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Re: Was Offa's Dyke Offa's dyke? by VirtHist on Friday, 10 June 2005

As Thorgrim says, I've made reference to this book and you can see it in one of the replies below.

I understand that any book with 'Avalon' in the title is going to put the serious historian/archaeologist off... apart from those who already work closely with Steve Blake from the University of Wales and the Vaynol Estate. 'The Keys to Avalon' is a high street book with a high street name but Steve has other pieces published with Welsh University Press that his popular books are based on. There's:

ARTHUR OF WALES
Collected Literary and Historical Sources: Vol. 1
Steve Blake
Paperback 1 86057 0747 £17.95
November 2003 400 pp

and...

THE STANZAS OF THE GRAVES
In Search of the Graves of Arthur and the Warriors of Britain
Steve Blake
Hardback 1 86057 0623 £30.00
Paperback 1 86057 0631 £14.95
March 2004 250 pp

I think he'd much preferd to have called his book 'The Keys to Afallach', but the vast majority of the public would have known that Afallach (pronounced something like Avaklokh)was the Welsh for Avalon.

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