04-02-2006, 05:29 PM
I read recently that ca. 175 AD, Rome sent 5,500 Sarmatians to Britannia. These were part of a group of 8,000 Sarmatian warriors who were "enslaved" as a result of Marcus Aurelius' Marcomannic War.
Does anyone have more information about them? I know that this was the idea behind the story in the movie King Arthur (yes, I hear your groans), but is there more to it?
They were apparently part of the Roman army in Britannia in the 2nd c. Were they settled as laeti? If so, might they have survived into the third c. and beyond?
John Morris, in The Age of Arthur, hints that is it unclear from the Notitia Dignitatum whether there were Sarmatian laeti in Britannia in the 4th c. Apparently there were some in Gallia at this time.
Does anyone have more information about them? I know that this was the idea behind the story in the movie King Arthur (yes, I hear your groans), but is there more to it?
They were apparently part of the Roman army in Britannia in the 2nd c. Were they settled as laeti? If so, might they have survived into the third c. and beyond?
John Morris, in The Age of Arthur, hints that is it unclear from the Notitia Dignitatum whether there were Sarmatian laeti in Britannia in the 4th c. Apparently there were some in Gallia at this time.
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[size=75:y4iezjz4]David Sullivan
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