[Ansteorra] Extra Rs and other naming oddities

[Sir Lyonel Oliver Grace]

Salut cozyns,

So the extra R in Ansteorra was initially a typo?

Somehow, that doesn't surprise me. SCA kingdom names certainly have a 
checkered past. The initial three are simple enough: East, West, and Middle. 
I'm glad they stopped after the first three. I wouldn't want to be a citizen 
of a kingdom named South Central.

Atlantia and Trimaris are rational enough. Artemisia is the name of a plant 
indigenous to that region (although I remember some commenting herald or 
other arguing that it was "clearly" an attempt to sneak in a deistic 
reference).

Caid and Atenveldt have always seemed particularly dorky to me. Caid is 
named for the first initials of four of its original groups (Calafia, Angels 
and I don't know the other two). Atenveldt is a linguistic mash-up that was 
supposed to mean "Land of the Sun" but actually translates from the Egyptian 
and Dutch as "Sun-God Field." I lived in Atenveldt, incidentally, and never 
met any Dutch Egyptians.

En Lyonel
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