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How did guys like these manage communicate with each other?
Where their dialects similar enough for them to understand commands and some basic things?
Or did soldiers from other regions simply learn the local language?
And, as a general question, how did mercenaries, merchants, pilgrims etc talk while traveling in medieval Europe?
Use Latin, learn a bit of the local language, or did many countries use a common language just for that type of situation?
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They probably had a couple guys in their company that could speak this or that language and they acted as translators
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>>2227034
In France, all the Northern section (blue on pic related) spoke the same language (Old French, also called "langue d'oil")
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>>2227034
it all depends on if you count the number of stars first before you look at the colour of the vestments
>fvey the shitposting
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>>2227067
Even the ones in the same language area like langue d'oil could have quite a variation.
I know Gascogne and Provence are supposed to be very different.
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>>2227042
What about pilgrimage.
If I were from Flanders or Bohemia and wanted to go to Santiago de Compostela, I would have to traverse multiple language zones.
I would have to speak to innkeepers or guards can ask me something when entering a city.
Did they hire translators to go with them? Or just learn some basic things?
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>>2227034
>How did guys like these manage communicate with each other?
The men hanged around within their own units which were formed in the same area. They were commanded by noblemen or captains who knew their local language & language that was considered prestigious, i.e. Parisian language d'oil.
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>>2227103
Latin.
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