I’d imagine they fake an American accent. Maybe Burbank, CA?

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      There’s indeed renaissance festivals in UK.

      I’m pretty sure they pretend to speak old English there.

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        Because we have a lot of history. If we’re doing an historic festival it would be more specific about the period, not just some homogeneous “past”. But that said, such festivals are quite rare anyway

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          The Renaissance is not “some homogeneous past”, it’s a pretty specific time period: the 15th and 16th centuries.

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            Yes, but renaissance fairs in the US are not actually about the renaissance. They are pretty much just “vague Ye olden days”/fantasy fairs.

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            Thats two hundred years and would cover the end of Plantagenet reign and the Tudor era.

            Henry VIII reign happened during that period, at the beginning of your time period everyone would be catholic and at the end Queen Mary of Scotts was executed because the idea of a Catholic on the throne was unthinkable.

            The UK is littered with castles and estates, normally they focus on specific historic events which happened at that location.

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            With so many cultural and historical inaccuracies I did essentially is not a representation of any time period.

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        You can find any number of re-enactment events/groups across the UK from Romans to Vikings to the Sealed Knot to WW2. For most of those Medieval festivals, especially the ones celebrating an event or place (second and fourth links - the first and fourth aren’t relevant to this), it tends to be a more touristy event rather than one visitors would get dressed up and involved in (until recently with the US influence).

        Summer Court Renaissance Fair claims to be one of the first US-style ren fairs:

        On the 6th of August 2022, we hosted one of the first American-style ren faires to make it to the UK!

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          Definitely this, until apparently the one you’ve just linked, they didn’t exist in the American sense here. The closest you would get here before was out of work actors adding a bit of flavour to some otherwise-a-bit-dull landmarks or historically important places. And even then that wasn’t super common.

          I always saw the American style as basically a medieval themed Butlins experience. Pure entertainment rather than something ostensibly intended to be educational.

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            That’s it, the earlier ones were awfully dull and worthy and the Ren Fair influence has made it more fun, with visitors now encouraged to dress up and get involved. I wasn’t joking when I described them as Medieval cosplay.

            It’s a bit like how British comic conventions became Comic Cons - back in the day they were a few drafty halls in some relic of the Industrial Revolution or musty spaces in run-down hotels. Now they are Nerdvana, colliding with the old memorabilia shows of yesteryear where you could get a handful of old Doctors to sign something for a few quid and now have to throw a nought on the end of that. If you are lucky you’ll still find some actual comics tucked away in a side room where they won’t embarrass the starts of that sci-fi show that was slightly popular for a couple of years in the mid-80s.

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        Is this ‘renaissance fair’ branding is a new thing? I did a few historical/fantasy weekend larps when I was younger but they were never called ‘renaissance fairs’.

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        I’ve never heard of a renaissance fair over here. And one of the examples you give, jorvik viking festival, is surely set several centurias before the renaissance.

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          All Renaissance fairs are really medieval fairs.

          They ended up called Renaissance Fairs because a radio ad exec in California thought it was a more broadly appealing name when the first one was held, and it stuck.

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          “Rwy’n hoffi chi. Dych chi eisiau mynd i’r caffi gyda mi am baned o goffi?”

          =

          “I like you. Do you want to go to the café with me to have a cup of coffee?”

          I’m still learning Welsh, so this might contain mistakes, but it’s better than saying you don’t understand her… For future reference, you know.

          Edit: Meant to reply to the comment below me.

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          Arguable but the last time I was at the RenFest in Larkspur, there were Jedi and Star Fleet officers there.

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            That’s the big difference between the US ren faires and the European ones.

            The ones over here are usually organized by castle museums or therelike, so in general, they are quite grounded in reality.

            You might have a herb witch or something like that over here, but you won’t have dragons, magic or Disney present there.

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        They are super niche here. The vast majority of people will never have heard of them except in American TV.

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      I watched a catapult fire projectiles into a castle moat outside of Cardiff at a medieval fair. Also got propositioned by a Welsh girl, but couldn’t understand what she was saying.

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        • Yakkie-dah = hello; good morning/day; yes; correct; goodbye
        • Boy-o = boy
        • Ma-fan-way = girl
        • Cmyru-way = motorway
        • Cmyru-shypi = shop
        • Cmyru-foni = phone
        • Cymru-nana = banana
        • Llllllgoogllgoogll-y-cymrnllllll = the/a/I/you/we/us/him/her/them/up/down/this/that/those

        Now you can speak Welsh. Well done or, should I say, Yakkie-Cymru.

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          • Hello = Shwmae / S’mae
          • Good morning - Bore da
          • Day - Dydd
          • Yes - ydw, ydy (and other words, it’s a bit complicated)
          • Correct - iawn
          • Goodbye - hwyl
          • Boy = Bachgen / Hogyn (South Wales / North Wales)
          • Girl = Merch / Hogan (South Wales / North Wales)
          • Motorway - Traffordd
          • Shop - Siop
          • Phone - Ffôn, mobile phone - ffôn symudol
          • Banana - Banana
          • The - y, yr
          • A - (no article)
          • You - chi / ti
          • We - ni
          • Us - ni
          • Him - o
          • Her - hi
          • Them - nhw
          • Up - i’r lan
          • Down - i lawr
          • This - hon / hwn / hyn
          • that - hyna
          • those - hwnnw

          I can’t be arsed to write the pronunciation in IPA. Just go on Google Translate to hear how it’s pronounced or learn Welsh on Duolingo.

          Da iawn, rwyt ti’n gallu siarad / ysgrifennu Cymraeg nawr / rŵan! :)

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      Renaissance fairs are an American thing. They don’t exist in the UK.

      I don’t know the UK, so I might be wrong, but it’s not an US only thing (beside the naming).

      I’ve seen various form of medieval markets/festivals on several continental Europe countries, and I don’t see why it wouldn’t cross the channel. Even though, Historical re-enactment is a niche hobby, it’s not that uncommon to find group focused on the a given historical period caring a lot about the details, no matter if they re-enact the Viking, The crusade, or Napoleon’s army (If you visit Belgium during the Waterloo battle anniversary, you can see these groups re-enacting the battle). LARP is also a thing in the whole western Europe, it’s way less realistic as we do have elves and orcs, the biggest worldwide runs in Germany Trailer and UK has also some big ones and a lot of smaller ones.

      So I’m sorry to disagree with your claim

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        They exist here in Australia too. Which is a Commonwealth country with lots of English influenced heritage and culture.

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      While not a renaissance fair exactly, there is a jousting tournament in Leeds Castle in Kent once or twice a year. It’s a lot of fun with armour, swords, horses, the whole shebang.

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      Pity. It isn’t even my thing but the few I have been to I have enjoyed. Kinda cool seeing how glass and metal tools were made back in the day.

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    Why would they speak French or Italian? The Rennaisance happened in Britain too and they spoke ye olde English back then.

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      Word on the street is that American English is actually closer to the English spoken by the British when they first landed and colonized the Americas. After the war they went back to their lil island and forgot how to pronounce their Rs.

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    Speaking as an American, when I was doing the ren fair thing… I used a shitty French accent and told people it was burgundeon.

    It’s bullshit, but a) it was different b) it was fun being “the bad guys”and picking fights (ahem duels) and c) the rest of my costume was fairly on point, as a musketeer- either one of the king’s or Cardinal Reicheleiu’s.

    It was a really shitty French accent. I apologize to the French for that crime….

    (edit, fixed my spelling error… its been a while…)

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      While we’re working on your spelling, it’s

      Burgundian

      Which, en français, would be

      Bourguignon (boor geen yone)

      But of course you weren’t doing French, you were doing English in a terrible fake French accent so maybe your spelling is a more accurate representation!

      p. s. You still have an extra e in Richelieu. Reich is more German than French

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        But of course you weren’t doing French, you were doing English in a terrible fake French accent so maybe your spelling is a more accurate representation!

        we will go with that and not my bad spelling and mobile being of no help.

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        Cardinal Reichelieu

        The “evil mastermind” in Les Trois Mousquetaires by Dumas and with, uh, numerous adaptations into film as “The three musketeers”

        He was a historical figure and the chief minister to King Louis XIII

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    It’s not really been a big thing here until the American influence has sparked interest.

    When you can go and watch the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, tar barrelling or the Haxey Hood, there’s less interest in Medieval cosplay.