[muawiyah]

At the same time the guy has a name that is structured according to the forms of a long dead Celtic language ~ it's the one that used the prefix "BO" instead of "MAC", "MC" or "O".

Boadica also had such a surname. Translated in that long dead language her name means Queen Arthur!. This goes a long way toward explaining why (s)he didn't get so upset over a noble knight tending to the wife's needs.

This flips right off the planet into a recent story that in the early Middle Ages (a Dark Age thing) it was common throughout Europe for same-sex marriage to be recognized.

It's noteworthy that the writer has Merlin being born the year the world ended ~ 541 AD.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

in the early Middle Ages . . . it was common throughout Europe for same-sex marriage to be recognized.

Gay BS!! In Christian Europe it was a capital crime!

[blam]

"It's noteworthy that the writer has Merlin being born the year the world ended ~ 541 AD."

A lot of mysteries from this period.

[reformed_democrat]

It's noteworthy that the writer has Merlin being born the year the world ended ~ 541 AD.

Please elaborate. I love reading history with drama, and I've learned more from the FR threads (yours, blam's, SunkenCiv's) than I ever did in college.

So was 541 the year the Dark Ages began?