Anybody else see "The Eagle" yet? The battle sequence early in the movie was utterly ridiculous. The rest of the movie wasn't too bad. They seemed to model the Picts, or whatever the "Seal People" were supposed to be, a little too much like American Indians...and I doubt that any people, no matter how tough and hardy would want to run around the far north of Scotland half-naked for very long.
I can remember some of my friends at Oxford telling me that the same novel (published in 1954) that was the basis for the new movie was also the basis for a radio serial in Britain in the 1950s. It had a distinctive theme song.
Interesting, more recent scholarship seems to call in question that Legio IX Hispana (which definitely did disappear) was wiped out in Britain. It seems more likely that they may have been massacred by the Jews.
I can remember some of my friends at Oxford telling me that the same novel (published in 1954) that was the basis for the new movie was also the basis for a radio serial in Britain in the 1950s. It had a distinctive theme song.
Interesting, more recent scholarship seems to call in question that Legio IX Hispana (which definitely did disappear) was wiped out in Britain. It seems more likely that they may have been massacred by the Jews.
