[ANSTHRLD] the name Willow WAS: temporal restrictions
Jay Rudin
rudin at ev1.net
Thu Apr 5 09:08:52 PDT 2007
Hedwig asked:
> OK...I have also been precedent diving for the name Willow and have found
> nothing on it definitively as a first name from ANY Culture. I have spent
> long hours looking at St Gabe's too. Can anyone direct me toward
> information on this? Please? I'm trying here :-)
Congratulations. As far as I know, your research is exactly correct --
Willow is not a period first name in any known pre-seventeenth-century
culture.
"Willow de Wisp" passed more than a quarter of a century ago, under very
different rules in a very different College of Arms. (Intriguingly, it was
originally rejected, but not for non-period style. It was originally
rejected for conflict with the equally inauthentic "Will the Wisp".
Robin of Gilwell / Jay Rudin
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