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"We'll roll the old chariot along
We'll roll the old chariot along
And we'll all 'ang on behind.

That's a verse from an old 1800s sea shanty Royal Navy sailors used to sing about Lord Nelson, it's called either "a drop of Nelson's blood" or "Roll the old chariot along"

When it references the "old chariot", it means their/my ancestors who were Celtic Britons. And like in this picture they loved to ride around on wicker chariots chucking spikey sticks at the neighbouring clansmen and jumping off to have a duel with an invading Roman and stuff like that, it was an important part of old Britannic culture that stuck around long enough for the Victorians to make a statue of Boudicca on an old chariot. So I thought I'd use that line from the song as the title here cos it fits and gives me an opportunity to talk a bit about the history of it all.

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Wulf [author] 28 Mar, 2023 @ 2:49pm

Cool

Yews 28 Mar, 2023 @ 2:19pm

I'll just say this: if you've only recently discovered Indo-European studies, then you're in for a wild. Bloody. Ride.

And I'm consciously using these exact 3 words

Wulf [author] 28 Mar, 2023 @ 9:56am

That's a cool fact yknow.

Yeah I've been reading into 'Indo' Europeans in the past few weeks actually, seems a lot of the early European civilisations were from that group, I was researching the Veneti people who inhabit modern day Venice and they were originally Indo-Europeans migrating over. History's an interesting thing, so many people don't care for it, so many people don't know where they come from.

I'm fascinated when I learn stuff like this.

Yews 28 Mar, 2023 @ 12:11am

The Hittites are the oldest Indo-Europeans who have an actual written history, and looks like it was them who popularised chariots. Seems logical given that it was Indo-Europeans who popularised the domestication of the horse in the first place.

Wulf [author] 25 Mar, 2023 @ 5:16pm

A flexible formation of mounted riders? bah, make all the horses drag a box on wheels and we'll put a lad in it with a few javelins, that's better.

zombie 24 Mar, 2023 @ 5:19pm

Combat meta for all bronze age civilizations were chariot spam

Wulf [author] 17 Mar, 2023 @ 3:11pm

The Hittites, that's them, they weren't the first recorded imperials. Hittites ruled around 1400BC, the Marhasi beat them to it by 1090 years, but I am right about them Hitt's using chariots.

Wulf [author] 17 Mar, 2023 @ 4:00am

Yeah true, from Britons to Egyptians, all over the world. I can't remember the name of the people, it started with a H but they were a civilization around before Egypt and they were the first recorded empire in history we know about. They used chariots before the classical antiquity period. It's a very human thing really, it's not really beholden to one culture, just the styles and materials used that are.

JxSlayz666 16 Mar, 2023 @ 8:12pm

Isn't it cool that you can find chariots so far from each other culturally, from such an early time period?

Wulf [author] 22 Feb, 2023 @ 11:11am

Yeah this was them on their Anarchy in the UK tour, now I see why the newspapers called them dangerous hoodlums and barbarians.

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