LoAR

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

February 1997



AN TIR

An Tir, Kingdom of. Blazon change. Checky Or and argent, a lion's sinister jambe erased sustaining a bow fesswise sable. Since the bow is large enough to count for difference, we have reblazoned it as sustained. This affects the badge registered in August 1995.

Bran Olom. Device. Gules, on a chevron between three lions rampant Or a cross patonce gules.

Daire MacTaggart. Name.
Submitted as Dair MacTaggart, no documentation was presented, and none could be found, for Dair as a period name. We have substituted the Anglicized form of the Gaelic name D áre, which is required with the English surname.

Donnabhán Ó Séaghdha. Name.

Elspeth MacTaggart. Name.

James Gunther. Name.
Submitted as James Guntherson, the submitter wanted his name to show that he was the son of Gunther. The proper form is Gunther, not Guntherson.

Lionsdale, Canton of. Name and device. Or, on a cross formy quadrate sable within a laurel wreath vert a lion s face Or.

Vulcanfeldt, Shire of. Change of device. Argent, an apple gules within a laurel wreath vert a chief wavy azure.

Wyll Hauk. Device. Argent, within a vol an eagle's head erased gules all within a bordure gules charged with three pheons argent.

Yolande Chastellain. Device. Azure, a shakefork argent between three crosses bottony within an orle Or.


ANSTEORRA

Adelaide de Ruthven. Name.

Alaric Drake. Name.

Alasdair MacEogan. Badge. (Fieldless) A squirrel sejant erect Or.

Alina Mitchell. Device. Per bend indented argent and sable, a heart gules and a rose argent.

Ascelyn Balstene. Name.

Christina Armstrong. Name and device. Vert, an arm issuant from sinister argent sustaining a Celtic cross Or.

Christoforo Antonio Passavanti. Name.

Constance O Quinn. Name.

Finn O'Collan. Name.
Submitted as Finn O Collin, no evidence was presented to show that O'Collin was a period form. We have substituted the closest period form.

Gabriel Michael MacFarlane. Device. Azure, in fess two standing seraphs argent and in chief a compass star argent.

Giuliana Firidolfi. Name and device. Azure, a dolphin haurient and on a chief argent three fleurs-de-lys gules.

Giuliana Firidolfi. Badge. (Fieldless) A dolphin haurient Or charged with a fleur-de-lys gules.

Meredudd Brangwyn. Name.
Submitted as Meredydd Brangwyn, no documentation was provided to show Meredydd was a period name. We have substituted the closest documentable period form.

Nicolette de Loria. Name and device. Argent, a compass star azure between four arrows in saltire, points outward vert.

Rafaella Violante de Lorraine. Device change. Per pale vert and azure, a stag at gaze argent and a chief indented ermine.
Her previous device Per pale vert and azure, a pale fusilly ermine., is to be retained as a badge.

Rhiannon ferch Cian. Name change from Eleri Rhiannon ferch Cian.

Tostig Logiosophia. Device change. Argent, a tau cross and on a chief azure two open books argent.
His previous device Azure, on plate a pall azure, on a chief argent a compass star between two mullets of four points azure., is to be retained as a badge.


ATENVELDT

Alana Douglas. Name and device. Azure, a heart and on a chief embattled argent, two mullets azure.

Barbary of Leijun. Name and device. Sable, a chain bendwise throughout argent between two plates, each charged with the Greek minuscule letter lambda azure.

Brianna Elizabeth Sutherland. Name and device. Purpure, on a pile inverted between two natural dolphins haurient respectant argent, a mullet sable.

Brighed O'Dáire. Badge. (Fieldless) A sword argent surmounted by a barrel proper.

Catelin Cowan. Name (see RETURNS for device).
Submitted as Caitlin Cowan, this mixes Irish and English orthography in the same name. We have substituted the English Catelin in order to make the entire name English.

Celine Vita da Francavilla. Name and device. Sable, two scarpes between a trefoil and a crescent Or.
Submitted as Celine Vita di Francavilla, locative names, which this is one, need the preposition da, not di.

Christiana Haberdasher. Name and device. Gules, a feather fan argent, handled Or.
The submitter has provided documentation showing this type of fan was used in late period.

Cian MacGrioghair. Name and device. Or, on a pale vert an eagle's head erased between two mullets argent.

Darius Wolfe. Name and device. Or, a wolf's head cabossed and on a chief sable, a label Or.

David Buchanan. Name and device. Per bend sinister gules and argent, a bagpipe and a claymore bendwise sinister counterchanged.

Fredella Fiametta di Lodovico Alamanni. Name and device. Per bend sinister gules and azure, on a bend sinister purpure fimbriated between a lion passant and a bear statant, three bees Or.

Gamli CEðikollr. Device. Per bend gules and sable, an elephant's skull affronty argent.

Grace Munro. Name.

Griffith Ash the Archer. Name.

Guido il Moro. Name and device. Per bend embattled Or and sable, a heart and a cross patonce counterchanged.

Gwenllian ferch Llywelyn ab Ieuan. Name and device. Vert, three hedgehogs statant argent.
Submitted as Gwenllian ferch Llewelyn ab Ieuan, it has the English form of Llywelyn. We have substituted the correct Welsh form.
Nice armory!

Ian Graym. Name and device. Per bend sinister vert and sable, a sword inverted argent surmounted by a set of scales Or, a bordure argent.
Submitted as Iain Graym, this mixed English and Gaelic in the same name. We have substituted the English Ian.
Please tell the submitter to draw the bordure larger.

Ívarr Snæbjarnarson. Name and device. Azure, on a pale Or between two griffins segreant addorsed argent, a rose azure and another gules.
Submitted under the name Ivar Snaebjorn, that name was returned in December 1996 since it was incorrectly constructed and the submitter would not take corrections. Since, when he submitted armory, he said he would take corrections, we have registered this to the corrected form of the name.

John Levet. Badge. Pily Or and gules, the points ending in crosses couped, a bordure counterchanged.

Karen McKay of Marwode. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for device). Vert, a winged cat passant Or, a bordure argent.
Submitted as Tigra McKay of Marwode.

Keridwen Androsoun. Name and device. Vert, an antelope rampant, on a chief Or, three pine trees couped vert.

Lydia Arundel an Gernowes. Name and device. Per bend sinister sable and barry wavy azure and argent, in dexter chief, six bezants, three, two and one.
Submitted as Lydia Arundel an Gurnow, According to Harpy, the standard form for "the Cornishman" is An Kernow, and that the feminine form would demonstrate lenition and the female suffix and become an Gernowes.

Magdalen Venturosa. Name and device. Per pale Or and gules, a spider sable, a bordure counterchanged.

Malcolm Leslie the Scot. Change of holding name from Malcolm of Ered Sûl.

Marit Horn. Name and device. Azure, a bend sinister between two spoons in fess argent and a cornucopia Or.
Submitted as Marit of the Horn, we have dropped the out of place "of the".

Marius Conor. Device. Argent, on a tree couped vert an annulet argent, a base wavy azure.

Mark Lightburn. Badge. Azure, a torch Or enflamed gules.

Mikolaj Krasnik. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Obrect Ber von dem Oberland. Name.
Submitted as Obrect Bahr von Oberlander, it was incorrectly constructed. Bahlow s.n. Obrecht cites Obrecht Huser 1356; the name is a variant of Abrecht, an Alamannic dialect form of Albrecht; Brechenmacher gives it the same derivation and says that it was popular. Socin doesn't mention Obrecht, but he says (1) that the intermediate form Abreht appears around the end of the 13th c. Bahr seems to be a late form. Bahlow derives it from Middle Low German bare `bear' and has only early forms without the h. Brechenmacher has no entry for it; in the south the corresponding name seems to have been Bähr or Behr (to use a correspondingly late form). The northern Low German form goes poorly with the rest of the name. Alamannic is found in the southwest and is a very High German dialect, at the opposite end of the linguistic scale from Low German, and an Oberlä nder is `a highlander, a South German'. Obrecht Oberländer or Obrecht von dem Oberland would make rather good sense. Keeping all three elements, a reasonably consistent form is Obrecht Ber von dem (or vom) Oberland.

Philip Sinclair. Name and device. Per bend sinister azure and argent, a mullet of four points and a lymphad counterchanged.

Rioghnach nic Thomaidh. Name and device. Per saltire Or and argent, an iris purpure, slipped and leaved vert, a bordure per saltire vert and sable.
Submitted as Rioghnach MacOmie, this combines English and Gaelic in the same name. We have restored to its Gaelic form to go with Rioghnach, and in the process feminized it.

Robert de Cynnabar. Name.
Cynnabar is the registered name of an SCA group. Since de was the most common medieval documentary locative preposition in both England and France, the two places where Robert is most likely to be found, we allow him to register the name of an SCA group with it. This was first done with the 11/92 registration of Robert de Cleftlands.

Ruppert Horn. Name and device. Vert, a dance and in chief a centaur statant guardant, maintaining a spear argent.
Submitted as Ruppert of the Horn, we have dropped the out of place "of the".

Selina Marie Sinclair. Name (see RETURNS for device).
Submitted as Saleena Marie Sinclair, no documentation was provided for the name. We have substituted the closest documentable form.

Shamus Sinclair. Name (see PENDS for device).
Submitted as Shamus Sinclair de Ronsard, Dauzat says that the rare name Ronsard is probably a pejorative form of Roncin `pack-horse'; the de is indeed out of place here. (The suffix -ard frequently had pejorative force.) But Shamus Sinclair Ronsard doesn't work: there's no period culture in which the structure of this name makes even a little sense. Some real place-names a bit like Ronsard are Ronssoy, Ronchaux, Ronchères, all from Dauzat & Rostaing s.n. Romegoux.

Sheron Regan. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Or, a chevron inverted azure, ermined Or, in chief a dolphin uriant azure.
Submitted as Arminta Ragon.

Shishido Tora. Badge. Or, a mountain gules, in sinister chief a mullet of four points sable.

Steffan of the Close. Name and device. Vert, three armored arms in triskelion, each maintaining a spoon, argent, between three cooking pots Or.

Steffen le Stalkere. Name and device. Per pale argent and azure, a sun between four mullets, two and two, counterchanged.
Submitted as Steffen the Night Stalker, no documentation was presented for this form. We have substituted the closest documentable form.

Susannah Martin. Name.
Submitted as Susannah Cuinn Martin, the English name Quin(n) discussed by Reaney & Wilson is from Old French quin `monkey'; none of the citations has anything but Qu. S.n. Quine they discuss Irish Ó Cuinn, for which Woulfe gives late 16th or early 17th c. English forms; O Quyn, O Quine, and O Coyne. There doesn't seem to be anything here that would make a good case for Cuinn as a late-period English spelling of either name. We have dropped the problematical element in order to register the name.

Tegan N'Gavin of Calder. Name and device. Per pale vert and argent, a lion passant guardant contourny sable, on a chief per pale argent and vert a sword sable.
Submitted as Tegan ni Gavin of Calder, the name mixes the Gaelic ni with the non-Gaelic Gavin. Black s.n. Macgavin has John Riauch McGawin 1613 and refers the name to Macgowan, where we have for example Gilbert Makgowin 1526 and an undated M'Govin. It's been shown before that in late-period documents N', Nic(k), and Nc can replace M', Mc, etc. when the surname is used by a woman. Since the surname in question is from Gaelic Mac a' ghobhainn, and the bh varies between [v] and [w] depending on the word and the dialect, McGavin is probably as reasonable a late-period form as McGawin; feminizing it yields NcGavin, N'Gavin, etc. We have used N'Gavin, since it's likely to result in a pronunciation close to what she had in mind.

Tomaso Camino. Name and device. Or, three Latin crosses raguly, a chief triangular vert.

Tristan d'Alsace. Name (see RETURNS for device).

William Bauer. Device. Azure, on a chief argent an arrow reversed sable.

William A' Becket. Name (see RETURNS for device).


ATLANTIA

Bryce de Byram. Device. Checky sable and Or, on a chief gules three fleur-de-lis Or.

Eadan nic Dhomhnaill. Name.

Eithne Nic Dhòmnuill. Device. Or, a bend sinister, in dexter chief a mullet of eight points gules, overall a penguin statant affronty proper.

Eldrid Tremayne. Change of device. Per pale azure and gules, a goat clymant Or.
His previous device, Argent, in chief a rainbow couped fesswise purpure, Or and gules, and in base a pegasus rampant affronty displayed sable., is hereby released.

érennach Mac Conchoille. Name and device. Per chevron purpure and argent, two feathers in chevron and an apple counterchanged.

Finn O Flaherty. Name.

Galen Storm. Name and device. Per pale sable and azure, a phoenix argent rising from flames proper.

Gauss Magnússon. Name and device. Azure, on a pile inverted argent, between two ravens close Or, a spear sable.

Greta Linden. Name.

Helmut Kruger. Name.

Ilse Brenner. Name.
Submitted as Ilse von Brenner, Brenner is an occupational surname, literally `burner'; according to Brechenmacher it usually signified one who cleared land by burning it off, though it may at times be for a charcoal-burner. The name is analogous to Ibbot of Brewer and would make sense only if Brenner were a place-name. We have dropped the von in order to register the name.

Isibéal ní Chionaoith. Name.

Judith de Masseham. Name.
Submitted as Judith de Massam, the submitter asked that the name be put into an 11th century form. Judith de Masseham is a late pre-Conquest form in which the place-name has already begun to exhibit some early ME characteristics. This is probably the closest of the early forms to what she actually submitted.

Sabine the Short. Name and device. Argent, a lion sejant sable and on a chief double-enarched purpure, a roundel between a decrescent and an increscent argent.

Salina zü der Bach. Name and device. Argent, a seeblatt vert within a bordure potenty azure.
Submitted as Salina zu dem Bach on the LoI, it was submitted in kingdom as Salina zü der Bach. Socin, on p. 370 has many examples of the topographical byname derived from Bach `brook'. Although the word is masculine in standard German, in Alsace it was feminine; consequently most of the examples are of the form zer Bach, contracted from ze der Bach. (In these and many other early records ze is the normal form of the preposition.) And amazingly enough, in an undated (but certainly no later than 14th c.) citation he has zü der Bach. This is certainly a bit unusual, but since it can reasonably be supposed to represent a transitional phase between ze and zu, it needn't be dismissed as a scribal error. Therefore, we have registered the name as originally submitted.

Simkin Colfox. Badge. Argent, in pale a trefoil vert and an anvil within a bordure embattled sable.
Against Rudolph Fekter (SCA), Argent, in pale a butterfly and an anvil within a bordure dovetailed sable., there is one CD for change of tincture of the butterfly vs the trefoil and one CD for change of type of butterfly to trefoil.

Susanna Grey. Badge. (Fieldless) In pale a bee contourny Or, wings elevated and addorsed, perched atop a lily azure.

Thorvald Hrolfsson. Device. Argent, in bend sinister two boar s heads couped close Or, a bordure gules.


CAID

Antek Ignatovich. Device. Azure, a cross couped of three crossbars, missing the dexter base arm, a bordure embattled argent.
This cross is a period charge, found in a collection of Polish armory, Herby Rycerstwa Polskiego, 1584, [Paprockiego, 1858]. On a case by case basis, if the charge can be documented as period, and be blazoned in a manner such that we can reproduce the emblazon accurately, we will register charges from cypher heraldry.

Arianna ny Shane. Device. Per chevron azure and vert, two unicorns rampant and a pegasus passant, a bordure embattled argent.
Her previous device Vert, two unicorns combattant and a pegasus passant argent., is hereby released.

Cloude River, Shire of. Name.
Submitted as Cloudy River, Shire of, cloudy does not seem to have been used in period place names. Since Cloude can be documented to 1327 in a name, and places were named after last names, we are substituting the closest documentable form.

Damian von Baden. Household name Company of Saint Oswald. Submitted as Order of St. Oswald. The Administrative Handbook defines Order Names specifically as The name of a recognized Society honor, order or award and goes on to say: By Corpora such names may only be registered to kingdoms, principalities, baronies or equivalent branches. Therefore we cannot register 'Order' as a designator for a household name to an individual. We have substituted Company as the closest equivalent.

Earnán Caomhánach. Name.

Gertrud von Würzburg. Name and device. Argent, a cross bottony gules between three trees proper.

Ghislaine d'Auxerre. Badge. (Fieldless) A fox rampant contourney sable estencely and marked argent ravishing a goose argent.

Jeanne Alwyn. Name.

Li Kuang-Ch'i. Name and device. Sable, a crane rising, wings displayed and on a chief argent a lion passant guardant gules.

Mahmood al-Taifi. Change of device. Argent, an elephant rampant sable maintaining in its trunk a coronet gules.
His former device, Gules, on a pile between two elephant tusks argent, an elephant rampant sable., is to be retained as a badge.

Petronia of Kent. Name.

Phelan Kell. Name and device. Argent, a wolf statant sable, a chief checky sable and argent, chaussé azure.
Legh's Accidents of Armory, 1576, fo. 62, has an emblazon of a device which has a chief which looks quite similar to a chief chaussé and says: "The field is Tenne, a chief Shapournet Or and Ermines." This is close enough to a chief chapé that a chief chaussé should be acceptable. In the broader view, field divisions in general may be used on a chief with no problems: we wouldn't object to a chief paly; or a chief gyronny, for instance. This is a straightforward application of that policy with the similar example from period of the chief shapournet, so it is registerable. [Thanks to Baron Bruce for this research.]

Phelan Kell. badge. (Fieldless) A lion's jamb palewise erased sable, maintaining a key bendwise sinister, ward to chief, Or.
This is clear of An Tir, Kingdom of Checky Or and argent, a lion's sinister jambe erased grasping a bow fesswise sable., because the bow is big enough to count for difference.
See An Tir, Kingdom of, for the reblazon.

Rowan Killian. Name (see RETURNS for badge.)
Submitted as Rowen Killian, no documentation was presented for Rowen as a period given name. We have substituted the closest documentable period form.


CALONTIR

Ailwin de la Marche. Name.
Submitted as Aelwen de la Marche, no documentation was presented that this spelling was used in period, and none could be provided. We have substituted the closest documentable form.

Ailene nic Aedain. Device. Vert, a bend wavy Or between two open books argent.
Outstanding wavy!

Anne atte Nuthurst. Name.

Aonghus MacThorcadail. Name and device. Per bend argent and lozengy bendwise sinister argent and vert, in sinister chief a badger rampant sable marked argent.

Berndt der Kühne. Name.

Brenna Goldherte. Name and device. Purpure, a heart and on a chief wavy Or three ravens close sable.
Submitted as Brenna Cridhe Or, Brenna is not a Gaelic name, and cannot be combined with a Gaelic byname. We have substituted the English form of the name. In case she decides wants a Gaelic forename, we note that such compounds as modern Gaelic òrbh àrr `gold-haired' and òrbheart `noble deed' suggest that orchridhe is probably a reasonable construction. Cridhe Or isn't, since or is the noun `gold', not the adjective `golden'.

Brigida von München. Name.

Esther bat Moshe. Name.

Godric Regenwealdessunu. Name and device. Per pale purpure and Or, a two headed chess-knight counterchanged a bordure argent semy-de-lys purpure.

Heraldshill, Shire of. Name and device. Per chevron gules and vert, two straight trumpets Or and on a plate a laurel wreath gules.
Submitted as Heralds Hill, Shire of, we have combined it into one word in order to follow documented period practice. Please find a herald to show the group how to correctly draw a Laurel wreath.

Jeanette Atwater. Name.

Lothar zer Sunnen. Name and device. Gyronny of twelve sable and argent, a sun in splendor throughout gules between in chief two crosses formy counterchanged.

Mateo Salvatore. Name.

Matthew Wynne. Name.

Muirgen ingen uí Máeláin. Name.

Sebastian Xiphias. Name.
Submitted as Sebastianos Xiphias, with the Sebastianus as a backformed Greek name from Latin. There is no evidence that the -os suffix was appened on Latin names when borrowed into Greek. We have replaced it with the closest documentable form.

Tristram Hunter. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Ýri Káradóttir. Name.


DRACHENWALD

Isabella d Hiver. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Morgan ni Lochlainn. Badge. Argent semy-de-lys, a bordure gules.

Petros Monomachos. Name (see RETURNS for device) and badge. (Fieldless) A cross doubly pommeled gules.
Submitted as Petrc Monomachos, no documentation was provided for Petrc. We have substituted the closest documentable form.

Petrus Curonus. Name.
Submitted as Petrus Cyronus on the letter of intent, it was originally submitted as Petrus Curonus. Documentation has been provided that Curonus is a likely medieval form, so we have restored it to the form the submitter prefers.


EAST

Ælric of Coventree Grove. Name and badge. Argent, three dogs courant in annulo backs to center azure.

Anastasia Guta. Name.
Submitted as Anastasia Gutane, Gutane appears to be the genitive plural of an n-stem Gothic noun which if masculine would be Guta; the nominative plural is probably Gutans `Goths'. This could be translated `of the Goths', but for several reasons it seems unlikely in this form. First, Anastasia isn't at all Gothic; it's a Latin version of an originally Greek name. Perhaps more important, it seems unlikely that the lady would be known as `(of) the Goth(s)' in Gothic: in a Gothic context one expects people to be Gothic. One can imagine her being so described in a Latin document, however, so what's really wanted, we think, is a Latin version of the byname. According to Bennett (19), the Classical Latin word for the Goths was Gutones, Gotones, which matches the Gothic word; the Late Latin word was Gothi. The Classical equivalent of Gutane would therefore be Gotonum; the later Latin form would be Gothorum. However, we don't think that Latin idiom normally uses the genitive plural in this way. A more characteristic usage seems to be that of the names Lucterius Cadurcus `Lucterius the Cadurcan' and Vercassivellaunus Arvernus `Vercassivellaunus the Arvernian'; here Cadurcus is both an adjective `Cadurcan' and a substantive `the Cadurcan'. (Both names are from Caesar's Gallic War.) Harpy conjectures that the Gothic version would have been Gutó, which is consistent with other available information as well. Latin typically forced borrowed names into a regular Latin declension; here we suspect that the Classical Latin version would have been Guta.

Blackstone Mountain, Barony of. Order name for Order of the Onyx.

Blackstone Mountain, Barony of. Order name for Order of the Sable Bear.

Bridget McPhie. Name.

Bryce of Heronter. Name and device. Per saltire gules and sable, a griffin segreant between four crescents in cross argent.

Cigfran o Gaer Walch. Device change. Or, six ravens close sable.
Her previous device, Per bend sinister vert and argent, a hand appaumy bendwise inverted argent and a raven rising to sinister sable., is hereby released.

Edward of Denby Woods. Name and device. Vert, a lion rampant, on a chief embattled Or, a sword gules.

Elizabeth Elenore Lovell. Device. Purpure, a bend engrailed between six hummingbirds rising contourny argent.

Eloi Abelard. Name and device. Per chevron argent and sable, on a chief sable a plate.

Étaín Dhomhnullach. Badge for alternate name of Margaret Holmwood. Or, three gauntlets fesswise each sustaining a sprig of three holly leaves vert fructed gules.

Felicity Cahan. Name and device. Quarterly azure and vert, four unicorns rampant argent and a chief embattled Or.

Freygerðr of Visby. Name and device. Per bend sinister Or and vert, a bordure invected counterchanged.

Helena Janowska z Bedzina. Device. Per pale gules and argent, a fleur-de-lys counterchanged.

Helena Janowska z Bedzina. Badge. (Fieldless) A fleur-de-lys per pale argent and gules.

Ingram Josef Holzapfel. Name and device. Argent, an apple tree eradicated fructed proper and on a base embattled gules a lion sejant Or.

Kenric Burn of Northampton. Name and device. Per chevron argent and gules, three increscents counterchanged. Lovely armory!

Kresenz von Württemberg. Name.

Matthew Beare. Device. Per bend azure and sable, a bend between two bear's paw prints argent.

Philippa Swynford. Name and device. Or, a boar passant gules and a ford proper.
Nice cant!

Scott Ó Caoindealbháin. Badge. Or, five mullets in annulo sable.

Stelton Wald, Canton of. Device. Or, on a fess embattled sable a laurel wreath Or.
Please draw the fess slightly smaller.

Sylvanus Huntsman. Name and device. Argent, a stag's head cabossed gules.

Ygraine of Kellswood. Badge for House Thornewood. (Fieldless) A hawthorn branch fesswise, leaved and fructed argent.


MERIDIES

Eleanor of Shrewsbury. Name.

Hannah von dem Wald. Device. Sable, a lion rampant and in base a mullet of eight points, a gusset argent.

Isabel the Mad. Name and device. Per bend sinister vert and counter-ermine, on a bend counterchanged, fimbriated, a greyhound courant argent.

Stephen Wolfe. Badge. (Fieldless) A wolf's head erased within and conjoined to an annulet argent.


MIDDLE

Alan Járnhauss inn Hárlangi. Device change. Per pale gules and vert, two chains in saltire debruised by a cartouche fesswise Or.
His former device Sable, a jawless human skull within a triangle voided argent., is retained as a badge.

Alan Norreis. Name and device. Or, a cat dormant azure ermined argent between three torteaux.

Alethea O'Phelan. Name and device. Per pale argent and sable, two wolf's heads couped addorsed counterchanged.

Alexander Blackram. Name and device. Per saltire gules and sable, two rapiers inverted in saltire and overall a ram's head caboshed argent.

Alina Blackram. Name and device. Argent, on a bend purpure between six roses purpure slipped and leaved vert, two pairs of scissors argent. Nice armory!

Anastasia Drakina. Name and device. Per pall inverted sable purpure and argent, two moons in their plenitude argent and a dragon segreant contourny sable.

Andelcrag, Barony of. Badge. Or, two lightning bolts in saltire sable.

Andelcrag, Barony. Order name and badge for Order of the Guardant Ram. Per chevron sable and argent a brown ram's head caboshed proper armed Or.

Anne Marie de Garmeaulx. Name and device. Vert, a winged stag segreant Or, on a chief argent three fleurs-de-lys azure.

Ansfrid of Caldrithig. Name.

Arinkell the Falconer. Name and device. Argent, a brown falcon rising wings addorsed proper, perched atop a falconer's glove fesswise, in chief three hawk's lures azure.

Arlindis von Metten. Device. Argent semy of pommes, an escallop inverted purpure.

Avery Austringer. Badge. (Fieldless) An ermine spot Or and overall a fox courant gules.

Bedwyr Bannog. Name (see RETURNS for device.)

Berengaria Mordaunt. Badge. (Fieldless) An ermine spot Or within and conjoined at the base to a stag's attires argent.

Brictiva de Chantal. Device. Purpure, on a pile argent between two beehives Or a badger statant proper.

Brigh the Cosser. Name and device. Sable, three phoenixes Or.

Caillin Ruadh. Name and device. Or, between three dragons statant in annulo gules an annulet sable.
While registerable according to the rules, this is not period style.

Cerridwen nic Alister. Device. Per chevron sable and gules, two leonine centaurs passant respectant maintaining spears and a demi-sun issuant from base Or.

Charles Fenix. Name and device. Gules, a phoenix and in chief two suns Or.

Charles MacCormaic. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Argent, three torteaux, on a chief embattled azure two crescents argent.
Submitted as Midair MacCormaic.

Deana Dodson of Swordcliff. Name and device. Per fess azure and argent, a carnation argent slipped and leaved vert, a bordure invected counterchanged.
Submitted as Deana Dodshon, the submitter wanted to use her mundane name, Deana Dodson, with her group's name, Swordcliff, added. Since the addition of the element "of Swordcliff" makes it different from her mundane name, we have restored the form the submitter wanted.

Donal MacEdgar Colquhoun. Name and device. Per chevron throughout sable and argent, a pair of hands Or and a brown duck displayed contourney proper.
Submitted as Donal MacAdair Colquhoun, MacAdair is extremely unlikely. Here's what Morgan says of Adair: `This old Scottish name is occasionally found in English as both a personal and a surname, but is derived from the Gaelic àth daraich, meaning (from the) oak-tree ford.' Surely it should have been obvious from this that Morgan takes the name to be a surname in origin, though in this he may be mistaken. MacLysaght says only that it's a Scottish name prominent in Ulster. Black thinks that it may in origin be a variant of Edgar, and Bell takes this as known; the evidence apparently isn't conclusive, but there appears to be a good case to be made. However, so far as we can tell the form Adair is found only in the surname, not as an alternative to Edgar as a forename. Black's examples of MacEdolf and MacEdward would allow MacEdgar, but without documentation for Adair as a forename there is no justification MacAdair. We have changed it to the closest period form.

Donecan Grayson. Device. Or, a wyvern statant sable, on a chief azure three crosses bottony argent.

Doneuuald MacEwen of Caer Arthwyn. Name and device. Sable, a bear salient contourney reguardant argent, on a chief indented Or two compass roses sable.
Submitted as Doneuuald MacEwen of Arth Wen Keep, the submitter wanted the locative in Welsh. I can do no better than to quote Harpy on the subject. ""white" and "bear" are both elements appearing in Welsh personal names. We can find a plausible motivation for a place named "the fortress of a man whose name derives from elements meaning 'white bear'". The proposed underlying personal name would be Arthwyn (cf. the masculine names Arth, Arthal, Arthfoddw, Arthgen, Arthen, Arthgal, Arthfael; Clydwyn, Collwyn, Marchwyn, Tegwyn, etc. -- Jones 1989). Any number of "fortress" elements could be used with this. Some that are found with personal names modifying them include caer and din(as) (Jones "Period Welsh Models for SCA Households and the Nomenclature Thereof" Y Camamseriad #4). Putting this together, we could get Caer Arthwyn (or Caerarthwyn) or Dinas Arthwyn or, more likely Dinarthwyn. Now, one of the nice things about a place name like Caer Arthwyn or Dinarthwyn is that with only a little minor tweaking, you can postulate it surviving in the north of Britain from the days when there were Brythonic speakers there (i.e., all of the elements were in use around the 6th century), although the elements might be expected to be altered to car, dun and artwyn? respectively." We have changed it to one of the forms that Harpy suggests.

Elayne Jayne of Evenford. Name and device. Per saltire azure and vert, a saltire between in pale a compass star and a duck naiant argent.

Emilie de Brubach. Name and device. Azure, semy of roses Or, a bend sinister between two unicorns' heads erased argent.

Emma Tucker. Name and device. Sable, a tower, and on a chief embattled argent, three pellets.

Eoforwine Bigga. Name and device. Argent, a thistle purpure between three holly leaves vert.
Please draw the holly leaves larger.

Erennach Nic Dugal Crawford. Device change. Or, a swan rousant sable in base a whip tied in a Hungerford knot inverted gules, a bordure checky Or and sable.
Her previous device, Or, a swan naiant sable, in base a drover's whip embowed inverted gules, a chief checky sable and Or., is hereby released.

Erennach Nic Dugal Crawford. Badge. Argent, a whip tied in a Hungerford knot between three mullets of six points gules.

Giovanni Boccia. Name and device. Sable, on a tankard Or a rose proper.

Iva Sjóna. Name and device. Vert, a sheaf of three comets argent.
Submitted as Iva Sjóni we have corrected the gender of the byname, by putting it into the feminine to match the feminine given name.

Ivar Forkbeard. Name and device. Per chevron gules and Or, two bees Or and an anvil sable.

Kriemhild Walther. Device. Azure, a mermaid erect to dexter sustaining in her dexter hand a spear argent.

Lars Eriksson. Name and device. Per bend bendy azure and Or, and azure, in base three crosses of four mascles argent.

Lecia Elaine Bare. Name and device. Argent, two irises purpure slipped and leaved vert conjoined in base, a chief doubly-enarched purpure.
This name, while registerable, is not temporally compatible, and would not be found in this form during any of our period.

Líadaine Glenna dá Locha. Name and device. Argent chaussé sable, a winged cat sejant affronty wings displayed between three compass stars sable.
Submitted as Líadaine Gleann dá Locha, gleann needed to be aspirated. We have corrected this.

Marcus Berenger le Hert. Name and device. Argent, two batwings conjoined between three hearts sable.

Marcus Carunna. Name and device. Or, a Maltese cross purpure.
Submitted as Marcus Caruana, no documentation was provided for Caruna as a period form. We have substituted the closest period form.

Margaret du Darregonne. Name and device. Sable, on a saltire engrailed between four Catherine wheels Or, a winged lion segreant gules.

Márgrég ingen Chana. Name and device. Per chevron argent and vert, two catamounts combattant sable and a boar couchant argent.
Submitted as Márgrég níc Cana, we have corrected the grammar of the byname.

Matthias Rosenstern. Name and device. Azure, on a chevron Or between three roses argent, six mullets azure.

Michelle Blancherose. Name and device. Azure, a lit candle between four roses in cross, a bordure argent.
Submitted as Michelle la Roseblanche, there was no documentation for this form of the byname. Reaney & Wilson s.n. Blanchflower cite Cecilia Blaunchflur 1228, from Old French blanche flour `white or fair flower', so the basic idea is sound. However, not only does the attested byname use the order (adjective) (noun), but Dauzat has a number of modern surnames derived from phrases of the form blanc(he) X, and Lebel (83) has Blanc toupet 1260 `white lock' and Blanche barbe 1292 `white beard'. It appears, therefore, that Blancherose is more in keeping with period practice, as is omitting the article.

Moira Kellahan. Name and device. Per pale azure and purpure, a wyvern erect argent.
Submitted as Moira Callahan, Callahan was discussed in the 5/96 registration of Michael Kellahan. The name was submitted as Michael Callahan. While we cannot certainly say that this spelling of the surname is an impossible late-period Anglicization, at the very least it incorporates a number of rare practices: the omission of Ó (or Mac), the rendering of cháin as -han, and the rendering of Ceal- as Cal-. We have therefore slightly modified it to follow documented period practice. Woulfe, s.n. Mac Ceallagháin, notes the late 16th or early 17th century Anglicizations M Keallachayn and M Kelleghane. By far the most common English representation of -cháin is -ghan(e), but Pelican was able to find a significant number of instances of -han, s.nn. Ó Beacháin (O Behan), Ó Beagacháin (O Beggahan, O Begkahan), Ó Beannach áin (O Benahan), Ó Bruacháin (O Brohan), Ó Cuinneach áin (O Quenahan), Ó Farracháin (O Farrohan, O Farhan), Ó Fiacháin (O Feehan). We have changed it to follow documented period practices.
Nice armory!

Morgan Ryan MacAnthony. Name and device. Azure, a chevron and in base a lymphad and a bordure argent semy of garbs azure.

Morgan Ryan MacAnthony. Badge. (Fieldless) A ship under sail its mainmast broken and resting on the sterncastle gules.

Nina Nerea Caballoblanco. Name (See RETURNS for device).

Ottokar von Ehrenfels. Name and device. Argent, a goat clymant azure.
Great armory!

Raphael Eckhart. Change of device. Purpure, a winged goblet Or on a point pointed argent a single-horned anvil sable.
His former device, Quarterly purpure and vert, a winged goblet Or and a ford proper., is hereby released.

Roberta Rhiannon McMorland. Device. Counter-ermine, on a pale dancetty argent, a Lady's Slipper plant sable.

Rokeclif, Shire of. Name and device. Vert, a phoenix Or within a laurel wreath and on a chief argent three cattails slipped and leaved proper.

Rowena of the Rownwood. Name and device. Per bend vert and argent, a fox sejant guardant argent and a rowan branch bendwise fructed proper.

Shawn Ketunpoika. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Erminois, on a pile azure a three-antlered reindeer's head erased contourny argent.
Submitted under the name Karhu Ketunpoika.

Siegfried Berg. Name and device. Azure, a catapult, in base three roundels one and two, and a chief embattled Or.

Skapti Herjolfsson. Device. Vert, a triskelion of legs Or.

Stefanus le Fiz Edmund. Name and device. Argent, a seahorse erect gules on a chief vert three cinquefoils Or.
Submited as Stefanus Fitz Edmund, the submitter requested that the spelling and grammar be corrected for the Danelaw region of England circa 1250. We have done so.

Tabitha Darval. Name and device. Per chevron inverted argent and vert, in chief a fret vert.

Tariq ibn Yazid. Name and device. Gules, in fess three staffs Or on a chief argent three tankards sable.
Submitted as Tariq Yazid, both elements of this name are isms, or given names. Period Arabic cultures did not do this, and the usage has been grounds for return in the past (Nasr Hasan ibn Muhammad Abdullaziz, Calontir, 11/93 LoAR). We have added ibn, making him the son of Yazîd: Târiq ibn Yazîd.

Thaid mak Tlesown. Change of device. Argent, a gauntleted fist gules sustaining a key fesswise, wards to dexter sable.
His previous device, Argent, a saltorel gules and overall a mullet of seven points, the chiefmost elongated, azure., is retained as a badge.

Therasia Agnetis. Name and device. Vert, two bunches of grapes in bend Or slipped and leaved argent.
Submitted as Theresia Inez, the client asked that the name be made as authentic as possible for Northern Spain 800-900. The 5th c. name found in Withycombe is Therasia; Díez Melcón (41, 44) has the later citations Tharasia 1046 and Tarasia 1099. These are in fact from northern Spain. For the metronym Withycombe has Iñez, not Inez. Tibón gives it as Inés and de Love as Inés or Inez, but in the 9th c. it would still have been much closer to Latin Agnes (and certainly so in writing). For example, Tarasia was recorded as Tarasia Adefonsi, while Tharasia was Tharasia prolis Munioni, in each case with the patronym in the genitive. There are early examples with the patronym in the nominative case, but they're still basically Latin; for instance, Díez Melc ón (90) has Avus Rodericus 898. Romance (as opposed to Latin) versions are later; two of the earliest found are Juli Barbito 904 and Beila Monnio 923 (ibid., 94, 100), and to judge by his examples, this type comes in during the 10th c. For a 9th c. persona Latin seems the most likely, making the name Therasia Agnetis (with the metronym in the genitive case).

Thomas da Cordova. Name and device. Per chevron azure and Or, a boar passant contourny argent and two arrows inverted in saltire gules.
Submitted as Thomas de Cordova, in Italian the standard locative preposition is da.

Thomas Gryffyth. Device. Per pale vert and argent, a unicorn and a dragon combattant counterchanged and on a chief sable three castles Or.

Thorvald of Hecla. Name and device. Azure, two Thor's hammers and a mountain issuant from base argent.

Tryphena von Stargard. Name (see RETURNS for device).


OUTLANDS

Alexander Eriksson Trevor. Name and device. Per saltire vert and sable, in pale two axes crossed in saltire argent and a lion rampant a bordure embattled Or.

Caerthe, Barony of. Badge. Per bend Or and vert, an aspen leaf and a goblet counter-changed.

Denison ap Morgan. Name.
Submitted as Denison Pwyll ap Morgan, Pwyll is strictly a mythological name, and therefore not suitable for use in SCA names. We have dropped Pwyll in order to register the rest of the name.

Duncan Dalziell. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Fermina Caballo. Name and device. Or, a horse passant between three mullets sable a bordure rayonny gules.

Kerold Hoegaarden. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Rebecca of Lancaster. Device. Argent, a rose azure barbed and seeded proper, a sinister gore azure.

Unser Hafen, Barony of. Badge for the Order of the Corona Graminea of Unser Hafen. Vert, in pale a portcullis and an annulet, within an orle of grain heads Or.


TRIMARIS

Ardith de Waldeslade. Name and device. Azure, a chevron nebuly argent between two escallops and a seahorse erect Or.

Einar Fjörnisson. Name and device. Per fess gules and azure, in pale a sword fesswise reversed and another fesswise argent perched atop each point an eagle displayed facing to sinister Or.
Submitted as Einar Fjornrsson, the patronymic was apparently typoed. We have put it into the correct patronymic form.

Haakon Bjornsson. Household name for Gulløxarmannakyn.
Submitted as Gull Øx Hus, Gulløx should probably be in the genitive: Gulløxar. But the same construction appears in the word fjárhús, literally `sheep's house', which means `a shed for sheep'. Similarly, féhirzla `a treasure' yields fé hirzluhús `a treasure house', and féhús (from fé `sheep') is `a stall'. A bygghús (from bygg `barley') is `a barley-barn'. It seems quite likely that Gulløx(ar)hús is a building intended to contain one or more gold axes. The Mýramenn are the `men of Mýri', and `the house of the Mýramenn' is Mýramannakyn. Similarly, the Sigurðarmenn and krossmen are `followers of Sigurd' and `Christians' respectively. Gulløxarmenn would be analogous and would presumably have the sense `people of the golden axe', while the Gulløxarmannakyn would be their house.

Jennifer ní Dhaibheaid. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Gyronny of eight argent ermined gules, and vert, four swords in annulo points to center sable.
Submitted as Mochalla ní Daibhead.

Killian Bryce. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Ríoghnach bean réite. Name and device. Quarterly azure mullety argent, and gules, a sword inverted argent surmounted by a sun in splendor Or.
Submitted as Ríoghnach fear réite, with the intended meaning of peacemaker. It does indeed mean that, but the word fear means "man" as opposed to "woman', so it is not appropriate here. We have put it into an appropriate feminine form.

Robert the Bald. Name and device. Per bend argent and azure, a lion rampant counterchanged gules and Or a bordure counterchanged.


WEST

Alasdair Beag MacAlasdair. Name.

Brand Regenald. Name and device. Gules, a roundel per pale embowed counterembowed argent and sable, overall, a sword Or, hilted argent.

Submitted as Brand Regenweald, it would be rather surprising to find the conservative spelling Regenweald in an asyndetic (unmarked) patronymic, especially with the Scandinavian Brand. The asyndetic form dates roughly from the 11th c.; the usual OE form would have been Regenwealdes sunu. By the time this construction is believable, the patronym would normally have been written more like Reginald, Reinald, etc. and would have been indistinguishable from the Continental Germanic import. Or, given the Scandinavian forename, it might have been Ragenald, a common English form of ON Ragnaldr (Fellows Jensen). We have substituted the closest reasonable period form.

Catriona nighean Thaoig mhic Iurnain. Change of holding name of Heather of Windy Meads.

Dafydd Llantrisant. Device. Vert, on a fess between three lyres Or, a dragon passant vert, breathing flames gules.

Meliora de Curci. Device. Per pale Or and gules, a dragon segreant vert between three roses counter-changed.

Raven Silverthorne. Name.

Rodrigo del Rio. Name.

Rose de Le Mans. Device change. Per pale vert and sable, three maunches argent.
Her previously registered device, Argent, a bend sinister vert surmounted by a maunche, and a bordure sable., is hereby released.

Schoental, Canton of. Name (see RETURNS for device.)
Wolfram von Windberg. Name and device. Per fess sable and argent, in chief three towers Or, in base an eagle displayed gules.


THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN RETURNED FOR FURTHER WORK:



AN TIR

Caverns Gate, Shire of. Name.
This name does not follow period English naming practices. Smith's English Place-Name Elements has no entry for either cave or cavern; apparently they were not used in English place-naming (until modern times, at any rate). Moreover, gate is not normally modified by words describing what lies on the far side of the gate, and the possessive is unusual as well. Ekwall notes North and South Cave in Yorkshire (Cava c.1120, Suthkave 1246), which he thinks may be from OE caf `quick, prompt, nimble', perhaps an older name of the stream now called Mires Beck on which they lie. In Yorkshire the place-name element -gate is often from ON gata `a way, path, road, etc.' rather than from OE geat `a gate, a way through a wall or ditch, a pass in the hills, a deep ravine', and it is often combined with the name of a place to which the road led. Cavegate is a perfectly reasonable name for a road leading to these places.


ANSTEORRA

Diego Miguel Munoz de Castilla. Name and device. Argent, on a bend sable three escallops palewise argent.
No paperwork was received on this submission, so this must be returned.

Etain Eame. Badge. (Fieldless) A maunch azure.
This is being returned for conflict with Elspeth Yseult Fitzalden (SCA), Gyronny Or and argent, issuant from a maunch azure, a falconer's gauntlet sable grasping a lure gules. The gauntlet and lure combination are not significant enough to count for difference.


ATENVELDT

Arminta Ragon. Name.
No evidence was presented to show that Arminta was a period name. The armory was registered under the holding name Sheron Regan.

Beaune de la Sorse. Device change. Barry indented and paly sable and Or.
This is being returned for non-reproducibility. The design only works due to the alignment of the indentations with the traits of the paly. This requires the heraldic artist to know that a tesselated design is intended. While there are examples of such fields in modern English heraldry, this is not such a productive pattern in period heraldry that it should be emulated in the SCA, and indeed designs dependant upon an exact and unblazonable alignment of elements has often been cause for return.

Catelin Cowan. Device. Or, a heart gules surmounted and pierced by a needle bendwise sable.
This is being returned for two reasons. Although as required by the rules the needle has good contrast with the field, it lies mostly on the heart, with which it does not have good contrast. In addition, it isn't accurately described by the blazon, since the needle pierces the heart twice, and no one could come up with a way to describe this heraldicly.

Catherine of Gordonhall. Badge. Purpure, a bat-winged calico cat sejant guardant contourny proper, winged Or.
Calico cats come in a variety of different patterns and color combinations, so there is no way to accurately reproduce this emblazon.

Hernando Herodes Montenegro de Mondragon. Badge. (Fieldless) A wyvern displayed argent, maintaining in both talons a delf Or within and conjoined to an annulet sable.
This conflicts with Artus Falconiere (SCA) Quarterly pean and purpure, a wyvern displayed argent.

Mikolaj Krasnik. Device. Sable, on a cross formy quadrate argent, a double-headed phoenix gules rising from flames proper.
This is being returned for a redraw of the flames. They are not proper, but fimbriated. See the cover letter to the April 1995 LoAR for a discussion on flames proper.

Selina Marie Sinclair. Device. Per bend vert and Or, a Latin cross Or and a thistle gules, slipped and leaved vert.
This conflicts with Rowan Ramsay MacDiarmid, Per bend vert and Or, a crescent inverted Or and a thistle proper., While an SCA thistle proper has a purple head rather than a red one, that is a tincture change of only a small part of the thistle. There is thus only one difference, for the change of half of the type of the primary charge group.

Shishido Tora. Device. Per chevron gules, ermined Or, and argent, in pale an eagle displayed and a snaffle- bit sable.
This is being returned for a redraw. As drawn it is not per chevron, as the line of division is too high. Furthermore, this is not an eagle, or a demi eagle, but rather 2/3rds of an eagle. The eagle needs to be either full or half, not partway between.

Theolan Grimulf. Badge. (Fieldless) A wyvern displayed gules surmounted by a heart Or.
This badge violates our rules on fieldless badge style."I've therefore decided not to implement a comprehensive ban on fieldless badges with overall charges. I will be returning cases where the underlying charge is rendered unidentifiable, per Rule VIII.3; this will include the most egregious cases of overall charges (e.g. A pheon surmounted by a hawk's head).... In cases where identifiability is maintained --- where one of the charges is a long, slender object, and the area of intersection small --- overall charges will still be permitted in fieldless badges." (Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme, 15 January, 1992 Cover Letter (with the November 1992 LoAR), p. 3) (RfS VIII.3. states that "Identifiable elements may be rendered unidentifiable by significant reduction in size, marginal contrast, excessive counterchanging, voiding, or fimbriation, or by being obscured by other elements of the design.") In this case, neither of the charges is "long" or "slender", and the area of intersection is not "small"; indeed, the initial reaction upon seeing the emblazon is that this charge combination is a red wyvern displayed with a gold, heart- shaped body, not of two charges, on overlying the other. As a consequence, it falls afoul of both RfS III and Laurel precedent.

Tigra McKay of Marwode. Name.
No documentation was provided to show that Tigra was used as a give name in period, and none could be produced. The armory was registered under the holding name Karen McKay of Marwode.

Tristan d'Alsace. Device. Azure, three elephants statant affronty argent.
This is being returned for a redraw. As drawn on the forms (although the mini-emblazon was fine) the elephants are in trian aspect, and virtually unidentifiable.

Twin Moons, Barony of. Order name for Order of the Heart.
This is in conflict with the Order of the Heart of Artemisia since the only difference is the addition of a group name, which the rules specifically excludes as a differencing descriptive element.

William A' Becket. Device. Gyronny azure and argent, eight fleurs-de-lys in annulo counterchanged.
This is visually in conflict with Bess Haddon of York (SCA), Gyronny azure and argent, on each gyron a quatrefoil counter-changed. When the two emblazons were compared from across the room, both heralds and non-heralds at the meeting had trouble telling the charges apart.


ATLANTIA

Christlarra Fayreclought. Name. Christlarra was formed by changing the ending of the name Christler to a feminine form. Since Christler is a surname, it is not useable as a given name in the SCA.


CAID

Rowen Killian. Badge. (Fieldless) A demi-flamberge inverted argent hilted sable, handled of a lit candle argent, within and issuant from the base of a serpent involved deosil sable marked argent.
This device has several unattested elements: the odd hilting of the sword, and framing the badge within a serpent involved. The latter, while popular in the SCA, is nonetheless a weirdness. Therefore this violates the "Rule of Two Weirdnesses" for being at least two steps removed from documented period practice.

Umberto Lodovico Scolari. Device. Per chevron vert and azure, a Da Vinci bicycle and an open book argent.
The Da Vinci bicycle fails to meet the requirements of RfS VII. Compatible Armorial Content. We have no evidence that it was used as a period armorial charge. Therefore it must be justified either as a period artifact, or as an otherwise compatible element. We have no reason to believe that the bicycle was actually constructed in period. The fact that some other Da Vinci artifacts were in fact built does not change this. This leaves only the possibility of ruling it compatible anyway. While elements from period art are sometimes considered compatible with SCA heraldry we see no reason to do so here.


CALONTIR

Nasir al-Tawil. Badge. An anchor, its beam an timber potent Or, surmounted by an elephant's head erased proper.
This badge violates our rules on fieldless badge style."I've therefore decided not to implement a comprehensive ban on fieldless badges with overall charges. I will be returning cases where the underlying charge is rendered unidentifiable, per Rule VIII.3; this will include the most egregious cases of overall charges (e.g. A pheon surmounted by a hawk's head).... In cases where identifiability is maintained --- where one of the charges is a long, slender object, and the area of intersection small --- overall charges will still be permitted in fieldless badges." (Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme, 15 January, 1992 Cover Letter (with the November 1992 LoAR), p. 3) (RfS VIII.3. states that "Identifiable elements may be rendered unidentifiable by significant reduction in size, marginal contrast, excessive counterchanging, voiding, or fimbriation, or by being obscured by other elements of the design.") In this case, neither of the charges is "long" or "slender". Furthermore, the anchor is not a period anchor.

Tristram Hunter. Device. Purpure, a fess fusilly argent between three stags skulls Or.
This conflicts with Magdalena de Hazebrouck (1/95) Purpure, a fess fusily argent between three torches Or. There is only one CD for the change of type of the secondaries.


DRACHENWALD

Isabella d Hiver. Device. Azure, a unicorn s head couped argent.
This conflicts with Verena Marre (SCA), Azure, a unicorn s head couped argent armed and crined Or between two bars wavy ermine, with one CD for the addition of the bars, and Saerlaith nic Uilliam O'Ceallaigh (SCA), Per bend paly argent and azure and azure, in dexter base a unicorn's head couped argent., with one CD for the change in the field. The submitted blazon had the unicorn gorged of a collar gules. While we grant a CD for gorging of a beast's head, when it is a sole primary, as drawn the collar is so small that it is not worth blazoning, and therefore cannot count for difference.

Petros Monomachos. Device. Per saltire argent and sable, a cross doubly pommeled elongated palewise within a bordure gules.
This is being returned for conflict with Marke von Mainz (SCA) Gyronny argent and sable, a cross moline and a bordure gules., with one CD for the field, and nothing for the difference between the two crosses.


EAST

Chrysagon Grey. Name and device. Argent, a unicorn rampant, on a chief sable three decrescents argent.
The given name was not documented in that spelling; it was documented only as Chrysogon (female) and Grisigion (male). Withycombe says that the forename suddenly appeared in England in the 16th c. She gives six forms of the name, two with initial Chr and four with initial Gr. In addition Bardsley, s.n. Jenner, has Gresagon 1598. This strongly suggests that the normal pronunciation was with initial G, the Ch in some spellings being etymological rather than phonetic. (The name is from Greek khrysógonos, usually rendered Chrysogonos.) This suspicion is further strengthened by the fact that the same person c.1550 appears both as Grisigon and as Chrysogon; the first presumably shows the actual pronunciation, while the second exhibits the writer's knowledge of the source of the name. For this reason the difference in pronunciation between the etymologically correct o and the unstressed neutral vowel spelled a, e, and i in the more or less phonetic versions seems to irrelevant: the o probably isn't intended to represent the sound in the first place, any more than the gh in English knight is now intended to represent any sound. We would accept Grisagon or Grysagon as a possible spelling of the vernacular pronunciation, but the few Ch spellings that we have all show a knowledge of the Greek original and are presumably learned spellings. In such a spelling it seems moderately unlikely that the writer would get the accented vowel of the Greek name wrong, and we are loath to accept Chrysagon without better evidence than we have. Chrysogon would obviously be fine, of course. Since the submitter will not accept any changes, and will not accept a holding name, we are forced to return the name and the device.

Garth of the Forest. Device. Sable, a weasel rampant reguardant holding a bow and arrow, in chief a moon in her complement argent within a bordure ermine.
This is being returned for a redraw. The animal is not a weasel, nor any animal that anyone at the Laurel meeting could recognize.

Sebastiano da Pachino. Device. Gules, a martlet migrant within a bordure nebuly argent.
This was an appeal of kingdom return for conflict with Poland (important mundane armory), Gules, a double-headed eagle displayed argent. The East was perfectly correct in returning this; there is one difference for the addition of the bordure, but nothing for the difference in the two birds in what is essentially the same position. Prior Laurel precedent gives no difference for bird type when the birds are in identical postures.


MERIDIES

None!


MIDDLE

Andelcrag, Barony of. Name for Order of the Defenders of Andelcrag. This conflicts with Defenders of Mons Tonitrus. RfS V.2 deals with conflict of non- personal names. Clause V.2.a clearly says that branch names are not descriptive elements. The remaining clauses clearly imply that names must differ in their descriptive elements in order not to conflict. This therefore conflicts with Defenders of Mons Tonitrus: in terms of descriptive elements, they are identical.

Andelcrag, Barony of. Badge for Order of the Salient Hart. Per chevron sable and argent a hart salient proper.
This is being returned for unidentifiability, with a dark brown deer on black. If the hart were in an heraldic tincture this might technically have acceptable contrast. Brown, however, is not a true heraldic tincture, and we are not inclined to give it any leeway.

Bedwyr Bannog. Device. Paly gules and argent, on a bend argent three mullets sable.
The bend has no contrast with half of the field, with an argent bend on a paly gules and argent field.

Bodvarr Askasmidr. Device. Or, a pall gules, overall a longship affronty sail furled sable.
This is being returned for being unrecognizable. A longship affrony is unidentifiable.

Ciar Teaghlaich Tuaigh Reul. Change of name from Ceridwen of Connachta and change of device. Argent a winged and antlered brown hare rampant proper.
The submitter wanted Ceridwen of House Staraxe in Gaelic. The byname is incorrectly formed. The relevant entry on p. 976 of Dwelly is for tuagh `hatchet, axe', of which tuaigh is the genitive singular; tuaighe `farm bull' is irrelevant. Reul `star' has a variant reult that is probably older, judging by the discussion in the CDIL s.v. rétla; both appear in a variety of compounds. A similar compound `star-axe' would presumably take the form reultthuagh. (And if the compound is thought of as `axe of the star', it should be tuagh na réilt.) Teaghlaich is actually the genitive singular of teaghlach `line, family, house'. This is an appropriate word for `house' in the sense of `lineage', but in period usage it would be followed by the name of the progenitor of the line in the genitive case. Teaghlach Dhonnchadha, for example, would be the `line of Donnchadh'. Gaelic lineages, clans, kin, etc. were always named after a person. However, even if Teaghlach Reultthuaigh were a well-formed lineage name, there is no evidence of such a name being used as a byname. We are returning the device for improper use of brown. While you can have a brown rabbit, since rabbits are found to be brown in nature, no evidence has been presented for winged rabbits in any color, let alone brown.

Edward Reinherz. Device. Per chevron rayonny sable and Or two roses Or and a rose gules slipped and leaved vert.
This is being returned for violating what is known as "the sword and dagger rule", using two variants of the same charge in the same group. Making all the roses slipped and leaved, or none of them slipped and leaved would correct this problem.

Ieuan Cynibre. Name and badge. (Fieldless) On a mullet of eight points argent a decrescent vert.
The 8th century Cynibre doesn't really work with Ieuan. The only form for the given name that we can firmly suggest would be the Latin Iohannes, which appears in text from that period in Wales (e.g. the Book of Llan Dav). By the time a form like Ieuan evolves (or at least shows up in the documents), the "b" of Cynibre was long since being pronounced differently, as shown in the later forms in Johnston (Kenefer, Kinefar 1222, Kynefare 1282). The smallest reasonable change would be to pick one of the 13th century forms from Johnston. The device conflicts with Thomasina Mac Gregor of Tay, Azure, on a mullet of six points throughout argent, a Scottish thistle proper., with one CD for fieldlessness.

Karhu Ketunpoika. Name Karhu is not a given name, and therefore cannot be used as a given name. The armory was registered under holding name Shawn Ketunpoika.

Midair MacCormaic, Name. Midir, which is the standard form of Midair, is a mythological name, and no evidence was provided, nor could be found that it was used by human beings in period. Given names must be documented as having been given names used by human beings in period. The armory was registered under the holding name Charles MacCormaic.

Nina Nerea Caballoblanco. Device. Per chevron inverted raguly azure and argent semy goutty de larmes, in chief a unicorn rampant argent.
This is being returned for a redraw or a redesign. This is not a per chevron line of division, but much closer to a chief triangular. However, it can't be a chief triangular with a complex line of division. To quote Baron Bruce as Laurel: [a chief triangular embattled] With very rare exceptions (e.g. in combination with enarched lines), the use of two or more complex lines on the same charge is confusing, and unattested in period armory. (Wavy raguly? Embattled rayonny? I think not.) In this case, the chief could be either embattled or triangular --- but not both. (Johann Götz Kauffman von Erfurt, December, 1992, pg. 20).

Raphael Eckhart. Badge. [Fieldless] A hart's head caboshed issuant between the antlers a goblet Or.
This conflicts with the device of Claude de la Beche (SCA), Vairy argent and gules, a stag's head cabossed Or. The goblet is not big enough to count for difference.

Tryphena von Stargard. Device. Purpure, a pascal goat argent and on a chief triangular ermine a harp gules.
Just as a unicornate horse is banned because it blurs the distinction between a unicorn and a horse, the use of a pascal goat blurs the distinction betwen a goat and a Paschal lamb, making this run afoul of RfS VII.7.a.


OUTLANDS

Duncan Dalziell. Device. Sable, on a saltire argent, a triskelion of spirals between four crescents, points inward, azure.
This is in conflict with Diann of the Golden Chalice (SCA), Sable on a saltire argent a chalice Or enflamed sable., Anne de la Tour Lointaine (SCA), Sable, on a saltire argent, five shamrocks vert., and Edwin of Svart Elder (SCA), Sable, on a saltire argent two swords Or, hilted and enflamed sable., with, in each case, just one CD for difference in the tertiaries.

Kerold Hoegaarden. Device. Vert chapé argent, a butterfly Or.
This conflicts with Aryana Silknfyre (SCA), Gules, chapé ployé argent, a butterfly Or., and with Gunnar Mulcha of Odin's Seat (SCA), Counter-ermine, a butterfly Or., with, in both cases, one CD for the change to the field.


TRIMARIS

Haki Longswimmer. Name. The byname obviously requires the lingua anglica allowance. This may be used provided that one of two conditions is met. The byname may be an English translation of a documented period byname in the source language, here ON, so long as the translation is chosen so as not to be obtrusively modern; or it may be a fairly generic period English byname in a period form. (See the discussion of the name Arianna othe Windisle (An Tir) in the 2/96 LoAR.) Longswimmer meets neither of those criteria: it's not a normal ME form of byname, and it's not a translation of a known ON byname. The attested byname skj ótandi `shooter, archer' is a present participle corresponding to English shooting; an ON byname modelled on this one would be langsvimmandi, literally `long-swimming'. Haki Langsvimmandi, however, is probably reasonable enough.

Killian Bryce. Device. Argent, a lizard rampant and on a chief embattled vert, three estoilles argent.
This is being returned for a redraw. The animal drawn is a dinosaur, not a lizard.

Mochalla ní Daibhead. Submitted as Mochalla ní Daibhead, the proper spelling of the name is Mocholla. However, Mocholla is a male name. Since a man cannot be the daughter of anyone, the only registerable form would be Mocholla mac Daibhead. Not knowing the submitter's wishes in this matter, we have registered the device under the holding name Jennifer n í Dhaibheaid.


WEST

Schoental, Canton of. Device. Per chevron azure and vert, a horse passant argent and in base a laurel wreath Or.
This is being returned for a redraw. This is not a proper per chevron, but closer to Azure, a pile inverted vert. However, that breaks the rule of tincture, and cannot be registered.


To be decided at the June 1997 Laurel meeting.



ATENVELDT

Shamus Sinclair. Device. Per chevron gules and Or, two doves volant respectant, wings addorsed, argent, and a triple-towered castle vert.
Blazoned as Per chevron gules and vert, two doves volant respectant, wings addorsed, argent, and a triple-towered castle vert., this had a vert castle on a vert field.


EAST

Caitlin Angharad FitzHenry. Badge. (Fieldless) A pheon gules.
The question was raised as to whether the English Royal badge, (Tinctureless) A broadarrow., with which this conflicts is important enough to protect. Therefore, we are pending this submission in order to allow the College to discuss the issue.

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