04-19-2013, 03:15 AM
So you probably understand what I'm saying: There was no way for a poor peasnt to learn the language of Cicero! Too much time!
So they spoke a Voulgar Spoken Latin that is the mom of our current Romance languages, and this happened very, very early from the first century IMO.
About Romance Legacy, my new work, its title is:
'Romance Miles, V century AD, Legio Pseudocomitatensis Romanenses', under the Magister Equitum per Gallias.
The man has nothing of special, but you might be slightly confused by some details: The Helmet, the Ango, and the Axe.
But if you think about the matter you'll understand my chices.
This man has a typical Late Roman equipment:
- The Cassis is a ridge helmet, made of tow bowls held toghter by a central ridge, the helmet has been made by some smith in Gaul, it's without cheeck pieces but the bowl is lightly enlongated on the neck. Nobody will ever be able to persuade me that during the last twenty yeras of the Western Part the Statal Fabricae were still working! So what did happen? Well, probably the local smiths produced what they could in a way more close as possible to the Roman models, so IMHO this is the story of the two-halved Frankish helmet, lately so famous and universally known as the typical Carolingian Helmet!
- It's a Romance stroy, as a Romance story is that of the axe, it's not a fransiska of course! It's made from a local smith on tha basis of the typical Roman Dolabra, then the Franks adopted the model already in production in Gaul.
- The angon instead is a Germanic weapon inspired by the Roman Pilum and then reintroduced in the Roman Army!
So nothing special in this soldier! He is a Romance miles, he don't know anything about the Empire and about the political situation, while he's marching towards The Catalaunian Fields.
He knows only that he will fight against men coming from the opposite bank of the Rhine, as did his father, and the father of his father and the father of the father of his father, and so on till memory can remember!
He doesn't understand a single word of the Language of the other bank of the Rhine, he knows only he has to fight again to defend the small piece of land that is the only way to survive for him and his family, he doesn't fight for Rome, he fights to defend Gaul! He doesn't know this detail but doing this he is alredy fighting for something else than the Empire, something smaller but more powerful....
He doesn't know that the Latin of the the Senatorial Aristocracy is dying while his Voulgar Latin will survive, he doesn't understand these things but his culture will survive, because it's strong! It's so strong that also the new Germanic ruling calss shall bow in front of this Romanic or Romance Culture, the Germanic aristocracy shall be forced to use not the Senatorial Latin but the Vulgar Language of this poor man!
So, let me say that I love this man! In the end probably because we have something in common: we are both speaking Vulgar Latin! I like the idea! As I like imagining this man marchingg not like an hero but like a simple man who must fight against Attila to save his land and his family, so while he's marching in the spring he's thinking to his wife, to his land, the grain in the fields without men to harvest it, he's sad and scared but he knows that he must fight.....
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Sorry for the long post, I'll try to stop my verbosity, the issue is that I like the subject!
Sorry again dear friends!
So they spoke a Voulgar Spoken Latin that is the mom of our current Romance languages, and this happened very, very early from the first century IMO.
About Romance Legacy, my new work, its title is:
'Romance Miles, V century AD, Legio Pseudocomitatensis Romanenses', under the Magister Equitum per Gallias.
The man has nothing of special, but you might be slightly confused by some details: The Helmet, the Ango, and the Axe.
But if you think about the matter you'll understand my chices.
This man has a typical Late Roman equipment:
- The Cassis is a ridge helmet, made of tow bowls held toghter by a central ridge, the helmet has been made by some smith in Gaul, it's without cheeck pieces but the bowl is lightly enlongated on the neck. Nobody will ever be able to persuade me that during the last twenty yeras of the Western Part the Statal Fabricae were still working! So what did happen? Well, probably the local smiths produced what they could in a way more close as possible to the Roman models, so IMHO this is the story of the two-halved Frankish helmet, lately so famous and universally known as the typical Carolingian Helmet!
- It's a Romance stroy, as a Romance story is that of the axe, it's not a fransiska of course! It's made from a local smith on tha basis of the typical Roman Dolabra, then the Franks adopted the model already in production in Gaul.
- The angon instead is a Germanic weapon inspired by the Roman Pilum and then reintroduced in the Roman Army!
So nothing special in this soldier! He is a Romance miles, he don't know anything about the Empire and about the political situation, while he's marching towards The Catalaunian Fields.
He knows only that he will fight against men coming from the opposite bank of the Rhine, as did his father, and the father of his father and the father of the father of his father, and so on till memory can remember!
He doesn't understand a single word of the Language of the other bank of the Rhine, he knows only he has to fight again to defend the small piece of land that is the only way to survive for him and his family, he doesn't fight for Rome, he fights to defend Gaul! He doesn't know this detail but doing this he is alredy fighting for something else than the Empire, something smaller but more powerful....
He doesn't know that the Latin of the the Senatorial Aristocracy is dying while his Voulgar Latin will survive, he doesn't understand these things but his culture will survive, because it's strong! It's so strong that also the new Germanic ruling calss shall bow in front of this Romanic or Romance Culture, the Germanic aristocracy shall be forced to use not the Senatorial Latin but the Vulgar Language of this poor man!
So, let me say that I love this man! In the end probably because we have something in common: we are both speaking Vulgar Latin! I like the idea! As I like imagining this man marchingg not like an hero but like a simple man who must fight against Attila to save his land and his family, so while he's marching in the spring he's thinking to his wife, to his land, the grain in the fields without men to harvest it, he's sad and scared but he knows that he must fight.....
Sorry for the long post, I'll try to stop my verbosity, the issue is that I like the subject!
Sorry again dear friends!
