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Daily Wire tv series "The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin": a retelling of the Arthurian legend set in a Roman-occupied Britain where barbarian invaders threaten to lay claim to the island.

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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Umm, werent the romans the invaders? Or are they referring to germanics as barbarians for some reason here? Weird tag line if its supposed to be Arthurian and not Roman.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not history - it's rightwing storytelling so anything goes.

[–] 389aaa@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

What they're probably doing is simplifying 'Romano-British' into just Romans. Some of the medieval sources we have that treat Arthur as a real guy (he probably wasn't, for the record) specifically place him in the late 400s-early 500s. Historia Brittonum, specifically.

While Rome had abandoned the island at that point, the syncretic Romano-British culture still survived, and it is they that were subject to the Anglo-Saxon invasion.

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

If they're trying to be accurate to either the legends or history, the "civilized" people would be the post-Roman Romano-British and the barbarians would be the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.