King Arthur Was a Scotsman
Legend states that he fought his major battles across Britain, sat at the Round Table and handled the sword Excalibur.
But a British academic claims King Arthur was a general rather than a monarch in the fifth or sixth century, who fought his battles in southern Scotland and northern England.
Basing his findings on a Latin work written in the ninth century by a Welsh monk, Andrew Breeze from the University of Navarre in Spain also believes Arthur lived most of his life in Strathclyde.
Battlegrounds: These are the locations Dr Breeze identified in northern England and southern Scotland
He told MailOnline: ‘Arthur really existed – he’s as historical as Queen Victoria. He really did fight battles. As soon as we recognise this, all sorts of things about British history start to make sense.
‘We can say straight away he wasn’t anything to do with stopping the Anglo-Saxons – he was fighting other Britons in the North.’
The Celticist said the work by the monk named Nennius, which is titled The History of the Britons, also tells how Arthur fought other northern Britons in the 530s, before being killed at Camlan in 537.
The Latin chronicle also states the names of nine places where Arthur battled his enemies – and following much debate among experts for centuries, Dr Breeze believes he has located all of them.
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