[Chemin-noir] a question about your name

[OttokarLuther at aol.com]

ok the reason we are called the black road short version hwy. 75 runs  
between Northkeep and Calonteer.
we wanted to be called the kings road but that was already taken by a group  
in another kingdom than we thought about the sable road but the heralds  had 
problems with that after a several long discussions we settled on a  Norman 
type name because we were founded long after Northkeep and they were more  or 
less Norse. since we were a canton of a barony and several of the founding  
members were baronial guards we kinda came up with the idea that we would be  like 
a military encampment that was set up by the barony to levy taxes on the  
goods traveling through this part of the baronial holdings. often times way  
points such as this were simply known by the road name that they were on. so  back 
to the sable road hwy. 75 runs from the southern tip of Texas to the  northern 
border of Oklahoma so truly a kings road because it runs completely  across 
the kingdom. ok to pull it all together if the sable star is the  symbol of the 
kingdom and the king is the kingdom it kinda like its the kings  star so with 
that as base the sable road would be the kings road and in French  or Norman  
the black road is Chemin Noir, (even though some people may  translate it 
black path/way, dark path/way and think it has some secret meaning  to satanic 
rites) there dose not seem to be a correct French word to  represent road the 
way we mean it so we settled on Chemin. we also thought about  Gaelic (i cant 
remember the words used) the closest we could get was in  translation "many wide 
black men   and German swartzen  strassa pronounced SFARTEN STROUSSSSA , and 
English Rhode  Blake (spelling is probably wrong but you get the idea) it 
sorta  translate to dark trail or path with an evil connotation 
 
There is more but I wont bore you with it.  
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