The Laughing Squid

[ickaimp]

So I'm kinda getting active enough in the SCA that I really really need a name. 'Icka', as far as I knew, wasn't period since it's just the second half of my given name with a 'K' added. (still don't know why I insisted on that 'k' in my name, it just felt right)

Then one of the local heralds awesomely sent me an e-mail, it turns out that 'Icka' -is- period for the Visigoths prior to the Muslim invasion in 711.

-Bit earlier time frame than I'd hoped for, but Dude! My name is actually a name!
... and it keeps sending me into giggles because before for a number of years, the header to my journal was 'Meanderings of a Hippy Goth'. XD "If you're so Goth, where were you when they sacked Rome?"

So this sent me doing a little bit more digging on 'Icka' and possible name meanings. Other than イカ or 烏賊, which means 'Squid'.

Still looking for a time period, but in Poland (which was ravished by the Mongols in the mid-1200s) , 'Icka' is a feminine form of 'Icek', or 'Issac'.

'Issac' means 'He laughs'.

^___________________^ *giggles*

Comments

[visc-lore.livejournal.com]

"it turns out that 'Icka' -is- period for the Visigoths prior to the Muslim invasion in 711."

Sweet!!! One important part of picking an SCA name that the heralds and other "officials" might not tell you is - Make sure it is something you will answer to.

There's a great story about Duchess Malinda in this regard - if Ysabet or mOrgan haven't told you, remind me and I'll fill you in later.

[green-turquoise.livejournal.com]

That is great! And the mental image of you as 'the Goth that giggles' has me laughing.

[magicbulletgirl.livejournal.com]

That's so freaking awesome XDDDD
*wants a period name now for the hell of it XD*

[lil-1337.livejournal.com]

She laughs fits you.

[niennahirilfea.livejournal.com]

That's really cool!

[fyliwionvilyaer.livejournal.com]

That's awesome ^_^ It actually reminds me of when I was fiddling around and way back in the day I used the name Ilyan for rps/character names/characters in books etc for female cuz I came up with it and really liked it... Then later discovered it was an actual Russian name and the female version of Ilya which is taken from a saint... amusing since I'm part Russian and part of that branch of chruch and all ^^ so will probably terrize my small child with it as her name *snickers*

It amazes me how many names there really are ^^;;

[nightengale.livejournal.com]

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