celticists

Updated: April 30, 2025

But in these earlier forms the authority of the most learned Celticists who have any literary gift and any appreciation of evidence is decisive on this point not only are the most characteristic unifying features the Graal story and the love of Lancelot and Guinevere completely wanting, but the great stroke of genius the connection of these two and the subordination of all minor legends as to the dim national hero, Arthur, with those about him is more conspicuously wanting still.

George Saintsbury - The English Novel