Inter their bodies as becomes their births

[sovay]

Hello, Richard.

I have to say, this makes me extremely happy.

(Further details from the University of Leicester here.)

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[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Excellent. I'm delighted it makes you very happy. Thanks so much for sharing it.

I hope it holds up as well, although the non-DNA parts of it sound solid to me, at least to the degree I can judge them without having seen an actual site report, etc. Doesn't seem likely there'd be that many high status men with severe scoliosis, killed in battle and buried hastily and ignominously but inside a church and in about the right locality in that period.

I do wish the Guardian reporter hadn't described a halberd as "razor sharp," which always gets to me because you don't put a razor edge on something that you're going to be chopping through bone with, and probably a goodly number of bones if you're to live through the day, bashing armour with, etc. It's not that it's not sharp, which is the other error in historical arms writing that always gets on my nerves, it's just that it's sharpened more like a felling axe than a chef's knife... But that's me being a geek again.

The sword injury at the time of death is interesting. Suggests he must have lost his helm in the fight, because you can't cut through a helm with a sword. I'd like to read something detailed enough to explain why they're thinking of that as a perimortem battlefield injury rather than another postmortem mutilation.

If Richard visits you and him asking a poem of you, I hope he'll be polite about it.

[sovay]

I'd like to read something detailed enough to explain why they're thinking of that as a perimortem battlefield injury rather than another postmortem mutilation.

I'm assuming there will be papers. Then I'll just have to hope I can get access to them.

If Richard visits you and him asking a poem of you, I hope he'll be polite about it.

Thank you. I tend to think of poliphilo as his preeminent poet, but it is not inconceivable.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming there will be papers. Then I'll just have to hope I can get access to them.

Aye. And there's the rub. Well, with luck we'll both get to see them, one way or another, at least some of them.

Thank you.

You're welcome.