"...what moderns would have called Cologne...was Colonia Agrippina now."
-To Turn The Tide, CHAPTER FOUR, p. 56.
"Now" is 165 CE.
In about 69 CE but in a different timeline:
"...the road from Old Camp...was a military road, paved and arrow-straight, running south along the Rhine to Colonia Agrippensis."
-Poul Anderson, "Star of the Sea" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, December 2010), pp. 467-640 AT 4, p. 503.
"In the reign of Claudius [Oppidium Ubiorum] was made a Roman colony and named for his wife. Eagerly Latinizing themselves, the Ubii changed their own name to the Agrippinenses. The city waxed. It would be Koln - Cologne, to French and English speakers - but that was far in the future."
-Anderson, op. cit., 8, p. 535.
Far in the future - but it is good to find a familiar name among the twisting timelines.
4 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
And that particular future, leading to our "Cologne," will never come to exist after the arrival of Artorius and his grad students.
Ad astra! Seam
Sean: Yeah, I'd guess that Latin would remain a single language, just for starters. It would change -- all languages do, though at very different speeds -- but regional variations didn't really get going until the Empire fell.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I agree, Latin would remain recognizably Latin despite those inevitable changes.
In "A Tragedy of Errors" we see Anderson examining what happened after the fall of the Terran Empire when minor regional variations of Anglic started becoming different languages.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: People moved around a lot in the Roman Empire -- auxiliary troops were usually deployed away from their area of recruitment, for example, and there were Syrian merchants in Roman London, and Eburacum/York for that matter.
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