Factoid of the day

I'm reading Goodrich's book on King Arthur (she is a medievalist and her expertise is language). She points out something that one of the recent BBC shows on King Arthur also mentioned: That he probably fought in the North west England/southern Scotland, not the South west, of England that is the usual interpretation.
(she uses linguistic analyses to reinterpret the sitenames positing that 12th century authors might not know the original languages or the original names of towns in these remote parts).

Don't know if her theories are bunk or not, (they are the ones that inspired the retelling of Arthur's story in the 2004 film) but I ran across this interesting factoid:

That there is an extinct volcano (or maybe the balsalt plug from the volcano) near Edinboro named Arthur's seat.

Volcanos in Scotland? Who wudda thot?

There are also the remains of an "Iron Age" fort here, and according to Wikipedia:

Hill fort defences are visible round the main massif of Arthur's Seat at Dunsapie Hill and above Samson's Ribs, in the latter cases certainly of prehistoric date. These forts are likely to have been centres of power of the Votadini, who were the subject of the poem Y Gododdin which is thought to have been written about 600 AD in their hillfort on Edinburgh castle crag. The poem includes a simile comparing a warrior to King Arthur which (if not a later addition) may be one of the earliest references to Arthur, and hints at a possibility that his fame might have led to one of the hillforts — and, subsequently, the hill — being named after him.

photo from wikipedia.