According to a popular myth the two-fingers salute and/or V sign derives from the gestures of longbowmen fighting in the English army at the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War. The story claims that, before the battle, the French boasted that they would cut two fingers off the right hand of captured archers and that the gesture was a sign of defiance after the greatly outnumbered English won the battle.
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Prema jednoj popularnoj legendi, pozdrav prilikom koga se podižu dva prsta i/ili V znak potiče od gestova strelaca dugih lukova koji su se borili na strani Engleske armije kod bitke za Aginkourt tokom Stogodišnjeg rata. Prema priči, pre bitke Francuzi su se hvalili da će odseći dva prsta desne ruke svim zarobljenim strelcima, a da je pozdrav bio znak prkosa engleskih strelaca pošto su, iako brojčano nadjačani, pobedili Francuze.
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