SR - The Naming

[Martin, Brian]

While Ragnarsland would certainly be a fine tribute to a true hero and 
the greatest Lion ever I have seen, it just doesn't roll off of the 
tongue. :) However, what a great motto for a principality:
	"Because that's what heroes do!"


Remembering that we should all strive to be heroes,
-Pendaran
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From: 	Dennis Grace[SMTP:amazing at mail.utexas.edu]
Sent: 	Tuesday, February 24, 1998 12:26 PM
To: 	southern at Ansteorra.ORG
Subject: 	SR - The Naming

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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