Saracens

The Saracens were a people from the Middle East who sometimes acted as pirates.
The Saracen was the last of the Six Guardians of the Grail, waiting at the Temple of Aphrodite.
During the Crusades, the Saracens possessed Jerusalem. They hurled from their slings torches and flaming brands soaked in oil and fat against their siegers. When the walls were breached, Franks and others poured in and pursued the Saracens so that the enemy were driven to take refuge inside the holy places, such as the Temple of Solomon; there, 10,000 Saracens were decapitated. 
==Behind the scenes==
If Arthur takes the ship for Thessalonica, a corsair filled with Saracen pirates overtakes the ship outside Athens.
==External links==
*Saracens at the Morte D'Arthur wiki
category:peoples