The crusades have been castigated as a time of peril, plague, famine, and to some degree, hardship. Those beliefs are unfounded and I can shed some light (light-hearted, that is) comedy on an otherwise bleak and misguided period of fanatical bloodletting.
So, two knights are roaming the desert in search of the fabled city of Antioch, where they are either meeting up with their Crusader buddies or to siege. They come across a shepard, and ask him "Thou knowth where thoth city of Antioch be?" "Milord, I know of which you spake, it is thusly"
And the shepard guided the crusaders towards the horizon.
They eventually come across a small convent in the middle of the desert, no city to be found behind the vast horizon.
"Here we are, milords" The lead knight, noticibly perturbed, unsheathes his broadsword and exclaims "Thou hast forsaken us, thine vile serpent of Hades! Zounds, I dispatch you to join your master in the eternal hellfire from whence you came!"
"Whatever do you mean? I have fulfilled my duty, I have brought you to see my Auntie Oche. Its her birthday!"
Needless to say, the knights fulfilled their oath, smiting all of the inhabitants of the convent and mounting the shepards head on a pike.
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