Everything you need to know about London...
...as articulated in a medieval manuscript fragment of Tristran and Isolt:
"London is a very noble city; there is none better in Christendom or of any higher worth, of greater renown, or better furnished with well-to-do people. For they much love honour and munificence and bear themselves very gaily. London is the mainstay of England -- there is no need to seek beyond it. At the foot of its wall there flows the Thames, by which merchandise comes from every land where Christian merchants go. Its men are very clever."
I'm willing to support about 90% of this as incontrovertible fact.
"London is a very noble city; there is none better in Christendom or of any higher worth, of greater renown, or better furnished with well-to-do people. For they much love honour and munificence and bear themselves very gaily. London is the mainstay of England -- there is no need to seek beyond it. At the foot of its wall there flows the Thames, by which merchandise comes from every land where Christian merchants go. Its men are very clever."
I'm willing to support about 90% of this as incontrovertible fact.