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The Secret Tradition in Arthurian Legend

In this book Gareth Knight takes the most famous and most haunting of all British legends and places it in its rightful position as the core of a Western mystery tradition that draws its inspiration from Greek, Irish and even Atlantean myth.

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The central Arthurian themes and characters are examined in details and the carefully woven pattern that has developed around the Arthuriad is brought to light and its full significance revealed.

This fascinating study takes the reader beyond the world of Malory or the figure of Arthur as a fifth-century chieftain and unfolds an unforgettable inner landscape as read as the Isles in which it was created.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 302 pages

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