ANSTHRLD - Scottish Name

[Timothy A. McDaniel]

Some time ago, Magnus / Doug Bell <debell at txcyber.com> wrote:
> [in re] Kendrick mac Bayne
> 
> Withycombe page 188 under Kenrick gives Kendrick 1602.

That sentence is almost unusable as documentation.  "Gives" it as
*what*?  A name invented by Shakespeare?  An English name?  A Scottish
name?  An Arabic name?  A surname?  A place name?

> Turkey isn't exactly period but it will get eaten anyway.

Turkeys certainly existed and were eaten by Europeans in America
pre-1600.  I recall hearing that turkey ranches were common in Hungary
in the 1500s.
    <http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/wooton/34/macartney/3.html>
says that "At one carnival the king's own estates could produce only
eight turkeys.", referring to Wladislas Jagiello/Ul{a'}szl{o'}/Dobre,
who was king from 1490 to 1516.  I'm suspicious because the dates are
so early, though
    <http://www.comptons.com/encyclopedia/ARTICLES/0175/01846784_A.html#P1A1>
says
    The wild turkey is native only to North and Central America.  When
    the Spaniards conquered Mexico, they found domesticated birds.
    They introduced the bird into Europe, and it was well established
    by 1530.  Later the English colonists brought it back to North
    America.  All domestic turkeys are descendants of the Mexican
    subspecies.

Daniel "which does not excuse seeing so many damned turkey legs at
every ren fair" de Lincolia
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