SR - A Name Suggestion for the New Army

[Brian and Pam Martin]

Hey, at least people are excited and talking about something...

Worm Wo, er, Pendaran


----- Original Message -----
From: "Timothy A. McDaniel" <tmcd at jump.net>
To: <southern at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: SR - A Name Suggestion for the New Army


> (Drat you, you pesky Pendaran!  Help get these worms back in the can!)
>
>
> "Lady Elsebetha von Hoffmann of Thuein"
>
> (By the way, you might want to suggest to your group to contact a name
> herald about the name.  I can get you Mari nic Bryan's e-mail address
> off the list.)
>
> <mythrial at hotmail.com>
> > Forces of the Southern Cross?  Navigationally speaking, two of the
> > main stars that travelers used to find their way around was the
> > North Star and the Southern Cross
>
>     http://www.windows.ucar.edu/the_universe/crux.html says that no
> part of Crux is visible north of 30 degrees N latitude (San Antonio is
> 29 deg 26' N), and adds that it's a modern constellation and has no
> Greek or Roman myths.
>
> A little Googling on
>     "southern cross" confederacy
> shows that "Southern Cross" is an award given by the United Daughters
> of the Confederacy and it was a nickname for the Confederate battle
> flag (the one that was red with a blue saltire charged with 11-13
> stars -- the most famous one).
>
> Harry, JEvans5420 at aol.com, misread me, fortunately.  Harry had the
> good point that "the Southern Army" sounds like a Civil War
> re-enactment group.
>
> Mari wrote "Legions of Hel" -- thanks, it was a rough day and I needed
> the laugh.
>
>
> There are other types of names for groups of soldiers or tourneying
> societies.  The Company of Saint _____ was used, but is probably not
> practical for us.  The White Company was Hawkwood's famous band of
> mercenaries; "Gold" was about the only color adjective used in order
> names, so The Gold Company would be plausible ... but drat! it sounds
> like a mining corporation.  White, Black, and Yellow have their own
> problems.  The Red Company?  (In the little evidence to hand, I don't
> have any information about heraldic tinctures, so I don't know if The
> Sable Company, say, would be doable.)
>
> I'll ask around.  May I please ask people to not invest a lot of
> emotion or energy into various names?
>
> Daniel de Lincolia
> --
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