In the castle, he said, which is a structure not imported into England until after the Norman conquest, which is, at the earliest, five hundred years after the death of the best candidate we have for the historical Arthur. So, no castle, no king? I said. No, no, that’s not the point of the lost age, he said. The point is that the king is still in his castle, but to you, he doesn’t look like what you mean by king, and his castle doesn’t look like a castle.
