Sub-Roman Britain (Cavalry etc)

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Many of the so called Bretons in Armorica were Alans who carried quite a lot of Eastern culture with them it seems. I dont mean the culture enthusiatically supplied by various Arthurian experts either. But,the Russians and white slaws always had this legend about the 3 knights and a round table who would resurrect and save the country. The Alans werent slavs per se but had big contact with them and all the Sarmatians seemed to drink up any culture they came across. Curious people in that way. Hence the Christian schisms they got involved with.

I dont know if it interests you but many years ago I was trying to trace stuff about amber and the trade. Succinite is the technical word for the Baltic variety. In the course of that I stumbled on a very Danish University and Museum website situated in the south of Jutland. They carefully pointed out that this had been a land transit port for the North Sea to Baltic amber trade whereby the Punics went to Kaliningrad and Eastern Balt lands to buy amber. THis did not go back to Phoenicia, it seems, but to Cornwall and Ireland to buy kassiterite. Whether cargo this was available elsewhere or not, I cant say, but the Punics had the trade which was huge. What they could nt do was break the Greek monopoly of the Black Sea routes if there was any supply that way. If there was, it went in Greek bottoms and they were at war for centuries over such things. I lost the link before I could retrace and look into it all. But, it was very good.