Han Shott Furst is a documentable late 16th/early 17th century English name. You should all be relieved that I prefer to use my heraldic powers for good. ;-)
I have more and better sources than Da'ud would have had back in the day. There's lots of wonderful stuff on-line now, including the IGI Parish Records extracts (which is where I found Han as a variant of Anne and a *female* name). I've also managed to prove that names we long thought were post-period, like Wendy, actually existed (albeit extremely rarely) in period.
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Date: 2012-03-28 07:45 pm (UTC)Apparently there's still lots of awesomeness in there, if done with skill.
Hat tip to you, my friend.
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Date: 2012-03-28 07:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-28 07:54 pm (UTC)The dude has a FULL fat notebook of pages of these things, with dozens per page.
I figured that the ground was pretty well covered... and yet, you have exceeded my pessimism.
Srlsy: that one was awesome.
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Date: 2012-03-28 07:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-28 07:47 pm (UTC)(so says the chaotic neutral)
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