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Ep350 Tomas Masar Ice Skating & Winter Sports Detailed Notes
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He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice. Horatio, Hamlet (I.1) The first place you will probably think of for people to go ice skating in Shakespeare's lifetime will be frozen rivers or lakes. The many illustrations of winter time we have from the 16-17th century that depict winter scenes, and people skating on the ice, would support that conclusion. Tomas shares that, yes, rivers and lakes that had frozen over were popular and often used destinations for frozen fun like ice skating. Carta marina, a wallmap of w:Scandinavia. The caption reads : Marine map and Description of the Northern Lands and of their Marvels, most carefully drawn up at Venice in the year 1539 through the generous assistance of the Most Honourable Lord Hieronymo Quirino. | by Olaus Magnus (1490–1557) | Public Domain | Source Some run from brakes of ice... Measure for Measure (II.1) Surprisingly, Tomas shares two other places where ice skating might have taken place. One is that the ocean would sometimes freeze over, at least certain oceans and at certain times of year, making the coastline one place that ice skating might occur. "Ice Fun on the City Moat" by Esaias van de Velde, 1618 | The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202. | Public Domain | Source The most surprising options for ice skating that Tomas shares this week is that man made structures for skating were also utilized, albiet more rarely than these others. There is some evidence Tomas mentions for us to suggest that Garden Canals, in some parts of Europe, were built where would wall up a section of their garden (or yard, for those of us in the US), and add water when it was cold outside, so that the water would freeze over and these place were sometimes used to ice skate on just for fun. That is, hot ice and wondrous strange snow. Midsummer Night's Dream (V.1) Canal, Westbury Court Garden Dutch Water Garden, restored by the National Trust. | This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by Pauline Eccles and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. | Source Canal at Stonyhurst College in autumn sunshine | This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by John Darch and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. | Source Aerial view of the western end of the Grand Canal in the Gardens of Palace of Versailles, France | Photo by ToucanWings | This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.| Source Print of the canal in St. James's Park; View of the canal in St. James's Park, the Queen's House, taken from the Parade, by James Hulett, 1771 | This file comes from the Bodleian Libraries, a group of research libraries in Oxford University.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the...
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