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Name[edit]

Recently published research ( http://www.grahamphillips.net/Books/Arthur.htm ) would give more substance to the reason behind the name of Arthur's Seat. If it is true that the legendary person nick-named Arthur was the grandson of the Votadini chieftain Cunedda, who was invited to Gwynedd by the British kings, along with a migration of Votadini warriors and their families, to escape the Pict and Scotti pressures from the North and East, to join the British kings in their efforts to stave of the Anglo-Saxon invasion, then, it would make perfect sense to refer to Arthur's Seat as the ancestral seat of the Arthurian dynasty of British kings. Chris A. Martin 16:08, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds sensational, but there is the connection of the reference to Arthur in Y Gododdin and the Gododdin association with Edinburgh, both under that name and under their Roman era name of Votadini. Strikes me as being a mythical name. ... dave souza, talk 18:02, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This place has no traditional Gaelic name. The putative Gaelic name 'Àrd-thìr Suidhe' is a very unconvincing etymologisation of the place-name 'Arthur's Seat' and should be removed from the article. It is grammatically incorrect and would translate as 'high-land of seat'. We have no evidence for any Gaelic version of the name apart from 'Suidh Artair', the literal translation of 'Arthur's Seat'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.157.229.241 (talk) 18:04, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Arthur's Seat used to be called Craggenmarf which is a corruption of Gaelic "Creag nam Marbh". That's a traditional Gaelic name. Sorry, but you're talking claptrap and I'm amazed no one has challenged you about it in nearly ten years.-2A01:4C8:141E:3A0C:1:1:A303:151B (talk) 16:02, 5 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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High res image[edit]

I just uploaded a high res public domain image from arthurs seat over edinburgh http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edinburgh_from_arthurs_seat.JPG please include it if it is suitable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wjh31 (talk • contribs) 16:38, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Move[edit]

I didn't see the need to disambiguate this page so I moved it. The apostrophe creates its own disambiguation and I think this one is by far the best known. Just in case, there is now a dab page at Arthur's Seat (disambiguation). Hope that's ok. --John (talk) 10:11, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Traditional Gaelic name[edit]

"There is no traditional Scottish Gaelic name for Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh"

Apart from the fact that it used to be called Craggenmarf which is corruption of Creag nam Marbh meaning Rock of the Dead. More misleading info from Wikipedia! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:4C8:141E:3A0C:1:1:A303:151B (talk) 16:00, 5 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Gaming[edit]

Make sure to be good — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adamsuth2010 (talk • contribs) 13:20, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Reference links broken[edit]

several of the exrernal links in the reference section are broken Dangulo (talk) 18:32, 6 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]