What I Have Learnt This NaNoWriMo

 

• During a storm in Nottinghamshire, in 1558, a child was carried off in the winds.
• Ghyll is Old Norse for deep ravine.
• You could be engaged at 7 years of age – in the 16 and 17th centuries.

Children of the 17th century

• Church bells can be heard up to seven miles; depending on weather, landscape or obstruction. (In winter they are heard farther as the leaves are off the trees.)
• Cumbrian dialect for an armpit, is oxter.
• By the end of the 17^th century, only 50% of men and 25% women were able to sign their own names. They could not read or write otherwise.

  

  Signatures of Master Bushell and Master Hodges

• A poultiggery is a hen-house above a pig-house (it protects the eggs from predators such as rats)

  

  A poultiggery

• Martin Luther wrote hymns.

  

  ‘A Mighty Fortress is Our God’. Martin Luther

• I write slower than I did last year!

Slow Writing