[SunkenCiv]

I’ve got Michael Wood’s “The Story of England” playing in the next room, a while ago they were recounting a (translated to modern English) 12th c report of a mass execution of “thieves”, some of whom were blinded and castrated before hanging. Effin’ Normans.

[colorado tanker]

The movie and play Becket had Henry and his barons saying some awful things about Saxon dogs, scum, etc.

The ironic thing was that Thomas a Becket was Norman, not Saxon. When the playwright found that out she didn't change anything because she thought the story played better if Thomas was a Saxon. One would have thought she would know that a Becket is not a Saxon name.