SR - Some Thoughts on Names

Martin, Brian bmartin at origin.ea.com
Thu Aug 20 11:00:27 PDT 1998



> On 20 Aug 98, at 9:15, Martin, Brian wrote:
> 
> >  So following this logic, have we thought about names that
> > basically mean "Land of the Southerners" or something along those
> lines?
> > Perhaps we could try to translate "Land of the Southerners" or
> "Southern
> > Land" or some other variation into medieval French, middle or old
> English,
> > Occitan, German and a few other languages and see if any of them
> sound
> > good. 
> 
> good suggestion ... i would modify if slightly to show our "origin"
> ... perhaps 
> "land of the southern star"  ... ansteorran was conceived as a "rising
> star", 
> we are the people of the southern lands of that mature star.
> 
> 'wolf
> 
	[Martin, Brian]  
	But that gets us back into the names that really don't sound
like names doesn't it? To better illustrate by original point, there are
SCA place names that sound like real place names, such as Mendersham,
and SCA place names that don't sound at all like real place names, such
as Elfsea. I'm not trying to pick on Elfsea, I'm just trying to make a
point, and that point being I think that it would be better to have a
more realistic sounding name. 

	Pendaran




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