Eretide

The eretide is everything that has happened in times foregone, as well as why it happened. It is the tale of the world, and all the folk in it and their deeds. As a field of knowledge, the eretide is learnt for what it can tell us anent today: how the world we live in was shaped by things foregone.

Our understanding of the eretide was for a long time shaped by the Bible, which was taken to be true to word, and by the writings of Greeks and Romans, which were the only witness to their time.