ANSTHRLD - "Lioness"

[Amanda Lewanski]

Apologies, I haven't been keeping up, but what happened to "Levgorod" for the
southern region, which I thought sounded rather cool (and like a place, not a
species)?

- --Alisandre, who's been off having babies and not paying much attention


Timothy A. McDaniel wrote:

> (Sorry for the duplication, Tangwystyl, AElfwyn, et al.)
>
> Yes, it's stunt documentation (or stunt shootdown, I suspect).
> Yes, I would love a quick turnaround; if, as I suspect, the name is
>     utterly unusable, I'd like to stop the write-in campaign ASAP.
> Indeed, I'm sorry for asking under such conditions.
>
> This came across the Ansteorran Southern Regional list just now.  The
> vote he's referring to is a preference ballot for a southern regional
> name, probably to thereby become the frontrunner for a southern
> principality name if-and-when.
>
> "James Crouchet" <jtc at io.com> wrote, on southern at Ansteorra.ORG at Thu,
> 5 Aug 1999 19:40:42 -0500, with subject Late Entry:
> > Hello. Don Doré here.
> >
> > A small group of Southerners, including me, were recently standing
> > around complaining that the suggested names for this region were
> > bad, twinky, un-period, and generally unacceptable.
>
> (Un-period?!?  Grrrr!  Arrrg!  We cut it off at the 3-out-of-5-star
> periodness-rating level.  One name is a period town in Italy!)
>
> > name that really seemed to work. It followed a period naming
> > practice,
>
> (which of course he didn't describe)
>
> > it avoided the compound noun twink (like "Lion's Liver"), actually
> > means something to the Southern Region AND connects us to Ansteorra.
> > It would even serve well as a name for a principality or kingdom,
> > should that ever be an issue.  Noble heraldry would be easy to
> > design for this name.  What's more, it is short, plain English and
> > easily pronounceable.
> ...
> > In particular, we got Baroness Mari's ok (which is important,
> > considering the name).
> >
> > What is the name? Lioness. Bjornsborg's "Lioness" tourney is past,
>
> That annual tourney is usually spelled "Lyonesse".  It is a
> high-persona event.  In it, Lyonesse is said to rise from the sea for
> a few days.  The Baroness of Bjornsborg (in the center of the southern
> region) is called Lady Lyonesse for the duration and is the hostess.
> There is fighting at the barrier, I believe.  I understand that there
> are plenty of examples of period people in tourneys pretending to be
> knights of the Round Table and other worthies (or Worthies), so this
> sounds like a fine period tourney notion to me.  It is pronounced here
> as "LEE ahn ess" or "LEE ah ness" -- hard for me to tell.  I assume
> they want the English word "Lioness".
>
> So: I gather that Lyonesse is a mythical sunken island somewhere off
> Britain, so an attempted registration of Lyonesse would therefore
> bounce by Admin Handbook III.A.6, Names of Significant Geographical
> Locations from Literary Sources.  Is it at all likely that period
> people would have named a real place Lyonesse, Atlantis, or such?
> (Any other examples come to mind of lands believed lost by period
> people?)
>
> If "Lioness", I have the usual stunt request: can anyone think of a
> language + culture + time where that might be a place-name?
>
> Daniel de Lincolia
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