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It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strange Champs. Today, we're getting medieval.

It's the dark ages, a time of starvation, plague, torture, and open sewers. But now, thanks to the Game of Thrones, it's a whole lot more attractive.

There are hunky guys with big swords, women in and out of, fabulous gowns, dragons.

It's historical fantasy, but it's got one thing in common with the real Middle Ages.

A lot of death. A lot of killing in Game of Thrones.

For sheer on-screen butchery, there's not much to rival it.

Steve Halson has watched all three seasons,

and he wonders how much of that hacking and chopping is historically realistic.

So he called Kelly DeVries, a medieval military historian who consults on scenes just like this.

Kelly, I guess I should actually ask, are you a fan of games?

Oh, yes, I'm a fan.

I'll watch all the, all the medieval stuff.

I've watched some really bad medieval.

This is a lot better than Kevin's.

How realistic are the weapons?

Oh, the weapons are wonderful.

Sometimes I have real questions because I do a lot of work with the Royal Armories

in England. And arms and armor historians can be very particular. There are some really bad

suits of armor in medieval movies and in TV shows over the time. This one has set out to make

things real or plausible at least. Let's put it this way.

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