Surviving Winter in the Middle Ages

YouTube ^ | December 16, 2022 | MedievalMadness

[SunkenCiv]

How did people live and die during the harshest months of the year? How did they stay warm? What did they eat? How did they keep themselves entertained in an age before modern day luxuries like electric blankets, double glazing, and Netflix? The onset of the Little Ice Age, between 1300 until about 1870 meant that the long, dark winters of the Late Middle Ages were colder and more dangerous. With starvation and death from illness always threatening to strike, winter was a frightening time. Welcome to Medieval Madness.

Surviving Winter in the Middle Ages... | MedievalMadness | 178K subscribers | 605,503 views | December 16, 2022

[Qiviut]

Not that I would want to actually “live” with my animals, but there’s nothing quite like going to the barn in the morning and seeing the horses’ heads over the stall doors, white frosty air coming out of their nostrils and hearing their “good morning” nickers. The smell of hay, horse feed, the horses themselves and yes, even the manure .... nothing quite like it and I mean that in a good way. I miss it. :-)

[DownInFlames]

The city dwellers will be the first to die from severe cold and no power. There are no alternatives to heating without electricity. The dumbass leftists have eliminated fires, bbqs, or any other type of fossil fuel burning.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

So basically, the Early Bird get the worm, but the SECOND mouse gets the cheese? *SMIRK* :)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

We just have 'Chuck' in the barn right now, and I know exactly what you mean. :)

[M Kehoe]

Merry Christmas.

I woke up this morning and it was 34 degrees with a NE wind of 15 mph.

Somebody in FL forgot to turn off the air conditioner.

5.56mm

[Qiviut]

Merry Christmas to you & yours as well.

I’m jealous .... wish I had a Chuck in my barn!! My brother did send me an Omaha Steaks gift box, which I am enjoying. I think that’s his way of telling me no more venison will be coming my way this year ... but I’m ok with Omaha! :-)

[RoosterRedux]

Excellent point. I have read the same thing.

When you live on the edge, life is exhilarating. I have been fortunate to have lived through a bunch of "exhilarating" experiences.

That's why I love that movie, "The Edge" with Anthony Hopkins. After you've been through something like that (or a bombing in London), you're not the same person.

It's liberating.

[SunkenCiv]

Heh heh... it happens. Works both ways too, do a little genealogy and the further back, the more one finds that most kids grew up with, at most, one of their natural parents. And, now I get a lump of coal. ;^) It’s cold, and was part of my plan.

[SunkenCiv]

That explains all the old flea collars in the Halls of Shamballah.

[Vaduz]

Yep heat is heat any way you can get it I guess.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

“Hard times create strong men,

strong men create good times,

good times create weak men,

and weak men create hard times.”

[MayflowerMadam]

That’s so interesting!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[markman46]

That is what candles are for too, if I lost power I still got a gas stove to light with matches. The young today could not handle anything bad today

[SunkenCiv]

:^) I feel like picking up some fast food, but I don’t want to clean off the car.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

Call Uber eats have it delivered!!

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, I’d try that, but the Uber eats guy is Amish, and he won’t take the horses out in this weather.

Oh, and he still uses a Blackberry.

Not the phone, an actual Blackberry.

I have gotten a lot of mileage out of that stolen joke, btw. ;^)

[Sparticus]

And imagine what it felt like to curl up--skin against skin-- with your mate under those furs near that big fire after a long day of hunting and all the hard chores that life required...belly full for once from a great meal.

Just think of the satisfaction of having been victorious over the harsh elements of nature for one more day.

A now for a good night's sleep...and a little baby-making.;-)

In a one room hut filled with 3 or 4 generations of smelly, cranky, exhausted people in sub-zero temperatures.

[RoosterRedux]

Heheh.

And all those happy, smelly people would say the same thing about you then as they would now, "There's always one complainer in every group."

And you would probably be sleeping over in the corner all alone.;-)

[minnesota_bound]

I had to turn on the a/c on Sunday here in southern California. It was 80 degrees : )