Without Star Trek’s Universal Translator or a Babelfish to pop in your ear, navigating 4th century Britain would have presented many challenges in understanding the languages and cultures.
The book seeks to make the meaning of the many and various terms used by the characters understandable from the context. But to help clarify meanings and explain the reasoning behind the coining of many of the terms, the following might be of interest.
| Aramaic | Semitic, Eastern Mediterranean |
| Classical Allegoric | Tamarian-style metaphoric language |
| Prytanic | 4th Century British Insular Celtic |
| Latin | Late Classical |
| Saxon | 4th Century Continental Old Germanic |
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