The Garde Écossaise was established at the French Court in 1418, and remained a feature in the Court for nearly two centuries. England aside, European monarchs were so taken by Scotland’s mighty big laddies not only did they seek them out to supplement their armies but hired them as personal guards. It’s well-known that Mary Queen of Scots was taller by some measure than the English monarch Elizabeth much to the latter’s considerable displeasure but tall stature was not confined to the Scottish nobility as the inhabitants of Glen Tilt demonstrated. Nowadays Scots suffer premature deaths and are puny compared with earlier generations as they tuck into high sugar, high fat junk food, white bread, cakes and biscuits, sugary drinks and over-sweetened breakfast cereals with scarce a glance at the perhaps boring but wholesome foods that made their ancestors taller and stronger than them. The population of Glen Tilt were also long-lived, thriving on the traditional Scottish diet of oats, barley, vegetables, milk, butter, eggs, local grown fruit and honey supplemented with small amounts of meat, venison and fish. ![]() Scots were once the tallest of all European peoples with Highland men pushing up the average to between 6ft and 7ft.Īt the end of the 18th century a survey of 600 crofters from Glen Tilt in Perthshire discovered every adult male in the glen was at least 6 feet tall – and broad with calves at least 17 inches around. Scots can expect to live shorter lives than their English neighbours and be shorter in height as well. It looks like the Union of equals has proved to be anything but equal in ways you cannot imagine. They carried their heads so freely and gaily and marched so lightly, swinging along with their bare knees. “They were men! All strong, nimble and free as if they had come straight from the hand of God. “I saw them in Brussels a year before the battle of Waterloo,” said Eckermann. “Wellington’s Scottish Highlanders were a different set of heroes, from all accounts,” replied his fellow German, the celebrated playwright and author, Goethe. PLAYFUL AESTHETIC: Colorful art style with handcrafted animation, set to a whimsical original soundtrack inspired by the game’s Scandinavian setting.īurly Men at Sea is the second game from husband-and-wife team Brain&Brain, developed during their own adventures as nomads and erstwhile farmhands.Remembering back to the Napoleonic period and the French Wars, the German poet and author, Johann Eckermann commented on how puny Paris’ infantrymen looked and wondered what they could achieve in battle. INNOVATIVE CONTROLS: Shape the narrative through a unique, draggable viewport and your interactions within it. ![]() “It’s whimsical and charming a real breath of fresh air.” -Paste MagazineīRANCHING STORY: Play through multiple choice-driven adventures, each designed to be completed in a single sitting. “The closest thing I’ve played to an interactive fairy-tale.” -The Telegraph You play as storyteller and wayfinder, shaping a custom tale that begins again where it ends. With gameplay halfway between a visual novel and a point-and-click adventure, the branching story carries its ungainly heroes into waters where lurk creatures from Scandinavian folklore and other misadventures. One of TIME’s top ten games of the year, Burly Men at Sea is a folktale about a trio of large, bearded fishermen who step away from the ordinary to seek adventure.
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