The Fisher King in Midsomer County
• (Caution: Contains spoilers for Episodes: 07×03: The Fisher King and a bit of 03×03: Judgement Day) Diesen Beitrag gibt es auch auf Deutsch. • Near to the village Midsomer Priors, on the site of today’s Midsomer Barrow, in Celtic times, during the Iron Age, 3000 years ago, there was a local chieftain: the Fisher King. He was a wealthy man and died of the dolorous stroke, a symbolic death: he was stabbed in the thigh with a spear. (Note: Paul Heartley-Reade calls it the dolorous blow, but in the context of Arthurian legend it’s called a stroke).