An sf writer can extend a list into the future. See:
Can a fantasy writer extend a list into the past?
When:
"Imric the elf-earl rode out by night to see what had happened in the lands of men." (p. 18)
- a witch told him that the Danes had come to eastern England to kill, loot, burn and seize. Imric replied that that was not bad because several groups had done likewise earlier.
Imric's list:
Angles and Saxons;
Picts and Scots;
Romans;
Brythons and Goidels;
still others before.
Brythons and Goidels?
However:
Brythons are Celtic Britons - in Welsh, Brythoniaid;
So Imric was using unfamiliar (to me) terminology, not referring to fictional populations like Robert E. Howard's Cimmerians.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And who dwelt in what came to be called the British Isles before the invasions of the Celt/Gaels? Obscure, so little known peoples that scholars have to use DNA analysis to glean some knowledge of them. IRRC Stirling said their fate was to be exterminated by the Celts (except for whatever slaves, usually women, were kept).
Ad astra! Sean
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