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Early Medieval Britain: everything you wanted to know

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In the early middle aged people liked puns. Other things they found funny could also be very crude. The old english riddles sound very bordy and earthy. There's a wonderful text called well, it's just a series of imaginary conversations that were written to help train young monks in latin. And these are absolutely full of toilet humour. A all kinds of a you know, really quite stuff in e in a fairly low brow way. E, other low brow things might include some miracle storys. I certainly one thi si, that's stuck with me, sin sir, since i went there as a child. So, a ere woll hat him here

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