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

[Bob Wade]

--- 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 

Þorkell Fiachra
(THOAR-kehl   FEE a khra) -- Phonetic

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
 
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.
 
Tostig