A recent debate

[HareBrain]

Oh, I like those covers!

That's the art by Ian Miller I mentioned up-thread. His work features heavily in David Day's Tolkien Bestiary (mostly dragons, orcs and ents) along with art by superb figure-drawer Victor Ambrus (elves). Well worth hunting out if you don't already have a copy.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

That's the art by Ian Miller I mentioned up-thread. His work features heavily in David Day's Tolkien Bestiary (mostly dragons, orcs and ents) along with art by superb figure-drawer Victor Ambrus (elves). Well worth hunting out if you don't already have a copy.

I do have a copy. I haven't looked at in years though, so it might be time to visit it again.

 

[Ambriel]

Can I just say, I love how much this thread has blown up. It’s so much fun reading all the comments and derailments. Thank you guys for all your input. While nothing has been settled, I enjoyed this very much.

 

[paranoid marvin]

I thought "Albion" means the island of Britain. Because of the snow, "Albus" meaning white in Latin? Dunno if Brittany gets much snow

As I understand 'Albion' represents Britain, but that could mean England, Scotland, Wales or Brittany.

It's hard to really compare these days, because back then it was more a case of sovereign states or regions than large countries ruled by one person.

For a long time, rulers and nobles of England were more French than English. And back then there wasn't really a France or an England as we would know it today.

Personally I think that if Arthur, or the person (or people) upon who he was based would most likely have been Welsh.

 

[Cthulhu.Science]

As I understand 'Albion' represents Britain, but that could mean England, Scotland, Wales or Brittany.

It's hard to really compare these days, because back then it was more a case of sovereign states or regions than large countries ruled by one person.

For a long time, rulers and nobles of England were more French than English. And back then there wasn't really a France or an England as we would know it today.

Personally I think that if Arthur, or the person (or people) upon who he was based would most likely have been Welsh.

For a long time before the French showed up many of the rulers of what is now England were Danish. Some time before that a lot of the rulers were Romans. And then, more recently the rulers went Dutch then German.

OH Albion, it is so hard to keep track.

 

[Montero]

The Norman French were Northman, i.e. Vikings anyway I thought.....