[Northkeep] Period Toys

Horn, Trisha D. tdhorn at saintfrancis.com
Thu Jul 24 10:29:11 PDT 2003


Thanks to all for the help! I've also found out checkers and backgammon both
date back considerably (several centuries B.C.) and the instructions/set up
for a nifty little game called Nine Men's Morris.  So far, so good!

Raghnailt

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Miriam Cook [SMTP:zahavabathannah at yahoo.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, July 24, 2003 11:31
> To:	The Barony of Northkeep
> Subject:	[Northkeep] Period Toys
> 
> 
> Stefan's Florilegium (www.florilegium.org) has some
> great discussions on period toys. Also Beorlic has a
> great game called Boats (or at least that's what Marta
> and I call is <<grinnnn>>) that is a Norse thing. Also
> Mancala (you can get a pretty nice wooden set on the
> 15th Cent Isle at Wally-World for $10) is said to date
> make to Moorish Spain, I haven't done my own research
> on that so don't sue me if it's wrong.
> 
> The painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder, sometimes
> spelled without the 'h', (who by the way is an
> excelent sourse for a glimps of everyday life in the
> 1560's) has a painting called "Children's Games."
> Here;s a link to view it:
> 
> http://www.artchive.com/artchive/B/bruegel/bruegel_childrens_games.jpg.htm
> l
> 
> Many of the "games" look downright dangerous and
> painful to me... but maybe we can get some ideas from
> it at least.
> 
> Zahava
> 
> 
> 
> > 	Also, in general, Lahoma and I are looking for
> > information on how to
> > make/play period games and toys to keep the
> > halflings occupied in a more
> > period manner. I'm leaning toward cloth dolls for
> > the girls. Is it plausible
> > to have someone rough-carve some "action figure"
> > type things for the boys?
> > If so, whom would I contact? I know board games were
> > played with, but which
> > ones? Anyone know of any websites with info?
> > 
> > 	Raghnailt
> > 
> > 
> > 
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