King Arthur in Cornwall

The author examines the historical foundations behind the Arthurian legend, separating probable fact from later fiction by weighing documentary, oral, and topographical evidence, with special attention to Cornish place-names and landscapes. He surveys traditions and historical references, evaluates claims about Arthur's last battle and possible burial sites, and maps local associations that link names and ruins to the leader remembered in folklore. Rather than constructing a strict biography, the study emphasizes the distribution of Arthurian toponyms, the reliability of oral transmission, and the concordance between geography and surviving traditions, concluding with cautious judgments about which elements appear historically plausible.