[ANSTHRLD] What are you teaching

[Tim McDaniel]

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Mari wrote:
>Constructing SCA Household Names Using Irish Gaelic Family and Clan
>Name Models

Etienne replied:
> I don't know that you can ever overteach this class.

You got it.  To judge by the SCA, only the Irish and Highland Scots
had large families.  Vikings, for example, must have swum upstream to
spawn in schools.  (Hmmm.  There's too much truth to that; better
return to pure sarcasm.)  Perhaps that's why other lands like
Byzantium and Italy are so woefully underpopulated.

Oddly, to judge by SCA surname patterns (locatives, metronymics,
attribute bynames), an Irishman or Scottish Highlander could
confidently name his clan or his location but not necessarily his
father.  Others can decide what this might say about the children of
the Gael.

Daniel de Lincolia
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Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com