02-25-2010, 11:05 AM
Quote:What's he doing in Armorcia? More importantly does he know that that is the name of the king of the Picts from AD468-AD498 ? And that he was the inspiration for the Arthurian Sir Tristan? Unless you guys also portray Britannia I'd like to know what he's doing there.
He is portraying a deditice or a gentiles. He could have been a captured warrior on a raid and then found employement in Gaul. At least in the 4th and beginning of the 5th century, warriors of irish stock are quite well documented as serving in Roman units, they are the Attecotti. It is possible that a Pict would have done so, even if there is no full proof of it.
We portray essentially Britons in Northern Gaul, but also insular Britons and neighboring people, be they Picts, Irish, Germanics... So his project is also the occasion to show people how an inhabitant of what is nowadays Scotland would have look.
And he really doesn't care about Tristan or king-who-shall-not-be-named. As long we let him wander on the field with nothing under his tunic saying naughty things he is fine
"O niurt Ambrois ri Frangc ocus Brethan Letha."
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert