[ANSTHRLD] more name info

[Faelan Caimbeul]

Why is Rhiannon a weirdness? The name is that of a celtic goddess from
millenia ago. Also, beings as the Scots and Welsh intermingled at many
points in history, why would it be such a stretch to have a Welsh surname
and a Scots given name? That doesn't seem like a stretch at all, they're all
from the same little island.

Faelan

On 3/29/07, kobrien at texas.net <kobrien at texas.net> wrote:
>
> > >  So basically she needs a Welsh/English surname to clear the second
> > >  weirdness...
> >
> > That's how I interpret it.
>
> Or else she changes the given name to one that was actually used in period
> -
> that would remove the weirdness / step from period practice for use of an
> element that is registerable ONLY because it has been ruled SCA
> Compatible.
>
> For Scottish Gaelic women's names (which would fit with her byname
> culture),
> she could look at:
> http://www.medievalscotland.org/scotnames/gaelicgiven/women.shtml
>
> For Welsh and the basic form of her byname, I'd recommend:
> http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/welsh16.html
>
> The format of her byname is not quite correct, but it's easily fixable
> with a
> small change or two.  I'll need to look at my data at home to suggest
> tweaks,
> but I'll wait to do that until you know if she's more interested in
> keeping
> her given name or the rest of her name.
>
> (By the way, the middle element is a patronymic, indicating her father's
> given name was Bryan, rather than a middle name as we think of it today.)
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Mari
>
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