- "KYER, JEFFREY" <jeff.kyer_at_...> wrote:> It means someone who
entertains the carls and cotters rather than the
> thanes. Puppetshows, throat-singers, ox-bone players, etc. (there's
> a
> list of what sort of entertainment they provide in TR)
>
> They are more like the medieval entertainers that one had rather than
> the bards and poets of the courtly entertainment.
So, they'd be more like sword-swallowers, acrobats, tightrope walkers,
jugglers, etc., then? Gotcha.
There's a beggar at my local renaissance fair that sits in the
crossroad and shakes a bowlwith some coins in it, grinning maniacally.
Whenever someone puts a quarter in, he hits himself once on the head
with a tin pan. Four quarters, four times. A $10 bill--- he chases
you off.
Guy
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