03-07-2014, 01:01 PM
Quote:I noticed you avoided commenting on 'Reg' stamped on our coins Diocle?
You are of course aware that the two most senior military officers in Britain was the Comes Litoris Saxoni and the Dux Brittionum, so the titles of Duke and Count have a much longer linage than the Norman Conquest!
Yes I know, but ... sadly Artorius won a lot of battles but ... he lost the war!
So ... 'adieux' (It.: Addio!, En.: Farewell!) Comes Litoris Saxonici atque Dux Bitannorum! :|
Do this: read the Beowulf and/or some old Anglo Saxon text and search for Latin, .... you'll get the state of the art in the big island before Guillaume le Bâtard arrived.
Example, the wonderful 'The Battle of Brunanburuh':
937.
Her Aethelstan cyning, eorla dryhten,
beorna beag-giefa, and his brothor eac,
Eadmund aetheling, ealdor-langetir
geslogon aet saecce sweorda ecgum
ymbe Brunanburh. Bord-weall clufon,
heowon heathu-linde hamora lafum
eaforan Eadweardes, swa him ge-aethele waes
fram cneo-magum thaet hie aet campe oft
with lathra gehwone land ealgodon,
hord and hamas. Hettend crungon,
Scotta leode and scip-flotan,
faege feollon. Feld dennode
secga swate siththan sunne upp
on morgen-tid, maere tungol,
glad ofer grundas, Godes candel beorht,
eces Dryhtnes, oth seo aethele gesceaft
sag to setle. Thaer laeg secg manig
garum agieted, guma Northerna
ofer scield scoten, swelce Scyttisc eac,
werig, wiges saed.
....'
Isn't it lovely? The High German shape is still so strong and beautiful .... anyway, this is English before the French treatment .....
@Pavel: The text of Procopius is false as long as you can prove that this is true.
It's as for the case of Atlantis, Pavel. Don't forget that actually Plato is a source slightly more reliable than the poor byzantine officer Procopius of Caesaraea (he wrote an incredible amount of sex stories about Theodora, and her sexual costumes and practices, you cannot believe that all those terrible sexual perversions of the Empress are the pure truth!
Procopius is a military man and a politician, he takes part in what happens, he lies, as anyone else on this planet, when he is writing and making policy at the same time!)
