Changing my SCA name in the future

[collwen]

I'll still answer to Collwen... because everyone knows me by that name. But I've been thinking for a while of creating a name that is fully documentatble (apparently, back when I registered my name the source that it was taken from hadn't been examined too closely).

Here are some possibilities---
possible first names (I'm looking for something that is Welsh looking/sounding):
Lleucu (Lucy)
Elynor (Eleanor)
Eleyn (Ellen)
Gwen/Gwenne

possible last names:
Powell (Which is a mix of ap Howell, which is also the closest Welsh name I can find to Howard, my father's name)
Owen
Davy

And then when my persona and Marnen's (Marcellus, not Z'ev) get married, I'm planning on using Given-name Last-name of Wolfhurst.

What do people out there think? (Nate: Catherine and any variations on it has already been discussed and vetoed for being too close to the name of a friend)

[note- source for the names comes from articles at http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/pceltic.shtml]

Comments

[gwenlianna.livejournal.com]

not Gwen/Gwenne

Just my 2 cents...

-Gwenlianna Pengrych

[collwen.livejournal.com]

lol. for similar reasons while Catherine, which sounds kinda close to Collwen, won't work. :)

[pgnblade.livejournal.com]

I like Elynor...

Not sure about the last name, tho.

-Me

[collwen.livejournal.com]

well, it wouldn't be all three of them. ;)

there other possibilities I will post later.

[pgnblade.livejournal.com]

Heh, I know it wouldn't be all three...

I'll keep my eyes peeled!

[blaisepascal]

I like Gwen.

[dwarven-brewer.livejournal.com]

Eh, it's your name. Go with what you feel. As for the last name why change it after the wedding? I've rarely seen Marnen as Marcellus. He's more often doing Z'ev.

[collwen.livejournal.com]

Well, whenever you've seen him in the grey velvet Elizabethan, that's Marcellus. He's been wearing it more often lately, but he does have more Z'ev clothes.

[dwarven-brewer.livejournal.com]

... and that would be exactly nil. I've never seen him do Elizabethan.

[marnen.livejournal.com]

Blue velveteen, to be precise. :)

[zimarra.livejournal.com]

I like Elynor or Eleyn

Last name is up to you. :)

*shruggles*

[skitten.livejournal.com]

I think Gwenne Day sounds nice :)

[purpura.livejournal.com]

I like Elynor/Elanor so very much. It suits you.
And I'd go with Powell. Esp. if you want the full SCA-wedding schick with Marnen.

[demoncaller.livejournal.com]

Don't do Gwen; too close to my SCA name, and it could be confusing.

[marnen.livejournal.com]

And then when my persona and Marnen's (Marcellus, not Z'ev) get married, I'm planning on using Given-name Last-name of Wolfhurst.

Er, show me one instance in SCA-period England, Wales, or Ireland where the form $FIRSTNAME $MAIDENNAME of $MARRIEDNAME is documented. So far as I know, this is not period practice.

[collwen.livejournal.com]

I thought that Wolfhurst was a location, so it would be $FIRSTNAME $MAIDENNAME of $LOCATION, which does have some examples in the documentation at the above website (which is also documented to hell and back).

[marnen.livejournal.com]

OK, I see where you're going with that. I had thought of Wolfhurst as a simple family name (remember, he's pretty late period) -- it's Marcellus Wolfhurst, not Marcellus of Wolfhurst.

Of course, there are some just plain weird examples of 16th-century Welsh married names here. Diolch, Tangwystyl!