This actually exists, I have only one question.
Explain this.
>Silver chariot vs Heavy weather
They symbolise sloth?
>>317532
the knight in the bottom legs has dragon legs ffs, and you talk to me of snails? nigga snells tha lass thing i got on ma mindz
what else would he be fighting on a twig?
They thought it was funny and wanted to fuck with future generations.
>>317532
Being a monk was really fucking boring, all the explanation needed.
>2500
>There are records of humans in 2015 who reunited in online imageboards to post sad frogs, nobody knows why.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3tva6h/why_are_there_so_many_medieval_paintings_of/
>>317567
On the date of 2015 11/29/15 Sunday 03:20:26 an anon predicted the future, little did we know he was wrong.
Nobody knows why?
>>317576
Trying to access it but 4chan tells me this isn't a board.
No hard to explain at all, senpai: the human imagination is our most enduring faculty. Shit, just look at this thing. Is it evidence of 40,000 year old lion men?
>>317567
Oh God now I undertand
>monk A gets bored and draws a knight fighting snails
>years later monk B receives monk A manuscript he's supposed to copy. Sees the snail thing, goes "lol wtf", finds it funny, and start drawing snail fighting in his own manuscripts
>monk C receives monk B manuscript
>the cycle continues
Most likely the snail represented a sin, most likely greed.
>>317600
>evidence of 40,000 year old furries
>knights attacking snails is a mystery
>not the persistent description in medieval manuscripts that a tribe of "dogheads" descended from the tribe of Adam existed.
It's just an old meme.
>>317638
>medieval furries
>>317532
Drunk monks got bored, invented memes.
>>317629
>>317600
Fucking furfags
(It's actually amazing)
>>317638
They look pretty civilized for being dogs.
This can't be real, they're called "He-Gassen" for fucks sake
>>317532
It's a medieval meme
>>317619
I second this guess, in light of works like The Faerie Queene
Snails were a common pest that would have been familiar to most.
The knights were guarding the drawn foliage from the snails.
>>317682
>implying they aren't scheming
Monks did a lot of gardening. Snails were probably considered their biggest enemy, after raiders.
Also, usually the only people who would see a monk's work was other monks, so there were all kinds of little injokes. There was also a common trend of drawing monk-on-nun porn in Bibles they knew would be sent to abbots.
>>317639
Ye Old Meme.
>>317532
>This actually exists, I have only one question.
>Explain this.
>>317711
when you see vegetables in your vegetable garden you expect to see snails, hence when they drew leaves and branches in their book they added snails, but of course they needed someone to fight off these snails
>>317690
Fart jokes are kinda more common than snail jokes though
>>317725
What's there to explain? It's pretty straightforward.
>>317532
Two monks got together and decided to draw pictures of knights fighting snails.
>>317711
I meant convents, not abbots desu
>>317601
Humans have not changed much. The Pompeii graffitis also show this
>>317765
>IX.8.3 (House of the Centenary; in the latrine near the front door); 5243: “Secundus defecated here” three time on one wall.
History's first shitpost?
>>317786
Sorry.
>>317532
There is no reason. It's just doodles some transcribers made so they could have a sensible chuckle with the lads.
>>317532
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>>317725
Tiem to fap
>>317638
fucking furfags
>>317532
because fuck you that's why
>>317835
>ye olde goatse
The more you learn about history, the more you learn mankind doesn't really change
>>317532
>>317532
Because one night monk woke up and realized his little garden was full of them.
FUCK snails.
snail shells are like armor, I guess upon seeing armored knights for the first time the comparison was natural
>>317878
as is the comparison between snails eating your lettuce and feudal lords taxing you
>>317835
>poo poo pee pee
>>317867
This
>>317865
pls stop
>>317882
I'm not sure the clergy did get taxed.
guys, what do you think this ancient viking engraving means?
>>317911
Why the note necklace?
>>317911
stop what
>A group of bored monks tormenting a hapless painter by accusing him of being in league with muslims and satan
>his attempts to prove them wrong results in greater lulz
>>317943
It's a redone version of a two headed dragon from a kid's show that happens to wear a necklace with notes on it
>>317937
the mythology fits in well with pepe and wojak
jormungand represents chaos and destruction, while thor must sacrifice his life to defeat it when ragnarok comes around
it may also be a representation of mans inner struggle against his own nature, which I think /r9k/ has problems with
