Here begynnyth the names of all maner of houndis after the a.b.c. Firste to begynne with .a. for houndis names...
This project is based on the Medieval manuscript shared by OpenCulture that simply lists 1,065 dog names. No big woof. (yukka yukka)
The thought was, what could be done with 1,065 medeival dog names? and the answer, of course, is always Dungeons & Dragons. Therefore, this project is to build/provide a TTRPG name generator that randomly chooses from these names for whatever purpose you may need it for.
- In some cases, a name included a character that, as best as I can tell, is literally a numeral 3. According to this document (the only one I could find with a quick Google), this is a "yogh" and is basically the letter "g". Some of these characters were replaced with an "m" on a first pass before I found that information.
- In some cases, one or more characters is wrapped with
<and>characters. I've left these in place as carets. - The names are presented in the JSON file in as alphabetical an order as they were presented in the manuscript (which isn't strictly alphabetical, despite the note).
- Finish transcribing names from OCR-read raw text file into json.
- Replace yogh characters represented with an "m" with "g" characters instead.
- Build a react app for the name generator
- Add styling to the app
- Build a WP plugin to display the random names? (possible future implementation)