King Arthur Conspiracy: How a Scottish Prince Became a Mythical Hero by Stirling Simon Andrew

Author:Stirling, Simon Andrew [Stirling, Simon Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

Next were the three Offensive Knights: Morfrân, Sandde and Glewlwyd.

Morfrân the Speckled, also known as Morfryn the Skilful, was the father of Menw or Myrddin. He survived Arthur’s last battle thanks to his alarming appearance: ‘hair had he upon him like the hair of a stag’. A graduate of the cauldron school and onetime ‘brother’ to Arthur’s mother, Morfrân was one of the ‘Slaughter-Blocks of the Island of Britain’. He rode a horse called Pale White Lively-Back.

Sandde Angel-Face also emerged unscathed from the carnage of Arthur’s last battle, but in his case it was his beauty that saved him – ‘all thought he was a ministering angel.’ He was associated with the kingdom of Ceredigion in West Wales, between Pedr’s realm of Dyfed and the Meirionydd land of Gwyddno Tall-Crane, and he is said to have been the father of St David. Arthur, along with his mother and her brother, was given shelter at St David’s settlement in Dyfed in 559. The mother of St David was also the sister of Arthur’s foster-brother, Cai the Tall.

Glewlwyd is remembered as Arthur’s gatekeeper and appears as such in the poem Pa Gwr or ‘What Man is the Porter?’ In this poem, Arthur and Cai posthumously seek entrance to an Otherworldly hall of heroes:

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