Tom Howell

The Rude Story of English is silly, a bit mad, and contains far more mediaeval English than I was expecting (whole stanzas --translated, of course-- instead of phrases or words).

All in all, I think I'm more Hengesty than ELF (but maybe that's the French speaking).

This is how history should be told – a raucous, humorous adventure on the heels of foul-mouthed (but ultimately loveable) protagonists. If you put Captain Haddock from Tintin into Highlander as an immortal roaming around England for two millennia (except more of a perpetually hungry Angle warrior), this is the book you'd get. You're welcome.