I'm in the outlining stage for 2 new series, once of which is based on a medieval legend. In researching the times, I cam across this post from the Smithsonian Magazine:
Why Were Medieval Knights Always Fighting Snails? I...don't have any idea why. I didn't know they fought snails. Why would anyone want to fight snails? But this is the first paragraph:  It’s common to find, in the blank spaces of 13th and 14th century English texts, sketches and notes from medieval rea...