Pastimes in the Dark Times by: Chandler Padgett & Alexis Colon-Ortiz September 2, 2009

Sports sports were a major part of the period the picture depicts hunting, which was a sport as well as a necessity

Sports (cont.) major sports were swimming, running, and wrestling swimming in armor to prove strength running with a load to prove strength wrestling to overcome opponent and prove strength

Other Pastimes whittling wood, carving and decorating bones and antlers, embroidery, etc. warriors practiced knife juggling not really hobbies because it was done for a living most times

Games a lot of board games involving dice popular game called Knucklebones played like Jacks knuckles are actually astragals' from pig most games they played are still played today

Music and Verse bards sang tales of heroes (Beowulf) scops were professional storytellers gleemen were professional musicians few of the instruments survived the period

Dancing dancing for rituals, for money, and for fun warriors danced naked to get nimbler …did I mention they were naked? wore masks and animal skins to be more in touch with nature while dancing

Children’s Games danced, played music, and made riddles for each other, and pretended to be knights and jousted children were considered adults at the age of 10 so could do adult related things

Children’s Toys had wooden instruments, carved wooden animals, wooden spinning tops, wooden swords, dolls

Works Cited http://www.history.com http://www.logoi.com/pastimages/knight.html http://www.mrburnett.net http://www.regia.org/pastimes.htm