TIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows why
TIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows why
www.bbc.com The mystery of the medieval fighting snails
The pages of medieval books are stalked by a ferocious monster: the fighting snail.
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Is that writing in the pictures old English? I can't make any of it out.
Looks like Latin to me.
I can only recognize a couple of words, but this (and similar texts) are going to be in Latin.
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