SR - Sunsteor, Land of Lions

Jodi McMaster jmcmaste at accd.edu
Mon Feb 23 22:39:54 PST 1998


Well, I asked the opinion of the "name stud," as Daniel referred to
Baron Talan Gwynek, regarding the various forms that had been posted as
contractions of Old English "Su{dh} Ansteorra." He pointed out that from
a historical point of view, Ansteorra is not a probable name, and
doesn't really fit the Sussex pattern, since that was contracted from a
tribe called the "South Saxons."  He concluded that rather than try to
shoehorn it into an OE construction to use "South Ansteorra." (For those
of you keeping score at home, two points for Daniel for authenticity,
zero for "sounds cool.")  

Oh, well, I tried.  

AElfwyn
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