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adam 24 he/him old english + medievalism + chainmail this is a side blog

[fealtypledger]

modern day knight with alphabet fridge magnets all over their armor

[alexsiple]

Jeanne

[knightclubbing]

having to stop your conversation with a coworker when a customer walks in has the same vibe as two knights talking ildly on guard duty who have to quickly shut up and resume their positions as the king walks by. at least. i think so

[tridentandtales]

Egyptian mold for a Heron (a bird associated with the sun, the annual flooding of the Nile, and the afterlife)

2nd - 1st century BCE (Ptolemaic period)

Walters Art Museum 22.284

[baelorsbeard]

Had a ridiculous reference pic on my phone that I needed to exorcise 😂 Anyway, what if Baelor had just reached out in the Ashford solar and honked one. What if.

[willjulep]

Bro, we are cooked. The knight that dogs the prince's shadow like a dark and silent wraith just knelt to press his forehead to the prince's hand. Yeah, now he's uttering a prayer whose recipient is ostensibly God but in reality is the deified version of the prince that exists only in his mind. Aaand the prince just caressed his cheek to preemptively grant him absolution. I gotta... I gotta get out of here.

[fealtypledger]

while you were balancing your humors i was studying the blade, accidentally cutting myself, and bleeding out. now can you please help me balance my humors please please please my blood is all gone

[fealtypledger]

in another life in a different time you left the battlefield with a survivable arrow wound and i with my pre-germ theory medical expertise treated the affliction, ultimately worsening your condition and killing you

[fealtypledger]

grrm write another dunk and egg trilogy where dunk reunites with tanselle and lyonel and raymun and you will be reincarnated as a lotus flower

[charnel-grounds]

“Inferno” or “Vision of Hell”

anonymous, attributed to the English School

oil on canvas, 19th century — source

[baelorsbeard]

I am, in fact, back at it again.

[clawmarks]

Illustrated London Almanack - Vol. 19, 1863 - via Internet Archive

[the-punforgiven]

[fealtypledger]

babies have always been babies

[fealtypledger]

old english words that need to recirculate

dearworth (deor-wurþe) adj. — precious, dearly loved

sorrowlove (sorh-lufu) n. — love accompanied by anxiety or sorrow

dizzy (dysig) adj. derogatory— foolish, stupid

dreamless (drēam-lēas) adj. — sad, joyless

irework (irre-weorc) n. — a work undertaken in anger

[fealtypledger]

the plague rat is the most tragic medieval figure because they are scorned only for the era they lived in. that very same rat could have been the revered pizza rat were it alive today

[fealtypledger]

a version of the noun “spear” in old english is þræc-wudu, which essentially means “power wood” or “force wood” but the beautiful part it that þræc is pronounced like THRACK which really gives you a sense of what a spear does