Language at the Renaissance Festival

A ~ Ba ~ Be ~ Br ~ Ca ~ Cl ~ Da ~ Di ~ E ~ F
Ga ~ Go ~ Ha ~ Har ~ He ~ Ho ~ I ~ J ~ Ka ~ Ki
Km ~ Kr ~ La ~ Le ~ Li ~ Ma ~ Mc ~ Md ~ Mi ~ Na
Ne ~ O ~ Pa ~ Pe ~ Ph ~ Ra ~ Ro ~ Sa ~ Schu ~ Si
Sta ~ Ste ~ TU ~ V ~ Wa ~ Wh ~ Wo ~ XYZ

Renspeak

Due to some discussions on the MRFfriends ListServe, a variety of helpful points on language have been talked about. This page is an attempt to consolidate those messages into a helpful reference on using appropriate RenSpeak at the MRF.

Thus spake the Master: William Shakespeare (Brian Murphy),
"Remember: take Renaissance language a little at a time. It can take years to become fluent in Renspeak, but it doesn't take long to come up with great sounding answers to the more commonly asked questions."

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For further studies in Language and the Renaissance Faire, consider visiting the following sites:

Proper Elizabethan Accents: http://www.renfaire.com/Language/index.html
Language: Idiomatic Idiosyncrasies: http://ren.dm.net/compendium/8.html
William Harrison's "Description of England," a book published in 1577 is online. Its good for getting a taste of period writing (helps your renspeak) and you can get all sorts of fun details on the period.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1577harrison-england.html

"Funny how all these suggestions for improving our use of 16th century language involve computers..." John (Wessex)

"Look, if you didn't want me to cut them up and make books out of them, you shouldn't have called them 'pages'." Ye Olde Deepe Thoughtes by Jack Falstaff