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  1. 25th October 2011, 02:14 PM #1
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    WHAT DAY IS IT TODAY?

    Today is St. Crispin's Day, the anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, 1415.

    On Crispin's day Henry V's army of 6,000, depleted by casualties at the siege of Harfleur, and by disease, harried by the French across northern France, stood in a muddy ploughed wheat field, fought, and soundly defeated a French army of 30,000.

    King Henry:

    He that shall live this day and see old age,
    Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
    And say "Tomorrow is Saint Crispian":
    Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
    And say "These wounds I had on Crispin's day".

    I thought I would attempt to introduce a little culture into AULRO.
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  2. 25th October 2011, 02:25 PM #2
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    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljJl-E5bzm4]Billy Bragg-St.Swithins Day.. - YouTube[/ame]
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm View Post
    Today is St. Crispin's Day
    ... ere's me thinkin' it's choozdee ... and all day so far too ... ...


    oh well


    Happy St Crispy's day everyone!!
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    Emma Ayres talked at length about Agincourt and St Crispin's day this morning.

    Not all of us here are sans culture

    Aren't you descended from Norsk barbarians Brian
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    Quote Originally Posted by isuzurover View Post
    Emma Ayres talked at length about Agincourt and St Crispin's day this morning.

    Not all of us here are sans culture

    Aren't you descended from Norsk barbarians Brian
    My ancestors were cultured folk from North Jutland, honest seafarers and merchants. Some were part of the Danish civilizing expeditions that attempted to bring culture, trade, and prosperity to the Irish, who were and remain the barbarians.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm View Post
    My ancestors were cultured folk from North Jutland, honest seafarers and merchants. Some were part of the Danish expeditions that attrempted to bring culture, trade, and prosperity, with sword, spear and axe, to the Irish, who were and remain the barbarians.
    There, fixed it for you.

    Yes, I was aware that it was the day of the Battle of Agincourt, also mentioned this morning on ABC Classic FM. This was when the ability of massed archers (plus mud) to withstand armoured knights was demonstrated, when the unthinkable happened - commoners (archers) killing nobility in large numbers.

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    Supposedly this battle was the origin of the two-fingered "V" sign.

    Per Wikipedia:
    "According to a popular legend, the two-fingered salute or V sign derives from the gestures of longbowmen fighting in the English army at the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War.[7][19] According to the story, the French claimed that they would cut off the arrow-shooting fingers of all the English and Welsh longbowmen after they had won the battle at Agincourt.[20] But the English came out victorious and showed off their two fingers, still intact."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm View Post
    My ancestors were cultured folk from North Jutland, honest seafarers and merchants. Some were part of the Danish civilizing expeditions that attempted to bring culture, trade, and prosperity to the Irish, who were and remain the barbarians.
    And from me, on behalf of my ancestors (Irish, Scot and Welsh) we thank you

    Dunno who was the worst, you lot or the bloody Engish

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    The words of Henry V in his gee-up speech to the troops, as delivered by Laurence Olivier in the 1944 movie, are some of Shakespeare's best.
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    Quote Originally Posted by StephenF10 View Post
    The words of Henry V in his gee-up speech to the troops, as delivered by Laurence Olivier in the 1944 movie, are some of Shakespeare's best.
    Written by Willie Wagglestaff a nearly two hundred years after the battle - and almost certainly not the words he used, even if he did give a gee-up speech (probably did).

    As you say, Shakespeare's best, not Henry's!

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