Saturday, May 6th, 2006
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Southern Charm,
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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Re: Artorius and the spread of the Sarmatians [split: favourite films]
I've found some more information on the origins and spread of the Sarmatians. Interestingly, in some sites it is claimed that they arrived in Hispania as military aides of the Visigoths.
This comes from a post on rootsweb.com, "Sarmatians - Asians in Europe":
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I posted about this just a few days ago. One of the Saramatian leaders in Britain was named "L. Artorius Castus." It has been proposed that he was the "historical King Arthur." The modern-day Ossetians of the Caucasus are descendants of the Alans, who were sort of eastern cousins of the Sarmatians (Iazyges & Roxolani). The Ossetians have a whole cycle of legends that bear striking resemblances to the Arthurian tales. Also, the Scythians & Sarmatians worshipped a war god in the image of a sword stuck upright in the ground or on a pile of wood (think "sword in the stone").
See "From Scythia to Camelot" by Littleton & Malcor (1994).
However, the Sarmatians were Indo-European, not Asian. They were deployed to Britain well before the first large-scale incursions of Asiatic nomads (the Huns).
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