apparently modern medieval scholars have no solid idea why there’s so many old paintings of knights fighting snails. Like that wasn’t just one weird painting there’s hundreds of those.
the firste meyme
And my favorite one here
I’m not saying humanity defeated an invasion of snail aliens in the Middle Ages but hold on wait that’s EXACTLY what I’m saying
snail aliens, or snaliens,
probably it was just funny so people kept doing it. which is basically what a meme is
the explanation I’ve heard is that most of the monks who did these illustrations would have kept small gardens where they grew all their own food and this was their way of venting about snails ruining their gardens
ok thats even funnier
This is hands down one of my favourite posts on Tumblr.
“Fuckin snails, I’m gonna draw me some God damn knights killing the shit out of these shell slime fucks. Teach them to fucking ruin my herbs. Assholes.”
Black Ghost aka Juodasis Vaiduoklis is a bronze sculpture sculpted by Svajunas Jurkus and Sergejus Plotnikovas located at the port of Klaipėda, Lithuania.
This video of the
Lagarfljót Worm (or
Lagarfljótsormur) was taken in February of 2012 by a man named
Hjörtur
Kjerúlf. He stands firm by his claim that the video is not faked in any way. There has been much disagreement over if this video is genuine or faked. While some people believe the object in the video is an inanimate object (perhaps plastic or a fishing net) that is moving with the currents of the water; other people believe it to be the monster that has been sighted since the 1300s. A panel of 13 people, the Truth Committee, came together to judge if the creature was real or not and ultimately decided that it was a real creature.
