While a single name may be enough, I like to do things till they feel done. Therefore as a past Landed Baroness who is now a Court Baroness, I get to play around with alternative titles. I also want a by-name that goes with the whole 'Torvill and Dean' side joke. Finding a first name to go by was easy. Finding a by-name was difficult. The Finnish language now is not the same as the Finnish language in the 10th century. My research suggests that by-names in Finland around this time were standard fare, as were patronymics/matronymics. I want something that represents ice skater, ice traveller...or similar. Finnish is from an entirely different language family, Finno-Ugric, although through political and cultural affiliation Finland is part of Scandinavia. The language of Scandinavia was a form of proto-Germanic that showed up in runic inscriptions which gives a very primitive view of the language structure. The language of Scandinavia in the medieval period is called Old Norsk. Because of the trading/raiding expeditions of the Vikings Old Norsk had some linguistic influence outside of Scandinavia. Remarkably Old Norsk still survives after a millennium as Icelandic. Faroese is also closer to Old Norsk than are modern Danish, Swedish and the two forms of Norwegian. The Scandinavian Languages. Their Histories and Relationships. Thayer Watkins. Cultural influences from a variety of places are visible in the Finnish archaeological finds from the very first settlements onwards. For example, archaeological finds from Finnish Lapland suggest the presence of the Komsa culture from Norway. The Sujala finds, which are equal in age with the earliest Komsa artefacts, may also suggest a connection to the Swiderian culture. Southwestern Finland belonged to the Nordic Bronze Age, which may be associated with Indo-European languages, and according to Finnish Germanist Jorma Koivulehto speakers of Proto- Germanic language in particular. Artefacts found in Kalanti and the province of Satakunta, which have long been monolingually Finnish, and their place names have made several scholars argue for an existence of a proto-Germanic speaking population component a little later, during the Early and Middle Iron Age. Wikipedia. History of Finland. (June 2016). So a map of my 'burial find' reproductions is in order to see what I should be using to choose my by-name. Eura (Grave 56 location) is south west within Finland. According to the information I have obtained, my research suggest that Eura would have been most likely inhabited by Norse speaking/ proto-Germanic linguists as it was during the Nordic Bronze age and before inhabitation of Christians. So Old Norse it is for finding by-names. My first name is from an old Norse saga, so that is good as far as documentation goes. I consulted some texts for examples of old Norse by-names and found the following. skate = skata snow = snjár snow skate = skið bone = bein ski = snjó/r snow shoes = ondurr ice = svell traveller = fara I decided on svell fara (ice traveller) Websites used to determine by-name are: - http://norse.ulver.com/dct/zoega/f.html - http://www.vikingsofbjornstad.com/Old_Norse_Dictionary_E2N.shtm - http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/language/English-Old_Norse.pdf Next: title? Ok, so as I am no longer a Landed Baroness I have the right to use an alternate title. My options are: Finnish options: Baron = Vapaaherra/Paroni Baroness = Vapaaherratar/Paronitar So I will be now known as Paronitar Tórfa svell fara.
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Ludwig loved my name and this encouraged him to get on the bandwagon. He said it reminded him of Torvill, as in Torvill and Dean. So he set about trying to find a period Norse name similar to Dean. Ludwig even plans on learning Bolero on his ocarina. Ludwig will be hereby known as Dáinn (da-win). We have also found period references to ice skates that can be documented - time to clean some bones. For use later: Reference 1 2 3 And of course, I cannot leave this post without paying homage to Torvill and Dean. Enjoy.
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AuthorI love to research....anything. So, faced with time on my hands at the end of a University degree and also stepping down as the Baroness of Mordenvale, what have I done to fill my time. Study of course. Period feasts and the decorating of them. A new persona for after I stepped down (bye Tasia). This blog is a summary and more of the research that lead to this point, and what ever I do there after as Tórfa. Archives |