[ANSTHRLD] Medieval soldier names database

[Crandall]

Thanks, O'Danny Boy, 
I figure there will be multiple opinions and
someone will decide. 

Crandall, Olde Phart 

--- Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com> wrote:

> I'm going to CC this reply to the SCA Heralds'
> list, just because I
> want a sanity check on my answer from a larger
> pool of scholars.
> 
> >> http://www.medievalsoldier.org/index.php
> >
> > At what level are we going to be accepting
> documentation from this
> > source? Or is this just a "teaser" and we
> have to discover a copy of
> > where they got the information?
> 
> You never HAVE to burrow behind ANY secondary
> or tertiary source.  But
> how its accuracy is judged depends on the
> secondary or tertiary source
> itself, not the material that it says it's
> based on.
> 
> For example, I am perfectly free to document a
> name element with "In a
> conversation in a room party at Darkover Grand
> Council, Tangwystyl
> verch Morgant Glasvryn told me that Bardsley
> says that this is the
> most common period spelling".  But I need to
> cite it as "Heather Rose
> Jones, unrecorded oral personal communication",
> and it needs to be
> judged with the grains of salt that those
> circumstances deserve,
> rather than cite it and have it judged as if I
> was transcribing
> straight from Bardsley.  But the salt varies:
> Tangwystyl orally
> telling me that the most common 15th C spelling
> is "verch" with a "v"
> is a lot more credible than her orally telling
> me something about a
> great-granddaughter of Nest, or than ME writing
> here that "verch" was
> most common (I'm not at all sure it was, and
> which language context(s)
> would that be in anyway?).
> 
> As an exception: if you cite as documentation
> an Academy of Saint
> Gabriel client letter (that is, "letter #1234"
> rather than a Medieval
> Names Archive article), we do assume that, if
> it says that Bardsley
> says such-and-so, that Bardsley did indeed say
> such-and-so.  That is,
> a Saint Gabriel client letter gets the
> credibility of the underlying
> source rather than the people who wrote the
> letter.
> 
> Daniel de Lyncoln
> -- 
> Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com
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