| | The Historicity and Historicisation of Arthur |
 | | As anyone at all familiar with medieval literature in general will know, the historicisation of non-historical/mythical personages -- often through association with some important event of the past -- is not in any way an unusual occurrence. |
| | Arthur could well be a mythical figure portrayed as historical by the author of the Historia Brittonum in just the same way as Hengest and Horsa were mythical figures portrayed as historical by both Bede and the author of the Historia. |
| | ) that one cannot assume that a character is historical simply because a medieval source claims that this is the case: such a priori assumptions are demonstrably false (Hengest and Horsa and Fionn being good examples of mythical figures historicised by later writers) and are thus unacceptable. |
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