PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoThe Franks needed a better PR departmentlemmy.worldimagemessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up1130
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minus-squareNegativeNull@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·3 months agoThe Anglo Saxons are a mixed bag Edward ‘the Confessor’ Ethelred ‘the Unready’ Edmund ‘the Magnificent’ Edmund ‘Ironside’ Harold ‘Harefoot’ Edgar ‘the Peaceful’
minus-squareAqarius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoEthelred is doubly funny, because “unraed” actually translates to “badly counciled”. So it’s really “Ethelred the Ill-advised”, which is somehow even worse.
The Anglo Saxons are a mixed bag
Edward ‘the Confessor’
Ethelred ‘the Unready’
Edmund ‘the Magnificent’
Edmund ‘Ironside’
Harold ‘Harefoot’
Edgar ‘the Peaceful’
Ethelred is doubly funny, because “unraed” actually translates to “badly counciled”. So it’s really “Ethelred the Ill-advised”, which is somehow even worse.