Oh come on, this is a little unfair. Every LARPer knows that when you put chainmail in the wash it shrinks. Gotta remember to hang it out to dry instead of putting it in the peat bog.
You just have to make sure you don't put it in the dryer on high heat, or it'll shrink for sure! (lol, sarcasm - ex larper - don't put your chainmaile in the dryer, your dryer will hate you for it)
@@sarudon8412 I absolutely agree with you. some people take what they see in larp as historical fact when in most cases its like...90% wrong. There are some grains of accuracy but...it depends on the Larp I suppose
See, I was gonna ask if it shrank in the wash! I mean, since we all know People Of Olden Time Weren't As Smart As Us,* maybe improperly laundered chainmail happened all the time! XP *Argument less effective if people involved know ANYTHING about current events. Or actual history. Or both.
I will never forget my favorite college history professor saying, "People were not hobbits in the Middle Ages. No one in history was as short as short as you think." This chain mail got me thinking about that class again!!
Oh the Magna Carta Bit genuinely Made me laugh. Apart from the fact that seizing a big Tourist attraction instead of... You know... The Scottish parliament? Would probably be easier too, since the parliament Security is incredibly chill
I don't know why people do the things they do. I don't understand. People taking "fake until you make it" just a bit too far. Thanks again for an entertaining one, Jimmy. Hope all is well over there with you and your family.
I have something to confess, I'm graduating history and archaeology in university, and a very good one at that. My ceremony is on Friday, and I fell for the chainmail fake, against all my better judgement and skepticism. I saw photos of real corroded Medieval chainmail. I saw an actual piece of a Viking age guy before in what was probably chainmail. I know how it's supposed to look like. I didn't look at the fake's photos closely and didn't notice it was butted. The whole premise of finding that shite in a shed should have been a red flag from the start. I saw some decent newspapers report it and I assumed it was real just from that fact, against all my better judgement and all that I've learned and thought. Should I just rip up my diploma when I get it? Because quite frankly I feel ashamed. This is truly a dark page in my life, and I'm being serious here.
@@pavelstaravoitau7106 No, no, please don't. You being able to see that you got it wrong and saying that you made a mistake (and it's a wee one at best) does make you a good scholar!
I'm a car boot hunting wodworking-tool collector. The simple state of the metal (light orange rust) told me that it was relatively new. And I know bugger all about medieval armour.
I’m waiting for the dude who’s gonna insist the “hauberk” is “clearly” meant for a child (like the later fashion of having full plate for young aristocratic boys )
So glad your mum's doing better. I'm glad they have that law in Ireland. I feel like legit finds like that belong to all of Ireland, not just one individual. Seems like they've had all the time on their hands recently lol
it's interesting, because I have a large chunk of the timber from stirling that was damaged during the battle in 1297, that those guys might be interested in. one might even say... i have a bridge to sell them
Its toddler armour!! As we all know, toddlers were used in warfare frequently in the medieval times. Which is why there were all those muscular babies in art.
This is an awesome rant, lol. Great video! So glad that your family member is doing better. I sure wish this virus would come to an end already. Many blessings to you and yours. Take care.
My first reenactment shirt was a bad butted indian one and legitimately was the same colour as this from a year or two of being kept in a shed by the person I bought it from. Until I saw the size pictures I almost thought someone had resurrected the damn thing.
Magna Carta is historically important, and I appreciated it when I got to see a (presumably) 13th century copy of Magna Carta. But using it to justify appropriating property? That’s daft.
I think I should check on my costume chain mail. That’s some ugly. Update: It’s totally fine. Probably because I stored it like the artisan told me to - and not in a damp shed.
Always stylish, Jimmy. Those that disrespect historical sites need to be dealt with. These finds are much more precious than people think will ever consider them as. We're also tired of fake medievalists, from fake vikings, or idiots that use some medieval name or culture to do some inane and ignorant act of who-or-whatever. Okay Steve, go back to your Skyrim game and leave world events to the adults. Great vid as always. Best wishes.
A-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y wonderful. If I could afford it right now, I would have become a patreon immedeatly, and I will as soon as my situation changes. Could you do more vids about medieval armor and weapons? There are so many videos out there about the "in-effectiveness of chainmail" or "welded chainmail", or how Talhoffer is the only "true" medieval fenching style and so on....
you gave me twenty extra minutes of amusement when i looked up the protest in Edinburgh as well. This is even more stupid than the Reichsbürger-movement in Germany. Less than 1 minute of research told me that the Magna Carta was never part of Scottish law and that it only applied to a few specific Barons - don´t those people know how to use Google?
Someone just sent me a link to one of these clickbait articles and my first response was bull-f$#*$&ng%#t. ..and then I found EXACTLY the informed response to send back...YOU! And only an hour old. 30 years ago I was making this sort of butted costumery for my ren-faire & comic-con friends and no one even then thought it was remotely authentic. Uncared for, it was lucky to last two years in an air conditioned closet in humid Georgia without looking far rustier than that or just falling apart...Bog? Shed? Yup. B.S. But one good thing came out of it...I have a new UA-cam channel to watch. :) Thank you Welsh Viking.
@@TheWelshViking Weird - it may have been some of my school friends (who played rugby) pulling my leg but I was always told, one verse went 'I hit my Mother with a saucepan, to my surprise she hit me back!' ^*^
So what your saying is a medieval artisan made mitrhal for a very rich fancy well fed person and the bog preserved it so well it that it removed the rivets while simultaneously shrinking it. Lol
Your mention of the acidic nature of peat reminded of a story I transcribed at the sound archived. Before they managed to get the chain huts built for the gun battery the men were handed bright sparkly new white canvas tents to sleep in. Bearing in mind the strategic importance of Scapa Flow and the number of enemy planes hopping over for a wee look the gunners thought white tents were probably no't the cleverest place to sleep. Some one with perhaps two brain cells or perhaps a really developed malicious compliance decided that things pulled out of the peat banks were brown so if the lay the tents in the peat they would be less noticeable to the enemy as they flew over. Great idea until the first Orkney gale. The acidic peat had eaten away the cotton thread holding the canvas panels together and the entire camp was last seen heading towards the old man of Hoy as fast as the wind could carry it.
Spend enough time around old cars and you get to know your rust and even I, a non-archeologist, could see that rust was far too orangey and fresh to be more than maybe ten years at best. As for sitting in peat for any amount of time, I'd be surprised if it's even sat next to someone called Pete. Nicely informative video explaining more of why it's wrong, appreciate that.
@@TheSaneHatter It's true. The really good fakers get books and documentaries created about them. In a way, they've woven themselves into the story of the Master they were copying. This thing is more like a trophy of a 'fur covered Canadian fish' they used to bang together to dupe the American Tourists hot to spend money in Northern Ontario. - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown
Sadly I've had Canadians claiming the legal right not to pay taxes by citing the Magna Carta. They've also cited it to try and weasel out of paying their mortgages, child support and traffic tickets. Much like in Scotland it doesn't work here either.
It reminds me of when I've seen deeds from the 1700's sent into the bank I work at by people who dug into the historical archives to try to claim that they don't have to pay their mortgage, because they are not US citizens, but citizens of "the nation of Massachusetts".
@@bridgetthewench The Massachusetts that's currently part of the US? ... ... ... I think I just felt my brain tear from reading that... How is it these guys do such in depth research and yet are so bad at understanding things?
Even I can see that mailshirt is not medieval and I don't know anything about armor, I'm just a girl who used to make chainmail jewelry. Can we *please* make this a monthly series? 😃😃😃
Glad to hear your family member is doing better. Also good to know that there's a piece of chainmail that would be appropriate for someone to wear in Spinal Tap's next performance of Stonehenge.
"Quite frankly... Not necessarily telling us the whole story." 😂😂😂 This artefact will eventually turn out to have been made for Edward Shortshanks; Edward I's mini-me.
Charitably, it might have originally been a really cool fancy dress costume for a child. There's not necessarily a malicious intent behind it, although the fact it comes with a suspicious back story raises eyebrows.
That's what I tought at first glance. "Oh, an old costume and a well-intentioned person that thinks they found gold". Worked in a bookstore specialised in antiques, and there were a lot of people coming in with "old books" that were about as rare as sand in the Sahara. Rarely scammers, mostly people that didn't know the field and had assumptions. But here the backstory is clearly sus.
Glad to hear your family member is doing better 😊 My husband is convinced that that is actually a hobbit sized mithril vest, and wondered if it had signs of cave troll damage 🤔
So it's a bad mini mockup someone tried to pass off as a historical artifact? I hope your family is collectively recovering from the strain of Covid. You have a nice singing voice.
Very glad your family member is doing better! My first thought was: "no bones? who just leaves a mail shirt behind? " My second was: "it was dug up by modern excavation equipment, and it's still in one piece?" Counting Jimmy is SO FUNNY! As the numbers got bigger, the harder it was to not burst out laughing!
Love your enthusiasm! Wish you didn't have to bring out all the salt, but it had to be done! Oh, and you have a good singing voice! Shoot, I've used up all my exclamation points... Well, that's just too bad. I'll see if I have some more lying around the shed.
Jimmy, you are looking so good in this video! Your hair is looking very cute :) Also, medieval fake news is a kind of sentence I did not expect to read but that's 2021 for you!
The mail shirt reminds me of playing RuneScape for the first time and trying to put in the goblin mail. The game tells you it’s too small to fit your head though haha. That’s this
I am desperately trying to get my third grade classroom in order but had to take a lunch break. Thank you for restoring my mood and my faith in the generation that is up-and-coming! I am so pleased your family member is doing better. And I am, as always, grateful for the entertaining way you present history/archaeology/scholarship/following a dream. My heart being restored to something resembling optimism, I will get back to my cleaning/organizing/labeling/panic so I am ready for my students tomorrow!
I suspect the owner of the ”historically adjacent tourist site” was going with Oscar Wilde's ”the only thing worse than being talked about, is NOT being talked about”, rather than bothering with any of that "authenticity” stuff.....they're probably adjacent for a reason . Anyhoo, glad to hear the health issues are on the mend
Now that was great. Firstly for the freeman/Magna Carta takedown. Edinburgh has welcomed me in the past (and hopefully in future) and it pains me to see that the gangs of fools are carrying on there. Secondly, the mail. Now at first glance at the rust it looked like re-enactor mail from the 80's but I didn't realise how small it was until later in the video. Reminds me, I have about 10-12 kg of butted mail rings in a box in the garage. The size is OK but I'm 65 and, despite wishful thinking, not really likely to wear full kit again, but maybe I should look at an order for some complementary rivetted links and sell a job lot. Sigh.
Looks like someone found an 80s reenactor's shed with an old mail shirt in it, and got ideas about making a quick buck. Glad to hear your family is well again. Thank you for the translation of your theme song. The sound of the theme with its big hall echo has had me wondering if it was ecclesiastical music. I'm so happy it sounds more like a historic folk song.
I was going to say, this looks a lot like my buddy's modern chainmail that he made for his fantasy LARP. He made it out of 100% butted rings that he made out of steel wire [I think it's 10 gauge] still took him over 70 hours to make just to make all the rings let alone putting them together into a four to one pattern. I'm glad you and your family are doing better now, and I hope that's the last bout of the virus you have to deal with
~3:00ish: They did used to have some very, very good, proper historians attached several years ago, but they're not associated any more, and yeah, TBH, there's a name mentioned in there, that ...yeah. ~15:45ish: Now feeling really guilty for being among the ones who sent it to you. Was hoping to give you a cheap laugh in your awful week. Sorry about that.
Interesting to learn that chain mail happened in Japan as well as in Europe. Was this due to communication from the Silk Road doing some cross-pollination, or did they develop separately?
I hope your family member is doing better. I must admit, I am not sure what I love about your channel more, the wonderful history I can learn, or . . .l your sense of humor. Thank you for both!!
This was fun to watch! I hadn't heard about it, and it's so very far from my era that I probably wouldn't have suspected anything, but I have much the same reaction when people send me pictures of 19th century fancy dress costumes thinking they're 18th century.
Nice revolutionary war reenactment ya got here! Say, I happen to have ole George Washington's Teeth in a shoe box in my barn. See look ye here, says so right on the box " Georfge Wafhingfon's Teef" ...See you can tell its real cuz they used to randomly throw F's in every word! SCIENCE!
You snuck the song in at the end! I almost missed it! Thank you for giving me the words and pronunciations! I copied it down phonetically and will have fun trying not to butcher it at the fair this coming weekend!
You know I couldn't be content with phonetics; I had to look it up. Google is a wonderful invention! Sosban Fach! I learned so much about Llanelli's tin plating industry and rugby! And I found the lyrics in both Welsh and English!! With your Welsh pronunciation tutorial (I never miss a single upload and I saved that one for reference) I'll be singing like a native in no time! Diolch yn fawr iawn!!
Because you've been busy I've been rewatching some of these. Once again, I'd like to thank you for giving yourself High-blood pressure, so I don't have to get as worked up as I might.
This video was so very snarky and I am here for it! I loved how absolutely offended Jimmy is with both the absurd castle nonsense and the completely rubbish Children’s fancy dress costume. Heck I think if the person who turned in the chainmaile told the reenactment people that he had a piece his great-grandfather made for his grandfather out of bits of wire and metal salvaged from old WWII plane parts, it would be a more historical find. Right now it’s just some recycling gone awry. Jimmy, I’m glad to hear that your family is doing much better! Covid is a wicked bitch. I’m 5 months out and still get winded easily, I actually lost lung function and must do deep breathing exercises.
Oh come on, this is a little unfair. Every LARPer knows that when you put chainmail in the wash it shrinks. Gotta remember to hang it out to dry instead of putting it in the peat bog.
You just have to make sure you don't put it in the dryer on high heat, or it'll shrink for sure! (lol, sarcasm - ex larper - don't put your chainmaile in the dryer, your dryer will hate you for it)
@@kieraoona Dont get me wrong, i use LARPer as a term of endearment. Still part of my community but not exactly the place to go for a history lesson.
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@@sarudon8412 I absolutely agree with you. some people take what they see in larp as historical fact when in most cases its like...90% wrong. There are some grains of accuracy but...it depends on the Larp I suppose
See, I was gonna ask if it shrank in the wash! I mean, since we all know People Of Olden Time Weren't As Smart As Us,* maybe improperly laundered chainmail happened all the time! XP
*Argument less effective if people involved know ANYTHING about current events. Or actual history. Or both.
I will never forget my favorite college history professor saying, "People were not hobbits in the Middle Ages. No one in history was as short as short as you think." This chain mail got me thinking about that class again!!
Someone needs to give this man a cup of coffee for reading all that shit ☕
I am HERE for you singing the closing credits, with subtitles 😁 Also, I hope your family member has recovered!
The fun element of this episode... I did too! lol
Same! More welsh singing please ❤️
I've done site cleanup after larps. I can easily imagine how a modern bit of chain mail ended up in someone's shed by accident
Oh the Magna Carta Bit genuinely Made me laugh. Apart from the fact that seizing a big Tourist attraction instead of... You know... The Scottish parliament? Would probably be easier too, since the parliament Security is incredibly chill
The internet has heard of the Magna Carta, who's ever heard of a "Scottish parliament"?
@@tinnagigja3723 true. Which is a shame, the parliament building is very pretty. It deserves more love
I've never been in but I've seen guys with huge guns outside a couple of times so I wouldn't want to risk it.
I don't know why people do the things they do. I don't understand. People taking "fake until you make it" just a bit too far. Thanks again for an entertaining one, Jimmy. Hope all is well over there with you and your family.
The chain mail is mithral, made by elves for Hobbits.
Aaah of course!
Good one Jimmy, thanks for the laughs, I needed some, considering I just survived a hurricane.
@@katieb2931 we're ok. Had some limbs down n lost power for a few hours, but all's good now.
From a cultural perspective, I think your singing in the end credits makes up for the medieval-themed idiocy inspiring the making of this video.
I have something to confess, I'm graduating history and archaeology in university, and a very good one at that. My ceremony is on Friday, and I fell for the chainmail fake, against all my better judgement and skepticism. I saw photos of real corroded Medieval chainmail. I saw an actual piece of a Viking age guy before in what was probably chainmail. I know how it's supposed to look like. I didn't look at the fake's photos closely and didn't notice it was butted. The whole premise of finding that shite in a shed should have been a red flag from the start. I saw some decent newspapers report it and I assumed it was real just from that fact, against all my better judgement and all that I've learned and thought. Should I just rip up my diploma when I get it? Because quite frankly I feel ashamed. This is truly a dark page in my life, and I'm being serious here.
Do not rip up your diploma! And CONGRATS! 🤸🍾🍸🎉
Buy Jimmy a coffee and I am sure he will forgive you your transgressions!
@@sisuguillam5109 I probably won't, but every time I'll look at it, I'll feel like a fraud.
@@m.maclellan7147 might as well.
@@pavelstaravoitau7106 No, no, please don't. You being able to see that you got it wrong and saying that you made a mistake (and it's a wee one at best) does make you a good scholar!
I saw the picture of how small the mail was and said in a very high pitched voice 'it's a baby mail shirt!'
I hope your family member is doing much better and has a speedy recovery. Also..I was always wondering what the lyrics were for the song
The things people do for a few seconds of publicity. Thank you for sacrificing your sanity to present this ridiculous case.
I'm a car boot hunting wodworking-tool collector. The simple state of the metal (light orange rust) told me that it was relatively new.
And I know bugger all about medieval armour.
I’m waiting for the dude who’s gonna insist the “hauberk” is “clearly” meant for a child (like the later fashion of having full plate for young aristocratic boys )
So glad your mum's doing better. I'm glad they have that law in Ireland. I feel like legit finds like that belong to all of Ireland, not just one individual. Seems like they've had all the time on their hands recently lol
I think that my dad made chain-mail like that some time in the '70's. It's probably about that rusty now. It might even still be in his shed.
Someone get Jimmy some damn chocolate, please!
it's interesting, because I have a large chunk of the timber from stirling that was damaged during the battle in 1297, that those guys might be interested in.
one might even say... i have a bridge to sell them
Its toddler armour!! As we all know, toddlers were used in warfare frequently in the medieval times. Which is why there were all those muscular babies in art.
Battle babies!
This is an awesome rant, lol. Great video! So glad that your family member is doing better. I sure wish this virus would come to an end already. Many blessings to you and yours. Take care.
My first reenactment shirt was a bad butted indian one and legitimately was the same colour as this from a year or two of being kept in a shed by the person I bought it from. Until I saw the size pictures I almost thought someone had resurrected the damn thing.
Come on, don't hold back, tell us how you really feel!
Is this the "saucepan" song from Howl's Moving Castle?
Never realised i was correct when hearing saucepan in the opening lyrics🤣🤣 thought it was the closest my norwegian brain could find
Thank you for all this (the RUST screams modern + water + air).
So glad your family member is doing better, I hope they are soon all the way well.
Thank you for this informative and entertaining video. Also, I loved your singing at end. You hav e a beautiful singing voice.
great to hear family member is improving. this video was hilarious
Glad to hear your family member is getting better. I love this video, even my daughter watched it and loved it.
Magna Carta is historically important, and I appreciated it when I got to see a (presumably) 13th century copy of Magna Carta. But using it to justify appropriating property? That’s daft.
I think I should check on my costume chain mail. That’s some ugly.
Update: It’s totally fine. Probably because I stored it like the artisan told me to - and not in a damp shed.
I had not heard about this, so thank you for the popcorn
Always stylish, Jimmy. Those that disrespect historical sites need to be dealt with. These finds are much more precious than people think will ever consider them as. We're also tired of fake medievalists, from fake vikings, or idiots that use some medieval name or culture to do some inane and ignorant act of who-or-whatever. Okay Steve, go back to your Skyrim game and leave world events to the adults.
Great vid as always. Best wishes.
My best friend from back home in Scotland told me about the magna carta thing and I randomly laugh thinking about it
A-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y wonderful.
If I could afford it right now, I would have become a patreon immedeatly, and I will as soon as my situation changes.
Could you do more vids about medieval armor and weapons? There are so many videos out there about the "in-effectiveness of chainmail" or "welded chainmail", or how Talhoffer is the only "true" medieval fenching style and so on....
you gave me twenty extra minutes of amusement when i looked up the protest in Edinburgh as well. This is even more stupid than the Reichsbürger-movement in Germany. Less than 1 minute of research told me that the Magna Carta was never part of Scottish law and that it only applied to a few specific Barons - don´t those people know how to use Google?
Yes! I plan to do more martial stuff now that my friends can help out with it- my weapons collection is quite small so far!
Thank you so much!
A dwarf's larping costume?
Someone just sent me a link to one of these clickbait articles and my first response was bull-f$#*$&ng%#t. ..and then I found EXACTLY the informed response to send back...YOU!
And only an hour old.
30 years ago I was making this sort of butted costumery for my ren-faire & comic-con friends and no one even then thought it was remotely authentic. Uncared for, it was lucky to last two years in an air conditioned closet in humid Georgia without looking far rustier than that or just falling apart...Bog? Shed? Yup. B.S. But one good thing came out of it...I have a new UA-cam channel to watch. :) Thank you Welsh Viking.
Primary school play costume.
This is interesting, I mean even before the term fake news PBS had a series about medieval news they did a good job but separating facts and fake.
I hope your family members are recovering well. 😷
800 peaty, peaty years
Out of complete curiosity - was one of the verses to Sospan Fach about hitting the mother with a saucepan? .... asking for a friend ....
Not any that I'm aware of, but there might well be a version that has it!
@@TheWelshViking Weird - it may have been some of my school friends (who played rugby) pulling my leg but I was always told, one verse went 'I hit my Mother with a saucepan, to my surprise she hit me back!' ^*^
o m g fabulous
glad the family person is doing better too
Lmfao I'm 4ft8 and it looks like it would fit me
Will you stop leaving your mail mysteriously in ditches, will you?!
It is obviously for a 3 year old "warrior!" LOL.
you are glowing ô-ô great haircut
I am distracted.. did you cut your hair? 😱💖
No, it was my barber, so I'm not to blame!
@@TheWelshViking fair enough 😂
So what your saying is a medieval artisan made mitrhal for a very rich fancy well fed person and the bog preserved it so well it that it removed the rivets while simultaneously shrinking it. Lol
My First Hauberk? 😂 For Mummy's favourite little Norman warrior.
Ha! 😂
Your mention of the acidic nature of peat reminded of a story I transcribed at the sound archived. Before they managed to get the chain huts built for the gun battery the men were handed bright sparkly new white canvas tents to sleep in.
Bearing in mind the strategic importance of Scapa Flow and the number of enemy planes hopping over for a wee look the gunners thought white tents were probably no't the cleverest place to sleep.
Some one with perhaps two brain cells or perhaps a really developed malicious compliance decided that things pulled out of the peat banks were brown so if the lay the tents in the peat they would be less noticeable to the enemy as they flew over.
Great idea until the first Orkney gale. The acidic peat had eaten away the cotton thread holding the canvas panels together and the entire camp was last seen heading towards the old man of Hoy as fast as the wind could carry it.
Spend enough time around old cars and you get to know your rust and even I, a non-archeologist, could see that rust was far too orangey and fresh to be more than maybe ten years at best. As for sitting in peat for any amount of time, I'd be surprised if it's even sat next to someone called Pete. Nicely informative video explaining more of why it's wrong, appreciate that.
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Jimmy is suffering no fools and taking no sh*t today and I am totally here for it.
Zero shits jimmy
Amateurs! Every knitter knows you're supposed block the garment to it's proper size! :) Hope your family is well
I love how Jimmy looks more annoyed by how bad it is than by the fact that it's fake
That's because a well-executed fake would at least indicate *some* skill and knowledge worthy of respect.
@@TheSaneHatter It's true. The really good fakers get books and documentaries created about them. In a way, they've woven themselves into the story of the Master they were copying.
This thing is more like a trophy of a 'fur covered Canadian fish' they used to bang together to dupe the American Tourists hot to spend money in Northern Ontario.
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown
The Magna Carta bit is roughly the equivalent of Canadians claiming legal right not to pay taxes by citing the Articles of Confederation...
Sadly I've had Canadians claiming the legal right not to pay taxes by citing the Magna Carta. They've also cited it to try and weasel out of paying their mortgages, child support and traffic tickets. Much like in Scotland it doesn't work here either.
It reminds me of when I've seen deeds from the 1700's sent into the bank I work at by people who dug into the historical archives to try to claim that they don't have to pay their mortgage, because they are not US citizens, but citizens of "the nation of Massachusetts".
@@bridgetthewench The Massachusetts that's currently part of the US?
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I think I just felt my brain tear from reading that...
How is it these guys do such in depth research and yet are so bad at understanding things?
@@CollinMcLean yes. Some people.
@@bridgetthewench XD Bless their hearts, that's adorable!
Without fail, after every video of yours I find myself thinking "I had no idea how much I wanted to learn this thing I've never thought about"
I'm not the only one!
Yesss!
Even I can see that mailshirt is not medieval and I don't know anything about armor, I'm just a girl who used to make chainmail jewelry. Can we *please* make this a monthly series? 😃😃😃
Glad to hear your family member is doing better. Also good to know that there's a piece of chainmail that would be appropriate for someone to wear in Spinal Tap's next performance of Stonehenge.
STONENGE, WHERE THE DRUIDS PLAYED
That happened right here in Austin, Texas.
Spinal Tap............LMAOLMAOLMAO
"Quite frankly... Not necessarily telling us the whole story." 😂😂😂
This artefact will eventually turn out to have been made for Edward Shortshanks; Edward I's mini-me.
“Shortshanks! Cease thy swiving of ye catapult!”
Charitably, it might have originally been a really cool fancy dress costume for a child. There's not necessarily a malicious intent behind it, although the fact it comes with a suspicious back story raises eyebrows.
I love the thought of a historically-minded grandpa, lovingly knocking this up for a knight-loving child!! In the 90's!
That's what I tought at first glance. "Oh, an old costume and a well-intentioned person that thinks they found gold". Worked in a bookstore specialised in antiques, and there were a lot of people coming in with "old books" that were about as rare as sand in the Sahara. Rarely scammers, mostly people that didn't know the field and had assumptions. But here the backstory is clearly sus.
Glad to hear your family member is doing better 😊
My husband is convinced that that is actually a hobbit sized mithril vest, and wondered if it had signs of cave troll damage 🤔
Chain mail for preteens? Thanks once again for defending truth, justice, and archeology!
Or maybe it was a Hobbit!
Would be more likely to be slender dwarves?
So it's a bad mini mockup someone tried to pass off as a historical artifact? I hope your family is collectively recovering from the strain of Covid. You have a nice singing voice.
Very glad your family member is doing better!
My first thought was: "no bones? who just leaves a mail shirt behind? " My second was: "it was dug up by modern excavation equipment, and it's still in one piece?"
Counting Jimmy is SO FUNNY! As the numbers got bigger, the harder it was to not burst out laughing!
Love your enthusiasm! Wish you didn't have to bring out all the salt, but it had to be done!
Oh, and you have a good singing voice!
Shoot, I've used up all my exclamation points... Well, that's just too bad. I'll see if I have some more lying around the shed.
Glad your back...hope the family health thing worked out , you sound better too. 😁
Perhaps the tiny maille was to protect little Johnny from the vicious cat
Counter argument: aliens.
Crap. Didn't think of that!
Ancient aliens
its amazing how the clever ideas and schemes you come up with in the pub nearly always turn out have massive obvious flaws...
Goddamn hobbits had a hot passionate night in the bog and forgot it there , and it's enchanted
There's your scientific explanation
Jimmy, you are looking so good in this video! Your hair is looking very cute :) Also, medieval fake news is a kind of sentence I did not expect to read but that's 2021 for you!
The mail shirt reminds me of playing RuneScape for the first time and trying to put in the goblin mail. The game tells you it’s too small to fit your head though haha. That’s this
I am desperately trying to get my third grade classroom in order but had to take a lunch break. Thank you for restoring my mood and my faith in the generation that is up-and-coming! I am so pleased your family member is doing better. And I am, as always, grateful for the entertaining way you present history/archaeology/scholarship/following a dream. My heart being restored to something resembling optimism, I will get back to my cleaning/organizing/labeling/panic so I am ready for my students tomorrow!
He's finally singing the song!
I've had it stuck in my head since forever.
I suspect the owner of the ”historically adjacent tourist site” was going with Oscar Wilde's ”the only thing worse than being talked about, is NOT being talked about”, rather than bothering with any of that "authenticity” stuff.....they're probably adjacent for a reason . Anyhoo, glad to hear the health issues are on the mend
Now that was great. Firstly for the freeman/Magna Carta takedown. Edinburgh has welcomed me in the past (and hopefully in future) and it pains me to see that the gangs of fools are carrying on there. Secondly, the mail. Now at first glance at the rust it looked like re-enactor mail from the 80's but I didn't realise how small it was until later in the video. Reminds me, I have about 10-12 kg of butted mail rings in a box in the garage. The size is OK but I'm 65 and, despite wishful thinking, not really likely to wear full kit again, but maybe I should look at an order for some complementary rivetted links and sell a job lot. Sigh.
Looks like someone found an 80s reenactor's shed with an old mail shirt in it, and got ideas about making a quick buck.
Glad to hear your family is well again.
Thank you for the translation of your theme song. The sound of the theme with its big hall echo has had me wondering if it was ecclesiastical music. I'm so happy it sounds more like a historic folk song.
I was going to say, this looks a lot like my buddy's modern chainmail that he made for his fantasy LARP. He made it out of 100% butted rings that he made out of steel wire [I think it's 10 gauge] still took him over 70 hours to make just to make all the rings let alone putting them together into a four to one pattern.
I'm glad you and your family are doing better now, and I hope that's the last bout of the virus you have to deal with
I hope your family is doing better. Such miserable times and you give so much joy!
~3:00ish: They did used to have some very, very good, proper historians attached several years ago, but they're not associated any more, and yeah, TBH, there's a name mentioned in there, that ...yeah.
~15:45ish: Now feeling really guilty for being among the ones who sent it to you. Was hoping to give you a cheap laugh in your awful week. Sorry about that.
Interesting to learn that chain mail happened in Japan as well as in Europe. Was this due to communication from the Silk Road doing some cross-pollination, or did they develop separately?
I enjoyed this. Also, not at all what I thought that song meant.
I hope your family member is doing better. I must admit, I am not sure what I love about your channel more, the wonderful history I can learn, or . . .l your sense of humor. Thank you for both!!
This was fun to watch! I hadn't heard about it, and it's so very far from my era that I probably wouldn't have suspected anything, but I have much the same reaction when people send me pictures of 19th century fancy dress costumes thinking they're 18th century.
Did you get a haircut?
It looks nice, but we don't have any evidence for it in dark age wales. >:0
Yes we do ;)
@@TheWelshViking Apologies, I meant modern day Wales. >:C
Kidding, obviously. Regardless, I glad your family pulled through. ^^
Nice revolutionary war reenactment ya got here! Say, I happen to have ole George Washington's Teeth in a shoe box in my barn. See look ye here, says so right on the box " Georfge Wafhingfon's Teef" ...See you can tell its real cuz they used to randomly throw F's in every word! SCIENCE!
You snuck the song in at the end! I almost missed it! Thank you for giving me the words and pronunciations! I copied it down phonetically and will have fun trying not to butcher it at the fair this coming weekend!
You know I couldn't be content with phonetics; I had to look it up. Google is a wonderful invention! Sosban Fach! I learned so much about Llanelli's tin plating industry and rugby! And I found the lyrics in both Welsh and English!! With your Welsh pronunciation tutorial (I never miss a single upload and I saved that one for reference) I'll be singing like a native in no time! Diolch yn fawr iawn!!
I love that you're talking about all this nonsense without cursing. I couldn't do that. I'm impressed.
I love watching how animated you get in your videos, Jimmy. Glad that your family member is better. This virus is no joke.
Love the singing, when's the CD coming out?
Thank you for your service
I love how your giving suggestions on how to do a better fake 🤣🤣
Because you've been busy I've been rewatching some of these. Once again, I'd like to thank you for giving yourself High-blood pressure, so I don't have to get as worked up as I might.
~fasten your safety belts~ love all the info
I wonder if they might've been a little bit drunk when they decided to do this
Thank you for covering that hauberk, it's been depressing seeing reenactors who should know better sharing it around the socials!
This video was so very snarky and I am here for it! I loved how absolutely offended Jimmy is with both the absurd castle nonsense and the completely rubbish Children’s fancy dress costume. Heck I think if the person who turned in the chainmaile told the reenactment people that he had a piece his great-grandfather made for his grandfather out of bits of wire and metal salvaged from old WWII plane parts, it would be a more historical find. Right now it’s just some recycling gone awry.
Jimmy, I’m glad to hear that your family is doing much better! Covid is a wicked bitch. I’m 5 months out and still get winded easily, I actually lost lung function and must do deep breathing exercises.
Yay, history nerd rant!
Yeah, medieval knights were absolute *units*. Less thigh and more upper body development, but def Beefy Bois
Remember that scene from Spinal Tap when the sketch of Stonehenge was drawn on a napkin and notated in inches rather than feet?