Rhynome wrote:The people on which Arthur's are based were also born a good 100 or so years after the Romans left, using old equipment. EDIT: Not born using old equipment, they fought with old equipment... hope that makes more sense.
bit smallish, but large enough.
'This is the approximate extent of Old Norse and related languages in the early 10th century. The red area is the distribution of the dialect Old West Norse; the orange area is the spread of the dialect Old East Norse. The pink area is Old Gutnish and the green area is the extent of the other Germanic languages with which Old Norse still retained some mutual intelligibility' - Wikipedia.
Norfolk is the southern most British orange splodge. Hey, look at that... no bloody green in Pictland... eh?
I actually laughed, very loud, at the 'with machines' bit. No one was with me, I was just sat there laughing like an insane maniac.
Further point, if you walk for three days north of hadrians wall you walk into the North Atlantic... if you ride... on a pony...
FINALLY SOMEONE WHO CARES ABOUT HISTORICAL ACCURACIES!
P.S- Same to Graham, but with my hand waving in the air, cause Graham would know how ridiculous I look when I do.