The Shakespeare play what he wrote, called John Macbeth is set in the 11th century. Scots versus Norwegians versus Scots; Scots versus Scots.
Maybe a Longships game?
It would be amusing to put it on at a show and see if anyone notices the names of the leaders etc??
Could put a group of 3 witches on the table too??
martin
"First Witch: When shall we three meet again
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair."
"What bloody man is that?"
"Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine."
"What are these
So wither'd and so wild in their attire,
That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth,
And yet are on 't?"
"If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not."
"What! can the devil speak true?"
"Nothing is
But what is not."
"Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day."
"Nothing in his life
Became him like the leaving it;
"Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top full
Of direst cruelty; make thick my blood,
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose."
"Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry, 'Hold, hold!'"
"Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under
"If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly: if the assassination
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch
With his surcease success; that but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all here,
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
We'd jump the life to come. But in these cases
We still have judgment here; that we but teach
Bloody instructions, which being taught, return
To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice
Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips."
"I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none."
"Screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we'll not fail."
I suspect some of the above had the men scratching their heads?
martin :)
Not just Norwegians and Scots..
" From the Western Isles of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied". Act 1 scene 2
Islesmen and maybe Irish too. I'm sure it would all make a nice figure range 😉😉
MIke
Quote from: martin goddard on October 01, 2020, 04:26:42 PM
The Shakespeare play what he wrote, called John Macbeth is set in the 11th century. Scots versus Norwegians versus Scots; Scots versus Scots.
Maybe a Longships game?
It would be amusing to put it on at a show and see if anyone notices the names of the leaders etc??
Could put a group of 3 witches on the table too??
martin
That could be fun, Martin.
Could we also have a forest template that moves along the table as the game progresses?
Simon
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sgJ3oCyoSto/XD8yQeuTH2I/AAAAAAAABbA/rccubBRSuDkZ8pefhhY-MYHWL3t_uxgQACLcBGAs/s1600/20190116_132226.jpg)
Witches available from a competitor. There's also a cauldron with sitting witches.
Unless of course you might happen to know anyone who might be able to knock a few witch figures out
So... When can we expect to see a range of 11th C Scots, Norwegians, Islemen, Irish and Witches 😁 Also Siward and his Anglo Danish Northumbrians 😁😁. Just ripe for the Peter Pig treatment.
Mike
Quote from: Mike6t3 on October 01, 2020, 08:00:57 PM
So... When can we expect to see a range of 11th C Scots, Norwegians, Islemen, Irish and Witches 😁 Also Siward and his Anglo Danish Northumbrians 😁😁. Just ripe for the Peter Pig treatment.
Mike
Shortly after he's done the Carolingians, I think ;)
Simon
I had better do the Romeo and Juliet range first.
Unless anyone bites their thumb at me.
martin :)
The Orkneyinga Saga describes a war between Thorfinn Sigurdsson, the Orkney Jarl and a 'Karl Hundason,' a derogatory name for the King of Scots. This King of Scots may have been Macbeth, (assuming the saga has any historical basis). There is a sea battle and a land invasion by the Orkneymen.
Thorfinn is a very interesting character, as is MacBeth. Sources on the former are pretty sparse which have enabled some historical novelists to speculate on the relationship between the two. Nigel Tranter has them as half-brothers, Dorothy Dunnett has them as the same person. I'm not sure if it's historical or not, but Tranter gives him the uber-cool name of 'Thorfinn the Raven-Feeder.'