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My name is Jamie and this is episode 489 from Normandy with love.

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Okay, let's face it. Last year was a lot. Ramping corruption, threats of war, tyrannical leaders, actual war, a greedy,

feckless aristocracy, rulers weaponizing the legal system, rulers completely disregarding the legal

system, rulers making grandiose promises they had no interest in actually delivering on.

International intrigue, at least one incredibly suspicious death, and finally, rumors about that death, which continue to haunt the halls of power.

It was just so much.

But hey, it's a new year, and with a new year, there's always hope that we've turned a corner,

and maybe that last year was as bad as it's going to get.

And now things will finally improve and Unferth will be able to afford some eggs.

And one thing we know that Unferth had going for him was that he was living about 900 years

before the invention of the 24-hour news cycle, which means that

Unferth was probably blissfully unaware of a lot of this stuff, which sounds relaxing.

But while Unferth didn't know all the ins and outs of the absolute insane year of 1100. King Henry did,

because he was directly involved in much of it. And for Henry, the dawn of 1101 was a mixed bag.

He had the crown, yeah, but the old regime wasn't dead.

Not really.

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