[Ansteorra] history of SCA placenames - wne / why the second "r"

[Stefan li Rous]

On Sep 25, 2006, at 1:10 PM, Marc Carlson wrote:

>> Jay Yeates jyeates at realtime.net
>> speaking of the history "placemenames" ... some of us silverbacks  
>> were
>> discussing the old days at our weeekly communal dinner yesterday,  
>> and a
>> question came up ... exactly when/why did the kingdom name get the  
>> second
>> "r" tacked onto it ?????  our oldest documents (popular and  
>> official) that
>> we still hold use the origional spelling of "ansteora"
>
> I have been told that the change occured when the principality  
> became a
> kingdom.
>
> (and I bet folks thought I just couldn't type :) )
>
> Marc/Diarmaid

 From the Anst-hist-msg file in the Florilegium:

<<< Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 16:43:10 -0500
To: ansteorra at eden.com
From: Chris and Elisabeth Zakes <moondrgn at bga.com>
Subject: Re: the Arms of Ansteorra

 >        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.
 >
 >How's that for history.... this was something like A.S. XIII, IX or  
X can't
 >remember.  They say your memory goes first.
 >
 >Clare

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)  >>>

Stefan
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