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"Pendragon Society"
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49 years old
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Last Login:7/26/2008
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The Pendragon Society was founded in 1959 at Winchester by Jess Foster.
Pendragon is the Journal of the Pendragon Society, first produced in 1962 it is published four times a year and is devoted to Arthurian Studies.
| | Music | The Kinks, Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
Wagner, Parsifal
Wagner, Tristan and Isolde
Wagner, Lohengrin
Benedict Flynn, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Arthur Sullivan, King Arthur
Rick Wakeman's, Myths and Legends of King Arthur
Tom Byrne, The Last Druids
Purcell, King Arthur
Owen Archer, Excalibur
Steve Dunster, King Arthur Collection
Artorius
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American versions of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee at the Court of King Arthur, (1930 and 1948)
King Arthur was a Gentleman in 1942 starring Arthur Askey
Ava Gardner as Guinevere in the 1952 Knights of the Round Table, also featuring Robert Taylor and Robert Goulet
Camelot starring Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave
John Boorman's Excalibur (1980)
King Arthur, Young Warlord
Apocalypse Now - it's the grail legend in its raw form
The Sword in the Stone, Disney classic
First Knight with Sean Connery, Julia Ormond and Richard Gere
Quest for Camelot, a Warner Brothers classic
Jerry Bruckheimer's 2004 King Arthur
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Biography King Arthur (1999) TV ..ary produced by Sue Hayes. A look at the myths and mysteries surrounding the Arthurian legend. With contributions from leading literary historians Professor Stephen Knight, Dr Robert Dunning, David Edge and Dr Juliette Wood of The Folklore Society.
| | Books | Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain
Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot or The Knight of the Cart
The Mabinogion
Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur
Alfred Tennyson, The Idylls of the King
T. H. White, The Sword in the Stone
Geoffrey Ashe, The Discovery of Arthur
N. J. Higham, Myth Making and History
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The Pendragon Society Committee:
~ Fred Stedman-Jones
~ Chris Lovegrove
~ Simon Rouse
~ Anne Rouse
~ Dave Burnham
~ Anita Loughrey
~ Alison Skinner |
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Zodiac Sign: | Gemini |
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About me:
King Arthur, the Round Table, Excalibur, Lancelot and Guinevere, Merlin, and the Quest for the Holy Grail - all names that conjure up powerful images, stories and ideas.
For some, the Arthurian legends are pure fantasy: fun, a bit of escapism, but ultimately untrue.
For others, they represent embellishments of what originally may have been a core of historical fact: the existence of a real figure in the period after the Romans left Britain, during what are sometimes called the Dark Ages.
For yet others, the fantasy or the facts are not important: what matters is what the stories signify.
Whatever your point of view, there is a publication which explores all aspects of what was once called the Matter of Britain. Pendragon is the Journal of the Pendragon Society, which devotes itself to Arthurian Studies in three main areas:
~ history and archaeology
~ legend and folklore
~ literature, the arts and popular culture.
Founded in 1959, the Society was associated with the archaeological excavations of South Cadbury hillfort in Somerset (which though not Camelot was occupied in the Dark Ages), and with a long-running dig at a Dark Age church site in the Gower Peninsula, Wales. It has hosted Round Tables at Arthurian sites like Winchester and Caerleon, and includes in its world-wide membership authors, artists, academics, and enthusiastic amateurs of the Arthurian theme.
For more information check out our website: www.pendragonsociety.org
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