Talk:High King

Think a High King is an Emperor?

The only historical High Kings I can think of were those of ancient Ireland and Britain. Those were more like the rotating presidency of the G-8, or something like that. Well okay, it was almost nothing like that, but it's about the closest modern analog I can think of.

When the Saxons displaced the Britons, they called their equivalents of the High Kings Bretwalda. That wasn't their word for Emperor, I don't believe--They had only a shadowy concept of what an Emperor was at all, but I believe Kaiser had already entered the lexicons of the Germanic languages, with its current meaning, or as close to that meaning as the political realities of the time allowed. Turtle Fan 03:19, October 24, 2010 (UTC)