Travelling Trevere' leave for Duwamish
After happy hours spent within the walls of the Abbey the Travelling Trevere' have left for Duwamish where they are going to spend a couple of days before returning to the Cave of the Enchantress. While in Duwamish they will take a ferry across the Duwamish River to the Isle of the Ancestors.
Heather left me with this sketch, as a small gift for the Abbey archives. She said that she spent a relaxing hour down by the bridge, not far from the Golden Seed Grove.
With quiet descending I am sure that residents will be happy to go about their daily routine.
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posted by Heather Blakey @ 3:52 AM
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Leonardo, you are shining with this new view...
Blush! Thank you Monika. There is much to discover within this image. A troll! A hooded figure! My ravens, ever present.
I have deferred to faucon and changed Travelling Troubadours to
Travelling Trevere'.
When all is said and done trevere' does have a lilt that I have quite taken too.
Note from faulcon
I love what you are doing on 'Abbey', but would offer a correction --
a small matter ...
troubadours were court performers required to follow very strict rules of composition and rhyme -- often in contests that produced ballads of interminable length. They never traveled outside of their patron's support.
The traveling counterpart was the trevere',
kind of bar-room performers who could adapt story, meter and
'heroes' to the immediate audience. Traveling performers had to be proficient in many performing arts, including performance magic, juggling, skits, and parody. Naturally, such performers were 'looked down on' by such as the troubadours. Skill in any of these arts was not required -- entertainment was rewarded for effort.
Other travelers like the 'meddinsingers' (sp) were commissioned
to create love ballads for nobles and present them in place of the suitors.
Today, the term 'bard' can mean any of the various performer types,
but historically they were only allowed to sing memorized songs
with no allowed originality. Actually, the ability to compose spontaneous verse was not well received except in skaldic tradition (Nordic). Hollywood has completely mangled any historic accuracy.
Later, individual performers like the gusari, skamaroki, jongleurs, etc
regularly incorporated skits and political parody as part of their performance --
eventually leading to formalized events like the 'Commadia'
So, while the use of the term 'troubadour's and 'bard' might carry the flavor
of the recreationist approach and magic of the Abbey, it is not strictly correct.
But I will support any view you take without public comment
I love the atmosphere surrounding the stories because it's kind of edgy - and real. I do love the lilt of Trevere' - either way it's fine with me...everyone is dazzling....troubadours or trevere' it matters not, but the journey is all...
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