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E know beyond a shadow of a doubt that King Arthur exists and is a direct descendant or King Alfred.9/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The librarian, in a genuine attempt to answer my query, had done the condensing required by the difficult phonemic juxtaposition implied by the pronunciation marks, producing only two clear syllables. “All Father” was written as “Alfoor” in this Swedish display rather than the more usual Swedish three-syllable form of “Alfathir”. The Scandinavian god Odin, known as Woden/Wotan in Germany, is called the All Father, a term also applied to the Irish Dagda (a proxy name which simply means “The Good God” in Old Irish). She then turned back to her computer, unaware that she had just thrown me a bombshell. “I think that would be pronounced Ah-thur,” she said, putting the emphasis on the second syllable. As I was departing the Interpretation Centre I asked a busy librarian on the desk how one might, using an Old Norse accent, pronounce this word Alfoor, and passed her my written copying of the name. I was at that time living in north-western England and was interested in the strong Norse heritage there on the edge of the Irish Sea. On a display in the Uppsala site’s Interpretation Centre I had seen the unusual word Alfoor next to the name of the Norse god Odin. ![]() The similarities between this site and the seventh-century Sutton Hoo ship burial site in Essex have long been noted by archaeologists. My interest first arose when in Sweden, visiting the ancient burial mound site of Swedish royalty, in Gamla Uppsala (Old Uppsala). This investigation appeared in a recent Quadrant. Here I offer a necessarily condensed version of my main approach and some findings which I am currently writing into a book. ![]() I stress that I am not suggesting yet another “real” Arthur, nor a “real” Holy Grail in fact, my decoding puts paid to those who hold such hopes. A busy librarian on the desk at the Interpretation Centre at the ancient royal burial mounds of pre-Christian Uppsala in Sweden was unaware that she had just thrown a bombshell into my world, and into British history.įor some years I have been an accidental hobbyist collecting evidence with which to decode the origin of Britain’s mythical King Arthur and his quest for the Holy Grail, a quest which is the defining feature of his court and realm. How can a Norse god become the famous King Arthur? Easily. ![]()
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