![]() ![]() It began when, researching the history of his home town Kelso, he found this had no documented past before the 12th century. He was among the lost Welsh kingdoms of the North. ![]() ![]() Any member of the Scottish Assem- bly who reads it could find himself walking round and round his office bemusedly touching the brand-new furniture for, in searching for the historical Arthur, Alistair Moffat, of all things a television executive, to his own amazement found himself in a time when all southern Scotland was Welsh-speaking, when Edinburgh was Caer Eidyn, Eidyn's fort, and they called another settlement Glas-gow, in their language 'the `green hollow'. 320 Disbelief will be the first reaction to this piece of fascinating historical detective work. ARTHUR AND THE LOST KINGDOMS by Alistair Moffat Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £20, pp. ![]()
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