"End Him Rightly" - A bizarre tactic in a Medieval fighting manual (Gladiatoria MS KK5013)
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- Опубликовано: 4 дек 2014
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This is a really strange "technique" shown in manuscript KK5013, which is part of the Gladiatoria, a German series of manuscripts from the 15th century. They deal with armored combat in a judicial duel, armed with spear, longsword, buckler and dagger.
This seems to be evidence of swords with threaded pommels as early as the late Middle Ages, and it's also a really strange and apparently utterly impractical idea for catching your opponent off guard. I cannot imagine that anyone could possibly pull this off successfully.
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This is a very old video by now. For a more recent take on this: ruclips.net/video/VCRE0Wk4F2o/видео.html
Idk why, but this made me smile 1:10
Love ur channel. Keep up the good work!
Oi mate, old memes best memes.
Let's face it, the "end them rightly" has basically become something of a trademark now, over many years. And it's fucking awesome :D
All your base are belong to us!
Perhaps it was written into the manual as a joke. Historical context is obviously important here. The world was a much smaller place during this time period and could reference some widely known trope of the era. It's possible that the pommels being referenced were decorative and could be unscrewed quickly without much effort as opposed to the vigorous cranking required for the swords in this video. A pommel that could be unscrewed by forcefully running the hand across the surface just once as it glided loose on it's own seems likely. Books were extremely rare during this time period so the type of swordsmen using these moves would quite possibly have decorative and ornate swords with such pommels. A heavy pommel striking the helmet would be very disorienting. The helmet would ring loudly and possibly shift position on the face obscuring your opponents vision and causing an impulsive reaction to lower their guard to make necessary adjustments. It also seems like a very effective way of disrupting their focus and provoking an aggressive outburst. All things considered this move doesn't seem that absurd. But I suspect that context is everything with this particular inscription.
Instead of a pommel, use a rock? For distraction, of course.
The first recorded Troll-incident
I think the author must have thought. "Hmm, the whole point of trial by combat is letting God decide, the people reading my book already have a huge advantage in swordplay. Maybe I'll level the playing field in this one case by giving them ridiculous advice!"
Nah bro, Diogenes trolled Alexander the great long before that.
It could have been a joke advice: It is so obviously a joke, but could also have been to cause a nasty surprise for any enemy that might steal the book and trying to use it.
+Jones Crimson remember the 'featherless bipeds'
+Alex Konovalik to the winner goes the riches, death and fornication.
Right, so next D&D game the party will find a sword with an enchanted pommel. Just the pommel. You can throw it.
do we have to remove the holy pin from the holy hand pommel too?
No, but you have to unscrew it from the Mundane Sword of Nothing Special.
Liam Hollingsworth Fox
Liam. Fuck it I'm going for it. I will say how it works
Ayyy....LMAO
Moral of the video : trolling is much older than you think
@xxBOUNTYxxHUNTER No, no. Not trolling in that way, but trolling in order to annoy a person or embarrass them. Throwing the pommel of your sword at your opponent's head would be pretty humiliating if you think about it.
@xxBOUNTYxxHUNTER If you actually watch the video, he will say that the old photos in the guide shows threaded pommels.
@Ryan Smith Yeah, and it's not a joke to throw your pommel at someone, it's much more of a troll
This is probably the 15th centuary equivalent of "what if this video was the only evidence humans ever existed"
Yes Trolls are really old, they used to live under bridges.
Maybe it was sarcastic and was actually a 15th century meme that skallagrim gave new life.
@Charger SPS why the whoosh?
Bopt someone most likely got wooshed (even though woosh is just a dead joke at this point) and deleted their comment
Bopt that or the woosh is towards Skal
Probably taking the piss out of these nefangled threaded pommels. I mean what other reason is there to be able to remove it?
1500s kids only
My cop friend tells me that in extreme cases when they've exhausted their primary and sidearm, they are trained to hurl their heavy flashlights at the perp to end him brightly.
Red Daikini
Underrated comment
Gold
XD
i take my hat off for you sir
Wouldn't you take the magazine from the gun and hurl it at him? That seems to fit thematically.
Haha ! 300th like !
*Sees opponent unscrewing his pommel* Oh no. *Begins unscrewing own pommel hastily* We shall see who ends who rightly! *Double KO*
Virck whom
Deh fuhk? XD
Victory royale!
Legends say, that when the pommels were thrown, they collided mid air, creating a massive, universe wide implosion, blasting us in into the technological age.
This needs to be a Monty Python skit lol
Ye ol' 360'th no scopeth.
Get fuckethed scrub
Maiq! ;)
thou arth hath been rekth
Hark! Thou shalt sucketh thine issue.
Thou art brethren shall
swallow'th thou ligma'th.
Instructor: begin the duel
Both fighters: *drops everything and aggressively unscrews pommel*
Both fighters: YEEEEEEET
Instructor: good
Instructor: now... screw the other guy's pommel on your sword... yeah, that's right... mmmm...
@@chrisc7265 both fighters: *silently crying* please stop this.
Both fighters: we are born in the time of men... we dont say "yeet"
@@chrisc7265 lol wtf
bahahahahah! i just watched this movie the other day. LOL such a great line. "we purposely trained him wrong. as a joke."
I was trying to figure out why he was unscrewing his pomel, but then it hit me.
*Slow Clap*
i laughed more than i should
Funniest comment on youtube I read in a long time :D
Maybe it was a confusing tactic?
-bows-
Now that I think about it, the pommel may have been the Medieval equivalent of a Nokia 3310.
God damn you XD hahaha
I can't think of any other plausible explanation - the people of the time wherever this book was sold must have had some kind of 'internal' joke, and it must have been obvious joke to them
Aaaaaand now you just gave me an idea that whoever wrote that might have been an Medieval equivalent of Skall.
You have made my day, Sir.
Now that'd duff some shit up real good.
now somebody's gonna have to make a Nokia sword..
When they meant "end him rightly", they didn't mean effectively. They meant to disrespect them
Like medieval teabagging or t-posing
Imagine being on your knees, your ear are ringing for all the beating and you can't feel your arm from fatigue, you hear a humming sound that you recognise as the halo theme, you slowly raise your helmet and see the opponent t posing with the pomel in one hand and the sword in the other. He stop humming, looks at you and with a twisting kick he make your helmet spin away from your head. He drop the sword and cross the fingers on his plate armour, still holding on the pomel. "I had to do it to thee" he say as he end you rightly
@@etooamill9528 JK Rowling : And the opponents were secretly ga-
NEOC - t posing isn’t close to t bagging do you even know what t posing is
Brandon_kx250f
They both work as disrespect in battle. They’re different mechanically but similar functionally
Thats a real nose in the air kind of way to say embarrass them lol
Just here to pay homage to one of the greatest niche meme videos of all time.
I loked the video because of this comment
Ha. Loked :)
Me too
Came to find where it originated
Doesn’t something have to be funny and all over the internet to be a meme?
Clearly both combatants are unscrewing their pommels together so it's a quick-draw pommel throw.
fistful of pommels or a few pommels more
Yorkshire Longbowman The Just, The Vile and The Hideous
Aaron Seet *invents pockets*
Andhie Yusuf This was the most creative comment I have seen in a long time
Lol that's funny imagery. But seriously the manuscript doesn't seem to mention weather or not the pommel is or should be fully screwed on so perhaps if this became a common suprise/destruction tactic the fighters went into the fight with the thing almost off so it was just a *turn turn ha type deal.
My thought was actually that perhaps it's less for hurting your opponent, and more for essentially disrespecting them, or perhaps even disrespecting their ability in combat by using such a silly technique.
Basically using a 'point down' emote.
"Well, what is it?"
Hero✩Lydragius: Yes, knights and nobles in olden times were pretty sensitive after all, with their honour and all that.
So it's quite feasable that you could disrespect one to death.
Cause of death: Sheer humiliation?
So, basically the medieval equivalent of a 360° Quickscope.
They'd take the pommel off to expose the barrel end of their .12 gauge shotgun.
Imagine 😂😂😂
RWBY be like
r/UnexpectedRWBY
Luiz Felipe Yes. Yes it is
A .12 guage shotgun would be about the size of a missile, so I think you meant 12 guage
*the opponent sees me with a bandolier of pommels*
Op: What's that for?
Me: You'll see at the rightly time
Dude.. You dont have a lot of likes but believe me you need more.. I have never laughed so hard.. Like my entire side is sore 😂😂
@@vali7622 Thanks bro, glad my comment made you laugh 👍
Me: Or maybe the left time, depends on the sword
the time of ending is nigh
Is it possible that they had a good sense of humor back then?
Im sensing a Monty Python vibe with this.
Perhaps this is the oldest documentation of trolling.
Someone had to take care of the bridges
What to do if somebody attacks with a banana?
Throw your pommel at him.
stoooph...i just remembered the brigde scene from monthy phyton holy grail, i could not stop laughing...
James Lindsey not likely considering that this was a duel where you and another person fight to the death so if something didn't help you win then it wasn't used and literally (as skall said) died out, because the people who tried it died.
***** SHUT UP! L.o.lll...you asking for it, you fruity colour sargeant! ( for those who did not know, no! It is not about race. It is legitimate rank name as per napoleon era. Wiki it first!)
Ever considered that author was simply trolling?
Not really, since the other techniques in the same manuscript are viable and reasonable.
Well, that was a bloody fast response.
Yeah, what I meant is author could sneak in some bullshit on a thought that no one will notice it because everything else is legit.
Actually, scratch that. I want to see people doing this during the reconstruction events.
Requiem100500 check out ThegnThrand's channel, they tested this
+Skallagrim, you missed one small detail, which explains everything:
First, imagine being a knight who is suicidal for some reason (love, money, impotence - the works). Problem is, taking one's own life was a no-go for Christians in medieval times, so offing yourself would be no option because of the negative consequences: not getting a proper burial, shame for the family, eternal damnation (okay, an endless barbecue would make at least THAT a little more bearable) etc. You know the drill.
So, you would need help, and thats where the pommel thingy comes in. Imagine the probable (if not certain) outcome of a swordfight when one of the fighters suddendly starts to frantically unscrew his pommel to throw it. As you proved well, this takes a great amount of time which would result in a great amount of opportunities for your opponent to end you really (so to speak). Which means, you would be dead (which you wanted in the first place), but not by your own hand (which would be frowned on), but by the hand of your opponent in battle (which wouldn't). Problem solved.
Second, in Ye Olden Days, nobles quite commonly spoke in funny ways. For instance, they used the majestic plural when referring to themselves and variations thereof. One variation exists in the German language which
could be described as "majestic singular", so to speak, i.e. using "he" or "she" instead of "I" (e.g. "it pleases him" would mean the same as "it pleases me").
So in "ending him rightly", the "him" would actually refer to oneself, thus actually mean "ending me rightly", which would mean "in the right way" a.k.a. "I get what I want while dodging the bad stuff".
So "end him rightly" is nothing other than what we today call "assisted suicide". :-)
This reminds me of a trick the authors of the movie Good Will Hunting did. When pitching the script to whichever important person it was, they left in a surprising gay sex scene that had nothing to do with the story. When the important person asked them about it, they told him they were checking to see if he even read the script, and actually added the scene much later.
I kinda wonder if this is a bit like that, just checking to see if someone read his work.
So this is why the Mordhau hidden achievement exists.
"End Them Rightly"
Kill an enemy with a thrown pommel.
I scrolled down to far for this comment. The longsword allows the pummel throw emote.
Have at 'em ,bois!
@@tinytinus1988 to glory!!!!
@Rasael yeah use a long sword open the emotes osd and select pummel throw you will throw the screw at wherever your aiming
Its actually because of this video i believe that raised awareness that started the online meme that ended up in the game. You are watching internet history.
To be fair, back then the threading wouldn't be made as finely as more modern swords. So there would be less threading to unscrew and could be significantly faster.
Exactly my thought...
To be faaaaaaaiiiiirrrrrr
Oh why did you have to be so logically correct in the face of such gut busting comedy 😂😆
To be faaaaaaaiiiiirrrr...
@@lukeives7396 oh we got some letterkennys in here
Two years later I bet Skall has some regrets over starting this meme.
The meme has already started hundred of years ago by that legendary scribe.
Now he must and it rightly...
Arkillik end*
Look at his recent video. You predicted correctly
+Hushed Desert
Which video if I might ask? I am new to Skall.
To be fair, if you actually managed to kill your opponent at the end of a duel by nailing him on the forehead with an unscrewed pommel throw, you *_would_* become a living legend and stories would be told about you for centuries.
And, honestly, I think that's totally the point. Unscrewing your pommel to throw it, is a VERY stupid idea while the fight is still contested . . . but once you've got him "on the ropes" . . . you take the time to unscrew your pommel to show that, "Yeah, I am this much better than you . . ." thereby "ending him rightly."
Medieval teabagging
Rafe *this*
Fatality.
WolFaun unscrew your pommel make a sling place the pommel in the sling then “throw the pommel at them”
"End him rightly" = yeet your pommel at them.
Seems legit
"End Him Rightly" is also an execution for the Warden class in For Honor. You unscrew the pommel and chuck it at the opponent's head.
Ivory Mantis pretty sure for honor did that because of this video
I was thinking that
Tytton Elkins maybe not this video, but this concept from the original source
@@agilden2483 i am 90% sure it is due to this.
@@Myuutsuu85 is this where the meme came from? I always see it on shadiversity and lindybeige videos.
Medieval trolling :) whoever wrote this manuscript was fucking master-troll because his stunt works even centuries after his death.
Now imagine young knight on the practice yard who studied this manuscript all night and is now trying to impress his peers and senior knights there by trying this and they are all pissing their pants from laughing and he is like "shieeeeeeeeet" :D
+lamebubblesflysohigh Imagine in battle tho
+lamebubblesflysohigh it's "sciiiiiiiitte"
+lamebubblesflysohigh next he will have dudes looking for blinker fluid
+lamebubblesflysohigh You have an eloquent way with words my, friend.
medieval pocket sand. :P
You haven't seen historical evidence of a threaded pommel in that time period because they threw them all.
i'd like but the likes are at 69
Hahahha
comment of the year
Lol.
I think it is because people aren't looking for it. I have seen a lot of weapons with a twisted tang, and i think these were what were considered 'threaded'.
Same, but it's at 666 now
They would remove the pommel mostly before the fight so that it would just come off
Its a sneaky snakes opening move to end it quickly.
And rightly.
"On the battlefield, victory goes to him who has the pommel with the fewest threads"
TFW you manage to troll someone, and create a meme 500 years after you die.
Bruh moment when you're a meme lord in medieval times
@@sophisticatednebula4236 Probably burned at the stake for witchcraft.
That's the ultimate goal.
Exactly what I was thinking. Certainly people have always had a sense of humor. I'm inclined to believe that this was just the author having a laugh. It is interesting though that it provides evidence of a technology that would otherwise be considered a few hundred years more advanced than it was.
Who knows, maybe one of our comments will become a meme in 500 years?
"Are you unscrewing with me?"
+jednoucelovy, "no, I'm ending you, *rightly*"
Meanwhile I'm dying
+Travis “Snow” Storm Yes - because you just had a pommel thrown at you vigorously!
If it ends them rightly. Then do it. Do it rightly.
+TheBuragi if I tried that , that sucker would go over the fence into a window.
This is actually an execution in FOR HONOR and I never understood it until now
Yes, they got the idea from this
Nverdis it exists since 1400. I don’t think they were unaware of this until this video
@@tendericed2749 That is true Wolfscreed but look at it this way: think of aaaaaallll the different execution maneuvers that were invented since then. What would make something about throwing a pommel stand out among the paper pile? Quite possibly memes.
Well, on a side note, standing over your defeated opponent, looking into his terrified eyes as he awaits his death... only to unscrew the pommel and throw it at him with a cocky smirk on your face, that's pretty badass.
@@tendericed2749 this wasn't a known phenomenon on the internet before Skallagrim. I'm fairly certain they added it because of the meme this video created.
It was added because of this video
You're overlooking the agressive angle of the thread. Your sword has the type of thread like a modern bolt and nut would have. The clue is in the image you showed. The pitch of the thread is very agressive. I calculate 3 or maximum 4 turns of the pommel. Also if you quickly flicked your wrist you could have forced the pommel to keep spinning until it popped off unto your waiting hand. Which would have been instantaneously. It would have been two movements: twist to unlock and flick the pummel to spin it. Try it with a nut and bolt. Flick it like snapping your fingers and the nut will roll sideways quickly. It would have been even faster with only 2 or 3 threads per inch as opposed to 8 to 24 per inch I would calculate for a modern bolt.
true, especially if you grease the thread rightly beforehand
We only got to explain, what could do a thrown pommel do with the fullplated knight )
Even if we assume, that book means some sort of stick slingshot of unscrewed pommel from thread - I doubt that such small projectile could do serious stunning to opponent.
@@user-ne7pr9jv6i End Them Rightly means humiliation
@@user-ne7pr9jv6i I can easily imagine an unaware opponent being stunned for just long enough to be ended rightly.
@@user-ne7pr9jv6i I'm pretty sure if a projectile flies in your face at significant speed, your initial reaction is always protecting your face with your hands, even if there's no need to objectively
He may have been addressing katana pommels, which we all know double up as incendiary grenades due to superior Japanese engineering.
Mason Wiegand The pommel grenades were also folded over 1000 times to increase blast radius.
hallonet654 You also forgot to mention that they have an electromagnet, which can be activated using the main sword to cause it to fly instantly back to the hilt, making the grenade pommel completely reusable.
And the ones the ninjas used came in smoke or poison gas models as well, though the samurai mainly adhered to the incendiary models, as such cheap tactics were considered by most to be dishonorable.
hallonet654 you made my day, man... hahah
hallonet654 You seem to be forgetting the superior nippawn steel. they were called grenades not because they exploded, but they were so mirror-esque shiny and clean that it refracted the suns rays into an all directional laser. It didn't bother you because of the shape of the pommel; it didn't refract as much towards you, it was shaped like this:
YOU ] ENEMY
I see u're doing...
This is actually a case of 15th century shitposting. Skallagrim was baited.
If that is the case then this shitpost aged better than Napoleonic era Brandy.
Ahaaa. Got him!
Sorry that was my ancestor
We germans(not bavarians) always LOVED ironic humor.
@@MrMhtmht lol bayern ist österreich
Okay. So imagine this. Two dudes are dueling in armour and both are quite expert however one is poorer than the other. So after some time the poor mans sword's pommel began to unthread from the repeated blows and parries. Eventually the poorer man knew his pommel was about to fall off so he did a quick step back and simply threw the pommel at the richer man before stepping in for the killing blow against a temporaily perturbed man in armour who did not know how to react to the unknown.
And low. A legend was born. Possibly anyway, it could just be someone's idea of a joke from 500 years ago although it was an expensive joke considering printing was a costly matter back then and at the very least. Now I know my meme. End him rightly and throw a pommel at him.
Printing? I suspect that in the 1430s, every copy would be a hand written original with hand drawn pictures. Any highlights would be made with actual gold and silver glued to the page.
“Your opponent will clearly see that you’re screwing away at the thing”
-Skall, 2014
who else came here after seeing all the "end him rightly" comments?
It was actually in my suggestions box, but still.
same
+Swedish Joey i was around when this video first came out it was in my suggestion box so i said what the hell ill check it out again yep just as funny as before.
me
+hardwirecars Same.
screw that technique
But do it rightly
I think you mean.. Unscrew that pommel
Rantnhnaketon Yousha tighter senpai!
Well, if you did have to resort to this technique, you were screwed indeed.
*_*screwing intensifies*_*
This dude just got in a lot of duels and was hoping he'd get a trend going, for some easy victories. As soon as his opponents reached for pommels, he'd be like *woot* stab stab.
"Stand still, for I shall end thee rightly!"
Ya-YEET!!
Is this video where the pommel memes started from?
yes.
@@DasInf13 where are these pommel memes, good sir?
@@DasInf13 Actually the historically accurate term was YEETETH
YEETETH
Just throw the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch
Altan Şirin I get that Monty Python reference dawg.
Actually, the Holy Hand Grenade was just a pommel without a sword (which shows how well this technique actually worked).
Altan Şirin yes! And then with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy!
"One, two, four!"
"Three, Sir!"
i tnink we found the medieval equivilent of "pres alt+F4" :D
renaissance
+Martin K (Ace One) medieval
Well in the medieval sandbox game Mount and Blade Warband, ctrl alt f4 instantly kills all your enemies.
good know know :)
wrong. it only knocks them all out. and only works with cheats enabled.
So this is where all the "end him rightly" and "pommel" comments came from
Medival equivalent of a 360 no scope
Everyone in chat: Aye ye did get thy vicarage thwarted with a sizable swift thrashing...
ye fookin newb
i think that is the very first meme ever written
People were memeing as long as we exist. As for written memes we have graphitti from pompei and herculanum and romans carving dingdongs on walls. We didnt really change that much for thausands of years or circumstances and surrounding changed a bit.
I think the sumerian gigachad is the oldest meme
Medieval Pommel Unscrewing Prank (Scribe Nearly Died XDXD) MEDIEVAL FIGHTING PRANK GONE WRONG
+Bonesy Rather its a prank bro
(GONE SEXUAL)
(IN THE HOOD)
+gruenerkoala Twas merely a jest brother
+Bonesy Rather (GUARDS CALLED)
I found an article online that said a more accurate translation of the original text would be 'end him quickly'.
Who cares? 'End him rightly' sounds better.
Why not throw the buckler frizzbe style.
Or cast level 9 haste before unscrewing the pommel
Bro just action surge to unscrew it.
new gladiator execution
This video is now a meme.
To the point where other youtubers are referencing it. Found a guy who made an "X Gonna Give It To Ya" For Honor parody and it referenced this. Fuck me shitless, I just about died laughing.
FireTalon24 Links. nOw!
Someone is clerly going back in time and altering these manuals to make memes.
It sounds like this video just resurrected a meme from the 15th century.
yeah prior to this video skallagrim is just your average swords channel and some martial art stuff...
ancient t-bagging
no you still bag em after that obviously
I do not think you know what it means to tea bag someone
This is the equivalent of T-bagging in video games today.
Could you imagine the poor bastard that must've tried that tactic.
500 years later and people are still laughing at this joke. Master memer.
We germans(not bavarians) always LOVED ironic humor.
"We deliberately trained him wrong, as a joke."
Kung Pow?
Yep.
+Beowulf DW "My nipples look like milk duds!"
Just wondering would it be a joke that's been lost in translation with the passage of time....
obiuosly
That was kinda my theory. More like an initiation for rookie warriors to see if they actually try it.
@k1w1
I dont think they'd give them a manual and have them go out and fight the next day. That only happened in Viet Nam. j/k
I'm pretty sure they would have trained them with sparring partners first.
And besides, if that went out and tried that tactic they'd get killed anyways.
Maybe the treads weren't as tight as the modern one. A turn or 2 aint that much difficult to unscrew quickly.
@k1w1
Initiation gag. A prank. I really have no idea why that would be in the manual.
How about you? Why do you think its in there?
This tactic works! When I tried it, my opponent laughed to death
"This is madness"
THIS IS a museum in VIENNA!
*throws pommel*
*persian guy falls down the hole which is conveniently placed behind him*
Is it in the military history museum there?
oh vieniss. i wonder what king arthur would face if it is italian inqusition
Not that is SPAAARRRRTA!
No this is Patrick
It will be more likely be a turk then a persian, but wathever.
I will bet $10 that some idiot tried this during a duel and it worked, somehow, and that's why it was added.
Claire Ryan Or a brilliant swordsmaster did it to show his superiority and won anyway. Or perhaps the author was trolling or being ironic.
Claire Ryan I wonder how may people read this manual back in the day, tried this in a duel and failed and died horribly.
***** Hipster trolling.
+dannylamb456 those damn elder hipsters you see...
ItsCdubs Trolling before there was a word for it.
3:40 when you accidentally right click with the m4a1s.
Happens all the time. Especially in the main hallway in office
@Charger SPS what's that csgo novelty you speak off??? Unscrewing stuff since 1.6 here ...
@@n9nex19 don't you hate it when it happens in the Walmart? Such a time loss.
@@johncrq3594 It's kinda awkward when the kindergarten kids stare at you while you do it
@@n9nex19 h m m m m m m
Someone at some point in history chucked a sword butt at someone else and youtube decided i needed to know ...i can dig it
never bring a sword to a pummel fight.
😂😂😂
never bring a pummel to a pummel fight.
Never pummel in a sword fight.
Never get into a pommel fight.
@Matthew (Student) Agonoy you monster
Why not carry a rock.
This was a judicial duel. The combatants had standardized equipment, were checked for hidden weapons, and the area was cleared of rocks and other debris before the fight.
+Skallagrim
I wasn't being serious, even a rock wouldn't do anything against armor.
it's not like the pommel would do anything against armor.
Pfff no, they only started doing that in the 17th century.
Back in the 15th century they carried pommels filled with thermite and impact explosives.
Also popular was the armor piercing high explosive incinerary pommel, first seen on a relic from 1581.
+DarkestVampire92 Wrong again they used nanotechnology to eat away at the enemy
I've been playing a medieval game called Mordhau and this is one of their achievements; even named "end him rightly"
Haha yeah and I'm pretty sure it does 1 damage so you gotta be REALLY lucky
@@Grriabear Does seem to be a luck factor haha
This was released around the time I first started following this channel. Glad to see it has still never died down.
Dark Souls new meta: dual wielding pommels.
+Leonardo Santos, that'd end those bosses rightly.
+Leonardo Santos Well we clearly all looted enough broken swords to finish Smaugh and Ornstein with pommels
+Geissenpeter253 So true it almost hurts me xD
+Leonardo Santos
just imagine you would tell the developer that throwing a pommel is an actual "technique" I would love to throw my pommel at a boss monster to "end him rightly" :D
+Leonardo Santos _Throw pommel and then end him right_
The author is the great great great great grandfather of all modern day trolls. Truly one of the greatest men in history
And Socrates the very first troll in History
Jimmy the Buddhist bee for trolling was passed from generation to generation
@@hernandogaribaldi8627i tought Dyogenes? Ya know, with bipeds chicken.😂
This is actually the method of how many stored their "Holy Hand grenade"!
Knight: *throws parts of his sword against enemy knight*
Enemy Knight: "whoa what the hell"
I'm dying laughing about that knights reaction xD
“You pest!”
“Ahh!”
“What the hell?!”
“I’ll kill you!!”
I did it!
I found the meme's birthplace. I can die happy.
Yep
what meme?
+Nicolas Chaussois Skallagrim's entire comment section
the guy who wrote this is probably the ancestor of each and every internet troll out there today
+12345DJay Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.
"if you want to END HIM RIGHTLY, in other words fuck'em up real good" fucking kills me everytime
yur mum gay the way he says it, looking directly to the camera....
yur mum gay the way he says it, looking directly to the camera....
I was so happy to see this added as something you can do in Mordhau, the medieval combat video game. I bet they watch this channel
Memes aside, having come back to this video years later, it’s amazing to me that we have on our hands a modern, medieval myth.
Of course we have the original source, but instead of thinking of the pommel throw as the first penstroke of the technique (as it’s depicted), it’s the punctuating mark. You end him rightly WITH the pommel throw of mass destruction.
We meant that exaggeration as a joke.
But now we have various video games, content creators, and possibly other forms of media using our Joke as we depicted it in our exaggeration...meaning our “end him rightly” joke has now taken its place in modern culture next to myths like “western medieval swords are dull,” or “plate armor and medieval weapons were heavy.”
I think from what I hear, and especially the term "End him rightly". This would be used as an insult or to display to others that your opponent is indeed defeated and you can toy with him.
Imagine your opponent has, let's say you've hamstringed your opponent, probably stabbed him in the stomach too. He's not dead but would fight like a drunk. Finish him off in a spectacular way that impresses onlookers.
So it's basically a teabag in modern gaming.
+Alfred Chan 100/20 more funnier than our modern teabagging methods.
You can teabag them. literally of course.
+Alfred Chan is this the boston tea party referrence? talk about american invasion
Nurlinda F Sihotang: Sis, do you even meme? :D
would make a good monty python skit
true
+Jacob Ellis Ye Olde Holy Hand Pommel of Antioch
+Jacob Ellis We did fresh fruit last week.
Lol, I agree
+Jacob Ellis "HAVE AT THEE" *throws pummel* *hits him square in the chest* "Did you just throw your pummel at me?"………*both stare at each other for a few seconds* "ON GUARD!" "HAVE AT THEE!"
In For Honor (I know this game is sacrilege on this channel but still) you can perform executions when you kill someone with certain attacks. One of the knights has am execution named "End them Rightly" where he unscrews and throws his pommel at a guys head when he's on his knees. He then pulls out another pommel from an endless bag of pommels and screws it back in. I never understood why that was in the game until now.
The only thing I can imagine is that in full plate armor, getting hit with a large metal object would effectively be ringing the bell, causes a concussive attack to disorient your opponent
gotta look good on that killcam
"yo dawg I cross-mapped him with my Pommel at the start of the match."
"real shit"
I used to be adventurer like you but then I got a pommel to my forehead.
Arþur D That's good xD
old but good 😂😂😂
I doubt you were able to live to tell the tale
blackoutgenez *throweth pommel at thou*
Screw thy pommel! *gets ended rightly*
Plot twist: that manuscript was made for some rich noble to laugh at and skallgrim has just being trolled by a dude from the middle ages.
Yeah, kinda ridiculous but I'm going to assume that threading from the middle ages would not be as fine as it is on a modern, machined sword.
The "end him rightly" sounds like a finishing move. Once the oponent kind of lost and you want to kill him in the most humiliating way possible.
"If you want to end him rightly, in other words, if you want to fuck him up real good." This is my favourite part XD
I think the technique is ment as a humiliation. You throw it at your enemy to mock him, like spitting at him. To end him rightly maybe means to fully dishonor him
right, you basically already beat them, this is just salt in the wound so to speak
I can certainly see how it would work better than spitting in a helmet with the visor down.
Why does it tell you to defend against it? You mean to say that if you are basically immobile and prostate, you can use your buckler and spear to defend yourself against a bit of pain.
Hmmm. Like trashtalk. Makes sense even in this day and age.
I wonder if he miss the throw. Basically he would be the one to be humilliated.
@Skallagrim Some time ago I saw debate about this technique between some well respected persons who are not only historicians and manuscript translators but also very experienced HEMAists and martial artists - by their view this is definitely unorthodox but still viable way to start the duel. So few points:
1) crossguard (historically) always has to be hammered to the blade and fits well and tight even without the pressure from pommel
2) you can unscrew the pommel before the duel starts so it would not be so obvious, if you are not sure about how to fight your opponent you could choose some rare technique and prepare for it, because in this scenario you will know your opponent before the duel starts
3) zufechten is most difficult and dangerous phase of the fight because you have literally no control over your opponent's actions so any little advantage in your favor could be essential - and this is in the text: threw the pommel and run at your opponent immediately so we can assume that you will surprisingly threw something heavy at your opponent and while he is instictively trying to block it you will start your own serious action with little timing advantage on your side. It definitely is little bit weird, but hey, it is all about staying alive so every little detail counts....
I've been using RUclips for a decade now , and I can honestly and genuinely say that this is the best comment section in a RUclips video ever.
AgroW I know right.
11 years :D
Its nice being an Internet veteran. ^-^
1430s: End Him Rightly
1992 : *FINISH* *HIM*
Flawless Victory! 🌟💦
FINISH HIM...(frantic unscrewing)
I could never figure out the fatalities 🙄
Flawless Victory
*FATALITY*
kaptenlemper 2020: omg call the internet, he said something relatively offensive 😭😂
2020: YEEET!
"If you're screwing away at the pommel then there's obviously something coming." 😉
Honestly the comments section of this video is gold.
Looks like memes are much older phenomenon than we thought..
We may be looking at the first shitpost ever created here mate
Pretty much considering Plato is the father of the memes, and his master, Socrates was one of the earliest trolls.
qwerkaz wanted to like your post but it’s on 420 likes fam
We germans(not bavarians) always LOVED ironic humor.
Actually, this was a pretty common technique in the middle ages. In fact, it was so effective that they invented sword-less pommels specifically designed to be thrown at an opponent. However, due to limitations of human throwing arms, they invented special devices to throw pommels faster. These instruments are called "Firearms", which proved effective enough to become the primary means of warfare.
Some pommels were even filled with explosives. These were called grenades.
+joblessalex
Nowadays, pommels can even end the world. We call them nuclear warheads.
planet earth is one big pommel.
+CIKO XD lol
This explains everything!
German here, and while this is ancient german and I'm no historian, I believe "reschlach mit ym entten" is more like "end him fast" than "end him rightly".
but "mit ym entten" could mean "hit him with the end" (of the sword).
Heh you got trolled, our ancestors had senses of humor too
15th century kill-trolling! Even then they tried to finds creative ways to cheese the enemy in amusing "you suck"-kills
Basically the 15th century RL version of 360 noscoping.
Medieval T-Bag.
Medieval Gitin Gud you filthy casul
+Trevor Smith You mean: Gettest goodly, thou feculent commoner!
Isak Knutsen " "you suck" " - That would be "thou sucketh", actually... :P
I accidentally threw the blade and kept the pommel, dammit. O n O
Eric Albin you can still throw the pommel and end him
this is the funniest comment ive read so far
It wouldn’t. You probably would actually do more damage throwing the pommel rather than the sword. Pommels are much easier to throw, and you can get more kinetic energy out of it
Eric Albin so he took a blade to the face
Eric Albin Didbit work?
1:11 If you look closely at the text, it seems that everyone's favorite ultimate move has a counter to it. It involves defending yourself using a buckler.
The smarter gladiators started taking in pommels they had previously unscrewed.
I watch a shitload of gun videos, but you are my only blade guy and frankly, I'd rather that not change. Your acknowledgment of history and appreciation of armaments shows positive character.
Keep making Canada look awesome.
+TomXizor
Thanks!
+Skallagrim You're Canadian?! No wonder why you're so nice :D
+Marcos Sanchez Not with that accent. I'd say northern europe based on his accent. He does live in canada though.
+Udder Mayhem Well that's what I thought too. So I'm guessing Canadian society rubbed off on him
+Marcos Sanchez Im pretty sure he is norwegian
This is it. The start of it all.
JoeMcBob the birth of a meme?
It’s been 7 years. Why did I remember this.
I believe you missed to point with "end him rightly", in that the unscrewing of the pommel would have been before/in-between rounds, and the object was surprise. With the pummel gone, the sword could be "thrown" across the short gap between the fighters with a simple forward thrust... the sword would litterally come out of the handle and travel the 3-4 feet between the gladiators. Your opponent would not expect it to travel that distance/straight at them.
Obviously, it was a one time ploy. If it didn't surprise the opponent, the fighter was down a sword...
You just explained it. So it's not weird and it does make sense! Very good sense, that blade would shoot out with an enemy caught off guard.
What are you basing your idea on here? The description in the text and the picture both make it pretty clear the pommel is being thrown, not that the sword is coming apart. It even says to follow up after the throw by attacking with your sword.