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Eothar

Goar

A king of the Alans. Settled in Gaul by the Romans in 407, he crushed an uprising by the Armoricans which broke out in 446.

H. Reid has suggested that we have here the origin of Arthur’s name and, to some extent, of Arthur himself.


See also
Armorica | The Legend of King Arthur