arthur

Second of April 1502 Arthur had lived! Elizabeth was crying over his bed in joy and King Henry was sitting with a small triumphant grin. They had came to wales, certain he would die yet he pulled through. Somehow. … Katherine stepped in her room, weeping. She would still be Queen, her husband...

Now I Have two PODs in this timeline. The first and foremost is that Rome does not demilitarize the Celtic locals of Britain and instead use them in the legions thus leading to the preservation of the ancient Celtic warlike traditions are not lost during the Roman British Era. With most of the...

Lately I've been playing around with the idea of a, (semi-) realistic King Arthur TL, from the perspective of some 300 years afterwards. It got me thinking, how the "welsh" language would develop with anglo-saxon minority influencing? A map for context (current lables are mostly place holders)

I've found the idea of a hybrid Christianity/Arthur Cult could form in Britain and adopted as part of British culture really interesting as a dramatically Syncretic faith for the British Isles. Essentially whilst Piety is the remit of Saints and the Christian Church, it has a counterpart in...

1491 - A Premodern timeline Isabella II of Castile I of Aragon I Her first marriage was to Prince Afonso, the only son and heir of king John II of Portugal from his marriage with Eleanor of Viseu. The wedding, by proxy, took place in the spring of 1490 in Seville. On 19 November of that...

An Alternate Night of the Long Knives No, not that one! This is the one that has gone down in infamy in British (NOT English) folklore. I wondered what would happen if Vortigern was not a complete idiot (just one most of the time) and showed a touch of the Vitali (sorry Cymraeg:eek:) Also...