Lopen's Left Arm to Today I [email protected]English • 2 years agoTIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows whywww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up1567cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1567external-linkTIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows whywww.bbc.comLopen's Left Arm to Today I [email protected]English • 2 years agomessage-square90fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish138•2 years agoMonks did most of the writing and artwork. Monks main diet was brassicas. They grew their own food. Do the math, it’s wish fulfillment
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish22•2 years agoI think you’re really on to something here, if you don’t work in history or something, you should run this by a historian or scholar and see what they think
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish13•2 years agoThis makes so much sense, is there any evidence? I don’t want to spread the rumor as a fun fact unless there’s something behind it. Very fun idea!
minus-squareStarlinkfedilinkEnglish10•2 years agoHey, that’s clever. Snails are a scourge of gardening. “I want to kill those suckers.” It makes sense that they made doodles of their desirrd victory over the garden-munching snails.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•2 years agoThat’s my guess too. Snail plague there heart to be evidence of it somewhere. Also when did escargot become popular?
Monks did most of the writing and artwork.
Monks main diet was brassicas.
They grew their own food.
Do the math, it’s wish fulfillment
I think you’re really on to something here, if you don’t work in history or something, you should run this by a historian or scholar and see what they think
This makes so much sense, is there any evidence? I don’t want to spread the rumor as a fun fact unless there’s something behind it. Very fun idea!
Hey, that’s clever. Snails are a scourge of gardening. “I want to kill those suckers.”
It makes sense that they made doodles of their desirrd victory over the garden-munching snails.
That’s my guess too. Snail plague there heart to be evidence of it somewhere. Also when did escargot become popular?
Brassica, it is ALWAY brassica.