The Polychronicon of Merlin, Joseph, & Arthur

By: Mark Olly

Narrated by: Chris Sims

Imagine the most popular heroic story ever written, one which spans three millennia and goes to the very heart of the largest religion in the world, but which has now almost entirely devolved into myth. Ignored and avoided by the establishment, shunned and unexplored by archaeologists and historians, consigned to the back-rooms of academic study, yet everyone knows the characters and the plot–the tales of King Arthur and his knights of the round table.

But no one knows the reality! Or do they?

Suppose everything you thought you knew about King Arthur was invented by an invading foreign power unsympathetic to the truth, seeking to subvert and overthrow a long and ancient existing regime? Suppose the incredible truth was a story so strong and mysterious that it could support an entire nation through its truly darkest hours and, perhaps, reinvent that same nation for a new millennium?

Here at last is what survives of that ancient truth.

The Polychronicon is a "symphony of history" over 40 years in the making, stretching from the end of the Greeks to the rise of the Tudors, focusing especially on topics which directly impact the mythology of Merlin, Joseph of Arimathea, and Arthur, reconstructing the entire supposedly lost history of the dark ages from actual source materials written down at the time. This "symphony" rises to a grand finale, listing the majority of actual surviving written material clearly showing that Ancient Britain is nowhere as "dark" as some would have you believe.

This is real history and archaeology, not just the invention of creative minds. It reveals incidents and characters as they really were, listed in chronological order, leaving the impression that Britain has always been a very different place to the one painted by popular history. Merlin becomes one of an ancient line of Pythagorean scholars and political visionaries, Joseph of Arimathea becomes a religious dissident fleeing persecution and death to far off foreign shores, and Arthur becomes a hardened womanizing battle leader who loses his entire family and culture to war and natural disaster.

For the first time ever the Saxons, Danes and Vikings are placed into an Arthurian context, completing missing developments that led to the medieval legends we now know so well, which reveals the real and surprising geography of Arthur’s Britain and "The Old North".

If you want the whole truth about Arthur, the Holy Grail, Camelot, Excalibur, the Round Table, heroic knights, Guinevere, the "Matter of Britain", and where this all took place, then download this audiobook.

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