With this option you would have the closest chance to live like we are accustomed to living, ya know the real fancy stuff, a bed, toilet (garderobe), dishes, undergarments. Most of us wouldn't last a week in any vocation.
Real peasant life was a dreary Megablocks. Up through the 17th century the average European never went more than seven miles away from the place they were born. It was dirty, dark (even if you could afford candles) and dingy. No days off, no health care. Ever had a tooth pulled? That would have been a death sentence in medieval Europe. We have stylized the era through romantic stories, but it would not have been fun at all.
I'll stick with Coke, computers and cotton underwear thank you very much.
Men who lie, merely hide the truth; but men who tell half-lies, have forgotten where they put it--Samuel Clemens
Being royalty is a real pain in the neck - literally! Nobility sounds much safer. Too many assasinations happened. Just read about Edward II of England and I am sure you will change your mind.
architect wrote:Being royalty is a real pain in the neck - literally! Nobility sounds much safer. Too many assasinations happened. Just read about Edward II of England and I am sure you will change your mind.
Ben
You got that wrong, for Edward II it was a pain in the asterisk *. (In the Kurt Vonnegut illustrative sense - as I dance around being polite and being accurate)
Redwine the Ribald: Stare long enough into the abyss...
Two-Tonic Tippler: ...and you spit into it.
I know perfectly well about the demise of Edward II at Berkeley Castle. It is amazing how many books do not mention specifics of his death. But you are right, this is not the appropriate place to post them.
I would have been a Miller. (My last name "Muhl" is the americanized version of Muehler, or Miller in German). The Miller was typically the richest man in town, since every person had to pay him to have their grain milled into flour for bread.
My second choice would be a pub owner of some sort. I would have made the best honey mead around.....
Heroic battles and combat are fun to imagine, but I probably would have avoided hand to hand combat if possible.