Timur the lame (Tamerlame), a Turco-Mongol ruler of Persia, was nicknamed like this after the stick he needed after half of his body was paralyzed. The original name was "Timur-Lang" in Persian, which does mean "Timur the lame"
comment: thanks to SwagGirl for pointing out my mistake! I corrected it now:)
Manorial system is a political, economic, and social system by which the peasants of medieval Europe were rendered dependent on their land and on their lord.
The poems depict some the feats of the Trojan War.