On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > THis is from college and our studies in comparative mythology. Big parts of > the story of Arthur were like parts of the Karl Der Grosse/Charlemagne > story. It just can't be a coincidence. It's so long ago I can't remember the > specifics. But it's clear it came with the Angles and the Normans. > Of course what really chafed my professor was the Song of Roland. They > attributed the defeat at battle to the Arabs/Muslims, which Charlemagne > avenges. The loss was actually to the heathen Basques and it was never > avenged. The University of Nevada, Reno is big in Basque studies.
Thanks for the attribution. Of course it's not coincidence since we're dealing in a time frame of hundreds of years with handwritten books and no concept of copyright or intellectual property. Any troubadour can take a tale he learned about Charlemagne in Germany and retell it about Arthur in English occupied France or Britain. By the time it's written down nobody remembers the original. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
