[Ansteorra] Nicknames in the SCA-starting a conversation

[Tim McDaniel]

> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Miles Grey <Kahn at west-point.org> wrote:
> I handled it by carefully researching, selecting, and registering a period,
> 15th century English name that's easy to say and remember.
>
>   Miles Grey

On Tue, 18 Dec 2012, S L Niemann <slniemann at gmail.com> wrote:
> MEE lays GRAY, right? *grin*
>
> Ines Alfon

(disclaimer: I'm no great shakes as an onomastician)
That's apparently Agnes.  An Englishman like me would likely not know
to trace the surname to Adelfuns (if that's even correct; I'm going by
some dodgy Web pages) and I suppose I would probably just English it
phonetically:

Agnes Alvin.

Daniel de Lincoln
-- 
Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com