06-01-2010, 05:31 AM
Agraes,
You mentioned something interesting a few posts back-- the placement of the Desii in Demetia as guarding that coast from Irish encroachers. I believe Darrel Wolcott connected Theithfallt to the Desii, through marriage? And then we have his son Tewdrig leading Marcellus and Agricola against the same raiders, Agricola being a king of Demetia. This last info is from Morris who (like Leslie Allcott) got reamed by Dumville and associates. Yet interestingly, it places Britons led by the correct number of cavalry leaders-- 3 commanders leading 900, just as we see in the poem Chair of the Sovereign. Maybe it's coincedence, or maybe not. But it might record the mobility of post-Roman horsemen who could quickly range the entire isle via the extant Roman roads.
hock:
You mentioned something interesting a few posts back-- the placement of the Desii in Demetia as guarding that coast from Irish encroachers. I believe Darrel Wolcott connected Theithfallt to the Desii, through marriage? And then we have his son Tewdrig leading Marcellus and Agricola against the same raiders, Agricola being a king of Demetia. This last info is from Morris who (like Leslie Allcott) got reamed by Dumville and associates. Yet interestingly, it places Britons led by the correct number of cavalry leaders-- 3 commanders leading 900, just as we see in the poem Chair of the Sovereign. Maybe it's coincedence, or maybe not. But it might record the mobility of post-Roman horsemen who could quickly range the entire isle via the extant Roman roads.
hock:
Alan J. Campbell
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
