[tirrigh-heralds] Plausibility of surname Orkneyskaia

[Joan Kew]

Hi Dori,

Have you seen this precedent? #2:

http://oscar.sca.org/index.php?action=175&loi=454

Hawise

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From: "Morel Carr Zupanic" <bear_necessities at telus.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 12:50:59 PM
Subject: Re: [tirrigh-heralds] Plausibility of surname Orkneyskaia

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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