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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!amdahl!JUTS!cerebus!branwen
  2. From: branwen@cerebus.ccc.amdahl.com (Karen Williams)
  3. Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
  4. Subject: Re: HELP! name searching.
  5. Message-ID: <deyr02IG2fcm01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
  6. Date: 22 Dec 92 18:15:27 GMT
  7. References: <724158159.AA05491@blkcat.UUCP> <1glat5INNd0h@agate.berkeley.edu> <BRANDON.92Dec16143554@gauss.math.brown.edu> <1gqui5INNhle@agate.berkeley.edu> <466-JNEWS-2.1@smylex.UUCP>
  8. Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com
  9. Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
  10. Lines: 22
  11.  
  12. Bjalfi writes:
  13.  
  14. > If anyone reading this list is
  15. > trying to come up with a persona name, PLEASE dig up a copy of the
  16. > Decameron, the Canterbury Tales, Egil's Saga, the Tales of the Thousand
  17. > Nights and a Night, the Song of Roland, or whatever medieval literature
  18. > appeals to you, and read it through paying attention to names you like.
  19. > You can come up with truly lovely stuff that way, which is always a
  20. > Good Thing.
  21.  
  22. I also recommend Gerald of Wales's "Journey Through Wales/A Description
  23. of Wales." It's half history, half stories that people told him on the
  24. trip, and very cool.
  25.  
  26. Branwen ferch Emrys
  27. The Mists, the West
  28.  
  29. --
  30.                                           Karen Williams
  31.                                           branwen@cerebus.ras.amdahl.com
  32. "Don't whine. Warrior women speak in a husky whisper."
  33.   -- Brat Pack #3
  34.