[Ansteorra] "Ansteorran: of or pertaining to the Kingdom of Ansteorra"

[Tim McDaniel]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, HerrDetlef <herrdetlef at gmail.com> wrote:
> For what it's worth, "an steorra" is Old English simply for "a
> star", or "one star".

The story I *heard* was that it was taken from a chronicle's report of
Halley's Comet.  "The eleven observations of comets between 687 AD and
1114 AD recorded in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle"
<http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1992acm..proc..385M \>, though, does
not have those two words in that spelling in the 1066 entry (though
forms of "steorr" occur in many entries).

Dannet de Lyncoln
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Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com