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⌈ Secret Post #4277 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I have a medieval master's, and it's true, I don't care about historical inaccuracy. And frankly, most of the time when people complain about historical inaccuracy, they clearly have no actual academic background in history and also fuck up the facts, so ultimately it's pretty funny. Live and let live!

[(Anonymous)]

Tell us about the funniest fuck ups!

[(Anonymous)]

I'd say I've more encountered a fundamental misunderstanding of the context of historical stories, myths, and legends. People love to talk about what's "accurate" or not in, for example, an Arthurian romance. But the fact is, there isn't an "accurate" Arthurian romance. It was an ever-evolving genre of works that were sort-of-but-not-consistently historically inspired, and most medieval folks were not actually sixth century historians themselves, so the accuracy literally does not matter. Taking some elements from a couple sources and fudging them here and there, adding a few original tweaks, whatever - that's completely within the spirit of Arthurian storytelling. Same with paganism. For instance, I don't really want to hear about the "accuracy" of Marvel's Thor because there isn't one accurate Norse mythological system to start with. Paganism is notoriously flexible, decentralized, and usually illiterate, so the stories and gods could vary significantly from village to village. Not to mention, in reality, we know extremely little about most pagan practices, as so few of the sources come from actual pagans themselves.

[(Anonymous)]

Gods, it's especially funny with Arthurian because there was no singular author of Arthurian mythos. A lot of the popular myths have different sources!

[sparklywalls]

I also have a background in medieval history and you're saying things here that explain pretty well why getting hung up on historical inaccuracy regarding certain things is a little silly.

I've never said "I'm not bothered so you shouldn't be!" because I can't tell people what to do. But with mythological stuff or folklore more than anything it feels like a waste of time to be super bothered by it.

And complaining about Marvel's Thor has the element that it's a version of those stories about a character who is essentially an alien, especially in the films (in the comics they're usually more explicitly gods) besides as you say the sources we have aren't necessarily the originals.