tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853776366845031479.post3280924444913406019..comments2023-09-07T03:24:37.845-05:00Comments on Neal and Rachel's Wisconsin Adventures!: And Now for Your Monday Monarch MomentRachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05062671427548399205noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853776366845031479.post-46074215441400297172009-04-21T10:02:00.000-05:002009-04-21T10:02:00.000-05:00Wow, Ms. Chadwick, thanks for dropping by! Your a...Wow, Ms. Chadwick, thanks for dropping by! Your answer was better than mine would have been: "YEAH, it was!" (One of the things you learn when studying history is that people have <I>always</I> liked dirty jokes.)<br /><br />Hater, as to your remark that Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine were awesome, my answer would be, "YEAH, they were!" They're coming up next Monday.<br /><br />And finally, I'll go edit the quote to make it clearer about the plantains.Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05062671427548399205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853776366845031479.post-57666728968717176312009-04-21T08:56:00.000-05:002009-04-21T08:56:00.000-05:00This period was also described as "When Christ and...This period was also described as "When Christ and the Saints slept" - and just a note the Empress Matilda's son Henry II and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine are awesome, historically speaking of course.Hater Haterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05753686303615313257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853776366845031479.post-72412519575414983162009-04-21T04:51:00.000-05:002009-04-21T04:51:00.000-05:00Hi there,
I'm dropping in because I have my Google...Hi there,<br />I'm dropping in because I have my Google alert set to William Marshal and your blog came up. I'm the author of two novels about William Marshal and one about his father.<br />Can I answer Craig's question and say that yes, the anvils and hammers were a sexual metaphor - but there was more to it than that even. Some of the symbols of the royal marshal were the anvil and the hammer. Farriers in this period were often called Marshals (marescallus) and the job of royal Marshal originally involved being a horse master. So John Marshal's speech was working on several levels. <br />With the plaintain incident, William did knock off the head of King Stephen's plantain plant and Stepehn promptly gave him another one to have a go at.<br />'Qu'icil al rei perdi la teste; Willemes fist mult grant feste; Li rein un autre l'en tendi.' - from the Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal.Elizabeth Chadwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16911841862257909703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1853776366845031479.post-24859164137684493402009-04-20T23:55:00.000-05:002009-04-20T23:55:00.000-05:00"He had the anvils and hammers with which to forge..."He had the anvils and hammers with which to forge still better sons." Is that a sexual metaphor?<br /><br />Also, at the end of your story, did William destroy Stephen's plantain, or actually cut his head off?Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03558069223334537518noreply@blogger.com