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

[John Hirling]

steorra m. 'star'  (apparently shares a root with steering, steersman)

an 1. adj.  one, alone, sole, only (but also connotes singular, unique)
     2. alone, only

There's more to the definition of 'an' but this is the gist)

>From A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, J.R. Clark Hall

~ihon




"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass . . .
it's about learning how to dance in the rain!"

Unknown (but I wish it had been me)


On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Robert G. Ferrell <rgferrell at gmail.com>wrote:

> Because, as all are acutely aware, the Anglo-Saxon opinion is the one that
> truly counts.
>
> Ulstead?  Godwyn?  Back me up here.
>
>
> CoB
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 12, 2010, at 4:24 PM, Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com> wrote:
>
>  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
>> --
>> Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com
>> _______________________________________________
>> Ansteorra mailing list
>> Ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org
>> In order to make changes and manage your account please go to:
>> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/ansteorra-ansteorra.org
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Ansteorra mailing list
> Ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org
> In order to make changes and manage your account please go to:
> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/ansteorra-ansteorra.org
>