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Notre-Dame may have been founded by a Bishop from Syria, Eusebius.

Beowulf may have been inspired by the plague, but the poem is notoriously hard to date, so that might be true or not.

I like the King, he's a funny fellow.

One thing that irks me is that the setting boils down to "dark middle ages".

The Hittites were virtually undefeatable in an open battle, but could be bested by ambushes or in sieges. In a siege, they always gave the option of voluntary surrender, and would loot and pillage if that offer was rejected and the siege succeeded, which strikes me as surprisingly "modern".