LoAR

of the College of Arms
of the
Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc.

January 1997



AN TIR

Aliena Searover. Household name House Bobbe and badge. (Fieldless) A cluster of grapes purpure leaved vert.

An Tir, Kingdom of. Title for Be Wayre Pursuivant.

Douglas Lachlan MacFarlane. Name.

Effric Campbell. Name and device. Per bend sinister Or and vert, a rainbow bendwise sinister proper clouded purpure and a cauldron Or.

Elric Strangulf. Name.

Esperanza Razzolini d'Asolo. Badge. (Fieldless) On a fireball Or flamed a mullet azure.

Etienne Xavier de Saosnes. Name and device. Argent, on a bend sinister wavy azure between a sun and a decrescent gules, three mullets of six points palewise argent.

Garth ap Collin. Badge. (Fieldless) A tricorporate owl argent. While having some recognizability problems, this form is only one step from period practice.

Glymm Mere, Barony of. Badge. (Fieldless) A deer's head couped contourny gules.

Hæletha atte Leigh. Name.

Helena Da Silva. Device. Per bend purpure and argent, a unicorn rampant and a hurst of fir trees counterchanged.

Isabella Lucrezia Veneziano Martini. Device. Per bend sinister flory counterflory sable and argent, two fleurs-de-lys counterchanged.

James of Wealdsmere. Device. Azure, on a pale sable fimbriated three annulets conjoined argent.

Kathern Thomas Gyelle Spence. Badge. (Fieldless) A linden leaf bendwise sinister inverted sable.

Magdalen de Feo. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Magdalen MacKenzie. Name.

Marcus Redwolf. Name and device. Or, a dance vert between three wolves' heads cabossed gules.

Markus Hammerhand. Name and device. Per fess sable and argent, a hammer and a hand counterchanged. We are blazoning the charge as a hammer instead of a mallet for the sake of the cant.

Markus Hammerhand. Badge. (Fieldless) A hand argent charged with a hammer sable. We are blazoning the charge as a hammer instead of a mallet for the sake of the cant.

Robyn Adames. Name and device. Or, a robin contourny proper perched atop an apple gules a bordure vert.


ATLANTIA

Angharad MacIvar of Stirling. Name and device. Sable, a stag trippant and on a chief argent, two pheons sable.

Annamaria Narelli. Name and device. Purpure, a stag's head caboshed and in base a double rose argent and purpure.

Christopher Hare. Name.

George Geoffrey of Exeter. Name and device. Per bend sable and argent, a fox statant Or and a bear's head caboshed gules.

Ginevra die Hohe. Badge. (Fieldless) An escarbuncle Or. A conflict was called with an attributed badge of King Henry II of England An escarbuncle Or. Fause Lozenge has presented convincing evidence that this attribution is probably not correct, so we are registering this badge.

Gwendolyn Tremayne. Device. Or, a dragon rampant contourny, wings displayed, gules holding across its chest a sword bendwise Or, a chief embattled checky sable and argent. Note: the form of the embattled chief is identical to the one in the registered arms of her mother, Mordeyrn Tremayne.

Innogen of Clonmel. Device. Per pale vert and purpure, a sword inverted between two swans rousant addorsed argent.

Jeannette Delacroix. Name and device. Quarterly azure and gules, a cross counter-ermine fimbriated argent. Please instruct the submitter to draw the fimbriation wider.

Lachlann Gore. Device. Gules, a sword inverted, a bordure embattled argent.

Marion Lang Boogschutter. Badge. Sable, a lion rampant Or, on a chief argent, a bow gules.

Max the Minstrel. Name and device. Sable, a bear and a griffin combatant Or maintaining between them a lyre argent. Please instruct the submitter to draw the lyre smaller to avoid the appearance of slot machine.

Richard Tremayne. Device. Sable, two dragons combatant Or each maintaining a sword vert in its tail, a chief checky sable and argent.

Storvik, Barony of. Badge. (Fieldless) A wooden drakkar's prow proper.

Tancred Bras-de-Fer. Device. Purpure, a chevron ployé between 2 leopards' heads jessant-de-lys and an acorn inverted Or.

Urraca Cantábrica. Badge. (Fieldless) A magpie close sable marked argent within and conjoined to an annulet argent.


CAID

Aébfhinn ni Thigearnaigh. Name and device. Ermine, an alphyn passant between three crescents inverted sable. Submitted as Aébfhinn ni Thighearnach it was incorrectly aspirated. We have corrected this.

Aidan Brandr Arinbjornson. Device. Ermine, on a mullet of nine points between three sets of three annulets each interlaced one and two gules, a wolf rampant maintaining a sword and shield argent. Please instruct the submitter to draw many fewer ermine spots and to draw the annulets larger.

Arabella da Siena. Name (see RETURNS for device). Submitted as Arabella di Siena we have changed the di to da. The normal Italian locative preposition is da; di, at least in standard Italian, indicates a patronymic.

Cáelán mac Meic Craith. Name and device. Quarterly vert and sable, four crescents argent. Submitted as Cáelán MacGraith, this name mixes Gaelic and non-Gaelic orthographies in the same name. Therefore, a Gaelic form is needed to match the Gaelic forename. Since the forename uses an early spelling, the Gaelic of the patronymic was chosen to match. It turns out that the patronym is like Mac Bethad (English Macbeth) in that it contains the element Mac: in early spelling the patronym is Mac Craith, and the patronymic is mac Meic Craith. Other, later forms would include Caolán mac Mhic Graith or Caolán Mac Graith.

Calafia, Barony of. Badge for the Calafian Cooking Guild. (Fieldless) A cornucopia effluent to sinister argent.

Cameron of Caladoon. Transfer of household badge to Kara the Twin of Kelton. Sable, the upper half of a mullet of four greater and twelve lesser points Or. Note: the household name is not transferred.

Charles Wellingham. Device. Per pale indented argent and azure, a Latin cross bottony and a lightning bolt bendwise sinister counterchanged. Please instruct the submitter to draw the indents more regularly.

Ciarán Dúin Rúaidh. Name and device. Per bend vert and argent, a stag springing and a trefoil bendwise counterchanged. Submitted as Ciarán Dúin Rúiadh, the final element was misspelled by reversing the ai in Rúaidh. We have corrected the spelling.

Clota ni Ghabhann. Name change from Clota Nic Ghabhann.

Colm Kile of Lochalsh. Badge. Per bend sinister sable and azure, two scarpes Or, overall a cloud argent.

Demetrius Gordianus Analindal. Device. Per chevron gules and sable, a chevron between two crescents argent and a talbot's head erased argent spotted sable. Please instruct the submitter to draw the line of division and the chevron more steeply.

Ekaterina Borisova. Name and device. Argent, within a saltire moline disjointed gules a sword bendwise sinister sable.

Eógan Cú Chaille. Badge for Snorri Karlsson. (Fieldless) On a shamrock vert, a compass star Or.

Franbald of Loncastre. Name and device. Argent masoned sable, a mascle gules between four crescents in saltire, horns to center sable. The word atte is a ME contraction of at and the. It is normally used with topographical locatives, e.g., atte Brigge `at the bridge'. The contraction is inappropriate with a toponym (proper noun place-name): one wouldn't say 'at the Lancaster', for example. Therefore, we have changed it to of. Other possible forms include Franbald ‘t Lonc‘stere, if he wants an Old English name from c. 900. By the end of the 10th c. it would probably become Franbald ‘t Loncastre. The normal English usage would be Frambald of Loncastre, though in documentary use of would probably become de.

Giuliana Margherita Bonaccolsi. Name and device. Per chevron throughout azure and Or, in base a domestic cat sejant contourny sable.

John of Brinton. Name and device. Per bend Or and sable, a dragon passant guardant gules and a castle argent.

Kara the Twin of Kelton. Transfer of household badge from Cameron of Caladoon. Sable, the upper half of a mullet of four greater and twelve lesser points Or. Note: the household name was not transferred.

Katayama Chikara. Name.

Kilian Bruce. Name.

Learbhean nighean Thoirrdhealbhaich. Name change from holding name of Bette of Drach. Note: the group name was misspelled in the original acceptance..

Leonora Morgana. New badge. (Fieldless) A Celtic cross argent, overall a garden rose bendwise gules, slipped and leaved vert. Note: this rose is virtually identical to the ones in her previously registered device.

Madawc Seumus Caradawg. Badge. Vert, three straight trumpets fesswise in pale Or.

Madawc Seumus Caradawg. Badge (see RETURNS for alternate persona name). Vert, a straight trumpet fracted in chevron Or.

Móirín Chiardhubh ní Bhárdin. Name and device. Per chevron sable and vert, three spiral hunting horns reversed argent. Submitted as Móirín Ciardubhain ni Bardon, the name was improperly lenited. Furthermore, since accents were used in the forename, they should be used throughout the name. We have corrected both problems.

Oriana Nicola Courtenay. Device. Per pale argent and purpure, a sun and a chief embattled counterchanged.

Séamus Caomhánach. Name.

Seth Flann MacDougal. Name. Submitted as Seth Flynn MacDougal, there was no evidence provided, and no one in the College could provide some, of Flynn being a period English name. We have substituted the English form of Flynn.

William de Rouen. Device. Per pale argent and Or, a cross crosslet fitchy gules.

Yllaria of Wildwoode. Badge. Argent, a wolf's head erased gules within a bordure dovetailed sable.


DRACHENWALD

Cassandra inghean Dubhlochlainn. Name. Submitted as Cassandra ingen Dubhlochlainn we have corrected the spelling of the name. Note: Cassandra is her mundane name.

Cecilia Jonsdotter. Name and device. Per bend sinister azure and argent, two caltrops counterchanged argent and gules.

Drachenwald, Kingdom of. Title for Rockall Herald.

Erich Rotbart. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Helvig Ulfsdotter. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Jorunn Krukmakerska. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Margareta of Uma. Holding name and device (See RETURNS for name). Per pale azure and argent, a sinister wing inverted and a dexter wing inverted and in chief a mullet of six points all counterchanged. Submitted as Margareta af Thule.

Michael de Brad. Name.

Myfanwy Branwen of Dindyrn. Name and device. Gules, a raven close contourny argent and a bordure ermine.

Peter Schneck. Device. Sable, a schnecke issuant from dexter chief argent.

Swjetoslaw Stargradskoj. Name change from Julius Aquinas.

Thorvald Fridtjofsson. Device. Sable, a drakkar's prow within an orle Or.

Torunn Egilsdotter Ask. Name and device. Bendy Or and vert, a sprig of ash bendwise sinister sable.


EAST

Ælric Ravenshaw. Device. Argent, two chevronels between two Celtic crosses and an eagle displayed, head facing sinister, sable. Please instruct the submitter to draw the chevronels further apart.

Alasdair James Lyon. Device. Gules, a winged lion-dragon passant tail nowed argent within a double tressure surmounted by six roses argent barbed purpure, seeded Or.

Angus MacClerie. Name. Submitted as Angus MacClarie, we have changed it to a documented form.

Ariella of Devonshire. Device. Per pale azure and sable, a cat sejant guardant, dexter forepaw raised, between three cups argent.

Evelyna Kendrick. Name and device. Or, on a chevron between an arrow fesswise reversed and a cat's paw print vert, three bottles Or. Glass through the Ages, by E. Barington Haynes, shows a 6th century Islamic bottle that looks a lot like the submitted form.

Hans der Grau. Name.

Jacopo di Niccolò. Name and device. Gules, a chevron argent, in chief a compass star Or.

John the Brewer. Device. Argent, a blackletter initial 'B' between two birch leaves sable, on a chief gules a lion passant guardant argent.

Juan Miguel Cezar. Household name for Casa Valdés.

Karl Klauezahn. Device. Per pale sable and vert, a wolf rampant and on a chief embattled argent three crosses potent sable.

Kieran MacLeod. Name and device. Per bend Or and sable, in sinister chief a pair of wings distilling a goute gules. Please instruct the submitter to draw the charges larger to fill the space.

Megan MacFie. Name.

Michelle Duvergier. Name and device. Per bend sinister sable semy-de-lys argent and argent, a frog tergiant sable.

Morgaine Lynn. Name.

Morgaine Lynn. Alternate name of Morgaine the Insane. There are plenty of genuinely period ways to express the idea: Reaney & Wilson s.nn. Witless and Giddy have John Wytles 1327 and Walter le Gidye 1219 `possessed of an evil spirit; mad, insane', and in his Origin of English Surnames (289) Reaney notes Ralph Badinteheved 1275 `bad in the head'.

Morgan Kendrick. Name and device. Or, a bottle surmounted by a sword, a sinister tierce vert. Glass through the Ages, by E. Barington Haynes, shows a 6th century Islamic bottle that looks a lot like the submitted form.

Sabina of Kilkenny. Name.

Tatiana Borisovna. Name.

Thomas der Kreuzfahrer. Name and device. Azure, a chevron argent, overall a Latin cross Or. It's not clear that the modern Kreuzfahrer is old enough to have been used as a byname during the Crusades. Brechenmacher s.nn. Kreuzer, Kreutziger notes the Middle High German words kriuzære and kriuzigære, both meaning `crusader'; the surnames in question derive in part from this meaning. If he wants an authentic byname with the indicated meaning, we suggest der Creutziger.

Thorgrim Sindrason. Name.

Uilleam MacLeòid. Name and device. Azure ermined argent, a dagger inverted Or and on a chief argent three Celtic crosses azure.


MERIDIES

Áine Dhuin Bhuidhe. Name. Submitted as Aine na Dun Buidhe, the name needed to have the place name put into the genitive and to have the article removed from the place name. We have done so.

Aleksandr Morekhodov. Name.

Alexander Kyppyn Kirkcaldy. Device change. Per pale sable and argent, a standing balance counterchanged, on a chief azure three mullets argent. His previous device Per pale sable and argent, a standing balance counterchanged, on a chief gules three mullets argent., is hereby released

Allan of Moffat. Badge. (Fieldless) A trefoil azure. A possible conflict was called with a badge of the Shire of Stormvale (Fieldless) A quaterfoil azure. There is one CD for fieldlessness. After considering both of the badges, we could see no reason not to grant a CD between a trefoil and quaterfoil.

Artán Mac Darach. Name and device. Per bend sinister vert and gules, an oak tree eradicated fructed and a bear passant argent. Submitted as Artán MacDarragh we have corrected the spelling of the patronymic.

Bébhinn Ní Riagáin. Name . Submitted as Bébhinn Ní Riagain we have added the necessary accent over the final "a".

Bran MacFadin. Name (see RETURNS for the device).

Caoilfhionn inghean Chaomhánaigh. Name (see RETURNS for device). Submitted as Caoilfionn Caomhanach, the name was incorrectly constructed. We have made the second element a patronym.

Carol of Misty Mere. Holding name and device (See RETURNS for name). Per pale azure and Or, two piles wavy each charged in chief with a roundel counterchanged. Submitted as Oonagh nic Barith.

Caterina de las Callejas. Name and device. Vert, on a saltire between two hunting horns in fess Or, a rose vert.

Ceara ní Néill. Name and device. Vert, a fish naiant Or a bordure indented Or semy of roundels azure. Submitted as Cera ni Niall, the patronym needed to be put into the genitive case, which we have done.

Eckhart von Eschenbach. Badge. Argent, on a pale sable between a pair of arrows inverted and in chief two mullets sable, an arrow inverted and in chief a mullet argent.

Elspeth la Faire. Name and device. Argent, a sheaf of arrows between three fleurs-de-lys sable, a bordure embattled azure. While registerable, this form is not consistent with her preferred time period of 1100-1300. The most common form then seems to have been the straightforward Elizabeth, and Elizabeth la Faire or la Fayre would be excellent. (The byname could even use the masculine article le and be entirely consistent with period practice.) Alternatively, Elspeth Fair(e) would be a fine 16th c. Anglo-Scottish name.

Felice MacFadin. Name.

François of Thor's Mountain. Name and device. Per pall inverted gules, sable, and argent, two Celtic crosses argent and in base a panther passant sable enflamed proper. Submitted as Francois Xavier MacUlric.

Ginevra Bagnesi. Name and device. Vert, three chevronels braced ermine.

Grifphon Shadow, Shire of. Device. Per pale argent and sable, two griffins combatant each maintaining a chalice and a laurel wreath counterchanged.

Guy du Puy. Name and device. Argent, a cup and a chief azure.

Henry of Tipperary. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Íonait ní Sheachnasaigh. Name and device. Sable, a wolf sejant ululant to sinister between three roundels argent. Submitted Íonait ní Seachnasaigh, the patronymic needed to be aspirated after ní. We have done so.

Josse Gößler. Name and device. Per pall inverted sable, argent, and chevronelly gules and argent.

Kenneth Grey. Name and device. Per chevron sable and argent, two lions dormant argent and a demi-sun issuant from base gules.

Lijsbeth Tijsz van Brugge. Device. Per pale purpure and vert a winged lion segreant to sinister maintaining a sun in splendor Or.

Lijsbeth Tijsz van Brugge. Badge. (Fieldless) A sun in splendor sustained by a lion's jambe Or.

Lisa of Ravenscroft. Holding name and device (See RETURNS for name). Per pale purpure and azure, a lion's head cabossed within a bordure dovetailed Or. Submitted as Cyranleah of Ravenscroft.

Loch Báis, Shire of. Name (see RETURNS for device). Submitted as Loch na Bás, Shire of, we have corrected the spelling.

Magge Reichenberg. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Marina MacChruiter. Device. Vert, a fir tree eradicated ermine.

Marta Bon. Name and device. Per bend vert and Or, a cup Or and a bunch of grapes purpure slipped vert.

Morgan MacBride. Name change from holding name Melissa of Thor's Mountain.

Oyn Cefnog. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Phelan of Arran. Name.

Pyotr Lyagushka Vasiliev syn Tetiukhina. Name (see RETURNS for device). Submitted as Pyotr Lyagushka Vasiliev syn Teluukhina, this was misspelled due to a misreading of the Pennsic forms. We have restored the proper spelling.

Robert MacInnes of Skye. Name and device. Gules, a compass rose in chief two sheaves of three arrows inverted argent a ford proper.

Scoithin mac Mhuireadhaigh. Name.

Sebastian Cormac M'Donaill. Name and device. Per pale vert and sable, a tower and in chief two mullets of four points argent. Submitted as Sebastian Cormac MacDomhnaill, we have changed the patronym to an Anglicized form to match the rest of the name.

Sebastian Everard. Name (see RETURNS for device). Submitted as Sebastion Everard, no evidence was presented, nor could anyone produce any, for the spelling Sebastion. We have changed it to the closest documentable form.

Sile Linet O'Loughlin. Device. Vert, a chevron rompu argent between two Celtic crosses and a brazier Or.

Talmere, Shire of. Name (see RETURNS for device). Submitted as Tal Mere, Shire of, we have corrected the spelling to a period form.

Werner Seitz. Name and device. Per chevron argent and sable, two crosses formy sable and a salamander tergiant argent enflamed proper.

Zoya Ivanovna Rezanskaya. Name and device. Azure, on a bend between two increscents argent, a cat courant sable.


MIDDLE

Abigail de Beuzeville. Name.

Adele Desfontaines. Name and device. Per chevron vert and Or, in chief three fleurs-de-lys Or and in base a griffin segreant sable. Submitted as Adèle Desfontaines, we have dropped the out of period accent.

Aidan Blackstone. Device. Azure, on a pile ploye between two pheons inverted argent, a pellet.

Alice of Kent. Device correction. Vert, a sprig of elder bendwise sinister argent. Note: the original blazon had this as a sprig of linden. The leaves are not linden, but Laurel who is a city person, is not sure what they are. However, elder is closer than linden, so we are reblazoning them as such.

Alissende du Soleil. Name and device. Vert, three suns Or.

Altenberg, Shire of. Name and device. Barry wavy argent and azure, an oak tree eradicated within a laurel wreath sable.

Anna Genevieve Sachere. Name.

Arinbjorn Ragnarsson. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Asviðr Avarsson. Name.

Bakr al-Talib. Name.

Barbel MacEwen of Caer Arthwen. Name. Submitted as Barabal MacEwen of Arth Wen Keep we have corrected the place name to the correct Welsh for "White Bear Keep" as the submitter requested.

Bares Wulffson. Name and device. Sable, a gate and on a chief argent three wolf's heads caboshed sable.

Bleddyn ap Llywelyn. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Briana Fallon. Name. Note: Briana has been ruled SCA compatible.

Brianna MacCaulay. Name and device. Per bend sinister embattled vert and argent, in chief three hearts and in base a vine of ivy counterchanged. Submitted as Brianne MacCaulay, Brianne takes the hypothetical Brianna one step further from period practice. We have substituted Brianna which the submitter permits.

Brighid ni Chearnaigh. Name and device. Argent, an acorn slipped and leaved proper a bordure embattled vert. Submitted as Brighid O Cearnaigh, we have put the name into the proper form for a feminine name.

Caitlin of Greencastle. Name.

Caterina Maddalena Damiani da Ferrara. Name change from Katrinn Astrid Dagsdottir. Submitted as Katrinn Maddalena Damiani de Ferrara, no evidence was presented to support the combination of an Old Norse and Italian names in the same name. We have substituted the Italian form of Katrinn and replaced the French "of" with the proper Italian form.

Ceridwen of the Wilde. Name and device. Sable, a spider web argent, surmounted by a dagger throughout Or a bordure argent semy of spiders sable. Submitted as Ceridwen of the Wilds, there was no documentation for the plural. Therefore, we have substituted the documented singular form. The form atte Wilde would be much more typical.

Charles Haukyns. Name.

Christophe le Vite. Device. Argent, a domino mask vert, a bordure vert, semy of oak leaves Or.

Christophe le Vite. Badge. Vert, a domino mask within a bordure Or.

Colin Yuebanc. Name. Submitted as Coilin Yuebanc, this combined Gaelic and English in the same name. We have substituted the closest English form of the given name.

David Mullens. Name and device. Azure, five annulets three and two Or.

Dómarr Osegod. Name change from holding name Ami of Cynnabar.

Dracon of Apulia. Name and device. Argent, a spur-rowel and on a chief enarched azure three decrescents argent.

Elayne Thorne. Name.

Elisabeth von Röttgen. Name and device. Or, a fess wavy azure, in chief a falcon rising sable.

Emma de Winter. Name and device. Argent, on a bend between six hearts gules a sword argent. Submitted as Emma Winter, this was originally submitted as Emma de Winter and returned on the LoAR of 9/95 for lack of documentation of the form "de Winter." Since then, Fause Losenge has found evidence that the form de Winter `the Winter' is period. Entry 3083 in Beele's synoptic index to the bynames found in his study of personal names in Ieper (Ypres) in the period 1250-1400 is for de winter, and indeed Beele (95) even notes that this and its mate de zomer are among the very few examples of bynames that are both commonly found with the definite article and derived from abstracta. Pale contacted the submitter, and confirmed that she preferred the form "de Winter", so we have restored the form originally submitted.

Erick der Rotnacken. Device. Argent, on a bend sinister azure a savage palewise maintaining a club proper and an enfield statant fesswise Or.

Erin O Buaghelly. Name and device. Per pale vert and sable, a rabbit sejant and on a chief embattled argent, three shamrocks vert. Erin is the submitter's mundane name. Submitted as Erin Ó Buachalla, we have changed it to a form acceptable to the submitter.

Essylt ferch Bronwen. Name.

Jeffrey Walther. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for the name). Gules, atop a skull argent a dragon's claw inverted erased, all within an annulet Or. The device was submitted under the name Fafnir Walther.

Faoiltigherna ní Bhraoin. Name and device. Azure, semy of wagon wheels Or. Submitted as Faoiltiarna Braoin, we have put this into the proper form for a feminine name.

Fawkes Bailhache. Name and device. Per chevron rayonny sable and argent, two headsman's axes inverted and addorsed in chevron and a fox sejant regardant counterchanged.

Gareth Thorne. Name and device. Vert, a thornbush couped between four arrows conjoined as a mascle Or. Please instruct the instructor to draw the charges thicker.

Georgia the Pragmatic of Clyffmarsh. Badge. (Fieldless) A lotus in profile azure, slipped vert.

Gerhard Finsterwalder. Name.

Greyes Oddson. Name and device. Per pale vert and argent, a paw print counterchanged.

Gwyndlyn Caer Vyrddin. Device Change. Per bend Or and vert, two towers counterchanged. Her previous device, Per bend Or and azure, an owl and a lion dormant counterchanged., is hereby released.

Ilariya Litomerice. Name.

Isabella Caterina de Avila. Name change from holding name Joyce of Dragonsmark.

John Chaddewyk. Name.

Kasimir of Stargard. Name and device. Per fess gules and ermine, a dexter gauntlet fesswise reversed maintaining a bird close argent and a tree vert.

Katheryn MacThomas of Ireland. Name.

Katya Zhdana Volkova Kievskaya. Device. Azure, a wolf sejant ululant and in chief three crossbows argent.

Kilian Schnell. Name and device. Per pale azure and argent, two stags combattant counterchanged.

Knute Hvitabjörn. Badge. Or semy of mascles sable, a chief invected gules. Please instruct the submitter to draw the mascles further apart.

Maddalena da Venezia. Name.

Malachy von Ulm. Name and device. Azure, a bear sejant sinister forepaw resting on a roundel Or a chief argent. Submitted as Malachy vön Ulm, there is no umlaut in von.

Marina Esmeralda de Murcia. Name and device. Erminois, a stag's head erased sable and in chief an estoile of eight rays gules.

Marion FitzWilliam. Name and device. Vert, two drinking horns in saltire on a chief argent two ravens close respectant sable.

Mechthild zur Drachenhöhle. Name and device. Or, a dragon passant contourny and on a point pointed sable, a bezant.

Murdoch Aeneas Neilson. Name.

Owen Fitz Raven. Badge. (Fieldless) In pale a lozenge and a goutte conjoined Or.

Percevel Gower. Device. Argent, a chevron engrailed azure between two maple leaves gules and a lobster azure. Please instruct the submitter to draw the engrailing deeper.

Percevel Gower. Badge. (Fieldless) A lobster azure.

Petro z Chabina. Name change from holding name Peter of Starleaf Gate.

Radek z Praha. Name.

Regan Tuschech. Name and device. Vert, a wolf rampant and on a chief argent two teazels vert. Submitted as Ragan Tuschech, the form Ragan came from a misreading of Searle. We have substituted the closest available form.

Robert Thorne. Name and device. Vert, on a chevron between two broken arrows fesswise Or another chevronwise vert.

Seathan Mórchuiseach mac Dhábhidh. Name. Submitted as Seathán an Mórchúiseach mac Dábhidh, Gaelic adjectival bynames do not take the definite article so we have removed the article an. Additionally, the patronymic was incorrectly put into the genitive; we have corrected this.

Stephen Egremont. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Svatý Sebesta, College of. Device. Gules, an open book surmounted by an arrow inverted, all within a laurel wreath argent.

Thomas MacPaul the Younger. Name.

Tatiana Marana Melville. Name and device. Or semy of crescents, a fess purpure a bordure purpure crusily couped Or.

Tegan Marie Silvertree. Name.

Teleri Erfyl of Arrow Lane. Device. Per bend sinister Or and vert, a horse passant contourney sable.

Teresa le Chardon. Name and device. Argent, a two-headed thistle proper a bordure azure fretty argent. Submitted as Teresa la Chardon, the Chardon (thistle) is masculine, so it takes "le", not "la". Please instruct the submitter to draw the bordure smaller.

Theodweard L'Archier. Name (see RETURNS for device). While registerable, better form of the name include: Thedward or Tedward l'Archier (or Larchier, or even L'Archier) as ME names. T(h)edward le Archer as an 11th to 12th century form would also be excellent. The classic West Saxon form would be Theodweard Scytta.

Tondra Leigh. Name.

Ulrich Würfel. Name and device. Per chevron purpure and lozengy argent and sable, two dice argent spotted sable and a tankard Or. Submitted Ulrich Knöcheln, the submitter wanted the byname to be corrected to an authentic late period German form for a dice-player. We have done so.

Vladimir Vasil'ev Krasnogo. Device. Quarterly gules and argent, four escallops inverted counterchanged. Lovely armory!

Vladislav de Jaffa. Name (see RETURNS for device).

William Trewfelagh. Name.

William Wildblood. Name and device. Vert, a hawk's lure argent, a bordure Or.

Wolfger Silberbär. Name and device. Per chevron azure and purpure, three bears rampant argent. Please instruct the submitter in how to properly draw a rampant beast.

Ximena María de Padilla. Name and device. Vert, nine lozenges three, three, and three argent, a bordure Or semy of crescents inverted sable. While we would normally blazon this as a semy, this form was important to the submitter, and Fause Losenge provided documentation for period blazons that were equally as precise.


OUTLANDS

Fulk Fulkersson. Device correction. Argent, on a bend sinister azure, between a longship in full sail, oars in action and sailing to sinister, gules and a bell sable, a scarpe Or. The original blazon had all the charges on the bend.


SOCIETY FOR CREATIVE ANACHRONISM

Society for Creative Anachronism. Title for Pelican Sovereign of Arms.

Society for Creative Anachronism. Title for Siren Herald.


WEST

Aidan MacDonald. Name.

Aonghas MacLachlainn. Name and device. Per fess embattled argent and azure, in chief three smith's hammers proper.

Broinninn nic Labhruinn. Name.

Clare Elena of Strathclyde. Name.

Colin de Bray. Name change from Colin déarg Halfdane. The previous name, Colin deargh Halfdane is hereby released.

Günther von Sachsenhausen. Name and device. Lozengy azure and argent, flaunches azure each charged with a compass-star argent.

Peregrine Brambles. Badge. Argent, in fess a thistle proper sustained by a wolf rampant sable.

Rhiannon of Camrose. Name and device. Per pale vert and purpure, three Lacy knots Or. Note: Rhiannon has been ruled SCA compatible.

Roger Burton of Thornbury. Name.

Sebastian von Thüringen. Name.

Þorfinn Hrolfsson. Name change from Thorfinn Hrolfsson.

Wystan of Wallesende. Device. Per pale gules and azure two sea-lions combattant argent.


THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN RETURNED FOR FURTHER WORK:


AN TIR

Lilya Fedorovna Skazitelnitsa. Device. Sable, on a bezant a triangle gules. This conflicts with Cynthia Arianhrod (SCA), Sable, upon a bezant a lion's head gules and a woman's head vert addorsed, their mane and hair intermingled., and Gwynaeth math o Ddylluan (SCA), Sable, a bezant charged with a raven on a branch bendwise all sable., with one CD for the changes to the tertiary.

Magdalen de Feo. Device. Per bend embattled vert and sable, a holly branch bendwise sinister argent. This conflicts with Alice of Kent, (SCA) Vert, a sprig of linden fructed bendwise sinister argent. Alice's leaves as drawn are toothy leaves, like an elder leaf.

Vaclav Bily. Badge. (Fieldless) A lozenge gules. We can do no better than to quote Baron Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme, as Laurel on the subject of fieldless badges: Fieldless badges consisting only of forms of armorial display, such as escutcheons, lozenges and delfs, are not acceptable since in use the ``shield'' shape does not appear to be a charge, but rather the field itself. This presents an entirely different armory for view. (Stephen Wolfe, September, 1993, pg. 25) Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme. Since lozenges are used as armorial display, this would be the equivalent of registering a plain tincture, which we do not do.


ATLANTIA

Maximilian Alois von Brandenberg. Badge. (Fieldless) A mountain of three peaks couped sable enflamed proper. This conflicts Jumare of the Dark Spire (SCA), Argent, issuant from base a spire of rock sable. There is no difference between a spire and a mountain, leaving the only difference being that for field (or lack thereof).


CAID

Arabella da Siena. Device. Gules, on a pale between two hippogriffs combattant, each maintaining a glaive argent, three cinquefoils sable. This conflicts with Katherine Linnet Holford, Gules, on a pale argent, a domestic cat statant regardant back arched between two cinquefoils in pale sable. There is one CD for the addition of the hippogriffs, but there is nothing for changing one third of the type of the tertiary charges on the pale.

Arianrod of Isles. Name. Arianrhod ferch Don, the personage named in the cited documentation, is mythological; no one has been able to present any evidence that the name has been found in use by actual human beings in period. Without such evidence, the name may not be used in an SCA name.

Drachenfeld, Canton of. Device. Or, two wyverns combattant vert, in base a tower gules within a laurel wreath vert. The name of the group was returned on November 1996 LoAR. Since we do not create holding names for groups, this must be returned for lack of an SCA name. Even if there was an SCA name to register this to, this would be returned for violating VIII.1.a ("slot machine") by having three different charges (wyvern, tower and laurel wreath) in the same group).

Irina Dmitrova. Name. This conflicts with Irina Dmitrievna which was registered July 1996.

Leofleor Seó Reod. Name and device. Per bend sinister gules ermined argent and counterermine, a bat-winged lion salient to sinister between three Celtic crosses Or. This was submitted as a constructed name. It was not properly constructed. In explaining the return of this name, we could do no better than to quote Fause Losenge: Leofleor cannot be justified as a reasonable constructed OE forename. The oldest convenient corpus of OE names is that of Bede's Historia, written c.700, whose 215 names have been fully studied by Ström. About two-thirds of these are dithematic names whose protothemes and deuterothemes come largely from the standard Germanic stock. This stock of themes derives from roots used to form nouns and adjectives; the semantic content of these roots closely parallels the diction of heroic verse. Well before Bede's day themes were being combined for onomastic rather than semantic reasons; children's names were often chosen to alliterate with a parent's or even to share a theme. Clark, quoting Ström, says that `[a]n Old English personal name's "meaning" - in so far as it had one - chiefly concerned "the family and line to which its bearer belonged"'. And these observations can be carried back to an even earlier date in the royal genealogies. Moreover, Roman records from the Continent show the Germanic tribes using similar dithematic names, with themes that were in large part cognate to Old English themes, from very early times indeed. The period in which the meaning of such dithematic compounds was paramount seems to have ended well before the Germanic invasion of Britain. The 10th c. change noted by Reaney and quoted in the LoI was not a change from a system in which names were freely constructed from common vocabulary elements according to meaning to the combinatorial method of combining prototheme and deuterotheme fairly arbitrarily; it was a change from a combinatorial system with a relatively large number of proto- and deuterothemes that were freely combined to one that used only a small number of these themes. Moreover, these themes tended to be combined in the same ways over and over. This is the point, historically, at which Eadweard, say, began to assume an identity as a single, indivisible name instead of a compound of the themes Ead- and -weard. Reaney's discussion of Bucstan and Pikstan has been misunderstood, so I'll summarize it here. These names are not actually attested, being deduced from surnames, but it seems likely that they were in fact used. The likeliest derivations, according to Reaney, are from Bucca + -stan and Pica + -stan. Bucca is an attested OE forename of non-dithematic type. Pica is another; though not attested, it can be inferred from several place-names. The construction is therefore not (word) + (deuterotheme), but rather (simplex name) + (deuterotheme). Since hleor doesn't seem to have been used as a simplex name, it wouldn't fit the pattern even if it were being used as the first element. The byname needs only a little work. First, seo is the definite article; it should not be capitalized, and the accent, a modern editorial indication of vowel length, should be dropped. (It is in any case misplaced, the diphthong actually being éo.) Clark Hall does give réod `red', but réad is more usual and the ancestor of modern red. The adjective is in the weak declension after the definite article: seo Reode or seo Reade, of which the latter is apparently more likely. The armory is being returned for a redraw. The ermine spots need to be draw a lot larger. As drawn (and colored) no one at the Laurel meeting could tell if they were argent or Or.

Madawc Seumus Caradawg. Alternate name Harald Slayname. This is being returned for non-period style. We are not aware of, and no one was able to provide any evidence for, any English bynames involving killing abstract concepts.


DRACHENWALD

Erich Rotbart. Device. Lozengy bendwise azure and argent, a swan naiant wings elevated and addorsed sable. This is in conflict with arms of the Principality of Cynagua, Quarterly argent and Or, a swan rousant, wings elevated and addorsed sable, maintaining in its dexter foot a laurel wreath vert. The main difference between a swan naiant and rousant is the leg position, which is not sufficient in this case. While not a cause for the return, the lozenges should be drawn smaller.

Helvig Ulfsdotter. Device. Azure, a duck statant wings elevated and on a chief argent three roses proper. This is in conflict with Lynette Jaclyn Davé‚jean (SCA), Azure, a dove, and on a chief argent two roses proper. There is only one Cd, for the change from duck to dove, and nothing for the number only of the tertiary charges. This is also in conflict with Mairghread Sgoilear, Azure, a falcon rising, wings addorsed and inverted and on a chief argent three roses azure. Again, there is only one CD for change of bird, and nothing for the color of the tertiaries.

Jorunn Krukmakerska. Device. Per bend sinister gules and sable, a tree and in base three bars wavy argent. This conflicts with Erik of Oakstream (SCA) Purpure, a tree eradicated and in base three bars wavy argent. There is only one CD for the changes to the field.

Margareta af Thule. Name. Submitted as Margareta af Thule, this violates III.1.a, Linguistic consistency, by combining two different languages in one phrase, "af" and "Thule", without providing any documentation that the two languages can be combined. Since the submitter forbade any changes, we were unable to substitute the lingua Anglica "of" for the "af". The armory was registered under the holding name Margareta of Uma.

Nikolas de Mont Nord. Device change. Per bend sinister sable and gules, a bend sinister between a cockerel's leg bendwise couped à la quise and a fleur-de-lis argent. This conflicts with Lodhrer Ledhrfótr (SCA) Per bend sinister sable and gules, a bend sinister between two candles argent., with one CD for the changes of type of the secondaries.

Peter Schneck. Badge for Seitsemän pyhän unikeon veljeskunta. Argent, a sun sable eclipsed argent. This conflicts with Glynn Llan-y-Rhyllwyn (SCA) Potenty gules and argent, a sun sable eclipsed argent charged with a mullet throughout sable. There is a CD for the field, but nothing for the removal of what is essentially a quartenary charge.

Sela nic a'Phearsoin of Clan Chattan. Alternate name of Arianrhod ferch Branwen ferch Saradwen ferch Morfydd o Glynnog Fawr. On the 12/92 LoAR the alternate name Arianrhod ferch Branwen ferch Olwen was returned with this comment: Arianrhod is the name of the Welsh moon goddess, and has not been shown to have been used by humans in period. It has been returned ere now (LoAR of Aug 87, p.13); pending evidence of its period use, it must again be returned. It would appear that the same problem still exists. Furthermore, while not the cause of the return, we have no real period citation for Branwen. Saradwen appears in a single late-period variant of an early genealogy (Bartrum) and is given an Irish origin (one doubts whether she existed at all). In other words, three of the four names are in some way questionable. The underlying place name is Clynnog Fawr, but since it is a proper name of a place, it would not normally take a preposition when used as a locative byname in Welsh.

Sela nic a'Phearsoin of Clan Chattan. Badge. (Fieldless) A two-towered castle azure charged with a wheel argent. This conflicts with Kelan McBride of Arainn (SCA) (Fieldless) On a tower azure a dragon's head couped contourny argent and Muirghein ni Ghrainne (SCA) (Fieldless) On a tower azure a hawk displayed argent. In each case there is one CD for the fieldlessness, but none for the change from tower to castle nor for the change of type only of the tertiaries.


EAST

Francesco Greco. Badge. Per fess enarched gules and vert, a San Dominio crucifix argent. This is being returned for violating VII.7.a., armorial identifiability. While evidence was produced that crucifixes were used in period, they had the figure of Jesus in a different tincture than that of the underlying cross. With the entire crucifix in one tincture, it blurs into one amorphous mass. Making the underlying cross one tincture and Jesus another should take care of this problem.


MERIDIES

Ben Riec, Shire of. Name. The group wants their name to mean smoking mountain, and were more concerned about the meaning of the name than anything else. The name as submitted did not mean that, nor was it properly constructed, so it is being returned for further work. For a Gaelic name the most obvious possibility is that suggested by Maclennan's gloss beinn-theine for English volcano; the literal sense of the compound is `fire-mountain'. For another, CDIL s.v. teine gives an early compound teineshliab glossed `fiery mountain'; teineshliabh would be the modern spelling. Probably Beinntheine and Teineshliabh would both work.

Bran MacFadin. Device. Per fess gules and azure, a fess argent between four mullets in fess and a massacre Or. This conflict with the flag of Luxembourg and the flag of the Netherlands Per fess gules and azure, a fess argent. There is only one CD, for the addition of the secondary charges.

Caoilfhionn inghean Chaomhánaigh. Device. Vert, on a fess argent a hammered dulcimer gules. This conflicts with Johanna Dudley (SCA), Vert, on a fess argent two saltorels throughout, each surmounted with a Celtic cross, all sable. There is only one CD, for the changes to the tertiary charges.

Cyranleah of Ravenscroft. Name. The name Crynaleah is a place name, not a given name, and is therefore not acceptable as a given name. Cyranleah, barring scribal error, is in fact most easily interpreted as `Cyra's leah', i.e., `Cyra's wood or clearing'. We know of no OE prototheme particularly close to Cyr- or Cyran-, and -leah is not an OE deuterotheme. The best we can offer for the prototheme is Cyne-; for the deuterotheme there are -lac, which would make the name masculine, -leofu and -lufu, which would make it feminine, and -laf, almost unique in OE in being used for both sexes. There is also a masculine deuterotheme -heah, as in Cyneheah. The device was registered under the name Lisa of Ravenscroft.

Francois Xavier MacUlric. Name. This name combines a French given name, a French adaptation of a Basque locative surname and an English version of a quasi-Gaelic hereditary patronymic. Furthermore, this name uses two surnames. We found the entire combination too improbable to be registered. The device was registered under the name Francois of Thor's Mountain.

Henry of Tipperary. Device. Or, a bend per bend sable and gules, between a mascle knot azure and a mascle knot vert. Mascle knots are an SCA invention which have been banned since the LoAR of March 1996.

Loch Báis, Shire of. Device. Per fess wavy azure and sable, a skeletal forearm palewise argent maintaining a laurel wreath Or. This is being returned for having an overlying charge across a low contrast field with complex line of division.

Magge Reichenberg. Device. Per pale argent and gules, a drop spindle proper between two sheep passant to sinister counterchanged. The drop spindle was blazoned as proper and was entirely brown, including the thread. While we have no problem with the spindle itself being brown, since it is made of wood, the thread needs to be in a standard heraldic tincture.

Oonagh nic Barith. Name. This is being returned for using a non-period name. There is no evidence that Oonagh is anything but a modern form of the Irish name na. We assume that the patronym is typoed and should be Bár r. This is a fine ON name; and since Geirr and Lind agree that Una is also an ON name, a period form of the name making her the daughter of Bár r is Una B ár ardóttir. The device is registered under the name Carol of Misty Mere.

Oyn Cefnog. Device. Counter-ermine, a pile Or. This conflicts with John Richard Beauchamp (SCA), Counter-ermine, on a pile Or an owl sable; there's just one CD for removing the owl.

Pyotr Lyagushka Vasiliev syn Tetiukhina. Device. Per pale lozengy Or and azure, and argent, a frog tergiant within a bordure, all counterchanged. This is being returned for unidentifiability. When viewed across the room, it was virtually impossible for someone who not already seen it closer, to tell what was going on. It would be improved by using larger lozenges.

Rixa Eriksdottir. Device. Sable, a dragon segreant on a chief argent a mullet of six points sable. This conflicts with Irel Krist of Star Inn (SCA), Sable, a wyvern segreant regardant, maintaining two swords, and on a chief argent four mullets of eight points azure. There is no heraldic difference allowed between dragon and wyvern, nothing for head position or Irel's maintained swords; the only CD is for the changes to the tertiaries.

Sebastian Everard. Device. Azure, a wyvern stooping Or, a bordure counter-compony azure and Or. This is being returned for a redraw. The wyvern is in trian aspect, the tail is not a wyvern's tail, but closer to a scorpion's tail.

Talmere, Shire of. Device. Per fess wavy azure and sable, a sea-stag rampant and in dexter chief a laurel wreath argent. This is being returned for having an overlying charge across a low contrast field with complex line of division. Note: while not the reason for return, the wreath should look more like a circle and less like a horse shoe.


MIDDLE

Aislinne of Alainmor. Household name for Cinneadh Tallai Beinn. The household name was supposed to be Gaelic for "Clan of the Mountain Hall", though it was incorrectly constructed. More importantly, this follows none of the period models for household names. Possible models include Scottish clans (Clan Stewart), ruling dynasties (House of Anjou), professional guilds (Baker's Guild of Augsburg, Worshipful Company of Coopers), military units (The White Company), and inns (House of the White Hart).

Aliena Goodeve. Device. Azure mullety Or, a unicorn rampant argent charged on the shoulder with an increscent gules, a demi-sun issuant from base Or. This is being returned for a redraw. This needs to have far fewer mullets, and they need to be a lot larger. Additionally, though not cause for return, there should be fewer rays on the sun.

Arinbjorn Ragnarsson. Device. Per fess urdy sable and argent. This conflicts with the registered badge of Kane Greymane (SCA) Per fess embattled sable, and Or masoned sable. There is a CD for change of 1/2 the tincture, but nothing for line of division.

Bleddyn ap Llywelyn. Device. Sable, a wolf's head couped between three decrescents a bordure argent. This conflicts with Conrad of Northfield Sable, a wolf's head erased within a bordure argent., with once CD for the addition of the decrescents.

Coste Nord, Canton of. Name and device. Azure, two narwhales haurient embowed respectant, horns in saltire, in base a laurel wreath, a chief wavy argent. This is conflict with Côtes-du-Nord, the name for one of the regions in the NW of France. It has its own entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica, and is thereby important enough to protect. Since we do not form holding names for groups. we must return the device as well.

Draigen Kinvara. Name. This is being returned for being a mixed Gaelic-English name. According to Room, Kinvara is the English form of Cinn Mhara `head of the sea'; it's a reasonably phonetic transcription. A similarly phonetic transcription of a late-period pronunciation of Draigen might be something like Dreyne. Dreyne Kinvara would be the English version. An early Irish form might be something like Draigen Cheinn Mara, though there is little evidence for non-adjectival Gaelic locatives.

Elayna Lilley. Device. Per bend sinister gules and vairy Or and gules, in dexter chief a fleur-de-lis Or. This is in conflict with the royal badge of France, A fleur-de-lis Or. There is a CD for fieldlessness, but nothing for placement against a fieldless badge.

Fafnir Walther. Name. No documentation was presented to show that Fafnir was used by humans in period, and Lind, from where the name was documented, marks it as mythological. The armory was registered under holding name Jeffrey Walther.

Fionnbharr Liath Seabhac Seilge. Name. The name is incorrectly constructed. He has given himself two independent bynames: he's grey (liath), and he's a hunting hawk, that being the literal meaning of seabhac seilge. Seabhac `hawk' would be a fine byname; it may even be attested. Liath `grey-haired' is certainly attested. Seabhac seilge is not formed like any actual Irish or Scots Gaelic byname, and the use of two non-patronymic, non-locative bynames in a period Gaelic name, has not been demonstrated. There are period models for an Seabhac `the Hawk', and an Seabhac Liath `the Grey Hawk' is probably registerable, but the combination of all three byname elements is not believable.

Gerald Tarrant, the Hunter. Name. The client allows no changes whatsoever so this is being returned for the out-of-period use of the comma in the name. Additionally, this is being returned for conflict with Gerald Tarrant, the main character in the "Coldfire trilogy", a series of novels by C.S. Friedman, who is known throughout the books as Gerald Tarrant, the Hunter.

Grenki Fenisson. Name. No documentation could be produced for Grenki. The closest that could be found was Grinkel. However, it is unlikely that it would have been combined with Fenisson. As for his fall-back of Grannkall, there are other problems. First, it appears to be a typo for Gran(n)kell, the form given by Lind. Secondly, it's not at all clear that it has any place in a late-period Scottish name. It would go fine with Finnason or Finnuson, the ON patronymics from Finni and (feminine) Finna, both of which forenames are in Lind. The forms Grankell Finnason (or Finnuson) appear to be registerable.

Keara Calder. Household name for House Argus and badge. Gules, a bicorporate lion Or between three crosses formy fitched at the foot argent. The household name is being returned for conflict with Argos, which has its own entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica, and is thereby important enough to protect. The badge is being returned for a redraw. The crosses are not formy and are not fitchy, but some kind of hybrid between the two.

Kobayakawa Ariake. Device. Per saltire gules and Or, in pale two crocodiles passant contourney argent each gorged of a county coronet, and in fess two crosses formy fitched at the foot sable. The device is being returned for a redraw. The crosses are not formy and are not fitchy, but some kind of hybrid between the two.

Patraic Ó Dochartaigh. Device. Vert, a chevron Or between three wolfhounds statant erect argent. This conflicts with Derdriu ingen Raghnaill Gráig na Manach (SCA) Vert, a chevron Or between two crescents and a tree argent., with one CD for changing the type of the group of secondaries. Note: Derdriu's submission was registered 11/96.

Prydwen ferch Bledig. Name. This is being returned for lack of a period given name. Prydwen is given in the form that Gruffudd uses for modern names; it is also clearly described as the name of Arthur's ship.

Robert FitzRobert of Bellmawr. Name. No documentation was or could be provided for Bellmawr. Based on examples in Smith of the Anglo-Saxon element bel (fire, funeral pyre) in place names (e.g. Belstead, Belton, Beltoft, Belwood) you could probably postulate a combination with moor for Belmoor or Belmore. However, since the submitter forbade changes, we are forced to return the name.

Stephen Egremont. Device. Per chevron vert and sable, two natural dolphins embowed in annulo argent. This conflicts with that Asenaeth of Thorne (SCA), Per chevron ployé vert and sable, three narwhales naiant in annulo argent. We give no difference between a narwhale and a natural dolphin, and between a field per chevron and per chevron ployé. Therefore, there is only one CD, for number between these two submissions.

Stephen Egremont. Badge. (Fieldless) A natural dolphin haurient argent. This conflicts with Anton Hojen (SCA), Gyronny from canton Or and sable, to sinister [in the sinister portion of the field] a dolphin haurient argent. We give no difference between a natural and a heraldic dolphin, and none for placement against a fieldless badge. Therefore, there is only one CD, for fieldlessness.

Streonwold the Wolfbane. Name and device. Per fess argent and sable, a natural panther salient inverted to sinister counterchanged. The name is being returned for improper construction. The form the Wolfbane could not be documented. Both Streonwold wulfesbana and Streonwold Wolfsbane are registerable. The device is being returned for non period style. There was much debate in the College as to how exactly to blazon this position, and no documentation was provided to show that this was a period position.

Theodweard L'Archier. Device. Per fess gules and vert, on a fess embattled argent between three Latin crosses and an arrow fesswise reversed Or a tree vert. This is being returned for a redraw. As drawn, the device is halfway between Per fess, a fess and Argent. .. a chief and a base.

Thyri Aradottir. Device. Barry wavy of six azure and argent, on a chief wavy argent three duck's feet inverted sable. This is being returned for violating VII.7.a., armorial identifiability. The duck's feet were not identifiable by anyone at the Laurel meeting.

Terence Golddragon. Household name for House Glen Dragon. This is being returned for non-period style. The household name follows none of the period models for household names. Possible models include Scottish clans (Clan Stewart), ruling dynasties (House of Anjou), professional guilds (Baker's Guild of Augsburg, Worshipful Company of Coopers), military units (The White Company), and inns (House of the White Hart).

Three Towers, March of. Device. Argent, three towers sable, that in base within a laurel wreath vert, a bordure embattled azure. This conflicts with Shire of Silfren Mere (SCA), Argent, a tower sable, its base environed of a laurel wreath vert, all within a bordure embattled azure. There is only one CD, for the number of towers.

Tzvi ben Avraham. Device. Argent, a stag's head erased gules within a star of David, all within an annulet azure. This is being returned for non-period style. The visual effect of the head is similar to that of a quaternary charge, and the use of one charge to enclose another is rare in period armory. Putting the charge within another charge makes it unregisterable.

Vladislav de Jaffa. Device. Argent, a paw-print counter-ermine. This conflicts with Igor Medved (SCA) Argent, a bear's dexter paw print azure., with one CD for tincture of the paw-print.

Wilhelm Cameron von Holstein. Household name for Haus von Holstein. This conflicts with the Duchy of Holstein which has its own entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica, and is therefore important enough to protect.


WEST

West, Kingdom of the. Badge. [Fieldless] An annulet of oak leaves conjoined argent. This is being returned for conflict with the Order of the Laurel (SCA) (Tinctureless) A laurel wreath. Period Laurel wreaths can be drawn as a closed wreath, and they can be drawn with leaves looking remarkably like the submitted form as in the Arms of Lenberg, Siebmacher, plate 90 (Or, a laurel wreath vert), blazoned in Rietstap as D'Or, à une couronne de laurier de sin.

West, Kingdom of the. Badge. [Fieldless] An annulet of oak leaves conjoined Or. This is being returned for conflict with the Order of the Laurel (SCA) (Tinctureless) A laurel wreath. Period Laurel wreaths can be drawn as a closed wreath, and they can be drawn with leaves looking remarkably like the submitted form as in the Arms of Lenberg, Siebmacher, plate 90 (Or, a laurel wreath vert), blazoned in Rietstap as D'Or, à une couronne de laurier de sin.

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