Such a soothing friendly voice. I go back in time with Tony whenever the madness of today's world gets overpowering. I wish there could be more programs made.
Hope it doesn't sound cruel, but it was refreshing to see a presenter being real. His terror with the egg hunt really brought home the hardships of life then. This is a great vid, genius idea, and very well written n presented. Thank you for uploading it, I'm now going to binge on tge rest of the series.
I did the whole oxen till thing on my grandparents land in Kenya. It was so hard. But that's what my relatives use on their land. Utterly amazed at the work they do to live.
Probaly the best way. Very low to no cost to produce crops. Just grass and water for the ox and the seed. They are probaly more successfull than english farmers right now with their £500,000 tractors and fuel prices
Baldrick was a fun character, but I liked his sharp version in the first, medieval season of Black Adder better than the dimwitted one in the later seasons. I'm envious of you for meeting Tony. If I ever get so lucky, I'll hug him and thank him for infotaining me for so long, and in such a great way. :)
Who would know better about dirty thankless job if not Baldric who labored for Blackadder FOR CENTURIES! Thank you very much, guys, what a genius idea that was to make a series of presentation on this topic. I always wondered what everyday's life would be like for an average person of Dark Age.
I do really feel for Tony over that cliff. He was NOT happy. I can't believe his shoe came off! Watching that fall all that distance made my insides turn to water, and I'm not even afraid of heights!
3:00 - Roman slave gold mining. 9:50 - Anglo saxon ceorl ploughing. 13:30 - Ceorl wattle and daubing. 19:15 - Grinding grain into flour for bread, etc. 21:00 - Hunting for bog ore, to be smelted into iron. 23:16 - Ceorl charcoal making. 26:13 - Anglo saxon coin stamping, the first penny produced in 765 AD. 28:40 - Anglo saxon monk life. 34:30 - Viking boat rowing. 37:28 - Moving a longship across land. 41:18 - Collecting of guillemot eggs. ------- Now thank me, you assholes. :P
I already watched the whole episode before reading your comment. However, I still will thank you for at least supplying me with a satisfying hard-on brought about by your pic. :)
I find it fascinating how many of these Anglo Saxon techniques were revived by early colonists in the Americas in the 17th & 18th centuries. Wattle and daub, wood plank making, charcoal making, and rough plowing were all used until the 1800s on the frontier.
Starting in the very late 1600s, most American colonists were actually German. To this day it's still the largest common ancestry of Americans. It's why we have our super-enunciated version of an english accent and not just a subtle take on it like the Australian accent.
27:38 Back out in the woods, Dave has been awake for 48 hours solid... Slowly nightmarish visions of his tours of duty as a Black-Ops specialist flash before his eyes. "So much blood," he thinks, as a wave of emotion engulfs him with savage intensity. With both dull glaze and a weary heart, to himself he ponders the question that has dogged him ever since those days: "what the fuck am I doing here?"
Lucas Davis He should build a pedestal on top of the coal mound to sleep on. If the coal mound catches on fire he would feel the heat, wake up and be able to put out the fire. 👍
9:07 - Saxon peasant = "churl" = jack-of-all-trades = farmer/woodsman/builder/baker/etc. 10:29 - #ETYMOLOGY - "acre" = old saxon word meaning the amount of land one could expect to plow in a day. 13:47 - #COBHOUSE - Wattle & daub = water, mud, straw, and manure. 23:33 - How to make charcoal #LOSTSKILLS. 28:38 - Saxon-era English monk life. Monks had to pray 8 times daily (similar to muslims today); they didn't live in cloisters, but instead built their own wattle and daub hut houses; the did pain by wading in ice cold water for hours. 35:00 - Viking rowing ships were tighly cramped and smelly, then fish guts were used to lubricate horizontal rolling poles which were used to slide the ships across land in what is termed "portage" 42:00 - Guniea Mott Egg-collector 42:37 - People believed chickens were sacred (WHY?), so you couldn't eat their eggs, but you COULD eat eggs of other birds.
3:00 - Roman slave gold mining. 9:50 - Anglo saxon ceorl ploughing. 13:30 - Ceorl wattle and daubing. 19:15 - Grinding grain into flour for bread, etc. 21:00 - Hunting for bog ore, to be smelted into iron. 23:16 - Ceorl charcoal making. 26:13 - Anglo saxon coin stamping, the first penny produced in 765 AD. 28:40 - Anglo saxon monk life. 34:30 - Viking boat rowing. 37:28 - Moving a longship across land. 41:18 - Collecting of guillemot eggs.
I love the abseiling portion as my daughter began at 8 years of age. She loves it although her longest abseil is only 50 feet while her highest climb is 60 feet.
Building the Anglo Saxon house actually looked fun. As did plowing with the oxen team. It honestly seemed like a way of life I would actually want to try.
+Donald Vincent Like many jobs it would be fun for the first day but along about the 100th day it certainly would have lost its allure. I had a chance to try plowing behind mules. Even with a steel plow it is very difficult to keep a straight line.
Get yourself a metal plowing blade, that's the only way to make it fun. I have friends who owned Percheron's and used old plowing techniques on their farm, and it's still really hard!
Go ask North Koreans how fun ox-and-plow farming is. They're one of the few nations left on earth outside of Africa and rural China that has people still doing it this way. Those in extreme poverty are the only ones who do it. That should tell you all you need to know about how smart of a lifestyle choice it would be. Whats not shown is the lack of meats these people had. The produce was seasonal and very regonalized. Europe didn't even have potatoes back then! Let alone citrus fruits or bananas or most other fruits beyond bush berries and apples. Their vegetables were mostly root-based ones that we don't even eat today. They did have bread, but if you had bread that means you grew the grain and then harvested it and then milled it and then took it to a baker who you had to pay to bake it. The end result was a meagre portion that probably wasn't of great quality and was also seasonal and in short supply even then. They had indoor fires to heat homes and cook with. They thought the smoke was a good thing... if you had a cold back then they thought being in an extremely smoky room while you rested would speed you to health. In winters they'd build huge fires and often built lofts to sleep on because the heat, and smoke along with it, would rise to the top. Can you imagine what this would do to you cardiovascularly after awhile? Another great medical cure of the day was to use leeches to suck your blood, and then you would burn the leeches in a fire and bury them at least two feet under. How anyone ever came up with this idea is a mystery to me. I can understand things like blood letting, but that sort of stuff escapes me. Just because currency wasn't really used among peasents and there was no electricity or running water didn't mean that there weren't bills to be paid. The Lords and Ladies owned the land and tiny tracts were given to families. And I do mean tiny. You can still still the physical imprint this has left in the UK to this very day. When you see those overhead shots of countryside with the Tetris-like pattern of rectangles, a single one of those were given to families of 3-9 people. They paid keep to whomever owned their land and a peasent could never legally own his own land. You paid your cobbler and baker and blacksmiths. You had to buy your wooden bowls and plates and utensils. You had to pay taxes to both the Crown and local Lord. You couldn't even go out and collect all the wood you needed for fires and buildings and tools. You had to not only pay the local Lord, but cut double what you need and give him half. Most bills were paid in food or meat or wood or labor or cloth or in a trade skill if you had one. If you got behind to local Lords and Ladies, they would often take your children as indentured servants or you or your wife if the situation permitted. Moving up in society wasn't an option. People like the bakers and blacksmiths and cobblers were family businesses given centuries back by Lords and Ladies to a family whose ancestors always inherited it's rights. Even if you had extra eggs or grain it was illegal to sell them except for about 3 days a year. Some families would keep sheep, then cut all their wool and do about a dozen more steps to get it to usable wool. Then another 15-20 steps to make it into woven cloth. Then you have to take it to a local lord and pay them to use their water mill to pound the cloth to make it usable for clothes. You could make them for your family or sell the cloth, or wool that was ready for spinning, to the church. The church was the monopoly so you accepted their price or kept it. Speaking of the church, they collected not only tithes but also taxes. They were essentially rte organized criminals of the day. It's why their magnificent cathedrals still stand while the 99% lived in wretched hovels. Then if you wanted your daughter to ever get married you had to save for her dowry and if you wanted your son to get a wife you have to save resources to attract a bride. These days we can work hard and slog through the day to give our children markedly better lives but back then you had to do that and THEN SOME if you wanted your child to have no life improvement at all, but just the chance to have it as good as you did.
TRY DOING IT FOR A FEW YEARS, WITH BAD WEATHER YOUR CROP WILL FAIL, MUDDY LAND IF YOU HAVE HEAVY RAIN, IF YOU HAVE DROUGHT THE SOIL WILL BE AS HARD AS STONE AND YOU CANT WATER YOUR CROPS. NOT TO MENTION ATTACKING VIKINGS RAIDERS WILL TAKE YOUR CROPS AND YOUR WIFE. MAYBE IT LOOK FUN IF YOU JUST HAVE TO DO IT FOR A FEW DAYS. NO MODERN PEOPLE WILL SURVIVE LIVING LIKE THAT TODAY, WE ALL HAS BEEN SPOILED.
WONDERFUL!!👍🏻😀 l say if you are going to watch a lot of tv, treat yourself to something that's not just entertaining but really educational as well! Fantastic shate, thank❤️ you Reijer!👍🏻🐾🌈☮️🇨🇦
I actually do feel bad for him during the cliff part. He's clearly feeling a lot of terror, however, the way he says his shoe fell off and the clip of the shoe falling makes me laugh so hard I drool on myself.
44:40 I'm actually doubtful that the egg collectors wouldn't have figured out to tie a simple climbing knot to lower themselves down. Actually I'm going to say it is ridiculous. Doing this was their life and I'm sure they figured out how to tie it properly, to safely propel themselves down.
You shouldn't be so doubtful. Look all through history. Even look today. There are so many examples of people doing risky work at height without using any rope etc. It may seem silly to us, but that's reality for you.
A large resource that Romans had was slaves. Might be good for us to use convicts. Better then have them pumping weights in prison gyms & thinking of ways to improve at criminal activities.
Because most the skillful Romans up & left when the Roman Army left Britain, the average Brit back then wouldn't of had the know how about him/her to carry on like before, the Romans imported everything hence why we lost the knowledge cus they took it with them sadly
It never fails. Tony gets to deal with piss, shit, something really stinky and rotten, and some perilous height. Apparently he'll do almost anything for a paycheck. ;-)
WE ASIAN ALSO HAVE THE WATTLE AND DAUB TECHNIC SINCE ANCIENT TIMES TO BUILD WALL AND HOUSES....BUT WE AIN'T USING DUNG!! SOUTH EAST ASIAN AND EAST ASIAN USED COOKED STICKY RICE AS A BINDING AGENT...MUCH STRONGER AND MUCH CLEANER. BUT INDIAN DO USED COW DUNG THOUGH...BECAUSE THEY DEEM IT TO BE SACRED :p.
Hahaha the geezer on the boat having a chuckle at Tony disliking rowing the boat. Going back to Cuthbert, isn't it time Archbishop of Canterbury went down to the coast to atone for all our sins, so we don't go to hell? We'd all be free to go out & sin all we want if the owd Archbishop was atoning for us 🤷♂️😆 who's going to write to him to tell him he's got some atoning to do 🤔😉
I think Id only last a few days at any of these jobs before I decided to off myself. But then again maybe not since suicide was considered a mortal sin. (if you were Christian that is)
3:00 - Roman slave gold mining. 9:50 - Anglo saxon ceorl ploughing. 13:30 - Ceorl wattle and daubing. 19:15 - Grinding grain into flour for bread, etc. 21:00 - Hunting for bog ore, to be smelted into iron. 23:16 - Ceorl charcoal making. 26:13 - Anglo saxon coin stamping, the first penny produced in 765 AD. 28:40 - Anglo saxon monk life. 34:30 - Viking boat rowing. 37:28 - Moving a longship across land. 41:18 - Collecting of guillemot eggs.
Wow , poor Tony. Picking up poo. If they had just mixed the clay & straw in the round pens they would have known the only reason dung was in it was from the ox 's mixing the clay, water & straw. 🐂🐃🏠
