LopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoTIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows whywww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square76linkfedilinkarrow-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 · 2 years agomessage-square76linkfedilinkcross-posted to: todayilearned@lemmit.online
minus-squareTaleya@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up97arrow-down1·2 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-squareJungleJim@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 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-squareStar@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·2 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-squarenilloc@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 years agoThat’s my guess too. Snail plague there heart to be evidence of it somewhere. Also when did escargot become popular?
minus-squareEheran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoBrassica, it is ALWAY brassica.
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.