[Ansteorra] "Ansteorran: of or pertaining to the Kingdom of Ansteorra"
Greg Coffman
baroniago at earthlink.net
Fri Mar 12 15:07:01 PST 2010
From what I remember, I thought it was later discovered that it was
closer to 'that star' than it was 'one star.'
Iago
On Mar 12, 2010, at 3:02 PM, HerrDetlef wrote:
> For what it's worth, "an steorra" is Old English simply for "a
> star", or
> "one star".
>
> It would be much easier to remember if we pronounced the name in
> line with
> rules for OE pronunciation; namely, stressing the "E" and not the
> "O". "eo"
> is an Old English dipthong, and it should be pronounced like the
> "eo" in
> "Beowulf" and not like the "eo" in "geometry".
> DT+LF again
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 2:53 PM, HerrDetlef <herrdetlef at gmail.com>
> wrote:
More information about the Ansteorra
mailing list