HORRIBLE HISTORIES - Anglo Saxon Ordeals
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- GREAT NEWS! A brand new series of Horrible Histories starts on CBBC on 31st May 2010!! In the meantime... HORRIBLE HISTORIES strikes again: If you think too much homework is unfair, you should see what ordeals the Anglo Saxons faced!
"Aethelred, the Unready. Lawmaker, and largely useless English King."
"UM--!"
xD
the rats laugh at the end XD
And with intentional naughtiness!!
Love you mat!!!
Ordeal by Chocolate cake happens to each of us every year
Ordeal by cake or bread was usually reserved for members of the Church or high ranking people such as Earls or the King’s family. Common people were made to do the other ordeals. Pretty fair if I do say so myself
Not if the cake or bread is EXTREMELY dry, and you're NOT given any drink to wash it down.
My teacher showed this is class she show's alot of your videos in class
You are so good comedians.Your humour is unique !
I wonder what that cake is made out of...
Horrible history is really funny but educational.
@writingsinthesky um... Smashing is used to describe the saxons, it's British slang like America's "cool" it doesn't mean that they're hating and putting them down.
Hardly anyone uses "smashing" anymore.
there's always someone on the comments of HH videos that says it's wrong and blah blah blah! ok... you are telling us what you think on a youtube video...they are telling us what they know through comedy, entertainment, books and TV. I know who i'm gonna listen to.
@greenq618 the saxons were a tribe of norse who broke away from the danish vikings and migrated to germania, they became the best warriors in the north and were hired by romans as mercenaries....they were invited to briton by the celts who were left defenceless by the romans that went home, the saxons had a prophecy about having their own country that will spout out to the four corners of the world...the saxons mixed with celts and vikings/normans and created us the english.
so love it when he says naughtiness
You can never get enough of Rattus!! LOL
Was going so well until the end bit...
1. His name was Earl Godwin Wulfnothson, the father of Harold Godwinson, the later Harold II.
2. Ordeal by Cake had nothing to do with his death. He died of "Elf Shot" (something most historians believe was a stroke).
3. As Earl Godwin was the father of Harold II when William I took the throne he needed to make Harold and his family look bad so this story came through in Norman Propaganda - kind of obvious when Godwin did not die for another week after he allegedly "choked to death" after being taxed with the murder of the Aetheling Alfred.
How to beat Trial by Cake: Take small bites! XD
No
What if the cake is super dry, and you can’t have anything to go with it?
I don't care about the time stamp i will still comment on it :D
this was the first thing i ever seen when i first found this show, and i'm happy to know of this awesome show's exsitence. ^-^
I was reading the Wise Woman by Philippa Gregory earlier today, and it told of the ordeal by cake in Chapter 9 to see whether the protagonist was a witch or not. Then I watch this!
Lawrence Rickard ( I think that's his name) looks a little like Guy Martin, I don't know how I didn't notice it before.
What exactly made saxons think ducking, hot rod or cake was a way of proving innocence?
People used to think that accused witches were innocent if they sank into the water.
Divine intervention. Basically, God would favor an innocent man, saving them from drowning, or prevent them from choking.
It's funny to think what they did so many years ago; but alas, no more ordeal by cake...
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Yup
I Thought theyd give him a metal cake to eat :))) XD
Thats wasn't filmed in the London Dungeons was it?
This was filmed at the london dungeon, right? I sorta remember it...
using logic!? yeah right who does that now a days
horrible histories always reminds me of monty python, which is amazing because nothing else recent has come close to it.....
I could do ordeal by cake as long as it came with a scoop of ice cream
If that chocking was not legend then the cake was very special one...
Who else thought "Cake or Death?" during this?
Rather surprised that Cake or Death jokes haven't really been made on this one.
Well, it's a little more complicated than his uselessness. Aethelred, in the lingo of the time...meant Good (or well) Council. But he did make a dreadful mess of things and most for listening to little and/or bad advice. Un-Red. It was a pun and a fact. The pun is more or less lost on us. But at the back of the word Ready is the word that meant Council.
Fair enough, I did nick that horse!
Are there any ordeals that are less... impossible?
Awesome!
Does anyone know why he was called the 'Unready'? What was it that happened in his time to give him that name?
It doesn't come from the modern meaning, it comes from unræd, meaning poorly advised. It is also particularly ironic as his name Æthelred means well advised.
@wakkyvideogroup no its not :p
We learned about this in school. But the trial by iron was usually for women, if I'm not wrong
This is in London Dungeon again I think
No!!!
Loving the beard
hehe. While this joke is pretty funny, the thing people always forget about dunking is that they would tie a rope around your waist. If you didn't come up within ten seconds they'd pull you out.
Just, to keep from floating you'd have to exhale and resist the urge to push off the bottom for ten seconds.
The rats laugh is the only reason I watch this XD
@InnannasRainbow Basically, because he was utterly useless. His solution to viking raids, was to try and pay them off... which naturally just encouraged more raids, once the vikings cottoned onto the fact that England was very rich and the king was too much of a pansy to fight them, so they'd just show up every year, demand a bigger payoff and go home
Larry's beard! Aaaaarrrgghhh!
@SilentMissLoud Indeed it is! :)
@icanseethefuture I think he said "Ye, made it myself".
yah.. really not. (the ordeal by cake thing)... the other ordeals where available..but they skipped compurgation which was the primary method of a saxon court. the other term would be 'oath helpers'... you swore you were innoncent, and as a free man of a certain standing if a certain number of other free men were willing to swear you were innocent.. you were. to make the accusation ALSO required oath helpers so if you didnt have friends you were pretty much screwed in either diretion.
@cartoonlover2326 The thought was that God would spare someone who was innocent. They weren't the only ones either. The water ordeal was also used by the ancient Babylonians.
That's so British, even back then they still had it!
oh good i hate it when they plead guilty we dont get to do any of the fun stuff! XD
@sminchin Matthew
"AHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAH! HAHA! No."
I don't get it. How did he choke by cake?! I thoght that it is pretty easy ordeal...
Can someone explain that to me???
choke or was poisoned, hard to tell at this time
Gets me everytime... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no.
OK, then. . . , Ted.
Please don't tell me Godwin (One of the most powerful men in England at the time) died by suffocation due to cake
ORDEAL BY CAKE! XD
That cake is soo fixed!
@mermaidstars123123
Dry mouth actually. That ordeal had some validity, as a guilty man lying usually is beset by a lack of saliva.
Of course, stress from being interrogated can do that too, but less likely.
Pacific Islander and South-East Asian tribes, for instance, have ordeals where a man chew on some grains of rice and then spits them out. If dry - guilty. If moist, then the target is innocent. Same principle.
I always thought the prosecutor chose the ordeal...
So if I wanted to troll, I'd choose the accused to go through ordeal by boiling water every time lol
Of course that'd be mean... So no.
8 people were unready.
so then Ted
I've tracked my lineage to the1600s, manly because my first ancestor to come to America fought in the Revolutionary War and his wife befall a famous tragedy and has a state park named after her. I've found the birth/death information back to this ancestor's great grandfather in historical archives, but past the early 1600s I can't find anything anywhere, I don't even know where that guy lived. I'd love to know how you found records 500 years after that for my own research.
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Portal 2 is a wonderful game :)
I'll take the cake, and this rat dude, he's cool xD
lol he says session se ss ion :)
Anyone ever wonder what the logic behind these ordeals was beyond the whole "divine protection" angle? As I understand it, the idea was to encourage guilty people to come clean so they would not have to go through these ordeals. If I stole a horse and had a choice between paying a fine, were-gild as the Anglo-Saxons called it, for pleading guilty and getting my hands and feet chopped off for failing an ordeal for pleading not guilty I'd take the fine.
Granted this is my understanding of the topic and I would appreciate being corrected.
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
7 people have had ordeal by cake happened to them
Aethelred wasn't unready. "Unready" simply meant he had no good advisors; the name "Aethelred" means "noble counsel". In fact, "Unready" is a mistranslation, unræd means "bad counsel".
Although it is rather fitting since he certainly wasn't ready for Sweyn and his Danes
COOL. fuck, i wish they did a skit with more DRAMA & really makes these ordeals sound horrific instead of comical. great skit though!
What is the cake made of, paste!?
these ordeals sound like what pre-modern Englishmen would use to try on suspected witches during Cromwell’s time.
Anglo-Saxton Hale!!!!
So Eddie Izzard wasn’t completely correct. There’s a third option to cake or death, cake and death.
The accused ted😮
Hmm, seems legit. Haha! I Love Horrible Histories!
piece of cake! that easy
The cake is a lie!
Mmmmmmm, cake--and stealing.
go saxons go!!!!
does anybody remember aethelreds son edmund IRONSIDE from a saxon squire in the new world hereditary monarchy is best
But ouch
Unready is a mistranslation! Argh!
He was guilty, of course!
What if the Saxon weighs as much as a duck?
It was king cake and he choked on the plastic babay!
I'm guessing more it was poisoned
I ate cake today and I didn't choke. I'm innocent!
The Cake is a lie
Actually *trollface* Glados did bake a cake it was "delicious and moist" a black forest cake. BUT if you want to spread old memes then you can just "keep on trying till you run out of cake" and you can do this, because you can OR you can leave random portal memes out of the horrible histories and go back to fangirling over Matt (i suggest the fangirling one)
This comment is a relic of its time
@@mistermangoman69 Ironic that they would call something an old meme whilst also using '* trollface *'
must not be any Izzard fans here
@writingsinthesky, what on earth are you blabbering on about?
When the prosecutor said he made the cake himself, I couldn't help but think the 'ordeal by cake' was fixed so the accused would definitely choke! He made that cake himself for the very purpose of choking the accused. But if he choked to death, then that would probably spare them having to cut off his ears and hands.
@TheTigersWhiskers
*coughs awkwardly at this comment*
And the accused........Ted Haha funny
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@ariaelwen no it was harold godwinson was the one who died in 1066 so hahahahaahahahhahaaaaaaaa
In other words: CAKE OR DEATH