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The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England
- ZeroGravitas 9y agoThe name "Chevy Chase" (both the adopted name of the actor-comedian and the location in Maryland) traces its history back to this place and era via the poem The Ballad of Chevy Chase https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Chevy_Chase https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Chevy_Chase
- dghf 9y agoI'm assuming that the Artorius in question is Lucius Artorius Castus [0], who was prefect (third-in-command) of the Legio VI Victrix, based in York for most of the second and some of the third centuries. He was first proposed as a prototype for Arthur in the 1920s, and more recently was the basis for the character in Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur (the one starring Clive Owen), though that shifted him forward a few centuries. I'm not sure where this is coming from: > who led resistance to a powerful Scottish invasion around 180 AD First, Castus's dates are unclear: best guess seems to be late 2nd or early 3rd century, but no more precise than that. Second, a "Scottish" invasion? I'm guessing this is journalese for "Pictish", but I suppose there could have been an incursion by Scotti (from Ireland, at that time) that got as far inland as York. My Googling skills aren't good enough to find the relevant reference in Dio. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Artorius_Castus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Artorius_Castus
- pjc50 9y agoAh, the borders. Still a strangely empty area between the Newcastle-Carlisle axis and the Edinburgh-Glasgow axis. The last vestige of the wildness may be the traditional 'ridings', which these days are just an annual pretext to dress smartly and go on an equestrian excursion: http://returntotheridings.co.uk/ http://returntotheridings.co.uk/
- dghf 9y agoYes, much of the A74(M)/M74 corridor looks and feels more like the Highlands than the Lowlands.