Ancient Alba

A few months ago, I published a book about King Arthur called 'Arthur, Prince of Mar'. I argued that King Arthur was a king of the Picts who fought alongside the native Britons against the Anglo-Saxons in the 5th century AD. I had good reason to believe that this was the case. In an old Welsh genealogy called the Descent of the Men of the North, there is a famous king called Arthwys son of Mar who lived during the 5th century. I identified Mar as the province of Mar in Aberdeenshire. Furthermore, the French monk, Lambert of St Omer explained in the early 12th century that King Arthur was a ‘Dux Pictorum’, a leader of the Picts. Any Arthurian enthusiast will be familiar with the term ‘Dux Bellorum’, which means leader of battles. A Welsh monk called Nennius explained in the 9th century that King Arthur was a Dux Bellorum who fought 12 battles against the Anglo-Saxons in his famous work, Historia Brittonum. The Picts were the native tribes of Scotland who united with the Gaels in