SR - Naming of the Southern Region

[Don Christian Doré]

On 15 Sep 99, at 22:24, tmcd at jump.net wrote:

>  I'd add Sibila (spelled however) if it can be justified.  (I have yet to
> find documentation for Sibila (in various spellyngs) as a place-name, though
> I'm told Donal has some.  There's the Sibillini Mountains in the Roman
> Apennes (_Webster's Geographical Dictionary_).  That itself would be a
> conflict; I don't know whether anything similar could be made from that
> name.) 

I suppose it is according to how it is approached. Can we document a place 
(region, state, etc.) being named after a woman? Of course. However if we 
have to document the actual name -- Sibila -- as a period place name before 
we can use it, then we have a problem because by doing that documentation 
we also document a conflict.

I don't see why using a woman's name (assuming the name is period) to name 
a place would not be period style.

[Warning - change to a related subject]

Personally, I think the (very non period) restriction on not reusing names is 
silly. How many John Smiths were there in period England? How many towns 
were named Paris, Rome or Alexandria?

Not allowing more than one branch of the same name in a single kingdom -- 
and by extension no two kingdoms being allowed the same name -- makes 
sense administratively. I could even see protecting a few very well known 
names (London, Paris, Rome) but I think it would be far better simply to 
recognize (for example) Paris, Ansteorra as a different place than Paris, 
France.

Doré
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