LopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoTIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows whywww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square76fedilinkarrow-up1462arrow-down112cross-posted to: todayilearned@lemmit.online
arrow-up1450arrow-down1external-linkTIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows whywww.bbc.comLopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square76fedilinkcross-posted to: todayilearned@lemmit.online
minus-squareTaleya@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up97arrow-down1·1 year 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-squareJungleJim@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 year 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-squareStar@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·1 year 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-squarenilloc@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year 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
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.