And now, ye mates, I do appoint ye three cupbearers to my three pagan kinsmen there-yon three most honorable gentlemen and noblemen, my valiant harpooneers.
The central message of horror jars with the simplistic but widely held notion that the war was a black-and-white struggle between beastly Nazis and their valiant adversaries.
With so little to be certain about, scientists often have to make assumptions based on other objects found nearby, and these may be little more than valiant guesses.