ÆTHELMEARC
Ælfra Long. Badge. (Fieldless) A lozenge within and conjoined to an annulet sable. 
Ailis Linne. Device change. Argent estencelly, a crescent azure. 
Her previous device, Azure, a pale offset argent estencelly azure between two Hungerford knots argent, is retained as a badge.
Ailis Linne. Badge. (Fieldless) A crescent argent estencelly azure. 
Alaxandair O Conchobhair. Badge. (Fieldless) Three pheons conjoined in pall points outward per pale sable and Or. 
Alicia Marie d'Avignon. Name change from Alicia of Greyhill. 
Her previous name, Alicia of Greyhill, is released.
Angus Langaxe. Name and device. Per chevron pean and gules, on a chevron rayonny Or a wyvern displayed gules maintaining an axe fesswise argent hafted proper. 
Anlon Find mac Robartaigh. Name and device. Argent, three chevronels braced and on a chief azure three roses argent. 
Good name!
Anmchaid Ó Mórdha. Name. 
Ástrídr Brandsdóttir. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
Brigit ingen Fhaíltigirn. Badge. (Fieldless) A crescent purpure. 
Cadogan Blaydes. Name and device. Per chevron rayonny sable and Or, two caravels and a sword counterchanged. 
Charles de Cayeux. Badge. (Fieldless) A crescent per pale Or and ermine. 
Cradoc Mendwr. Name and device. Per pale sable and argent, three towers within a bordure counterchanged. 
Cynthia Love of the Tower. Name and device. Gules, on a tower within an orle of chamomile flowers argent seeded Or a heart gules. 
Daimhín Sinna. Badge. (Fieldless) An ermine spot sable. 
Daniel O Rian the Fletcher. Badge. (Fieldless) A hedgehog statant per pale or and azure. 
Duarcán Makcraken. Name and device. Argent, a kraken vert within a bordure sable semy of acorns argent. 
Edan inghean an Druaidh. Name change from Edan inghean an Druiadh. 
Submitted as Edana inghean an Druaidh, this submission is an appeal of the registered form Edan inghean an Druiadh, which was registered in December 2000.
Edana was submitted as a hypothetical Latinized form of the feminine given name Edan, which is dated to 1379 in Withycombe (s.n. Edith). However, the form Edan appears in a Latin context as seen in Bardsley (p. 265 s.n. Eden), which dates the entries "Robertus Busby, et Eden uxor ejus, smyth" and "Johannes Slipar, et Edan uxor ejus" to 1379. In these cases, Eden and Edan are used as nominative case Latin forms. The form Edine cited in the LoI may be found in the same entry in Bardsley in the name Nel fil. Edine which is dated to 1273. In this case, Edine is a genitive form, which would not have been used in the given name position in a name. Since Edan and Eden are the documented Latinized forms of this name, and their forms contradict the hypothetical construction Edana, Edana is not a plausible variant of this name based on the submitted documentation.
We have corrected the misspelling in the byname.
Her previous name, Edan inghean an Druiadh, is released.
Fiona Harpar. Device. Argent, an acorn vert within a bordure wavy sable semy of oak leaves argent. 
Fiona Harpar. Badge. (Fieldless) On an oak leaf argent an acorn vert. 
Geoffrey de Montgomery. Name change from holding name Geoffrey of Sunderoak. 
A previous name submission, Geoffrey Montgomery, was returned for being insufficiently different from the submitter's modern name Jeffrey Montgomery. Conflict between a submitter's modern name and SCA name is held to a different standard of conflict than between two SCA names. The difference required between a submitter's modern name and SCA name is specified in the Administrative Handbook III.A.9:
Name Used by the Submitter Outside the Society - No name will be registered to a submitter if it is identical to a name used by the submitter for purposes of identification outside of a Society context. This includes legal names, common use names, trademarks and other items registered with mundane authorities that serve to identify an individual or group. This restriction is intended to help preserve a distinction between a submitter's identity within the Society and his or her identity outside of the Society. A small change in the name is sufficient for registration, such as the addition of a syllable or a spelling change that changes the pronunciation. However, a change to spelling without a change in pronunciation is not sufficient. For example, Alan Miller could not register the name Alan Miller or Allan Miller but he could register the name Alan the Miller. Further, submitters may register either a name or armory which is a close variant of a name or insignia they use outside the Society, but not both.
Similarly, the current submission is clear of the submitter's modern name by addition of the syllable de.
Ihon Edmideston. Name. 
Submitted as Ihon Edmiston, the submitter requested authenticity for Scottish. The byname was changed at kingdom to a form dated to 1322 in Black (s.n. Edmonston) to meet the submitter's request for authenticity.
Ivo Thorne. Device. Sable, a rose slipped and leaved argent and in chief two suns Or. 
John of Stelton Wald. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Argent, a double-headed eagle displayed and on a chief sable a lion passant argent. 
Submitted under the name John de Duglas.
Jonathan d'Abernon. Name and device. Per pale gules and Or, a wyvern counterchanged and a chief embattled sable. 
Submitted as Jonathan D'Abernon, the submitter requested authenticity for Norman language/culture. D'Abernon was submitted as a header form appearing in Reaney & Wilson. In most cases, header forms are plausible for period and so are registerable. In this case, examples under this header and others indicate that the d is in lowercase if the name includes de or the d'. In these cases, the initial letter of the location name is capitalized. In cases where some form of de has been prepended to the location name, only the first letter (D) is capitalized. Examples regarding this name are found in Reaney & Wilson (p. 123 s.n. D'Abernon) which date Roger de Abernon to 1086 and Jordan Dabernun to 1197. Lacking evidence that a form such as D'Abernon is plausible in period, it is not registerable. We have changed the capitalization in this name to match documented forms in order to register the name.
Katerina Affodil. Badge. (Fieldless) In saltire a daffodil bell to dexter chief slipped Or and a daffodil bell to sinister chief slipped gules. 
Katherine of Rhydderich Hael. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Quarterly azure and sable, in fess two butterflies volant palewise wings addorsed respectant argent. 
Submitted under the name Katherine Kiersey.
Maddalena de los Angeles. Device. Argent, a lightning bolt palewise sable between three cinquefoils gules. 
The cinquefoils were blazoned pierced in the LoI, but the circular details in the center of the foils were colored in gules. They are therefore not pierced. We have blazoned the lightning bolt as palewise because neither the Pictorial Dictionary nor the Glossary of Terms gives a default for this SCA-invented charge.
Marc MacLave. Badge. Per fess rayonny sable and gules, in base a horse courant contourny, a chief embattled argent. 
Mathias Mendel. Name and device. Per fess gules and vert, on a fess embattled Or three suns sable. 
Rubina da Cimento. Name. 
Sabina of Borthwick. Name and device. Argent, two lions combattant guardant sable and on a chief azure three lilies argent. 
The submitter requested authenticity for Scots. Sabina was documented as an English feminine given name dated to 1199 to 1265 in Withycombe (s.n. Sabina). Since no evidence was found of any form of the name Sabina used in Scotland in period, we were unable to make this name authentic for the submitter's requested culture.
Tedesca Niccola. Name and device. Per chevron rayonny purpure and Or, two moons in their plenitude and a willow tree counterchanged. 
Wynterset, Stronghold of. Branch name. 
This submission does not conflict with the location Wintersett in England as no evidence was found that Wintersett, England, is important enough to warrant protection.
Note: the former name of this group, Orion's Gate, Shire of, was released in December 1989.
AN TIR
Ariadne Leontodes. Name and device. Argent, a Greek sphinx rampant azure winged sable. 
Submitted as Ariadne Leonida, the byname was intended to mean 'lion-like'. Kingdom felt that the byname might also be plausible as a patronymic based on the masculine given name Leonidas. However, the submitted form of the byname was not quite correct for either a descriptive meaning 'lion-like' or a patronymic based on Leonidas. Metron Ariston provided a detailed explanation of the grammar issues in this name. In summary, this name would be correct as Ariadne Leonidou, using a patronymic byname based on Leonidas, or as Ariadne Leontodes, using a descriptive byname meaning 'lion-like'. Electrum shared this information with the submitter and reported that the submitter prefers Ariadne Leontodes. We have made this change.
The tips of the sphinx's wings touched the back of the sphinx's head in this emblazon, which impaired the identifiability of the charge at a distance. Please advise the submitter to separate the wings and the head of the sphinx.
Some members of the College questioned the stylization of the wings, which were somewhat increscent-shaped. According to Metron Ariston, this shape of wing is found on archaic Greek statues of sphinxes, and people at the end of our period knew of these statues. The attendees at the road show meeting generally felt that these were identifiable as wings, as long as they were separated from the sphinx's head.
Blatha an Oir, Barony of. Device reblazon. Azure, in saltire two daffodils bells fesswise addorsed slipped and on a mount Or a laurel wreath vert. 
The previous blazon, Azure, in saltire two daffodils slipped and on a mount Or a laurel wreath vert, did not specify the posture of the flowers.
Blatha an Oir, Barony of. Badge reblazon. (Fieldless) Two daffodils in saltire bells fesswise addorsed Or slipped and leaved vert. 
The previous blazon, (Fieldless) Two daffodils in saltire Or slipped and leaved vert, did not specify the posture of the flowers.
Brynach ap Rhys. Name and device. Argent, a dragon salient gules and on a chief engrailed sable a comet argent. 
The submitter requested authenticity for Welsh. Brynach was the name of a 5th to 6th C saint who came to North Pembroke from Ireland. As no evidence was found that this name was used in Wales except as the name of this saint, it does not seem to be an authentic name for a native Welshman. However, since Brynach is the Welsh form of this saint's name, it is registerable as a Welsh name under the guidelines for the registerability of saints' names outlined in the Cover Letter for the September 2001 LoAR.
Johannes Vagus. Device. Gyronny of sixteen argent and sable, a salamander statant regardant gules enflamed Or and a bordure counterchanged sable and Or. 
The submitter's previous submission, Gyronny of sixteen sable and argent, a salamander statant reguardant gules enflamed Or, was returned for conflict in January 2001. At that time, Laurel cited precedent from June 1999 indicating that gyronny of sixteen is only acceptable in "simple cases" unless period evidence supports the submission in question. Concerning Johannes' submission, Laurel ruled, "While the single charge on the field is very complex, it is still only a single charge. Therefore this use of gyronny is acceptable."
The submitter has now resubmitted adding a counterchanged bordure, which removes the previous conflict. In general, we consider a single primary charge within a bordure to be a "simple case" of armorial design. Adding a solid-tinctured bordure to the submitter's previous armory would certainly appear to be a simple case. However, the counterchanged bordure adds substantially to the visual complexity of the device, which led the College to question whether this submission should be considered a simple case.
In this submission, all the charges maintain their identifiability despite the visual complexity of the device. While the salamander's identifiability is somewhat confused by the field, it is no less identifiable than the salamander in Johannes' previous submission, which Laurel ruled to be stylistically acceptable. The counterchanged bordure is clearly identifiable as well. This submission is therefore acceptable. However, it is at the absolute limit of complexity for accepting gyronny of sixteen without documentation showing that the overall design of the armory is consistent with period practice.
Pariselle Chouet. Device. Bendy sinister and per bend azure and ermine. 
This is clear of conflict with Sigeric of Ravenstone, Per bend azure and bendy sinister argent and azure. Pariselle's arms are equivalent to Per bend bendy sinister azure and ermine, and bendy sinister ermine and azure. RfS X.4.a.ii(c), "Other Field-Primary Armory", states: "In any case, independent changes to the tincture, direction of partition lines, style of partition lines, or number of pieces in the partition may be counted separately when comparing two pieces of field-primary armory." Half of Pariselle's armory is ermine, and none of Sigeric's is that tincture. By the general statements in RfS X.4.a, changing half the tincture of the field is worth a CD. The sinister chief portion of Sigeric's field is undivided, and the sinister chief portion of Pariselle's armory field is bendy sinister. This provides the second CD for change of partition lines.
Please advise the submitter to draw six or more traits in the bendy sinister part of the field division.
Richard Falconer. Name and device. Quarterly azure and vert, a cross gules fimbriated and in canton a falcon Or. 
Good name!
Roscelin Silversmith-doghter. Device. Azure, on a pale between two annulets argent a carnation gules slipped and leaved vert. 
Tressach mac Domnaill. Name. 
Good name!
Wilrich von Hessen. Name and device. Per chevron Or and azure, two tau crosses and a horse salient counterchanged. 
Please advise the submitter to draw the per chevron line lower on the field, and reproportion the charges accordingly so that they fill the space. The per chevron line should divide the field into roughly balanced halves, which is generally accomplished by balancing the line around the center of the shield. In this emblazon, the bottom of the line is at the center of the shield, which results in a bottom half that outbalances the top half.
Wolfgang von Bremen. Name and device. Sable goutty argent, on a chief embattled Or a dragon couchant gules. 
Submitted as Wulfgang von Bremen, the submitter requested authenticity for 16th C Germany. All the dated forms of the given name that the College found dated to period (including in the submitter's desired time period) were spelled Wolfgang. We have made this change.
ANSTEORRA
Almaith ingen Chormaic. Household name House Golden Hunter. 
Díglach úa hAmalgada. Name. 
Submitted as Díglach úa hAmalgaid, the LoI noted that the "[o]nly changes allowed [were] those necessary to correct grammar for Early Gaelic". The form of the byname appropriate for Old Irish (c. 700 to c. 900) or Middle Irish (c. 900 to c. 1200) is úa hAmalgada. We have made this correction.
Elin the Timid. Name and device. Quarterly gules and azure, in bend two dolphins argent. 
Lucia Ariosto. Name. 
Ralf of Oak Lawn the Oxhandler. Device change. Vert, an oak leaf bendwise sinister inverted fructed and in base a bull statant within a bordure argent. 
He has a letter of permission to conflict with Elaina of Oaklawn, registered in the Ealdormere acceptances of this LoAR, Vert, an oak leaf bendwise sinister inverted fructed and in base a county coronet within a bordure argent.
Please advise the submitter to draw the bull somewhat larger. As drawn in the full-sized emblazon the bull is clearly a secondary charge (with the leaf primary). This is acceptable design, but the bull would be much more identifiable if it were a bit larger. More room could be made on the field by making the bordure narrower.
His previous device, Vert, on a bend sinister Or, between two oak sprigs argent, a water buffalo's rack azure, is released.
Ralf of Oak Lawn the Oxhandler and Elaina of Oaklawn. Joint badge. Vert, an oak leaf bendwise sinister inverted fructed within a bordure argent. 
The Letter of Intent did not state that this badge was jointly owned by both submitters, which led a number of commmenters to ask whether it was necessary for Elaina to provide explicit permission for "Ralf's" badge to conflict with her device. Since the submission form shows that Elaina is a secondary owner of the badge, her permission to conflict is implicit.
This does not conflict with Eva van Oudeachterkol for Embla Willsdottir, Vert, an elm leaf in bend sinister environed of a cartouche voided argent. An elm leaf is a regular "leaf-shaped" leaf with an edge that has miniscule indentations (if such indentations were on an ordinary, they would be too small to be acceptable style). An oak leaf has large distinct lobes. Therefore, there is a CD between an oak leaf and an elm leaf and a second CD for changing the type of secondary charge from a cartouche voided to a bordure.
Xenos the Butcher. Device. Azure, a camel rampant Or wearing a hat gules and maintaining in its mouth a bottle fesswise reversed vert. 
The hat, which is roughly cylindrical and topped with a tassel, was originally blazoned as a fez. Commentary suggested, but did not clearly prove, that the term fez may not have been period for this sort of hat and the tassel on such a hat may not be period. Because the basic shape of the hat (absent tassel) is found in period costume, and because the detail is so small, we are giving the charge the benefit of the doubt and blazoning it simply as a hat.
The hat (which functions as a maintained charge) and the maintained bottle both have insufficient contrast with the field. This is acceptable for maintained charges, which are not worth difference, as long as the charge in question has some contrast with the field.
ARTEMISIA
Gwenllian de Castell Coch. Device. Argent, a pall between a cross of Jerusalem sable and two towers gules. 
These arms were pended for consideration of whether we should protect the Cunningham of Glencairn arms as Argent, a pall sable in addition to the already protected version, Argent, a shakefork sable.
The currently protected Cunningham arms are protected due to a balance of the "arms" and the "man" school of prominence. The Cunningham Earls of Glencairn have some historical prominence. The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica and britannica.com both give entries for these earls under the heading "Glencairn", and the holders of this earldom in the encyclopedia entries were all members of the Cunningham family. The "shakefork" version of their arms is also relatively well-known in its own right, as that version of the Cunningham arms is the defining example of the shakefork in many standard heraldic texts.
The "pall" form of the Cunningham arms, however, is not nearly so well known in its own right as the "shakefork" form. The balance of the "man" and "arms" schools for this coat is therefore not sufficient to protect it in the SCA.
In the LoAR in which this submission was pended, we asked:
In this month's cover letter, we are also asking the College to consider whether we should be giving difference shakeforks and palls. Current precedent does give difference between these charges, and the current standard will continue to apply to this submission, as it was submitted under that standard. Therefore, regardless of the outcome of that discussion, this submission will be considered clear of conflict with the currently protected "shakefork" arms of Cunningham of Glencairn, Argent, a shakefork sable, with one CD for changing the type of primary charge and another for adding the secondary charges.
This submission may therefore be accepted. See the Cover Letter for a discussion of the current policy on difference between palls and shakeforks.
The College should note that a grace period when a new policy is implemented is not required by Laurel policy, but is implemented at the discretion of Laurel and the pertinent Sovereigns of Arms. The wording of the December 2001 Cover Letter on this issue was interpreted by some to mean that a grace period was required. This is not so. A grace period did seem to be appropriate in the case of this submission.
ATENVELDT
Áedán Mac Néill. Name. 
There was some discussion regarding whether Mac should be capitalized in this byname. Given the amount of discussion and varying opinions, a clarification of this issue has been included in the Cover Letter accompanying this LoAR. As the submitter did not indicate a preferred meaning, we have registered this name as submitted.
Angelica des Montagnes. Device reblazon. Purpure, on a bend sinister argent between two daffodils affronty and two decrescents Or, a hummingbird palewise displayed gules. 
The previous blazon, Purpure, on a bend sinister argent between two daffodils and two decrescents Or, a hummingbird palewise displayed gules, did not specify the posture of the flowers.
Barbara of Levedia. Device reblazon. Argent, on a pile ployé throughout vert, a daffodil, bell to dexter base, slipped and leaved, argent. 
The previous blazon, Argent, on a pile ploye throughout vert, a daffodil, slipped and leaved, argent, did not specify the posture of the flower, and lacked the accent on the last letter of ployé.
Dawen the Dark. Name and device. Per fess Or and pean, a demi-sun sable charged with a demi-eagle Or. 
Submitted as Dayone the Dark, no documentation was provided and none was found that Dayone is a plausible name in period. Black Pillar found some similar-sounding names in period, which we are including here for the submitter's information:
I note the masculine name "Deo" from the article "Italian Men's Names from Florence, 1427" by Ferrante laVolpe. There is the masculine name "Dion" from Wickendon's Dictionary of Period Russian Names, online 2nd edition. There is also the Welsh masculine name "Deyo," given as a variant of "David" in "A Simple Guide to Constructing 16th Century Welsh Names" by Tangwystl verch Morgant Glasvryn. Those are the closest that I have found in looking through my resources.
The LoI specifically noted that if the submitted name was not registerable, the submitter would accept Melissa Dawn the Dark. Dawn was documented as a header form in Reaney & Wilson (p. 128 s.n. Dawn). In most cases, header forms are plausible for period and so are registerable. However, precedent (most notably regarding modern forms in Ó Corráin & Maguire) has ruled that header forms which are modern might not be registerable. This has been handled on a case by case basis. In this instance, the only example given under this header in Reaney & Wilson is Roger Dawen, dated to 1332. Dawen is derived from Daw/Dawe, a diminutive of David, via an -en diminutive ending. Lacking evidence that the e would have been dropped in period, Dawn is not registerable. As Dawen is a diminutive of a given name, it is registerable as a given name and does not require Melissa to be added as a given name to make this name registerable.
The bird was originally blazoned as a demi-hawk but it is clearly drawn as a stylized eagle. We have therefore reblazoned it.
Fiona Ann the Fair. Name and device. Ermine, three crescents inverted sable. 
Note: Fiona was ruled SCA compatible in April of 1981 and upheld in the December 1995 cover letter.
This device does not conflict with Aébfhinn ni Thigearnaigh, Ermine, an alphyn passant between three crescents inverted sable. The standard comparison between these two devices would be that Fiona's device has deleted a primary charge, the alphyn, from Aébfhinn's device. The alphyn is clearly primary in Aébhfhinn's device because it is a central charge surrounded by an group of identical charges. Just as the hypothetical arms Ermine, a chevron between three crescents inverted sable would have the chevron as a primary charge group, the alphyn in Aébfhinn's device is also a primary charge group. Addition/deletion of primary charge is sufficient difference between two pieces of armory by RfS X.1.
Flannacán Ó Duinnín. Name and device. Azure, a fess between three trefoils and a lion's head cabossed argent. 
Haley Óláfsdóttir. Name change from holding name Haley of Atenveldt. 
An issue regarding holding names arose in reviewing this submission resulting in a policy change discussed fully in the Cover Letter accompanying this LoAR. Beginning with the January 2003 decision meeting, elements of a holding name which were not documented in the original submission are not grandfathered for use in a new submission or resubmission. Most notably this addresses mundane name elements taken from the submission form in order to create a holding name. If such an element was not submitted with proper documentation as required under the Legal Name allowance (RfS II.4), it is not grandfathered. If the submitter wishes to use that element in an SCA name, it may be submitted as normal under the Legal Name allowance. For a full discussion of this issue, please see the Cover Letter.
Isabeau Gagnon. Name and device. Argent, a chevron purpure between three lions rampant gules within a bordure purpure. 
Marceau de Valcourt. Badge. (Fieldless) A pair of rapiers crossed in saltire Or surmounted by a fleur-de-lys purpure. 
Marcus Christian. Name and device. Per saltire purpure and argent, in pale a comet bendwise sinister Or headed of a mullet and a single-horned anvil argent. 
Submitted as Marcus the Christian, all of the documentation found for Christian as a byname show it as a patronymic byname. Therefore, we have removed the from the byname.
Michel der Riese. Name and device. Per bend sinister Or and vert, a talbot passant sable and a bordure counterchanged. 
Stefania Krakowska. Name. 
Suzanne du Soleil. Name. 
Listed on the LoI as Suzanne du Soliel, this name was submitted as Suzanne du Soleil. There was some question about the plausibility of the byname du Soleil, 'of the sun'. Clarion found support for this form of the byname:
Morlet, Dictionnaire Étymologique des Noms de Famille (the updated Dauzat), pg. 905, s.n. Soleil, gives Soleil as a hamlet name, which makes du Soleil plausible.
It is important to note that this entry in Morlet lists Le Soleil as a variant of this placename. Therefore, du Soleil (du being a contraction of de le) is a valid locative byname based on the placename referenced in Morlet.
Victoria of the Vales of Barnsdale. Badge reblazon. Erminois, a daffodil blossom bell to sinister base purpure slipped vert. 
The previous blazon, Erminois, a daffodil blossom reversed purpure slipped vert, did not specify the posture of the flower.
ATLANTIA
Bartola de Rossa. Device reblazon. Azure, a daffodil bell to chief Or slipped and leaved proper sustained by a hand reversed aversant bendwise sinister argent, a bordure Or. 
The previous blazon, Azure, a daffodil Or slipped and leaved proper sustained by a hand reversed aversant bendwise sinister argent, a bordure Or, did not specify the posture of the flower.
Cynan Blaidd ap Iago. Name. 
Dante di Pietro. Name. 
Dominick Elphinstone. Device. Vert, on an open book argent a key fesswise reversed purpure, a tierce argent. 
Elena Alexander. Badge. (Fieldless) A horse's head couped contourny vert. 
Elena Bertholmeu. Name. 
Submitted as Eleyna Bertholmeu, the submitter requested authenticity for 1250 to 1350 Scoto-Norman. Eleyna was submitted as a variant of Elena. Black dates several variants of this given name, including Elena (p. 13 s.n. Airth) to 1271, Elayne de Dudingestone (p. 225 s.n. Duddingston) to 1296, and Eleyne Papede (p. 657 s.n. Pepdie) to 1296. Any of these forms would be appropriate for the submitter's desired time and culture. Elena is a Latin form. No evidence was presented and none was found that Eleyna is a plausible variant Latin form. None of the English and Scots forms of this given name found included a terminal a, though some included a y in the middle of the name, as shown in the examples above. Lacking evidence that y would have appeared in a Latin form of this name, or that a Scots or English form would include a terminal a, the submitted form Eleyna is not registerable. As the form Elena is the most likely of these documented forms found to be pronounced similar to the submitted Eleyna by a general member of the populace, we have changed the given name to this form in order to register this name.
Generys ferch Ednuyed ap Madauc. Device. Ermine, a bend azure and a bordure invected sable. 
Hyrim de Guillion. Device. Sable, a wolf passant and in chief three pitchers argent. 
Laura de Givet. Badge. Argent, two crescents gules and a scourge sable. 
The Pictorial Dictionary notes that a scourge has three lashes and the handle to base by default. This scourge is drawn with the lashes separated widely, so the three lashes and handle form somewhat of a cross, although the tips of all three lashes bend towards the chief. The usual depiction of a scourge (as in the Pictorial Dictionary) shows the lashes closer together, mostly pointing to chief. This seems like a reasonable artistic variant of the default scourge, particularly given the space this charge must fill.
Many commenters indicated that this reminded them of some sort of cartoon face. This resemblance does not appear to be obtrusively modern, since some period armory did resemble faces, and because this does not strongly resemble any of the classic "smiley face" logos or their common variants.
This does not conflict with Deadra Colin Madoc, Argent, a drover's whip bendwise sinister, lash in action sable. There is one CD for adding the co-primary crescents and another for changing the posture of the bottommost charge of the group of three, which functions as half the group.
Llewelynus Luctuosus. Device change (see RETURNS for name change). Vert semy of sinister wings argent, a bordure Or. 
These were originally blazoned as egret's wings, but these wings are not clearly identifiable as anything other than a generic wing.
 His previous device, Argent goutty de sang, a cup sable, a chief gules, is released.
Submitted under the name Tamás Búndas.
Mary Grace of Gatland. Device. Vert semy-de-lys, a sun and on a chief Or three roses gules. 
Mary Grace of Gatland. Badge. Per chevron argent and vert, in cross three ermine spots sable and a fleur-de-lys Or. 
Please advise the submitter to draw the fleur-de-lys a bit farther to base so that the charges are truly in cross.
Melchior of Saint Georges. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Quarterly argent and sable, a heron volant wings addorsed and on a chief azure a sword reversed argent. 
The mini-emblazon drew the device as if the whole shield were quarterly and the chief overlapped the top half of the field. The full-sized emblazon draws the field and chief correctly: the quarterly is centered on the portion of the shield beneath the chief. Wreath and her staff had no difficulty identifying the heron in this posture as drawn on the full sized emblazon.
Submitted under the name Melchior der Grauwulf.
Owen ap Craddog. Name. 
Listed on the LoI as Owen ap Craddoc, the submitter requested authenticity for 1250 to 1350 Welsh and allowed minor changes. This name was submitted as Owen ap Craddog and changed at kingdom to match documented forms appropriate for the submitter's desired time period. Morgan & Morgan (p. 67 s.n. Caradog) dates Craddoc Bentan, Craddoc Patty, and Hona ap Criadog to 1292. Given these examples, the submitted ap Craddog is a plausible form for the submitter's desired time period. We have returned the byname to this form.
Ranulf of Waterford and Caitlyn o Duirnin. Acceptance of transfer of household name House Azami from Ysabeau Cameron and Laeghaire O Laverty. 
Ysabeau Cameron and Laeghaire O Laverty. Transfer of household name House Azami to Ranulf of Waterford and Caitlyn o Duirnin. 
Ysoria de Brai. Name change from Ysoria filia Emery. 
Her previous name, Ysoria filia Emery, is retained as an alternate name.
CAID
Karol Johanna Gartenheit. Device reblazon. Azure, in fess four jonquil blossoms bells to chief Or. 
The previous blazon, Azure, in fess four jonquil blossoms Or, did not specify the posture of the flowers.
Konrad von Falkenberg. Device. Gules, a wolf's head erased argent and on a chief Or three fleurs-de-lys sable. 
This was pended from the November 2001 LoAR because of a missing tincture.
Richenda Elizabeth Coffin. Device reblazon. Gules, on a bend between two daffodils bells to dexter base slipped and leaved Or, three crosses bottony palewise gules. 
The previous blazon, Gules, on a bend between two daffodils slipped and leaved Or, three crosses bottony palewise gules, did not specify the posture of the flowers.
Ygraine o Gaerllion Fawr. Device reblazon. Purpure, a bouquet of three daffodils slipped, the centermost affronty and the outermost addorsed, Or within a bordure nebuly argent. 
The previous blazon, Purpure, a bouquet of three daffodils Or within a bordure nebuly argent, did not specify the posture of the flowers or the presence of the slips.
CALONTIR
Frances de Battenhelm. Device reblazon. Azure, five jonquil blossoms affronty in cross within a bordure potenty Or. 
The previous blazon, Azure, five jonquil blossoms in cross within a bordure potenty Or, did not specify the posture of the flowers.
DRACHENWALD
Falco de Jablonec. Device. Azure semy of apples Or, a falcon argent belled and jessed Or. 
 This does not conflict with Antonia d'Alessandria, Azure, an owl close, holding in its talons a tuft of wool pendant therefrom a drop spindle argent. There is a CD for adding the strewn apples, and there is another CD for changing the type of bird from an owl close to a falcon close. The Cover Letter for the January 2000 LoAR contains a very complete precedent on the difference between owls and other raptors, and how the posture of these birds affects the difference given between them.
This also does not conflict with Erika Segenlein, Azure crusily Latin flory Or, a stork statant argent. There is a CD for changing the type of the strewn charges. There is another CD for changing the type of bird from a stork statant (which is equivalent to a stork close) and a falcon close. Quoting from the Cover Letter for the January 2000 LoAR: "I will be more likely to grant difference between different types of birds when they are (a) different in period, (b) in a period posture, (c) drawn correctly, and (d) there is some visual difference". All four of these criteria are true when comparing storks close and falcons close.
This also does not conflict with Sheryl of Thespis, Azure, a swan naiant argent crowned Or. There is one CD for adding the strewn apples. There is no posture difference between birds naiant and birds close. However, there is another CD for changing the type of bird from a swan naiant to a falcon close. When comparing the type difference between swans naiant and falcons close, the four criteria for giving difference between birds stated in the Cover Letter for the January 2000 LoAR are all true.
Iseut de Colmar. Name. 
Johanna de la Rochelle. Device. Per pale vert and Or, in pale a dolphin and a rose counterchanged. 
Johanna von Jülich. Badge. (Fieldless) A fleur-de-lys per pale gules and Or. 
Robert Longshanks of Canterbury. Name. 
Ulrich der Jäger. Name (see RETURNS for badge). 
This name is clear of Alaric der Jaeger (registered March 1996). The registered Alaric has three distinct syllables, whereas the submitted Ulrich has two. The pronunciation difference between the two names is just enough to be clear. Had the registered form been Alric rather than Alaric, these names would have conflicted.
EALDORMERE
Adeline de Préaux. Name and device. Sable, a saltire between in pale two thistles and in fess two fleurs-de-lys Or. 
Listed on the LoI as Adeline de Preaux, both the forms and the documentation showed Préaux. We have made this correction.
Anne la Grisa. Name and device. Gules, semy of quill pens argent. 
Submitted as Anne le Gris, the submitter requested authenticity for late 15th C France and noted that the meaning 'Gray' was most important to her. By the 15th C, inherited surnames were more common in France than literal bynames, though evidence of literal bynames exists past the submitter's desired period. Talan Gwynek, "Late Period Feminine Names from the South of France", (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/latefrenchfem), dates the byname la Rossa, meaning 'redhead', to 1521. As the submitter indicated that the meaning 'Gray' was most important to her, we have changed the byname to be gramatically correct as a feminine byname. As the College was unable to find a 15th C example of this byname, we were unable to confirm that this name is authentic for the submitter's desired time period.
Nice device!
Colyne Stewart. Name and device. Per pale gules and argent, a fox rampant counterchanged. 
Elaina of Oaklawn. Device change. Vert, an oak leaf bendwise sinister inverted fructed and in base a county coronet within a bordure argent. 
The submitter is a countess and entitled to use the coronet. She has a letter of permission to conflict with Ralf of Oak Lawn the Oxhandler, registered in the Ansteorran acceptances of this LoAR, Vert, an oak leaf bendwise sinister inverted fructed and in base a bull statant within a bordure argent.
Her previous device, Or, mullety of six points azure, in canton a coronet embattled sable, is retained as a badge.
Gerrard Carpentarius. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
Gunnarr skáld Þorvaldsson. Name and device. Argent, two single-bitted axes in saltire and on a chief gules three recorders palewise argent. 
Listed on the LoI as Gunnarr skald Þorvaldsson, the forms and the documentation had an accent on the 'a' in the descriptive byname. The LoI noted that the "[s]ubmitter would like one of: 'Truthsinger' or something that means truthsinger or truthpoet if possible. We were unable to find out if truth is possible or, of so, how it would be used with skald." The College was unable to find any evidence that a descriptive byname meaning 'truthsinger' or 'truthpoet' is plausible in Old Norse. Therefore, we have left the byname as the submitted skáld, meaning 'skald, poet'.
Long thin charges such as arrows, swords and recorders default to the fesswise posture when placed on a chief or a fess. Thus, even though all these charges are palewise by default when on the field, it is also necessary to blazon them as palewise when they are on a chief.
It is an incorrect oversimplification to state that "charges on an (ordinary) are oriented (ordinary)-wise by default". A crescent or fleur-de-lys charged on a fess is in its default palewise posture, not fesswise. If a saltire were charged with a cross crosslet, the cross crosslet would be in its default palewise (or crosswise) posture, not saltirewise.
A more complicated rule of thumb, but one which recreates period practice with greater accuracy, would be:
(1) Charges on a bend are bendwise by default, and charges on a bend sinister are bendwise sinister by default.
(2) Charges on any other ordinary have the same default for such a charge on the field (which is generally palewise.) This statement has the following exceptions.
(2a) "Long thin" charges such as arrows tilt to follow the ordinary on which they lie.
(2b) When charging an ordinary such as a chevron, saltire, or pall, which has some diagonal arms, the charges may all be drawn using the same default for the charge on the field. They may also be drawn with the centermost charge in the default posture but the outermost charges tilted to follow the arms of the charge. (There is a fair amount of evidence indicating that the difference between these two forms of emblazon may be purely artistic in period. However, the SCA has so far always blazoned this distinction and given corresponding difference for changing the posture of the charges.)
Once again we are reminded that while blazon is a type of technical language, the people who developed it in the Middle Ages weren't computer programmers, and the people listening to it weren't computers, so blazon also partakes of natural language.
Gunnarr skáld Þorvaldsson. Badge. Argent, on a fess indented gules a wolf rampant contourny between the halves of a broken chain issuant from the flanks argent. 
The armory was originally blazoned as Gules, a wolf rampant contourny between issuant from sinister and dexter two broken chains fesswise, a chief indented and a base indented argent. However, the visual realities clearly indicate that this should be a fess indented. Very little period armory combines both a chief and a base, so the visual interpretation of the fess here is even more striking when considered against the background of period heraldic design.
Some commenters felt that a period fess indented may not look like this, but must look like a fess lozengy or fusilly. However, an indented ordinary may include a center space, like the center space of an engrailed ordinary. The arms of Pacanha in Godinho's early 16th C Portuguese Libro da Nobreza are Argent, on a bend indented gules three fleurs-de-lys argent. Pacanha's bend has approximately nine distinct indentations on each side and a wide central area upon which the fleurs-de-lys are placed. The fess here has similar proportions, but with four indentations on each side of the ordinary.
Helen of Greyfells. Name and device. Or, four lozenges in pale between flaunches vert. 
Johan de Foderingeye. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
Lina Carville. Name and device. Argent, a sun in his splendor sable within a bordure sable semy of moons in their plenitude argent. 
Malachi Sinclair. Name. 
The submitter requested authenticity for "16th C Lowland Scot." Lacking evidence that Malachi was used in Scotland, we were unable to make this name authentic for the submitter's desired culture.
Marcus of Bartale. Name and device. Vert, on a pale between two thistles Or a natural salamander rampant vert. 
The submitter requested authenticity for "late-period England". As the College was unable to find late-period forms of Marcus or Bartale, we were unable to make this name authentic for the submitter's requested time period.
Some commenters noted that the tertiary charge is not quite a natural salamander: it lacks the webbed feet of a salamander and it has slightly different proportions. They suggested that this be blazoned as a lizard. When one considers the vast divergences from standard heraldic or naturalistic depictions that we routinely accept in the College of Arms as artistic variants, it seems inappropriate to reblazon the type of this animal because of its toes. We have therefore retained the submitter's blazon for the tertiary charge. The submitter may wish to take the commenters' advice in drawing the animal in the future so that it is more clearly identifiable as a natural salamander.
Nivelet Lalonde. Name and device. Azure, a dolphin haurient between in chief two compass stars elongated to base argent, a base wavy barry wavy argent and vert. 
Ragnar Thorbergsson. Release of badge for Vennshavn. Per pale sable and argent, a serpent coiled and in chief a chain fesswise counterchanged. 
Terentius the Coward. Name and device. Sable, on a pale bretessed Or a fleur-de-lys gules. 
Submitted as Terence the Coward, the submitter requested authenticity for English. The submitter indicated that the meaning "the Coward (like the Cowardly Lion)" was most important to him. Unfortunately, no evidence was found that the form Terence was used in period. Metron Ariston summarizes:
The evidence from Withycombe is not really supportive of the use of this name in the English context at an early enough period for the byname: "There was a 3rd-C Carthaginian St. Terentius, but it has not been used as a christian name, except in Ireland, where Terence or Terry is commonly used for the native Toirdhealbhach or Turlough." This statement seems supported by Reaney and Wilson (Dictionary of English Surnames, s.n. Terrey) where all the Terry forms seem to come from Theoderic or one of its variants rather than from Terence.
Regarding the use of Terence as an Anglicized form of the Irish Gaelic Toirdhealbhach, Withycombe's use of the verb "is" indicates that this use is modern, which is confirmed by Anglicized Irish forms found in John O'Donovan, Annals of Ireland, by the Four Masters, vol. 5. This volume includes transcriptions of the text of several late 16th C indentures in footnotes. Several names in these indentures include Anglicized forms of Toirdhealbhach, specifically Tirrelage O'Bardan of Dromhishen (February 10, 1570, pp. 1651-1652), Tirreloghe Mc Morighe of Ballinemone (June 26, 1570, pp. 1649-1650), Tirlogh Mc Rorie and Tirloghe O Doyne (March 8, 1576, pp. 1690-1691). Lacking evidence that the form Terence was known in period, it is not registerable. In order to register this name, we have changed the given name to the saint's name cited by Withycombe, as that name could have been known in English in period.
Additionally, the submitted byname does not have the meaning desired by the submitter. Reaney & Wilson (p. 113 s.n. Coward) gives this byname as being derived from the Old Engish c{u-}hyrde meaning 'cow-herd'.
EAST
Carolina of Milan. Device reblazon. Argent semy of icicles, a daffodil plant vert with two blossoms bells fesswise addorsed Or. 
The previous blazon, Argent semy of icicles, a daffodil plant vert with two blossoms Or, did not specify the posture of the flowers.
Megwen ferch Rhys o Wynedd. Device reblazon. Vert, a daffodil sprig argent with two flowers affronty, in chief three bendlets enhanced Or. 
The previous blazon, Vert, a daffodil sprig argent with two flowers, in chief three bendlets enhanced Or, did not specify the posture of the flowers.
LOCHAC
Alycie Stirling. Device. Per saltire sable and purpure, two ferrets combattant Or. 
Esteban de Quesada. Device. Sable, a valknut inverted argent. 
The Letter of Intent asked us to rule on whether the valknut should continue to be registered. As noted in the LoAR of September 1993, the valknut is a period artistic motif which was not used in period heraldry. It was incorporated into SCA heraldry and has been registered infrequently but steadily thereafter. The September 1993 argument in favor of the valknut's registration appears to continue to hold true. It is identifiable when inverted, just as a triangle is identifiable when inverted.
Would-be users of the valknut should take note of the fact that its "thin-line" nature can make it difficult to identify. Poor contrast, small size or overlying charges are all likely to render it unidentifiable. Since this device uses the valknut as the only charge on a high contrast field, it maintains its identifiability splendidly.
Griffin Rede. Name. 
Submitted as Griffin Reid, the submitter requested authenticity for 12th to 14th C (unspecified language/culture). Kingdom noted that they had been unable to find a dated example for Reid and said that "If this spelling is unacceptable then the submittor will accept Rede instead, which Reaney [2nd ed.] dates to 1327." Black (s.n. Reid) dates Reide to 1555 and Reyd to 1548. From these examples, Reid is a reasonable 16th C form. Black lists several forms of this name in the submitter's desired time period, including John Reed dated to 1362, William Rede dated to 1389, and Red dated to 1317. We have changed the byname to the form Rede to make this name appropriate for the submitter's requested time period.
Gwalchmai ap Llywelyn Llanfyllin. Device. Ermine, a bend sinister wreathed sable and Or. 
Laufey rauðrefr. Device. Argent, a fox passant proper and on a chief vert a compass star elongated to base argent. 
MERIDIES
Alesia of Iron Mountain. Name. 
The submitter requested authenticity for late 13th C England. As the College was unable to find evidence that Iron Mountain (the name of her SCA branch) is authentic for that time period, we were unable to make this name authentic for the submitter's desired time and culture.
Anna Genevieve of Ancyra. Name change from Melek of Ancrya. 
Submitted as Anna Genevieve d'Ancyra, name elements are only grandfathered in their originally registered form. In her original submission, Ancyra was submitted as the name of a location in Turkey. As no evidence was presented and the College found none that Ancyra is a plausible French placename, the French byname d'Ancyra is not registerable. We have changed this element to the grandfathered form of Ancyra in order to register this name.
Her previous name, Melek of Ancrya, is released.
Caitriona of Whitemoor. Name change from Catrina of Whitemoor. 
Gaelic names are registerable with accents used or omitted consistently. Therefore, Caitriona is registerable as a form of Caitríona. The submitter may wish to know that Caitriona is is pronounced "ka-TREE-na" in period Gaelic. The pronunication "ka-tree-OH-na" is modern, and may be limited to English.
Her previous name, Catrina of Whitemoor, is released.
Elspeth of Talmere. Name. 
Submitted as Elspeth of Tal  Mere, registered names of SCA branches are automatically registerable as part of a locative byname only in their registered form. Any changes from that form requires that name element to be documented as any constructed locative. The branch's name was registered as Talmere, Shire of in January 1997. We have changed the byname to use this form.
Grendael, Shire of. Branch name. 
This submission uses the Old English form of the placename Greendale. No evidence was found that Greendale, England, is important enough to warrant protection. Therefore, this submission does not conflict with that location.
Meridies, Kingdom of. Badge for Legio Ursi. Argent, a bear passant and a bordure embattled sable. 
Thomas Vaur. Name. 
William de Ross. Device. Gules, on a bend Or between a dragon passant and a dove volant to sinister chief argent a sword gules. 
MIDDLE
Æsa in bjarnd{oe}lska. Name and device. Argent, on a chevron vert between two fir trees couped proper and a bear's head couped close vert three crosses potent argent. 
Submitted as Æsa in bjard{oe}lska, bjard{oe}lska was submitted as a constructed byname meaning 'woman from Bear-Dale'. Geirr Bassi lists the bynames Bjarneyja- (p. 20) meaning 'Bear Island-', eyverska (p. 21) meaning 'woman from the Orkney Islands', and inn haukd{oe}lski (p. 22) meaning 'man from the Hawk-Dale'. From these examples, and other information found by the College, a byname meaning 'woman from Bear-Dale' would take the form bjarnd{oe}lska or in bjarnd{oe}lska. We have added the missing n to the byname.
Gabriel de Lanzarote. Name and device. Counter-ermine, a fox couchant guardant within a bordure argent. 
The submitter requested authenticity for Spanish, 1325 to 1575. The LoI noted that the submitter was willing to drop de from the locative byname, if necessary. Clarion provided information regarding the use (and omission) of de in late-period Spanish bynames:
I would like to note that it is possible for de to be dropped in a locative byname; volume III of the Catálogo, #2686, lists an Isabel Jerez where Jerez is noted elsewhere in the index as a place name. The use of the preposition, however, is much more common.
As the submitted form is authentic for the submitter's desired time period, we have registered it unchanged.
Please advise the submitter to draw the fox somewhat larger, as befits a primary charge.
Middle Marches, Barony of the. Badge reblazon for the Order of the Golden Affodille. Two swords inverted in saltire surmounted by a daffodil bell to dexter Or slipped and leaved vert. 
The previous blazon,  (Fieldless) Two swords inverted in saltire surmounted by a daffodil [Narcissus pseudo-narcissus] slipped and leaved proper, did not specify the posture of the flower. We have also removed the "Linnaean proper" from the blazon.
Mordreth Llanelli Colwyn. Device reblazon. Per chevron inverted vert and argent, a unicorn's head couped at the shoulder and a sprig of two daffodils bells to chief Or, slipped and leaved vert. 
The previous blazon, Per chevron inverted vert and argent, a unicorn's head couped at the shoulder and a sprig of two daffodils Or, slipped and leaved vert, did not specify the posture of the daffodils.
Nikolas Grigorevich Petrov. Badge. Vert, a dragonfly and in chief three mullets one and two Or. 
This was originally blazoned as Vert, in cross three mullets and a dragonfly Or. However, the dragonfly is notably larger than the mullets, at least four times taller and wider than each mullet. There is no other element of the design, such as a per fess or per chevron line of division between the mullets and the dragonfly, to give the implication that the mullets and the dragonfly are all part of the same group of primary charges. The dragonfly therefore functions as a primary charge.
Sindri Jónsson. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
Undewyn de Maccuswell. Badge. Per bend sinister wavy azure and Or, in dexter chief two compass stars elongated to base in bend sinister and in sinister base a single-masted caravel counterchanged. 
OUTLANDS
Elaisse de Garrigues. Name. 
Feichín Mac Giolla Fhindéin. Device. Per saltire argent and azure, in pale a raven sable and two roses in saltire slipped and leaved proper. 
Fergus MacLennan. Name. 
Submitted as Fearghus MacLennan, the submitter requested authenticity for 16th C Scotland. Kingdom had additional communication with the submitter and received clarification that he is "not at all interested in having his name be made authentic for 16th century Scotland, and would prefer the all anglicized form 'Fergus MacLennan'." As it so happens, Cornelian found documentation for Fergus in Scots in the submitter's desired time period:
Black, sn Fergus gives Fearghus as the modern Gaelic, and Fergus as the Middle Gaelic spelling. Fergus is ALSO the standard English spelling and occurs in 16th C Scotland, I find an example of <Fergus> in the data from the Orkney Islands (http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~grm/orkney-masc.htm). It's also found in Black sn MacMuirray in 1530 and 1553.
Black (p. 537 s.n. MacLennan) dates Adam M'Clenane to 1586, James Makclennand to 1594, and the byname M'Clanan to 1592. Given these examples, MacLennan is a plausible 16th C Scots form. Therefore, the submitter's desired Fergus MacLennan is authentic for his originally desired culture of 16th C Scotland.
Gonter van Kortrike. Device. Sable, a talbot's head erased contourny and a label Or. 
Gotschalg Sudermann. Alternate name Feradach mac Maíl Giric. 
Natalia Vasilkovna Riazanskaia. Name. 
TRIMARIS
Astrith Alexandra. Device. Sable, a bat-winged wolf rampant Or gorged with an embattled coronet sable and in dexter chief a sun Or eclipsed sable all within a bordure embattled Or. 
The submitter is a countess and therefore entitled to use an embattled coronet.
Brion Gennadyevich Gorodin. Household name Haus Hombaden. 
Submitted as House Hombaden, the submitter requested authenticity for German. Therefore, we have changed the designator from House to the German form Haus.
Chlothar Bructerus. Device. Per saltire sable and gules, a saltire gringolé voided humetty Or and a bordure argent. 
This was pended from the November 2001 LoAR for a missing tincture.
Devasse ni Farquhar McFein. Name. 
Submitted as Dubheasa ni Farquhar MacFane, the submitter is primarily interested in a female name authentic for the language and/or culture of the name but does not state a specific language or culture. As submitted, this name is a mixture of Irish Gaelic and Anglicized Irish. In period, a name would have been written all in Irish Gaelic or all in Anglicized Irish depending upon the language of the document in question. Dubh Easa and Duibheasa are Early Modern Irish Gaelic (c. 1200 to c. 1700) forms of the submitted given name. The submitted Dubheasa is a plausible form based on forms of this name found in various annals. Ó Corráin & Maguire (p. 79 s.n. Dub Essa) gives Devasse as an undated Anglicized form of this name. Fane is listed as a modern Anglicized Irish form under two headers in Woulfe (p. 524), Ó Féichín and Ó Fiacháin. Under the header Ó Féichín, the Anglicized Irish forms O Feahine, O Fehin, and O Fein are dated to temp. Elizabeth I-James I. Under Ó Fiacháin, the Anglicized forms O Fighane, O Feehan, and O Pheane are dated to temp Elizabeth I-James I. C. L'Estrange Ewen, A History of Surnames of the British Isles (pp. 210-211), lists Anglicized Irish names dated to 1603-4. Among these is Honor nyn Donnell McSwiny of Mossanglassy. John O'Donovan, ed., Annals of Ireland, by the Four Masters (vol. 6, p. 2446), gives a transcription of a will dated August 14, 1629. Among the people listed is Juane Ny Teige O'Donovane, who is noted as being the daughter of Teige O'Donovane. Based on this information, the completely Anglicized Irish form of this name that would be closest to the submitted name would be Devasse ni Farquhar McFein. A fully Gaelic form of this name would be Duibheasa inghean Fhearchair Mhic Fhéichín. As the fully Anglicized form is the closer of these to the submitted name, we have changed the name to that form to meet the submitter's request for authenticity.
Fernando Rodriguez de Avilles y León. Name. 
Submitted as Fernando Rodriguez de Avilles y de León, the submitter requested authenticity for 16th C Spanish. Garnet found provided information regarding combining surnames using y, including examples from Julio de Atienza, Nobiliario Español:
Unfortunately, the modern practice of combining patronymic and matronymic surnames using <y> is not in general use before 1600. Instead, paternal and maternal name elements are combined in a variety of ways in period. I could find no examples of names with the structure the submitter desires; the closest exemplars I could find were <López de Mendoza y de la Vega> and < de Lili y Hurtado de Mendoza>. However, there are numerous examples of a patronymic followed by multiple placenames, and some genealogies make it clear that they combine paternal and maternal elements. I'd expect <Fernando>, the son of <Juan Rodriguez de Avilles> and <Isabel de Leon>, to be <Fernando Rodriguez de Avilles y León> (using all the possible elements) though a name like <Fernando Rodriguez de Avilles>, <Fernando Rodriguez de León> or <Fernando de Avilles y León> or is equally likely.
We have changed the byname construction to the first form suggested by Garnet to meet the submitter's request for authenticity.
Oldenfeld, Shire of. Augmentation. Vert, in pale a lion couchant guardant and a laurel wreath Or, as an augmentation, within the laurel wreath a triskele argent. 
This armorial design consists a group of three co-primary charges of different types, which violates RfS VIII.1.a. However, RfS VIII.7, "Augmentations of Honor", states "The augmentation may, however, on a case by case basis break the rules in relation to the original armory." Augmentations in period were commonly made by adding charges, which increases the complexity of the armory thus augmented. Therefore, it seems reasonable to grant an exemption for augmented armory that violates the complexity rules if the armory is augmented in a period fashion.
Some commenters asked whether adding a "random" charge on the field is a period form of augmentation. Anthony Wagner and Arthur Colin Cole co-authored "The Venetian Ambassador's Augmentation" in The Coat of Arms, volume III (old series) numbers 19 (July 1954) and 20 (October 1954). The article states that "during the reigns of Henry VII to George III it was customary for the Ambassador of the Republic of Venice in London, at all events if he remained in office for some length of time and rendered distinguished service, to be knighted and granted an augmentation of arms under the Great Seal ... Occasionally other Venetians also were honoured by receiving grants of augmentation." It then describes these augmentations. This article shows a number of types of augmentation: creating entirely new arms, adding quarterings, adding charged cantons, adding charged chiefs, and adding charges to the field. As period (or near-period) examples of the last practice, on February 12, 1550, Edward VI granted an augmentation to Daniel Barbar of Venice. The original arms were Argent, an annulet gules, and the augmentation placed a Tudor rose within the annulet, much in the same way as the augmentation in this device places a triskele within the laurel wreath. In 1608, James I knighted and granted an augmentation to George Giustinian, Ambassador of the Republic of Venice. The original arms were Gules, on a double-headed crowned eagle Or an escutcheon Gules charged with a fess Or, and the augmentation was in chief a lion passant guardant maintaining a Scottish thistle Or.
Olalla Roja de Xerez. Name. 
Submitted as Eolalia la roja de Xerez, the submitter requested authenticity for Spanish. Garnet and Clarion provided information regarding how this name might appear at different times. Garnet stated:
<Eolalia> is an early period name in Spain, dated to 1146 in Menendez Pidal Órigines de Español; <Xerez> did not fall under Spanish rule until later. Moreover, the article is generally only used with a final byname (tacked onto a more typical byname). So, I'd expect <Eolalia Roja de Xerez>[...]
Clarion found other examples of these elements:
Diez Melcon, pg. 90, s.n. Johannes, lists an Eulalia Johannes in 1113. On pg. 174, s.n. Eulalius, he dates both an Eicta Eolaliz in 1067 and a Maria Eulaliz in 1114. Thus the given spelling should be fine. I could not find la roja in Diez Melcon, but I did find the descriptive byname Roio which also means red. I believe that la Roja (note capitalization) is fine for at least later Spain. The article "Spanish Names from the Late 15th Century" lists de Xerez as a locative byname. I did not find it in Diez Melcon. [...] Eolalia Roia should be very authentic for 12th century Leon.
Diez Melcon (p. 284 s.n. Sta. Eulalia) dates Rodrigo St. Olalia to 1221, showing an O- form of this name. It is forms of this type that survive in late period. Elsbeth Anne Roth's article "16th-century Spanish Women's Names" (http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/spanish.html) lists Olall as a feminine given name. Juliana de Luna's article "Spanish Names from the Late 15th Century" (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/isabella/) lists Olalla. This article also lists two names including colors: Juanica (la negra) and Alonso el Negro. Therefore Eolalia Roia is an authentic form of this name for 12th C Leon. Olalla la roja and Olalla Roja de Xerez are authentic forms of this name for 15th C Castile. As this last form is closest to the submitted name, we have changed this name to that form to meet the submitter's request for authenticity.
Richard MacKenzie. Name. 
Þórunn Vígadóttir. Device. Or, a winged lioness passant reguardant contourny vert and a chief wavy azure charged with two barrulets wavy argent. 
We have preserved the submitter's desired blazon of a lioness, since the creature does not have any of the characteristics that would mark it specifically as a male lion, such as a mane or a pizzle. However, it should be noted that this artwork probably would have been perceived as a winged lion in the culture which originated it, not a winged lioness. Lions in period could be drawn without a distinct mane, and often were not drawn with any mane in early period. Also, period lions were often drawn without a pizzle.
Trimaris, Kingdom of. Badge. (Fieldless) An open scroll azure. 
Trimaris, Kingdom of. Badge. (Fieldless) A lymphad sails unfurled azure. 
Trimaris, Kingdom of. Badge. (Fieldless) A banner azure. 
This banner is drawn like the illustration in the Pictorial Dictionary under "Flag". Such a flag can be seen in the arms of Würzburg in the Conzilium zu Constanz in 1413 or in Siebmacher's 1605 Wappenbuch f. 220.
A blue flag is an acceptable fieldless badge. It is not a display of the arms Azure, but is merely a blue charge. As noted in the April 2002 LoAR, "A 'shield shape' which is also a standard heraldic charge will be acceptable as a fieldless badge in a plain tincture, as long as the tincture is not one of the plain tinctures that is protected armory in the SCA". Since Azure is not protected armory in this SCA, a fieldless badge consisting of a banner azure does not appear to be an independent display of arms and is acceptable.
Please advise the submitters that it would not be heraldically correct to display this badge by making and carrying a blue flag. Such a blue flag would appear to be a display of the arms Azure. The correct way to display this badge on a flag or standard would be to paint the badge of A banner azure on a flag or standard made of some other color (or colors) of material.
Trimaris, Kingdom of. Badge. (Fieldless) An oar azure. 
This is clear of conflict with Stephen of Coldjoust, Ermine, a tilting spear palewise azure. We were asked if the cronel or coronal at the tip of the tilting spear was wide enough to cause a visual conflict between these two devices. The cronel on Stephen's lance does keep the lance from coming to a sharp point, but it is not nearly wide enough to make the lance appear similar to this oar. There is therefore a CD for changing the field and a second CD for changing the type of charge.
Trimaris, Kingdom of. Badge. (Fieldless) An open book azure. 
Trimaris, Kingdom of. Badge. (Fieldless) A sail fastened to its mast and hanging from its yardarm azure. 
Some commenters noted that the SCA has not yet registered a sail without an associated ship. We usually expect to receive documentation for such a first registration of a charge. While no documentation was provided, the sail (which is drawn with an attached mast and yardarm) is clearly identifiable as a sail. Parker's A Glossary of Terms found in Heraldry, under "Ship", mentions that sails of ships, sometimes with attached masts and yardarms, are found in armory. Papworth gives the arms of Lecawell, Argent three sails of ships fastened to their yardarms gules, taken from Glover's Ordinary. This roll is dated 1584 according to Brault's Aspilogia III. This therefore appears to be a standard heraldic charge formed in a standard manner with at least one period example. It may therefore be registered.
Trimaris, Kingdom of. Badge. (Fieldless) A delf azure. 
As noted in the April 2002 LoAR, "A 'shield shape' which is also a standard heraldic charge will be acceptable as a fieldless badge in a plain tincture, as long as the tincture is not one of the plain tinctures that is protected armory in the SCA". Since Azure is not protected armory in this SCA, a fieldless badge consisting of a delf azure is acceptable, and does not appear to be an independent display of arms.
Trimaris, Kingdom of. Badge. (Fieldless) A hulk azure. 
WEST
Adriana Featherstonehaugh. Name and device. Per pale sable and argent, a vol inverted counterchanged and a chief azure. 
Adriana was documented as the name of a character in Shakespere's Comedy of Errors. Since Bardsley (p. 161 s.n. Carn) dates Adriana Lynch to 1547-8 as the wife listed on a marriage license, the name Adriana is documented as a feminine given name used in England in period, in addition to being a name used in literary works.
Aeruin as Sruth Waleis. Badge reblazon. (Fieldless) A daffodil slipped and leaved bell to chief argent. 
The previous blazon, (Fieldless) A daffodil slipped and leaved argent, did not specify the posture of the flower.
Alianora Alexandra da Lyshåret. Device reblazon. Sable, three narcissi affronty one and two slipped and leaved proper. 
The previous blazon, Sable, three narcissi one and two slipped and leaved proper, did not specify the posture of the flower.
Alianora Alexandra da Lyshåret. Badge reblazon. Per fess sable and Or, on a narcissus blossom affronty argent a Celtic cross Or. 
The previous blazon, Per fess sable and Or, on a narcissus blossom argent a Celtic cross Or, did not specify the posture of the flower.
Catherine of Wessex. Device. Purpure, a chevron and in base a heart all within a bordure Or. 
Constanza de Mendoza. Name change from Bridgit ferch Teleri. 
The submitter requested authenticity for 1480 to 1530 Castile. Clarion and Garnet found evidence that the submitted form is authentic for her desired time and culture, though the form Constança de Mendoça is more typical of that period. Clarion provided information regarding the ç to z switch:
For an authentic name, the best source is probably the article "Spanish Names from the Late 15th Century," [http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/isabella/] which contains names taken from the account books of Isabel of Castile in the last part of the 15th century. In that source, we find Constança rather than Constanza; in the Catálogo I also found that the switch from ç to z happened in the first part of the 16th century so either form should be fine, but the ç form is probably more typical for her time period. The same applies to the byname: de Mendoça is more typical for her time period, and is listed in the above article.
As the submitted form is authentic for her requested time and culture, we have made no changes to the name.
Her previous name, Bridgit ferch Teleri, is released.
Crisiant Dreigben. Device reblazon. Per saltire vert and sable, in pale two daffodils Or bells to dexter chief and in fess two dragons passant argent. 
The previous blazon, Per saltire vert and sable, in pale two daffodils bendwise Or and in fess two dragons passant argent, did not specify the posture of the flower.
Danielle of Headless House. Device reblazon. Argent, a bend sinister azure within a bordure azure charged with four daffodils affronty Or slipped and leaved proper. 
The previous blazon, Argent, a bend sinister azure within a bordure azure charged with four daffodils Or slipped and leaved proper, did not specify the posture of the flowers.
Helena d'Évreux. Badge. (Fieldless) On a cushion gules tasseled Or a terrier sejant to sinister argent collared purpure. 
Some commenters felt that the terrier was hard to identify, but most were able to identify it as a dog. The particular terrier in this emblazon has a short muzzle with a long hairy "beard" or "mustache", which seemed to be the source of the identifiability issues. Similar small dogs were documented with the submission, from the Arnolfini Wedding portrait circa 1434 and from the Unicorn Tapestries circa 1500 (which dog resembles a West Highland terrier, except that it is tan colored). The period sources showed dogs with small fluffy tails, so the fact that this dog's tail is also small (possibly docked) does not require blazoning.
Lyonnete la Rousse. Name change from Adriana FitzWilliam and device change. Quarterly sable and gules, a lion rampant within an orle of suns Or. 
Her previous name, Adriana FitzWilliam, and her previous device, Per chevron lozengy ermine and vert, and sable, in base a sun within a bordure Or, are released.
Rosa di Marco. Device. Or, on a pentagon inverted gules a mullet throughout Or. 
Some commenters asked whether this appeared to be a group of lozenges conjoined rather than a charged pentagon. The full-sized emblazon clearly appears to be a charged pentagon inverted, judging by the reaction of the viewers.
Stefana dei Medici. Name and device. Argent, three holly leaves in pall conjoined at the stems vert between three clusters each of three holly berries conjoined one and two gules. 
Submitted as Stefana de' Medici, de' is an abbreviation for dei. As we do not register scribal abbreviations, we have spelled it out.
Stephan of Caerleon. Device. Per bend sinister sable and argent, a cross within a bordure counterchanged. 
West, Kingdom of the. Badge. (Fieldless) A crossbow within and conjoined to an oak chaplet Or. 
The oak chaplet is surmounted in base by a very small rose, so small that it does not impact the outline of the charge. The rose has no contrast with the chaplet and is not identifiable at other than very close range. It appears to function as a nonblazonable artistic detail rather than an actual heraldic charge, and so we have removed it from the blazon. The alternative was to return it for identifiability problems. On a fieldless badge, it is not acceptable design to have an an overall charge that is of the same tincture as, and virtually completely overlapping, the underlying charge.

THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN RETURNED FOR FURTHER WORK
ÆTHELMEARC
Ástrídr Brandsdóttir. Device. Per pale gules and vert, three cat's heads cabossed Or. 
Conflict with Dalmatia, Azure, three lions' heads cabossed crowned Or. When a crown is added to the top of an animal's head, the change is not as visually significant as when one gorges the head with a high-contrast crown (which has been considered addition of a tertiary charge, and worth a CD, since the LoAR of September 1993). A crown on an animal's head generally either has poor contrast with the field, which makes it hard to see, or it has poor contrast with the head, making it appear to be part of the head. In the particular case of crowned lion's heads, a lion's head is often drawn with a jagged outline at the top of the head due to the lion's mane. When the crown on a lion's head is the same tincture as the lion's head, the crown will be very difficult to distinguish visually. There is therefore one CD for changing the field but nothing for removing the near-invisible crowns.
Please see the cover letter for a solicitation of further discussion about crowned animals and crowned animals' heads.
Cecily of Whitehaven. Device change. Per pale sable and argent, a lozenge gules. 
The lozenge was originally blazoned as fesswise. However, as noted in the February 2002 LoAR, a lozenge fesswise is considered equivalent to a lozenge, and the distinction should not be blazoned.
The device conflicts with Artur of Daeyrnmoore, Quarterly sable and argent, a lozenge fesswise throughout Or voided gules. The basic policies for fimbriated and voided charges have not changed since the Cover Letter for the November 1992 LoAR, which stated:
The arguments presented in [the] submission provide a rule of thumb we can use. We consider voiding to have the same visual weight as adding a tertiary charge --- i.e. Sable, a cross Or voided gules and Sable, a cross Or charged with another gules are interchangeable blazons, yielding the same emblazon. This view is supported by period heraldic treatises: e.g. Guillim's Display of Heraldrie, 1632, in discussing chevrons voided, says "if you say voided onely, it is ever understood that the field sheweth thorow the middle part of the charge voided. If the middle part of this chevron were of a different metall, colour, or furre from the Field, then should you Blazon it thus: A Chevron engrailed Or, surmounted of another, of such or such colour."
We can use the equivalence between voiding and adding tertiaries to determine when voiding is acceptable: if the voided charge can be reblazoned as On a [charge], another --- that is, if the inner line and the outer line of the voided charge are geometrically similar --- then it's simple enough to void.
There is no evidence in the standard sources that voiding and fimbriation would be drawn differently in real-world heraldry for those charges that would be considered "simple enough to void" by the ruling in the cover letter for the November 1992 LoAR. (The standard sources checked included Brooke-Little's An Heraldic Alphabet, Friar's A Dictionary of Heraldry, and Parker's A Glossary of Terms used in Heraldry.) Voiding is described as removing the center of the charge, and fimbriating is described as adding another color around the outside of the charge. However, none of these sources describe the outlining as being more prominent or wider in one case than in the other.
In SCA armory, it is clear that a lozenge voided could be emblazoned just in the same way as a lozenge fimbriated. There is SCA precedent that indicates that even if there were some small systematic difference between the way voiding and fimbriation were drawn in real-world armory, they are considered interchangeable in the SCA:
[The appeal stated] that there is a difference between a [charge] fimbriated and one voided because in the case of fimbriation the metal here would be narrower than is the case.... Even if period blazon practice were reflected in this distinction, if one had to use calipers to tell whether an ordinary was fimbriated or voided, then no difference could be derived from the issue and there is no point to quibbling over blazon. (LoAR 18 Sep 1988)
The SCA has copious precedent stating that the addition of fimbriation is not worth difference. For example:
"There is not a CD for fimbriation ..." (LoAR July 2000)
"In each case there is ... nothing for the addition or change in tincture of the fimbriation" (LoAR December (a) 1993)
"This conflicts with [a pall fimbriated of flame]. There's a CD for the secondary charges, but the fimbriation is worth no difference" (LoAR August 1992)
Because a voided charge can be drawn exactly the same as a fimbriated charge, Artur's arms could also be blazoned Quarterly sable and argent, a lozenge fesswise throughout gules fimbriated Or. (In fact, those people who are inclined to use the term fimbriated for thin outlining would probably use it here: Artur's emblazon shows a very thin Or line around the gules lozenge.) Because "you cannot 'blazon your way out of a conflict'" (LoAR of February 2000), these arms are in conflict with Cecily's arms, with one CD for changing the field but no difference for removing the fimbriation.
We can thus see that the three following very dissimilar-sounding blazons can all be drawn identically, and thus should be considered heraldically equivalent: A lozenge Or charged with a lozenge gules, A lozenge Or voided gules, and A lozenge gules fimbriated Or. This heraldic equivalence will apply for any charge "simple enough to void" by the criteria stated in the Cover Letter for the November 1992 LoAR. When checking for conflict with armory using fimbriation or voiding, all these interpretations should be considered when checking for conflict, and if one of the interpretations conflicts, the two pieces of armory conflict. This does not seem overly restrictive when one considers the rarity of armory in period featuring voided or fimbriated charges, or arms with the design of A "charge" charged with "the same type of charge". These are very uncommon designs in period. Period viewers probably had the same sorts of problems that we have when interpreting such designs.
Note that charges which are voided by definition are generally given one CD from their solid equivalents: mascles are given a CD from lozenges, and annulets are given a CD from roundels. If one interpreted these charges as voided, fimbriated, or charged charges, the guidelines above would also give exactly one CD between them. Comparing Azure, a lozenge Or vs. Azure, a lozenge Or charged with a lozenge azure: one CD, for adding a tertiary charge. Azure, a lozenge Or vs. Azure, a lozenge Or voided azure: equivalent to the previous case of adding a tertiary charge. Azure, a lozenge Or vs. Azure, a lozenge azure fimbriated Or: one CD for changing the tincture of the lozenge from Or to azure, and no additional difference for removing the fimbriation.
Durr min al-Jabal al-Mukhfi. Name change from Dur of Hidden Mountain. 
No submission history was included in the LoI entry for the current submission. The submitter has had multiple name resubmissions. A summary of the submission history (as required by the Administrative Handbook, section V.B.2.d) would have helped the College research this issue. Al-Jamal found returns for previous forms of this name in the LoARs of May 1999 and December 1995. As the return texts were substantial, we will not repeat them here, though both are relevent to the current submission.
Durr was submitted as "a word meaning 'pearls' which has been used in bynames". Evidence that a name element has been used in bynames does not address whether it is appropriate as an 'ism or given name. No evidence was provided and the College found none that Durr is plausible as a Arabic masculine given name in period. Lacking such evidence, it is not registerable as a given name.
The submitter has been trying for a number of years to register a locative byname in Arabic based on his group's name, Barony of the Hidden Mountain. He has attempted to document his byname as a locative byname based on an Arabic placename because of the policy that names of SCA branches are only automatically registerable in their registered form. This policy was recently upheld with this ruling:
[returning Armando de la Rama de Mil Ojos] This submission ... translates the name of his group into Spanish. Names of registered extant SCA groups are only automatically registerable in the language in which they are actually registered. (Jaelle of Armida, LoAR July 1997, p. 15)
The major problem in the current submission is that no documentation was provided, and the College found none, that the underlying placename in this locative byname is plausible as a period placename in Arabic. In order to support a constructed locative byname, several steps need to be addressed. First, the placename that the locative byname will be based upon needs to be documented as a plausible placename in period. The byname min al-Jabal al-Mukhfi was submitted with the intended meaning 'of the hidden mountain'. Documentation was provided that the phrase min al-Jabal al-Mukhfi is grammatically correct in modern Arabic and means 'from the mountain of the concealer' or 'the mountain that hides [itself]'. However, that the phrase is grammatically correct as a modern Arabic phrase, does not address its use as a period Arabic byname. Lacking evidence that this phrase is plausible as a period Arabic byname, it is not registerable.
Additionally, as stated in the December 1995 return, "[t]he preposition min 'from, out of' is not used in Arabic names." No evidence was provided in the current submission to contradict this point. Lacking evidence that min was used in period Arabic names, it is not registerable.
What is needed to construct an Arabic locative byname referring to a hypothetical location is the following:
First, an Arabic placename needs to be constructed according to period Arabic patterns of usage for placenames. The documentation for this constructed placename needs to include citations of period placenames in Arabic that show parallel constructions.
Secondly, this placename needs to be incorporated into a locative byname. We have an example of the latter, which the submitter may find useful: the city of Cordoba, which in Arabic is Qurtaba. A persion who wished to be known as 'of/from Cordoba' would literally be 'the Cordoban'. This byname would take the form al-Qurtubi in a man's name and al-Qurtubiyya in a woman's name. (Examples taken from Juliana de Luna's article "Andalusian Names: Arabs in Spain", http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/andalusia/. The Arabic form of Cordoba is found in Ahmed's A Dictonary of Muslim Names (pp. 318-319), courtesy of al-Jamal.)
John de Duglas. Name. 
This name conflicts with John Douglas (1721-1807), Scottish man of letters, who has his own entry in the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica (vol. VIII, p.446).
His armory has been registered under the holding name John of Stelton Wald.
Katherine Kiersey. Name. 
Kiersey was cited as a subheader in Reaney & Wilson (s.n. Kersey) and as a subheader in MacLysaght (s.n. Keirsey). In most cases, header forms are plausible for period and so are registerable. However, precedent (most notably regarding modern forms in Ó Corráin & Maguire) has ruled that header forms which are modern might not be registerable. This has been handled on a case by case basis. In this instance, Woulfe (p. 254 s.n. de Céarsaigh) dates de Kersey to temp. Elizabeth I-James I and says that this name refers to Kersey in Suffolk. None of the examples of this name which are dated to period in Reaney & Wilson, Bardsley, Ekwall, or Mills show a Kier- spelling. In fact, the only example of a spelling other than Ker- or Kar- are Old English examples (Cæresige circa 995 and Careseia 1086) found in both Ekwall and Mills. Lacking evidence that a spelling such as Kiersey is a plausible period variant, this spelling is not registerable. We would have modified the byname to the spelling Kersey in order to register the name, but the submitter allowed no changes to the byname.
Her armory has been registered under the holding name Katherine of Rhydderich Hael.
Sayyida al-Zahra. Name. 
This submission was withdrawn.
AN TIR
None.
ANSTEORRA
None.
ARTEMISIA
None.
ATENVELDT
Brian macSeyfang. Name and device. Azure, three chevronels argent between three mullets of six points Or. 
The byname macSeyfang is in violation of RfS III.1.a, which requires linguistic consistency in a single name phrase. It combines mac, which can be viewed as Gaelic, Anglicized Irish, or Scots, with Seyfang, which is a German byname. Removing mac from the byname would not make this name registerable since the earliest date provided for Seyfang was 1864. Lacking evidence that Seyfang is a period name, it is not registerable.
This device conflicts with Katherine Mercer, Azure, two chevronels argent between three mullets Or. There is a CD for changing the number of chevronels but there is no difference between mullets of five points and mullets of six points. There is a wealth of period evidence showing that mullets may be drawn either with five or six points as artist's license, with Continental armorists showing a preference for six-pointed mullets and British artists showing a preference for five-pointed mullets. The general SCA practices for difference of mullets of various numbers of points have been unchanged for some years but were summarized in the February 2002 LoAR: "The rules for change of type of mullets follow the rules for change of number of charges. Mullets of n points will get a CD from mullets of m points if RfS X.4.f gives a CD for changing the number of charges from n to m." RfS X.4.f does not give difference between groups of five charges and six charges, and therefore our general SCA practice for determining difference between these types of mullets conveniently matches the period practice.
Jehanne le feu du Christ. Name and device. Gules, a fireball within an annulet Or. 
No documentation was provided and none was found that le feu du Christ, 'the fire of Christ', is a plausible period byname in French. The LoI cited examples of Christopher as a byname and put forth the theory that since Christopher meant 'Christ-bearer', Christopher as a byname supported the submitted le feu du Christ. However, Christopher is a patronymic byname, not an epithet byname. It indicates that the person's father was named Christopher, not that the meaning 'Christ-bearer' would refer to this person. Lacking support for the construction of this byname, it is not registerable.
The device conflicts with Christian du Glaive, Gules, a grenade Or, enflamed proper, within a bordure rayonny Or. There is one CD for changing the type of secondary charge from a bordure rayonny to an annulet. There is no difference for changing less than half the tincture of the primary charge from mostly Or to entirely Or. There is no difference between a grenade and a fireball:
[Argent, a chevron rompu sable between three grenades proper.] This conflicts with... Argent, a chevron sable between three fireballs of the last fired proper. There's a CD for making the chevron rompu, but not another for type of secondary charge. (LoAR September 1992)
This does not conflict with Eachann na Beinne Léithe, Gules, a horse rampant to sinister within an annulet Or. The annulet functions here as a surrounding secondary charge, like a bordure. This is therefore clear by RfS X.2, as the type of the primary charges has substantially changed, and this is simple armory for purposes of that rule ("no more than two types of charge directly on the field and has no overall charges.").
Please advise the submitter that the center circle in a fireball is generally proportionally larger than in the fireball drawn in this submission, and that the flames of a fireball are conjoined to the central circle. The flames in this emblazon are slightly separated from the circle.
Uilliam Gibson. Name. 
This name conflicts with William Gibson, author of the sci-fi novel Neuromancer in which he coined the word "cyberspace", as he has his own entry in the Encyclopædia Britannica.
ATLANTIA
Dáirine ingen Chiaragain. Name. 
This name is returned for lack of documentation of Dáirine as a given name used by humans in period. Ó Corráin & Maguire (p. 69 s.n. Dáirine) says of this name that it was the name of a daughter of "the legendary king of Tara, Túathal Techtmar. The foster-mother of St Colmán of Daire Mór was also called Dáirine." The first example is legendary and so is not support for the registerability of this name. In the second example, Dáirine is the name of a foster-mother of a saint and is not noted as being a saint herself. Names of saints are registerable, regardless of whether they are apocryphal or not. This policy is due to the practice in many cultures (though not in Gaelic) of naming children for saints. (For more details, see the Cover Letter for the September 2001 LoAR.) As Dáirine was not herself a saint and the name has not been documented as having been otherwise used in period, it falls into the category of a legendary name and is not registerable.
Melchior der Grauwulf. Name. 
Submitted as Melchior der Graowulf, the byname was changed to the form der Grauwulf at kingdom. The LoI noted that the meaning 'Melchior the Gray Wolf' was most important to the submitter. Additionally, the submitter requested authenticity for 14th to 15th C German/Flemish and allowed minor changes. The submitted documentation supports a descriptive byname der Wolf, meaning 'the Wolf', and a locative byname zum grauen Wolf, meaning 'at the Gray Wolf'. This second byname refers to a house name in German, which is similar to examples of a sign name in English. While descriptive bynames based on animals exist in German, no documentation was provided and none was found of a descriptive byname in German that is formed of a color combined with an animal. Lacking such evidence, a name constructed in this manner is not registerable.
Bahlow (p. 620 s.n. Wolf(f)) dates Ortlof der Wolf to 1300 and Elbel Wolf to 1365. This entry also lists (undated) Weißenwolf 'Whitewolf' and zum grauen Wolf 'at the Gray Wolf' as house names. Brechemacher (p. 829 s.n. Wolf) dates Haus zum Wolf and Zum grauen Wolf to 1460. Therefore, registerable forms of this name include Melchior der Wolf, which uses a descriptive byname meaning 'the Wolf', and Melchior zum grauen Wolf. Given the undated example of Weißenwolf, combined with the dated examples of zum grauen Wolf, a locative form such as Grauenwolf is also plausible. We would have changed the name to one of these forms in order to register the submitter's name, but changing the byname to any of these forms is a major change, which the submitter does not allow. In the first case, the byname is still a descriptive, but it lacks the element meaning 'gray'. Since dropping that element significantly alters the meaning, look, and sound of the byname, it is a major change. In the second and third examples, the byname retains the element meaning 'gray', but instead of describing Melchior as 'the Gray Wolf', it means that Melchior lives at or is from a place whose name means 'the gray wolf'. Since changing the byname from a descriptive byname to a locative byname significantly affects the meaning, it is a major change.
His armory has been registered under the holding name Melchior of Saint Georges.
Tamás Búndas. Name change from Llewelynus Luctuosus. 
The submitter requested authenticity for Slovak and allowed any changes. The only documentation submitted for the byname was the comment in the LoI that "[s]ubmitter claims Bundas is Slovakian for Shaggy". Additionally, the submitter spelled the byname as Búnda{sv} on the form, rather than as Búndas as it was rendered on the LoI. A simple statement of the meaning of a word is not sufficient support for registration. Nebuly found information regarding this name:
If the submitter wants a Slovakian name, then he will need to look for Slovakian resources. The submitted name is entirely Hungarian. Slovakian is a Slavic language, in the same group as Czech and Polish, whereas Hungarian is not an Indo-European language at all - its closest European relatives are Finnish and Estonian. Slavic cultures and Hungarian have different naming practices, though the general principles still seem to apply. I will address this submission as a Hungarian name, since it is in the Hungarian language.
The given name Tamás is the Hungarian form of Thomas. It does appear in our period, but without the accent (Kázmér, s.n. Tamás). There is no byname Búndas; it is correctly spelled Bundás, with the accent over the a. The name means "long-haired" in reference to dogs or other animals (Kázmér, s.n. Bundás). Its use as a byname appears to be an occupational name for one who raises long-hairs. Unfortunately, the earliest record of this byname in Hungary dates only to 1716.
My Slovakian and Czech resources are limited. My Slovak dictionary indicates that a bunda is an anorak or parka in the modern language.
The LoI neglected to mention that the submitter intentionally rendered his name in Hungarian. The "Notes" section of his name submission form explains that
Slovakia was a region in Hungary with naming conventions common to Magyar & Hungarian systems. Since Slovak did not exist as a written language until 19th C. Therefore using Magyar naming conventions of given name, then by or descriptive.
As no evidence was found that any form of Búndas is a period word, we are unable to register this name.
CAID
None.
CALONTIR
None.
DRACHENWALD
Ulrich der Jäger. Badge. (Fieldless) An ermine spot per pale purpure and Or. 
The purpure as drawn here is not an acceptable shade of purpure. Purpure may have a reddish cast but it must clearly be discernable as purple. The shade used here is deep pink or bright magenta. It could as easily be considered a shade of gules as it could be considered a shade of purpure.
EALDORMERE
Gerrard Carpentarius. Device. Per pale azure and gules, a roundel and a cup all within a bordure embattled Or. 
This resembles impaled arms, which are forbidden by RfS XI.3. Per the LoAR of March 2002, "The only case in which a bordure may remove the appearance of impalement from armory which would otherwise appear to be impaled is if the bordure is a solid tincture and if it has poor contrast with one half of the field." (Please see that LoAR for a detailed explanation of the ruling). This submission appears to depict the impalement of the arms Azure, a roundel within a bordure embattled Or with the arms Gules, a cup within a bordure embattled Or, and is thus not acceptable. The fact that this is an embattled bordure rather than a plain bordure does not affect the logic behind this ruling. Moreover, there is an explicit precedent from July 2000 stating that "embattling a bordure is insufficient to remove the appearance of marshalling for impaled arms."
Johan de Foderingeye. Device. Argent, an oak tree couped proper and a chief vair. 
Conflict with O'Connor Don (important non-SCA armory), Argent, a tree eradicated vert. There is a CD for adding the chief but no difference between a tree vert and a tree proper. The trunk and branches of a tree proper are less than half the tincture of the charge.
Þorfinna Grafeldr. Device (see PENDS for name). Per saltire gules and argent, a serpent nowed and a chief sable. 
The sable chief does not have sufficient contrast with the per saltire gules and argent field, because the sable chief entirely adjoins a low-contrast gules portion of the field.
The problem [of lack of contrast] is not unique to this field division: Per bend gules and Or is a neutral field, but Per bend gules and Or, a chief sable still suffers a lack of contrast. (LoAR June 1993)
Please advise the submitter on resubmission that the snake would have better identifiability if more of it fell on the high-contrast argent portion of the field. Currently, the majority of the snake, including its head and tail, lie on the gules portion of the field.
Tormod of Kirk Andreas. Device. Vert chapé argent, a fox sejant to sinister argent and in chief two triskelions of legs vert. 
The submission was blazoned on the LoI as Per chevron in chief. It is a clear drawing of modern chapé: it's throughout and high on the field. Note the following precedent: "Listed on the LoI as having a per chevron line of division, the location of the line of the division and the relative sizes of the charges makes this an example of chapé. Therefore, it must be returned ... for charging its upper portions" (LoAR January 2000).
EAST
None.
LOCHAC
None.
MERIDIES
None.
MIDDLE
Christian de Xavier. Device. Per pale azure and gules, three fleurs-de-lys argent. 
Conflict with Caterine d'Albret, Per pale vert and purpure, three fleurs-de-lys argent, registered April 2002. There is only one CD for changing the field.
Sindri Jónsson. Device. Or chapé ployé purpure, a bickern sable and in chief two daggers inverted Or. 
The field was originally blazoned Per chevron enarched throughout, but it should be blazoned chapé ployé. A similar piece of armory was reblazoned and returned in January 2000 for using chapé with charges on the upper portions: "Listed on the LoI as having a per chevron line of division, the location of the line of the division and the relative sizes of the charges makes this an example of chapé. Therefore, it must be returned ...for charging its upper portions."
OUTLANDS
None.
TRIMARIS
Trimaris, Kingdom of. Badge. (Fieldless) An astrolabe azure. 
Conflict with Doniphan non Sequitur, Barry argent and sable, a moon in her plenitude azure. There is a CD for changing the field, but no difference between a moon in her plenitude and an astrolabe. Moons in their plenitude are equivalent to roundels. "[The] astrolabe... conflicts with...[a roundel, with] nothing for the internal diapering of the primary (similar to the conflict between a moon in her plenitude and a plate.)" (LoAR June 1992 p.15).
Trimaris, Kingdom of. Badge. (Fieldless) An equatorium azure. 
Conflict with Doniphan non Sequitur, Barry argent and sable, a moon in her plenitude azure. There is a CD for changing the field, but no difference between a moon and an equatorium. There is no difference between a moon and a roundel. The same logic by which there is no CD between an astrolabe and a roundel applies between an equatorium and a roundel. "[The] astrolabe... conflicts with...[a roundel, with] nothing for the internal diapering of the primary (similar to the conflict between a moon in her plenitude and a plate.)" (LoAR June 1992 p.15).
Trimaris, Kingdom of. Heraldic title Turtle Ship Herald. 
This is a resubmission with additional documentation of an identical heraldic title that was returned in the August 2001 LoAR, which stated:
The LoI stated that "The 'Turtle ship' is a period iron-clad warship used by the Korean Admiral Yi Sun Shin to defeat various Japanese Armadas in a series of naval battles between 1592-1598".
However, no accompanying documentation was submitted with this title, and the College did not find any evidence that Turtle Ship was the period name for this type of ship. Presumably, the name would have been in Japanese or Korean.
Metron Arison found the following references to 'Turtle Ship': "Turtle Ship Dock at Seoul in Korea (a replica turtle ship) and [in] a couple of arcade or role-playing game books".
However, none of these sources give dated evidence of the name turtle ship in period.
Without such documentation, this submission must be returned.
Black Pillar concisely summarized the issues with the additional documentation provided with this appeal:
The submitter has proven that there were iron-clad warships in period, that they were called kôbuksôn, and that they are now called "turtle ships." None of the documentation presented in this appeal actually dates the term "turtle ship" to period, which is what Laurel asked for in the return.
Several points came up during commentary that need to be addressed. The largest issue is whether names from Korean are registerable. No documentation was presented and none was found (either in the current submission or in the previous submission) that Korea had significant contact with pre-17th C Western culture. Such documentation is necessary in order to be able to register a Korean name. Lack of such documentation has been cause for return in the past:
More important, significant interaction between Tibet and pre-seventeenth century Western culture has not been demonstrated. The Encyclopædia Britannica dates the first visits to Tibet by Western missionaries to the 17th century, and the fact that the 8th century Tibetan kingdom had some contact with the Arab conquerors of Iran still leaves Tibetans at least two removes from Western Europe. (Talan Gwynek, LoAR November 1995, p. 16)
If evidence is found of significant contact between Korea and Western Europe and a Korean personal name is deemed to be registerable, Korean may not be registerable for a non-personal name. Japanese placenames have been disallowed as group names, even though Japanese personal names are registerable:
[Returning Ryuugatani, Shire of.] There was a fair amount of commentary with the belief that a Japanese place-name does not appear to fall within the defined scope of the Society, which is pre-17th Century Western culture (RfS I.1. See also "Scope of the Society: Period and Culture" in the Organizational Handbook, pp. 74-75). "Its domain includes Europe and areas that had contact with Europe during this period." (RfS I.1.) It was noted that while there was clearly some contact in very late period between Europe and Japan, and evidence that some few Japanese actually visited Europe, the contact between Europe and Japan was not great enough to justify a Japanese place-name in pre-17th C. Europe. [6/94, p.17]
Part of this issue is the question of whether heraldic titles in Oriental languages are registerable in general. There have been only three registrations of heraldic titles from Oriental languages. Both Monsho Herald and Nihonyama Pursuivant were registered long enough ago that the O&A is unsure of the date. Monsho Herald was released in June 1986 and Nihonyama Pursuivant was released in December 1990. Chagama Herald Extraordinary was registered in December 1987. In this case, the LoAR noted that chagama was Japanese for 'tea pot'. Of specific relevence is the fact that the return of the name for the Shire of Ryuugatani is more recent than any of these three heraldic title registrations. As noted by Brachet:
There is still no evidence that the artifact or the name were known in period IN EUROPE. No evidence is presented that Europeans even knew of these ships. The only way this makes sense as a title is as a translation from the Korean/Japanese, and the fact that the famous battles are in 1597-1598 argues (in our minds convincingly) that this is simply not a probable English heraldic title in period.
The current submission provided documentation that the type of ship called a kôbuksôn dates to the mid-fifteenth century, though the famous battles in which they were used occured in 1597-1598. However, none of the documentation indicated that this type of warship was known to Western Europeans or that the term turtle ship is anything but modern.
In addition to the issues discussed so far, there is the fact that limitations have been placed on the use of the Lingua Anglica Allowance:
The use of lingua franca translation is extended only to single, simple descriptives. Given names, for instance, may not normally be translated into their putative meaning: e.g. Bear may not be used as a given name, even though it's the lingua franca translation of the given name Björn. Placenames, hereditary surnames, and bynames from different languages (e.g. French and German) likewise don't fall under the lingua franca allowance. (28 March, 1993 Cover Letter (January, 1993 LoAR), pp. 2-3)
The Lingua Anglica Allowance has been used in conjunction with only one household name, one branch name, and one order name. Of these, only the household name is more recent than the Lingua Anglica ruling quoted above. The household name was for the Brotherhood of the Seven Holy Sleepers of Ephesus (registered May 1996). While the household name was submitted as a Lingua Anglica form of the same household name in Finnish that was also registered at that time, the legend of these saints was likely known in England, making this a plausible household name in English, regardless of the Lingua Anglica Allowance.
To summarize the issues with this submission:
No documentation has been provided to demonstrate that Korea had significant contact with Western Europe in period to make even Korean personal names registerable.
Registerability of personal names and non-personal names from non-Western European cultures require different levels of contact. Sufficient contact for a personal name to be registerable is not necessarily sufficient contact to allow registration of non-personal names such as branch names, order names, and heraldic titles.
The scope of the Lingua Anglica Allowance has been extended to descriptive bynames used in personal names. In that ruling, it was specifically stated that the Lingua Anglica Allowance did not apply to placenames and surnames. As the normal pattern of heraldic titles is to preserve the title in its original language, it is not appropriate to extend the Lingua Anglica Allowance to heraldic titles. (For example, in period English documents, French heraldic titles are routinely rendered in French or in phonetic English equivalents rather than being translated into English.)
No evidence has been provided that Turtle Ship Herald, or even Kôbuksôn Herald, follows the pattern of period heraldic titles as required by RfS III.2.b.iii. It would seem that the theory is that the ship in question might be registerable as a heraldic charge. And that if it were, it would then be a plausible source for a heraldic title. However, there is no ruling allowing a kôbuksôn as a heraldic charge and no evidence of one has been found in period armory. Lacking either evidence of an item used in period heraldry or a ruling that an item may be used as a charge in SCA armory, that item (in this case, a kôbuksôn) is not a candidate for a heraldic title based on the name of a heraldic charge.
Wyvernwoode, Barony of. Badge. (Fieldless) A wyvern displayed argent, winged, bellied, and armed Or. 
Because of the posture of the wyvern, its wings and belly constitute most of the visible portions of the wyvern. The wyvern is therefore predominantly Or. Thus, this conflicts with the Barony of Dragon's Laire, Per pale gules and sable, a two-headed dragon displayed Or, grasping in dexter forepaw a larel wreath vert and in sinister forepaw a money bag gules. There is a CD for fieldlessness, but nothing for removing the small maintained charges. There is no type change for changing the monster from a dragon to a wyvern, or from a double-headed to a single-headed monster. There is also no tincture difference because this charge is over half Or. 
WEST
None.

THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN PENDED UNTIL THE DECEMBER 2002 LAUREL MEETING
ÆTHELMEARC
Geraint Morys. Device. Vert, on a pile between two arrows in pile Or a fox's mask sable. 
While the mini-emblazon showed a problematic triangular field division issuant from the corners of the shield, the submission form showed a correctly drawn pile. The Letter of Intent stated that the form sent to Laurel was different from that on the mini-emblazon and that it showed a correctly drawn pile. However, the tenor of the commentary implied that the commenters commented only on the provided emblazon on the LoI, advocated return for the stylistic problems with the pile, and did not check for conflict. This must therefore be pended for further research.
ATLANTIA
Jaine the Embroiderer. Device. Per chevron argent and azure, two Moor's cubit arms in chevron issuant from the flanks proper and a phoenix argent and on a chief azure three annulets argent. 
The Moor's arms proper in this submission are colored brown. This submission is being pended for consideration of whether to allow these brown arms to be registered and, if so, under what blazon. Please see the cover letter for further details on this issue.

THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN PENDED UNTIL THE OCTOBER 2002 LAUREL MEETING
EALDORMERE
Þorfinna Grafeldr. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
Current precedent requires Old Norse descriptive bynames to be registered in lowercase. For a full discussion of this issue, please see the call for comments in the Cover Letter accompanying the April 2002 LoAR. As this issue is due to be ruled on in October, this submission is pended until that time.
In the case of this submissiion, this name was listed on the LoI as Þorfinna grafeldr, but the form lists Þorfinna Grafeldr. The form indicated that the submitter allowed major changes, but did not allow minor changes and contained no explanation clarifying this choice. Consultation tables regularly see submitters who misinterpret the checkboxes as meaning changes are allowed rather than are not allowed. In other cases, submitters have glanced at the form and interpreted the checkboxes as a "check one of the following" setup. So they have checked "no minor changes" believing that they have indicated that they wish to allow no minor or major changes. Because of these situations, we take the more cautious path and interpret the form to mean that the submitter allows no changes. Therefore, the change from Grafeldr to grafeldr, which is a minor change, is not within the submitter's allowed changes. As the byname is not currently registerable with the first letter capitalized, this name must be returned under current precedent. We have pended this item awaiting resolution of the issue of capitalization of Old Norse descriptive bynames.