Arthorius

What if Arthorius (a romano-british chief that probably inspired the myth of "King Arthur", he lived during the VI century AD) had defeated the Saxons and Angles?
 
Do your homework. According to the surviving records, the Celtic (Romano-British) people of southern Britain did score major victories over the Saxons in the early 6th century. In the records attributed to Nennius, a war leader named Arthur supposedly won a dozen battles against the invaders, including the battle (mentioned elsewhere) at Mount Badon. The Celtic people of southern Britain remained independent for a generation thereafter, but failed to unite and instead fought among themselves incessantly. The Saxons took advantage of this and eventually prevailed. From the depiction of Celtic political weakness and demoralization found in Gildas's mid-6th-century polemic De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, an Arthurian monarchy probably would not have lasted for long without a profoundly transformatory Point of Departure.
 
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