The Armour Archive

Greetings all
I am a very new fighter in training but i like to have fun. I am looking for periodish ways to comment during fighter practice..i figure if i get used to that style of talking it will come faster later...saying nice shot or dang that smarts just gets so old..i want to add some element of re-creating to fighter practice..so help me out...this will just be for fun..any insults will just be with friends for the form of good natured ribbing..

what kinds of salutes are given ?

praise? how to tell someone that they are impressive with out sounding like a suck-up..

what challenges could be fun coming from a noob..dont want to sound cocky just funny..

stuff like saying a shot was light while limping away and rubbing butt..everyone knew it was a joke

i know practice is for learning..but when ya still suck, it would be fun to have things to say to make people smile while you are waiting on feeling to come back into x-body part.. plus it might get everyone into the spirt of not talking about football etc..

thanks

Crack a book, get to reading.
Charney and Ramon Lull will give you a good feel for the language of goodly men at arms.

There may be translations that are preffered, but I do not know them. Personally I have the editions available via the chivalry bookshelf which I rather like, Particularly Dr. Mulberger's translation, both are available here: http://www.chivalrybookshelf.com/

I encourage you to go for it. Have fun. I wish I had some good lines to share but I can't think of anything right now.

"Well fought" seems to be a popular one around here. Other than that I really dunno...I'll ask Bytor for a few next time I see him, that guy has lines for everything.

-Loegaire

Praise?

"Well struck."

"Masterfully done."

"Very stout."

"Sharply thrown."

When you are ready to take a break "I am undone. I thank you for the instruction."

Since you seem to want to be a bit of a joker: "Impressive. Most impressive." Better if done from behind a Black Prince great heaume.

Challenges?

"Come and smite me."

After a pass "Once more, an you please?"

"Shall we go out and earn our estate?"

But the others have said rightly that it is good to read those who wrote in that time, Lull, de Charnye, Pisan, Froissart, Enguerrand de Monstrelet, and so forth, or if you're concerned only about style, read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The White Company and Sir Nigel, among other good works by other authors. It's good to throw a little high speech in there now and again, adds to the flavor.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

"dat's goud" and "Naw". Have worked well for me for 14 years.

Common Regia taunt, generally en masse, in the "soccer hooligan sing-somg style"

"You're going home in a horse-drawn ambulance!"
has a cadence but difficult to convey in type!

Thaddeus wrote:Crack a book, get to reading.
Charney and Ramon Lull will give you a good feel for the language of goodly men at arms.

There may be translations that are preffered, but I do not know them. Personally I have the editions available via the chivalry bookshelf which I rather like, Particularly Dr. Mulberger's translation, both are available here: http://www.chivalrybookshelf.com/

"Caxton's Ordre of Chyulary" was published in 1926 side by side (well actually above and below) with Adam Loutfut's Scottish Transcript (Harleian MS 6149). These are translations of Lull's book "Le Livre de L'Ordre De Chavalerie". Caxton's translation hails from about 1485. The book in front of me is from The Early English Text Society. Most college libraries have it or can order it from affiliated institutions. Caution, however, this is in old Middle English and not always the easiest read (in the Caxton MSS alone there are at least 5 variations of spellings for a word which equates to "when" in modern english).

Give me a few weeks and I'll publish a modern english trans if you want, after I get these papers done

thanks to all..this is what i was looking for..i plan to start doing some reading asap..

what about salutes before combat? what is used and what fits what persona? i have been using a hilt kiss type of salute but i have no idea where its from. i like the idea of always saluting before combat, so any ideas?

"Thank you sir, may I have another." .. ?

Sorry..had to be said.

Serially.. read.. absorb.. or better still, block.

Malcolm

"That wasn't hard enough, your grace" works really well. Just be prepared for what can come next.

DA

Come on you pansy! Fight!

HAve at you!

It's just a flesh wound.

I've had worse.

All right, we'll call it a draw.

Use the High Speech whenever possible.