[Artemisia] Wormwood

[Sue Clemenger]

It's okay, dear, we like you anyway! <g>
--maire, who'd initially figured it was a reference to the *goddess*,
Artemisia, herself....

"Dr. Helm-Clark" wrote:
> 
 
> As for Artemisia:
> I kept wondering, after I moved here, what the connection was
> between the SCA Artemisia and the Classical Greek (Ionian)
> Queen Artemisia who, with her army, was present on the losing
> side at Thermopolae.  Seriously!  It never crossed my mind that
> the connection was with sagebrush (Linnean name: Artemisia
> tridentata). And as for Wormwood, I did think it was a bit odd
> to be calling a titled heraldic position after the third trumpet
> tribulation out of the Apocolypse of St. John the Divine. I just
> couldn't see the connection between a flaming meteorite which
> poisoned the waters of the earth, turning them as bitter as
> wormwood, and the order of precedence. Wow. Talk about dense!