How to Start a Fight in the Middle Ages

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In the Middle Ages two armies encountering each other didn’t always lead to them actually fighting a battle. In many cases a demonstration of strength was sufficient so that the armies didn't have to engage or a peaceful diplomatic solution was found. But more often than not armies faced each other on a battlefield with clear intent. Yet, although the cause for a conflict was clear and it was certain that battle would take place, it did not just naturally begin. The immediate reason to start fighting had to be actively offered by one of the parties. This often involved… let's say rather vulgar means. In this video we will explore how modern historiography explains the three most common ways to start a fight in the Middle Ages.
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Bibliography
Prietzel, Malte, Kriegführung im Mittelalter. Handlungen, Erinnerungen, Bedeutungen (Krieg in der Geschichte Bd. 32), Paderborn 2006.
Cram, Kurt-Georg, Iudicium belli, Zum Rechtscharakter des Krieges im deutschen Mittelalter (Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, Beiheft 5), Münster 1955.
Rogers, C.J. / Tallet F. (editors), European Warfare, 1350-1750, 2010.
Van Nimwegen, O., The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588-1688.

[SandRhoman History]

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[ShadowWarrior& Shockwave]

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[me me]

Could you make a vid about medieval industrial revolution?

[Linda Kay]

Son: "Mother, the roast is most excellent! May I have another serving?" Father: "Is that any way to talk to your mother?" Son: "Sorry mother. Hither to and fill my plate with roast woman." Mother: "That's more like it."

[Juicy_Potato]

"Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries! Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!" - a great siege tactic to scare of the attackers.

[Ruvin Luciano]

Damn it you beat me too it.

[SSHitMan]

Arthur: Go and tell your master that we have been charged by God with a sacred quest. If he will give us food and shelter for the night he can join us in our quest for the Holy Grail. French knight: Well I'll ask him but I don't think he will be very keen, he's already got one you see? Arthur: What? Are you sure he's got one? French knight: Oh yes it's very nice.

[Dayvit78]

Run away! Run away!

[First Consul]

Fechez la vache

[Aquila]

Translation: "Your mother sleeps around and your father is a drunkard." because hamstars where known for being promiscious and Elderberries where a prominent ingredient of alcoholic drinks.

[History of Revolutions]

Aristotle once stated: "Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy"

[Alex Corvus Cazador]

A shame such phrase did not stop entire kingdoms and religions "of peace" to millitary expand themselves in the name of "rightious" anger. All the while being hipocritical enough to blame others of being bad for doing the exact same thing. Anger which for some reason exists even today and leads to people oppressing each others rigts and freedoms in the name of peace while making others feel bad for being against it. The more peaceful a kingdom, country, political ideology or, specially, religion portrays itself as, the more anger they tend to "morally" expand and justify and when you point it out and explain why its bad, their world shatters since they have never considered it like that in their whole lives and call you ignorant. Nice phrase, it summarizes all of that.

[BigBen14]

@Alex Corvus Cazador Yeah islam had a way of riling its followers into war.

[Darian Kaltenbach]

@Alex Corvus Cazador Yes, whenever someone feels the need to proclaim a trait that they have, I immediately suspect the opposite.

[Last Word]

@BigBen14 Westerners always have a way of projecting their experience with Christianity onto Islam. Even in a video predominantly about Europe.

[BigBen14]

@Last Word Nope. Purely my experience with Islam. You know the Crusades were retaliation to retake the lands that were just lost, right? It wasn’t just the Middle East either, Spain was being overrun.

[Hannibal Burgers]

I live in former Yugoslavia and I used this techniques to my Neighbour. My aim is to divide Montenegro into two countries.

[Mark Voelker]

A friend of mine’s family comes from Croatia. He basically calls Serbs hillbillies. “Ugh! Mountain people!” I think he was kidding. ... Well, maybe not.

[Aleksa Petrovic]

Tako treba :D

[Mark Voelker]

@Aleksa Petrovic 🤣😂

[boldCactus]

i laughed at your comment, and then the username killed me. well played, Hannibal Burgers

[They Call Me Doorway]

You people really named your country 'Mountain Nigga'?

[Dare ka]

Soldiers(after months of grueling march in a foreign land): " Why are we still here just to suffer?" Enemy: " You mother..." Soldiers: "OH, IT'S ON!"

[Thomas]

And today is the exact same

[Andrey Dragomirov]

The Combat of the Thirty (1351) is probably the best example of a group fight in history. And the exit of Bohemond of Taranto's Crusader army out of the protection of Antioch's city walls during the siege in order to face Kerbogha's entire army in an open battle -- the Battle of Antioch (1098) -- is probably the best example of a challenge in history.

[kyle wolfkind]

"Wanna fight?" "No." "I guess thy mother was right about thee." *Glares* "Pick up thy weapon!"

[NINJA NAJM]

This is my favourite video on your channel. The self-reflexive review of sources like chronicles was very eye opening for me, and placing the source review in the middle of the video, adjacent to the actual topic it's supporting, is fantastic. Thanks for this

[The Minus Kai]

-So uh, do you wanna fight? -i dunno man we cant "just fight" you gotta set in the mood and stuff

[Hoze 123]

Nothing yo mama insult cant fix

[Pacifico Studios]

There was a battle in the Civil War, where the commanders were friends of each other, so the commander with more experienced escorted the other man around his army, and convinced him to surrender or withdraw; either way, he won the battle without fighting.

[Romuland Meier]

"Sir, a messenger from the usupator Henry arrived." - "What does he said?"- "He asked us If we could get you from under the bed because he want to fight." - "Tell him I am not done with his mother yet!" -

[BizyBlizt Average]

Henry's come to see

[ru]

@BizyBlizt Average and he’s feeling quite hungry

[roundedges2]

Surely, it would be better on top of the bed rather than under it?

[Averon god of fire]

@roundedges2 Monsters don’t live up there

[Midshipman]

I really apreciate you going into the ethos and pathos of these things rather than simply the nitty gritty tactics. really brings the setting more to life when you examine how someone thinks rather than simply what they do.

[Napoléon I Bonaparte]

“The Supreme Art of War is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” Therefore, *NI!*

[Sad Turtle]

OK what kind of shrubbery do you want

[BoilingPoint]

Therefore, NI-

[Joseph Stalin]

@BoilingPoint not too expensive!

[There Are No Shortcuts]

make fun of "thy mother"

[Tangle]

Elites - "you are not a people" Dumb masses - "we are not a people"

[Salisaad]

So, if I get it right, the way to start a fight is as follows: 1) Yo' momma. 2) Navy SEAL copypasta. 3) Come at me, bro.

[BeWater]

I see, you are experienced in Gorilla-warfare as well. truly a man of culture!

[Lee Fletcher]

4) Wanna fight?

[DangerDan]

I'd post the Navy SEAL copypasta but KZbin would probably just instantly delete it.

[the truckmaster]

Kpop isn't that great

[Zetectic]

What an excellent presentation on a subject I hadn't really thought about much before That word "Honour" has been the cause of so much bloodshed in centuries past. Nice to see some new figures in the animation. Keep up the good work! 👍

[Corporal Soletrain]

Honor in the feudal system was tied to legitimacy. If you let your honor be damaged enough then loyalties may change. It's not like today. Today we know our politicians are all scumbags and backstabbers.

[Dewa Eryadi]

Theres must be a knight in middle ages who specialise in trash talking the enemy

[TheFilthyCasual]

There is one in The Arthurian legends: Sir Dinadan.

[ⰋⰑⰀⰐⰐⰟ]

Go, bring Henry to the front lines, he needs to taunt the Flemish for us, for they hired Günther to do their taunting!

[Felipe Werner]

This is part of a fight, an enemy blind by rage is a dead enemy. Musashi used this tatic, he always shows up late in his duel meetings just to annoy his enemy.

[PalleRasmussen]

Any Viking.

[Wolfheart Darnell]

Gutz the Iron Hand is known to have invented the phrase "Kiss my ass"

[/u/ spockdad]

SandRhoman’s videos are so good. I can’t stop watching them. All I knew about medieval Europe from history class is that there was a good bit of fighting, but never knew the history was so rich and complex. Watching these videos should be required for any student of history.

[Hoze 123]

History is a bunch of people fighting

[MattMexor2]

The chroniclers were writing to an audience of their own time. So the fact that the pattern of insults was widespread suggests that people of the chroniclers' times accepted that the people of the events' times would act and respond that way. The systematic usage of the insult/responding to insult literary device could simply reflect that there was generally the impression of greater chivalry in the past.

[Draggy]

Love the "Yo mama so fat her belly reach the holy land before we do". Ngl, he deserved to be honored for that burn.

[Benthicc Biomancer]

The 'Seemingly Fair Challenge' is the medieval ancestor of the 'Hold Me Back Bro'.

[Quinten van Kasteel]

Hey dude, love your work, keep it up! I have a question (anyone else who can answer may do so too, I'd love to have multiple answers): have you ever read War in the middle ages by Philipe Contamine and if so what's your opinion on it? I was thinking of getting it but it's pretty old and I don't know how accurate the information in it is

[demilung]

Also, "a seemingly fair challenge" makes me think of a 178 centimeters tall, noble bred, trained from infancy, brute of a knight challenging a half-starved peasant to "fair, single combat"

[David Wright]

The siege of Alascon is just one of the reasons why William is known in chronicles written by people he couldn’t kill refer to him as William the Bastard or just The Bastard.

[Old Man Black Socks]

Awesome video. Were there any historic instances of a battle being settled by a fight between one representative (champion) for each army?

[Joe Butler]

A good event that you could have included was when the Teuton knights brought 2 crossed swords to the polish king Władysław IV as a way to encourage him to start battle. Grunwald 1410 Edit: Władysław II not IV

[Kamil Szadkowski]

It was Władysław II* but otherwise, you're correct. Teutonic messengers, in a mocking tone, offered to the Polish King two swords and also informed him that the Teutonic army can make more space for him and his army so he won't need to hide in bushes and come into the open field instead. His answer according to the Annales Regni Poloniae was: "Although I do not need the swords of my enemies, because I have enough of them in my army, but in the Name of God, for more help, protection, and defense in my righteous cause, I also accept these two swords brought by you and sent by enemies thirsting for my blood and ruin of my army."

[Ed19601]

Not uninterestinly, Wladislav won the battle

[Mark Voelker]

“Well where are you from then?” “I’m French! Can’t you tell from my outrageous accent?” “What are you doing in England?” “Mind your own business!”

[nick browning]

Love that movie

[bugrilyus]

@nick browning which one?

[nick browning]

@bugrilyus Monty python: holy grail, It’s old now but still hold up IMO

[bugrilyus]

@nick browning oh ok. I know that one. I thought you were talking about another one.

[Olz Dee]

Again this channel gives superb and at times amusing History content. Especially going into details that I have not found before

[Smoke Dowa]

Listening to this made me think about all these times two celebrities have some trivial dispute and loudly challenge each other to boxing matches that never happen, but both sides walk away saying they were ready to go.

[Clint Moor]

battles differed from bar fights how they were fought but not how they were started xD

[Luke Bunyip]

In Australia, one *could* start a fight in a bar, by merely placing an upturned empty glass on the counter.

[J Soth]

lol

[Wolfheart Darnell]

@Luke Bunyip I shall keep this in mind if I'm ever in the great penal colony

[ﷺ escape ape]

They drank nothing but alcohol

[Christian Ronald Andrew Panjaitan]

@Luke Bunyip ohhh, halo, from, Balikpapan, East Borneo. Indonesia.

[Teach Liberty]

Great citations! The mark of a true historian! Keep up the good work!

[Rex Croatorum]

I really love your work guys! I think the Siege of Jerusalem in the 1st Crusade was also a great example of mockery on medieval battlefields. I once read that while under siege, the muslim garrison paraded crosses on the walls, urinated and spit on them while the "Franks" led a barefoot procession around the city.

[someguy]

Can you do a video about general European history which covers a century for example and focuses on the big picture and geopolitics. I don't know how popular it would be but that's my suggestion, I think it would make a great video or series. Love your videos by the way, thanks very much for your work.

[werewolf435]

"Bro, you're hiding behind walls for real? I didn't believe my boi Frederick when he said y'all were a cut below, but apparently he was dialing in Straight Fax!" *proceeds to get an ass kicking*

[Hoze 123]

Yo boi Frederick be trippin yo

[greenrocket23]

Being obsessed with honor is clearly the cause of a great many number of deaths over the centuries

[Jose]

Even today it still happens in Islamic countries.

[greenrocket23]

Albert Felsen While I agree agree with you, I can't help feeling somewhat dismayed at just how easily people will throw away their lives given the right excuse, regardless of time period

[Incubator]

And yet if you don’t defend your honor in modern times, you are perceived as a punk, a pushover and a doormat where people can abuse you at whim. Looks like our ancestors had it right. Bring back duels!

[Genetix]

​@greenrocket23 life is temporary, the emperor is eternal. the sooner you learn this the sooner you can free yourself from the musing of heresy, my child.

[Juan Zulu]

And this way of thinking is coming back to Europa again. By immigration.

[Dhindara Vrel]

The Franco-Prussian War of 1870 basically started because Napoleon III couldn't take the way Bismarck was talking to him. So it's not entirely without use in modern times.

[Sealdeam]

The knights of the Teutonic Order used that tactic before the Battle of Grundwald they sent Władysław II Jagiełło a couple of plain swords to provoke the battle by implying that Jogaila (Jagiełło) and Vytautas would be acting cowardly if they delayed the battle, it did not worked as the knights would had liked, they lost and the swords became a symbol of Poland, they can be seen in the statue of King Jagiełło in Central Park.

[Dorian Borecki]

The context of this is also important: Jagiełło chose his ground so that his soldiers could use the shade of a small forest to rest on a hot summer day, while the Teutonic knights were boiling in their armour standing in full sun. So obviously they wanted to start the fight as soon as possible. The envoys carrying the swords reportedly said that Jagiełło can use these if he hasn't enough swords of his own, to which he replied that "We have plenty, but let us take these as a good omen".

[Snake puppy]

By them sending a message that they were going to fast before battle could also be interpreted as the brothers saying “we are preparing to meet god soon!” To show the seriousness. They probably wholeheartedly attempted to draw the elder brother into some sort of trap. He was smart to leave 👌🏽

[John Doe]

This is swiftly becoming one of my favourite history channels.

[Anirudha Mirmira]

Could it be that the advent of impersonal tactics like cannonades/indirect artillery fire and also the scale of the battles in the early modern period led to a decline in the use of taunts in starting the battle?

[kebman]

I use AE to animate. Naturally it's quite inferior to all Autodesk programs, but on the other hand, it's nice to use Illustrator to make the drawings and parts first, and then just key frame them in AE. Hell, if it's only simple animations, you can even do it in Premiere entirely.

[Man of the West]

interesting video, thanks. I'd love to know more about saxony and the other german territories sometime.

[Savage Dragon]

Great guide. Can't wait to use some of these next time I travel down to London. There ought to be some roadside taverns on the way where I can use these.

[B. A. F]

It'a good to see you getting more subscribers, it's been too long you were severely undersubscribed.

[Arashmickey]

I love it when you talk historical method and historiography.

[LSDKUSH]

I just arrived in 700 AD; your video came super handy since I had no previous experience on how to trigger the enemy. Thanks god for this video! A Time Traveler

[The Black Prince]

Minor error at 9:28 the picture used to show Henry IV the Holy Roman Emperor (1084 - 1105) is actually Henry IV of England (1399 - 1413) besides from that another great video.

[Florian]

Having written a Term Paper about the conflict between Henry IV and the saxons. This gave me some great new viewpoints especially about Brunos intention behind demoting Henry .o.

[dbinok]

From Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one of the best insults I remember is Zhuge Liang trying to goad Sima Yi to come out of his fortification to fight. At one point Zhuge Liang sends Sima Yi a dress, implying he was a woman for refusing to fight. The plan somewhat backfired when Zhuge Liang saw Sima Yi actually put on the dress. Sima Yi actually had a good reason to refuse the fight. Zhuge Liang was a brilliant strategist and even with superior numbers, Sima Yi knew he could not defeat him. However Sima Yi had time on his side and knew he could win by just waiting for Zhuge Liang's supplies to run out.

[Felipe Pereira]

So, online gaming keeps the medieval customs alive?

[King Starscream]

Many athletes have similar traditions. Obviously, competition in general shares many elements with fights and duels.

[Jiro Jhasuo, 2nd Grand Company]

Not enough racial slurs lol

[Mal-2 KSC]

13:48 How did you get Skallagrim to cameo for this video? He didn't come here to start a fight, he came here to end it rightly!

[Lollonestyle]

This reminds me of the famous book " a hundred and one ways to start a fight" by an Irish gentleman whose name eludes me for the moment

[Mike Fisher]

‘Thy’ was the familiar form so a lout in the Middle Ages would use ‘your’. Allowing for the many dialects at the time. But by Elizabethan times ‘thy’ had become limited to use with social inferiors, servants and children, which is why it died out, it was seen as an insulting way to address someone. So the thumbnail works for the Elizabethan period. After that ‘thy’ acquired an Olde Worlde role as an indicator of archaic speech. Exact opposite of what happened in Swedish recently (since WW2), when the formal pronoun died out, but for much the same reasons, it came to be regarded as stuffy and hierarchical, in the era of postwar Swedish egalitarianism.

[Nico g]

At 09:30 when talking about Henry IV. you accidentally put an image of Henry IV King of England not Henry IV the King of Germany. They also lived more than 300 years apart.

[Edra Ilyas Pratama]

"How to Start a Fight in the Middle Ages" >punch >proceed to declare a war for the next 100 years

[wismsgre]

Amazing video, keep going with the good job!

[Loomy]

Your french pronunciation is pretty decent sometimes, most youtubers butcher a lot of names but you're pretty close edit: just saw your bio is from switzerland, you probably speak french then but with a swiss accent which I couldnt pick up, im from canada

[coldstatic]

How to start a fight in them middle-ages: "And I'm telling you that the only stench heartier than your rotting burrick of a master is the liquor on his fetid breath."

[Mega]

This guide will be super usefull as I seek to start a medieval fight where I live.

[David Wong]

Some opening verbal shots in history can be quite entertaining. Although outside the medieval period, one example was at Thermopylae, when the Persians said that their arrows would blot out the sun, to which the Spartans replied that they would fight in the shade 😆

[michimatsch]

Spartans! Lay down your arms! Come and get them.

[michimatsch]

Philipp of Macedon: If I ever capture Sparta I shall enslave all men, women and children. Spartan answer: If.

[War Pigs]

"Sir, do you bite your thumb at me!?" "No sir, but I DO bite my thumb!" - Sampson on how to start a fight.

[Leo T.]

About honor: will you make a video about how duels worked, rules of engagements, including more recent ages, use of pistols, etc?

[Wildfire悪魔]

Starting a fight seems easier when you're holding a rifle half a kilometer away and don't see your supposed enemy's face

[John Titor]

It's simpler than you think: call the other guy an empty-headed animal food trough wiper and threaten to fart in his general direction.

[Thanh Nguyễn Ngọc]

"Do you know what is good? Your mother" Then they fought. And we fight.

[olivier puyou]

From an English ship captain captured by Robert Surcouf: You French fight for money, we English fight for honor. Mr. everyone is fighting for what they miss the most. ^^

[Mark Sittner]

Jacio/jacere actually mean to throw. As in pilum jacere - to throw a lance, a common declaration of war and of claiming a land in roman tradition. "Ora" however used in middle ages as general for the head, in classical latin meant "mouth" or anything below the nose line, in contrast to vultus - eyes, or face as a whole. So, basically, the insult was even more harsh, to put ones mouth up ones ass.

[MusikCassette]

Wasn't it rather rare, that armies fought in open field at all?

[Austin S]

“Lay with dogs that are your chambermaids” -Agatha knight

[Scott Anos]

Just like making love, making war requires foreplay

[Rowuomii Makori]

"What, you egg?" [He stabs him] -Act 4, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's play, Macbeth

[Grillo]

Awesome and very educative!

[ctastrophe]

Thank you for the upload! I've been itching to pick a fight with some 13th Century jerks

[Laurbster]

i love how in the three kingdoms 2010 series there is ALOT of this trash talking to get opponents to duel and leave fortresses

[Sad Turtle]

Any history video that gets the comments section making Monty Python references is good in my book

[Iain Ballas]

"Didst... though just bite thine thumb at me?" "Verily, I dideth such an insult upon you!" "Dost thou seek to swappeth hands?" "Verily!"

[Napoléon I Bonaparte]

This is a haven for Monty Python taunts.

[FullMontyUK]

They represent the Holy Grail of medieval abuse. 😎

[RPF Entertainment]

Travels back in time to the 13th century, drops an inocente a yomama joke, starts a whole conflict spanning generations.

[TheCaptNoname]

*Bard:* _"I want to cast Vicious Mockery on him"._ *DM:* _"Are you sure about that? He's an Archduke of Rishia province, which is under the protectorate of Iron Order, after all"._ *Bard (in faltering voice):* _"Y-yeah. Why?"_ *DM:* _"Hmm..." (rolls dice)_ *Bard:* _(fidgets in his chair)_ *DM (loudly):* _"HMM..." (more dice rolling, scrolls through his notes) *Bard:* _(sweats profusely)_ *DM (intensely):* _"HmMmMmM!.." (even more dice rolling)_ *Bard:* _(shrinks into his own chair)_ *DM:* _"Alright, so, you've started a war on three continents and the intel reports about them having tame dragons as well as a couple of heavily armed airships, so expect to be overwhelmed by their aerial support units"._ *Bard:* _(melts down under other party members' hating glares)_ *DM:* _"Oh, and by the way, the Archduke died on the spot from a heart attack, so... You earn 500 combat XP. Congrats!"_

[Ocker3]

Love your work :)

[Flor Delphin Ta]

How to start a fight in the middle ages: Insult them. Ahhhh, war really doesn't change, does it?

[Petra Petrakoliou]

The most funny insults were used by Turcish and Hungarian warriors when they were organizing a duel, it was like a ceremony. They sent the invitations in Hungarian by letters and it was a mix of politeness and insulting what you knew would work on the other party. The captain Thury György is said to have killed more than 600 Turcs in duels of this type and was thought to be invincible before he was ambushed and his head was sent to Stambul. One of his swords is still preserved in the National Museum of Hungary, it is an Arabic blade which was surely one of his prizes, fit with a Hungarian guard.

[SubParGamer]

"Things you can say that will start a fight" "You guys wanna start a fight?"

[Markus Z]

This is basically how you start a Bar fight

[David]

An elegant insult is always far more damaging than a vulgar word 👌

[Luis Aldamiz]

Unless the other guy is so dull that he doesn't understand what you mean.

[1337fraggzb00N]

"Let us find a peaceful solution, good Sir." "Your horse smells funny." "I BATHE IN YOUR BLOOD!"

[Anders Korsbäck]

I cannot possibly believe that the notion that Margrave Henry was "forced" by considerations of honour to assault an unfavourable position to be anything else than propaganda invented after the fact to rationalize his actions. If that really were the case, there would be a lot more medieval battles like that. But there isn't. Instead, commanders were cautious about risking their armies in field battles and sought every advantage they could, and would only fight at a disadvantage if forced by circumstance, such as being trapped or fighting over a critical objective, or being at a disadvantage that would only get worse by waiting.

[Canadian Hobbit]

So chroniclers were more honest than modern news media

[Go Lucid]

Based

[R A Clark]

Most back alley thieves are more honest than them.

[Aleksa Petrovic]

Not really. I mean Roman conquest of Gaul can be summed up as: Julius Caesar was a cool guy. -Julius Caesar Also remember that Muslims back then were discribed by Catholics as Pagans like in Epic of Rollo which is either propaganda or ignorance.

[Swagata Sarkar]

"Your mother !" 😂😂 That's a good way to start a fight 💥

[Wolfheart Darnell]

Nobody going to talk about how Gotz the Iron Hand invented the phrase "Kiss my arse!"

[Corporal Soletrain]

Gotz von Berlichten doesn't get enough credit for being awesome.

[Bubba McCoy]

Goetz von Berlichingen did not invent it, but he did bring the phrase to its Medieval peak. According to legend, when his surrender was demanded, he replied "Er kann mich Im Arsche lecken". The message was so powerful and so ingrained as a refusal to surrender in Germany that a Waffen SS Division carried his name in WW2. Since Germans (like Americans) prefer to use acronyms if at all possible, the Division was called the "LMA". Conveniently, LMA translates to "leck mein Arsch", or "Lick my ass".

[Live in Reykjavik]

"Before we let you leave, your commander must present himself before this army, put his head between his legs, and kiss his own arse." -Mel Gibson

[David Wright]

Tostig Godwinson: So I become Duke of Northumbria, what will Hardrada get? Harold Godwinson: 6 feet of English ground or as much more as he is taller than other men.

[Raynor]

great ! a lot of new facts for me that i did not know .... but may i draw your attention to some tiny mistake. when you explain an event in 1080 ad concerning king henry 4th, there is an image shown of king henry the 4th indeed - but i shows henry bolingbroke (king henry 4th of england, who lived around 300 years later).

[Pan Z]

Alternative title: How Chroniclers used literary tools to fit their Desired Narratives

[Ohne]

Amazing content!

[DreamskyDance]

Basically battles in middle ages were a lot like modern pvp mmo like eve online battles... two groups meet.. a bit of smack talk.. maybe they fight.. maybe they dont.. more smack talk..

[The Danish Patriot]

“Your mother is a hamster and your father smells of elder berries” i can imagine that line being used alot

[FEM.B0T .1.0.1]

Ye olde mother wears rusty greaves.

[Pacifico Studios]

"Let us Fight a Fair Fight!" -- Something never heard from the U.S. military.

[Arrow 1]

So the French in the castle insulting Arthur King of the Britains in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" wasn't that far off!🤣

[Duck Nguyen]

Press taunt to get bodied was older than I thought.

[nero wulfee92]

"Hey buddy I think you got the wrong door, the leather club is two blocks down"

[Tyler Scofield]

Funny how warfare had devolved, Roman would have laughed then come back later and killed them all

[skyworm]

It was tactically more advanced at this time I think.