I thought this was a great description of William's personality — and also a funny way of saying how Brits and Germans differed 700 years ago in the same way as they do today:
Adso says of William: "I never understood when he was jesting. In my country, when you joke you say something and then you laugh very noisily, so everyone shares in the joke. But William laughed only when he said serious things, and remained very serious when he was presumably joking."
(cl, it occurs to me we work with a lot of Germans).
There are also some funny stereotypes of the French and Italians and Greeks.
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Yeah, the cultural commentaries were funny. They were the kind of jokes that Brits would likely appreciate about themselves, too.
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