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  • "...after the August 2022 Letters of Intent, we will no longer register the feminine given name Kára in any Scandinavian language, including Old Norse. The feminine given name Kara remains registerable in English and German, where it is attested in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The spelling Cara is also attested in English and German, and this spelling is found in Spanish and Italian as well."

https://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2022/07/22-07cl.html#4.

Other Potential Sources:[edit | edit source]

Laurel Name Articles - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/ ("no copy" source)
On-line System for Commentary and Response (OSCAR) - https://oscar.sca.org/ (mine previous submissions, need copies)
Morsulus LoAR/Precedent Searches - http://www.morsulus.org/ ("no copy")
Name Pattern Search Form for registered items - http://oanda.sca.org/oanda_np.cgi

Academy of St. Gabriel "Medieval Names Archive" - http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/ (copies required)
Archive of St. Gabriel reports - http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/archive.cgi ("no copy")
Academy of St. Gabriel "working" bibliography - http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-documents/biblio.html

Database of Medieval Names ("index" of the St. Gabriel articles) - http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/database/alphalist.php
Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources (DMNES) - http://dmnes.org/names
IGI Searches (aka Family Search) - https://familysearch.org/search/collection/igi (batches B, C, J, K, M (except M17 and M18), or P are acceptable)

Biblissima - https://iiif.biblissima.fr/collections/ - This prototype application allows you to search across IIIF-compliant manuscripts and rare books dated before 1800 coming from many digital libraries in the world.

Omniglot On-line Encyclopedia of Writing Systems and Languages - http://www.omniglot.com/index.htm

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Registerability:[edit | edit source]

July 2022 - Kára[edit | edit source]

This month we considered the Old Norse feminine name Kára sterka. Commentary on this item raised the question of the evidence we have supporting the given name Kára. The submitter documented this element from "The Old Norse Name" by Geirr Bassi, which has been our gold standard for Old Norse names since it was published in the 1980s.

Since the publication of this work, scholarship has expanded and enhanced our understanding of Scandinavia during the SCA period. Re-examining the evidence we currently have for the feminine given name Kára yielded a surprising lack of women using this given name aside from a single legendary valkyrie, not only during the Viking Age but any time within the SCA period. We examined personal name elements as well as place name elements to see if evidence of a woman named Kára could be found, and we still could not find any. Sources we consulted included, but were not limited to: Norsk-Isländska Dopnamn ock Fingerade Namn från Medeltiden (E.H. Lind, http://hdl.handle.net/2077/61239), Diplomatarium Danicum (https://diplomatarium.dk), Diplomatarium Fennicum (http://df.narc.fi/), Diplomatarium Norvegicum (https://www.dokpro.uio.no/dipl_norv/diplom_field_eng.html), Diplomatarium Suecanum (https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sdhk), and Norwegian Farm Names (Olaf Rygh, https://www.dokpro.uio.no/rygh_ng/rygh_form.html). We also considered evidence provided during the commentary period.

Therefore, after the August 2022 Letters of Intent, we will no longer register the feminine given name Kára in any Scandinavian language, including Old Norse. The feminine given name Kara remains registerable in English and German, where it is attested in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The spelling Cara is also attested in English and German, and this spelling is found in Spanish and Italian as well.

https://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2022/07/22-07cl.html#4

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