Popping into someone else's thread to note that "Grauniad" is a humorous rearrangement of "Guardian," to point up that newspaper's habit (so it is said) of misspelling things. They did put a second "e" in "Delany," e.g.

And for my part, though I'm interested to see what ap_aelfwine will say as well, Connecticut Yankee pushes buttons because it is terrible medievalism. Like, there's reshaping and remastering (in the music-recording sense as well as the literal one), as William Morris did, and then there's being smugly convinced that one's own era is Right and writing from that position, as Mark Twain did. Morris offers a lofty bar, but he's the first example coming to mind. Even Wordsworth's dabblings in medievalism are okay compared to Mark Twain's, and Wordsworth dripped gory druids and ruins all over a few pages....