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I do know this much, though -- it was pure Hollywood Anti-Calvinism for the Screenwriter to pretend that General Arturias was a follower of the Free-Will-ArchHeretic Pelagius, when in fact the Augustine-Pelagius Free Will-Predestination controversy had already been settled, in Augustine's favor, at least eighty years before the Action of the Story; and what is more, the fact is that Pelagius was hardly beloved in Roman Britain; all accounts indicate that he fled to Rome to find a greater audience for his Free-Will Theories, BECAUSE the Roman Christians of Britain were so resolutely committed to Absolute Predestination that they did not WANT a Heretic preaching "Free Will" in their domain.

(Basically, they transferred their allegiance from Odin to Yahweh, but retained their belief in Absolute Predestination:

Amen, OP! Great and accurate history lesson. The story of King Arthur is completely predestinarian, whether idiot Hollywood gets it or not. Arthur was destined to be king; he didn't will it so.

(Still, I did enjoy "Excaliber.")

"The All-Father wove the skein of your life a long time ago.
Go and hide in a hole if you wish... but you won't live one instant longer.
Your Fate is fixed. Fear profits a man... nothing." ~~ Herger the Joyous, The Thirteenth Warrior)

Now THAT was a GREAT MOVIE! Michael Crichton at his best.

Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: "Have we anything resembling a plan?"
Herger the Joyous: "Mm-hm. Ride till we find them... and kill them all!"

An Ann Coulter-prequel. 8~)