CANTERBURY FAIRE IS ON CAMPBELL LIVE TONIGHT.

[ickaimp]

For those of you in NZ, they're showing the footage they filmed during Faire on Campbell Live tonight. (7pm, TV3)
They are showing Martuccio's codpiece in the previews. ^___^

Edit: For those who asked, Martuccio's codpiece is hollow.
Various things go in the hollow space. Loose change, flashlight (it lights up), drinking flask, vibrator...
is very useful.

Edit the Second: Things for Icka to do before we go to Australia for Rowany:
Document 'Ithaca Von Kraken' as a name.
Look up mongolian garb patterns and fabrics
make garb.

Notes to self: Can trace 'Kracken/Kraken' to several people in Prussia, 1630. One in Germany, 1430!!!! (who appears to be the great-grand daddy of the ones in 1630)
if 'von' does mean 'of', it should be period.
'KRACKEN' is MINE.

Evidently, an Ithaca married/became mistress of the son of Cleopatra I, Ptolemy VIII in Egypt in either 184 or 183 BC.
-that's just a wee bit earlier than 600AD, but dammit, it's a first name and period!!! HA!

Comments

[ytak.livejournal.com]

I think I heard somewhere that 'von' is something like a title that can be added to a name (like Sir) but I could be wrong. It does sound cooler with it.

[mistressoffoxes.livejournal.com]

'von' is German and means "from" or "of", so translated, her name would be something like Ithaca Of The Kraken, meaning she's of the Kraken family.

It was used a lot in many Northen European coutries in the "blue blooded" families; It was pretty much a status symbol ^^

...Sorry, I'll stop geeking now >.>

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[kegom.livejournal.com]

Yepp, "von" was (is) mostly used by nobles, though it sometimes (well, rather often, during the medieval ages) also stated the town/area you came from (for example "Gottfried von Straßburg"). Still, it often was the only "noble" title a knight held.

What might interest you, Icka: During the time of the courtly-knightly literature (sorry for the akward translation; the original is "höfisch-ritterliche Dichtung", which sounds better ^^") most poets and writers either were nobles or took on a noble sounding name. Examples for that are Hartmann von Aue, Walter von der Vogelweide and Gottfried von Straßburg, three of the most important poets of that time.
And also, it was actually more common for the wives of knights to be able to read and write than for the knights themselves. They had enough to do with all their battle-training...^^"

By the way (since I've already started writing in a strange person's journal - something I don't often do ^^"): At least in today's German, "Kraken" and "Kracken" are pronounced differently. The "ck" in "Kracken" makes the "a" a short sound (a bit like "crack"). Also, as far as I could find out, the original meaning of "Kracke" is "something weak, easily breakable" (Wahrig, German lexicon)...
But still, it doesn't really mattter whether you write it "Kraken" or "Kracken" - the German language didn't have any common rules for spelling until Martin Luther came along (~1600) and even those rules didn't become obligatory until the end of the 19th century, so you can basically write whatever you want!

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[ickaimp.livejournal.com]

Wow.

In the SCA (which is what this name is for), we're technically all 'Nobles', so I might be able to get away with 'von Kracken'. (I like the 'c' in it, dunno why, same with 'Icka', 'Ika' is 'Squid').
However, there is also rank in the SCA, so I may have to wait a few years and rise in rank before gaining the 'Von'.

Thanks for the information on the name, was wondering why some of the family lines I was tracking kept switching from 'Kracken' to 'Kracke' and back again. XD XD XD

[ytak.livejournal.com]

Oh really? Now I know something new. Yay! \^^/~

[mistressoffoxes.livejournal.com]

*bows* Glad to be of service ^^

It's nice to actually be able to share wisdom with others XD
Here, people either already know it, or they are to stupid to care ^^;