You suddenly awaken in medieval England, 1250. The only thing you have on you are clothes you're wearing. You look around and you think you're in a small town. A peasant walks past and gives you a strange look. You ask him where you are and he doesn't understand anything you're saying nor do you understand him.
>What do you do?
>Do you have any knowledge that could be useful?
>How are you gonna get over the language barrier
I’d go to London and watch Henry III Polar bear swimming in the Thames
fake being a dumb mute (but not deaf) long enough to reach the coast. Borrow a boat and row to southern Ireland. Live in the coast survivor style, keeping my sanity by learning the local dialect eventually returning to England, earning my way on to a ship and then jumping ship in the caribbean or west indies.
West Indies weren't discovered till the 1400s user
>what do you do
Get burned alive and tortured or stoned to death probably. They would be terrified of you.
>find a church
>Prove to them that I can read & write (shows I'm intelligent)
>Hopefully they'll want to study me
>Learn their language and tell them everything I know
>How are you gonna get over the language barrier
Best way would be to get access to a church and bible, I grew up semi-religious, don't have the bible memorized or anything but know enough stories that if I could find them by context could do some damage. Then keep working outward in that fashion, using the words I do know, and figuring out the rest by context. Plus just hanging out with people, get drunk with someone, and get them to talk to you.
Do you have any knowledge that could be useful?
So much that you're not even thinking of, once you figured out the language and got a little clout you could do so much damage, with things we take for granted. And you would figure that out once you were there
Like for instance modern wound care to stop infection, once you saw someone get cut you could step in and you'd be a saint quickly
Yes true but I think with your knowledge of geography and other things you could manage it.
We both speak English mine just be more americanized.
Olde English est not what thou speakest
Row to Ireland?
I would show them this.
Except that the bible has had hundreds of versions, 7 prominenet ones, kin james bible wasnt produced in the 13th century the carthas bible was though and if you woke up wearing modern clothing, theyd burn your for witchcraft as the 13th century also saw the largest upheaval of christians against heretics
From England?! Damn right. Google Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo.
>>Do you have any knowledge that could be useful?
Shit yeah. I know stuff about sea navigation that won't be discovered for hundreds more years.
Also; Bessemer process steel making if you could figure out how to make a big enough furnace.
Any one of us probably knows more about medicine than the whole population of Medieval Europe. Could be a world-changing doctor if they don't burn me at the stake as a witch.
>>How are you gonna get over the language barrier
Old English is just a combination of Saxon German and Norman French. I speak a little of both modern French & German so I'll figure it out.
>implying you wouldn't be murdered immediately
You're gonna somehow buy a big enough ship with supplies, hire and persuade a crew to sail to "new land". What's the point, you'll get there to be killed by natives
I start coughing on people
I would be fucked. They'd probably kill me
no way, but you could offer the vikings the entire continent of North America on a silver platter. I believe with a bit of celestial navigation, invent the compass real quick, you could lead them there.
Also, the natives arn't necessarily hostile.
I would go to the nearest church (if I could) and ask questions in Latin, French or German.
I would show them my glasses and my watch to let them know I have knowledge of time and optics.
And as another user pointed out, I would show them that I can read and write.
Also, my physique would come in handy, as would my limited but (for them) incredible knowledge of hygiene, medicine, geography and mechanics.
I start speaking to him in german, its close enough to Medieval english, either way
I think we are overestimating the average 1200s englanders ability to give a shit about your glasses and their sophistication. They'd probably kill you for being a demon.
If they don't immediately murder me because they think I'm some kind of demon and they dontbput me in the mental hospital for being crazy. Then I guess I'll stave to death in the woods because I have no access to tools.
I'm struggling to think of anything useful. I've had the same idea for this as a thread though, and never posted it. Probly because I couldn't think of anything useful. Main thing is stop them killing you asap. So you have to show something. With the available technology of the time, gunpowder and developing a musket would be impressive for them, being a few hundred years away at that point.
I can read and write in runic so Id hope to find someone who also uses the language. After i manage that I think I'd be able to become a nobleman
get polio and be a crippie
depends on where he lands
FUCK THAT! THE DARK AGES! JUST TELL THEM IT WAS PROVEN, THE BIBLE IS A HOAX. maybe the process of medieval Britain won't be set back by several hundred years!
Swedes reached Istanbul? Cool.
A lot of anons are saying you'd be burned at the stake for witchcraft which I highly doubt. You'd most likely be a bum and dye of starvation.
If you can read and write in Younger Futhark then you can speak proto-Norse.
Agreed, but it beats being burned as a witch
JUST TELL THEM IT WAS PROVEN, THE BIBLE IS A HOAX.
yeah...just go around yelling that, I'm sure you'll last quite a while
You end up in england in the 1200s, speak a language they can't comprehend, wearing clothes that look bizarre to them, etc. I doubt you'd live as a bum. They'd chain you up and treat you like an alien probably.
People in the 1200s were very dumb and superstitious. And extremely savage. I doubt any of us would survive a week.