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olivier

In Paterson's _World of the Troubadours_ there is at least one quoted mention of the Occitanians' "disgusting yellow boots and leggings" (p. 7) as perceived by Radulfus Cadomensis (Raoul of Caen), IIRC. This link may or may not work: https://books.google.ca/books?id=Mk4RdAcOcP0C&printsec=frontcover&...

olivier

Absolutely. Just wanted to make sure it was within the scope of items you'd be willing to make.

Will PM you with more details.

olivier

Would you ever consider making a Scythian knife or dagger (whether a single-edged knife or a double-edged blade like those that resembled akinakes)?

olivier

"When did the meaning change, so that a rivet is not something used in addition to a nail, but a kind of nail?" According to the OED, sometime between 1390 and 1450, at least in terms of using the word in English. Rivet, n. 1. A secure fastening in which the end of a nail is turned over and hammered...

olivier

Re: the relationship between "pants" and "pantaloons," the OED seems to think it's reliable. For "pants": Etymology: Shortened < pantaloons, plural of pantaloon n. Compare slightly earlier pant n.3 and later panties n. In sense 2 after pantalettes n. For "pantaloon": Etymology: < French pantalon the...

olivier

Well, "sinistre" already means "left-handed," so if that's what you're really looking for, then go with "la/le sinistre."

If you mean "wrong" in some other sense--like incorrect, or cursed, or the like--then "sinistre" doesn't quite have that meaning universally in 13th c. OF.

olivier

Good luck!

olivier

I've always been a big fan of Einhorn's Old French: A Concise Handbook ( https://books.google.com/books/about/Old_French.html?id=BaFE2m2TgNgC ) for brushing up on your OF grammar etc. If you are decently versed in modern French you can find any number of French - Old French dictionaries in print and...

olivier

There are references to Franks wearing aketons in the First Crusade-era Chanson d'Antioche (for example, l. 10469, where Eudes is hit by a poisoned arrow that goes through his hauberk and his aketon), although it is certainly debatable how much of such detail was added by a later writer before its l...

olivier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS4SxURbnu8

The unknown individual in this video is HRM William Thomas of Atlantia.

olivier

The first post says the helmet is stainless, and the linked WCA page notes a +$100 charge for stainless (for a total of $400).

olivier

1. Project 2. Know your piece 3. Move 4. Own the space (learn stage presence) 5. Learn to improvise. I would offer a minor set of revisions that might or might not help as you continue working on these points. 1. Know your material. (That is, be comfortable in performing it, but I'm personally of t...

olivier

It may help to note early on that your commandments/suggestions are for particular types or situations of bardic performance. (For example, there may be an audience more likely to want to hear a recitation of some excerpt from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight rather than a Queen song.)

olivier

That is AWESOME

olivier

There's always the "gentleman's" game outlined in the Merchant of Prato, where peasants have their hands tied behind their backs and then attempt to beat a cat (leashed to a post) to death with their heads.

olivier

Unfortunately I have not updated it in some time due to pursuing a PhD, but here is my page of poetry.

http://olivier.trobaire.org

olivier

JUDGE! Haha! Amazing.

olivier

I'm sorry that this reply is so delayed - I don't usually check this section of the forum. A few years ago I provided an image with some shields found in a few Pazyryk barrows in the relevant IWTB thread: http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=69758 The shields image: http://olivier....

olivier

Cop in an armor sense sometimes also refers to the top/crest of a helmet (also in the MED). The following statement is pure conjecture: the shape of an elbow or knee cop could be termed such due to its similar appearance to the top of a conical-shaped helmet.

olivier

5'10"
165 lbs.
28 years old
laurel but my only combat-related award is from my barony
rattan fighter

olivier

I'd say you were right. Where I grew up, in Southern Maryland, there are still areas that are referred to as "So-an-so's Hundred" or St. George's Hundred, and so on. It's a measure of land where I grew up! I am pretty sure this is an archaic reference to an old sub-county administrative unit (just ...

olivier

You may find an intriguing argument in another author's work (as she also reconsiders the Bloch-style conception of feudalism):

Reynolds, Susan, Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994.

olivier

Coif = hood?

olivier

Actually I'll do you one better and give you a transcript of one I just found. (th) represents a thorn: R Gloucestre This indenture made the xiiijth day of January the xvth yere of the Reign of kyng Edward the iiijth betwene the Right high and myghty prynce Richard duc of Gloucestre on the one part ...

olivier

Robert - you may or may not get some examples (or at least leads) from Bryce Lyon's From Fief to Indenture: The Transition from Feudal to Non-Feudal Contract in Western Europe (Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 1956).

olivier

I keep meaning to pick up a copy of his expanded essay on Beowulf, but I always forget to.

olivier

Nu? This professor Weldon missed basic English lit in High School? Sorry, Norman, I don't quite follow you. What do you mean? Weldon doesn't seem to be suggesting that this is a new story - it's clearly an explanation that the recently-found book has a copy of the Clerk's Tale (or another version o...

olivier

Here is the OED's etymological notes on "tally-ho" : [app. an altered form of the Fr. taÃ¯aut (MoliÃ¨re, Les FÃ¢cheux 1662), tayau, tayaut (FuretiÃ¨re), used in deer-hunting; earlier Fr. equivalents were taho, tahou, theau, theau le hau, tielau, thialau, and thia hillaud (Godef.). The various Fr. fo...

olivier

The OED has marquis and variants appearing as early as 1000, with marquis itself definitely appearing circa 1225. Margrave continues to be noted primarily in Dutch contexts through the nineteenth century.

olivier

It's got to be mild - I don't think Tom works much in stainless.

olivier

If they don't accept a polite, "Thank-you, sirrah, but I can't allow you the liberty" then follow up with "NO, absolutely not." I'm in no way disagreeing with the sentiment expressed. I just wanted to note - the term 'sirrah' is hardly polite! Although it does get the implied point across pretty su...

olivier

Neither the "Laurel" or the "Pelican" are anything close to medieval anyway. So two out of three aren't, already. While this is certainly true to the over-generalized extent to which we use these orders, absolutely correct. That said, there are specific situations in which 'laurels' were quite auth...

olivier

This is not armor-related at all, but I always love hearing Little John whistle "Sumer is icumen in" in The Adventures of Robin Hood

olivier

I'm not sure if this is the pattern you already have or not, but what about the phrygian cap here?:

http://camelot-treasures.com/patterns/index.htm

olivier

Diana Hacker is indeed awesome. Much of her manual is also available online: http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c08_s2.html The MLA Handbook is just about to come out with a seventh edition, but if you can find the sixth in your local library you'll still be set. Translators & editors should, as ...

Re: use of chausses before the 13th/14th century

Re: Any interest in Merovingian seaxes? Or other stuff?

Re: Any interest in Merovingian seaxes? Or other stuff?

Re: When did a rivet become a kind of nail?

Re: Etymology of english word "Pants"

Re: 13th century French translation help

Re: 13th century French translation help

Re: 13th century French translation help

Re: Lamellar-vikings-normans real or invented for sca?

Re: Pennsic videos, battles, picks ups, champions, tuchux!

Re: FS: New Norman Helmet

Re: A bardic rant

Re: A bardic rant

Re: Æthelmearc Fall Crown

Re: Non-combat related activities to do during Medieval even

Re: Courtly Graces. . . hhmm? (and minor rant)