Dear Mr Cornwell,
I am currently reading Warlord chronicles (for the third time), and there are some very interesting things that didn’t seem to bother me the first time. I’ve noticed that armies of Dumnonia and other kingdoms of Sub-Roman Britain are surprisingly small, only few hundreds of men; only when they join forces we can speak of thousand or more warriors. Even if we accept the theory that the population of Sub-Roman Britain decreased dramatically after the collapse of Roman system on the island, it was still populated by more than a million people, at least. And this is all happening before The Plague of Iustinian which reduced European population so much. Oh, and Saxon armies are quite small, too. I would expect that warlords like Aella and Serdic would lead massive hordes of invaders/settlers. Can you shed some light on the subject, please? Many thanks.
Miroslav Subašić