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Cornwell Trilogy

Discussion in 'Booktalk' started by Khazraj, Jan 31, 2004.

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    I am reading Cornwell's Trilogy on Arthur, The Winter King, The Enemy of God and Excalibur.

    I am under the impression that most of the historical background in the books are Welsh, at least most of the names seem to be so. Can anyone confirm how "authentic" the books are?

    I have found the level of detail and writing style to be of very high quality, almost as good as Tolkien and is some ways better.

    How is there a distinction between "Welshness" and "Britishness" (I mean pre-saxon) or are they meant to be the same?

    How are the Britons different or related to the Scots, Irish, Normans (from Brittany or Armorica)? Are they all simply Celtic or Gallic? I'm trying to get my head around all the history and culture that the texts assume are known to the reader.

    Great books and have tons of detail, but as the author notes, it was the "Dark Ages" and so some of the events and details are "yucky", such as louse ridden beds, druidic rituals and customs.

    Good books so far. Go for it!
     
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    The Welsh and the Scots/Picts (edited in) were the remnants of the old celtic and even pre celtic peoples on the British Isles. Those called British at that time I guess were Romans and romanized celts.

    I havent read these books but I saw the last one in the library and would have got it if the other two had been around.

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    The Warlord Trilogy is brilliant (I've read them all a few times).

    I think that most of the information he bases his writings on are most likely on welsh texts, but then, because it is from such a hazy time history wise, a lot may come from his own imagination.

    At that time Scotland is ruled by tribes of Picts (They'll be taken over by Vikings in a couple of centuries later, then the Scots will come from Ireland and conquer them, thus turning pictland into Scotland).

    Welshness and Britishness are probably the same, as at this time they are the same country. Celts and Britons are different cultures, though I don't actually know how I'm afraid.

    Some of this may be wrong(If anything the Welshness and Britishness thing), so anyone just to correct me.
     
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    Most of the place and character names are in Welsh but there are a few in Irish. So I decided to surf the net and check out pronunciation. Welsh seems ok, but Irish I can do without, and I thought that English had crappy spelling...
     
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