Jousting on ice, according to this episode of the UK kid's show Horrible Histories, English peasants made skates from animal bone and jousted on the frozen river Themes. I can't find much to support it online though, but it inspired me to build this simple diorama.
Crazy Medieval Fact
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Nice, I like the action with the capes flying in the wind and the expressions you chose are perfect. Maybe this is where hockey gets its roots.
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Simple but perfect!
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Very nice. In particular, the use of the tattered-sticker classic shield for a battered wooden toy caught my eye as an excellently appropriate piece-use.
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Yes, this gave me a chuckle as well. The look on the blue peasant woman's face is great.annie2200 wrote:This is great, made me lol
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Thanks all, I have been looking for a subject to build a series of vignettes as a side project and "Crazy Medieval Facts" suits perfectly I may yet mod this build slightly with a forced perspective background. We'll see how I go.
Thanks again, everyone!
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Re: Crazy Medieval Fact
There has been ice skating in prehistoric times already!DARKspawn wrote:I can't find much to support it online though, but it inspired me to build this simple diorama.
But, in medieval times for sure.
This is a woodcut from Johannes Brugman's Vita of Saint Lidwina, from 1498
By the way, for the Dutch this is not a crazy fact at all
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