Transcript Meya Hemphill and Alan Parrado

By Alan Parrado & Meya Hemphill
Popular Sports
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Running
jumping
skiing
skating
horse racing
rock climbing
weight lifting
skin pulling (form of
tug-of-war using an
animal skin instead of
a rope.)
Horse racing
Sports
Swimming was a popular sport both to
compete and watch.
 Considered quite fair to drown your
opponent.
 Some of the heroes in the sagas were
said to have worn amour.
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Sports cont.
Wrestling (both simple and difficult forms)
 Wrestlers would take each other by the
arms or waists and would use their
strength to knock each other off balance.
 Grappling and attacking each other
sometimes fastened by a belt at the waist.
 These matches occasionally involved
fatalities or an odd broken or dislocated
limb.
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Games
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Some board games
are still played today
such as: nine man’s
morris, backgammon,
and fox and geese.
Other less known
games were knuckle
bones, used in the
same fashion as jacks
are today.
Another game thought
to have been played
is chess.
Nine man’s morris
Fox and geese
Other Pastimes
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Witling wood, carving
and decorating bone
and antler.
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Wealthier women
undertook embroidery
in their spare time
(wall hangings and
orphreys).
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Anglo Saxon
needlework was
famed throughout
Europe.
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Many embroideries
were richly
embellished with gold
and silver thread.
Embroidered wall hangings etc.,
Whistles made out
of deer bone
Other Pastimes cont.
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Many warriors
practiced juggling
with sharp knives.
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Exercising dogs by
jumping them over
poles.
Knives and cases in which
they are stored.
Music and Verse
Many stories of ancient heroes such as:
Beowulf or The Norse Sagas.
 Few of these survive today as they were
generally passed down orally. Most of
those which are recorded are in the form
of an epic poem.
 These poems were composed to record
a particular event such as he battle of
Maldon.
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Music and Verse cont.
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Professional storytellers
called scops would
travel from village to
village telling tales in
return for food, lodging
and money.Professional
musicians called
gleemen.
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Singing and music were
other prized skills.
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Few actual musical
instruments have
survived only in
manuscript illustrations.
These include: harps,
lyres, whistles, horns,
pan-pipes, bones,
psalteries, and some
form of drum.
lyre
Harp
Pan-pipe
Dancing
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Generally performed
to verse singing and
is likely to have
taken form of circle
dances.
Various kinds of
hobby-horse games
where mummery
and miming were
known .
Warriors performed
acrobatic dances
whilst wielding
weapons.
Warriors performing an acrobatic
dance.
Children’s Games and Toys
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Most children spent
most time working
with their parents.
Many of the board
and dice games
popular with children
and adults.
In the winter bone
skates were used for
playing as for a
means of getting
around.
Bones used for
skates in winter.
Children’s board
game
Game pieces:
dice etc.
Children’s Games and Toys
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Children may have
learned to play
simple musical
instruments such as
bone or reed
whistles.
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Some toys include
carved wooden
animals, swords, toy
ships, spinning tops,
and small caste
heads and limbs.
Wooden animals, board games,
swords, musical instruments etc., are
what children played with.
Works Cited
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http://www.etchingsdance.com/dancebooksonline/thedance/031
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 http://www.flickr.com/photos/amagill/79731239
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/mararie/491458386
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