[ANSTHRLD] A question on Leaves ... and a name cjheck

Joshua Brandl norfildur at hotmail.com
Sat Aug 21 23:38:13 PDT 2010


Thank you... apparently i had not fully explored her posting... i do appreciate the link... and i have actually found a byname that is period, as well as fits the nuances of my persona... Now to go about getting a workable device figured out... < smiles > off to the drawing board...

Jbrandl10

> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:23:23 -0700
> From: logiosophia at yahoo.com
> To: heralds at lists.ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] A question on Leaves ... and a name cjheck
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> --- On Sat, 8/21/10, Joshua Brandl <norfildur at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> From: Joshua Brandl <norfildur at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [ANSTHRLD] A question on Leaves ... and a name cjheck
> To: heralds at lists.ansteorra.org
> Date: Saturday, August 21, 2010, 11:32 PM
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> Anywho, the name i wish to have checked is 
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> Þorkell Fiachra
> (THOAR-kehl   FEE a khra) -- Phonetic
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> the First name was in common use during the late 11th century, early 12th, according to Viking Names found in Landnámabók by Aryanhwy merch Catmael (Sara L. Uckelman).
> i am really not big on the surname, it is from Edward MacLysaght, The Surnames of Ireland. Dublin: Irish Academic Press , 1997.  the surname is mostly for differentiation, 
> Others on this list are better at names, but until they respond a few notes:
> (1) I suspect Fiachra is pronounced FEER-ee given the normalized surname I found it under on page 80 of an online search of MacLysaght.
> (2) Fiachra was a common masculine name in Early Medieval Ireland, so the surname is probably a patronymic.  http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/irish100/
> (3) The mixture of Old Norse and Gaelic is registerable with a Weirdness per Aryanhwy's Linguistic Table noting the Precedent itself is found under Cera ingen Leoid in the March 2000 LoAR. http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/sca/weirdness_table.html
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> If you're not comfortable with the name, consider forming an all-Norse name.  http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/sg-viking.html is Aryanhwy's patronymic formation article you can combine with her Landnámabók work you are already familiar with.
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> Tostig
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