Crazy Medieval Fact

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Crazy Medieval Fact

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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.

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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. :D
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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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Very nice.
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This is great, made me lol :D
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annie2200 wrote:This is great, made me lol :D
Yes, this gave me a chuckle as well. The look on the blue peasant woman's face is great.
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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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DARKspawn wrote:I can't find much to support it online though, but it inspired me to build this simple diorama.
There has been ice skating in prehistoric times already!

But, in medieval times for sure.
This is a woodcut from Johannes Brugman's Vita of Saint Lidwina, from 1498
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By the way, for the Dutch this is not a crazy fact at all :lol:
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