North British Warrior

[Alanus]

Where's Robert on this one. I thought he was back from "vacation."
What can we use if not medieval stuff? :roll: Even Gildas wrote after the demise of the Western Empire, and Nennius entered the party a little late, about 350 years worth. Amazingly, it may be the songs themselves that can tell us a little something about the North British warrior. They were composed in the north and then went south into Wales along the "western corridor." The Institutional Triads, mentioned above, are also nearly pure. True, the oldest ms we have of both-- the songs and social triads-- are the surviving medieval copies... but they are helpful. Yet many classicists balk at using them.

A new thread? Dark Age Post-Roman? We'll have Barber, Pykitt, Wilson, Blackett, Manfredi, Franzoni, and Guinevere in a leather bikini. hock:

Britain had no Tacitus, no Pliny, no Ammianus. How sad.