[ANSTHRLD] A Bardic Thistle?
Tim McDaniel
tmcd at panix.com
Mon Nov 20 08:28:08 PST 2006
On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Sweet, Debby <deborah.s.sweet at okstate.edu> wrote:
> Do you really use "barding" to describe singing/music/etc
> entertainment?
A fair number of SCA people do use "barding" as a gerund based on "to
bard". ("Verbing weirds language.") I suspect it's because imitating
a bard was popular in the SCA for many years before equestrian
activities became popular.
> Because barding is what a horse wears.
Yeah. I tried (in a desultory way) to convince Robin of Gilwell to
host a barding competition. It would teach a lession, but I suspect
the disappointed performers would reply with unprintable comments
concerning Robin vis a vis horses.
See also "garb". Unfortunately, while you can usually substitute
"bardic" or "bard" for "barding", I don't know of anything easier than
"medieval clothing" to substitute for "garb". (I don't have an OED
handy, but I dimly recall "garb" meaning "clothing" being 19th C or
so.)
Danielis de Lincolino
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Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com
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