Скачать или смотреть Medieval Mystery SOLVED How a Misread Word Changed History for 130 Years

🔍 A 130-year-old literary mystery has finally been cracked! Researchers from the University of Cambridge have re-examined a cryptic medieval manuscript and made a discovery that rewrites the history of a lost English epic, clarifies a puzzling Chaucer reference, and reveals a medieval preacher using a pop culture "meme."

The lost "Song of Wade" was discovered in 1896 by famed scholar M.R. James but has baffled experts ever since. Now, by correcting a single misread word—changing "elves" to "wolves"—Dr. James Wade and Dr. Seb Falk have proven the story was not a myth of monsters, but a chivalric romance of human rivalries. This simple change has massive implications, making sense of why Chaucer referenced Wade in tales of courtly intrigue and adultery.

📜 In This Video, We Cover:
✔️ The 800-year-old sermon that held the key to the mystery.
✔️ How a scribe's mistake confused scholars for over a century.
✔️ Why this reclassifies the Song of Wade alongside stories like Lancelot and Gawain.
✔️ The surprising evidence of a medieval preacher weaving popular romance into his sermon to captivate his audience.
✔️ How this discovery links the sermon to the famous writer Alexander Neckam.

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Read the full study in The Review of English Studies: DOI: 10.1093/res/hgaf038

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