Sunday, December 9, 2018

M.P. Speidel's THE MASTER OF THE DRAGON STANDARDS (WITH A SELECTION FROM COULSTON)


In the past I proposed that Uther's Pendragon epithet might be a late Welsh translation of the Roman rank of magister draconum. As I'm now zeroing in on the Banna/Birdoswald Roman fort of the Dacians as the probable power center of Uther, it seems worthwhile to post here a good recent article on the magister draconum.  My apologies for having to present this piece as a series of jpeg images; this was the only way I could post it on my blog site.  

Appended to this post are a couple of paragraphs from Coulston, J.C.N., 1991, The 'drago' standard, Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 2.




No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.