PLAIN SIGHT
Historical Briefing — wimples (file from Artemisia Wormwood)
Murray, you remember when we hid to avoid those women and their basket-things? You asked me about the baskets and they’re that shape so that they can sling over the shoulder/back. If we had seen the women on their return journey then we would know what they were gathering, but my guess is they were out for a bit of wild harvesting.
Anyway, that’s not the subject of this brief. The subject of this brief is your comment when we saw the three women.
“Bloody heck, the Moslem invasion,” you said. There actually was a Moslem invasion of this region, but that was around 800 and Charlemagne and his forces repelled it and won back cities and stuff like that. One of Charlemagne’s great leaders and counsellors was a guy call
