Re: Jews in Ill Bethisad: MS *and* the Judajca-speakers? (was: Judajca)
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 23, 2002, 20:42 |
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On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 22:37:47 +1200 Wesley Parish
<wes.parish@...> writes:
> In that case, we could well have a Syriac-speaking kingdom - Arturus
> Malkaa,
> the scion of a Syrian centurian and a British clan chief's daughter
> - in
> Britain when "seo Angles, ond seo Saxones ond seo Geatas" came to
> call.
> And with family connections to Syria and the Levant, he is able to
> call on
> them to support him, consequently there grows up a large community
> of Syriac
> speakers, whose language gets altered, first by the Britons, then by
> a resurgent invasion from the Saxon Shore ...
> Don't worry if your head hurts, mine does too!
> Wesley Parish
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Actually, i remember hearing about something, i think it was a book,
based on the premise that Carthage (their native Semitic name being Qart
Hhadasht, if i remember correctly) conquered Rome, instead of the
opposite. And therefore, instead of having a Roman Empire that develops
into Romance languages, you have a Carthaginian empire that develops into
neo-Punic languages.
Although your idea does have the added bonus of being able to play with
the Semitic-Celtic "connection" theories :-) . Is Arturus Malkaa
supposed to be roughly the same as King Arthur?
-Stephen (Steg)
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