[Ansteorra] Title Question

[Tim McDaniel]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2012, Julie Cunningham <katheryn.cunningghame at gmail.com>
wrote:
> What I was going to say before I hit send accidentally is perhaps
> this would be a good short article for Stefan's Florilegium.

It would actually be a nice research article for heraldic proceedings
and a letter from Laurel Sovereign of Arms.  Unfortunately, I can't
think of a good way to research it, except by reading a large variety
of period letters and documents.

I believe that "Elfsea", "Lord Elfsea", and "Lady Elfsea"
(for concrete examples) are all excellent period-style references.
[1]  I really love this style.  "Baroness of Bjornsborg" and "Baron of
Namron" are certainly period.

I do know that the distinction of using or omitting "of" to denote
the ordinal is a pure SCAism.  Because

- it's not period

- "founding baroness of Bryn Gwlad" or "first baron of Stargate"
   (I like concrete examples) is much easier to understand and doesn't
   even need explanation

- "of" is an unstressed syllable that can be easy to miss
   (c.f. "one small step for [a] man")

I'd love to see the "of" business be replaced.

I do not remember ever hearing "His Excellency Steppes" before.
I would like to see period citations before it get adopted widely.

Dankyn de Lincoln

[1] I remember a Steppes Warlord where an entrant wrote "Llewelyn,
Lord Elfsea" on his card.  I *loved* it.  Unfortunately, another field
herald interpreted it as "Lastname, Lord Firstname" and kept calling
him to the field as "Lord Elfsea Llewelyn".  That's not right.

-- 
Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com