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Making shit up out of thin air isn't as difficult as you suggest. For centuries English kings thought they were the descendants of King Arthur because of what a
by bjourne 3y ago
Making shit up out of thin air isn't as difficult as you suggest. For centuries English kings thought they were the descendants of King Arthur because of what a cleric wrote in the early 12th century. The Swedish 16th century king Erik XIV proclaimed himself the 14:th (hence the suffix XIV) king of Sweden due to the largely fictitious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_de_omnibus_Gothorum_Sueonumque_regibus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_de_omnibus_Gothorum_S... Over 2000 years earlier it must of course have been even easier making facts out of fiction.
- Amezarak 3y ago> For centuries English kings thought they were the descendants of King Arthur because of what a cleric wrote in the early 12th century. Stories of Arthur uncontroversially predate the 12th century, and it is an open debate as to whether Arthur was based on a historical figure or not. (I vote yes.) Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. > he Swedish 16th century king Erik XIV proclaimed himself the 14:th (hence the suffix XIV) king of Sweden Some kings assuming a different regnal number on the basis of a semimythical history is not the same as convincing an entire population to change their origin myths.