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I am seeking help finding a reference to the name Kjar being used for humans sometime before 1600, and since I know people who are looking in all sorts of interesting places for their own research I thought I would ask here in case one of you happen to stumble upon that name and are willing to share where you found it.
Nearly two years ago now my partner was trying to decide on a name for use in the SCA, and we checked a variety of web pages that listed Norse (and other similar language) names. Eventually we found a list which mentioned the name Kjar. The list stated that Kjar was the father of someone (whose name I have long since forgotten, and I am on the wrong computer to look it up just now) and was mentioned one time in a saga (sorry, still on wrong computer to look up which one). He liked the name, so submitted it to the SCA College of Heralds and started using it.
Now, well over a year after submitting the name, the College of Heralds has written to him saying that while the name Kjar was, in fact, mentioned in the sagas, the man in question was the father of a Valkyrie, not an ordinary human (something the web page that included the name in the list of names from the saga failed to mention). The SCA College of Heralds has a rule against people using names of gods or supernatural beings, unless they can prove that the name was used for normal humans at some point somewhere before 1600. However, after all this time of using the name my partner is rather fond of it, and would like to keep it.
Therefore, if any of you happen to stumble upon the name Kjar appearing in any document from before 1600 (tax records? contracts? birth/death/marriage rolls? or...?) please let me know where you found it (and if it is in a book and not on line please send me a photocopy of the relevant page + publication details). In the meantime we will look on our own, but for this sort of quest many eyes have a better chance of finding what we seek than just one or two sets.
(Failing that, if anyone happens to have documentation that Valkyries happen to be born of human fathers, I suppose that would also solve their complaint, but somehow I doubt that path will lead anywhere.)
Nearly two years ago now my partner was trying to decide on a name for use in the SCA, and we checked a variety of web pages that listed Norse (and other similar language) names. Eventually we found a list which mentioned the name Kjar. The list stated that Kjar was the father of someone (whose name I have long since forgotten, and I am on the wrong computer to look it up just now) and was mentioned one time in a saga (sorry, still on wrong computer to look up which one). He liked the name, so submitted it to the SCA College of Heralds and started using it.
Now, well over a year after submitting the name, the College of Heralds has written to him saying that while the name Kjar was, in fact, mentioned in the sagas, the man in question was the father of a Valkyrie, not an ordinary human (something the web page that included the name in the list of names from the saga failed to mention). The SCA College of Heralds has a rule against people using names of gods or supernatural beings, unless they can prove that the name was used for normal humans at some point somewhere before 1600. However, after all this time of using the name my partner is rather fond of it, and would like to keep it.
Therefore, if any of you happen to stumble upon the name Kjar appearing in any document from before 1600 (tax records? contracts? birth/death/marriage rolls? or...?) please let me know where you found it (and if it is in a book and not on line please send me a photocopy of the relevant page + publication details). In the meantime we will look on our own, but for this sort of quest many eyes have a better chance of finding what we seek than just one or two sets.
(Failing that, if anyone happens to have documentation that Valkyries happen to be born of human fathers, I suppose that would also solve their complaint, but somehow I doubt that path will lead anywhere.)
