[ANSTHRLD] Starr Gate

[Bob Wade]

Who'd a thunk?
June is the 40th anniversary of the registration for the Name of, according to BoD Minutes, "The Barony of Texas".  Requests for authenticity were not on Submission Forms at the time.  Is it too late to submit one on their behalf?
Tostig
Post Scriptum: Maybe in another 40 years we can find a period depiction of 'The Black Star'.

--- On Mon, 3/4/13, Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com> wrote:

From: Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com>
Subject: [ANSTHRLD] Starr Gate
To: heralds at ansteorra.org
Date: Monday, March 4, 2013, 2:26 PM

I was bemused to learn that Starr Gate is at the end of the Blackpool
Tramway, Blackpool, Lancashire, England.

Wikipedia says "The place is named after the spiky 'Starr' grass which
grows on the local sand hills which are located to the south of Starr
Gate.[citation needed] 'Gate' ('Geat' in Old English language) simply
means 'Way' from Old Norse 'Gat' - an opening or passage.[citation
needed]"

However, I don't know whether a street name is authentic for a
locative byname in English.  Then again, we thought a river name was
impossible as a locative in English until we found examples (as I
recall).

Danett de Linccolne
-- Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com
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