We rang in the new year while watching King Arthur, the director's cut. I enjoyed the movie a great deal and it was nice to spend New Year's Eve with the family. The folks that trashed the movie were apparently expecting the King Arthur legend when this piece took a more realistic view of things.

Some guy on the IDMB boards was going on about being an archaeologist and how the Anglo-Saxons were masters of poetry and other beautiful works. Well, Henry VIII is credited with writing the beautiful "Greensleeves," but he was known as one of history's womanizers. The funny thing is... if he had followed the lead of his counterparts on the continent and took mistresses then a few heads might have remained on shoulders.

What one digs up in cemeteries is usually how people honor their own dead and that of their allies. Enemies were generally treated differently. However, the one valid point that most people miss is unless they, themselves, were there to bear witness to an event, all they can do is read or interpret the accounts of those that were present.