Sarmatian Immigration to Britain in the migration age

Make them having a heavy influence on Anglo-Saxon/North Sea Germanian /Briton-Roman and Celtic migrations and legacy.
 
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...and besides, Sarmatians were known for their equestrian skills, but I don't think that they were able to construct ships/boats without "help" from neighboring groups

Well, weren´t they part of Germanic hosts usually ? They assimilated in and influenced many Germanic tribes. So maybe they have an even larger part than OTL and mix with the North Sea Germanics. Franks went to Britain, too, so maybe they could come as oart of their host . Alternate, maybe Vandals or Goths decide to cross the Channel and invade Britain.
 
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Weren't they already being used as auxiliaries in Roman Britain anyways? Hence the "dragon" and "wyvern" symbols.

Yes, allegedly. Historians argue, that the legend of King Arthur and his knights could have originated from a Sarmartian Cavalry Auxilliary in Britain.
 
Weren't they already being used as auxiliaries in Roman Britain anyways? Hence the "dragon" and "wyvern" symbols.

The dragon standard may have been Sarmatian in origin, but by the later Roman Empire it had become common enough to lose any particular ethnic association.

Yes, allegedly. Historians argue, that the legend of King Arthur and his knights could have originated from a Sarmartian Cavalry Auxilliary in Britain.

Scholarly flights of fancy notwithstanding, there's no evidence whatsoever that Arthur had anything to do with Sarmatians. Aside from anything else, the chronology's all wrong: the original sources all place Arthur's career a couple of generations after the Romans left, when there would have been no auxiliaries, Sarmatian or otherwise, left for him to command.

Plus, the whole thesis is completely superfluous. Mediaeval troubadours tended to imagine famous leaders of the past as being just like contemporary feudal monarchs, and the reason Arthur was given a retinue of famous knights was simply that kings in the middle ages all had retinues of knights, so of course people imagined Arthur as having one as well. (This sort of anachronism is found in lots of works about lots of people, which is why characters as far back as Hector were portrayed like mediaeval knights, with coats-of-arms, plate armour, and so forth.) There's simply no need to posit a Sarmatian origin for Arthur's knights.
 

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Yes, allegedly. Historians argue, that the legend of King Arthur and his knights could have originated from a Sarmartian Cavalry Auxilliary in Britain.

One of the really bad movies about King Arthur from a few years back, set at the end of Roman Britain, makes this assertion.
 
One of the really bad movies about King Arthur from a few years back, set at the end of Roman Britain, makes this assertion.

This wasn't the worst part about that movie... it at least gave some semblance of historical research on the part of the creative staff of the movie :rolleyes:
 
One of the really bad movies about King Arthur from a few years back, set at the end of Roman Britain, makes this assertion.

This wasn't the worst part about that movie... it at least gave some semblance of historical research on the part of the creative staff of the movie :rolleyes:

Ja. The Saxons rowing all the way north along the east coast of Britain so that they could land north of Hadrian's Wall was a fun moment.

Of course, Keira Knightley in straps of leather made me willing to enjoy the movie....
 
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