Only last week I read about a new TV series that will begin tomorrow on History Channel, called “Barbarians rising” – it tells the story of nine “barbarian” warriors who contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire – and one of the episodes will feature Viriato, a Lusitanian warrior that we Portuguese consider to be the first of our national heroes, long before our first king Afonso Henriques, also a revered figure in our history. Both men had at least …
