Cadbury's The History Of The Kings Of Britain

The beginning of The History of the Kings of Britain, starts off with the fall of Troy. He writes that Brutus has led his people to a New Troy which was later to be called London. Having this said, we know that London exists. Skipping to Book Four of The History of the Kings of Britain, Geoffrey says that Julius Cesar wants to take over Britain and make them loyal to Rome. Cesar is successful and takes over Britain. After years of controlling the island, Cesar decides to stop defending the land and leaves back to Rome. The British are attacked by Scots and Danes as soon as Cesar leaves. Merlin preaches as prophecy that Arthur will come and take over the land to help the British. Here we begin the tale of King Arthur. Readers and critics are not sure how accurate Geoffrey’s book was about King Arthur and Merlin. …show more content…
To this day, historians believe that Cadbury Castle, located in South Cadbury, is where Camelot stood. The first known author to refer to Cadbury as Camelot is John Leland in 1542. He says: “‘At the very south end of the church of South-Cadbyri standeth Camallate, sometime a famous town or castle . . . The people can tell nothing there but that they have heard Arthur much resorted to Camalat’” (Ashe). Historians say that there is no such area named Camelot. A question that can be raised is, was Geoffrey writing the truth or was he exaggerating it? There is a theory that Cadbury can be translated to “Cadwy’s Fort” which was a named of Arthur’s companion, Cadwy at Dunster. It sounds like a possible situation but there are other Cadburys throughout Britain. Camelot was not a castle, it was more of a fortress, and the hill itself was a fortress. It could have been an idea to set up a castle or citadel on the land but it never happened during that