International Knightmare!
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Well, if it was made in Hollywood the plot'd probably be the story of the plucky American hill-fort of "Dunce-hellm", where the good ol', all-American, yankee boy Dungeon Master Treguardberg leads a heroic resistance group fighting a war for truth, justice and the American way, against the evil occupying forces of the Opposition led by the callous, sneaky, slimy, brutal English warlord and aristocrat, Lord Smyth-Ponsonby-Cornwallis Fear.
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Some Americans go back in time and meet Treguard, but with one problem they don't speak Medieval English and because of their strange clothes are suspected of being witches or something and burnt.
I always hate those movies where Americans meet King Arthur.
They always refered to England, but there was no England then so Arthur would've spoken a mixture of old British and Latin.
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When I refered to Medieval English I meant in treguard's time not Arthur's.
The language which is often refered to as Old British is very similar to Welsh and you would not have got Gaelic in Souther Britain because Gaelic is Irish. Arthur could ahve spoken Cornish.
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No, it isn't called "Scotch", it's called "Scots" or "Scottish". Scotch is a drink.
The Scots did not "come from" Ireland... the Scoti came from Ireland. The race we call the Scots are a fusion of Scoti settlers, Britons from Strathclyde, and the native Picts. And they were not the Dalriata, they were the Dalriadha Gaels.
Yes, Gaelic was more likely to be a northern dialect, but so what? You're making the classic error of assuming that Arthur was from the south, when in truth we have little idea what part of Britain he would have lived in. The stereotype is that he was Cornish, but there's no real evidence that he was (in fact, there's no direct evidence that he ever existed at all). He might very conceivably have been found in what is now south Scotland, near the forest of Caledon or the city of Roxburgh for instance.
With respect, Pendragon, I suggest that YOU read up on these things, as I have a strong suspicion from the errors in your information that I know them better than you do.
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Arthur could have come from anywhere in Brtian, Wales, Scotland or Cornwall they all have their legends. I was being a bit stereotypical in assuming he came from the South, I'll admit. I've never been that into Celtic history I prefer Germanic. Just because I overlooked a few things on socmething I not that into does not make me a bad scholar OK.
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I suppose Treguard and gang could come to the present day, in either England or America. Lord Fear tries to take over the world with Techn-magic or something.
They did a similar thing in the return of Merlin with Rick Mayle, personally I think it was awful and not just because they could all understand one another.
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The Terguard and Dungeon characters speak Medieval English, but the spell makes use hear is modern English and converts modern English back into Medieval so the characters can understand.
Actually I've read Chaucer and that's not too difficult, but Treguard's English would've been older and probably had a bit of old Norse in it.
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