We have a tendency today to downgrade the men of those times as ‘smaller and weaker’ than we are. However when a few actual english Long Bows were pulled up from some water that had preserved them perfectly it was found that the “pull” on them was a lot higher than formerly theorized. The truth is that when a mans life depended upon his mastering a thing HE MASTERED THE HELL OUT OF IT!
I didn't really like the book "Timeline," by Michael Crichton, in which people travel back in time to the Medieval period, but there was a funny bit where one of the moderns is getting armored up and his squires ask him if he's been sick recently, since he appears so puny. I bet that is more accurate than many of us would care to believe.
“Evil doesn’t have a day job.”
Good one. Putting it in my glossary.
“Evil doesn’t have a day job.”
Good one. Putting it in my glossary.