Annales Cambriae

I mean, I've been thinking about this ever since we mentioned it in the episode, and I wondered if we'd come back to it, and finally we have.

This is that entry in the sort of the Welsh annals, the Annales Cambriae.

So the Battle of Camelan in which Arthur and Medraught fell, and there was a great dying in Britain and Ireland.

Now, this is not fiction or fantasy.

Basically, W- Welsh history, we have got it.

Um, so the, the mention of the last battle, it's originally mentioned in a collection of annals, so details of, of what happens, you know, year on, year out, and these, these are called the Annales Cambriae, the annals of Wales.

And it's possibly, um, in fact, I think probably the second oldest source we have for Arthur, uh, and it dates to the mid-10th century, and it's a chronological record of events beginning in, um, AD four four seven, and the entry for five three seven reads, "The Battle of Camlann, in which Arthur and Medrawt," so that's Mordred, "fell, and there was a great dying in Britain and Ireland." And it is predictably enigmatic because nothing about the early hist- the early sources for Arthur are self-evident.

So it gives us no clue as to where Camlann might have been.