Quote Originally Posted by Barbarossa82
Didz, you're right that Boudicca was her "real name", if by "real name" you mean that which she used herself. However, "Boadicea" is not a "spelling mistake" as you attest, but a latinisation, much like "Arminius", "Carthago", "Gallia", "Caractacus", or any number of other names.
In that case I shall use her real name rather than that used by her enemies.

Quote Originally Posted by Barbarossa82
As for the foreignness point, Boadicea was a British, Celtic queen. Since my ancestry is predominantly saxon English with only minority Celtic influences, this does make her foreign from my perspective,
My ancestry is Angle, my forebears being invited over to Britain long after Boudicca was dead.

So, from my point of view she was a foriegn queen, if not actually an enemy one. Even so, I shall give her the respect of using her real name rather than that used by her enemies.

Quote Originally Posted by Barbarossa82
The English and most of the Scots are ethnically Germanic and Scandinavian are not ethnically British, merely politically so.
I beleive mine came from Friesia in northern germany and according to Melvin Bragg our main contirbution to Britain is its language, which had it not been for us would probably have been more like Welsh or Gallic.