[ANSTHRLD] Ian or Ihon
kobrien at texas.net
kobrien at texas.net
Fri May 5 10:39:21 PDT 2006
> Could someone please provide me with the header etc for Ian or Ihon? I
> need
> to documentation for a client and I don't have the books and I'm tired of
> siftng through the St Gabe's site. Thanks,
The spelling Ian is modern. It's registerable because it has been ruled SCA
compatible. For a summary of info on spellings of Ian, see:
http://www.medievalscotland.org/problem/names/iain.shtml
Here's a ruling supporting the spelling as SCA compatible:
Ian has been ruled SCA-compatible. [Ian MacClennan, 08/01, A-Caid]
Period Scots spellings of Ihon (Scots being a language related to English,
not Scottish Gaelic) can be found in the following articles linked off S.
Gabriel's:
http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/symonFreser/scottish14/scottish14_given.html
http://www.medievalscotland.org/scotnames/lowland16/menalpha.shtml
In the second article above, the names are listed under John.
If your client goes with the spelling Ian, there may or may not be a problem
depending on what byname he wants. Since using a name that is only
registerable because it's SCA compatible carries one step from period
practice (otherwise called a "weirdness"), there can't be a second one in the
name - which you can run across depending on lingual mix, temporal disparity,
or other issues.
Hope this helps,
Mari
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