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March 30, 2025 91 mins

Who wants to play? Swedish games the Ironborn would not shy from or French games Tyrion approves?

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Thank you LittleWolfBird for the sound engineering, and thank you to Matt Graham for the theme music with sounds from zapsplat.com!

 

Content, sources and ressources:

Lo:

- "Kropp, Känslor och Relationer - Om sexualitet, samtycke och rättigheter för förskola  och grundskolans tidigare år" - Johanna Ivarsson, Loui Larsson, Sofie Olovsson, RM Ratesregn & Karin Salmson

- "Så utvecklas barn av att leka" -Jenny Magnusson Österberg

- "Längdåkningens historia i Sverige" - Jonas Cederquist

- "Pepparkakskull"

Virginie

for images of better quality than my own:

- Charlemagne chess game that was made in 11th C southern Italy, sculpted in ivory

- https://gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/fr/html/lelephant-de-charlemagne?mode=desktop

For words:

- Dictionnaire du Moyen Âge, C. Gauvard, A. de Libera, M. Zink

- Les Plaisir au Moyen Âge, Jean Verdon

- Pieces of Power: Medieval Chess and the Male Homosocial Desire, Jenny Adams, University of North Texas

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Mark Anthony Hall (2013) Magia Gry: Sztuka rywalizacji (The Magic of the Game: The Art of the Contest)Échecs et Trictrac: Fabrication et u des jeux de tables au Moyen Âge. Catalogue de l'exposition présentée du 23 juin au 18 novembre 2012 au Musée du château de MayenneArt du jeu, jeu dans l'art de Babylone à l'occident médiéval. Catalogue de l'exposition présentée du 28 novembre 2012 au 4 mars 2013 au Musée de Cluny — Musée national du Moyen Âge, ParisKõrts keskaegses linnas: Näituse ‘Poriveski Kõrts’. Kataloog/ Inn in a Medieval Town, Catalogue of the Exhibition ‘Poriveski Kõrts’ 13 May to 11 November 2011Religions in Play: Games, Rituals and Virtual Worlds, European Journal of Archaeology, 16:3, 574-580, DOI: 10.1179/146195713X13721616775755

https://doi.org/10.1179/146195713X13721616775755

 

 

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