In 472AD Hengist, the Saxon King of Kent,brought his army onto the British coast, after the death of Vortimer, they found that the inhabitants, under the command of Vortigern, were fully determined to oppose their landing. The Saxon chief Hengist made it clear to Vortigern that he had no intention of invading the country and that his fight was with Vortimer, son of Vortigern. Pretending as if he thought Vortimer was still alive.
Hengist suggested that they should both meet in May at Stonehenge on Salisbury plain with their highest officers and nobility and he also suggested that in a show of good faith everyone should come unarmed.
Eidol, Emrys or Ambrosius, the Earl of Gloucester, is described as High Priest, President of the Circle and Knight of the Inclosure. His job was to act as host distributing the liquor at the feast. He was probably the only one at the feast that was sober.
Meanwhile Hengist had his people secretly wear long knives in their sleeves and arranged the seating so that at each table friend and foe sat side by side alternating. At a given signal they were to take their long knives and kill the person sitting next to them sparing only King Vortigern. In the middle of the feasting when all were drunk the signal was given and 360 of Vortigern’s nobles and chieftains were savagely murdered.
King Vortgern was captured and surrendered his own properties as well as Norfolk and Sussex to Hengist and his army.
Eidol was the only one who survived and escaped after killing seventy men. He was immediately named High King of Britain and returned to the place of the massacre to bury his dead countrymen and women. He later captured Hengist and beheaded him.
We know him not as High Priest, President of the Circle or Knight of the Inclosure, but as King Arthur, Knight of the Round Table which was the feast at Stonehenge where 360 unarmed people were treacherously murdered.
This atrocity broke the back of the Druid culture and it swiftly died out. Its highest sacred temple becoming a place of death. The Bard Aneurin who wrote the Song of Gododin said that he witnessed it with his own eyes. He could very well have been the Druid also known as Merlin!
I have pieced together the remarkable strands of this story after reading about the massacre at Stonehenge in 472 AD. I got to thinking that was the time that King Arthur was supposed to have been alive. The Round Table was the great feast at Stonehenge! Suddenly all the pieces fell together! So King Arthur turns out to be the Earl of Gloucester. Who became High King of Britain!
The Druid belief in reincarnation gave rise to the legend that Arthur Pendragon and the Druid Merlin would return in Britain’s greatest hour of need!
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