My Medieval Dinner

On Sunday, we had a medieval dinner for a homeschool project that I had to do. We played games and had a medieval dinner from three to six.

First, we played a game called Fox and Geese. It is played on a board that looks like a plus sign (see below). Anyway, the one fox is trying to capture the geese and the geese are trying to trap the fox. So we played that game until dinner.

Dinner consisted of pottage, a thick stew that could contain just about anything from veggies to meat to fruit, and rye bread. The pottage was okay, but since we were "peasants", we didn't have meat because we couldn't afford it.  In medieval times, the father or son every now and then would bring back a deer or a rabbit and they would eat that in the pottage.

Anyway, I really liked the rye bread. It was very delicious with the butter.

After dinner, we played Nine Man Morris. Nine Man Morris is a game that reminds me of Tic Tac Toe. In Nine Man Morris, you must get three pieces in a row. This game has a bigger board, nine chips and when you get a three in a row, your opponent must take off one of their pieces. So as players lose pieces, it is harder for players to get back in the game. So after eating, we played Nine Man Morris for a while, and then we were done.

This is a Fox and Geese Board.

This is the pottage (below) and a slice of the Rye Bread.

This is a Nine Man Morris Board.