SC - placenames--OT

[Elaine Koogler]

OK...Our barony is Dun Carraig, which is Scots Gaelic for stone or hill fort.  We
chose the name because Calvert County, where many of us reside, is composed of a
numer of hills and cliffs, particularly Calvert Cliffs, an ancient repository of
marine life from several prehistoric epocs...and, more recently, the site of a
nuclear power plant!  Our arms include a cross bottony (the one with three little
buds on the end of each arm), and are red and white.  The Maryland state arms
include a cross bottony on a quartered field of red and white, the cross being
counterchanged.  This relates to the fact that the counties that comprise our
barony were the first areas that were settled by Europeans in Maryland.

Kiri

Stefan li Rous wrote:

> > Balthazar of Blackmoor
> > (just as a point of reference...'Blackmoor' is my personal in-joke, and
> > relates to the forests of black oil rigs which spot the landscape in my area.
> >  Our Shire was once known as Darkwell...we changed it to Wintermist because
> > of all of the dense, impermeable fog we get for about 3 months out of the
> > year.  Just FYI)
>
> Thanks for the info Balthazar. I don't think I have this SCA placename
> in my placenames-msg file and will add it.
>
> If anyone else has the history or the reason an SCA group picked a
> particular name and I don't already have it in my file, I'd love a
> message I could add to the file. It's often interesting to see some
> of the mis-translations of some SCA names. For instance, my own barony's
> name is supposed to be "Hill Country" because we are in the area known
> as the Texas Hill Country. It actually means something closer to "land
> of the unnamed hills".
>
> In SCA-STORIES:
> placenames-msg   (146K) 12/17/99    Origins and meanings of SCA placenames.
>
> This doesn't have much food content, so I suppose the list would
> prefer any messages be sent to me by email.
>
> thanks.
>   Stefan
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