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Anglo-Saxon Daily Life
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Life Expectancy
Wyrd
Factors affecting life expectancy:
- violent feuds, quarrels, and wars
- died from common diseases (arthritis)
- horrible medical treatment
- Anglo Saxons believed fate was always changing
- consequences happen after every decision
http://cookit.e2bn.org/historycookbook/28-327-saxons-vikings-Health-facts.html
http://www.wyrdwords.vispa.com/heathenry/whatwyrd.html
Life Expectancy
- average was between thirty to early forties
- high infant mortality rate
- starvation from natural disasters
Community Villages
http://cookit.e2bn.org/historycookbook/28-327-saxons-vikings-Health-facts.html
Anglo-Saxon Daily Life
The Hall
- many very small villages
- largest had few hundred people
- protected by wall made of wood
- churches made of stone
- thatched-roof houses made of wood
- houses faced sun to absorb heat
- largest house located here
- chief and his warriors lived here
- had glass-less windows called eye holes
- decorated with shields and antlers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/anglo_saxons/anglo-saxon_life/
www.octavia.net/anglosaxon/earlyEnglishArchitecture.htm
Meat
Stone Church
- raised and ate pigs
- ate sick/dying animals
- used dead animals' body parts greatly
- most people were vegetarians
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Food
Drinks
FUN FACTS
- water was not available
- common people drank beer over water
- wealthy drank wine
- grew what they ate
- grew fruit and vegetables
- Ex. carrots, peas, plums, apples, onions, cabbage
- house built of 18 trees
- deer antler door keys
- candles were made from fat
- typical bread and cheese lunch
- poor used leather, rich used glass
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/anglo_saxons/anglo-saxon_life/
The Mead Hall
Feasts
- large one-roomed buildings
- Chieftain and his soldiers lived here
- important meeting place
- feasts and celebrations took place here
- center of the community and politics
- had many lavish feasts
- drank beer
- sing battle and hero songs
- musicians played the harp
www.octavia.net/anglosaxon/earlyEnglishArchitecture.htm
"Wyrd"
- describes fate or destiny
- NOT inexorable fate or predestination
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