Recently finished The Pagan Lord and enjoyed it tremendously, as expected. I am curious about the joke told to Uhtred by Cnut concerning the enjoyment of farts (your words, not mine). I found it rather funny and have told it several times since then. Is that a contemporary joke you inserted because you liked it, or is it actually a representative sample of what we know of Viking/Saxon humor in the first millennium?
Richard Bartholomew