While legend has it that Eadric Streona (“Grasping Eadric” or “Eadric the Acquisitor”) irritated the monarch by beating him in a game of chess, Middle Ages chroniclers attributed his fate to the just deserts of inveterate treachery.
I didn't know that there were DESERTS in medieval England!
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2 posted on 12/26/2022 1:32:59 AM PST by alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)