Roman Britain

 Manson Everard of the Time Patrol negotiated with a Roman general. The last King of Ys was a Romano-Briton.

In 461 AD:

"Among the jostling Jutes, [Everard] spotted an occasional Romano-Briton, disdainfully picking his way through the muck and pulling his shabby tunic clear of contact with these savages. It would have been funny if it weren't pathetic." (Time Patrol, New York, 2006, p. 35)

I am starting to read Caesar's account of his invasion of Britain in the original, not in translation, thus simultaneously learning a language and some history. This increases my appreciation of Anderson's historical fiction.

One stated reason for the invasion, "...nam omnibus fere Gallicis bellis hostibus nostris inde subministrata auxilia intellegebat..." means (I think) "...because he thought that during nearly all the Gallic wars help from there was supplied to our enemies..." However, the text book informs me that very little help had come from Britain and that one motive, apart from economics, may have been curiosity about Britain as "earth's remotest bound." Indeed.