Ceridwen's Cauldron

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This is a selection of on-line articles from the Oxford Arthurian Society magazine, Ceridwen's Cauldron.

The magazine was published regularly, usually at termly intervals, between 1985 and 2001, and may yet resurface.

We hope that you enjoy what you find here. Please note that the opinions expressed are those of the individual contributors and not those of the Society as a whole. All the material remains copyright of the individuals concerned - if you want to reproduce any article contact us first, and we'll sort out permissions.

Contents

About the Magazine

• The Founding of Ceridwen's Cauldron
• The Tale of Ceridwen

History

• Where Didn't King Arthur Come From?
• Merlin's Cave: King Arthur and the Hanoverians

Literature

• As the French Book Sayeth... - the Arthurian Society Library
• How Culhwch Won Olwen
• Celtic Religion and Mythology
• Lyonesse Lost - part one of an article on John Milton and Arthur
• The Chivalrous Roundhead and the Knights of Satan - part two of an article on John Milton and Arthur
• The Sacred Forest - The New Age meets The Pooh Perplex

Film Reviews

• John Boorman's Excalibur
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949, with Bing Crosby)
• The Natural with Robert Redford
• The Spaceman and King Arthur the Disney film also known as Unidentified Flying Oddball
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Book Reviews

• The Kingmaking by Helen Hollick
• Pendragon's Banner by Helen Hollick
• The King's Evil by Haydn Middleton
• The Return of Merlin by Deepak Chopra
• Arthur in the West Midlands - a new site for Badon revealed?

Stage Reviews

• Gawain - a review of the opera by Harrison Birtwistle, as seen at Covent Garden in 1994.
• A Connecticut Yankee - The Musical
• King Arthur on the Fringe - reviews of two plays seen at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1994
• Bintley's Baby, a review of the recent ballet Arthur - Part One

Fiction

• Portraiture by Kat Takenaka
• Three Knights and a Baby by Gilly Carr

About the Society

• The Gateway to the Realms of Arthur - an introduction to Arthuriana and the Society
• Edible Propaganda about the Mediaeval Banquet
• Celtic Feasting about the Celtic Festival
• Anachronism Across the Atlantic
• Oh No, It's the Blue Minibus of Northgales - a review of the pilgrimage to North Wales in Trinity 1993
• The Michaelmas Pilgrimage 1993
• Cornish Capers - a review of the Trinity 1995 pilgrimage

Other

• An Oxford Arthurian in Middle America - Renaissance fairs, Carhenge, and more discoveries on a transatlantic quest.

Some other articles from the magazine can be found at Matthew Kilburn's site.

We hope that you enjoy reading the Ceridwen's Cauldron articles here. If you have any comments, you can e-mail us with them!