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silverglass
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 Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 4:45 am Post subject: Hygiene in Rohan |
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Does anyone know how the people of Rohan would have bathed? Would they have used ponds/streams?
Thanks. 
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ellisk
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If you can assume they bathed as people in Medieval Europe did then it might go something like this. Poor people would bring water to their hut from the river in a bucket and they bathed from the bucket. They might, when it was warm, go bath/swim in the river. Wealthier people could afford a tub and servants to heat water to fill the tub. The tub might be small (something you'd sit on the edge of and bathe in) or large enough to actually sit in. If they did have a tub, it is likely that the whole family bathed in one filling of it. Hope that helps.
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ghettoelleth
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Helped bring up my breakfast  
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Eyborg
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| They (at least the richer people) might even possibly have had bathhouses/saunas, like many Scandinavian cultures had (and still have). I always imagine the King having his own private sauna. |
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ghettoelleth
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 12:22 pm Post subject: |
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I knew there was a reason why I was hankerin' for a Tyrolian retreat.
Borgie, are the bath houses at all like the bars?
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Eyborg
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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| ghettoelleth wrote: | I knew there was a reason why I was hankerin' for a Tyrolian retreat.
Borgie, are the bath houses at all like the bars? |
Hmmm, I can't recall to have heard that there are any bars in the saunas I know of...  |
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Eruanna
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 1:38 pm Post subject: Bathing |
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| ellisk wrote: | | If you can assume they bathed as people in Medieval Europe did then it might go something like this. Poor people would bring water to their hut from the river in a bucket and they bathed from the bucket. They might, when it was warm, go bath/swim in the river. Wealthier people could afford a tub and servants to heat water to fill the tub. The tub might be small (something you'd sit on the edge of and bathe in) or large enough to actually sit in. If they did have a tub, it is likely that the whole family bathed in one filling of it. Hope that helps. |
A little more history for ya!
Thank you, Ellisk, as always, and I'd like to add that the head of household got to use the clean water first, usu. the father, then mom, and down the line.
The infants were bathed last, when the water was usually dirty, hence the expression, "Throw the baby out with the bathwater."
History is indeed strange... 
How about a nice, warm "brimstone" (sulphur) bath for those of us with skin conditions? Sulphur is great for athlete's foot, ringworm and jock itch! LOL! You can still buy sulphur soap at the local drug store/chemist and it is usually sold in cakes as "salicylic acid/sulphur soap."
--Eruanna
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ghettoelleth
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A little sulphur soap, some tar shampoo and a high colonic and we're ready to step out for an evening of sexin' up the boyz. WooHoo!
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