The ancient history of the Slavs remains an unsolvable mystery. It is no longer a secret for anyone that the memory of the people has been destroyed over the centuries, but in our time even Western historians recognize the greatness and power of the Slavs. Let's take a look at a study by British historian Howard Read.
But first, pay attention to the drawing. In the image we see a cross from the tomb, considered today as the tomb of King Arthur. The inscription on it is of incredible interest.
If you read it written in Latin: "Here rests …". But at the same time, you can see that the inscription begins with the ancient Greek word NICIA, that is, NIKA, which is translated from Greek as WINNER.
It is extremely curious to see how the name of King Arthur is represented on the inscription. We see that it is written like this: REX ARTU RIUS. Now we translate. REX - KING, ARTU - HORDE, RIUS - RUSSIAN. Thus, it turns out the KING OF THE RUSSIAN HORDE. Note that the words are separated from each other. Most likely from the XVIII century they began to read ARTURIUS together, thereby masking the Slavic origin of the words.
The renowned British historian Howard Reid made an incredible claim. The legendary king Arthur, who is the standard of chivalry, was a Slavic prince. And he arrived in England with his "horde" in agreement with the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius.
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During lengthy research in Great Britain, France and Russia, Reed came to the conclusion that King Arthur was one of the representatives of the tribes living in the Sarmatian steppes of southern Russia. Famous for their tall and blond horsemen, these tribes went to the Danube at the beginning of the second century and met the Roman legionaries. In the course of long negotiations, Rome managed to find a common language with them and the core of the "barbarian" army was taken into the imperial service about 6 thousand Slavic soldiers.
In 2000, Scott Littleton and Linda Melko's book From Scythia to Camelot: A Thorough Revision of the Legends of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table and the Holy Grail, was published in New York and London. The book caused a real sensation. The authors investigated the parallels between the legendary epics of the ancient British and the Narts, which researchers trace back to the ancient inhabitants of the Black Sea steppes: Scythians, Sarmatians and Alans, and convincingly proved the Scythian-Sarmatian basis of most of the main elements of the Arthurian cycle.
For example, one of the key elements of Arturiana is the cult of the sword: Arthur removes it from the stone, and therefore is recognized as the rightful king of Britain; the sword is given to him by the Lady of the lake and then again receives it back, etc.
It is known that the Alans worshiped the god of war in the form of a sword set in the ground, and the sword of Batraz, the protagonist of the Nart epic, after death is thrown into the sea, and it is picked up by a hand emerging from the waves. The image of King Arthur is associated with the symbol of the dragon. It was dragons that were used on the standards of the warlike Sarmatians and Alans as a tribal symbol.
Reed drew attention to the objects with images of dragons stored in the St. Petersburg Hermitage; these items were found in the graves of nomadic warriors in Siberia and date back to 500 BC. Dragons similar to the Sarmatian ones are noted in an illustrated Irish manuscript written around 800. By the way, the British cavalry is still called dragoons.
It is known that neither the Celts nor the Britons had professional cavalry, but the Sarmatians did. Back in the 1st century AD, Plutarch colorfully described the heavily armed cavalry, the so-called cataphracts, which formed the core of the Sarmatian horsemen: "… themselves in helmets and armor made of Marcanian, dazzlingly sparkling steel, their horses in copper and iron armor."
The Byzantine Encyclopedic Dictionary of the 10th century described the combat power of the Cataphracts in great detail. Neither the Romans nor the autochthonous tribes of foggy Albion had anything like this in the 5th, 6th or even 7th centuries of our era. Cataphracts were not known in Europe until the arrival of the eastern "barbarians" there, which means another shock for fans of chivalric novels - the origins of medieval European knighthood should be sought in the east, in the steppes of the Northern Black Sea region.
French historian Bernard Bakhrach wrote the book "The History of Alan in the West", in which he argued that the emergence of medieval knighthood the West owes, first of all, to the Scythian-Sarmatians, whose role in the conquest of Europe in the "dark" ages is ignored by modern scientists, despite the fact that they lived for a long time in the territory of modern France, invaded Italy, entered Spain with the vandals and conquered Africa.
On the basis of the above arguments of serious European scientists, an unambiguous conclusion can be made, which these scientists themselves were ashamed to draw, due to the political engagement of historical science. This conclusion sounds very simple: the famous English king Arthur was a Slav - a Sarmatian warrior, and all of Europe in ancient times spoke Russian and was inhabited by Slavs who came there from southern Siberia after the onset of a cold snap.
These are the versions of the greatness and power of the Slavs. What do you think, could the Slavs play a decisive role in the formation of European states? Leave your opinion in the comments.