SR - Naming the region

[smithson]

Ok, how about Corleonis? This is another name for the brightest star in the
constellation Leo and means; Lions Heart. I haven't been "playing" long so
I'm grasping at straws as far as period names go. Just tossing out ideas. 
			Lady Francesca
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> From: Timothy A. McDaniel <tmcd at crl.com>
> To: southern at Ansteorra.ORG
> Subject: Re: SR - Naming the region
> Date: Thursday, August 20, 1998 12:16 AM
> 
> On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, smithson wrote:
> > How about Leonsteorra?
> 
> At least Leon was used in at least one Germanic name; Reaney & Wilson
> (3rd ed.) derive Leonard from Old Germanic Leon+Hard 'lion-bold'.
> Thus it's not utterly *impossible*, like "Abdul O'Hapsburg the
> Scottish Klingon".
> 
> However, just lion+star?  I have no evidence of any vaguely similar
> name.  Unless there's evidence, I'm afraid this is *probably* a
non-starter.
> 
> Daniel "amazing how one reference at the top makes one look scholarly"
> de Lincolia
> -- 
> Tim McDaniel (home); Reply-To: tmcd at crl.com; 
> if that fail, tmcd at austin.ibm.com is my work address.
>
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