The first time I read this story by Tad Williams, I did not google its sources. Now I have learned that:
medieval literature was divided into three cycles, the Matter of Rome (including the Matter of Troy), the Matter of France and the Matter of Britain, as well as into non-cyclical romances;
Orlando Furioso involves a journey to the Moon.
We seem, for the time being, to have exhausted Poul Anderson's Three Hearts And Three Lions and its two Multiverse sequels and can now turn instead to Eric Flint's Multiverse sequel to Operation Chaos. Thus, we are as yet still within the parameters of the Old Phoenix multiverse. The horizon recedes before us.
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Kaor, Paul!
I think part of the reason why I've been more attracted toward the Carolingian legends after reading the SONG OF ROLAND was because it was more solidly grounded in real history. Charlemagne, was a real, historical person living at a real time. King Arthur, by contrast, seemed so vague and insubstantial to me. Almost nothing can be securely attributed to him, historically speaking. About the most that can be said of Arthur is that he was possibly a Britano-Roman warlord of the first half of the fifth century AD who fought the barbarians invading Britain.
Ad astra! Sean
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