Guy Hoyle wrote:
>
> --- "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.
Yep! At least, that's how I view it. Just like it says in the Keyword description. =)
Folks who entertain the Joe & Jane Orlanthi -- travelling from stead to stead in exchange for a bed and supper and maybe a chicken. And showing their skills, dreaming of the day they make it big...
> There's a beggar at my local renaissance fair that sits in the
> crossroad and shakes a bowlwith some coins in it, grinning maniacally.
Ah, that's a beggar.... with a difference. I think... I think that this would make a good, outre encounter somewhere. =)
> 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.
Oh! I like this guy! Give him $1 for me?
> Guy
>
Preformance art should be rewarded appropriately!
Jeff
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