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The Germans liked to call all kinds of enemies that beat them devils one unit in the army and an entire branch of the U.S. military the U.S. Marines were Teufel Hunden “Devil Dogs”
Nazis used Meth, insurgents in Fallujah used amphetamines and cocaine. Roman soldiers got shit faced drunk, Japanese used Meth Americans used Copenhagen & rip-its 😂
Oof! Just listening to these stories, the story of those poor pawns, Jane and Gilford; all I wanna do is go and rewatch Game of Thrones. What seriously sick and twisted "grown-ups" ruled the past. 😓
The ring (31:22) was found at a nunnery at Berkley Castle in Gloustershire which was the captial of Mercia. Lesley Webster (from the British Museum) said the ring (with wolf heads) is from around 825. Around that time, the king of that area would be King Aethelwulf of Wessex. Æthelwulf (Old English: [ˈæðelwuɫf]; Old English for "Noble Wolf") was King of Wessex from 839 to 858. In 825, his father, King Ecgberht, defeated King Beornwulf of Mercia, ending a long Mercian dominance over Anglo-Saxon England south of the Humber. The ring (with wolf heads) must be for that "noble Wolf"; the king of Wessex !!
It's very disappointing that this is titled "The Terrifying Reality Of Medieval Life During The Norman Invasion" and all it does is recount the battle movements of the feudal oligarchs fighting each other over power. Not one mention about the "reality of medieval" life for the people that actually had to endure these times. This is typical of European history, which centers the ruling classes at every opportunity. I had hoped this would be different.
If you was so strong army, why you had a big loose when you attacked Norway. Why they did? Nobody know today. But they was killed in a valley by a farmers (soldiers