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内容翻译自 HistoryExtra，图片为译者后加。 1455 年 5 月 22 日：玫瑰战争爆发 约克军队在圣奥尔本斯赢得了第一场战斗的胜利 玫瑰战争爆发于圣奥尔本斯，一个位于伦敦西北方向约 20 英里的小型市镇。这不是一场野战冲突，而是一场血腥的的城市巷战。 ...

Ethelread the Unready: A Weak King 决策无方的埃塞尔雷德：一名软弱的国王 ETHELREAD THE UNREADY was the first Weak King of England and was thus the cause of a fresh Wave of Danes. 决策无方的埃塞尔雷德是英国第一位软弱的国王，因此招致了新一轮的丹麦入侵。 He was called the Unready because he was never ready when the Danes were. Rather than wait for him the Danes used to fine him large sums called Danegeld, for not being ready. But though they were always ready, the Danes had very bad memories and often used to forget that they had been paid the Danegeld and come back for it almost before they had sailed away. By that time Ethelread was always unready again. ...

Lady Windermere. Age of Lake Dwellers 温德米尔夫人，湖居者的时代。 ALFRED had a very interesting wife called Lady Windermere (The Lady of the Lake), who was always clothed in the same white frock, and used to go bathing with Sir Launcelot (also of the Lake) and was thus a Bad Queen. It was also in King Arthur’s time that the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was published: this was the first English newspaper and had all the news about his victories, and Lady Windermere, and the Cakes, etc. ...

Exgalahad and the British Navy 埃克斯加拉哈德1和英国海军 ARTHUR invented Conferences because he was secretly a Weak King and liked to know what his memorable thousand and one Knights wanted to do next. As they were all parfitly jealous Knights he had to have the Memorable Round Table made to have the Conferences at, so that it was impossible to say which was top knight. He had a miraculous sword called Exgalahad wi which he defeated the Danes in numerous battles. In this he was also much assisted by his marine inventions, including the water-dock and the British Navy. The latter invention occurred as follows. ...

Alfred the Cake 蛋糕1阿尔弗雷德 KING ALFRED was the first Good King, with the exception of Good King Wenceslas, who, though he looked 4th, really came first (it is not known, however, what King Wenceslas was King of). Alfred ought never to be confused with King Arthur, equally memorable but probably non-existent and therefore perhaps less important historically (unless he did exist). 阿尔弗雷德国王2（King Alfred）是第一位好国王，当然，除了好国王温切拉斯3（Good King Wenceslas）之外。温切拉斯看起来排第四位，实际上是第一个出场的（然而我们也不确定，温切拉斯究竟是英国哪个王国的国王）。大家不要把阿尔弗雷德和亚瑟王4弄混了，虽然亚瑟王跟前者名气相当，但很可能不存在，所以历史地位没那么重要（除非他确实存在）。 ...