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

[Stefan li Rous]

On Sep 26, 2006, at 12:49 AM, Marc Carlson wrote:

>> 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

Yes. Lol. That's why the various files on SCA history in the  
Florilegium are in the SCA-STORIES section.

Stefan
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