#placenames

[mapsontheweb]

Great Britain, UK and British Isles

#maps #uk #great britain #british isles #placenames

[grizzstudio]

Evidence of Vikings as the first Europeans to settle in Canada in ancient times

This article explores archaeological evidence that has been discovered of early Norse Viking settlements in Canada. Archaeologists uncovered the remains of a Viking settlement dating back to around 1000AD at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. This is considered the most compelling proof that Vikings were the first Europeans to reach Canada and North America. The article also outlines aspects of the Viking way of life when they lived and farmed in Canada for a brief period, including crop cultivation, livestock herding, building construction and household items. Place names found in areas formerly inhabited by the Vikings provide additional clues of their presence. While their colonies did not last more than a few generations due to climatic changes and conflicts with indigenous populations, the Vikings remarkably managed to cross the Atlantic Ocean many centuries before other major European explorations. Their voyage demonstrated for the first time that land could be found across the ocean, inspiring later navigators. Therefore, the Vikings hold an important place as the earliest known settlers of Canada, though their stay was short-lived.

Reference source : When Vikings Ruled Canadian Lands: Discovering Traces of the Early Norse Colonies

#history #ancienthistory #medievalhistory #vikings #norse #scandinavia #exploration #colonization #archaeology #canada #northamerica #firstcontact #geography #placenames

[itsoliverohanlon]

A list of placenames in the Irish language and their English language equivalent.

Source: https://twitter.com/SnaGaeilge/status/1616467128294449152?s=20&t=UJ8TT5l0A_wj6xA3VguJaA

#placenames #irish language #Logainmneacha #gaeilge

[linguisticalities]

#placenames #birds #english

[bell-y-aches]

Place names for wips, stories, ect.

Ararecilya

Asyveth

Avalon

Charlton

Chiradir

Coriander

Eroat

Esterbrook

Freyful 

Freylin

Ironfort

Sparklering mts

Theliwia

#placenames #fantasy maps #madeupplaces #storyhelps #worldbuilding

[robyn-weightman]

New video is live!

How do you make believable place names in your work?

#writer #books #author #bookworm #bookstagram #bookdragon #writing #reading #amreading #amwriting #writingtips #writingaid #authortube #placenames #Youtube

[blujayonthewing]

I love that so many, like, entire categories of food are named after a place; as an american who is invariably not from any of those places it always sounds fake in the most delightful and whimsical way possible, like what do you mean there's a whole town called cheddar?? what do you MEAN it came BEFORE THE CHEESE???

#the cheese is aged in caves there!! #anyway I just saw a post that mentioned wensleydale and my brain went 'like the cheese???' #NO dingus! like the DALE!! where the cheese is apparently from!!! #a lot of italian and french placenames are like this but cheddar is thebig standout for me lol #like that's THE cheese. it's so quintessentially A Cheese Word to me that the idea of a town named that feels really goofy #despite knowing the history there and also just in general how words work and names happen

[clonehub]

lowkey i think the clones would not have a strong culture of like. consistent place names and the like. names to them are personal and may or may not carry significant history, but when it comes to naming places--well. they have no place. they don't settle anywhere. their history doesn't bleed into any earth and it isn't carved into any rivers or mountains. any settlement or place they name i think would be more literal since I think they'd have a more literal than conceptual language (and notice how their language is unnamed [for safety reasons]).

so their village could easily be Blue River Village because it happens to be by a blue river. It could be Settlement A until they come up with something else. It could also be 501st village. they might choose a name from their language. but place names convey as much as they do because they have the benefit of sheer time on their side--years, decades, centuries of conflicts and compromises and movements and changes from all sorts of people. but they're one people with a linear and brutally short history.

#ch posts #meta #star wars #the clone wars #clonelang #ch reads #see bc irl there's placenames that literally convey entire histories #morals and stories and fables #and its so cool #but partly why thats possible is bc of how the morphemes within these languages work #and idk im not going that deep on their language kajshdlfaks #but their language is a very efficient and straight forward one! #but ofc there's room for abstraction there'd have to be #i dont want to do like a. linguistic determinism thing where bc they dont have X concept they think like Y #cause thats not always the case and tbh their first languages would be Basic anyways

[drawingrosesonneptune]

Oh yeah, fun detail I forgot to mention!

The map here is referenced from part of one I drew up on Inkarnate some years ago.

#pelican queen #neptune draws things #neptune talking #i didn't have all the placenames down yet att

[dawn-of-worlds]

Velarië rolls 2d6 -> 10, for a total of 23 power. She spends 22 of that power to create a new kind of sentient being: the Ataila (sg. Atai). Her power is now 1.

Some say, at the dawn of the world Velarië had need of helpers, so she made the Ataila, the forge-spirits, mixing the essence of starlight with the essence of earth. And they dwelt with her, and learned from her, until some began to grow curious about the world outside, and they journeyed forth against her caution.

Others say, the Ataila are like her: born of the stars reflected on the sea, and she only gave them bodies and voices, made from metal and salt-spray; and some did dwell with her, who were most like her; but the rest were wanderers from the beginning.

And still others say, she spilled her blood to make them, and that they all thus have a part of the divine within them; and that is the cause of their deathless nature.

Maybe all these things are true.

--The legends of the Ataila

Though their origin is uncertain (for they tell conflicting tales), the Ataila bear a clear affinity to Velarië herself. Their bodies are made of a kind of living metal, that twists together like vines or sinews, animated by a white-hot spirit. Though all of a similar plan--a head, two arms, and two legs--the Ataila are found in a wide variety of forms, for they are not born but made. Their parent or parents must forge for them a body and animate it with some of their own life; and then they slowly grow to adulthood, and have great control over the appearance that results.

The Ataila eat or drink very little; they draw their chief sustenance from air and light, and being cut off for too long from either, will die. Sickness, cold, heat strong enough to destroy their bodies, and other forms of grievous injury will also kill them--though they are extremely hardy, far tougher than any of Velarië‘s other creations--but they do not die of old age like many living things, growing forever (but at ever-slowing speed) in strength and wisdom as they age. Some say that when they die, their spirits return to the sky; or to Velarië‘s side; or perhaps they wander in the dark places below the earth.

The Ataila say Velarië gave them three gifts. The first was their physical bodies. The second was speech, and that she originally taught them a tongue she had devised; and this was the ancestor of all their later languages. The third was the knowledge of how to create more of themselves, after the manner in which she had created them first. After this, most of the Ataila went out to wander the world, while others remained with Velarië.

For a long time, those who remained with her were content; and they learned from her the arts of civilization, and were her forge-attendants, her messengers, and her groundskeepers. But eventually, most of them wished to take their knowledge and to create new things of their own, out beyond the Isle; and though it grieved Velarië terribly, she did not oppose their going. Those that left, together with some of their wandering kindred, built the city Etevaasin, also called Tehwatzin, the First House of the Ataila.

[Kuusama, one of the semi-legendary hero-founders of Etevaasin, here shown in the ornate armor of a later age.]

#world 02547 diegesis #i am experimenting with marking placenames using the Comment tool in magma #let me know how well this works #etevaasin is the little dot in the southeast of incarien

[tanadrin]

i have not played Disco Elysium, but I I have read a lot about it before, and spent a good chunk of this morning reading the wiki, and I gotta ask--what is the point of political alignment as a dimension of gameplay? I mean clearly the game’s writers hold everything except “real” communism in utter contempt (fascism is for drunk losers, democratic socialism is pinkwashed sellout liberalism, liberalism is for reactionaries with good PR, libertarianism is for greedy nihilists), but they also don’t seem to like communism much. The game’s backstory seems to emphasize that communism is a dead-end ideology, too, one that will never be able to overcome the contempt of the rest of the world, but which also doesn’t seem to need to justify itself because its utopian moral purity places it beyond any good-faith criticism.

frankly that seems like an utterly exhausting worldview.

#also #it bugs me when a completely fictional world #borrows willy-nilly from real-world placenames and languages #like why are you all french #a good naming conlang takes about five minutes to come up with #and having ultra-culturally-specific names from the real world in your fantasy setting #feels really silly to me

[mapsontheweb]

Mapping some British generic place names by language origin

by u/danthemango

#maps #danthemango #great britain #placenames

[surnumanaja]

You know what? Fuck you *eestindab su thedase kaardi*

[map source]

#mul sai mingite nimedega mõistus otsa #mõned on väga meelevaldsed #my rolemodel for this was Ene Aru's 1990s translation of lotr #i wish i knew actually any estonian dialects to use for the welsh and irish placenames BUT it's also a slippery slope #also some of the placenames got estonian treatment like some european cities have (like Riia; Rooma; Pariis; Varssavi) #-burg/-berg suffix place names got Riesenberg-Riisipere treatment #also what's with celtic sounding placenames in rivain i thought it was italian-spanish inspired #teedase kaart #thedas map #ma näen veel mingeid kohti mida ma unustasin tõlkida #krooniline hobitõlkimine

[linguisticalities]

#placenames #sociolinguistics

[mothmvn]

happy lend-lease day to all my fellow Ukrainians, especially those who, like me, still have to remind themselves it's "lend-lease", not "land-lease"

#they are the same in ukrainian and that word pops up much more often as the ''-land'' placename component 😭 #every time i think: what land is being leased? where? stupid #ukraine #war in ukraine #cheers Joe good job on this one

[spotforme]

when i talk shit i don't use a capital letter for their name

#same goes for placenames #my massive agression manifests as unrespectful grammar