[Ansteorra] Latin Help?

[Richard Culver]

Okay, I know it is an old argument, but still a pet peeve of mine- The Latinized version of Ansteorra, if we even leave out the argument as to whether they would have kept the "o"  (or even the second "r)" thus "Anste(r)r-, should be "Ansteorria" and its genative, -iæ.  The -a" ending on Ansteorra is not a Latinization, it is the weak masculine ending in Old English.  If the kingdom's name had been discussed in the herald-world of today's SCA, it should have never passed as a properly period Anglo-Saxon place-name as all Anglo-Saxon place names used geographic features, i.e. "land", "burug/byrig," "tun," "þorp," and so forth or you had the region names usually those of perceived tribal relations such Westseaxe, Eastangle, though evern these in the text were often followe by "rice", kingdom, "cynn", kind,kin, etc.  So looking at Francalond, "France," if Anteorraland were the proper name, the Latinization, like Francia, would be Ansteorria, as Latin
 generally dumped that last vowel..  Other examples would be Salland, the Frankish territory, being, in Latin, Salia and declined as such.
  Also more commonly in A-S charters of the period was the title of rex Anglorum, more rarely rex Angliæ; one being "of the Angle [people]", and the other being "of  the land of the Angles," one implying right from the people and the other by mere ownership/relation of power of land.
 
Okay, okay, I'm going back to my hole...
 
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From: HerrDetlef <herrdetlef at gmail.com>
To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 7:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Latin Help?

So I take it the Latin construction parallels the English: Regnum
Ansteorrae is a word-for-word translation of "The Kingdom OF Ansteorra."

I was curious about that. The German construction is a little different;
for example, what we would call "The Federal Republic of Germany," is "Die
Bundesrepublik Deutschland" in German...literally, "The Federal Republic
Germany." No OF. If Latin followed the German, the wording would simply be
"Regnum Ansteorra."

Basically, the question I have is this: Should "Ansteorra" be rendered in
the genetive case relative to "Regno", or should it be rendered in the
dative relative to the verb "dat"?

And THANK YOU! :-)

Detlef