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

Marc Carlson marccarlson20 at hotmail.com
Mon Sep 25 22:49:19 PDT 2006


>Chris Zakes dontivar at gmail.com
>>At 01:10 PM 9/25/2006, you 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 :) )
>The original name (when we first became a region of Atenveldt) was 
>Ansteorra. When Sir Sean became Prince, he decided to change the spelling 
>to Ansteora (and the name of the newsletter from "Black Star" to "Sable 
>Star".) Prince Randall changed it back to Ansteorra, and there was a fair 
>bit of joking that Prince Simonn would spell it "Ansteorrra".
>Just think, if we'd kept up that tradition we'd now live in 
>Ansteorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrra.

Thank you.  It's these variations in oral traditions that make an oral 
tradition so tricky to work with.  Me, I dunno, I wasn't there :)

Marc/Diarmaid





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