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This brilliant Arthurian epic cuts through the mists of pagan early Christianand medieval splendors that have gathered about the subject and tells theauthentic story of the man who may well have been the real King ArthurArtosthe Bear the mighty warriorking who saved the last lights of Westerncivilization when the barbarian darkness descended in the fifth century.Presenting early Britain as it was after the departure of the Romansno RoundTable no manytowered Camelotthe setting is a hard savage land halfcivilized halfpagan where a few men struggled to forge a nation and holdback the Saxon scourge. Richly detailed the story chronicles the formation ofa great army the hardships of winter quarters the primitive wedding feaststhe pagan fertility rites the agonies of surgery after battle the thrillingstag hunts and the glorious processions of the era. Stripped of the chivalricembellishments that the French applied to British history centuries ago theArthurian age here emerges as a time when men stood at the precipice ofhistorya time of transition and changing values and imminent national peril. «
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