Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-85.130.101.225-20130816112245/@comment-7472785-20130913130549

BenRG wrote: MakiKuronami wrote: ^One issue with that. Excalibur is an english (as in England) sword. Actually, Excalibur is a British sword; there is a difference and an important one. Arthur led the British in a war against the invading English (or Saxons, as they were then known). The actual name 'Excalibur' is actually from a French retelling of the Arthurian legend. Actual actually the denomination of British is as inappropriate, because it is even more modern than English. It is true that the 'original' language of 'la morte d'Arthure' was Norman- French.

'Excalibur' though is closer to Latin than anything else, that being no surprise when considering that the historic background was not long after the end of the Roman occupation of what we NOW call England on the island of Great-Britain, but was Mercia, Cumbria, Wessex and Essex (West- and East-Sax(on)) and a dozen others then.