Battle of Camlann
The Battle of Camlann is said to have been the last battle of the legendary King Arthur , in which he either fell or was mortally wounded. The historicity of this warlike event is controversial.
The first reference to the Battle of Camlann is an entry in the Annales Cambriae for the year 537 - written in the 10th century but only survived in copies from around 1100 : Gueith Camlann in qua Arthur et Medraut corruerunt - Battle of Camlann, in who perished Arthur and Mordred . This earliest source does not specify whether Arthur and Mordred fought on the same or on different sides. Later accounts of this battle can be found in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae and in the Welsh legend Breuddwyd Rhonabwy ("Rhonabwy's Dream"). In two verses of the Trioedd Ynys Prydein ("The Triads of the Isle of Britain") it is said that a dispute between Gwenhwyfar (Queen Guinevere) and her sister Gwenhwyfach was the cause of the battle.
The location of the battle is not located. Geoffrey of Monmouth claims she was beaten at Camelford, Cornwall . Recent research is considering a possible site for the battle of Queen Camel in Somerset , near a mountain fortress at Cadbury Castle (which in turn is equated by some with Arthur's Camelot ), where the River Cam at the foot of Camel Hill and the Annis Hill flows. But other locations are also being considered, such as the Roman military camp Camboglanna on Hadrian's Wall (formerly identified with Birdoswald Castle , but now with the nearby Castlesteads in Cumbria ), the River Camel along the Cornish border, Camelon near Falkirk in Scotland and the River Camlan in Eifionydd in Wales.
literature
- OJ Padel: Arthur . In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB), 2004, Vol. 2, pp. 529-543, here: p. 530.
- Camlann . In: Rudolf Simek : Artus-Lexikon , Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-15-010858-1 , p. 61f.