[muawiyah]

Most of the Roman soldiers posted in Brittain came from North of the Black Sea. They'd never seen Rome. I believe they call them the Ossetians ~ from the vicinity of modern Ossetia. Just guessing but the Romans may have preferred sending them to Brittain because they spoke a language cognate to Gaelic.

Among other things these guys had a tradition of a king with a round circle and an unfaithful queen.

[Conservative4Ever]

I gotta look through my bookcase at home, cause I think I have a book on this subject. It talks about the furthest outposts absorbed into the local society. You could very well be right regarding the Ossetians. The book has to do with Hadrian's Wall...the quest begins. :)

[DGray]

Just guessing but the Romans may have preferred sending them to Brittain because they spoke a language cognate to Gaelic.

Just FYI, the Britons didn't speak Gaelic or any Godelic language - that was the branch of the Celtic language family tree spoken in Ireland and the Isle of Man (and later on, highland Scotland.) The Britons' branch of Celtic was called Brythonic, and today includes what we know as Welsh, Cornish and Breton.