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Actually, that wouldn’t have happened, because forks weren’t around until later. People would tend to eat with a knife, a spoon or their fingers.
This trencher tastes even worse than usual!
And when it came to plates, there was an unusual alternative. Called trenchers, they were thick slices of stale bread that food was served on. Afterwards they were sometimes handed out to the poor to eat, which certainly saved on washing-up.
Whoops! That´s an actual plate.
Do you ever wish . . . you could go on a TV talent show and really
blow them away with something they’d never seen or heard before?
Well you need to get yourself a lizard!
We’re not suggesting you blow into a chameleon to make it parp – a lizard was an S-shaped wood
instrument from medieval times. If you were enjoying some musical entertainment in the castle, you might have heard one of these tootling away.
If you can’t get your hands on a lizard, try grabbing a crumhorn or a hurdy-gurdy – that should impress the judges. They were also instruments you might have heard back then.
A crumhorn had nothing to do with little bits of cake – it was a curved woodwind instrument that looked a bit like an upside-down walking stick.
A hurdy-gurdy meanwhile looked like a weird guitar, except you turned a handle that rubbed against the strings to make a droning sound. A bit like the noise your dad makes when he’s talking about something incredibly boring.
Lutes were popular – they looked kind of like a pear- shaped guitar with a bent neck. You won’t see many pop bands playing them these days.
There were plenty of instruments around then that are still played today, though, from drums of various kinds, to harps, flutes and bagpipes.
Time to get that medieval supergroup together for Castle’s Got Talent!
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