[Freeciv-Dev] OT: King Arthur (Re: New Nations)

[Lalo Martins <lalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 10:01:07PM -0000, Sam BC wrote:
> If we're being accurate to history rather than to 'legend', Arthur should be
> leader of the Cornish, as he wasn't a king in the middle-ages/renaissance
> sense of the term, more a local chief in a prosperous area _of_cornwall_
> 
> At the real time of Arthur, there was no King of England, but disparate
> duchys and baronys...

Not really. There was the "Warlord" (actually in Britain there
was a different term, but same idea) who didn't actually rule
but was commander of the common armies of the whole "nation".
Arthur was such a leader, according to what few records exist.

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