[ANSTHRLD] FW: Scriptoris Digest, Vol 26, Issue 18

[Brent Ryder]

>Message: 2
>Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:46:42 -0500
>From: zubeydah at Northkeep.org
>Subject: [Scriptoris] OT: a weird heraldry question..
>To: scriptoris at ansteorra.org
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>I know this is rather of an odd question, but... i'm kinda under a massive
>sudden time crunch... (I promised a friend I would help him decipher the
>process of registering his name - he's in the Outlands - and it was a vague
>time frame of 'whenever', but now he's fighting in Crown Tournament, and a
>device is required there for that... and the deadline to register is 
>saturday!
>erk!)
>
>I am trying to find any kind of documentation I can get my hands on for the
>name of "Mordrake".  The fellow has used it in the society for over 20 
>years,
>but never registered it.  He's more than willing to use it as a surname, if
>need be, with the first name of "Hale" - Yes, he likes puns.
>
>Any help or nudge in the direction of resources would be much appreciated. 
>I
>pretty much exhausted all of the local public library resources: they 
>didn't
>carry any of the books the heraldry page on the SCA.ORG site listed as 
>being
>strong sources.  :-(  I'm going to try the geneological library tonight, to 
>see
>if that has anything.
>
>I would be very happy to give material thanks to whomever (if anyone) can 
>help
>with this off-topic question!
>
>-Zubeydah the frazzled
>
>
>PS: Thank you to everyone that helped me with the celtic knotwork beastie 
>AOA.
>Finished it last night, and the patron's very very happy.