ANSTHRLD - Name Submission inquiry (Katla)

Richard Culver rbculver at hotmail.com
Wed May 3 07:46:48 PDT 2000


>The only question is whether to capitalize the byname.  Geirr Bassi does 
>not,
>so I believe it is more authentic to leave it lowercase (although
>authenticity between different alphabets is a slippery subject).

  Yes in Old Norse (and germanics in general) by-names, and titles, were 
lower cased.

  The
>English, and the hopelessly Anglocentric SCA, would capitalize it --

   Hey, I resemble that remark!  :Þ  And no I would not.

Cyniric

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