oh john lydgate
Because my teacher for Middle English is somewhat demented, she assigned the class excerpts from John Lydgate's Troy Book.
This man does *not* know when to shut up, and he totally soiled some of my favorite parts of the Iliad.
He did, however, do something totally awesome.
He preserved Hector's body by sticking tubes in his head and neck and pumping him full of fluid.
My friends... he made Hector a corpse!Bane.
And this is a beautiful thing.