I would find this useful. It sucks about feminine names although I am unsurprised, given the historical "importance" of women. I especially found the intro useful. I barely know a thing other than the word "Latvian" so having a context and a map is something I need. It'll help the next time someone tells me that they "don't want to be quite German but they are not sure what they are because their persona comes from..." I'll be able to have a suggestion for them.
Ah, if you wait a couple of weeks (hopefully) then there will be Latvian names.
I'll see if I can rustle up a map (I can find maps of where Livonian was spoken in the late 20th century/early 21st, but that isn't quite what we're after here.)
The map is great! And I swear to gawd, it seems like you have more references than you have names. Would that those folks were a little more literate or history-minded or something. What a lot of work this must have been.
Part of it is that the really good descriptions for how names (and the history of Latvia) worked were in one set of sources, and the dated examples of names were in another. So it looks like a lot because there wasn't much "crossing over" in terms of referring to a single source that covered names and history.
Fortunately, the National Library of Latvia has some excellent online resources that have been digitised and have had a very nice (but not 100% perfect) OCR job done on them. So if a source mentions a particular name, you can often search for that precise spelling to figure out if it's from the SCA's period or not.
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Date: 2021-12-20 07:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-12-21 05:59 am (UTC)I'll see if I can rustle up a map (I can find maps of where Livonian was spoken in the late 20th century/early 21st, but that isn't quite what we're after here.)
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Date: 2021-12-21 06:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-12-22 09:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-12-22 09:53 am (UTC)Fortunately, the National Library of Latvia has some excellent online resources that have been digitised and have had a very nice (but not 100% perfect) OCR job done on them. So if a source mentions a particular name, you can often search for that precise spelling to figure out if it's from the SCA's period or not.