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English mythology is the collection of myths that have emerged throughout the history of England, sometimes being elaborated upon by successive generations, and at other times being rejected and replaced by other explanatory narratives.
The English author J. R. R. Tolkien has often been supposed to have spoken of wishing to create "a mythology for England". It seems he never used the actual phrase, but various commentators have found his biographer Humphrey Carpenter 's phrase appropriate as a description of much of his approach in creating Middle-earth , and the legendarium ...
Before England was founded in the year 927, Wessex and its surrounding areas' cultures were transformed by the invasion of the Danish King Guthrum between 865 and 878. [5] The king of Wessex , King Alfred , prevailed against King Guthrum's troops in 878 and King Guthrum was baptised and became the ruler of East Anglia .
England portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ... Pages in category "English mythology" The following 14 pages are ...
Notably, the King of Scotland and later also of England and Ireland, James VI and I, claimed his 1603 unification of Britain into the United Kingdom had been foretold by Merlin. [ 78 ] Merlin's apprentice in chivalric romances is often Arthur's half-sister, Morgan le Fay , who is sometimes depicted as Merlin's lover [ 79 ] and sometimes as just ...
Mythology and folklore of the United Kingdom varies between the separate countries: [1] Cornish mythology; English mythology; Scottish mythology; Welsh mythology;
Full text from Fordham University Archived 27 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine. John Morris (ed), Nennius: Arthurian Period Sources Vol 8, Phillimore, 1980; Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain, translated by Lewis Thorpe, Penguin, 1966; Henry Lewis (ed.), Brut Dingestow (University of Wales Press, 1942). The best-known ...
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