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Another one - they're coming fast & furious now...

July 12, 2010  -  Aidan Gillen IS Littlefinger

One of the most anticipated remaining casting announcements for HBO’s adaption of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones has just come out, courtesy of James Hibberd at the Hollywood Reporter’s blog, The Live Feed.

Aidan Gillen, a fan favorite from early on, has been cast in the role of Lord Petyr Baelish, more popularly known as Littlefinger. A scheming, immoral social-climbing conniver, Baelish is a pivotal character in the series, one that viewers are sure to love to hate.
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[Well, that doesn't sound like a Saint Aidan, does it;)  In this particular photo he doesn't appear to be an immoral social-climbing conniver either -- more like a fun loving Dubliner....he's definitely from Dublin]

Can we believe the following or is it a tourist promotion gimmick? Inquiring minds want to know;)Whatever happened to all the assessments that King Arthur & Camelot were a myth? Didn't Cornwall claim long ago to be the site of Camelot? Hope it's not another 'where did Robin really roam' debate. 

NEWS REPORT: July 12, 2010

British Historians Locate King Arthur's Round Table
--King Arthur, Lancelot, and the other knights of the round table are more than mere stories. In fact, one British historian has found precisely where that famous table once sat --and what exactly it was.

According to the Camelot historian, the famous table was no table at all.

He claims the circular interior of a former Roman amphitheater in Chester, England, was where the knights convened, and will reveal all the details of his discoveries in "King Arthur’s Round Table Revealed," which airs on The History Channel July 19.

Historian Chris Gidlow said Arthur would have reinforced the building’s 40-foot walls to create an imposing and well-fortified base. The king’s regional noblemen would have sat in the central arena’s front row, with lower-ranked subjects in the outer stone benches.

Arthur has been the subject of much historical debate, but many scholars believe him to have been a 5th or 6th century leader. The legend links him to 12 major battles fought over 40 years -- and one of his principal victories was said to have been at Chester.

Researchers say the recent discovery at the amphitheater of an execution stone and a wooden memorial to Christian martyrs suggests the missing city is Chester.

“The first accounts of the Round Table show that it was nothing like a dining table but was a venue for upwards of 1,000 people at a time," said Gidlow.

"In the 6th century, a monk named Gildas, who wrote the earliest account of Arthur’s life, referred both to the City of the Legions and to a martyr’s shrine within it," he explained. 'That's the clincher. The discovery of the shrine within the amphitheater means that Chester was the site of Arthur’s court -- and his legendary Round Table."