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"Today I ..." am thunderstruck !
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lulz
"Today I ..." am particularly impressed with song of the Thorpe Falchion.
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What is the Falchion (fall-shun)?
Basically a blade carried by Archers from around 1300 or so. The Thorpe Falchion was dredged up from the Yara river near Thorpe St Andrews around 180 years ago and is now on display in Norwich Castle and is one of only a handful of Falchions still around.
Looking at online pics of it, it seems to me to have lasted well !
Twas its cousin, the Conyer's Falchion that took down the Sockburn Worm that Lewis Carroll called "jabberwocky".
Them jabberwocky thangs (wot we teach kids these days as being "dinosaurs") were not only beasties that the Children of Israel had to deal with during their 40 years in the wilderness, but also creatures somewhat tamed and kept by some in Ancient Rome and Eygpt. Since then, they also made themselves a nuisance in Europe and the UK ... and are well established in Chinese history.
Anyhoo, John Conyer is famous for taking care of one of them ... and St George another.
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I doubt if they are utterly extinct though. Well, I hope not.
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