Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

Many people have commented on this looking steep. It has always looked steep to me too, but I try to be careful not to assume too much too soon.

There are thousands of mountain-top fortresses in Europe, parts of the Middle East, and parts of Africa. Many of those in Ethiopia and parts of Greece were built according to European designs.

Montségur mountain didn't just look steep. It was steep:



It was no doubt common to build castles on mountain tops because that made them easier to defend, but perhaps nowhere else were the vertical slopes so pronounced as at Montségur. Moreover, the Cathar fortress is the most likely for another reason: it was completely dismantled and hence cannot be matched with the VMS depiction, whereas we know for certain that the other mountaintop castles, still extant, do not produce a match.