SR - The Naming

[Dennis Grace]

Salut, Cozyns,

Lyonel aisai.

Ma Baronesa, Jehanne d'Avignon, asked about possibilities for principality
names en francais.  I haven't checked any of these for conflict against
anything--just brainstorming, but how about Les Collines (the hills) [in
occitan:  Las Colinas]?  Or what about a metaphoric treatment of the Hill
Country like l'Ile des Pierres (Island of Stones) [in occitan:  Lo Isla des
Peiras]?

One other naming source occured to me earlier today.  I was on my way to
school, and I saw a flame-haired woman standing on the wall of a tall
fountain.  She held up a small book--from which she was reading--and for
the briefest moment, the wind lashed her hair and her long black coat out
behind her like great streamers of fire and shadow.  She looked elegant,
noble,...almost heroic.  In that instant, I recalled Baron Pendaran
Glamorgan's tale of Master Ragnar standing on a stormswept hill, taking the
cold rain full in the face and refusing to pull his windspread cloak around
his body to stay the cold, refusing to do anything that might interrupt the
majesty of the image he formed.  When Pendaran asked Ragnar why he should
do such a thing, why he should suffer such discomforts for the sake of an
appearance, Ragnar answered, "Because that's what heroes do."

What a wonderful motto this would make for a new Principality.

What would everyone think of a name like Ragnarsland?

lo vostre por vos servir
Sir Lyonel Oliver Grace


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