To Live in the Time of Mulled Wine and Mead

Posted by Chris on June 25, 2008

Rebecca Laffar-Smith of Writer’s Round-About posed a thoughtful question:

If you could live for a month in one world or time period from a novel you’ve read, which would you choose, and why?

I love her answer and agree whole-heartedly.

I would LOVE to experience a medieval world. Any story that goes back to a time when people peed in chamber pots, clattered swords against battered sheilds, paid their levy in grain or pigs to the land baron, and served mulled wine with broth and bread at a nearby tavern, captivates me. These are also the stories I love to write; an era that holds my heart.

What guy doesn’t like to think of himself in a musty tavern with his shield and breast plate laid by the hearth and his sword dangling at his side, slamming a stein of mulled wine on the table as he eyes the maidens and laughs with his comrades, glad to be resting after surviving another day of battle for the King?

Sure, it’s a bit dreamy but it still makes me thirsty.