, 38.

26
. Adamnan says Aedan, but only because Aedan was a king and so in titular charge of the army.

27
.
The Four Ancient Books of Wales
, Peniarth MS 54.

E
PILOGUE
: Á
RYA

1
. Sri Aurobindo, “Árya’: Its Significance,” in
The Supramental Manifestation & Other Writings
, (Wisconsin: Lotus Press, 1998).

2
.
Länsmuseet På Gotland
website in 2009.

Acknowledgments

I
WISH TO THANK EVERYONE AT
O
VERLOOK
D
UCKWORTH, PARTICU
larly my editor, Dan Crissman, for his vision and decisiveness (things we could do with more of in Scotland) and my copyeditor, Chantal Clarke, for her expertise and care. Any mistakes that remain in this book are entirely my responsibility. I also wish to thank my family, Dorothy-Anne, Claudia, Kay, and Eliot, for their support and patience over the years it took me to write
Finding Arthur
.

Index

Aberfoyle,
131
,
146
,
196

Adamnan,
134
,
141
,
144
,
172
–
77
,
196
,
276
,
279
,
307
–
11
.

See Life of Columba

Add, River,
113
,
118
,
120
,
197
–
98
,
255

Adventures of Sir Lancelot
,
The
(TV series),
22

Aethelfrith,
16
,
281
–
84
,
288

Agned, Mount,
62
,
240
.

See also
Cat Bregomium

Agned-Breguoin, Battle of,
13
,
32
,
56
,
62
;

location of,
62
–
64
,
212
;
240
–
54
.

See also
Benderloch

Agravain,
288
,
295

Airdrie,
86
,
118
,
123
,
124
,
165
.

See also
Arderyth

Airds Bay,
247

Airigh
: meaning “pasture,”
82
–
83
,
88
,
89
,
91
,
92
–
93
,
95
–
97
,
118
–
120
;

meaning “nobleman,”
92
–
98
,
118
–
121
,
315
–
17
.

See also
Árya

Airthir
,
194
–
95

Alclud, Dumbarton,
62
.

See
Clyde Rock

Alcock, Leslie,
51
,
56
,
58
–
59
,
208

Alexander the Great,
167
,
213

Alliterative Morte Arthure
,
284
,
289
,

Ambrosius Aurelianus.
See
Emrys

Amr, grave of (son of Arthur),
33

Aneirin: as author of
Y Gododdin
,
30
,
109
,
235
,
260
–
64
;

works destroyed by Church,
81
;

as bard for Arthur,
168
,
206
,
234
,
238
,
260
–
67
;

as possible source for Nennius,
260
;

origins of,
260
–
67
;

as a Scot,
263
–
67

Angles: Arthur and,
59
,
109
,
150
,
165
,
180
,
227
–
65
,
286
;

arrival in Scotland,
11
,
107
–
8
,
153
;

threat from,
144
,
156
,
261
,
283
,
286
;

defeated by Emrys,
104
,
153
,
155
;

and Vortigern,
153
,
155
,
162
;

fighting Gwenddolau,
155
,
162
–
64
;

against the Gododdin,
13
,
30
,
109
,
227
–
30
,
244
,
256
,
265
,
282
,
309
;

surprise attack by sea,
245
–
53
;

Anglo–Pictish army,
246
–
254
;

under Huss,
227
,
281
;

under Hering,
282
–
83
,
288
;

under Aethelfrith, 381;

dividing Britain at Chester or Carlisle,
13
,
256
,
286
,
290
;

Battle of Nechtansmere and,
305
–
6
.

See also
Great Angle War

Anglesey: as location for Avalon,
67
,
242
;

as headquarters for Old Way,
67
,
241
–
42

Anglo–Pictish army,
246
–
254

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
,
34
,
64
,
108

Angus: brother of Fergus Mor Mac Erc,
114
,
275
;

house of,
114
,
115
,
135
,
171
,
174
–
74

Anna (Mordred’s mother),
15
,
16
,
37
,
149

Annales Cambriae
14
,
33
–
34
,
51
,
54
–
55
,
92
,
99
,
102
,
108
,
15
,
164
,
204
–
5
,
224
–
25
,
251
–
54
,
261
,
300

Annals of Tigernach
,
141
,
144
,
196
,
201
,
207
,
300
–1,
304
–
6
,
310

Annals of Ulster
,
223
,
225
,
276
,
301
,
304
–
5

Antonine Wall,
125
,
213
,
218

Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius (Caracalla),
214
–
20

Apple
, and origins of Avalon,
67
–
69
,
273

Aquae Sulis.
See
Bath

Archbishop of Canterbury in
Le Morte d’Arthur
,
25
–
6
,
79
,
182
,
270
–
71
,
279
–
81
,
338
n

Ard Airigh: meaning of,
82
,
91
–
98
,
165
,
167
–
68
,
335
n;

place–names with,
88
,
91
–
98
,
102
,
117
–
18
,
160
,
169
,
179
,
332
n

Ard Airighaich,
123
,
128
,
160
,
166
,
168
,
169
–
70
,
282
,
286

Ard Righ (high king),
82
,
332
n,
335
n

Ardderchddrud,
165
–
66

Ardery Street, Glasgow,
86
,
118
,
163
,
167
,
169
,
179

Ardery, Jimmy,
117

Arderydd, Battle of:
12
,
22
,
33
,
51
–
55
,
93
–
98
,
102
,
118
,
123
–
24
,
143
,
155
,
159
–
63
,
170
–1,
181
,
203
–
6
,
255
,
259
,
282
;

Arthur and,
118
,
160
,
167
–
68
,
181
,
205
–
6
,
259
;

Merlin and,
12
,
22
,
33
,
54
,
93
–
95
,
97
,
123
,
159
–
67
,
183
,
224
;

Merlin’s madness and,
53
,
93
,
224
;

meaning of name,
94
–
98
,
159
–
61
,
165
–
67

Arderyth,
118
,
123
–
24
,
165

Ardmucknish Bay (Bay of Selma),
115
,
247
,
248
,
251
,
253

Ardrey (surname):
24
,
82
–
86
,
90
–
92
,
160
;

variants of,
85
–
87
,
198

Ardrey, Adam (author’s grandfather),
86
–
87

Ardrey, Adam: ancestors,
84
–
87
;

as lawyer,
82
,
87
–
89
;

childhood heroes,
22
,
24
,
40
;

childhood,
82
;

Finding Merlin
,
103
,
104
,
118
,
149
,
165
,
186
,
240
,
264
,
303
;