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Re: Cedric was: 2000 catalog page 16
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Tue, 7 Mar 2000 23:24:28 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Shiri Dori writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Nathan McDowell writes:
> > According to the LEGO Castle page's shockwave movie thing-a-ma-jig, the Bull
> > Leader's name is Cedric.
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> Cedric? Now where is that name familiar from...
> Ah, I know... this book called "Time Cat" mentions a Cerdic Longtooth, leader
> of the Britons around 55 BC...the book is fiction but has lots of RL
> references, like Leonardo Da-Vinci. I wonder if there's any connection, or did
> TLC just randomly name the guy?
Cedric is a trusty old Anglo-Saxon name but it sounds fictional in 55 BC. Maybe
this Cedric was time traveling?
55 BC was when Caesar was in Britannia concluding his miserable expedition.
The relevant books are available in Penguin editions (Penguins rock!) The
Romans made ghastly Latin versions of the Briton's names, like "Cassivelaunus"
and "Mandubracius", "Allobroges" and "Trinobantes" and "Atrebates". Caesar left
with his army in 54 BC, undefeated, but they had had enough, and Romans weren't
back adventuring in Britannia for 150 years.
Anyway, all of the Lego castle themes look like later time periods, and of
course they are all fictional, because that way they can have all the cool
stuff.
It's possible that I might make a reference page on the history of types of
catapults. Not to take the fun out of firing things, but, it would be for us
who are curious about making historical themes.
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| (...) Actually, it's the guy who meets him who's time-travelling. Or 'Visiting', as the cat calls it... (...) Yep, the cat and his kid travel with the Roman Legion, with the cat being a mascot or whatever... they get seperated from their group at a (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Cedric? Now where is that name familiar from... Ah, I know... this book called "Time Cat" mentions a Cerdic Longtooth, leader of the Britons around 55 BC...the book is fiction but has lots of RL references, like Leonardo Da-Vinci. I wonder if (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.castle)
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