That’s what he told everyone, but in reality he was just desperately trying to stem the tide of defecting legionaries after they got a taste for our phenomenal… uhh… oatcakes, maybe?
“The Caledonii fry a bar of the god of war Himself in animal fat, and then EAT it?! They are truly a powerful people! We must make pilgrimage there and taste of this divinity!”
Is this the same Hadrian who built a wall to keep people from going to Scotland?
The very same! Though it was the other way around - he wanted to keep the proto-Scots out.
That’s what he told everyone, but in reality he was just desperately trying to stem the tide of defecting legionaries after they got a taste for our phenomenal… uhh… oatcakes, maybe?
“The Caledonii fry a bar of the god of war Himself in animal fat, and then EAT it?! They are truly a powerful people! We must make pilgrimage there and taste of this divinity!”
It was to keep the twinks in
Ah yes, Londinium was full of twinks.