translation

"Or maybe it’s meant to be “Although i am hated by birds, I rather enjoy that”. The provided translations don’t make much sense to me. Neither one really works with what is actually written. But my German is very bad and the provided translations would be provided by actual German speakers.

This one was likely made for “Hussar tournaments”, which were a tradition of the HRE primarily under Ferdinand II where contestants jousted dressed as either Hussars or Turk.

Between bouts one wpuld change out their visor for either a “Turkish” visor, or a “Christian” visor. The visors looked like… uhhh