Burgschützen
English translation: castle's marksmen
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| 11:17 Jan 2, 2007 |
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|  Selected response from: David Moore (X) Local time: 13:38 | ||||||
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| 4 +4 | castle's marksmen |
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| 3 | castle soldiers |
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| 3 | sharpshooters |
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| 3 | castle guards |
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castle soldiers Explanation: To keep it even simpler, perhaps? |
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sharpshooters Explanation: marksmen also appears, as do lots of other words from random visitors to Prague: Golden Lane is a short, little street with colorful houses that were built during the 16th century. First they were occupied by the sharpshooters of the castle, then squatters and later by some famous artists like Franz Kafka. Most of them serve as souvenir shops now and the street is constantly full of tourists. I enjoyed the visit in 1997, but was disappointed to return http://209.85.129.104/search?q=cache:iMPJy7H-2BsJ:www.virtua... http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=Rudolph II guards Golden... |
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castle guards Explanation: seems to be a familiar general term: 'A knight's wages were 8d a day and he would be expected to serve for 40 days a year. Sometimes, this service would be as castle guard in a castle.' http://www.castles-of-britain.com/castle35.htm http://www.armadilloarmory.com/Publish/cat33.htm unless you can pin down their specific responsibilities as here: '...houses in other parts of the town held custom-free by men associated with the castle-guard (e.g. crossbowmen, watchmen).' http://www.trytel.com/~tristan/towns/norwich3.html although you seem to have 'watchmen' already... |
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peer agreement (net): +4castle's marksmen Explanation: According to the dictionary, a marksman is defined as one who can shoot a rifle OR OTHER WEAPON accurately. Since we are looking at the late 16th. century, and the castle defenders would have been armed with bows and arrows, I think marksman has to be favourite - I'm sorry Brigitte didn't post her suggestion, to which I would certainly have agreed. |
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