In Terry Deary’s Horrible Histories series of books, the Vikings are described as Vicious. Which adjective is used to describe the Tudors?
"Horrible Histories: Live on Stage Horrible Histories: Live on Stage is the name for the series of stage shows within the Horrible Histories franchise. They are produced by The Birmingham Stage Company. Horrible Histories: Vile Victorians is a 2005 stage show, which is part of the ""Live on Stage"" series in the Horrible Histories franchise. The show was created by the Birmingham Stage Company. It was released along with . Both of the shows run at 2 hours. including a 15-minute interval. ""Terrible Tudors"" and ""Vile Victorians"" in bogglevision visited theatres around Britain in 2010 in a production from the"
"a piratical raid. Lindisfarne was different. The Viking devastation of Northumbria's Holy Island was reported by the Northumbrian scholar Alcuin of York, who wrote: ""Never before in Britain has such a terror appeared"". Vikings were portrayed as wholly violent and bloodthirsty by their enemies. In medieval English chronicles, they are described as ""wolves among sheep"". The first challenges to the many anti-Viking images in Britain emerged in the 17th century. Pioneering scholarly works on the Viking Age reached a small readership in Britain. Linguistics traced the Viking Age origins of rural idioms and proverbs. New dictionaries of the Old Norse"
"of the Vikings is very brief. ""794.7 Devastation of all the islands of Britain by heathens,” yet over the course of the annals their attacks become more specific ""807.8 The heathens burned Inis Muiredaig and invade Ros Comáin."" The Vikings are called several different names throughout the annals: foreigners, dark or fair-foreigners, heathens, Norsemen, Norse-Irish and Danes. It is often unclear if these titles attribute nationalities or certain alliances as they are used intermixed throughout. The annals mention the foreigners’ beginnings in Ireland as one of plunder and slave taking. According to the annals, the Norsemen took many slaves in"
"Widsith, referring to the people or the race living in Jórvík (York, in the ninth century under control by Norsemen), ""Jór-Wicings"". The word ""Viking"" was introduced into Modern English during the 18th-century Viking revival, at which point it acquired romanticised heroic overtones of ""barbarian warrior"" or noble savage. During the 20th century, the meaning of the term was expanded to refer to not only seaborne raiders from Scandinavia and other places settled by them (like Iceland and the Faroe Islands), but also any member of the culture that produced said raiders during the period from the late 8th to the"
"violent and evil heathens. Viking raids from the late 8th to the early 10th century consisted of ""hit-and-run"" style raids that would bring riches back to their respective lands. However, due to the technical success of their shipbuilding, they were able to transform such raids into settlements. Viking ships made it possible to traverse rivers such as the Thames in England, the Volga in Russian territory, and the Loire in Frankish territory. In the years 814-820, Danish Vikings repeatedly sacked the regions of Northwestern France via the Seine River and also repeatedly sacked monasteries in the Bay of Biscay via"
"invaded England in the January and February 1138 shocked the English chroniclers, and the shock was compounded even more by the fact that it was led by ""their"" David. Richard of Hexham called it ""an execrable army, savager than any race of heathen yielding honour to neither God nor man"" and that it ""harried the whole province and slaughtered everywhere folk of either sex, of every age and condition, destroying, pillaging and burning the vills, churches and houses"". Several doubtful stories of cannibalism entered the chronicle records. as well as routine enslavings and killings of churchmen, women and infants. Henry"
"A recent, 2002 history of the Victorians' fascination with the Vikings takes a more critical view, summing it up as ""a stodgy digest"", ""a pot-pourri of information"", with ""stern, no nonsense judgements: [such as]... 'wicked' ... 'cruel' ... 'silly falsehoods' "". However, although Miss Bullar decried Greenlander traditions as ""foolish"", she continued, ""perhaps if [Greenlanders] were to come to England, they might think some of our customs as silly, and as unbecoming as we think this of theirs."" In a time where foreign cultures were often characterized as ""savage"" or ""unenlightened"", Miss Bullar was more hesitant to judge the customs"
"""vandalorum rex"" in Latin. The title was shortened to ""King of Denmark"" in 1972. Starting in 1540, Swedish kings (following Denmark) were styled ""Suecorum, Gothorum et Vandalorum Rex"" (""King of the Swedes, Geats, and Wends""). Carl XVI Gustaf dropped the title in 1973 and now styles himself simply as ""King of Sweden"". The modern term ""vandalism"" stems from the Vandals' reputation as the barbarian people who sacked and looted Rome in AD 455. The Vandals were probably not any more destructive than other invaders of ancient times, but writers who idealized Rome often blamed them for its destruction. For example,"
"descendants of three Germanic tribes: the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes, from the Jutland peninsula and Lower Saxony (, Germany). The Angles may have come from Angeln, and Bede wrote their nation came to Britain, leaving their land empty. They spoke closely related Germanic dialects. The Anglo-Saxons knew themselves as the ""Englisc,"" from which the word ""English"" derives. Viking refers to a member of the Norse (Scandinavian) peoples, famous as explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates, who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe beginning in the late 8th. These Norsemen used their famed longships to travel. The Viking Age"
"Viking (Norse mythology) Viking is the name of the son of Vífil and Eimyrja in Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar. Viking is the father of Thorsten and Thorer. Further details of his legend are recounted in Frithiof's Saga. The two daughters of Logi (Haloge) are stolen away by suitors to nearby islands. Viking is a son of one of these daughters, Eimyrja. He grows up in Bornholm. By the time he is 15, he is the biggest and strongest man of his time. His magic sword Angervadil is fatal even to giants. The sword was inscribed with Runic letters, which blazed in"
"Viking (Norse mythology) Viking is the name of the son of Vífil and Eimyrja in Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar. Viking is the father of Thorsten and Thorer. Further details of his legend are recounted in Frithiof's Saga. The two daughters of Logi (Haloge) are stolen away by suitors to nearby islands. Viking is a son of one of these daughters, Eimyrja. He grows up in Bornholm. By the time he is 15, he is the biggest and strongest man of his time. His magic sword Angervadil is fatal even to giants. The sword was inscribed with Runic letters, which blazed in"
"to the percentage of Norse inheritance found among males in the Orkney Islands. Recent research suggests that the Celtic warrior Somerled, who drove the Vikings out of western Scotland and was the progenitor of Clan Donald, may have been of Viking descent, a member of haplogroup R-M420. [AFM 849.9 [=851], similar AU 851.3 ""Tetact Dubgennti du Ath Cliath co ralsat ár mór du Fhinngallaibh"", translated as ""The dark heathens came to Áth Cliath, made a great slaughter of the fair-haired foreigners""] Vikings Vikings (—""pirate"", Danish and ; Swedish and ; , from Old Norse) were Norse seafarers, mainly speaking the"
"himself. In the mid ninth century, an invading Viking army coalesced in Anglo-Saxon England. The earliest version of the ninth- to twelfth-century ""Anglo-Saxon Chronicle"" variously describes the invading host as """""""", an Old English term that can translate as ""big army"" or ""great army"". Archaeological evidence and documentary sources suggest that this Great Army was not a single unified force, but more of a composite collection of warbands drawn from different regions. The exact origins of the Great Army are obscure. The ""Anglo-Saxon Chronicle"" sometimes identifies the Vikings as Danes. The tenth-century ""Vita Alfredi"" seems to allege that the invaders"
"Richard III continues to be guilty because it is impossible to prove him innocent. The Tudors ride high in popular esteem."" Polydore Vergil and Thomas More expanded on this portrayal, emphasising Richard's outward physical deformities as a sign of his inwardly twisted mind. More describes him as ""little of stature, ill-featured of limbs, crook-backed ... hard-favoured of visage"". Vergil also says he was ""deformed of body ... one shoulder higher than the right"". Both emphasise that Richard was devious and flattering, while planning the downfall of both his enemies and supposed friends. Richard's good qualities were his cleverness and bravery."
"influenced by the methods of Bernard Palissy, had been ridiculed and misunderstood by proponents of ""Puginite"" design, following the proto-modernist principles of Augustus Pugin. Wilson's argument formed part of a reaffirmation of the aesthetic principles of the grotesque. The argument that distaste for Victorian cultural values ('Anti-victorianism') is irrational has been adopted by other writers,either following Stove's politically conservative attack on liberal thought, or Wilson's critique of modernism. Victorian Era Horror Victorianorum Horror Victorianorum (terror of the Victorian), coined by the philosopher David Stove, is an extreme distaste or condemnation of Victorian culture, art and design. The term was used"
"Tudor myth The ""Tudor myth"" is the tradition in English history, historiography and literature that presents the period of the 15th century, including the Wars of the Roses, in England as a dark age of anarchy and bloodshed. It served the political purpose of promoting the Tudor period of the 16th century as a golden age of peace, law, order, and prosperity. Conspicuous in this tradition of history writing and literature was the portrayal of Richard III of England (1452–1485; reigned, 1483–1485) as a deformed hunchback and murderer. One of the historians who founded this tradition was Thomas More, who"
"military officers often used the young boys of defeated peoples for homosexual intercourse. The Roman historian Tacitus noted this happening during the Revolt of the Batavi. The Vikings (Scandinavians who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe from the late 8th century to the early 11th century), have acquired a reputation for ""rape and pillage"". Viking settlements in Britain and Ireland are thought to have been primarily male enterprises, with a lesser role for Viking females. British Isles women are mentioned in old texts on the founding of Iceland, indicating that the Viking explorers had acquired wives and concubines from"
"peoples, Irminones, Istvaeones, and Ingaevones, Pliny specifically adds two more ""genera"" or ""kinds"", the Bastarnae and the Vandili (Vandals). The Vandals were tribes east of the Elbe, including the well-known Silingi, Goths, and Burgundians, an area that Tacitus treated as Suebic. That the Vandals might be a separate type of Germanic people, corresponding to the modern concept of East Germanic, is a possibility that Tacitus also noted, but for example the Varini are named as Vandilic by Pliny, and specifically Suebic by Tacitus. At one time, classical ethnography had applied the name ""Suevi"" to so many Germanic tribes that it"
"would have been really far younger at this date [i.e. January, 1461]."" Stevenson follows William Shakespeare in retrojecting Richard of Gloucester into an earlier period of the Wars of the Roses and portraying him as a dour hunchback—Stevenson: ""the formidable hunchback."" (See Henry VI, part 2; Henry VI, part 3; and Richard III.) This characterisation closely follows the Tudor myth, a tradition that overly vilified Richard of Gloucester and cast the entire English Fifteenth century as a bloody, barbaric chaos in contrast to the Tudor era of law and order. Curiously, the 1948 film ""The Black Arrow"" portrays Richard of"
"more destructive than other invaders of ancient times, but they did inspire British poet John Dryden to write, ""Till Goths, and Vandals, a rude Northern race, Did all the matchless Monuments deface"" (1694). However, the Vandals did intentionally damage statues, which may be why their name is associated with the vandalism of art. The term ""Vandalisme"" was coined in 1794 by Henri Grégoire, bishop of Blois, to describe the destruction of artwork following the French Revolution. The term was quickly adopted across Europe. This new use of the term was important in colouring the perception of the Vandals from later"
"Emperors Leo VI the Wise and his son Alexander; Harald Fairhair, king of Norway; Eric Anundsson and his son Björn Eriksson rulers of Sweden; Gorm the Old, king of Denmark; and Alfred the Great, king of England. While several kingdoms in Britain — East Anglia, Fortriu, Mercia, and Northumbria — would collapse under the shock of Viking attacks, their impact in Ireland was very much less immediate. In the first half of the ninth century, raiders appear to have come in small groups, increasing in size until larger forces appear, such as that led by the shadowy Turgéis (Turgesius) in"
"did not think of them as ‘Tudors’, or of themselves as ‘Tudor people’"". Princes and Princesses would have been known as ""of England"". The medieval practice of colloquially calling princes after their place birth (e.g. Henry of Bolingbroke for Henry IV or Henry of Monmouth for Henry V) was not followed. Henry VII was likely known as ""Henry of Richmond"" before his taking of the throne. The Tudors' claim to the throne was the strongest one at the end of the Wars of the Roses, as it combined the Lancastrian claim in their descent from the Beauforts and the Royal"
"both known for fighting giants, ate prodigiously and used a hammer-like weapon (there is even a suggestion that the ""miller"" and Thor's hammer Mjolnir come from the same source). He is mentioned in Laurence Sterne's ""Tristram Shandy"" and ""Lavengro"" by George Borrow, although Borrow places his exploits as far north as Lincolnshire. The elaborate moulded plasterwork (pargeting) decorating the Old Sun Inn in Saffron Walden, Essex features his battle against the Wisbech Giant. A character named Hiccafrith, based on Tom, appears in Marcus Pitcaithly's Hereward trilogy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VrPQmXOSqA&t=1s Tom Hickathrift Tom Hickathrift (or sometimes Jack Hickathrift) is a legendary figure of"
"attention of fellow historians to the distortions of this tradition. (See also, historical revisionism.) The concept of Merry England takes the opposite view of this period. More specifically, Ricardian historians, the Richard III Society and The Society of Friends of King Richard III have striven to provide historical perspectives more favourable to Richard III and his achievements during his brief reign. Tudor myth The ""Tudor myth"" is the tradition in English history, historiography and literature that presents the period of the 15th century, including the Wars of the Roses, in England as a dark age of anarchy and bloodshed. It"
"abuser"". The soap opera's official website notes: ""Victor is loving and protective toward family and loved ones, but if crossed, or if Victor feels that one is not living up to one's full potential; then he can more than live up to the adjective that many have used to describe him ruthless."" ""The Los Angeles Times"" characterizes him as ""charming but complicated"", while others publications have described him as a villain, as well as an evil, powerful and ruthless character. Sara Bibel of Xfinity wrote that Victor is a male chauvinist. Although he is often considered malicious, Braeden stated that"
"as a gathering of this world and the supernatural, including witches, goblins, and demons. A Viking poem portrays the environment as strongly pagan, with chanting Valkyries deciding who would live and who would die. While few records are known, the Vikings are thought to have led their first raids in Scotland on the holy island of Iona in 794, the year following the raid on the other holy island of Lindisfarne, Northumbria. In 839, a large Norse fleet invaded via the River Tay and River Earn, both of which were highly navigable, and reached into the heart of the Pictish"
"Vikings Vikings (—""pirate"", Danish and ; Swedish and ; , from Old Norse) were Norse seafarers, mainly speaking the Old Norse language, who during the late 8th to late 11th centuries, raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of Europe, and explored westwards to Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland. The term is also commonly extended in modern English and other vernaculars to the inhabitants of Norse home communities during what has become known as the Viking Age. This period of Nordic military, mercantile and demographic expansion constitutes an important element in the early medieval history of Scandinavia,"
"of the Vandals was recorded in a letter to King Theodoric the Ostrogoth, giving thanks for a gift of swords, and refers to the fullers in the blades as simply grooves: ""...their centers, hollowed out with beautiful grooves, seem to undulate with worm-like markings; for shadows of such variety you would think the metal was interwoven rather than shining with different colors."" The French often use the term ""goutiere"" (gutter) or ""cannelure"" (channel). The ancient Viking term is unknown. As a verb, the old French term ""gutter"" meant ""to cut small hollows,"" as in the gutter of a crossbow. The"
"entered Hispanic languages and local varieties of Latin with forms beginning not only in ""n-"", but in ""l-"", such as (apparently reflecting nasal dissimilation in local Romance languages). This form may in turn have been borrowed into Arabic: the prominent early Arabic source al-Mas‘ūdī identified the 844 raiders on Seville not only as ""Rūs"" but also . In modern scholarship, ""Vikings"" is a common term for attacking Norsemen, especially in connection with raids and monastic plundering by Norsemen in the British Isles, but it was not used in this sense at the time. In Old Norse and Old English, the"
"who refused to submit to his rule, such as Jasper Tudor and his nephew Henry Tudor (later King Henry VII of England), naming them as traitors and confiscating their lands. The Tudors tried to flee to France but strong winds in the English Channel forced them to land at Le Conquet in Brittany, where they were taken into the custody of Duke Francis II. Henry Tudor, the only remaining Lancastrian noble with a trace of royal bloodline, had a weak claim to the throne, and King Edward IV regarded him as ""a nobody."" However, Francis II viewed Henry as a"
"influences into Scandinavia itself, with profound developmental implications in both directions. Popular, modern conceptions of the Vikings—the term frequently applied casually to their modern descendants and the inhabitants of modern Scandinavia—often strongly differ from the complex picture that emerges from archaeology and historical sources. A romanticised picture of Vikings as noble savages began to emerge in the 18th century; this developed and became widely propagated during the 19th-century Viking revival. Perceived views of the Vikings as alternatively violent, piratical heathens or as intrepid adventurers owe much to conflicting varieties of the modern Viking myth that had taken shape by the"
"from June 1, 2005. It seems to have been inspired by English-language news reporting figuring Icelandic financiers as Vikings, and it has been suggested that 'origins of the term lie primarily in language of violent masculinity developed on Wall Street around the beginning of the 1980s and soon adopted into everyday English — usages such as ""to make a killing"", meaning ""to make a lot of money"".' A number of novelists wrote works satirising the medievalist pretensions of the ""útrásarvíkingar"", particularly by reimagining the ""útrásarvíkingar"" not as vikings but as feudal knights. They include Bjarni Harðarson (), Böðvar Guðmundsson (""Töfrahöllin""),"
"of Viking raids against England. Wulfstan exhorts the English to behave in a manner more pleasing to God, and specifically to live according to the laws of the Church and of the king. The ' is noted for its rhetorical achievements, and is considered to represent the height of Wulfstan's skill as a homilist and rhetor. The text of the ' has been critically edited many times, most recently by Dorothy Bethurum. The work contains one of several mentions of Old English ', a term cognate to the Old Norse """"—valkyries. Wulfstan's past is obscure, though it is possible that"