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hey, all. this is mainly just a query. i've been trying to find a better name for the area of England in my ASB ATL for a long time now and have been defaulting to either Anglia or avoiding calling it anything like that and have just been using the more descriptive "land of the Anglish"*. i found another possibility from a book recently, Logria (as in the medieval Welsh name for Britain and/or the name of King Arthur's country). i decided that was a bit silly, though, as well as not really being appropriate for the country i'm trying to write since the Anglo-Saxon invasions still take place, and again looked into the general etymology of "England". i came across one possibility that i'd somehow overlooked before, Englaland, which is apparently the ultimate origin of the name beyond just its definition of "land of the Angles". stylistically, this hurts a bit of what i was going for elsewhere in the TL (partly for narrative reasons) so i wanted to ask what everyone thinks (and i'm making sure to post about this now, not long before 10am in my location, because it seems every time i get an idea and make a thread it's always late at night and everyone overlooks it as a result :p ). i've got three options for myself here:
  1. Anglia is retained; this still applies because the Romans still took over Britain ITTL and i've got a general narrative thing going on of a "Roman mentality" so it would make sense for the name to be retained in that sense
  2. Englaland is used; part of me just wants to make the name different as a demonstration of the ATL itself, and part of how i'm justifying this is that while the Roman and Germanic invasions still take place, the Norman invasion fails and therefore there are no French influences on the English language, so the butterfly effect could mean that "Englaland" never evolves into "England" ITTL
  3. the two are are combined--Englaland is the official name of the country and when anyone talks about the region as a whole they use Englaland, but Anglia is used stylistically in some places (especially when talking about Roman Britain) and, in particular, the name is used for the region of East Anglia like IOTL
so what d'y'all think? this is just a simple question and i'd really like some second opinions on it.



*yeah, that's the other thing--my title here is a bit deceptive; when i'm actually writing it it'd be Anglaland as another demonstration of the ATL, since the namesake people of the country are called the Angles, after all, not the Engles
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