[Northkeep] newbies tonight

[Tina Michael]

This has been a pleasant diversion, and very enlightening. It is always
intereting to hear how others came upon their names an dhow they
have evolved after being exposed to the Dream a while.....
Tina

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 12:55 PM, peachycowqueen at gmail.com <
peachycowqueen at gmail.com> wrote:

> I love it!
>
> Nadine (not period)
>
> Sent from my HTC smartphone... Isn't is nifty?
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Etienne de St. Amaranth" <st.amaranth at yahoo.com>
> To: "Barony of Northkeep Mailing List" <northkeep at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Subject: [Northkeep] newbies tonight
> Date: Fri, Dec 7, 2012 1:05 pm
>
>
> The rules allowed a made up place name if I could establish the period
> pattern.  There are lots of places named after saints in France.  And Saint
> Amaranth (or Saint Amarandus / Amaranthus / Amaranthe) was martyred in
> France in the third century.  (I finally found a book that validated that
> at a merchant's booth at Estrella of all places. )  Admittedly martyred in
> Albi down south, but it was still successfully arguable and plausible.
>  Name was registered on the first try.
>
> Arms however took longer.  They were not fully registered until after I
> stepped down as Star Principal Herald.
>
> Diarmaid, as for Mademoiselle St. Amaranth and Robespierre, that is post
> period and *I* certainly don't hold it against my name.  But you can keep
> calling me Hiiam if it makes you feel better.  ;-)
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Maitre Etienne de Saint Amaranth
> once known, and to some forever known, as Hiiam from Northkeep
>
> On Dec 7, 2012, at 10:54 AM, Jennifer Carlson <talana1 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > But dear, Northkeep is also a fictitious place though real to those who
> reside here.  Besides, if you look at all the "St." whatevers in French
> surnames and hagiographies, that realm was swimming in saints, both real
> and fictitious - remember St. Gelert, the supposedly canonized dog?
> >
> > Talana
> > Reminding her husband that she was the herald who approved sending
> Etienne d'Saint Amaranth's submission paperwork up the chain.
> >
> >
> >> From: marccarlson20 at hotmail.com
> >> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 10:46:12 -0600
> >> To: northkeep at lists.ansteorra.org
> >> Subject: Re: [Northkeep] newbies tonight
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPad
> >>
> >> 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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