[Northkeep] newbies tonight

[Marc Carlson]

Even so, his documentation is in tragically flawed, since Saint Amaranth is supposed to be a fictitious place, and there was a Mademoiselle de St. Amaranth executed by Robespierre for being verbally careless.

We should go back to calling him Hiiam until he gets it straightened out...

M/D

I. Marc Carlson
Special Collections
McFarlin Library

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On Dec 7, 2012, at 9:12 AM, "Tina Michael" <tinabetta at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh, now you are killing me......you tease...
> tina
> 
> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Katherine A. Herndon <bka28252 at nerdshack.com
>> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Dec 6, 2012, at 9:31 PM, Marc Carlson wrote:
>> 
>>> Poor boy was sadly in need of a Herald.
>>> 
>> Or an onomastician (name guru).
>> 
>> When Hiiam had been called Hiiam for several months, one of his friends
>> pointed out that if he did not pick out a "real" name soon, he was going to
>> be known as Hiiam forever.  And, while the name had been a splendid joke
>> for a while, Hiiam did not want to be Hiiam for the rest of his SCA life.
>> So Hiiam sat down for a consultation with Northkeep's resident name
>> expert, Lady Livia Madeleine Montgomery (now H.L. Livia, but at the time
>> she hadn't yet received her Iris).
>> 
>> Like many new SCA'ers fishing around for a persona name, Hiiam first
>> suggested the name of his favorite D&D character.  Not surprisingly, that
>> made-up name was not to be found in any of Livia's extensive collection of
>> reference books.  However, she did find a reference to an obscure third
>> century saint whose name was quite similar if a few letters were switched
>> around.  And so she began gently nudging him in the direction of a
>> registrable name.
>> 
>> Rosamund
>> 
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