I take umbrage with John Garth over this though: "...snippets published so far are encouraging, showing him in darkly evocative mode writing about one of the great English villains, Mordred..."
English? Does he not mean
British? 'English' came in with the Saxons
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Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin
So, yes, these would be fully Christian--as were ALL the Arthurian legends; the very earliest documents were written by monks, and after all represented the perspective of the Romanized and thus Christian Britons against the pagan Saxons.
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Romanised as in having just been part of the Roman empire or as in following the Roman church? Because at the time that Arthur is supposed to have been active and when the earliest texts such as the Y Gododdin were being written, then the Christian church was more Celtic Christian, especially in more western areas which is overwhelmingly the area associated with Arthur (and where many of those early texts were produced), places such as Cornwall, Wales, Galloway, Lancashire and Somerset.
I'm itching to see what he has made of the story. Having an evil Mordred isn't promising, though follows what Geoffrey of Monmouth started, and I'll be interested where he 'places' his version of Arthur geographically.