02-10-2010, 12:54 PM
Quote:I am sure you spend enormous time studying Brysonnais material. As for sources, Alanus and others have liberally plastered the website with good ones and with good perceptive comment. Are you suggesting that the Alan name indicates "furry fox person" all the way from Britanny ferries to Moesia to Ossetia?
I dont know how this obsessive thing of Sarmatian oh so heavy cavalry developed. To start with, there were many tribes of Sarmatian.. (They had four periods in their history) and they all equipped, it would seem, according to circumstance and resource. Their activities in places like Moesia and Moldawa were most certainly light cav and that remained the case even when the Serbs re introduced the methods to Hungary prior to 1500. The system remained in place until almost 1700 with varying degrees of heaviness and lightness.
That's not the whole point. The point is simply that there is no reason for the Bretons to have adopted light cavalry tactics directly from Sarmatians or Alans. There is enough closer paralleles with celtic and roman ways of fighting, and generally speaking with most cavalry tactics before the stirrup got west.
My point is simply that there is no known steppic heritage in Brittany, nothing that can't be at least found to have a close origin.
And I have no clue what 'Brysonnais' is.
"O niurt Ambrois ri Frangc ocus Brethan Letha."
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert