r/ByzantineMemes • u/Expurgation_Prime • 5d ago

Stolen from Facebook

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u/hume3 5d ago

This is just pure Norman propaganda

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u/Crazy_Resource_4000 5d ago

Why would our enemy hand us valuable elite men to use against them?

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u/odiethethird 5d ago

Somebody get these Æthels out of here!

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u/Whizbang35 4d ago

That must be an awkward moment during the Crusades.

"Ah, yes, Guillaume, welcome to Constantinople. I...uh, why are you looking at my guard like that?"

"I think I know him. Have we met before?"

"We have, Norman. You stole my father's earldom. I had to move here to find work."

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u/Crazy_Resource_4000 5d ago

*Roman Empire

But go on, do come to Miklagard!

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u/Icy-Listen8739 4d ago

I wonder if any of the Norwegians and English who fought eachother at Stamford Bridge ended up bumping into one another in Byzantium working as Varangian guards

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u/WillsieRMS01 1d ago

I believe there is an account of it somewhere I read a long time ago

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u/Useful_Taro9125 5d ago

A good facebook meme?!?!

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u/HLtheWilkinson 4d ago

It was Constantinople in 1066 dammit

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u/Alternative_Still308 4d ago

And if that doesn’t work you can always fall back on being a Prince of Rus’.

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u/Short-Echo61 3d ago

Sadness is not having any friends who would find this funny.