>>6144151>>6144565>>6144419>>6144663>>6149998>>6149993>"Late Medievalism" is the world of courtly intrigue...?>Viking Celt Beowulf is UNCLAIMED WILDERNESS, FREEDOM ???I have to dispute this BananasQM, I don't know if you have watched any of the reasonably popular and mainstream tv series like Vikings 2013-20 or even The Last Kingdom (based on the Bernard Cornwell Arthurian saga) but even in these completely mainstream fictional "Dark Age" tv series, the entire narrative is about feudal obligation, structures of church, land, enfeoffment etc I don't even know much about the exact history but even the mainstream tv storylines are all about struggling against the grasp of the Church and thanes or kings etc. So as an example, Vikings series 1 (I only watched 8 episodes of this lol) the entire plot is about a grievance whereby Ragnar disobeys a command from his Jarl and raids west (Lindisfarne monastery) as opposed to raiding the Baltic. It has been a while since I watched The Last Kingdom, but I remember a lot of it surrounded King Alfred etc doing ecclesiastical things and it was about church and land, there isn't really a lot of this MANIFEST DESTINY I AM A DND COWBOY look I slaughter the untamed buffalo herds I mean dungeon monsters and depopulate the native american orcs etc, that is not really the Dark Ages that is still dnd
As I tried to illustrate with this academic lady's article on Beowulf
>>6145698 and the etymology of "laene / loan", the reach of the courts and church (in terms of legal land rights etc) seem deeply established even in the seemingly wild and savage "Dark Ages" era of Christendom
