05-15-2012, 05:13 PM
Robert,
Oh yes, I'm talking about the Younger, the guy who was canned for failing to subdue the "Sarmatians."
Hello, Nathan
Actually the novel is about the Tyrfingi, not so much the Romans, but young Fritigern does a 3-year stint in Pannonnia under Soranus. I'm shooting for a general readership, unfamiliar with Roman military terms, and use "Captain" as Frit's lower rank. He delines promotion to Commander and goes back to Gothia where he gets involved with an ideaoligical war with a young Athanaric, son of Aoric who initiated the 1st Gothic purge of Christians.
Actually, the main character is a young woman, Frit's heart-throb. Yet the most important charater is Merjands (aka Merlin), a man "cursed to be forever old." Frit ends up as the Fisher King, and the young woman becomes the Lady of the Lake. The novel is pre-Arthurian, and sets up the premise (the Prophesy of Merjands) that Frit's unborn son will become the Ufar Pandrancon, "Chief Dragonman" (Count of Britain). I do use correct Gothic terms, and "Merjands" actually means "The Proclaimer." So, the novel is a play on recent speculation-- that Arthur had a Roman father and British mother. The only difference is the "Roman" is actually a high-ranking Goth in the Roman army. This expands John Morris' premise that "Tewdrig ap Theithfallt" was actually Theodoric son of Thiudebalth. Tewdrig's grandfather was recorded as "Trithearn," whom I believe could have been Fritigern. Crazy? Maybe. :wink:
Oh yes, I'm talking about the Younger, the guy who was canned for failing to subdue the "Sarmatians."
Hello, Nathan
Actually the novel is about the Tyrfingi, not so much the Romans, but young Fritigern does a 3-year stint in Pannonnia under Soranus. I'm shooting for a general readership, unfamiliar with Roman military terms, and use "Captain" as Frit's lower rank. He delines promotion to Commander and goes back to Gothia where he gets involved with an ideaoligical war with a young Athanaric, son of Aoric who initiated the 1st Gothic purge of Christians.
Actually, the main character is a young woman, Frit's heart-throb. Yet the most important charater is Merjands (aka Merlin), a man "cursed to be forever old." Frit ends up as the Fisher King, and the young woman becomes the Lady of the Lake. The novel is pre-Arthurian, and sets up the premise (the Prophesy of Merjands) that Frit's unborn son will become the Ufar Pandrancon, "Chief Dragonman" (Count of Britain). I do use correct Gothic terms, and "Merjands" actually means "The Proclaimer." So, the novel is a play on recent speculation-- that Arthur had a Roman father and British mother. The only difference is the "Roman" is actually a high-ranking Goth in the Roman army. This expands John Morris' premise that "Tewdrig ap Theithfallt" was actually Theodoric son of Thiudebalth. Tewdrig's grandfather was recorded as "Trithearn," whom I believe could have been Fritigern. Crazy? Maybe. :wink:
Alan J. Campbell
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
