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

Robert G. Ferrell rgferrell at gmail.com
Fri Mar 12 15:12:15 PST 2010


Because, as all are acutely aware, the Anglo-Saxon opinion is the one  
that truly counts.

Ulstead?  Godwyn?  Back me up here.

CoB

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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
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