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Welcome and thank you for visiting my page.  I created this page as a learning guide for others, even as I am learning myself.  I found that the large volume of Arthurian literature was intimidating especially when you start adding different theories and even multiple versions of the same story.  I can't even think of a good parallel to compare it too.  Despite being intimidating ,there was something about the way it grows over time that appealed to me.  After reading a few stories, I was hooked.   I wanted to provide a way for others to learn and to help them sift through the mountains of stories, poetry, history, historical theory, commentary, and scholarly journals.  There was no road map to learning this material.  Even the books that purport to guide beginners get bogged down in scribal details and translation notes.  I felt there was a way to disseminate a nice amount of pertinent information with out overloading the average reader.  

My target audience is beginners and amateurs in Arthurian subjects.  I am an amateur enthusiast as well.  I want to make this known because I am deliberately not including every scrap of information on any given subject.  I am giving enough information to be explanatory and educational.  This page will not satisfy a lot of the better informed students and educators but I do accept constructive advice from anyone willing to follow along and help.

Because I do not have any intentions of creating a college level journal and my target is a general audience, I do not intend on listing sources in most cases.  I, of course, will give credit to certain authors when relaying their research or when addressing a certain book or journal.  However, some information may be relayed from any manner of sources and I may not always be able to identify certain translators, or products of independent research.  I will say that I will not be providing any independent research of my own and, as such, do not take credit for any translations, research, or ideas found within this blog.  If you are a scholar or educator and you feel I have marked something  inappropriately, please just let me know and I will take pains to correct it.  If you have something constructive you would like to add, I urge you to do so.  Maybe one day this can be a community of interested amateurs.  

I welcome comments and discussion on anything Arthurian.  I am not an expert and have not read everything. I can't even say I have read most, but I steadily move through the material on my own and am way ahead of this blog.    For that reason I welcome others to join regardless of your education level because the main function of this site is learning.  Also, because I hope to attract a disparate group of readers, I hope that all commentary remains constructive.  No "trolls" are welcome unless Arthur is slaying them. 

My name is Joe and I have a degree in computer animation/ interdisciplinary studies A.B. Studio Art from the University of Georgia.  I currently do nothing related to my degree but instead manage a small business in Georgia.  I am married and have a 3 year old boy and pursue Arthurian subjects for personal education and enjoyment, I enjoy writing and also continue (sometimes) to produce art the old fashioned way.

Thank you for visiting,
Joe

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