Very nice, thanks. When I was in high school I was so taken with Tolkien and Middle Earth and the whole cast of characters that populated it that I was determined to name the first two children I fathered after Frodo's two friends, Meriodac (Merry) and Pippin.
Luckily enough for my two children that sankalpa had faded by the time of their arrival. They still got stuck with odd names, though, just not Middle Earth ones. ** --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Marek Reavis" <reavismarek@> wrote: > > > > Hey, Sparaig, what is the background on the moniker, Sparaig? > > Sparrow is cool and seemingly related to Sparaig, but I've always > > been puzzled by it. If you don't mind my asking, that is. > > > > Marek > > Sparrow was short for Sparrowhawk, the wizard in Usala K. LeGuinn's Earthsea series. I > tried to use it as my SCA name but was veoted. Sparrow seemed acceptable, at least > unoffcially. Sparaig was chosen because it was Celtic. I THOUGHT it meant Sparrowhawk, > but apparently only means Sparrow, at least according to all the etymological sources I can > now find. > > Evangeline autographed my copies of the Mabinogion with "For Sparrow, who thinks he is > a bird." Those were stolen by my roommate in the USAF (typical). > > > > > > > > ** > > > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > I'd wonder whether the reason so few women are > > > > > > in the historical record as having achieved > > > > > > enlightenment is not because so few women actually > > > > > > achieved enlightenment, but rather because so few > > > > > > who did were noted as having done so in the > > > > > > historical record--either because they weren't > > > > > > mentioned at all by the men who wrote the record, > > > > > > or because these men didn't recognize or didn't > > > > > > bother to note or even actively suppressed that > > > > > > information. > > > > > > > > > > > > Some feminists use the term "herstory" to refer > > > > > > to women's history to emphasize that the standard > > > > > > records, largely written by men ("HIS-story"), > > > > > > have tended to ignore women. > > > > > > > > > > > Yep- agreed. It is also just the enlightened *teachers* who > > tend to > > > > > make it into the books and historical records. There are many > > more > > > > > enlightened men and women who just do their thing and pass on, > > > > > unrecorded. > > > > > > > > I should add that in a hypothetical matriarchal > > > > society whose records were written by women, it > > > > would probably appear that there were very few > > > > enlightened *men*. > > > > > > > > > > You'd have to go back to before the Mabinogion to find that kind of > > nonsense... > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabinogi > > > > > > > > > note: Evangeline Walton was a dear friend, so take the "nonsense" > > comment as irony. She > > > knew me as "sparrow" rather than sparaig. > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangeline_Walton > > > > > >
