The importance of river crossings in the olden days

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Fords, bridges, and ferries were major navigation marks in the minds of medieval folk. I talk about this, when I'm not digressing about Henry VIII.
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@VladBokachev 3 года назад

Lindybeige: let's talk about bridges. 10 minutes later: And that's why James IV went to hell

@johnlittle8975 3 года назад

Guess he should have built a bridge instead.

@JarthenGreenmeadow 3 года назад

The first guy to put an actual chapel on his bridge musta been so smug.

@rafaelbalsan4512 3 года назад

@@JarthenGreenmeadow ez prayer farming strat

@superqwat8618 3 года назад

I love it that this has 666 likes :D

@theme7363 2 года назад

and i wouldn’t want it any other way

@fishskin1185 3 года назад

I'd like to imagine he's doing this in a public library.

@QALibrary 3 года назад

he moved house and he just managed to get a new ISP because the first one screwed up big time - he did a post about the sound and background - but he has a room just for video work now

@urbantuckerman 3 года назад

echo suggests so

@frankbarnwell____ 3 года назад

@m_ the_Happy_Doc well. nice

@RayPerkins01 3 года назад

Sounds like he recorded it in a public toilet.

@binkbonkbones3402 3 года назад

He sleeps in a hidden cubby in a library, and eats mice and cups of coffee people leave unattended.

@aarontkachuk 3 года назад

Lindybeige has mastered the art of making all of his videos look like they’re filmed in 1997.

@bigtoethementalist5037 3 года назад

He should do them in black & white. And put the Open University Symbol on screen. Lol 😂

@josephteller9715 3 года назад

@@bigtoethementalist5037 he needs a sweater with leather patches on the elbows.... and a pipe to gesture with for emphasis.

@MardiKivMusic 3 года назад

@@bigtoethementalist5037 also he should throw in a few spice girls and blur references

@eepsmakelijk 3 года назад

And sound like he's in the bathroom

@jackthurgood9614 3 года назад

Maybe he is?!?!?!?

@maxs3812 3 года назад

"Honey, come on it's dinner time" "I can't, that weird englishman has gone off again ranting about bridges and the french or something."

@micahphilson 2 года назад

"I said now!" "But James IV is just about to go to hell!"

@ShadowDragon8685 3 года назад

The biggest understatement ever: "The Earth's crust can support a lot of weight."

@TheDennys21 3 года назад

Ofc it can support the weight because it is the weight!

@tyree9055 3 года назад

😄😆🤣😂😅

@alexmijo 3 года назад

it does sink down a very noticeable amount if you leave something heavy on it for a while, like ice sheets

@pissiole5654 3 года назад

My grandmother always used to say this when I was a kid, I never used to understand why. Frankly I'm still not sure but she had her demons just like the rest of us.

@pacificostudios 3 года назад

That fact doesn't come in handy when the top of the earth's crust is, e.g.,. water-saturated clay.

@vulture4117 3 года назад

"He's doing God's work, fighting the French."

@GuitarsRockForever 3 года назад

Then French was doing god's work when fighting Brit.

@kint87 3 года назад

Love from France 😊

@michaelmcneil4168 3 года назад

You nearly decorated my keyboard.

@davidbrennan660 3 года назад

Like Klingons, the act of fighting each other in bloody battle is really more important than who and what it was all about.

@hrotha 3 года назад

This would be the War of the League of Cambrai, where everybody switched sides so much they were completely reversed a few times. It was hilarious

@PoLaNd4life96 3 года назад

I learned that as a 9 year old, defending one bridge crossing for 10 years stopping French onslaught while playing Medieval 2 Total War

@CanadisX 3 года назад

I stopped the golden hord for years with an extremly thin force on bridges in the east. I just conquered russia and had veeeeery long supply lines from Western europe, when those guys came riding in. Did the Same with like 10 full stake egyptian armies later in the same game. Until today still my most intense and glorious total war game^^ Edit: Was in medieval 1 though

@JanTuts 3 года назад

You must have been so relieved when it was finally over, at the age of 19. 😉

@89Keith 3 года назад

[Feels sad that campaign terrain doesnt effect battlefield terrain in modern total war battles]

@PoLaNd4life96 3 года назад

@@89Keith dont consoom new products, I still only play older games because I find them vastly superior to modern games

@PoLaNd4life96 3 года назад

@@JanTuts haha

@crazypomp927 3 года назад

That Henry VIII tangent followed by, "But I can bring it back! I can bring it back!" is one of Lindybeige's finest moments.

@doctorlolchicken7478 3 года назад

In LotR, the books, Tolkien has his characters talk a lot about rivers and river crossings. Not so much roads. I think Tolkien was aware of the relative importance of rivers.

@johan.ohgren 3 года назад

Being a war veteran I suppose he had some real world experience on the matter.

@seanbeadles7421 3 года назад

@@johan.ohgren in WWI. He probably just sat in the same trench the whole war lolol

@andrewbroeker9819 3 года назад

Also, Frodo didn't know much about river crossings because he'd never done an honest day's work in his life.

@KeluskTV 3 года назад

@@andrewbroeker9819 Frodo would've known about that Ferry since he grew up in Brandy Hall on the far side of the river before he moved in with his uncle Bilbo. Also he made excursions across the river to steal Mushrooms from Farmer Maggot's land, so defo would've used that crossing.

@andrewbroeker9819 3 года назад

@@KeluskTV Maybe, but they also might only have been talking about crossings usable by ponies and horses.

@thedeadcannotdie 3 года назад

James IV: declares war despite having marriage alliance *James IV gained 50 infamy* *James IV got excommunicated*

@imperialtutor8687 3 года назад

Vassal opinion -20 for offensive war.

@csmlyly5736 2 года назад

Just slap up a stone bridge so your peasants pray for your soul. Jesus loves stone bridges.

@TheBananenbeer 3 года назад

lindy pls more infrastructural topics in the medieval age i love this stuff

@davidrafferty2491 3 года назад

I concur! If he did a segment on the Venetian arsenal and the logistics of Venetian trade i would be thrilled.

@user-ih3jl9um6e 3 года назад

@@davidrafferty2491 yessss, that would be amazing!

@mark8200 3 года назад

Next, airports of the middle ages.

@a.d.9415 3 года назад

Absolutely this! As much as I love the stories and tales, and I do, the details of life in the past are my favourite videos.

@AndyJarman 3 года назад

Vitruvius and the uniformity of Norman fortifications would make a good subject.

@soupordave 3 года назад

James IV and his soldiers probably thought they were all right in the eyes of God because he was excommunicated by an English Cardinal, not the Pope. So the army was likely to accept that this was not legitimate and just a ploy by one of the King of England's stooges. It also should be pointed out that there was a lot of religious turmoil during this period. The papacy lost a lot of prestige and legitimacy during the Avignon Captivity (three simultaneous Popes will do that) and the Reformation was just starting out. Many people were of the opinion that the Pope should stay out of secular politics and remain strictly a spiritual leader.

@wolliveryoutube 3 года назад

A great point. Likewise, among the English, many felt that Latin Catholicism was forced upon them ever since the Norman Conquest. William, after all, got the Pope to bless his invasion, and once he was done, he sacked all the English bishops and replaced them with continental Latin ones. Basically, between England and Scotland and Ireland, the British Isles were, throughout the Middle Ages, more on the fringes of Roman Catholicism. The isles had a rich Christian tradition, but it was more rooted in local liturgics and church government.

@sylvainrobert5156 3 года назад

Aha! My senses were telling me there was a fallacy in Lindy's telling of James IV's excommunication.

@boku5192 3 года назад

@David Transou exactly what i thought

@AlexanderRM1000 3 года назад

"The Papacy lost a lot of legitimacy" is sort of just a way of saying "these people didn't really believe the Pope was God's vicar on earth", which was the point Lindy was making. Likewise English cardinals are appointed by the Pope and while I'm not an expert on excommunication and Wikipedia's only got a few lines on this particular one it sounds like he was acting on the Pope's behalf, meaning on God's behalf if you're a Catholic.

@Bane_questionmark 3 года назад

@@AlexanderRM1000 "which was the point lindy was making" No, he clearly said this indicated to him that people must not have really believed in God, heaven, and hell. 13:26

@CarthagoMike 3 года назад

As yes, river crossings. Almost as important as rivers themselves.

@3John-Bishop 3 года назад

To get to the other side..theres a joke in there somewhere.

@ArcticTemper 3 года назад

No, no, they're far more important. We could do without the rivers but damned if we'll give up the crossings.

@moosemaimer 3 года назад

I'm building a fantastic bridge in my basement.

@drewinsur7321 3 года назад

@@3John-Bishop why the chicken crossed the river? to declare a civil war (or buy weed idk)

@nevenpavlovic4448 3 года назад

Anyone knows what's the highest practical depth where simple stone/rock crossing could be made?

@susideguy 3 года назад

I love these long tangent riddled lectures, each tangent is a wonderful example of Lindy being so in love with history/storytelling and having such encyclopedic knowledge he just HAS to talk avout X thing thats related to the current subject. It's what makes these videos some of the best educational content. Lindy is just an inspired, loving, passionate teacher gushing about interesting things.

@dungeonsanddobbers2683 3 года назад

Person 1: "Where's the nearest river crossing?" Person 2: "How strong a swimmer are you?"

@MrHack4never 3 года назад

Swimming was an uncommon skill back then

@krispalermo8133 3 года назад

@@MrHack4never can't trust crossing open ice.

@Cenobyte40k 3 года назад

@@MrHack4never 'back then' is a very long time. Swimming is very common in many cultures even for the poor. Roman's would pretty much all know how to swim at least moderately. Swimming was a common sport for boys in Rome.

@SxSxG666 3 года назад

It is a lot harder and dangerous to cross a river by swimming then you might think. I know people died trying. Currents often don't look any imptessive but in fact they are very powerful and much stronger then even a trained and fit person could ever be.

@dungeonsanddobbers2683 3 года назад

@@SxSxG666 It's a joke, fella, just say "Funny, lol" and move one.

@erikvale3194 3 года назад

"Welcome to Woodbridge." "Huh. Named after the wooden bridge?" "It's stone actually." "..."

@kira_the_cat1187 3 года назад

^_^

@AlexanderRM1000 3 года назад

The stone bridge across the Wood River?

@therealunclevanya 3 года назад

@@AlexanderRM1000 amusingly, a lot of rivers in the UK are named after water. Afon, Avon, Aber is water in Ancient British/Welsh/Gaelic.

@marcelosilveira2276 3 года назад

Might be a bridge near the woods... or the old wooden bridge burned down and they built a stone one

@erikvale3194 3 года назад

@@marcelosilveira2276 T'was a joke. For all I know it was named after a wooden bridge, I just thought it'd be funny if they named it woodbridge despite being stone, and used it to confuse tourists/tax collectors.

@bohemicbohemian9190 3 года назад

Merry and Pipin are more traveled than Frodo and Sam, who actually never left the Shire. Few scenes before, just before frodo and sam run into Merry and pipin, Sam says that this furthest from the home he ever was.

@kallisto9166 3 года назад

Further, Bucklebury is in Buckland, which is Merry's home region. Merry's father is the Master of Buckland, so Merry has reason to know the area (book-Merry is more learned than film-Merry). Frodo and Sam by comparison, are from Hobbiton, which is about fifty miles away. So the exposition is quite well justified.

@JanTuts 3 года назад

To the question "Wait, did Tolkien get this wrong?", the answer is often "Nope, you're just not seeing the whole picture".

@oldoddjobs 3 года назад

Frodo spent most of his childhood in Buckland

@kallisto9166 3 года назад

@@oldoddjobs That is an excellent point. He's not been there in decades though.

@andersmusikka 3 года назад

In the book, Frodo does spend a lot of time hiking, in the years leading up to the trip to Rivendell.

@ResonantRTS 3 года назад

Hope ya like your new place. I can only imagine the knowledge on thoes shelves

@sussurus 3 года назад

might blow your mind if i told you that there are some buildings specifically built to contain orders of magnitude more books than in this video.

@Mira_linn 3 года назад

I mean you can access many times more knowledge at your fingertips anyways

@edgarbanuelos6472 3 года назад

Why does he have two copies of Lenin?

@safraeLeDragunov 3 года назад

@@edgarbanuelos6472 to share with a friend

@TheGhostOperative 3 года назад

don't be fooled. they are all dr seuss and goosebumps in different covers to impress you. but if you look closely, one of them is a lever to open the secret passage behind it. if you follow the passage, it will lead you to his actual bookshelf with all the seasons of "the office".

@StephiSensei26 3 года назад

12 minutes of tangent from the original subject matter, and he manages to Segway back to it before the commercial break. Brilliant! I had a chemistry teacher like this, he was brilliant too. This is the way to teach.

@EdwardCree 3 года назад

'segue', but who's counting?

@StephiSensei26 3 года назад

@@EdwardCree Thanks!

@OpticMoos 28 дней назад

Our Physics teacher was the same. Some people complained. I thought he was fantastic.

@wwoods66 3 года назад

Did I miss the part where he explained that the Pope is also called the _pontifex maximus_ -- the "Great Bridge-Builder"?

@synapticburn 3 года назад

Huh? It means priest-greatest (or greatest priest)

@jorislemoine1488 3 года назад

@@synapticburn Scroll down the wikipedia page to the bit about etymology. Bill Woods is mostly right.

@peepshow090 3 года назад

@@jorislemoine1488 Pontifex, (Latin: “bridge builder”, ) plural Pontifices, member of a council of priests in ancient Rome. The college, or collegium, of the pontifices was the most important Roman priesthood, being especially charged with the administration of the jus divinum

@Joel-uv5tg 3 года назад

It could be that it's referring to a metaphorical bridge between man and god like the one which connects midgard to asgard.

@bolionce 3 года назад

@@Joel-uv5tg or even more metaphorically, the bridge between the word/will of God and the people. In olden times it was regular for only clergy or the like to be able to contact or understand God (like not being allowed to read the Bible, etc). So they are the metaphorical bridge between the will of the people and the will of God. I love etymology like this

@joescarratt9389 3 года назад

“Doing God’s work, fighting the French”😂

@frankbarnwell____ 3 года назад

let the French fight themselves. drop mic

@numbers4851 3 года назад

Well they did that on many occasions

@daedraq 3 года назад

@@frankbarnwell____ to be fair the brits fought themself constantly as well.

@robertleonard1665 3 года назад

Blaming the Jews for deicide for 1,945 years was just a typo - it was actually the french

@bmyers8356 3 года назад

@@robertleonard1665 : the Roman Legions never gets enough credit from Christians for Deicide. SPQR !

@ctastrophe 3 года назад

Is the Scottish-English-French rivalry the longest running game of Rock Paper Scissors?

@lucaswatson1913 3 года назад

Idk but as a half French Englishman living in Scotland I'm very on edge

@ctastrophe 3 года назад

@@lucaswatson1913 Your internal conflict must be raging! "Do I invade my other half? If I do, will the local Scots try to invade my right arm?" 🤣

@manfredconnor3194 3 года назад

I thought it was Haggis, paper, scissors, but ok, whatever.

@Soitisisit 3 года назад

@@manfredconnor3194 Næ, but me mate's called Haggis and he weigh 20 stone.

@ljlk8583 3 года назад

"bridges were a bit holy" well I sure hope not, I wouldn't want to fall through!

@willek1335 3 года назад

*heavy sigh*

@dirtyblueshirt 3 года назад

Unholy bridges are called dams.

@ambjornborjesson5481 3 года назад

Bridgebuilder here: They are indeed Holy. You can't imagine the meticulous work of building a modern bridge. It's quite difficult.

@SilverMe2004 3 года назад

Well they are if you look at them side ways

@johnnyjohnny6174 3 года назад

@@ambjornborjesson5481 I feel like that still doesn't make them Holy.

@EmilGlockner 3 года назад

Ironically, my sister told her son the other day that he'd have 'to go to the left after the bridge', when telling him the way to his friend's house. 'What bridge?' was his reply.

@sailorgeer 3 года назад

“Henry the 8th married a lot and in those days lots of folks got excommunicated because they probably didn’t really believe in God and that, students, is why river crossings were so important.”

@OPTTWoodrow 3 года назад

Lindy during the Advert: "With gestures like that you know you are in safe hands!" Looks at advert: Screen reads *Punch to Groin*

@johnladuke6475 3 года назад

"Gestures like that speak for themselves" I didn't think that the ads for Great Courses Plus could get any better, but somehow a lack of home internet caused an improvement.

@clausroquefort9545 3 года назад

2:20 Frodo lives in the central part of the shire whereas merry and pippin are from a clan that lives right at the eastern border of the shire. it's just aksing the locals who also happen to be your relatives.

@oldoddjobs 3 года назад

Frodo is from Buckland

@clausroquefort9545 3 года назад

@@oldoddjobs sure, that's where he comes from, but he lives with Bilbo unlike his relatives, not in Buckland

@freshfresh5205 3 года назад

Add to that two of the hobbits had never left the shire

@incanusolorin2607 3 года назад

Tuckborough (where Pippin lived) was in the Westfarthing, just like Hobbiton (where Sam and Frodo lived). Merry was the only one that lived in Buckland, although in the books Pippin and Frodo also knew the region well, because they often travelled there.

@StickTheGlue 3 года назад

I feel like we've had too many Lindybeige videos in the last few weeks. Said no-one EVER

@SplendidFellow 3 года назад

21:37 "Gestures like that speak for themselves." *Punch in the Groin* 😂🤣😂🤣

@johnladuke6475 3 года назад

The new best ad on the channel.

@pierrelahaie6359 3 года назад

Lindybeige: "I want to talk about an interesting ferry, 5 minutes top." Then does a 39 minutes video about river crossing and Scotland kings going to hell. Classic Lindybeige.

@luiscarlosqg 2 года назад

😁

@ElijsDima 3 года назад

I really wish more historical things were explained by referring to the LOTR books/movies.

@ZerpaDavid 3 года назад

"He was busy doing God's work. He was in France fighting Frenchman"

@schoo9256 3 года назад

The old prejudice is alive and well lol

@James_I_Archer 3 года назад

@Frank Wharton-Hughes bababoooey

@skinnex3236 3 года назад

As a german i support this claim xd

@patrickcharette2151 3 года назад

“Fords needed to be maintained regularly” Wow so the new f-150 really isn’t all that much different now then it used to be

@williamswenson5315 3 года назад

Well, less rust with the al-u-mini-um body anyway.

@cherryzestful4854 3 года назад

Harrison Ford in a Ford crossing a ford.

@williamswenson5315 3 года назад

@@cherryzestful4854 Or failing to yield right-of-way and landing on a taxiway.

@cherryzestful4854 3 года назад

@@williamswenson5315 Yeah he's a real character, huh.

@williamswenson5315 3 года назад

@@cherryzestful4854 Zesty. I'll bet office hours with him last a while.

@niels.brouwer 3 года назад

Living in Arnhem, you definitely get a feeling for the importance of bridges.

@Dalexb 3 года назад

Groeten vanuit Plattenburg.

@schlepedits7486 3 года назад

THIS is why i sub to this channel. Not enough people think about pragmatic and common issues like this to the peoples of the past.

@chrissim4386 3 года назад

Ok, that LOTR reference immediatly got me.

@nesa1126 3 года назад

I thought he would talk about GoT

@hallod1 3 года назад

Me: why should i care about stupid river crossings? Also me: clicks superfast on video

@rdt1104 3 года назад

Walder Frey liked this

@edgarbanuelos6472 3 года назад

Lindy could make a 2 hour video about literal dung and we'd still click immediately.

@nucleargandhi2709 3 года назад

River Crossings, or On the Nature of the Godless Scots

@alexwyman8380 3 года назад

"Crazy man yells about rivers for 40 minutes"

@skylers_a_bum 3 года назад

yells about james the V and Henry the VIII for 10 of those minutes.

@LittleHotels 3 года назад

Reaction ferries: never heard of them! But the modern equivalent would be the “ferry glide”, where a boat uses just enough power to stem the tide or current, adopts a slight angle to the stream, and moves sideways. Great for getting in or out of tight alongside moorings.

@Block1618 3 года назад

It's insane how you can do a nearly 40 minute rant in a single take with no script.

@calebchristensen8207 3 года назад

I would imagine it's probably a combination of 4 things: 1) Knowing your shit, which our boy Lloyd is a shining example of 2) Not being concerned about having a flub in your video and just rolling with it as you would if you were giving a speech or having a simple conversation. This being opposed to the very common practice of editing it out, restarting your sentence, (or more commonly) picking up where you flubbed, and then adding a cut in your video 3) Similarly to 2), not being concerned about "long pauses" in your video, i.e. dramatic pauses, natural pauses, regaining thoughts or composure, or breathing. This being opposed to the same things as 2) 4) Being either a good speaker, or a very comfortable speaker, and not needing to do multiple takes in order to "get the best take".

@Ozymandias3505 3 года назад

@@calebchristensen8207 I would add a 5th point, loving your topic.

@calebchristensen8207 3 года назад

@@Ozymandias3505 Oh, definitely. I hadn't even thought of that. Not surprisingly, another thing that Lloyd is such a good example of.

@oldoddjobs 3 года назад

Is it insane though

@nicholasvandervelden450 3 года назад

@@calebchristensen8207 i think he's had some not inconsiderable training in rhetoric, too

@erdojan13 3 года назад

Love the background, hate the sound. (a bit echoisch)

@nathanlevesque7812 3 года назад

yeah it's kinda hard to hear clearly so I'm out

@comradesoupbeans4437 3 года назад

he's just moved and probably has yet to set up a decent sound space

@midshipman8654 3 года назад

It sounds like his older videos. in a way, its a bit nostalgic.

@Les537 3 года назад

Bare walls. He seems aware.

@bam538 3 года назад

He reads so many books, he had to expand his personal library into his living room!

@edgarbanuelos6472 3 года назад

Why does he have two copies of Lenin?

@cookingonthecheapcheap6921 3 года назад

What living room lol, it's easy to imagine them slowly enveloping all the walls in the house.

@cookingonthecheapcheap6921 3 года назад

@@edgarbanuelos6472 2 part book, I think lol.

@caradocapcunobelin2875 3 года назад

I think it’s a green screen. The shadows don’t look right.

@toad3222 3 года назад

@@caradocapcunobelin2875 I think he's got a few stage lights which would make weird shadows

@CMZneu 3 года назад

That was surprisingly an extremely interesting and educational video, especially the part about reaction ferries that i weirdly did not know existed.

@guineapigsith699 3 года назад

2:30 Point of order: Merry and Pippin are local to that part of the shire, Frodo is not.

@incanusolorin2607 3 года назад

Merry was. Pippin lived in Westfarthing, just like Frodo and Sam.

@guineapigsith699 3 года назад

@@incanusolorin2607 I stand corrected. Thank you. Merry Christmas, Incanus

@incanusolorin2607 3 года назад

@@guineapigsith699 Merry Christmas, mate!

@peterknutsen3070 4 месяца назад

Frodo was born in Buckland and lived there for maybe 15-20 years before Bilbo adopted him. Sam is the only hobbit who hasn't been there before.

@somtimesieat2411 3 года назад

"whereas in the wilder, rainier, hillier areas of Britain" *Looks out the window* yep that's me

@MrDmitriRavenoff 3 года назад

I thought that was all of Britain, but then again I'm American and do not understand Britain and all.

@somtimesieat2411 3 года назад

@@MrDmitriRavenoff aha yeah Britain's weather is pretty horrendous but North West got it worst lmao

@feldgraufox4927 3 года назад

The area where I live in England is all flat open fields and it only rains most of the time, not all of the time.

@lucaswatson1913 3 года назад

From Cumbria so yes for me too

@somtimesieat2411 3 года назад

@@lucaswatson1913 Cumbria gang💪💪💪

@francesbadger3401 3 года назад

13 minutes into a lecture on bridges and we're discussing (belief in) the existence of heaven and hell. I love this man!

@helmuthelmlos5067 3 года назад

"Doing gods work" -> fighting the French, something the Italiens, English and Germans can agree on

@Original-Yellow 3 года назад

@@sexyshadowcat7 😭😭 too right haha

@SirAntoniousBlock 3 года назад

Don't encourage the brexitards.

@davidharris2517 3 года назад

Earlier we find out that sam is the farthest away from home that he's ever been, similarly Frodo doesn't venture very far from hobbiton, however Merry and Pipin do venture out this far relatively frequently, shown by how much they've stolen from the local farmers. This would explain why they know the local area , whereas sam and Frodo don't

@compulsoryevacuationdevice 2 года назад

Thank you for explaining this. The "furthest away from home" line consistently confused me all throughout the movie, just like in scenes like this.

@reaver1414 Год назад

Pippin is also from tookland and merry is from buckland. Frodo grew up somewhere else but has lived at bag end for a very long time. So the other 2 would have more knowledge about the lands they were traveling through and frodo may have head knowledge about where things are generally but not know where they are now and where places are in relation to there

@richardross7219 3 года назад

My first command was as a US Army Float Bridge Platoon Leader. It was interesting work and taught me many lasting lessons. I later used those lessons as a civil engineer. A good video. Good Luck, Rick

@northernzeus768 3 года назад

I believe that style of sweater is called a LindyBiege.

@AndyJarman 3 года назад

That's his no. 6 sweater, chain knit Shetland, Coir brown. There's a three volume guide to Lindybeige Sweaters on Wikipedia.

@ursa_margo 3 года назад

Sweater? No. Shirt? Yes.

@davidkafka2452 3 года назад

For anyone legit wondering what the style is called, look up cable knit sweaters.

@northernzeus768 3 года назад

@@davidkafka2452 maybe you don’t recognize sarcasm. Or maybe I’m not “ legit” enough. Whatever that means in this context.

@skinnytoaster7524 3 года назад

@@northernzeus768 that wasn’t sarcasm though. You were definitely proclaiming that like it was a fact.

@SamuQu 3 года назад

Lloyd: wich has been sponsored very kindly by the Great Courses Plus... Me: but more of that later Lloyd: ...but I'll get to that in a bit. Me: *surprised Pikachu face*

@SirAndr. 3 года назад

Shook

@jamesharding3459 3 года назад

*shock*

@xboxhomie4 3 года назад

Lindy’s transition into a berserker is nearly complete.

@ArcticTemper 3 года назад

I don't see a bearskin or a Dark Age Nordic lord for him to serve anywhere... ways to go yet.

@williamswenson5315 3 года назад

Needs more manic.

@sotohigake4902 3 года назад

If he really was a Berserker, 9yo's would have certain fantasies about him

@davidbrennan660 3 года назад

He is passionate about his subjects of his lectures..... never stand within 3 metres of him at any time or the length of his weapon reach when he is in full flow ( if you forgive the subject pun). We should never get Lindy started on history and stuff...... be always needs a little lie down afterwards.

@williamswenson5315 3 года назад

@@davidbrennan660 You refer to the length of time between his offerings, perhaps? His passion for the subject matter is what makes him so attractive as a lecturer. That, and his rather endearing histrionics when he is going full-tilt down some alleyway on a round-about attempt (usually successful) to rejoin the main thread of his lecture. He is rather refreshing in his way; unlike most pedants whose workman-like habit of dropping words one after the next, always in the proper sequence, leave one regarding the inner lining of one's eyelids. Nickolas reminds me of a comment made by Jose Philip Farmer; he differentiated between the intellect that opens an encyclopedia and extracts exactly the facts they want, then closes the volume vs the intellect that performs exactly the same operation and then, proceeds to turn to one page after another. Finally, opening one volume after another, forever hunting the elusive snark.

@sweetrumman6496 3 года назад

New home? So the old background with the big pencil ,and lizard and pictures on the wall are GONE?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

@The88Cheat Год назад

I love how Lindybeige talks about things that today seem a bit esoteric but were common knowledge in the time periods.

@YeeSoest 3 года назад

Are we 100% certain that "The Battle at Stamford Bridge" wasn't in fact just a particularly wild footie match?

@chasbodaniels1744 3 года назад

I’m an American baseball fan, and yet still I caught this joke. Well done, me.

@therealunclevanya 3 года назад

I'm sure the story about the Chelsea fan who put Stamford Bridge in his Satnav and ended up in York is purely apocryphal 🤣

@jonrolfson1686 3 года назад

Not for the Norwegian guy who stood alone over a hole in the planking...

@Brinta3 3 года назад

@@chasbodaniels1744 It’s not easy for an American to catch a joke. Well done!

@shramo 3 года назад

That's a nice reverberating room you have there.

@AmryL 3 года назад

I'm honestly a bit annoyed by the echos. I hope that room acquires some clutter soon.

@historyofpolitics5338 3 года назад

The reason only Merry knows about the Crossings is because he lives near the river, Frodo, Sam and Pippin actually live quite far away from the river and Hobbits are famously parochial so its not surprising they don't now, remember the scene where Sam says its the furthers away from home he's ever been.

@oldoddjobs 3 года назад

@sualtam9509 3 года назад

Frodo is from Buckland and came to Bilbo in the Shire after his parents died. But this in the movie only because the whole Tom Bombadil plotline was cut out.

@georgethompson1460 3 года назад

@@sualtam9509 back when he was like 8, by the time of the books he's 35. Most people would forget that little detail at that point.

@Drumsgoon 2 года назад

I worked on a reaction ferry in the Netherlands, though it has engines to keep the boat going in the right direction, as well as being able to move quicker across the busy Rhine river.

@Dwarfman01 3 года назад

I found this video very informative. I've been dabbling, putting together a map for a D&D adventure of a sizeable town, set on the more civilised side a wide spanning river. There is a point where the river meets two other rivers, then separates into more rivers flowing down stream. At this point the are several large islets, one of which features the now unused - and potential adventuring hook - lord's castle. The Islet next to it holds a structure that once acted as a prison/sanitorium. The past lord forbade a bridge to span between these two islets, as the later held dangerous criminals and secrets - that is to say, more adventure hooks. But then I started asking myself. 'How the heck would you transport prisoners across to the islet?' Boats seemed flimsy and I started thinking about cable ferries, but worried that would inhibit river traffic. But then you mentioned these reaction ferries...'Eureka!' I exclaimed. Thanks very much for the inspiration Lindybeige!!!

@daedraq 3 года назад

Please make a video about Henry VIII. And please never stop having digressions.

@RaidsEpicly 3 года назад

God yes. I want to hear him talk more about how "progressive" it was to form your own religion so you can divorce your wife and also establish the divine right of kings

@Brave_Sir_Robin 3 года назад

“Progress dammit!” -Lyindybeige

@alejandrorojas1423 3 года назад

"As Pharoah I invented the original bridge; It was terrible but as it was the only one around everyone loved it!"

@lordpowell3788 3 года назад

Is. Is that a yogioh abridged reference. I feel like this is what he would say

@willpat3040 3 года назад

Awesome ref.!!!! Yugioh Abridged FTW!

@Templarkommando 3 года назад

I remember reading that one of the strategies that was used by England and France to try to contain Danes that were going a-viking was to build a bridge along the river because it would slow down the movement of longships.

@redisntdead 3 года назад

"that was a bit of a side track" that's why we love you

@omariscovoador7486 3 года назад

Next up: aerial ways of transportation in the medieval period

@cJ-nz4mf 3 года назад

Catapult is 1 , nevermind the landing

@alexanderpalm5262 3 года назад

Well they obviously used trebuchets because they can launch 90kg projectiles over 300 meters

@sirBrouwer 3 года назад

they used swallows.

@carlwegener7544 3 года назад

@@sirBrouwer African or European swallows?

@m_fredi9549 3 года назад

@@carlwegener7544 african, they carry more weight

@Jsi01 3 года назад

Wait. What? I can’t watch this if he’s not in his usual spot!

@benjaminbliss4704 3 года назад

A moment of silence for the usual spot if we may

@Jsi01 3 года назад

@@benjaminbliss4704 I will indulge you this pleasure. Pray silence please gentlemen...

@bannermanigans 3 года назад

He mentioned on Facebook that he's moved.

@marcusfraser2790 3 года назад

@@benjaminbliss4704 *moment of silence... Now a cheer for new beginnings and to Lindybeige's new "spot". Huzzah! 😂

@bmyers8356 3 года назад

Maybe he’ll finish Stoke Mannly now, due to the new location having similar acoustics.

@klinischbrot 3 года назад

New disclaimer regarding the unheard donor "This episode is sponsored by inaudible." . Sorry couldn't leave that one be ;-)

@paulsagichnicht7552 3 года назад

funny thing is that I live in Saxony, near the Elbe and really thought that this design is the most common... well you got me there

@thothtahuti5509 3 года назад

I love you Lindy, yesterday I discovered I was into old English coinage, today I realise I am fascinated by how old peoples managed logistics including rivers. Every time you broaden my horizons ::)

@jockmcscottish7569 3 года назад

You would almost think the Scottish don't like their neighbours to the South.

@beardedbjorn5520 3 года назад

Can’t blame them really

@earlystrings1 3 года назад

“Doing God’s work fighting the French...” 😇

@farmerboy916 3 года назад

I'm inordinately proud that basically as soon as you said "reaction ferry" as in 'equal and opposite' I figured out the concept.

@farmerboy916 3 года назад

@MrGozzah Really? Because you dug through probably a thousand comments to find it, then replied.

@buggs9950 3 года назад

13:19 No, he didn't go to hell, he went to _Hull_ . Patchy education at the time meant mistakes like this were common. But Hull is much worse than hell so it's not like he got off lightly.

@doublintucksveto5321 3 года назад

10 minutes of staying on topic followed 30 minutes of tangent this sounds like something I would make lol.

@dupeesfashionconsultant4204 3 года назад

I dare say sir, that arguably to this yankee, my favorite part of this glorious channel are your tangents. So I say tangent away lloyd

@1Dropboys 3 года назад

I was thinking that myself, his tangents always turn out to be great ideas for videos which in turn leads to tangents. Brilliant ;p

@Balpindo 3 года назад

Its 2am, I haven't slept *Lindy uploads* Looks like I won't be sleeping until 3 am

@SplendidFellow 3 года назад

"Ahh yes I can just listen to this lecture and it could help me drift off to sleep..." (3 lectures later) "Thats fascinating... Hmm yes..."

@rutgervannahuijs263 3 года назад

How does your sound quality gets lower during all these years haha. Still...I going to enjoy this

@alexisXcore93 3 года назад

The other walls of the room probably arent sound treated, thats why his voice echo in this video. He just need to add decorations and stuff to break the audio waves and it will be fine.

@alexisXcore93 3 года назад

The other walls of the room probably arent sound treated, thats why his voice echo in this video. He just need to add decorations and stuff to break the audio waves and it will be fine.

@szczwanylisek2173 3 года назад

@@alexisXcore93 or get a mic on his chest, like other people do

@ofthecaribbean 3 года назад

Its because he isn't in the usual room

@szczwanylisek2173 3 года назад

@@ofthecaribbean thank you capitan obvious, your input is invaluable

@andrewfarrow4699 3 года назад

Lloyd is one of very few that makes the advertising as watchable as his content. No need to skip forward here.

@J4H3AD 3 года назад

I love how Lindy goes on these wild tangents. I think my brain works in a very similar way, so I can understand it. And glorious to get the whole "Henry the VIII" tangent, points on religion of the day, the Royal Navy, and THEN going back to the topic of bridges.

@amiscellaneoushuman3516 3 года назад

If I may, I would like to congratulate myself on thinking about reaction ferries before he mentioned them. If anyone is interested Tom Scott has a short video called "The Reaction Ferries of Basel: What have we missed?" in which he shows one in use.

@daedraq 3 года назад

Anyone else forgot that the video was about bridges during the Henry VIII digression?

@GigMe 3 года назад

Well, he was working for the Pope, or Pontiff, or even posher, the 'Pontifex Maximus' - Bridge-Builder-in-Chief !

@joshhorne1915 3 года назад

11:33 James 4th excommunication 14:30 Henry 8th renaissance king 17:00 Oh yah, bridges..

@AlexanderRM1000 3 года назад

I for one was wondering when he'd finish the boring war and royal politics stuff and get back to medieval infrastructure

@chasbodaniels1744 3 года назад

I’ve happily learned to sit back and go with the Lindy Flow. He’s one of life’s real pleasures. (Treasures?)

@Battleship009 3 года назад

The 1831 London Bridge still exists, it's in the USA.

@VictorianTimeTraveler 3 года назад

One interesting tidbit that's related to this is that during the American war between the states the North would name battles after the nearest town and the South would name battles after the nearest river

@DUNGEONCRAFT1 3 года назад

Your tangents are better than my whole show. A big thumbs up!

@ahmjothe 3 года назад

I can imagine Lloyd putting all the pictures from him old wall on the book shelf behind him

@moonasha 3 года назад

I'm digging the half naked bookshelf in front of the soviet green wall

@oz_jones 3 года назад

I'm surprised it's not beige

@LegItLouis 3 года назад

I finally caught a video when it was fresh. What a time to be alive

@AGPMandavel 29 дней назад

Hey, me too!

@onionbard178 3 года назад

4:12 Important news from Lloyd: the Earth's crust is thicc, and can take huge loads

@p7outdoors297 3 года назад

😁

@acurafillfilip9868 3 года назад

@@p7outdoors297 she should definitely start an OnlyFans

@Will-bo7kg 3 года назад

The only channel I actually enjoy the sponsor segment as much as the rest of the video 😂

@LTPottenger 3 года назад

He has to ask sam about the crossings because he's the clueless young officer and sam's his batman.

@ieuanhunt552 3 года назад

He asked Merry and he asked him because he's a local.

@memaw3610 3 года назад

Never thought I’d be so hype to hear about river crossings, but here we are

@mensen4488 3 года назад

Do you even Lindybeige!?

@brandenburgquentinthe3rd532 3 года назад

All the books in the bck are just one of his episodes in cliff notes

@fmhummel 3 года назад

Live in a smaller city partly built on an island and you quickly learn how important river crossings are. When I studied in Bamberg I had to walk many extra hours before I learnt where the bridges are.

@robotslug 3 года назад

It may be weird for you to hear from an anonymous person on here, but you calm my soul. thanks for uploading!

@HairEEck 3 года назад

This is maybe the only british guy talking about history that I can tolerate I'm French and live in Ireland

@barryirlandi4217 3 года назад

welcome

@nukeclears 3 года назад

Local man turns history lesson about bridges into rambles about eternal damnation.

@aenorist2431 3 года назад

Ask Harald Haradra about that bridge he did have and then didn't.

@jayhickman7693 3 года назад

Hell of a Stadium, though.

@ross.venner 3 года назад

23:50 Ah yes, the Australian term is punt. The Putney Punt still operates on the Parramatta River in Sydney. The river is also used by high speed ferries and a plethora of pleasure boats.

@AdvancePlays 3 года назад

The practice of paying for a bridge as a form of advertisement is apparently alive and well today - there's a big footbridge near Edinburgh Airport with a great big RBS logo on it that you see when leaving the city on the M8. It currently connects a big empty plot with another big empty plot, but its the thought that counts.