Board Thread:What If?/@comment-5674726-20130929195047/@comment-5367080-20131009165814

Actually you had to remember the time this is, there's the threat of bandits, bad crops, wolves there was a great load of threats and that's for the women, for the men they simply couldn't risk leaving the farm, because if they didn't make it back, then that puts the whole family at risk!

Also, they didn't actually know Hunith was dead for sure, maybe she just decided to stay in Camelot with her son? Either way, the point I'm making is that it is unlikely that any of this small village who had already suffered hardships, would risk leaving the village, making their way to Camelot defencelessly in order to tell Merlin (who was only partly responsible for saving Ealdor) that his mother might be dead.