Comic-book heroes of the Dark Ages

[spinbaby]

I don't know why, but this just tickled my funnybone:

Apparently real legendary heros of the Dark Ages included:

Gilla Coes Hyd could leap over three hundred acres at one bound.

Sugyn son of Sugnedydd could suck up the sea on which three hundred ships floated, leaving nothing but a dry beach. (”He was broad-chested,” the story adds, which must be a bit of an understatement.)

Clust son of Clustveinad could hear an ant fifty miles away, even if you buried him (Clust, that is, not the ant) seven cubits under the ground.

Rhacymwri, the attendant of Arthur, could flail a barn into oat-size splinters. Apparently he did it to “whatever barn he was shown”; it must have been necessary to keep him out of sight of barns until his barn-flailing services were required.

http://www.grailcode.com/archives/comic-book-heroes-of-the-dark-ages

[xchrom]

1. wonder what the peasants thought when they got home

and found their barn flailed?

[swimboy]

2. Quiet! You will wake khashka!

His prowess with the flail made him a dark hero of the ages.

[tjwmason]

3. Speaking of whom

Have you seen him around recently? :shrug:

[swimboy]

4. I hadn't. But yesterday at 5:02pm he posted in a thread.

So I'm happy he's around. I was hoping to flush him out with some dubious flattery. He often chooses not to speak to me. He explained it once.

Should you chime in on this thread about the head of Bran the Blessed buried under the Tower of London to protect England from invasion?

[tjwmason]

5. He's a funny fellow.

But good to see that he's around nonetheless.

It's not so much invasion that England should fear now - it's the man alread in No. 10, and the Home Office. I reckon that King Arthur is about to put in another appearance (hour of England's greatest need and all of that), and drive Messrs. Blair, Clarke, Reid et al. into the English Channel.

[khashka]

6. Oh for Godesses sake!

I'm the the hero of the Dark Ages and Saviour of England?


And all along I thought I was just an ordinary guy......


Khash.

[tjwmason]

8. The very very last thing that you are is an ordinary guy

:pals:

[swimboy]

9. Re: Post No. 8

Hear, Hear!

:pals:

[giant_robot]

7. ...five, six, seven cubits! OK! Get in the hole, Clust!

Honestly, a) who thought that a good way to test his hearing was to bury him, and b) why would he go along with it? I guess it's like my grampa used to say, "People were just tougher back in those days."