Amused by the reminder I got listening to these lectures on Arthuriana that the Normans were just another group of northern pirates and raiders like the Anglo-Saxons, but once they settled down they decided to become French.
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Extra funny that the land given to them by the King of France is right next to Brittany, the land the Britons settled when they fled Britain in the face of the Anglo-Saxon invasion.
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If Arthur’s success had been continued after him, we’d all be speaking Cymric (Welsh).
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Replying to @TheBrometheus
The lilting Welsh accent is the best accent in the whole of the Anglo-sphere. Better than the Irish brogue, the Scottish burr, the Southern drawl, and whatever the h*ck you call the things that Canadians and Australians have. Fight me.
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Replying to @padrebrendon
If I fight a priest does that add to my purgatory sentence or decrease it since you then have to pray for me as your enemy?
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Drat, thought I’d spotted a theological fistfighting loophole
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