Kara

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Period Forms:

• Name - summarize as you would on a submission form: period spelling, type of name (eg. English feminine given name), date, source.

Other Potential Sources:

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

Precedents:

• Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents.html
• Morsulus Heralds Website - http://www.morsulus.org/ (to search the LoARs and Precedents)
• Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.

Registerability:

July 2022 - Kára

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

Collected Precedents:

• Compiled Names Precedents (current through May 2004, as of 10/2016) - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/index.html

• 2nd Tenure of Elisabeth de Rossignol (April 2011 - August 2011) - to be included in Compiled Names Precedents above
• 1st Tenure of Elisabeth de Rossignol (May 2005 - July 2008) - ditto
• The 2nd Tenure of François la Flamme (October 2004 - May 2005) - http:heraldry.sca.org/goodbye.cgi?url=http:www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/sca/nameprec.html
• The Tenure of Shauna of Carrick Point (May 2004 - August 2004) - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/shauna/name.html
• The Tenure of François la Flamme (August 2001 - April 2004) - included in Compiled Names Precedents above
• The Tenure of Elsbeth Anne Roth (June 1999 - July 2001) - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/elsbeth/name.html (included in above)
• The Tenure of Jaelle of Armida (June 1996 - June 1999) - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/jaelleret.html (also in CNP above)
• The 2nd Tenure of Da'ud ibn Auda (November 1993 - June 1996) - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/daud2/daud2ret.html (also in CNP above)
• The Tenure of Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme (June 1992 - October 1993) - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/bruce/Bruceret.html (also in CNP above)
• The 1st Tenure of Da'ud ibn Auda (June 1990 - June 1992) - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/daud/daud1ret.html (also in CNP above)
• The Tenure of Alisoun MacCoul of Elphane (September 1986 - June 1990) - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/AlisounRet.html
• The Tenure of Baldwin of Erebor (August 1984 - August 1986) - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/baldwinret.html
• The Tenure of Wilhelm von Schlüssel (August 1979 - August 1984) - in Compiled Names Precedents above
• The Tenure of Karina of the Far West (December 1975 - June 1979) - in Compiled Names Precedents above
• The Early Days (June 1971 - June 1975) - in Compiled Names Precedents above

WARNING: Do not cite this page as a reference. This page is on this wiki only to make the content "searchable" and easier to find. If you find the information you seek here, go to the original sources (generally linked) to verify the information and use them for your documentation.