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I was thinking about items and topics referring to the aspect of the daily medieval life. I figured it is helpful to talk about economy. So I bought sheep and some other animals that were týpical for the English economy of the 14 century. I would like to give visitors the possibilty to get information about the specific situation in England. In contrast to the continental Europe, England mainly invested in sheep and so gained the status of one of the greatest wool exporting States. The dicision to settle sheep on the Island was mainly influenced by the “black Death. As someone else in the course is telling sth. about it in detail I figured the topics would fit together.

Furthermore I would like to post something concerning religion, but I do not have an specific idea so far..

Today, things got hot during the seminar, what with flaming arrows zooming through the air… Fortunately, the only victim was the wooden horse.

I’ve bought a helmet to give an authentic look to the tournament tent. Hopefully more pieces of armour will follow. But still it’s a start.

In the tent we will present the genre of the romance and the concept of the knights. We will connect our exposition to that of the “weapon and wars” group.

Unfortunately, my imagination is rather limited so I found it quite hard to think of a way to present my topics and, consequently, of an object that I could use for this presentation. However, I went to today´s tutorial where Sandra and Nina kindly helped me and managed to come up with some good ideas, e.g. to use an axe to present the Viking raids and settlement by placing the axe somewhere on the ship so that visitors can click on it and then get more information on the Viking settlement.

I saw that Fiona got an axe as a freebie but I have bought another one nevertheless - it was only L$8 so I think I can afford that.

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This is my first buy floating in the air…

Now that the virtual foundation has been laid and everyone knows his or her way around Second Life, it’s high time to turn to the content.

To facilitate our research, here’s a list of some “medieval” internet resources. As always, additions are welcome.

• Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350-1485)
• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
• The ORB: On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies
• NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
• Encyclopædia Britannica
• Old English Made Easy
• Middle English Dictionary
• ccSearch (Creative Commons Search)

I found this pack of medieval furnitures on the marketplace of slexchange, which I think would be nice for the equipment of our library. It would contribute to the atmosphere and maybe we can even have important writers (e.g. Gower, Chaucer) sit on the chairs reading (out loud) parts of their literary works.

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I bought two trunks that could be used to display things (Visitors could open them and take out notecards or sth like that). One of them can be copied (I had bought two before I discovered that…).
The “Ornate Medieval Throne” and the axe were freebies that can be copied as well. So whoever might want to use those can have them.
The sword is from Waasland Castle.

Fiona/Coin

On our way through universe of SL, Blue Fotherington and me, Gredi Wobbit, discovered the Avilion Place. This land was built for Role Players. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Avilion%20Isle/140/233/64 There is an archery practice place where role players, assassins and the students of HHU can train their skills.  Also you can get a bow and arrows for free.  Another highlight of Avilion is the opportunity to organize a Sword-Tournament.

To fit us against viking attacks we bought a real viking armory shield and swords for hand to hand combat, bows and arrows for the distance fight like real knights. And to protect us of the sun and the falling heaven we bought a medieval iron helmet  :) .

All these weapons we can connect with some wars or special points in history. Maybe we can use notecards to give more detail information’s. Now we are searching for a solution to present these weapons accurate. One of the ideas is to create a small training place for knights, showing the weapons in use.

   Chris/Alex

As you can see I bought a medieval mirror with reaper statues attached on both sides. I want to use it to present my information about the black death on its surface, or maybe convert it into a magic mirror, so people can ask it certain questions. I don’t really have an idea how to do that yet, but I have seen it with other mirrors. So if any of you should know how to do it, it’d be thankful for some advice. :)

We can put it wherever there’s space for it,  somewhere close to the presentation about the war of the roses or other historical events maybe.

This week’s assignment was to look for objects that would be helpful/nice to have in a medieval village. After thinking about it for a while, I decided to look for some instruments, preferably some medieval ones. I did this because I figured that the normal Old English peron was illiterate and most stories were passed on by means of word-of-mouth. So I figured that by buying some Old English instruments we could appoint a bard, who would/could go from town to town, telling the heroic stories of Beowulf or entertaining towners with puzzling riddles. Therefore I bought a harp and a lute. They were pretty expensive and now I’m pretty broke, so I hope Kirsten won’t get mad at me!

I bought the instruments at Oz’s Medieval Instruments Shoppe http://slurl.com/secondlife/Montisigard/146/56/79 If you’d like to, go there and check it out. There are a lot more instruments to try out. Feefee

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