@@joshandrec That still kinda blows my mind. This guy is 20 years old and almost has 2 million subscribers with a bunch of quality content. I'm 18. What have I been doing with my life?
@@akpsyche1299 that's a bad mentality. I like this guy, but he hasn't made much of an impact. I mean I havent, and I probably won't. But no one is better or worse then you. You still can do amazing things in life.
Actually, the part that was missed in this video was that all of this was because her husband had been killed by the Drevlians. All of this was just her getting revenge
Yes, but better make sure that countries related or Slavs in general take care of the entire production. We don't need another empty HollyFool or NetReflux "megahit". I now present the name of Slavic Movie Production - the Svarowood (combination of words Svarog + Hollywood)
You forget to mention that the Drevlians killed her husband, so it’s arguable she wasn’t acting out of pure sadism, but rather some kind of over-twisted bitterness.
2:27 I was reading my Russian History textbook, and came across this excerpt: "Igor's sudden death at the hands of the Drevliane brought a remarkable ruler to the Kievan throne: his widow Olga [...] The 'Primary Chronicle' describes Olga's clever and brutal revenge against the Drevliane..." And I'm sitting there, hearing the Sam O'Nella intro music begin playing. Thank you Sam.
These guys must've been like: Ah yes, if you want to win the "heart" of your crush, just kill her husband, then proceeding to ask her out, I'm sure this will go well
I mean, I wouldn't muder anyone, but I would say "Yeah, tell the murdering shitbag you call a prince to fuck himself with a mace. And I better hear whispers with that exact wording or I will fucking destroy you.
1:45 I don't blame him, imagine you started a construction of a giant death machine of destruction, and it turns out you are not even gonna use it. Honestly what would you do in his situation?
Actually the reason she attacked the town wasn't because they didn't pay taxes but because they ripped her husband in half on birch trees when he was collecting taxes.
@@andymatheson82 Technically birch trees are better in minecraft than in real life you little twit ;) Edit: Oh man thanks for the likes guys yall are the best
Olga was more badass than presented here. She didn't just bury them alive, she buried them in their boat because they wanted her to marry her husband's murder. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_of_Kiev
Keep in mind in the case of Olga, she did all the things she did after they murdered her husband. Murdering one's spouse does tend to piss someone off. She also really helped spread Christianity which was why she was actually canonized.
A few specific people murdered her husband. Not the entire population of an ethnic people that she basically genocided in vengeance. Let's keep perspective here.
"Twenty Drevlian negotiators boated to Kiev to pass along their king’s message and to ensure Olga’s compliance. They arrived in her court and told the queen why they were in Kiev: “to report that they had slain her husband...and that Olga should come and marry their Prince Mal." So they first kill her husband, then are like, we'll replace him. lol. Not sure that's how I'd ask a girl out.
Royal marriages used to be nearly always political. Their proposal was basically peace treaty. On their terms, of course. they was probably thinking that her marriage was typical loveless formality.
No I don't you’re living out how her husband was killed. Igor of Kyiv was a greedy taxmongering prince, and arrived to unilaterally demand tribute from the Drevlians. They rightfully treated him as he deserved, performing a pagan ritual involving tying two young birch trees to the ground, tying Igor’s legs to each tree, and then cutting the ropes, letting the trees fling forward back into place. One can imagine what happened to Igor in his last seconds.
In fact, Olga only avenged her husband, whom the Drevlyans killed because he, at the whim of his soldiers, returned to them after collecting the tax for the supplement. Also, the pigeons did not have sulfur, but smoldering pieces of scarves.
I doubt this legend with the birds is true though, because what sane bird will just return to it's nest while having a freaking burning piece of something attached to it?
To be fair to Olga, those men she killed were members of the group that had just killed her husband. Likewise, she understood that were she to marry the new husband would become the ruler, and this would almost certainly result in the disinheritance and death of her son who was only three. She pretty much went on a revenge rampage akin to a John Wick film against the Drevlians and outmaneuvered them time after time, eventually destroying them so thoroughly that they ceased to be a threat to her reign. Also, the pigeon story is almost certainly apocryphal. She's certainly no "saint" as we think of them, then, but also not an unhinged monster... no "saintly" actions would have allowed for both her and her son to emerge from that situation alive. She did what she had to do, and it worked.
The reason she was made into a saint was because 1. she was the first of her people to convert and 2. she played a major role in spreading the religion to her people. But that being said... what she did was pretty on par with some of the stories told in the bible. People just used to be that way, you either survived or died... usually both. Also, keep in mind Dracula was a defender of the faith and he would eat his dinner outside surrounded by his impaled enemies.
Bryan Smith she seems to be a lot like Negan from The Walking Dead. Both a badass and a monster and using the flaming pigeons to teach a lesson about paying tribute
@@ordinarychef welp, if she did pigeon action she WAS NOT fucked up. Thanks to such actions she a) did not waste resources (life of her soldiers) and b) spread some good PR (from her time perspective) - meaning : don't screw with ppl from Kiev. So that'd be pretty efficient way of doing things (and maybe avoiding future problems, noone want to fuck with ruler who can command bloody pigeons to scorch city).
She also did all the stuff against the Derevlians because they murdered her husband, and she was pissed about that. So not only is she a badass, but she uses her badassery to avenge her man.
My favorite part of this is Saint Tiffany because Tiffany really is a medieval name. It's short for Theophania, but you'd never find it in a fantasy or historical fiction novel since (even though it is completely accurate) it feels inaccurate for the setting due to our contemporary views...
There's a lot of fantasy that uses the name Tiffany, most on the humorous side of fiction. Most famous maybe is Sir Terry Pratchett's (GNU) Tiffany Aching is his Discworld series. I know of two more of the top of my head (both are webcomics) and I've seen more still but couldn't tell you a title.
@@mirjanbouma that's awesome! I'd like to give that Terry Pratchet book a read! (I really loved Good Omens) thank you for sharing. If you find out what those webtoons are called, I'd like to know, but no worries. ♡
@@luluewhite one is Daughter of the Lilies, Tiffany is not a main character but it's the main character of a book series in the story that comes up a few times. The other one I can't recall right now but I'll look for it. It's an older webcomic that starts with a very stereotypical Conan the barbarian type dude saving a princess from an evil wizard but the wizard (I think accidentally) transforms the barbarian into a woman and he's stuck that way. In both instances they spell the name different but if you say it out loud you say 'Tiffany'. I'll go find the second webcomic's name! Edit: it's called Exiern. First Google result I got XD
My favorite genre of weapon is taking an agricultural tool and going “I can swing this pretty hard, it’ll do,” and it turns out to work really well. Notable examples: the Billhook and the threshing flail.
@@lukef3284 don't forget the Kama, and probably 90% of assassin and historical ninja tools. In those cases in part because of the inconspicuousness of them, but being plenty deadly helped
Olga killed the Drevlyans for the fact that they killed her husband Igor, who came to them for a tribute, but the Drevlyans knew that Igor would ask for a lot of tribute and therefore they killed him
When I was in middle school, our teacher wanted us to make a presentation on any topic we found interesting on the Middle Ages. Castles, clothing, music... I excitedly presented to my class about the different medical torture methods that were used including the brass bull and the pear. In hindsight I understand why my teacher looked so uncomfortable.
can forget the one where they would put a bucket with a rat in it on someones chest and then heat the bucket up so the rat would to escape dig and burrow through the person
special mention to that fucking pyramid people'd sit on and slowly feel it tear their ass apart. I don't know who the fuck thought if this shit but mad respect.
Ok so some of you may ask why did olga kill the drevlyans. Well they killed her husband. A husband that she was pretty fond of. They probably shouldnt have done that.
If you want wacky weapons, you need look no further than the Huolongjing, or the Fire Dragon Manual of medieval China. Just a few examples of the goodies one can find in such a volume (and remember, these names are actually what they called them): “Flying cloud thunderclap eruptor”- A cannon firing little iron shells filled with substances that would violently react when the shell shattered and they mixed together (which is also how greek fire worked btw). “Divine bone-dissolving fire oil bomb”- A frag grenade filled to the brim with little iron pellets. “Divine moving phalanx-breaking fierce-fire sword-shield”- A shield which fired many fire lances (spears with explosives attached to the ends) into enemy formations.
i like Percy Jackson to and yes Rick is Wrong about Ancient Greeks being the inventors of it but was not all wrong it was co-invented by a Jewish man and the greek speaking ppl in Byzantine witch they considered themselves Roman but were called Greek or Romie well the Jewish man came up with the formula and the Byzantine empire came up with the way to launch said Greek fire so while it was not the Ancient Greeks it was created with the help of the Greeks of the time and honestly I am ok with the mistake of saying Ancient Greeks Created it cuz it is an understandable error the 700th century for any of us now would be ancient lol
@@shawncassidy3517 Estefanía Núñez is clearly a Spanish name, and it's common for Spanish speakers to have two first names and two surnames. So she may very well be "Olga Estefanía Núñez García" and chose to go by the name of "Estefanía" precisely because she disliked the name "Olga".
*when you’re from Stirling and Stirling castle gets mentioned* And yes, some of the rocks that where launched into the castle are still there, and are used as decorations
Are we just brushing over how smart Olga was? She was like hmm how do I set fire to an entire city at once? Get a bird from every house sitting on a pile of tinder and give the bird a flaming piece of sulfur and send it home to set the tinder alight and burn each house individually!! She could’ve totally just burned every house down herself but she was so damn creative with her evil.
So you're going to talk about Olga of Kiev without mentioning the time the Drevlians murdered her husband so she held a funeral feast with her enemies and she got them all drunk and then gave them an drug called mad honey which made them go insane and fall all over the place twitching on the ground, then had them burned alive?
@@sirtaelellevalerie1056 he was pretty dumb. "Hm, you know what, I think this tribe that I had to intimidate with a huge army didn't pay me enough afterall. I'll go visit them again quickly with a small squad"
Turtle Guy, as you probably well know it depends from what language you are transliterating from. If you are transliterating from Old East Slavic (as written in such documents as the Lavretian Chronicle) it would be Olga of Kyjev, from Ukrainian it would be Olha of Kyiv (pronounced like Kyjiv or Kyyiv), and from Russian it would be Olga of Kiev (pronounced Kijev or Kiyev)
yeah you can’t really have a kid friendly rendition of someone who buries a bunch of dudes alive and traps some others inside a building then burns THEM alive... though I agree I would very much like to see them try
@Casual Satanist, They could pull it off, they just have to dehumanize them as much as possible just like they did the mongols in Mulan, then nobody will mind them being buried or burned. They could pull it off, supposedly her husband was murdered by one of them.
all 3 beliefs as religious buildings + that reformation belief that gives you tourism for religious buildings = basically guaranteed culture victory. It's almost unfair.
I've done that strategy before. Generally I go +2 gold per city following religion, 30% increased religious pressure range, and whatever I can get to increase happiness. Spread religion hard and fast to all city-states (and other civs if you don't mind the diplomacy hit) then you will have insane stockpiles of money and won't really need a standing army since you can just buy one when you need it.
That Olga story is similar to another story that just so happens to take place in the same period. In 1207 AD, Genghis Khan sieged the Chinese city of Volohai. The city was heavily fortified, but at the time, the mongols didn’t really use siege weapons to get through the defenses, so for once, the Calvary might of the Mongol horde were useless. So, Genghis offered a deal to Volohai: he would lift the siege if the city hands over 1,000 cats and 10,000 swallows, which the city agreed. When the demands were met, Genghis ordered his men to tie cotton puffs to the tails of the cats and birds and set them on fire, causing them to run back to the city terrified and immolated. This caused thousands of fires to break out in the city at the same time, forcing the citizens and garrison to put out the fires, giving the mongols the opening they need to attack and conquer the city. In the end, Volohai fell and the mongols captured Chinese engineers to have them make siege weapons, allowing them to take on other fortified cities without the need to setting pussies on fire.
I like how he pronounce “Kiev” the Ukrainian way years before the rest of us knew any better (Russian two-syllable pronunciation is all I knew being born and raised in the USA).
@@Kire1120 You are correct but they know that the West can’t easily pronounce it that way. Instead they push the “Kyiv” single-syllable pronunciation on us as their preferred pronunciation for the West since it’s more correct than the Russian Kiev. There is almost an R sound in the first syllable when Ukrainians say it.
"As tall as King Kong on his largest film depiction" - That aged well... Edit: lol what's with the likes it's not that funny :v btw, I'm being sarcastic (duh...)
Cannons. Gunpowder is seen as the most revolutionary discovery in warfare because of cannons. Cannons forced all fortresses to be reconstructed, since the tall, straight walls that had stood sieges agains catapults and trebuchets so effectively were incredibly easy to take down with cannons. The walls of Constantinople, that had withstood centuries of sieges were utterly destroyed by the ottomans using cannons. So yeah, next time you want to do that shit meme about catapults and trebuchets, remember: cannons are the best siege weapon, period.
0:37 GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD DON'T THINK IT DONT SAY IT DON'T THINK IT DON'T SAY IT
That thing Olga did with the birds....The U.S. army tried the same thing...search "bat bombs" We had millions of bats with little incendiaries timed to them with a timer, and we were going to drop them from planes in a bomb, like one big bursting-open container with 10s or 100s of thousands of these little bats, and they'd fly down to Japan below, land in the attic of a house or some shit, and the little bomb would go off. Project cancelled after they burned down the facility housing them.
And soviets tried the same thing using dogs, but they trained tchem on their own tanks… and that lead to a LOT of things going to hell real fast, when they tried to use tchem in combat
Japan also did the same thing but with balloons, but instead of fire, they used bombs. But that didn't go as well as planned because of the wind patterns and some balloons even landed back on Japan.
@@dedgect what I'm learning from this thread is that humanity has a long history of unsuccessful forays into self-deploying ordinance before the advent of the modern drone.
If it's one thing we've learned from history about warfare, don't waste your time using a bunch of little shits to bombard your enemy. Instead, just make one big ass version of it and they will eventually surrender.
I think a strategy that should’ve been used more often should’ve been to just go in front of castles, and just start building whatever, it doesn’t matter what it is, just as long as they are building a really big thing, it will scare the hell out of enemies and they’ll surrender immediately
Fun fact. Our history teacher showed us this video during a lecture. He often showed us fun and educational videos he found on UA-cam. I can also include that during test he often included words like “bro”, “jerk” and other words that probably broke some rules but damn he’s the best teacher I’ve ever had. Me and my classmates often pissed our selves laughing during his lessons, good times man.
Exactly. But they were Greek. Not like he says in his video. The Byzantine empire was multicultural, yes, but *lead by greeks* and everyone spoke Greek and had greek culture. It was Greece, just a medieval a bit more multicultural version.
I guess the Greeks of modern day Greece as well as Anatolia and Cyprus all simultaneously vanished after being conquered by the Romans and then magically reappeared during the 19th century #NOT
That Rick Riordan comment about Greek Fire picked me up, threw me up against a wall, put me through the stages of a beef cow, brought back to life, and punched me in the gut. I mean, even though speed-reading through his books when I was like 8 was (and will always feel like) a punch in the gut no matter how old I'll get, that just slapped me across the face *hard* and called it a day.
you would think riordan would write more pyromaniacs when he just straight up put magical napalm in his universe about angsty teenage demigods (no hate, they're lovable angsty teenage demigods)
his powerpoint presentations must’ve been very good back when he was in highschool
Probably
He's 20 years old now so back then he was making these vids during high school
@@joshandrec That still kinda blows my mind. This guy is 20 years old and almost has 2 million subscribers with a bunch of quality content. I'm 18. What have I been doing with my life?
@@akpsyche1299 still got 2 years bro hahahaha
@@akpsyche1299 that's a bad mentality. I like this guy, but he hasn't made much of an impact. I mean I havent, and I probably won't. But no one is better or worse then you. You still can do amazing things in life.
Olga is such a creative weapon of the Medieval Era
hydraxon 26 I agree, her reinforced steal body is amazing. And her acid spitting mouth is pretty great.
It's her mind man!
John Grafelman r.wooooooooooo
Is a flame carrying pigeon not a creative weapon
@@zxxkcxxz I believe the point being made was that her segment was more about her than her weapons
Is no one going to talk about the fact that he considered olga as a weapon
I mean at the time so did they
Seduction is powerful
@@oreo3740 but setting cities on fire is better
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Does he not upload anymore
We need a movie based on Olga's life. Not a drama, but pure evil, action filled and a gory one.
Actually, the part that was missed in this video was that all of this was because her husband had been killed by the Drevlians. All of this was just her getting revenge
Yes, but better make sure that countries related or Slavs in general take care of the entire production. We don't need another empty HollyFool or NetReflux "megahit".
I now present the name of Slavic Movie Production - the Svarowood (combination of words Svarog + Hollywood)
@@forgottenfamily And her son
Breaking Slav
@@forgottenfamily Bit of an understatement to call that 'just getting revenge'
You forget to mention that the Drevlians killed her husband, so it’s arguable she wasn’t acting out of pure sadism, but rather some kind of over-twisted bitterness.
Also, if she married the prince her three year old son would have most likely been executed.
@@cavejohnson4306 why would they kill a 3 year old???
Schnauzerstudios™ mideval times were weird man
@@kayla5543 if I had to guess probably because he wasn't the prince's own son
@@kayla5543 he would have been a threat to the rule of a new ruler
Salmonella 2016: See you in 3 months… Just joking
Salmonella 2020: Disappears for half a year
H www
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Imagine Corona got him
@@alexwhite1624 he actually posted on Twitter about how he was busy at college
@@user-njyzcip link?
I like how these weapons were so crazy that we did not even care about Saint Jerry at the end
you mean the one that fucked le goats?
Yep
My favorite is Sam moving closer to the mic while talking about him XD
I played that clip to my friends and one of them laughed so hard he started chocking
Nick Carambelas he didn’t tho
2:27
I was reading my Russian History textbook, and came across this excerpt:
"Igor's sudden death at the hands of the Drevliane brought a remarkable ruler to the Kievan throne: his widow Olga [...] The 'Primary Chronicle' describes Olga's clever and brutal revenge against the Drevliane..."
And I'm sitting there, hearing the Sam O'Nella intro music begin playing.
Thank you Sam.
You know I feel like Sam and high boi would get along
Fun fact: Olga of Kiev is actually a canonized saint in both the Roman Catholic AND Eastern Orthodox Churches.
Around the same time as saint jerry
The fucker of goats
@ElderlyMother i just said that it was around the same time and that he had sex with goats
.... Well, that's nice
She’s a kick ass bitch
They killed her husband
She killed all of them
“So imagine a giant ape throwing boulders like baseballs”
Attack on Titan: Hold on, he’s onto something
write that down WRITE THAT DOWN
Mmmm monke
Zeke must be a Sam O'Nella fan
Oh... my... Goodness. It all makes sense now. IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW
Thinking the exact same thing
Dang, tbh tho that pigeon scheme was genius af.
It was almost reused by the US with bats for pigeons instead of the atomic bomb against Japan.
The story is cool but would a bird that is about to get caught on fire fly directly to its nest? Honestly don't think so
@@cherrytreedeer9451 Then why did it happen?
@@liamjm9278I doubt that it happened
@@cherrytreedeer9451 You doubt birds flying to their nests after being released.
2:21 I love how Sam's just eatin' chips while recording. You can hear the bag crinkle.
It’s probably the fire
@@TheTimbs_ no its chips
@@nuh_uhfella used for fire effects
@@TheTimbs_ yeah sounds legit
признак профессионализма :D
Note: Olgas husband was killed by the folks who wanted her to
marry their prince so she had a good reason tot be pissed
These guys must've been like: Ah yes, if you want to win the "heart" of your crush, just kill her husband, then proceeding to ask her out, I'm sure this will go well
@hell Crusader Kings II
I mean, I wouldn't muder anyone, but I would say "Yeah, tell the murdering shitbag you call a prince to fuck himself with a mace. And I better hear whispers with that exact wording or I will fucking destroy you.
@@RazalasTrebla Marry your sister, overthrow your liege, turn the family tree into a family tumbleweed
@@demi-femme4821 cringe
1:45 I don't blame him, imagine you started a construction of a giant death machine of destruction, and it turns out you are not even gonna use it. Honestly what would you do in his situation?
Easy: I’d have my men wheel it to the Southern coastline to remind those Pansy French who REALLY controls Europe
Use it on the war prisoners
*countries with nuclear bombs except USA
@@jacobname4310 wtf do you mean? The only country that ever used nuclear weapons on people was the US.
WOuld have been funny if they wanted to surrender, he tries it out anyway, it collapses, and they dont surrender anymore.
*I ' m s o r r y, d i d I f u c k i n g s t u t t e r ?*
alright birds it is
No but you had a bit of a lisp.
*y e s ' n t*
3:57
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“I’ll se you in three months.”
Ah, what a luxury we used to have
sam: a giant ape lauching boulders like baseballs
the dude who writes attack on titan: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN
Lo
Trust me, a giant ape launching boulders at your men is TERRIFYING
@@arminackermann7875 bruhv they wasted the serum on you u fucking useless prick be looking like dora headass. 😔 RIP our boi one arm
@@pinkorange4980 yeah ikr it shouldn't have been me 😔
@@arminackermann7875 Im wating for season 4 ;-;
Actually the reason she attacked the town wasn't because they didn't pay taxes but because they ripped her husband in half on birch trees when he was collecting taxes.
birch trees are cool
TECHNICALLY, that means they also weren't paying taxes
Technically birch trees are trees
@@andymatheson82 Technically birch trees are better in minecraft than in real life you little twit ;)
Edit: Oh man thanks for the likes guys yall are the best
Maxim they deserved it
Olga was more badass than presented here. She didn't just bury them alive, she buried them in their boat because they wanted her to marry her husband's murder. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_of_Kiev
damn
More of a complete bitch than bad ass but whatever
Totally badass bitch
@@BoleDaPole no, they wanted her to hand her power over to the same people who killed her husband
@@zionnemakoma1398 oh that makes more sense
Keep in mind in the case of Olga, she did all the things she did after they murdered her husband. Murdering one's spouse does tend to piss someone off. She also really helped spread Christianity which was why she was actually canonized.
A few specific people murdered her husband. Not the entire population of an ethnic people that she basically genocided in vengeance. Let's keep perspective here.
@@pacmonster066 Ehhhh tomatoes tomatoes.
"Twenty Drevlian negotiators boated to Kiev to pass along their king’s message and to ensure Olga’s compliance. They arrived in her court and told the queen why they were in Kiev: “to report that they had slain her husband...and that Olga should come and marry their Prince Mal."
So they first kill her husband, then are like, we'll replace him. lol. Not sure that's how I'd ask a girl out.
Royal marriages used to be nearly always political. Their proposal was basically peace treaty. On their terms, of course. they was probably thinking that her marriage was typical loveless formality.
No I don't you’re living out how her husband was killed. Igor of Kyiv was a greedy taxmongering prince, and arrived to unilaterally demand tribute from the Drevlians. They rightfully treated him as he deserved, performing a pagan ritual involving tying two young birch trees to the ground, tying Igor’s legs to each tree, and then cutting the ropes, letting the trees fling forward back into place. One can imagine what happened to Igor in his last seconds.
@@Pantsinabucket Drevlians was his vassals, and didn't paid taxes for several years.
@@Pantsinabucket No wonder Olga burnt 20 people alive after they asked her to marry their Prince
Maybe you should try it and report back to us
She'll probably call the cops
Me, seeing the text onscreen: oh Olga of Kiev, I wonder who that is!
Sam: Olga of K E E V
In ukranian it is spelled kyiv so he aint wrong tho
She's my sister's patron saint
It's like when he just said emoo a million times instead of emU
Is it supposed to be kaev
@@beesgold1487 Here it's like 'key ev'
In fact, Olga only avenged her husband, whom the Drevlyans killed because he, at the whim of his soldiers, returned to them after collecting the tax for the supplement. Also, the pigeons did not have sulfur, but smoldering pieces of scarves.
Hi from Kyiv
And Olga wasn't canonized as a Catholic saint, but an eastern orthodox one. A very different thing.
Olga was best mom
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I doubt this legend with the birds is true though, because what sane bird will just return to it's nest while having a freaking burning piece of something attached to it?
Olga is a literal Creative Mastermind, attaching Sulfur those Birds just to set an ENTIRE TOWN on fire.
To be fair to Olga, those men she killed were members of the group that had just killed her husband. Likewise, she understood that were she to marry the new husband would become the ruler, and this would almost certainly result in the disinheritance and death of her son who was only three.
She pretty much went on a revenge rampage akin to a John Wick film against the Drevlians and outmaneuvered them time after time, eventually destroying them so thoroughly that they ceased to be a threat to her reign.
Also, the pigeon story is almost certainly apocryphal. She's certainly no "saint" as we think of them, then, but also not an unhinged monster... no "saintly" actions would have allowed for both her and her son to emerge from that situation alive. She did what she had to do, and it worked.
The reason she was made into a saint was because 1. she was the first of her people to convert and 2. she played a major role in spreading the religion to her people.
But that being said... what she did was pretty on par with some of the stories told in the bible. People just used to be that way, you either survived or died... usually both.
Also, keep in mind Dracula was a defender of the faith and he would eat his dinner outside surrounded by his impaled enemies.
He called her a bad-ass, not a monster.
her story needs to be a film or show. she is so lovingly badass
Bryan Smith she seems to be a lot like Negan from The Walking Dead. Both a badass and a monster and using the flaming pigeons to teach a lesson about paying tribute
@@ordinarychef welp, if she did pigeon action she WAS NOT fucked up. Thanks to such actions she a) did not waste resources (life of her soldiers) and b) spread some good PR (from her time perspective) - meaning : don't screw with ppl from Kiev. So that'd be pretty efficient way of doing things (and maybe avoiding future problems, noone want to fuck with ruler who can command bloody pigeons to scorch city).
His art style is like diary of a wimpy kid without noses
that's generous
How we livin baby sam’s art style is better
@Eric Lee damn why so aggressive
but still a masterpiece
Reminds me of casually explained, one of the reasons I started watching Sam
Olga was like:
"Meet the Pyro"
**TF2 music plays**
I fear no man, but that thing...it scares me.
i thought of the pyro when he said makeshift flamethrower
@@SupersuMC i don't want to talk about that freak he's not hear is he?HOW DO I GET THIS DAM THING OFF!!
That woman commit gamer move to her husband's killer and anyone who celebrated his death
Huddah huddah huh
"when you put the words makeshift and flamethrower next to eachother you're gonna run into problems sooner then later"
10/10
I want a whole episode just on Olga
yeah...but he pretty much told every interesting story of her that was badass
I want one on Tiffany.
Please. Use her full name.
Olga Lannister. :)
She's bad ass.
She also did all the stuff against the Derevlians because they murdered her husband, and she was pissed about that. So not only is she a badass, but she uses her badassery to avenge her man.
They had him pulled in two by a couple of large bent trees. So, ya, they started it, she finished it.
Persians:
Byzantines: b o a t *d i c k*
b o a t d i c k with f i r e c u m
Jason Irwin
Persians: everything *h u r t s*
f i r e c u m o n w a t e r
S T I C K Y F I R E C U M
WHAT'S A (Kind african american male) GOTTA DO TO GET SOME BOAT DICK
“50% Greek, 50% Fire.”
Pretty much sums up my nationality.
Um I’m guessing Irish?? 😂 took me a second
@@samael4550 I was thinking Australian lmao
No he means the fire nation
must be the next avatar
Err more 50% greek 50% chad
"imagine a giant fucking ape launching boulders like they're baseballs"
literally zeke from AoT
Underrated comment
“To my most loyal subscribers, see you in three months.”
That didn’t age quite so well
What does gordon freeman and Sam o'nella have in common? They both go missing for years, and then they randomly appear
Nice observation. He really *didn't* post within 3 months. Hahaha good one
I got so sad😅
Y'all think G_Man hired Sam?
@@weskside8349 The G Man does attract a certain type...
“Imagine a giant ape, launching boulders like baseballs.”
Zeke Jaeger:
Zeke’s a little Pwssyyyy
SASAGEYO
lmao i commented something like this like 5 months ago and didnt get 1 like 😢
That's one cool spoiler, dude.
g a y
My favorite part of this is Saint Tiffany because Tiffany really is a medieval name. It's short for Theophania, but you'd never find it in a fantasy or historical fiction novel since (even though it is completely accurate) it feels inaccurate for the setting due to our contemporary views...
St Tiffany doesn’t exist. But good analysis, I agree with you. Theophania is a pretty name.
@@MD-kd5zj yeah, I know he just made her up!! Still makes me laugh
There's a lot of fantasy that uses the name Tiffany, most on the humorous side of fiction. Most famous maybe is Sir Terry Pratchett's (GNU) Tiffany Aching is his Discworld series. I know of two more of the top of my head (both are webcomics) and I've seen more still but couldn't tell you a title.
@@mirjanbouma that's awesome! I'd like to give that Terry Pratchet book a read! (I really loved Good Omens) thank you for sharing. If you find out what those webtoons are called, I'd like to know, but no worries. ♡
@@luluewhite one is Daughter of the Lilies, Tiffany is not a main character but it's the main character of a book series in the story that comes up a few times. The other one I can't recall right now but I'll look for it. It's an older webcomic that starts with a very stereotypical Conan the barbarian type dude saving a princess from an evil wizard but the wizard (I think accidentally) transforms the barbarian into a woman and he's stuck that way.
In both instances they spell the name different but if you say it out loud you say 'Tiffany'.
I'll go find the second webcomic's name!
Edit: it's called Exiern. First Google result I got XD
My favorite genre of weapon is taking an agricultural tool and going “I can swing this pretty hard, it’ll do,” and it turns out to work really well. Notable examples: the Billhook and the threshing flail.
And the scythe, pitchfork, and cattle prod.
@@lukef3284 don't forget the Kama, and probably 90% of assassin and historical ninja tools. In those cases in part because of the inconspicuousness of them, but being plenty deadly helped
Olga killed the Drevlyans for the fact that they killed her husband Igor, who came to them for a tribute, but the Drevlyans knew that Igor would ask for a lot of tribute and therefore they killed him
Medieval diplomacy in a nutshell.
Hey guys I think Sam o nella is the same person that maked the channel remaings they have upside down second channels
@@VarthalabauHair russian diplomacy in a nutshell
@@lolppang4347 it has worked out well for them recently all hail Putin the blood lord of Moscow
Why did they think they'd survive going to meet her?
4:50 love it when he just bursts out laughing
*Who as the name implies*
*f* *u* *c* *k* *e* *d* *a* *l* *o* *t* *o* *f* *g* *o* *a* *t* *s*
@@asylumskp4391 very cool Dababy Official
When I was in middle school, our teacher wanted us to make a presentation on any topic we found interesting on the Middle Ages. Castles, clothing, music...
I excitedly presented to my class about the different medical torture methods that were used including the brass bull and the pear.
In hindsight I understand why my teacher looked so uncomfortable.
can forget the one where they would put a bucket with a rat in it on someones chest and then heat the bucket up so the rat would to escape dig and burrow through the person
Stoßtruppen or the fork
EDIT: No idea what I meant about the fork. The neck thing? Should've mentioned the bull statue thing
you tortured you class by talking about torture
special mention to that fucking pyramid people'd sit on and slowly feel it tear their ass apart. I don't know who the fuck thought if this shit but mad respect.
Stoßtruppen I think I saw that in sinister
Im like an illiterate masochist looking at an old library every time i go a few months not watching these videos and forget the main idea
Come on guys we can't forget about
SAINT JERRY
As someone named Jerry...
This vid hurt
so basically King Edward was theLegend27
xD just saw the ad xD
Lol
Haha
Yes i was!
R41NY hh
Ok so some of you may ask why did olga kill the drevlyans.
Well they killed her husband.
A husband that she was pretty fond of.
They probably shouldnt have done that.
They way they killed him was pretty bad too.
@@ChorltonBrook how was it done?
+Lightning McQueen They tied him between two bent over birch trees then let them straighten out. It ripped him in two.
Ya shouldn'ta did that!
@@ChorltonBrook and they regretted that
If you want wacky weapons, you need look no further than the Huolongjing, or the Fire Dragon Manual of medieval China. Just a few examples of the goodies one can find in such a volume (and remember, these names are actually what they called them):
“Flying cloud thunderclap eruptor”- A cannon firing little iron shells filled with substances that would violently react when the shell shattered and they mixed together (which is also how greek fire worked btw).
“Divine bone-dissolving fire oil bomb”- A frag grenade filled to the brim with little iron pellets.
“Divine moving phalanx-breaking fierce-fire sword-shield”- A shield which fired many fire lances (spears with explosives attached to the ends) into enemy formations.
Trebuchets can fling 90kg stones over 300m.
Superior siege engines, as you can clearly see.
Trebuchets > catapults
Can you use freedom units? I don't understand "Never been to the moon"
DanBoy damn.
in 'Murica units it's 198.416 lb stones over 984.252 feet or 328.084 yards
As someone who loves to Percy Jackson series I laughed so hard when you corrected Rick Riordan
i like Percy Jackson to and yes Rick is Wrong about Ancient Greeks being the inventors of it but was not all wrong it was co-invented by a Jewish man and the greek speaking ppl in Byzantine witch they considered themselves Roman but were called Greek or Romie well the Jewish man came up with the formula and the Byzantine empire came up with the way to launch said Greek fire so while it was not the Ancient Greeks it was created with the help of the Greeks of the time and honestly I am ok with the mistake of saying Ancient Greeks Created it cuz it is an understandable error the 700th century for any of us now would be ancient lol
Lol same
@@multiwindwaker what?
>700th century
>Romie
>witch
lol
@@multiwindwaker Godzilla had a stroke while trying to read this and fucking died
I didn't like my name in the beginning, now I appreciate it.. A badass Olga
Olga Lannister sends her regards.
Your name's estefanía
Seem's legit
tbh would u rather be Olga in this day and age, or take a middle name for example like Estefania? Just a thought.
I'm naming a daughter after that woman
@@shawncassidy3517 Estefanía Núñez is clearly a Spanish name, and it's common for Spanish speakers to have two first names and two surnames. So she may very well be "Olga Estefanía Núñez García" and chose to go by the name of "Estefanía" precisely because she disliked the name "Olga".
“Imagine a giant ape throwing boulders”
So basically just the beast titan
*when you’re from Stirling and Stirling castle gets mentioned*
And yes, some of the rocks that where launched into the castle are still there, and are used as decorations
Jim Fucking Stirling, Siege
The all holy Jesus himself hey I’m from Stirling too :D
Brandon Conway oh wow didn’t expect that :D
how big are they?
Stirling castle isn't near Stirling bridge, where Scots started everything?
"keeeev"... lel
NZAnimeManga I've never heard Kiev provinces like that
You beat me to it
That's the right way to pronounce it
Киев Kiev lol
Eden Ackerman kyiv... not keev.. dipshit
Its like the informative version of GradeA
I love this channel more than gradeA now
Grade went downhill when he started talking about UA-cam drama
Is Grade even still alive?
Is this name taken? Nah, he probably ded
Potato just because someone doesn't upload for a few months doesn't mean that they are dead.
Are we just brushing over how smart Olga was? She was like hmm how do I set fire to an entire city at once? Get a bird from every house sitting on a pile of tinder and give the bird a flaming piece of sulfur and send it home to set the tinder alight and burn each house individually!!
She could’ve totally just burned every house down herself but she was so damn creative with her evil.
Olga of “ *KEEEV* “
Olga feels like "Cool motive, still murder" incarnate
modus operandi*
@@npc6817 no
So you're going to talk about Olga of Kiev without mentioning the time the Drevlians murdered her husband so she held a funeral feast with her enemies and she got them all drunk and then gave them an drug called mad honey which made them go insane and fall all over the place twitching on the ground, then had them burned alive?
what weapon would he talk about?
And he pronounced Kiev (key ev) like keyv. I killed myself when he said that
God, watching one of these videos always leads to watching them all, doesn’t it?
This channel is fucking genius. Why had I not found ye earlier.
That is what i am wondering. What the hell is wrong with you? Pay your taxes.
Tree found this yesterday by my bro
Olga was taking revenge for her husband, whose limbs they cut off.
actualy TORN off... But, he were overtaxing them.
@@sirtaelellevalerie1056 he was pretty dumb. "Hm, you know what, I think this tribe that I had to intimidate with a huge army didn't pay me enough afterall. I'll go visit them again quickly with a small squad"
@@WRZ100 yeah, pride is common among rulers.
3:29
*d e m o n e t i z e d*
heck
H*CK
@@thedefenestrator2994 WOAH noooooo watch your language
Frikkkkkkkkkkķkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkķk
@@thedefenestrator2994 may the Lord have mercy.
Don't mind me, just watching this for the 25th time while waiting for the next upload.
Sam my boy! These videos are priceless! I shall alert all my squire at once and they shall all be subscribed by the morrow!
Hey, how would you describe Attack on Titan Season 3?
1:29
Wow almost 3 years old and the vid made a nice prediction.
@@signs4407 Yeah the comment is one month old but the video is 3 years old. Do you need me to come to your house and spell it out for you?
Karim Clarke r/woosh
@@secondBAR dumbass it ain't a wooosh he maid an honest mistake realised his mistake and he deleted the comment knowing it's a mistake
Holy shit
I'm sorry did I fucking stutter?
Olga had no chill.
Olga of keev
not kiev
but keev
Turtle Guy, as you probably well know it depends from what language you are transliterating from. If you are transliterating from Old East Slavic (as written in such documents as the Lavretian Chronicle) it would be Olga of Kyjev, from Ukrainian it would be Olha of Kyiv (pronounced like Kyjiv or Kyyiv), and from Russian it would be Olga of Kiev (pronounced Kijev or Kiyev)
Zach Bellman 666 LIKES
i dunno, professor quirrel
My actual favorite youtuber
3:52 ngl that is SO FREAKING smart.
😂 😂 😂 😳 😳 🥰 🥰 🥰 🥰 #wap ❤️ 🥂 🍷
Bruv wap has nothing to do with this? Do you even know what it means
IKR
It is also very creative and evil
1:50 I'm Greek and we call it "liquid fire" LOL
Υγρό πυρ
@@nicolasm_1200 Yuh
@@manospronoob what's your point my dude
@@manospronoob yeah das it
*_lol no_*
0:37 *I can’t unsee them*
Man they're literally everywhere now
📮
aMoGuS
Amog u
1:31 *angry Levi noises intensify*
I was starting to think this video was a fever dream. I'm glad I found it again
Ulga should be in disney for an action disney movie
disney would ruin it completely AND make it child friendly, so it would suck in two ways
yeah you can’t really have a kid friendly rendition of someone who buries a bunch of dudes alive and traps some others inside a building then burns THEM alive... though I agree I would very much like to see them try
@Zee A Eh, It would just be Brave but slavic instead of Irish. CYKA BLYAT!
@Casual Satanist, They could pull it off, they just have to dehumanize them as much as possible just like they did the mongols in Mulan, then nobody will mind them being buried or burned. They could pull it off, supposedly her husband was murdered by one of them.
Disney's "Хоробрий" (Brave in Ukranian) coming soon!
Thanks for this video salmonella.
Hell yeah, I read the name and thought nothing of it... then he says it out loud and holy shit that was funny.
Tim de Vries oh look you figured out the fucking joke
Tim de Vries Nederlands?
Tim de Vries thanks for this salmonella, video
Male Salmon: Salmon
Female Salmon: *_SALMONELLA_*
"A giant ape hurling boulders like they're baseballs." Wow I love attack on Titan season 3 😍
First thought too, plus the fact they were laying siege to a castle.
Glad I wasn't the only one to think of the beast titan
Was searching for this conment
"Rick Riordan, you lying prick." Is something I've said to myself more than once.
**sigh**
Now I have to go play Civ 5 as the Byzantine empire...
all 3 beliefs as religious buildings + that reformation belief that gives you tourism for religious buildings = basically guaranteed culture victory. It's almost unfair.
I've done that strategy before.
Generally I go +2 gold per city following religion, 30% increased religious pressure range, and whatever I can get to increase happiness. Spread religion hard and fast to all city-states (and other civs if you don't mind the diplomacy hit) then you will have insane stockpiles of money and won't really need a standing army since you can just buy one when you need it.
Sam O'Nella Academy Btw when you say Olga of Kiev, Kiev is pronounced KEY-EV, just in case you wanted to know :D live your vids keep it up
*love
Nerds...nerds never change...-oh, um, a-AND war! That too, I guess.
*And 40,000 millennia later, saint Olga's descendant founded the Sisters Of Silence, which then formed into the Sisters Of Battle*
Sounds about right
I was waiting for this
That's 40 _million_ years. I think you might've overshot just a bit.
@@Anastas1786 i think he must referred to the date
ABANDON ALL REASON,KNOW ONLY WAR!!!! FOR THE EMPEROR
That Olga story is similar to another story that just so happens to take place in the same period.
In 1207 AD, Genghis Khan sieged the Chinese city of Volohai. The city was heavily fortified, but at the time, the mongols didn’t really use siege weapons to get through the defenses, so for once, the Calvary might of the Mongol horde were useless.
So, Genghis offered a deal to Volohai: he would lift the siege if the city hands over 1,000 cats and 10,000 swallows, which the city agreed.
When the demands were met, Genghis ordered his men to tie cotton puffs to the tails of the cats and birds and set them on fire, causing them to run back to the city terrified and immolated.
This caused thousands of fires to break out in the city at the same time, forcing the citizens and garrison to put out the fires, giving the mongols the opening they need to attack and conquer the city.
In the end, Volohai fell and the mongols captured Chinese engineers to have them make siege weapons, allowing them to take on other fortified cities without the need to setting pussies on fire.
I can't wait for the Olga vs. Genghis Khan crossover movie
I like how he pronounce “Kiev” the Ukrainian way years before the rest of us knew any better (Russian two-syllable pronunciation is all I knew being born and raised in the USA).
The Ukrainian pronunciation is also two syllables. It's like "Kee yeev".
i pronounce every ukrainian city with russian phonology
@@Kire1120 You are correct but they know that the West can’t easily pronounce it that way. Instead they push the “Kyiv” single-syllable pronunciation on us as their preferred pronunciation for the West since it’s more correct than the Russian Kiev. There is almost an R sound in the first syllable when Ukrainians say it.
It’s a great epsidode when he starts off with “hey kids”
but doesn't he start all his episodes with--I see what you did there
Especially when he adds a blooper after his outro
"you know we got food we can give you that."
"I'm sorry did I fucking stutter?"
"birds it is then!"
1:33 *attack on Titan fans after watching the third season* "yeah, I could imagine that ._."
Season 2 started the beast titans rampage
I wonder how that trebuchet wipes itself after pooping
@@silford thing is this vid was made before season 2, which meant it was a manga reference
Bro I was hoping someone else noticed
@@antcnius It was just a coincidence, not a reference
"Imagine a giant f**king ape launching boulders like their baseballs"
Hajime Isayama: write that down!!!
"As tall as King Kong on his largest film depiction" - That aged well...
Edit: lol what's with the likes it's not that funny :v btw, I'm being sarcastic (duh...)
0:38 amog us
@@Frvr0pace dislike comment
Because they are making a new movie with him?
_That's_ why it aged well?
Monke titan throw rock
@@Frvr0pace when the imposter is sus😳
This channel has taught me more than school.
And will more
King Edward the first knows what the superior siege weapon is.
Cannons. Gunpowder is seen as the most revolutionary discovery in warfare because of cannons.
Cannons forced all fortresses to be reconstructed, since the tall, straight walls that had stood sieges agains catapults and trebuchets so effectively were incredibly easy to take down with cannons. The walls of Constantinople, that had withstood centuries of sieges were utterly destroyed by the ottomans using cannons.
So yeah, next time you want to do that shit meme about catapults and trebuchets, remember: cannons are the best siege weapon, period.
@@Burn_Angel But can it launch 90 kg projectile over a distance of 300 meters?
@@nbeshark2584 There have been cannons big enough to shoot projectiles over half a ton at even longer distances.
So yes, they can.
@burn angel r/wooooooooooooosh
@@Burn_Angel To bad they cannot be built of wooden planks and ropes.
0:37
GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD
DON'T THINK IT DONT SAY IT DON'T THINK IT DON'T SAY IT
That thing Olga did with the birds....The U.S. army tried the same thing...search "bat bombs"
We had millions of bats with little incendiaries timed to them with a timer, and we were going to drop them from planes in a bomb, like one big bursting-open container with 10s or 100s of thousands of these little bats, and they'd fly down to Japan below, land in the attic of a house or some shit, and the little bomb would go off.
Project cancelled after they burned down the facility housing them.
And soviets tried the same thing using dogs, but they trained tchem on their own tanks… and that lead to a LOT of things going to hell real fast, when they tried to use tchem in combat
Japan also did the same thing but with balloons, but instead of fire, they used bombs. But that didn't go as well as planned because of the wind patterns and some balloons even landed back on Japan.
That needs to be a batman weapon. It's already appropriately named "bat bomb".
@@dedgect what I'm learning from this thread is that humanity has a long history of unsuccessful forays into self-deploying ordinance before the advent of the modern drone.
If it's one thing we've learned from history about warfare, don't waste your time using a bunch of little shits to bombard your enemy. Instead, just make one big ass version of it and they will eventually surrender.
“Rick Riordan, you lying prick”. That got to me😂
For real. Us Percy Jackson fans all gasped when he said Rick Riordan😂
yup got me too
Whenever I hear the word “makeshift” my brain makes a custom definition of the word which is: “medieval d.i.y.”
I think a strategy that should’ve been used more often should’ve been to just go in front of castles, and just start building whatever, it doesn’t matter what it is, just as long as they are building a really big thing, it will scare the hell out of enemies and they’ll surrender immediately
Olga is the most badass Slavic name
Stannis The Mannis Baratheon it's Nordic. And she's not a Catholic Saint but Orthodox.
It’s also pretty basic, it’s just the name of a river
She's also venerated as a Catholic Saint though: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_of_Kiev
Stannis The Mannis Baratheon its a Greek name....
Stannis The Mannis Baratheon
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“Greek fire acted like napalm”
The Byzantines: SOME FOLKS ARE BORN-
*MADE TO WAVE THE FLAG*
@@Riolupai OOH THEIR RED WHITE AND BLUE
@@johndeerex7589 AND WHEN THE BAND PLAYS HAIL TO THE CHIEF
OOOH THAT POINTS THE CANNON AT YOU, LAWD
@@nayahall6475 IT AIN'T ME, IT AIN'T ME
Fun fact. Our history teacher showed us this video during a lecture. He often showed us fun and educational videos he found on UA-cam. I can also include that during test he often included words like “bro”, “jerk” and other words that probably broke some rules but damn he’s the best teacher I’ve ever had. Me and my classmates often pissed our selves laughing during his lessons, good times man.
I come back to these videos every year and wonder if they ever stop being interesting and the answer is no
"man, it's like a sauna in here."
"It is a sauna."
"dIPSHIT"
greek fire was invented by greeks they just werent ancient lol
Exactly. But they were Greek. Not like he says in his video. The Byzantine empire was multicultural, yes, but *lead by greeks* and everyone spoke Greek and had greek culture. It was Greece, just a medieval a bit more multicultural version.
I guess the Greeks of modern day Greece as well as Anatolia and Cyprus all simultaneously vanished after being conquered by the Romans and then magically reappeared during the 19th century #NOT
Didnt they lose that technology? As in, they dont know to this day how to recreate Greek fire?
@@gram. meh we've got napalm
@Tomáš Laštovička woooo latin
That Rick Riordan comment about Greek Fire picked me up, threw me up against a wall, put me through the stages of a beef cow, brought back to life, and punched me in the gut. I mean, even though speed-reading through his books when I was like 8 was (and will always feel like) a punch in the gut no matter how old I'll get, that just slapped me across the face *hard* and called it a day.
Solidarity woo I feel the same
you would think riordan would write more pyromaniacs when he just straight up put magical napalm in his universe about angsty teenage demigods (no hate, they're lovable angsty teenage demigods)
The King Kong description helped a lot and I don’t know how that makes me feel
i still hear “i’m salmonella” instead of “i’m Sam O’Nella” in the outro...
I've salmonella and I thank you for watching
that's the point, right?
1:32 *Attack on titan intensifies*
I WAS LOOKING FOR A COMMENT LIKE THIS
Hmm beast titan was a thing huh lemme search this anime
@@iwilleatyoursoul6931 what did you think?
I FOUND THE COMMENT
LOOKING FOR IT!
"So you know catapults"
Yea...
"What if they were bigger"
FUCKING GENIUS!
I frickin love the torch over the king's head.