[Ravensfort] and yet another...

[HerrDetlef]

Southern Field?

Southfield?

Is there a specific word for a raven's nest or roost? Like eagles have eyries?

Southtimbers? The Southern Timbers? The Southern Pines?

I'm probably being redundant at this point...

DT+LF

On 1/14/10, Mark Crampton <apwyvern at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Vivat! for "Raven's Lyghte"
>
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> From: "Hoffpauir, David" <ENV_DRH at SHSU.EDU>
> To: "ravensfort at lists.ansteorra.org" <ravensfort at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Thu, January 14, 2010 10:35:23 AM
> Subject: [Ravensfort] and yet another...
>
> LOL, sometimes it just don't take much...
>
> "Conspiracy" got me thinking about the formal name for bird groups, or, more
> specific, the name for groups or ravens.
>
> "Unkindness of Ravens" is the most prevalent as is a "Conspiracy of Ravens."
>
> I also ran across a "Constable of Ravens" and a "Congress of Ravens."
> Constable got thrown right out, but Congress...
>
> Congress, although it has it modern political meaning, also means "The act
> of coming together."  So, 'hmmm...'  I said to myself.
>
> "Congresse" is the middle English spelling (Middle English being from late
> 11th century to about 1470 a.d.).  Imagine you are Italian and put a
> stressed 'a' on the end and you'd have the approximate period pronunciation.
> Something like "Con-greys-sa"
>
> Since the new site is exactly 20 miles, as the Raven flies, and almost
> exactly due south, I added south to the mix ("Southe" in middle English).
>
> Ok, so after employing the vast resources of a public University and an hour
> or so of my employer's time I came up with...
>
> "Southe Congresse"
>
> And considering there is already one of these in Austin, it was all pretty
> much a big waste of time...
>
>
>
> But in the process, I did run across the following line in a medieval book
> called (in modern English)  'The Seven Sages' from about 1450 a.d.:
>
> a1450 7 Sages(3) (Cmb Dd.1.17)  3147:  "Oppon the bote Thre ravenes lyghte
> adoun."
>
> Or, "Upon the boat three ravens alighted (down)."
>
> And from that took  "Raven's Lyghte"
>
> Yeah, yeah it's another raven name... but it looks good on paper and it's a
> nice name for poetics, if nothing else, (knight, right, site, bite, fight,
> kite, might, tight, blight, slight, gripe, pipe, hype, obama, llama,
> duck)...  lol, so toss that suggestion in as well.
>
> ;)
>
> DSD
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>
> http://www.birdnature.com/groupnames.html
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