[ANSTHRLD] name help please

[Jennifer Smith]

Um, that didn't answer Daniel's questions. A herald charge is not typically
a surname -- that's like going to look at paint chip names for a surname.
Maybe that'll work, and maybe it won't, but either way it's not name
documentation.

Does he want the sound "Auk"? (ok? Awk? Oc?) or that exact spelling? Did he
give you any clue as to why (ie, is it a nickname he picked up somewhere, or
something he saw somewhere, or just something that came to him in a vision
one night)?

-Emma
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: heralds-bounces+jds=randomgang.com at ansteorra.org 
> [mailto:heralds-bounces+jds=randomgang.com at ansteorra.org] On 
> Behalf Of Hedwig von Luneborg
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 2:13 PM
> To: Heralds List, Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc.
> Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] name help please
> 
> Commentary from LOAR August 19, 1983 A.S. XVIII 
> http://www.sca.org/heraldry/loar/1983/08/lar.html 
> <http://www.sca.org/heraldry/loar/1983/08/lar.html> 
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> Meghan Pen Gwyn. Gules, a penguin statant to sinister proper.
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> NOTE: Name and device unacceptable. The name is not proper 
> form. If you want Megan the White-Headed, it should properly 
> be Megan Penwyn. (or Pengwyn). Meghan would be pronounced 
> Meyan. The use of the capitalized Pen implies the meaning of 
> Chief. Penguins were known in period. (Drake saw them when he 
> passed through the Straits of Magellan.) We need the genus 
> and species for proper animals. If you really want canting 
> and a proper name, use the name Megan Penwyn and the device: 
> Gules, an Emperor penguin statant to sinister proper and a 
> chief argent. (Aptenodytes sp.) If you want the penguins 
> known to Europeans throughout our period, use the Great Auk.
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>  Auk: Pinguinus impennis 
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> He would also prefer Lucas as his given name found here:
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> http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/lateirish/fitzwilliam
> .html 
> <http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/lateirish/fitzwilliam.html> 
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> However, I am sure that IF Auk can be used/documented he will 
> be willing to go with "Luke" in whatever culture he needs to 
> make it compatible; as Auk is the more important to him.  
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> Is this better?
> Hedwig
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