To give the boring, mostly-serious answer, it's because there are a bunch of different theories about how to pronounce Old Norse, which you can divide into 'pronounce terminal -r' and 'not pronounce -r.'
The non-pronouncing, seems to be the more standard version, but depending on where you learned Old Norse, and from who, then there will be variation. It is a dead language, and there were dialects. When I took a year of Old Norse at uni, we learned pronunciation almost identical to modern Icelandic, as the lecturer had been taught by the previous lecturer at the university... so we pronounced our -r's.
So, if your herald doesn't know the details of Old Norse, then it's likely that they will pronounce their -r's rather than not.
Unless your name has no -r, in which case the herald can't read.
Or could it be that they start to read you last name and give up because its harder then your first, so it sounds like they are putting an r behind your first name? Heralds have a hard time reading norse... If the offending Herald is Norse, then they just cant read.
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To give the boring, mostly-serious answer, it's because there are a bunch of different theories about how to pronounce Old Norse, which you can divide into 'pronounce terminal -r' and 'not pronounce -r.'
The non-pronouncing, seems to be the more standard version, but depending on where you learned Old Norse, and from who, then there will be variation. It is a dead language, and there were dialects. When I took a year of Old Norse at uni, we learned pronunciation almost identical to modern Icelandic, as the lecturer had been taught by the previous lecturer at the university... so we pronounced our -r's.
So, if your herald doesn't know the details of Old Norse, then it's likely that they will pronounce their -r's rather than not.
Unless your name has no -r, in which case the herald can't read.
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