--- Josh Brandt-Young <vionau@...> wrote:
> >> 2. What on Earth is a "landsknecht?"
> >
> > I don't know anything about Polish, but that
> word looks German. So I looked
> > it up in a German dictionary. I got
> "farmhand". Does that make sense? Might
> > be a borrowed German word.
>
> I'm sure it *is* borrowed from German, but
> "farmhard" doesn't quite work
> with the context--
As I understand it, they were some kind of hired
soldiers. I've seen the Spanish word lansquenete;
so they may well have been hired all over Europe.
Padraic.
the text goes "Our department
> store received four hundred
> hauberks, the 16th century model, used in their
> time by landsknechts." I
> wonder if it's a term for one of the feudal
> levels? Eastern European history
> specialists, help! :)
>
> Thanks, though...
>
>
> -Josh
>
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> Josh Brandt-Young <vionau@...>
> "After the tempest I behold, once more, the
> weasel."
> (Mispronunciation of Ancient Greek)
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fas peryn omen c' yng ach h-yst yn caleor peryn ndia;
enffoge yn omen ach h-yst yn caleor per la gouitha.
.