[Northkeep] newbies tonight

[Tina Michael]

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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