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Re: Polish medieval terminology

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Monday, December 16, 2002, 19:41
Josh Brandt-Young scripsit:

> 2. What on Earth is a ?landsknecht??
A soldier not associated with a particular army; sometimes a mercenary, sometimes a bandit, sometimes both. The term has a strong flavor of the 30 Years' War. German. -- XQuery Blueberry DOM John Cowan Entity parser dot-com jcowan@reutershealth.com Abstract schemata http://www.reutershealth.com XPointer errata http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Infoset Unicode BOM --Richard Tobin