Vinland Saga Early Access Episode 2-19
Added 2023-05-22 01:12:34 +0000 UTCHere's the intro: https://youtu.be/C7nd5QziBKg
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Holy crap. I've never even heard of this. Just shows how immense history is. You can casually study it your entire life and not even scratch the surface.
Dexter Goad
2023-05-25 13:12:23 +0000 UTCAn "outlaw" was someone who the law did not protect, that it was legal to murder and steal the property from. Sentencing someone to be an outlaw basically meant they were being exiled as they would no longer be safe. When that list of people to kill is drawn up in the latest episode of Rome, it was actually a list of people made "outlaws" (most of which fled the country and had their property stolen). Looking at the wikipedia page, Outlawy remained a punishment in Germany, eastern Europe and Australia into the 19th century, and the last person sentenced to be an outlaw in the UK was in 1855, the law only being taken off the books after WW2!
paul cook
2023-05-25 05:19:55 +0000 UTCYeah I give a lot of grace to story tellers with things like this because there is a difference between something being first invented and something being first popularized enough that it finally makes the history books. For instance, you know those ruins they've found at the bottom of the Great Lakes? Settlements that predate that area being under water? They found farming tools commonly believed to have been invented centuries later than that time period. So the further back we go the less it bothers me if a writer fudges the numbers. Having said that, maybe its just arm strength or bow strength? I dunno.
Dexter Goad
2023-05-24 18:21:18 +0000 UTCI don't think they had long bows at this point so I'm unsure how they reached the soldiers on the beach. They first got popular about 300 years after this in the hundred years war. That said, long bows were invented in Wales so it could be a neat tie in to Askalad?
paul cook
2023-05-24 18:10:45 +0000 UTC
