Renaissance Faire

"Good Morrow", "Good Day", "Good Eve", "How Now" or "Well Met" ..... these are all good replacements for hello in conversation.

I spent Sunday at a Renaissance Faire way upstate N.Y.. near Oswego, N.Y. in a wee town called Fair Haven. This festival gets more grand ever year, it is like being in a live "play" all day long, actors and artisans all are back from days long ago, and speak the tongue of the day, by the end of the day you find yourself cheering HAZAR!!!



Fear not, it does not take long to pick up the basics ...
anon (until later), morrow (day), e'en (even/evening), fare-thee-well (goodbye), aye/yea (yes), nay (no), ne'r (never), oft (often), wherefore (why), mayhap/perchance/belike (maybe), enow (enough), aroint (away), verily (very/truly), prithee/pray (please), and you never want any of the Lords or Ladys to place a Fie on you!!! a fie (a curse), grammarcy (thank you)



















There was even some Elizabethan Cursing going on!
"You poor, base rascally, cheating, lack-linen mate!" "You bottle-ale rascal!" "Away, you scullion! You rampallion! You fustalarion!" "Standest thou there the lyingest knave in Christendom." "Thou art a boil, a plague-sore, or embossed carbuncle." "Whoreson cullionly barbermonger!" "Thou art...the son and heir of a mongrel bitch!"

For some name calling you could always you these nice verses!
You are fat:
By my trowth, thou dost make the millstone seem as a feather what widst thy lard-bloated footfall!

You've got a big mouth:
In sooth, thy dank cavernous tooth-hole consumes all truth and reason!

You are ugly:
Thy vile canker-blossom'd countenance curdles milk and sours beer.

OK back to modern day vocab .... Here are a few snaps of the day ...

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