[Ansteorra] history of SCA placenames

[vmarsh at twmarsh.net]

Just tell them that we don't let a little thing like the Red River get in the way of our friendships!

We are one Kingdom, made up of many parts.......

Xene


>Sigh, and the perception persists to this day:
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>"You're from Ansteorra?  Which part? Dallas?Houston?"
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>"Um, no, Stillwater."
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>"Stillwater, where in Texas is that?"
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>"<sigh> Oklahoma."
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>JP
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>On 9/27/06, Chris Zakes <dontivar at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> At 11:50 PM 9/26/2006, you wrote:
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>> >Of course, as Vicount Tiernon of Calontir pointed out, the good
>> >people of the Texas part of Ansteorra might not have missed the
>> >alternate "Lone Star" interpretation of "Unicus et  Singularis..."
>> >
>> >Blessings,
>> >Ceridwen, Stirrer of Pots
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>> No, that was quite deliberate. In its very earliest days, all the
>> Ansteorran groups were in Texas (Namron--which is the oldest SCA
>> group in Oklahoma--didn't get started until several months after the
>> organizational meeting in Bjornsborg that Clare mentioned yesterday)
>> so an Old English and/or Latin rendition of "Lone Star" seemed quite
>> reasonable at the time.
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>>          -Tivar Moondragon
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>the end of the day cry out "ENOUGH!!! For I can lift my arms no longer"
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