[Ansteorra] history of SCA placenames

[Marc Carlson]

>StefanliRous at austin.rr.com Nord? Nord -> Northkeep?
>I don't think I've heard about that before. Did "Nord" get turned
>down by the heralds? Or did the populace just decide to change the
>name? Someone want to tell me the story of this for my Florilegium
>placenames-msg file?

I'll tell you *a* story.  I won't say it's *the* story.

>Nord? Nord -> Northkeep?
>I don't think I've heard about that before. Did "Nord" get turned  down by 
>the heralds? Or did the populace just decide to change the  name? Someone 
>want to tell me the story of this for my Florilegium  placenames-msg file?

The name Nord-aus-das Strom (“North of the Storm”) for the Tulsa, OK group 
first appeared the Sable Star, the Ansteoran Principality Newsletter in 
1977.  The shire’s first newsletter was called “Strom Winds”, and there are 
no known extant copies, darn it.  The name was later changed to Nordlische 
Sturm (same meaning, more or less).  Why it was named that is said to be a 
commentary on political events elsewhere.  (For the record, whever it was 
who was complaining about the Society being more political – the SCA has 
pretty much always had politics).

There were numerous suggested revisions for the name once it was officially 
chartered in 1981 (mostly since political commentary regarding other groups 
was though to be not really an appropriate basis for a group’s name).

The name Northkeep was passed in 1984.  I think the meaning of a safe 
fortress in the North of the Kingdom is still present, but without the tacky 
other connotations, so people were much happier.

Marc/Diarmaid