[tirrigh-heralds] Plausibility of surname Orkneyskaia
Morel Carr Zupanic
bear_necessities at telus.net
Wed Jun 13 12:50:59 PDT 2012
Hawise wrote:
First (for Dori), what is her chosen time period?
Second (for anyone), if her time period involved a different spelling of
Orkney, would that spelling have to be incorporated into the name, or would
the modern spelling be [SCA] permissible?
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She didn't give me a specific century, but her backstory is consistent with
the 8th to 10th century. According to that not-so-awesome source,
wikipedia, the name Orkney comes from well before that. I found a website
that doesn't give dates, though does mention eras, and it states that during
the Norse settlement (on another page, at the same site, it does say 8th to
10th c.), the Island grouping was called Orkneyjar
http://www.orkneyjar.com/placenames/orkney.htm
This could get tricky.
Dori
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