{"id":1321,"date":"2010-03-04T06:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T06:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2010-03-04T06:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T06:37:00","slug":"picts-scots-vikings-king-arthur-the-past-is-still-much-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1321","title":{"rendered":"Picts, Scots, Vikings, King Arthur&#8211;the Past is Still Much With Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting round-up of <a href=\"http:\/\/codexceltica.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/2009-in-review.html\">Scottish and Pictish-themed movies at Codex Celtica<\/a>, as well as discussion of new pop-historical writing on King Arthur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting round-up of Scottish and Pictish-themed movies at Codex Celtica, as well as discussion of new pop-historical writing on King Arthur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[100,17],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-history","tag-scotland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-lj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1044,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1044","url_meta":{"origin":1321,"position":0},"title":"The Invention of Scotland&#8230;","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"July 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"... or why the kilt was invented for the benefit of factory workers.Ronald Hutton told some of this story in Witches, Druids And King Arthur, but here is a review of a new book on the invention of Scottish-ness, the late Hugh Trevor-Roper's The Invention of Scotland: Myth and History","rel":"","context":"In \"Celts\"","block_context":{"text":"Celts","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=celts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":59,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=59","url_meta":{"origin":1321,"position":1},"title":"The John William Waterhouse Revival","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 2, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"The Neoclassical (or some would say Pre-Raphaelite) painter John William Waterhouse, 1849-1917, is enjoying a posthumous career illustrating books on Paganism. His painting \"The Sorceress\" appears on the cover of Witchcraft Medicine -- see entry for October 29 -- while \"Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses\" is on the dust\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Paganism\"","block_context":{"text":"Paganism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=paganism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6110,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6110","url_meta":{"origin":1321,"position":2},"title":"Excavating Witches","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"It was the obligatory Halloween content over at Bones Don't Lie, but I had too much else on my plate to link to it then. The question is, how can you tell if a buried ancient skeleton was that of a witch (in the anthropological sense)? Does the mouth full\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"archaeology\"","block_context":{"text":"archaeology","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=archaeology"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":22,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=22","url_meta":{"origin":1321,"position":3},"title":"Druids","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"July 8, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been working on a section about American Pagan Druids today. First, let me say that I am so glad that I do not have to do anything on British Druids, since in the UK there are two hundred years' worth of self-proclaimed various Druidic groups of all sorts, from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Druidry\"","block_context":{"text":"Druidry","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=druidry"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1169,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1169","url_meta":{"origin":1321,"position":4},"title":"The Mists of Avalon and Its Antithesis","author":"Chas S. 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And in the long run, the attempt by some British Pagans to play the NAGPRA-derived \"reburial of the sacred dead\" card is going to be a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"archaeology\"","block_context":{"text":"archaeology","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=archaeology"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}