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Knights vs Snails
« on: 2013-10-01, 15:36:05 »

What’s So Funny about Knights and Snails?
http://www.gotmedieval.com/2009/07/whats-so-funny-about-knights-and-snails.html

This is some speculation about depictions of Knights vs Snails in illuminated manuscripts. Apparently it was a somewhat common theme.
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Re: Knights vs Snails
« Reply #1 on: 2013-10-01, 15:42:15 »
I don't know what to say to this. 
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Re: Knights vs Snails
« Reply #2 on: 2013-10-01, 19:55:16 »
Having seen a snail eat I would look worried as well if I came a crossed a snail that large.
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Re: Knights vs Snails
« Reply #3 on: 2013-10-01, 20:12:52 »
Well...how 'bout that. :o

I wonder if the original intent was indeed humorous, or if it was a metaphor for something.
Maybe 500 years from now, someone will find all of my doodles in my old school textbooks and wonder, "What does it mean!?" ;)
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Re: Knights vs Snails
« Reply #4 on: 2013-10-01, 20:39:41 »
Dude no joke in elementry school I drew a picture of a crusader saving a peasant from a slug about the same as those drawn in those picks, and he has sword pointed right at it. lol
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Re: Knights vs Snails
« Reply #5 on: 2013-10-01, 22:46:27 »
i got nothing  :o
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Re: Knights vs Snails
« Reply #6 on: 2013-10-01, 23:24:31 »
Salt-coated blade?
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Re: Knights vs Snails
« Reply #7 on: 2013-10-02, 01:59:11 »
English vs French?
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Re: Knights vs Snails
« Reply #8 on: 2013-10-02, 02:34:55 »
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Because of its slowness, the snail has traditionally been seen as a symbol of laziness. In Christian culture, it has been used as a symbol of the deadly sin of sloth.[3][4] Psalms 58:8 uses snail slime as a metaphorical punishment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail#Symbolism

Perhaps knights fighting sloth and/or the seven deadly sins? Laziness being unfitting of a knight?
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Re: Knights vs Snails
« Reply #9 on: 2013-10-02, 04:36:05 »
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Re: Knights vs Snails
« Reply #10 on: 2013-10-02, 05:27:44 »
All snails are FRENCH ... I say we make some snail soup.  :P
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Re: Knights vs Snails
« Reply #11 on: 2013-10-02, 21:04:03 »
Im french you silly king! why do you think Im a Snail!!!!
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Re: Knights vs Snails
« Reply #12 on: 2013-10-07, 20:24:07 »
Mmmm escargot  ;)
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Re: Knights vs Snails
« Reply #13 on: 2013-10-08, 03:45:59 »
I guess a silly king beats a fairy queen.
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Re: Knights vs Snails
« Reply #14 on: 2013-10-08, 11:33:08 »
sloth?
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