THE DARK AGES
THE LAND WAS DIVIDED AND WITHOUT A KING
(CUE THE WAGNER)
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Shield of Arturius Aurelianus, Dux Britanniarum (Leader of all Britannia) 516-537AD.
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THE LAND WAS DIVIDED AND WITHOUT A KING
(CUE THE WAGNER)
(click here to Camelot-size)
Shield of Arturius Aurelianus, Dux Britanniarum (Leader of all Britannia) 516-537AD.
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Well, that was fast.
What can I say? I'm feeling inspired.
Anything to get out of writing Weber's Germany, eh?
That's mean! I'll get back to that soon enough.
So, Before 1900, huh? Convinced it won't be ASB?
I am going to hide behind my device of my unreliable narrator Paul Aurelian and say that this is an excercise in alternate historiography inasmuch as it is alternate history.
What's the premise of this retelling of Arthurian legend?
I purport that Paulinus Aurelianus, an (adopted) grandson of Arthur - a link I have fabricated for the purposes of this TL - decided to write about his family's history to counter Gildas's accusations of moral degeneracy; however, as we'll find out Paul is going to have his own agenda in writing his account.
What can first-time readers expect?
This will be an attempt to synthesise some of the early accounts of the pseudo-historical Ambrosius Aurelianus and "King" Arthur such as Gildas's On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain, "Nennius"'s Historia Brittonium, the Annales Cambrae, the Welsh Triads and the various accounts of 6th-century saints' lives, along with Malmesbury's and Geoffrey's accounts of British history to a smaller extent.
So nothing post-Galfridian, i.e. no Lancelot, no Grail, no Round Table, no-
I might include putative "origins" for some of these through passages ripe for misinterpretation, but nothing which outright contradicts the above sources.
What can returning readers expect?
More consistent Latinisations, more extensive notes, and a longer history of Roman Britain's transition to Sub-Roman Britain.
So you've got 168 hours starting from now to finish this TL?
No, a week from the first update.
And when will that be?
Tomorrow at the latest.
What can I say? I'm feeling inspired.
Anything to get out of writing Weber's Germany, eh?
That's mean! I'll get back to that soon enough.
So, Before 1900, huh? Convinced it won't be ASB?
I am going to hide behind my device of my unreliable narrator Paul Aurelian and say that this is an excercise in alternate historiography inasmuch as it is alternate history.
What's the premise of this retelling of Arthurian legend?
I purport that Paulinus Aurelianus, an (adopted) grandson of Arthur - a link I have fabricated for the purposes of this TL - decided to write about his family's history to counter Gildas's accusations of moral degeneracy; however, as we'll find out Paul is going to have his own agenda in writing his account.
What can first-time readers expect?
This will be an attempt to synthesise some of the early accounts of the pseudo-historical Ambrosius Aurelianus and "King" Arthur such as Gildas's On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain, "Nennius"'s Historia Brittonium, the Annales Cambrae, the Welsh Triads and the various accounts of 6th-century saints' lives, along with Malmesbury's and Geoffrey's accounts of British history to a smaller extent.
So nothing post-Galfridian, i.e. no Lancelot, no Grail, no Round Table, no-
I might include putative "origins" for some of these through passages ripe for misinterpretation, but nothing which outright contradicts the above sources.
What can returning readers expect?
More consistent Latinisations, more extensive notes, and a longer history of Roman Britain's transition to Sub-Roman Britain.
So you've got 168 hours starting from now to finish this TL?
No, a week from the first update.
And when will that be?
Tomorrow at the latest.
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