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- From: paul.burnett@pcs.sj.ca.us (Paul Burnett)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Have X, will trav
- Message-ID: <666.18.uupcb@pcs.sj.ca.us>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 16:23:00 GMT
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- Reply-To: paul.burnett@pcs.sj.ca.us (Paul Burnett)
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- TO: mcoffin@IASTATE.EDU (Marie Coffin)
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- >> And if you look up "paladin", it comes from a chivalrous knight of the
- >> Middle Ages, who in turn is based on a Roman palace guard - folks who
- >> "had sword, would travel." It's not exactly from the 1950's; it's over
- >> 2,000 years old.
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- MC>Paul, what is your point here? The word "paladin" may have roots
- >going back 2000 years, but that tells us nothing about the phrase
- >"have X, will travel", which I believe is an artifact of the 20th
- >century.
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- I have rummaged further through my limited home library and my limited
- memory <G> - I recall the phrase was used by Charlemagne's knights
- ("paladins") who traveled the countryside, righting wrongs.
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- MC>Incidentally, Robert Heinlein wrote a novel in 1957 entitled _Have
- >Spacesuit, Will Travel_. This would seem to indicate that the phrase
- >was common parlance at the time.
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- It was - remember Paladin's business card had a chess-piece on it? It
- was a knight. Heinlein's not available for questioning - maybe his wife
- Virginia can help us. <G>
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