[History] The book "A.D 500 a journey through the dark isles of Britain and Ireland" by Simon Young is a book I must recommend if you enjoy Roman Britain and the sub-Roman period. It covers all of what is now England, Ireland, and Scotland. It's a nice easy read, not big time academia, but at the same time gives you great little nuggets of knowledge...
on each page. I studied it years ago and I'm still using information for this third iteration of Never a Legend. The work has a really interesting approach I've never seen before, and since. It is inspired by the works of traveling writers in history, such as Herodotus and later Ibn al Battuta. However the account prose that make up the book are created...
by the author! It's a fictional primary source travel log! In the introduction Young describes it as historical beads strung on a fictional string. It's an unusual approach, but I love the results 
. Being set in the year 500 ce. it's a bit after when I set Never a Legend, but for this period and location in history this happen all the time...
. Being set in the year 500 ce. it's a bit after when I set Never a Legend, but for this period and location in history this happen all the time...
Never a Legend is set approximately between 435- 460 it's still not entirely nailed down, but the sources I find are often earlier or after and I try my damned-est to extrapolate to the most accurate spot in the middle. 
;; It's a challenge, but it's also a labor of love. Simon Young is a great read and he's written for the magazine Fortean Times.
;; It's a challenge, but it's also a labor of love. Simon Young is a great read and he's written for the magazine Fortean Times.
