SR - the Naming

Dennis and/or Dory Grace amazing at mail.utexas.edu
Tue Feb 24 12:47:39 PST 1998


Daniel wrote:
>As for Ragnarsland -- I was wondering when that suggestion
>would come up.  Certainly there were enough place names in
>period based on a given name.  I don't know if "land" or
>anything cognate to it was used, but there's plenty of
>dales, hills, thorpes, et cetera.  I think that usually the
>person was the owner of the dale, hill, et cetera, in
>question, but I shan't kick about that.  It's a fine notion.
>Onomastically speaking, I should say -- you may or may not
>like the meaning.

How about something more like Ragnarsroam or Ragnarspath or Ragnarswalk?
Something that goes about capturing the idea that this is a land where
heroes march?

Aquilanne



Dory Grace--The Inkwell
denouncer of Tytyvylus & warrior crone
amazing at mail.utexas.edu
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