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See, I had heard a different version of that story which was that this is where the middle finger expression came from, that a bunch of bowmen drew with their middle finger, thus the French would chop those off, and raising a single middle finger was a sign of ‘fuck you, i can still send hate downrange’.
Is this just attempting to one up … what is it, the book of Joshua, where the sun just stays still for 72 hours?