The Alanian origin of the Legends of King Arthur and his Knights Table
from the Narts saga
In the year 175 AD a treaty was concluded between the Roman emperor and the Sarmatians. One of the stipulations was that the Sarmatians would provide Rome with a cavalry of 8,000 men.
5,500 of them formed the sixth legion Victrix, that was sent to Britain. They are placed at the northern border of the Roman Empire near on Hadrian's Wall, the barrier against the Picts and Saxons. Later they were largely withdrawn from Britain.
One company, the Ala prima Sarmatorum stayed permanently in England and during a long time a great Sarmatian colony of soldiers existed inBremetenacum Veteranorum, at currentRibchester in Lancashire where veterans were given land and settled with their wives and children in the 4th century. In this region are Sarmatian tombstones preserved. (11a)
Besides these archaeological remains are to date still present their myths and legends. the same as those that survived at other descendants of the Sarmatians in other counties of Europe as in northern France and in North Ossetia-Alania, where live the descendants of the East Alans. In this remote country survived the story Cycle of the Narts.
The hero in the Ossetian tale Batraz lives on in the British King Arthur. The legends surrounding Arthur and his knights are interlard with the myths of the Nart cyclus.
In old English chronicles Arthur is named a Celtic-Roman army chief. It is assumed that he could be the Sarmatian praefect Lucius Artorius Castus.
The legendary King Arthur is mentioned by name for the first time as Gwawrddur in the heroic poemGododdin, a South Scottish clan that was defeated by the Saxons in 600 in the battle of Catreath, just north of the Hadrian wall.
There are multiple versions handed down of the legends surrounding King Arthur and his Knights Table. They date all from the later Middle Ages and all show very much agreements with the Alanian Nart saga.
These to the British soil brought stories about the Caucasian hero Batraz lived also in Brittany and Normandy and the Loire valley, where descendants of the Alans lived. Here Lancelot takes partly the place of Arthur.
In the Nart saga is spoke of a large magical scale the Nartyamonga that appears on their banquets and always fills itself again after emptying. Only the most impeccable heroes are allowed to drink out it. In the Arthurian legends, this is the Grail, from which only the noblest knights may drink. According to ancient texts, he was brought from Rome to Britain by a certain Alan. The grail gets from the 12th century Christian Association.
Arthur wore as king the magic sword Excalibur. It is clear that this means that this sword was forged by a Kalyber a member of the Kalybers the Sarmatian tribe of the that lived in the Western Caucasus and was the most famous in the forging of weapons.
In the Nart saga it was a use that at the death of a prince his sword was thrown into the water. Both Arthur as the Nart prince Batraz had to repeat tree times their request before it was implemented.
The names Goar and Alain
Goar is a famous Alan king name. King Goar and his followers went in Roman service in 407 AD.
In 411 king Goar and the Burgundian king Gundahar, proclaim at Mundiacum in Germania Secunda the Roman aristocrat and general Iovinus in 411 as emperor.
In 442 a king Goar is requested by the Roman commander in Gaul Fl. Aetius to come to Orleans and hold under control rebellious natives. Goar and his people settled after that in this region at the Loire and have their capital in Orleans.
Another Goar was in the year 627 in Aquitaine Count of Albi and succeeded in 630 as bishop of Metz St. Arnulphus, the oldest known forebear of the Karolingians. This could be an indication of a family relation.
An example of the assimilation of the Alans may be the appearance and later the popularity in Europe of the first name Alain.
In Pakistan there is a city Goar, a family name Goar and even a bean named Goar. It is interesting to find that relationship.
Sarmatians are disappeared as a people and are merged in the European population. However, a group of them, the eastern Alans preserved their identity till today. These are the current inhabitants of North Ossetia-Alania. They came from the lower reaches of the Don and settled in the Caucasus at the time of the Great Migrations in the begin of our era.
The nobility of the Sarmatians formed the live guards of the emperors in the fourth and fifth century as Constantinus and Constant, who no longer resided in Rome but in the big new towns in the Northern and Eastern parts of the Empire. We have to look after the genetic traces of progeny of the Sarmatian nobility around that places.
Sarmatian cavalarists served in the Roman legions. Veterans settled in Italy, Gallia and on the Northern borders of the Empire in England, Belgiun, Germany, Austria. Perhaps there their DNA will be found there in the population or in archaeological remains
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