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There are three archetypal and widespread Arthurian stories: the abduction of Guinevere, the Holy Grail, and Tristan. Through painstaking research of the literature and comparative literature of the stories, and by studying the history, laws, and archaeology of the post-Roman period, the author has developed a new methodology approaching sources, which has led to a number of groundbreaking conclusions.

Making use of the methodology developed in his Origins of Arthurian Romances (McFarland, 2012), the author explores the question of King Arthur's existence in several original approaches to the subject. Examining the extant literature and other evidence, the author searches for the truth of the who, when and where of King Arthur.

Reevaluates the post-Roman history of Britain. It begins by delving into the historical contexts of the key traditional players of the fifth century-Hengest and Gwrtheyrn. A better understanding of these two characters allows for a reexamination of the persons and events of the fifth, sixth, and seventh centuries.

Using the author's wide-ranging background in the period's religions, culture, and chronology and both summarizing and synthesizing the advances in post-Roman studies, this title weaves historical documents, legends, archeology, and literature into a coherent and understandable history that begins with the weakening of Roman Britain and chronicles the transition of its people into sub-Roman communities and into British and Germanic kingdoms.

In British Sources of the Abduction and Grail Romances, Flint Johnson sets out to explore the possibility that familiar Arthurian stories, which have come down to us through Medieval romance, may contain relics of lost Welsh literary sources from the fifth or sixth century.