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Most people swear. Some use profanities constantly in their daily conversations, for others it’s a gut reaction to an unexpected event, like when you stub your toe or lose your car keys. But don’t worry - this is actually a sign that you’re pretty clever! Studies by psychologists at the Marist College in New York, have concluded that people who swear, are actually more, rather than less intelligent than those who don’t.
However, did you know that people in the Middle Ages swore very differently from you and I? Words that modern audiences consider deeply offensive often passed without comment, while the real verbal no-no’s were oaths that dragged in God, saints, or sacred objects. Let’s travel back to the Middle Ages and take a look at pintels, sarding, and cuntles. Welcome to Medieval Madness.
0:00 Introduction
1:46 Holy Sh*t
3:24 This I Swear
4:23 Ar*e
5:35 B*gger
7:07 Turd
7:58 Sh*t
9:03 P*ss
9:47 Sard
10:31 F*ck
11:22 C*ck
12:49 C*nt
Narrated by James Wade
Written by Lisa E Rawcliffe
Edited by Jamit Productions
Thank you for watching!
SOURCES:
Fairclogh, A. (Jan 2020), Four Anglo-Saxon Cures from Bald’s Leechbook, Albus Makes Medieval Website
Hughes, G. (2006) An encyclopaedia of swearing: the social history of oaths, profanity, foul language, and ethnic slurs in the English-speaking world, M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, N.Y.
Medieval Swearwords: What People Really Said in the Middle Ages, (May 2026), Medievalist.net
Mohr, M. Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing, (2013) Oxford University Press, New York.
Stephens, R. (Feb 2017) Swearing Is Actually A Sign Of More Intelligence – Not Less - Say Scientists, The Conversation, Science Alert Website.
C. 1400, The Chester Plays, digitised by the Internet Archive
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