Fwiw, Guinevere said to be daughter of a giant (Ogrfan), making her a descendant of these Syrian sisters if viewed via the Brut tradition :)
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Also interesting is 12thC legend that Ireland+Britain conquered in 6thC by an African king: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=biQ6iC_ua9AC&lpg=PA201&pg=PA201#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/umkll2hwkp
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Gormund's African troops were said to have played a pivotal role in helping the Saxons conquer Britain, see furtherhttps://books.google.co.uk/books?id=z40yCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA261&pg=PA261#v=onepage&q&f=false …
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Fwiw, Gormund+6thC African troops=part of standard version of English history into 15thC... http://luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/detail/Man4MedievalVC~4~4~228956~108131:Gurmonde-besieges-Chichester# …pic.twitter.com/1sjzarITw3
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Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green
See further https://archive.org/stream/prosebrutdevelop00mathuoft#page/8/mode/2up … ; of course, worth comparing these medieval concepts of past w/ some modern oneshttps://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/658324413335666688 …
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Also worth noting again that medieval authors quite happy to portray 9thC Viking warriors as Saracens/Muslims...https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/754612140556845056 …
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Similarly, by mid-late13thC story circulating that Thomas Becket's mother=a Saracen princess http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=53379 …pic.twitter.com/7J0VMPFqg3
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Story=early but obv hagiography/romance; however, worth noting once more that were some Muslims in 12thC Englandhttps://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/739854170879107074 …
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A Continental depiction of Albina & her sisters arriving in Britain; Anglo-Norman prose Brut, 15thC (BL Royal 19 C IX, f.8): http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=40511 …pic.twitter.com/Sv73QNrLtm
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Hah! Think it's intriguing to compare the standard late medieval accounts of early British history with the recent fuss made over e.g. the BBC's portrayal of Guinevere in Merlin...! :)
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