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The reference to Arthur in the Gododdin is probably a later addition (the oldest copy we have is of the 13th century), of the same time of the Historia Brittonum (not to be mistaken with the later Historia Regum Britanniae), where there is the first datable reference (around 828 AD) of Arthur as a warlord that lived in 6th century and won many battles against the Saxons. Other Welsh fairy tales had been embellished the same way, with the main characer being said to be related to Arthur in some way.
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@chocho8036 The first reference to the sword in the stone is in Robert de Boron's "Merlin", written around 1200 AD. 30 years later, in the Post-Vulgate Cycle, Arthur breaks the Sword from the Stone while in combat against King Pellinore and was given Excalibur by the lady of the lake. Previously, in Historia Regum Britanniae, Excalibur had been forged in Avalon and not planted in stone, or lobbed by watery tarts. There are previous references to Caledfwlch-Excalibur as the sword or Arthur, but without mentioning it's origin.
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Not king, but military leader.
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The reference of Arthur in the Gododdin is probably a later addition, of the same time of the Historia Brittonum (not to be mistaken with the later Historia Regum Britanniae), where there is the first datable reference (around 828 AD) of Arthur as a warlord that lived in 6th century and won many battles against the Saxons. Other Welsh fairy tales had been embellished the same way, with the main characer being said to be related to Arthur in some way.
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Actually, when Troy had been redscovered, a lot of scholars were searching for it, and there was a general consensus about it's existence, since it was mentioned as an existing city in classical sources. There was surely an Hellenistic and a Roman Troy. What's in doubt is if the city under the Hisarlik hill is the city of the poem. In classical antiquity it was considered like that, but fact is that, for that reason, Hisarlik was a tourist attraction by then. It's very possible that, after the "dark ages" that followed the bronze age collapse, when the name of the city had been made famous by the poem, people started searching for it, and the inhabitants of Hisarlik, living in a place with an orograpy very similar to the one described in the poem, decided to seize the opportunity and make their city became the Troy of the mith.
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