the Arms of Ansteorra

[Chris and Elisabeth Zakes]

At 01:45 PM 6/17/97 -0500, you wrote:

[sounds of cutting]

>        On the Name... there was a big argument on whether Ansteorra has
>two "r" s or one.   Sounds silly but the fight really reached huge
>proportions before it was resolved.
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>How's that for history.... this was something like A.S. XIII, IX or X can't
>remember.  They say your memory goes first.
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>Clare
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It was in XIII, I believe. At one point there was support for the name
"Sable Star" instead of "Black Star" for the newsletter, and a few were
printed that way. And, just to be fun, Prince Simon spelt Ansteorra with
*three* "r"s (since the first principality reign was Ansteora and the
second was Ansteorra, he decided to continue the "r" trend).

Aethelyan (who doesn't go back *quite* as far as Clare, but who still
thinks about a walking stick from time to time)