ÆTHELMEARC
Æthelmearc, Kingdom of. Designation of badge as standard augmentation. (Fieldless) A demi-escarbuncle argent. 
The kingdom of Æthelmearc wishes to have it formally noted in the Ordinary and Armorial that this badge, registered in November 2003, is designated for use as a standard augmentation by the Kingdom.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Aleyd von Kiel. Name and device. Azure, a crane and on a chief argent three roses azure. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Alric of Mæidesstana. Name. 
Listed on the LoI as Alric æt Mæidesstana, the preposition was submitted as of but changed to æt in kingdom in the belief that æt was the Old English equivalent of the modern English of. As the Old English preposition meaning of is of, we have returned this name to the originally submitted form.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Damian Kennison. Name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Dmitrii Zhirov. Name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Emma Idone. Name. 
Submitted as Emma Idunn, this name combines an English given name and an Old Norse given name. Because Old Norse does not use unmarked patronymics, Idunn is not a properly formed byname. The properly constructed Old Norse form would be Idunsdottir. 
To make this name registerable, the byname must either be changed to a close English form or to the properly constructed Old Norse form. Because a name mixing Middle English and Old Norse is one step from period practice, we have changed this name to Emma Idone, an all English form. Unmarked patronymics are common in English. Reaney and Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames, dates this spelling of the byname to 1327. The change from Idunn to Idone is also a smaller change in sound and appearance than the change from Idunn to Idunsdottir.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Hróðgeirr Ívarsson. Name and device. Per chevron dovetailed gules and sable, in chief two lozenges and in base in pale two wolves statant argent. 
Submitted as Hrothgar Ivarsson, the submitter requested authenticity for 10th-11th C. As submitted, the name mixes an Old English form of the given name with an Old Norse patronymic. An authentic name combining these elements in period would have been written completely in Old English or completely in Old Norse depending upon the language of the document in which the name was recorded. We have changed the name to Hróðgeirr Ívarsson, a fully Old Norse form of this name to fulfill his request for authenticity.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
James of Hartstone. Name and device. Gules, a mouse rampant and on a chief embattled argent three apples slipped and leaved gules. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Klaus Isenfaust. Household name House Isenfaust. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Marioun Yong. Name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Morien ap Rhys of Cardiff. Badge. (Fieldless) A triskele within and conjoined to an annulet argent. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Rhydderich Hael, Barony of the. Badge. Per pale vert and sable, a bee Or. 
The barony has a letter of permission to conflict with a badge of André Lessarde: (Fieldless) A legless bee displayed barry sable and Or, winged Or, and a letter of permission to conflict with a badge of Elizabeth Braidwood: (Fieldless) A bee Or.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Wolfgang von dem Schwartzwald. Reblazon of device. Per fess indented vert and sable, a Latin cross formy enhanced Or between two swords argent. 
Originally registered in February 1986 as Per fess indented vert and sable, a long cross paty enhanced Or between two swords argent. Upon submission of his badge (registered on this LoAR) it was specifically requested that the crosses on his device and badge have matching blazons. The use of the terms "long" and "pat(t)y" have been out of use for nearly twenty years in SCA blazon, with good reason. These terms have been superseded by the terms "Latin" and "formy" respectively for reasons of period usage and unambiguity. With all this in mind, we are registering the badge as [a] Latin cross formy and reblazoning the device to match.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Wolfgang von dem Schwartzwald. Badge. (Fieldless) A Latin cross formy Or, overall two swords in saltire argent. 
Submitted under the blazon A long cross paty... to have the blazon of the cross match that of the cross on his device. The blazon was changed at kingdom to A long cross formy... noting that the use of the term 'paty' in blazon was discontinued in August 1986.
The use of the terms "long" and "pat(t)y" have been out of use for nearly twenty years in SCA blazon, with good reason. These terms have been superseded by the terms "Latin" and "formy" respectively for reasons of period usage and unambiguity. With that in mind, we have changed the badge's blazon to A Latin cross formy... and by request have also reblazoned his device to match, also on this LoAR.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Zara the Quiet. Household name Plant y Ddraig. 
While a large amount of documentation was submitted showing that Plant y Ddraig, meaning "Children of the Dragon", is a reasonable name for a group of people in modern Wales, none of it addressed the issue of whether this is a reasonable name for a group of people in pre-17th C Wales. 
When asked about Welsh names for groups of people, Harpy had this to say:
Especially in genealogical texts, it's moderately common to find "Plant <personal name>" as a term describing the common descendents of <personal name>. It doesn't have the same legalistic sense as Irish "clann", although you can find something vaguely resembling that sense for "wyrion <personal name>" (literally "grandsons of <personal name>"). But these would always be used with a personal name of the common ancestor, not with an abstract totem or symbol.
These findings are consistent with clan names in Scotland and Ireland, which are based on either the surname or given name of a common ancestor. In none of these cultures are names for groups of people formed using an epithet or totem as the descriptive element. Barring documentation of such group names in Welsh, such a combination is not registerable. A Welsh household name using the form Plant + <Welsh personal name> or Wyrion + <Welsh personal name> should be registerable.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Zara the Quiet. Badge (see RETURNS for household name). Per fess indented Or and azure, a dragon and a catamount both passant counterchanged. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]

AN TIR
Aleyne Edwinson. Badge. (Fieldless) An ermine passant counter-ermine maintaining an abacus sable. 
The ermine was blazoned as statant on the LoI, but the emblazon clearly shows it to be passant. We have changed the blazon accordingly.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Arkill M'Robert. Name. 
The submitter requested authenticity for 10th-12th C Scotland and accepted only minor changes. No documentation was submitted or any found for any form of MacRobert earlier than 1543; 1543 is the date of the submitted form.  Therefore we are unable to comply with the submitter's desire for authenticity.  If he is interested in the related name MacRobbie, Black, s.n. MacRobbie, lists a Maldowny McRobi in 1363. While this is still not 10th-12th C, it is closer to his desired period.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Cordelia Talbot. Badge. Vert, a talbot's head erased within an orle of gillyflowers argent. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Gilia de Ronda. Name. 
This name combines an Italian given name with a Spanish byname; by precedent this is a step from period practice.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Ithamar Botwulfes sunu. Name. 
Submitted as Ithamar Botolph sunu, the submitter requested authenticity for late 6th or early 7th C England. The documentation submitted lists Boltolph as the modern spelling of this saint's name; Searle, Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum, lists the spelling Boltophus from Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum. Boltophus is a Latin spelling; the submitted byname form Botolph sunu combines Latin and Old English in the same byname in violation of RfS III.1.a, which requires linguistic consistency within a name phase. The Old English equivalent according to Searle is Botwulf. We have changed the byname to Botwulfes sunu, which puts the patronymic in the genitive case as required by Old English grammar.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Roxanne Delaroche. Device. Sable, a catamount's face Or marked sable jessant-de-lys within a bordure Or. 
Blazoned on the LoI as Sable, a natural leopard's head jessant-de-lis within a bordure Or, the head as drawn is better blazoned as that of a catamount, a standard blazon term. We have reblazoned it accordingly and also noted the sable markings on the head, which are not worth difference but are a blazonable detail.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Ruaidhrí Lámgel. Device. Per pale embattled gules and vert, an open book Or and a gauntlet aversant, a chief argent. 
The embattlements on the line of division are too numerous and too small, which has long been cause for return. The chief also needs to be drawn somewhat wider, though this last is not a reason for return.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Sayna de Lincolne. Name. 
Submitted as Sayna of Lincoln, the submitter requested authenticity for a 12th century English Jewish woman. We have changed the name to Sayna de Lincolne to partially comply with this request.  Layamon's Brut, written in the first half of the 13th C, has several examples of this placename spelled Lincolne. Barring evidence that Sayna was a given name used by Jewish women in England, we cannot say whether this name is authentic for a Jewish Englishwoman.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
William MacAndrew of Balnagowan. Device. Per chevron argent and azure, two chess rooks and a winged wolf statant counterchanged. 
A possible conflict was called with Jessica Rebecca Silvana: Per chevron argent and azure, two castles and a dove migrant to chief counterchanged. The only difference is for change of type of the charges, but X.2 must apply for these to be clear. It is obvious that there is substantial enough difference between a dove and a winged wolf for X.2 to apply as far as the charge in base is concerned. As for the charges in chief, Black Stag has supplied many pictures of chess-rooks from period armorials. As the visual distinction between them and period renditions of castles is quite striking, and as the two charges were considered different charges in period, the difference between chess-rooks and castles is sufficiently substantial for X.2 to apply here as well. Since there are only two types of charge present in each case, all of which are directly on the field, and the type of all the charges has been substantially changed, X.2 applies here, which clears the conflict.
Please advise the submitter to draw the apex of the line of division higher, thereby making the line of division steeper.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]

ANSTEORRA
Ansteorra, Kingdom of. Transfer of heraldic title Gullinkambi Herald to Arenvald Kief av Kiersted. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Arenvald Kief av Kiersted. Acceptance of transfer of heraldic title Gullinkambi Herald from Ansteorra, Kingdom of. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Brigid MacCana. Device. Vert, three wolves passant and on a chief indented Or three cinquefoils vert. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Fáelán mac Cathail and Alisandre d'Ambrecourt. Joint badge. (Fieldless) On a heart sable a crescent argent. 
This badge has multiple conflicts. It must be checked for conflict as though it were Sable, a crescent argent by longstanding precedent:
While blazoned on the LoI as (Fieldless) On a heart gules, a hare salient contourny argent., since a heart is considered standard shape for armorial display, the submission is considered as Gules, a hare salient contourny argent. As such it conflicts with.... [May 1998, Ret-Middle, Skraeling Althing, Barony of]
As a result this conflicts with Adrienne of Toledo, Sable, in pale a cinquefoil, a crescent, and a dagger inverted, all argent, with a CD for removing two of the charges in the primary charge group; with Cadwynn ap Cheshire, Sable, within a crescent argent, a crescent embattled gules, with a CD for removing the tertiary crescent; with Eric Van Roosebeke, Sable, a crescent and a chief embattled argent, with a CD for removing the chief; with Morgaine Aelfdryda ferch Cadfael, Or, on a pile inverted vert a crescent argent, since by considering Morgaine's armory as Per chevron throughout Or and vert, a crescent argent, there is one CD for the field; with Morimoto Koryu, Sable, a crescent surmounted by a ken blade argent, with a CD for removing the overall charge; with Sean Macarailt of Sandyhume: Sable, an increscent argent, with one CD for changing the posture of the crescent; and with Seanach an tSeanachaidhe, Sable, two stags attires Or issuant from between the horns of a crescent argent, with one CD for removing the stags attires.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Marguerite du Bois. Name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Northkeep, Barony of. Order name Order of the Lions Paw of Kenmare. 
Submitted as Order of the Lion's Paw of Kenmare, we have removed the apostrophe; there is no evidence that the apostrophe was used in period.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Rosalia di Bellavita. Exchange of primary name and alternate name Rosalia O Brogan. 
Her primary name is now Rosalia di Bellavita; her alternate name is Rosalia O Brogan.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Zubaydah al-Badawiyyah. Name and device. Azure, a ewer bendwise within an orle argent. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]

ARTEMISIA
Ealusaid inghean Ghille Bhrighde. Name and device. Argent semy of musical notes sable, a chevron azure and in base a bird gules. 
Please instruct the submitter to draw fewer and larger musical notes, to draw the chevron both higher on the field and steeper, and to draw the bird larger.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Kathelyne Fraser of Lochdoy. Name change from Katherine Fraser of Lochdoy. 
Submitted as Kathelyne Fraser of Lochdoy, her name was registered in October 2003 as Katherine Fraser of Lochdoy to meet the submitter's request for an authentic Scottish name.  The submitter requested a reconsideration of her originally submitted name, dropping the request for authenticity.  The originally submitted form of her name, which combined a Flemish given name with Scots bynames, is certainly registerable.  There is substantial contact between Flanders and Scotland from the 12th C on onward including large Flemish households in Scottish burghs. That names should combine elements from both naming pools is expected.  
Her old name, Katherine Fraser of Lochdoy, is released.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Minamoto Genkuro Kagetane. Name change from holding name Kevin of Sentinels' Keep and badge. Gyronny of sixteen argent and sable, an annulet within a bordure azure. 
Discussion of this armory centered around whether it was simple enough to allow a field gyronny of sixteen. The base precedent simply states: "We will register Gyronny of sixteen in simple cases, but nothing more, barring period evidence" [LoAR June 1999]. A later precedent partially addresses the question of what constitutes "simple" for this purpose:
[Gyronny of sixteen argent and sable, a salamander statant regardant gules enflamed Or and a bordure counterchanged sable and Or] 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 [returned for conflict Jan 2001], 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. [June 2002, Acc-An Tir, Johannes Vagus]
As Johannes' device provides a similar motif to the one under consideration here, let us compare them. The current submission uses a bordure of a solid tincture, which is considerably simpler than the already registered bordure (which is gyronny of sixteen, counterchanged to a gyronny of sixteen field). The central charge on the current submission (an annulet) is simpler in outline than the already registered central charge (a salamander), but is also hollow in the middle, letting the complex field show through. So in terms of overall simplicity in context, the annulet must be regarded as having equal or somewhat less simplicity then the salamander.
What the annulet may lack in simplicity compared to the salamander, however, is at least made up for by the greater simplicity of the bordure. Therefore, this badge is comparably simple to the device of Johannes Vagus, Gyronny of sixteen argent and sable, a salamander statant regardant gules enflamed Or and a bordure counterchanged sable and Or, and thus is likewise registerable. It is, however, likewise at the limit of complexity for accepting gyronny of sixteen without documentation showing that the overall design of the armory is consistent with period practice.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]

ATENVELDT
Ælfred Lionstar of Ravenspur. Household name House Lionstar and badge for. Sable, a mullet between three lion's heads cabossed Or. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Amalric d'Acre. Badge. (Fieldless) A rat sejant erect, paws resting atop a roundel sable. 
This violates RfS VII.7.b, Reconstruction Requirement. The relative sizes or the roundel and rat generated much discussion as to whether the roundel was sustained or maintained. The size is such that we cannot come up with a blazon that adequately describes this "so that a competent heraldic artist can reproduce the armory solely from the blazon." The roundel should be made either larger (so as to be co-primary) or smaller (to be maintained). In any case it will need to be checked for conflict again, and it would still be necessary to come up with a blazon that would guarantee reproducibility.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Asha Batu. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Asha Batu. Device. Azure, two fire arrows crossed in saltire argent enflamed gules fimbriated Or, surmounted by an urga argent. 
The arrows, except for the flames, are argent. Thus, as noted by Ounce, this conflicts with Gillian Olafsdottir d'Uriel: Azure, three staves crossed at the nombril point argent. The urga is essentially a staff, so X.2 does not apply, leaving just one CD for changing the type of two of three charges in a sheaf and nothing for the enflaming nor the point where the charges cross. Ounce is also correct in that this conflicts with Loran Redbow: Azure, three fire-arrows bendwise sinister in bend argent, enflamed proper. There's a CD for arrangement but nothing for changing type of one of three charges in the group (as we are not comparing groups of three arranged two and one).
In addition there is a problem with the use of an urga. This would be the initial registration of the charge. Several commentors noted the need for documentation, but Siren said it best:
While I think we might be slightly more lenient on this sort of artifact, no evidence has been presented that (1) this resembles a modern urga or (2) that an urga is a period object. Brickbat tells us that pictures exist; sharing them with the College, or at least with Wreath would allow a judgement of whether this resembles a modern urga. Brickbat asserts that a modern legend mentioning an urga "given the nature of folklore and legend, [she] would hazard to say was being told to period listeners." However, extensive research by social scientists, ethnomusicologists, and students of literature make it clear that many "ancient and traditional" stories have roots that are very shallow. As an example from folk music, Scarborough Fair only dates to the turn of the century, and Tam Lin only to the 18th century.
Thus, the existence of a modern legend is not sufficient for registration. Further documentation for an urga as a period artifact will be needed in order to register an urga as a charge.
The flames on the arrows should be drawn as alternating tongues of Or and gules.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Denis of the Titans. Augmentation. Per pale vert and argent, a lion passant counterchanged, armed, langued and orbed gules and as an augmentation on a canton azure a whelk within a bordure Or. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Diek Rabynovich. Device. Per pale indented vert and Or, in chief two eagles rising respectant wings displayed and in base two pine trees couped, all counterchanged. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Dufen Eyðimörkingr. Device. Per pale vert and Or, a chevron inverted counterchanged. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Gallant O'Driscole. Device. Per chevron vert and argent, two double-bitted axes argent and a compass rose sable. 
Please instruct the submitter to raise the top point of the line of division.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Godfrey von Rheinfels. Name and device. Azure semy of suns, a bend sinister dovetailed Or. 
This name combines English and German elements, which is one step from period practice.  Some commenters wondered whether Rheinfels was a period spelling for this name, but no one found a period citation for this undoubtedly period castle. Therefore, we are giving the submitter the benefit of the doubt for the spelling of the byname.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Katalena Aleksandrova. Badge. Argent, a chevron vert and a bordure purpure. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Natal'ia Diekova zhena Rabynovicha. Device. Vert, a tree eradicated Or between flaunches Or ermined vert. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Terence O'Quinlan. Name and device. Or, a cross crosslet fitchy vert and a demi-sun issuant from chief sable. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]

ATLANTIA
Æthelwine of Ealdgythesleage. Name and device. Per pale sable and gules, two ravens respectant argent. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Anna van Brabandt. Name. 
Submitted as Anna de Brabant, the submitter requested authenticity for 13th-15th C Flemish and allowed minor changes. The given name, Anna, is a fine 13th-15th C Flemish name; five instances were found in Flanders during that period according to Guntram von Wolkenstein's "Vlaamse Vrouwennamen." The byname, as submitted, is documented to 1554. However, a collection of legal documents from the Low Countries, available at http://geneaknowhow.net/regel/nederlanden.htm, has a document, Brabant landcharter, 1292, which says, "Wy Jan, bi der gratien ons Heeren hertoge van Lothryck, van Brabandt ende van Limborg" (roughly "I Jan, by the Grace of God Duke of Lothryck, of Brabant and of Limborg"). Therefore, we have changed the name to Anna van Brabandt to fulfill the submitter's request for authenticity.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Atlantia, Kingdom of. Device change for Consort of Atlantia. Per pale argent and azure, on a fess wavy cotised counterchanged a crown vallery Or, overall a wreath of roses proper. 
The Consort's previously registered armory, Per pale argent and azure, on a fess wavy cotised counterchanged an escallop Or, overall a wreath of roses proper, is released.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Atlantia, Kingdom of. Order name Order of the Coral Branch. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Benef{s,}e al-Rashida. Name change from Briana MacNamara. 
Her old name, Briana MacNamara, is retained as an alternate name.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Brenna of Storvik and Gauss Magnússon. Joint badge for House Golden Raven. (Fieldless) On a mullet of eight points sable a bird Or. 
The submitters have a letter of permission to conflict with Eliahu ben Itzhak: Or, on a mullet of six points sable, a griffin segreant contourny Or and Or, on a mullet of six points sable, a griffin sejant to sinister erect, grasping in its dexter talon three arrows inverted and in its sinister talon a paintbrush and palette, all Or.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Cassandra Arabella Giordani. Device. Per chevron embattled azure and argent, three annulets, one and two, argent and a rose proper. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Cassandra the Forlorn. Badge. (Fieldless) A manatee naiant to sinister Or. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Courtney of Houghton. Name change from Catrin ferch Llewelyn o Aberystwyth. 
Her old name, Catrin ferch Llewelyn o Aberystwyth, is released.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Gaston Valmont. Name change from Peter Valmont. 
His old name, Peter Valmont, is released.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Isabel Henry. Name. 
Nice name!
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
James de Biblesworth. Name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Jonah M'Coghlane. Name and device. Sable, three hands, on a chief argent a lion passant guardant gules. 
Submitted as Jonah Mac Coghlan, the submitter requested authenticity for 12th to 14th C Irish and accepted minor changes. However, Jonah is documented as a post-Reformation English name. Woulfe, Irish Names and Surnames, s.n. Mac Cochlain, notes M'Cochlane and M'Coghlane as late period Anglicized forms of this name.  We have changed the name to Jonah M'Coghlane to comply as much as possible with his request for authenticity.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Melissent d'Artois. Device change. Per pale azure and vert, a unicorn statant argent and on a chief Or three ermine spots sable. 
Please advise the submitter that unicorns should not shave their goatees. Unicorns are chimerical monsters; aside from the single horn they should have a goat's beard, cloven hooves, and a lion's tail. Fortunately, this submission lacks only the beard, and is thus clearly identifiable as a unicorn.
Her previously registered device, Per pale azure and vert, a unicorn statant argent and on a chief Or three anchors azure, is released.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Miles de Locwode. Name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Miriam Calvert of Gidiehall Honiburn. Device. Or goutty purpure, a cow rampant vert. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Nikulai Ivanovich. Release of badge. Argent, a chevron vert between a fox courant gules and a feather fesswise azure. 
(Irreverent comment: The peanut gallery wishes to thank Master Nikulai for once again giving us an excuse for singing Tom Lehrer's "Lobachevsky" song at a decision meeting...)
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Órlaith Carey. Name change from Orlaith of Storvik. 
This is a release of primary name and redesignation of an alternate name as the new primary.
Órlaith Carey is changed from her alternate name to her primary name.  Her old name, Orlaith of Storvik, is released.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Robert of Calais. Device. Sable, a chevron vair. 
Please instruct the submitter to draw the chevron higher up on the shield. As drawn, this is as low on the field as a chevron can go without being returned.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Royce Kensington. Name and device. Sable, three carracks and a bordure embattled argent. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Royce Kensington. Badge. Vert, three carracks and a bordure embattled argent. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Ryryd ap Gwerstan. Name and device. Per saltire azure and vert, four sheaves of arrows inverted argent. 
The submitter requested authenticity for 12th C Wales. Submitted as Rhiryd ap Gwerstan, this uses the standard modern spelling for the given name. We have changed the given name to Ryryd, a 13th C form documented in Heather Rose Jone's article, "A Simple Guide to Constructing 13th Century Welsh Names," to match the submitted documentation and to partially comply with his request for authenticity.
Gwerstan is the standard modern spelling of this name and is found in most modern genealogies of the Kings of Powys. However, since neither the submitter nor the College was able to find a 13th C citation for this name, we cannot make the spelling of the patronymic authentic for 13th C Wales.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Samuel Calvert of Gidiehall Honiburn. Device. Or semy of hop flowers, a cow rampant vert. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Siubhan inghean Alasdair. Name and device. Per chevron inverted argent and azure, a rose proper and three crescents, two and one, argent, all within a bordure counterchanged azure crescenty argent and argent. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]

CAID
Alaric Wintour. Name. 
The given name is documented as the name of a King of the Goths and dated to 410. Combined with the 16th C spelling of the surname, there is a more than 1000 year gap between the dates for the names. This is an unregisterable combination; in such cases either documentation must be found that lessens the dates between the names, or the name must be returned. In this case, documentation was found that lessens the gap in dates. Morlet, Les Noms de Personne sur le Territoire de l'Ancienne Gaule du VIe au XIIe Siecle dates Alaricus to the 12th C. This is a Latin form, but the vernacular would be Alaric. This leaves only a 400 year gap between the names; this is still one step from period practice, but it is registerable.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Alix de Albeni. Name. 
Submitted as Alix de Albini, the submitter requested authenticity for 12th C England and accepted minor changes. We have changed the name to Alix de Albeni to partially comply with this request. As submitted, this name combines a 14th C French given name with a hypothetical spelling of a 12th C English locative byname. Reaney and Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames s.n. Alis gives the form Aliz in 1189, and s.n. Daubeney notes Nigel de Albinio from the Domesday Book, and Nigel de Albeni from 1114-1123. We would change this name to Aliz de Albeni to fulfill the submitter's request for authenticity, but this would involve changing the language of the given name, which is a major change.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Caitlin Christiana Wintour. Name change from Caitlin Christiana Rosa del León. 
This name combines English and Gaelic elements in a single name; this is one step from period practice. The double given names Caitlin Christiana are grandfathered to the submitter, whose name Caitlin Christiana Rosa del León was registered in 1987. The Grandfather Clause allows a submitter to register name elements from a previously registered name, so long as they are used in the same manner and exactly the same spelling as in the previously registered name and no new violations of the Rules for Submissions exist in the new name that did not exist in the registered name. Therefore, we must ask if the changes in byname and name construction introduce a new violation of the Rules for Submission that was not present in the original submission. They does not. Instead, the change from Rosa del León to Wintour reduces the number of languages in this name. Therefore, this name is registerable via the Grandfather Clause.
Her old name, Caitlin Christiana Rosa del León, is released.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Cormac Mór. Device change. Per fess with a right step Or and argent. 
This is clear of Jakob Stiufsun: Per fess with a left step sable and pily bendwise argent and azure. A visual check confirms that Jakob's device has the step going the opposite way from this submission. There is a CD for changing the tincture of at least half the field, and a separate CD for the aggregate changes to the line of division. (There might not be a CD between a simple left step and a simple right step, but the left-vs.-right combined with the pily division in base is sufficient for a CD.)
Please advise the submitter to draw the step wider.
His previously registered device, Sable, an open book argent between three pairs of torches in saltire argent flamed Or, is retained as a badge.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Isabeau Eaglestone of Glinwood and Vivienne de Lampérière. Joint badge. Vert, a pavilion Or and in chief a foi argent. 
There was some discussion about the charge in chief. As cited on the LoI, a foi was blazoned as such as early as July 1993 in the registration for Lothar Freund's device: Vert, a fess embattled counterembattled between a foi and a bull's head caboshed Or.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
John the Wanderer. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
John the Wanderer. Device. Sable, on a compass star argent a Maltese cross azure and in base two swords inverted crossed at the tips argent. 
The device conflicts with Conner McAuliffe FitzJames, Sable, within a sun throughout argent, eclipsed azure, a goshawk displayed argent, which could also be blazoned as Sable, on a sun throughout argent, a roundel azure charged with a goshawk displayed argent. This emphasizes the quaternary nature of Conner's goshawk, and we ignore quaternary charges completely when checking for conflict. We give no CD between a compass star and a sun, nor for throughout vs. not-throughout for non-ordinaries. Since compass stars are not eligible for X.4.j.ii, there is no CD for type only between a roundel and a Maltese cross. Thus there is only one CD between this armory and Conner's for adding the secondary swords.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Macha Drake. Name. 
This name combines English and Gaelic elements in a single name, which is one step from period practice.
The question arose whether the name Macha was registerable, since Macha is the name of one of the three war-goddesses of the Tuatha Dé Danann. However, Ó Corrain and Maguire also cite a Saint Macha; upon further investigation, Saint Macha is the patron saint of Kilkinney, who, according to her hagiography, with her five sisters founded a church around the 6th C. Therefore, the name is registerable as a saint's name.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Perrin le Blanc. Name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Richard the Wevere. Name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Rotheric Kynith. Badge. Argent, on a roundel azure a wolf sejant ululant argent. 
There is a returnable problem with the form. The available emblazon space on the form on which this was submitted is too small, being significantly less than the standard diameter of 5 inches specified by the Administrative Handbook.
In addition, consensus at the meeting was that the roundel in this case is too large and gives too much impression of a field and a bordure. As a result this must be returned for a redraw. This problem can be corrected by drawing the roundel rather smaller in proportion to the field (which, in absolute terms, would not be that much smaller than this one when using a form with a properly sized emblazon area).
[RETURNED May 2004]
Teresa Mac Connelly. Name. 
This name combines a Spanish given name with an Anglicized Irish surname. Names mixing Spanish and Anglicized Gaelic elements are not registerable [Sanchia O'Connor 7/97]. Nebuly puts it succinctly: "Withycombe does indeed document the given name Teresa to 1515-82, but as a Spanish name." 
[RETURNED May 2004]
Ulrich Heinrich. Name. 
The submitter requested an authentic German name. This is a lovely late 13th-early 14th C German name!
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Vivienne de Lampérière and Rotheric Kynith. Joint household name House of Cempa. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
William Thespos Dragonsclaw. Release of badge. Sable, a triangle argent between five apples slipped in annulo Or. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]

DRACHENWALD
Cecilia de Conway. Device. Vert, a badger statant argent marked sable between three mullets argent. 
Please instruct the submitter to draw the legs shorter to make the badger more identifiable as a badger.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Eplaheimr, Shire of. Acceptance of household name transfer Eplaheimr from Ságadís Duncans dothyr and Sigmundr Hákonarson as branch name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Insula Draconis, Crown Principality of. Device change. Per fess sable and azure, a laurel wreath and issuant from the line of division a demi-sun, and in chief a crescent all Or. 
Withdrawn by the submitter.
The shield on the form is far too small, well short of the Admin Handbook standard of 5 inches wide by 6 inches tall.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Ságadís Duncans dothyr and Sigmundr Hákonarson. Transfer of household name Eplaheimr to Eplaheimr, Shire of. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]

EALDORMERE
Baudouin de Domrémy. Name and device. Or, a winged lion rampant gules maintaining a fleur-de-lis azure, on a chief vert a straight trumpet Or. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Conall Cailech. Device. Per bend sinister azure and argent, on a dunghill cock contourny an annulet, all counterchanged. 
The question of offensiveness having been raised in commentary, consensus was that the combination of charges was not offensive in this instance.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Elaina of Oaklawn. Badge change. (Fieldless) On an oak leaf argent, a panther rampant sable incensed gules. 
Her previously registered badge, Or, mulletty of six points, a bordure engrailed azure (registered as her device July 1981 and changed to a badge December 1995) is released.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Gareth Cambell. Name and device. Per chevron gules and sable, three unicorn heads and on a chief embattled Or three thistles proper. 
The question was raised in commentary whether the line of division was too low on the field. Without the chief, it would be. However, in both SCA and actual period heraldry, when a chief is present, the area of the field which is divided is the area beneath the chief (to base of the bottom of the chief). It does not include the portion of the field which is overlain by the chief. Thus, for example, a per bend line would start at the point where the chief meets the edge of the shield, and bisect the field as if the field ended at the bottom edge of the chief. This submission's per chevron line of division comes close to bisecting the field as if the field ended at the bottom edge of the chief as well; sufficiently close that we can register it, though the submitter should still be advised to draw the line of division slightly higher.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Isabella Vannicelli. Device. Quarterly argent and azure, a sea-wolf erect to sinister counterchanged. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Malachi Blacksley. Name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Margaret Brodie. Name. 
The submitter requested a name authentic for 12th C Scottish language/culture. As submitted, this is a lovely 16th C Scots name, but as no documentation was submitted and none found for Scottish 12th C forms of these names, we cannot say whether it would be authentic for 12th C Scotland.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Ruaidhrí Clàrsair. Name and device. Argent, a harp gules and a bordure sable. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Rustique de Suard. Badge. Purpure, on a bend bretessed argent a heart palewise fracted sable. 
Please instruct the submitter to draw fewer and larger embattlements.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]

EAST
Abel Breme. Device. Azure, two spears in saltire and in chief three bells two and one Or. 
Please advise the submitter to draw the spears so that they cross closer to their centers.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Ailís inghean Mhuirghein. Name change from Morgan Arianblaidd and device change. Vert, on a mirror argent glassed vert, an oak leaf argent. 
Submitted as Ailís inghean Muirgen of Derrybawn, the submitter requested authenticity for 14th-16th C Irish. We have changed the name to Ailís inghean Mhuirghein to partially comply with this request. Muirgen is a Middle Irish Gaelic name, and we have no evidence that this form remained in use into the the 14th C period; therefore, we substituted an appropriate Early Modern Irish spelling. The patronymic was in the nominative case; we have put it in the genitive case and lenited the the first letter to comply with Gaelic grammar. Finally, an Anglicized locative is out of place in an authentic Irish Gaelic name; it has been dropped.
Her old name, Morgan Arianblaidd, is released.
Questions were raised in commentary about whether this armory had four layers (leaf on a cartouche on a mirror on the field). The glass of the mirror is often a different tincture in period emblazons. We even found one period example where a differently-tinctured mirror was charged. Therefore charging the mirror, even when the glass is colored differently from the frame, does not violate RfS VIII.c.ii, Layer Limit.
This is clear of Eva van Oudeachterkol's badge for Embla Willsdottir: Vert, an elm leaf in bend sinister environed of a cartouche voided argent. There is one CD for type between this submission's mirror and Eva/Embla's cartouche voided. There is at least one more CD for the leaves. If we consider Eva/Embla's badge as Vert, on a cartouche vert fimbriated a leaf bendwise sinister argent with the leaf as a tertiary charge, there is a CD for changing the type and orientation. If we considered this submission as Vert, an oak leaf within a mirror voided argent then there would be two separate CDs for type and orientation.
Her previously registered device, Argent, three chevronels braced and on a chief embattled vert three wolf's heads cabossed argent, is released.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Alana of Ramskeep. Name and device. Or, six quatrefoils slipped in annulo stems to center and a chief vert. 
Please instruct the submitter to draw the chief wider.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Anne Botman. Name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Anne Meckil von Salm. Device. Argent, on a pale sable a rose argent, a bordure gules. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Arthur Bayn. Device. Per bend sinister azure and argent, a bear statant contourny and a dolmen counterchanged. 
This was an appeal of a return made in kingdom by the then Blue Tyger for conflict with Arthur FitzRobert of Wiverneweald: Per bend azure and argent, a bear statant and a mullet of six points counterchanged. The submitter, supported by Eastern Crown and the East Kingdom College, is correct. This is technically clear of Arthur's armory, with one CD for the field (per bend vs. per bend sinister division), one CD for type of half the (only) charge group (mullet vs. dolmen), and a third CD for posture/orientation of half the charge group (bear statant [to dexter] vs. bear statant to sinister).
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Ásmundr vápni. Name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Buckland Cross, Shire of. Populace badge. Argent, a massacre within a bordure embattled sable. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Cailin mac Eachduinn. Name change from Colin MacKenzie. 
Submitted as Cailean mac Eachduinn, the submitter requested authenticity for Scotland. The spelling of the given name was documented from Black, The Surnames of Scotland, as a Gaelic spelling. When Black marks a spelling as Gaelic, he means it is a modern Gaelic spelling. Occasionally, modern Gaelic forms are identical to late period Gaelic forms, but not always. In this case, Black provides a Gaelic spelling from 1467: Cailin. The patronymic appears in the same 1467 manuscript. Therefore, we have changed the name to Cailin mac Eachduinn to meet the submitter's request for authenticity.
His old name, Colin MacKenzie, is released.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Ding Li Ying. Name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Diomedes Sebastianus. Name and badge (see RETURNS for device). Per chevron throughout vert and sable, in pale two crescents argent. 
The submitter requested authenticity for an unspecified language/culture. As documented, this name consists of two given names; Byzantine Greek did not use unmarked patronymics. However, as Metron Ariston and Kraken note, this can equally well be a Latin name. Metron Ariston explains:
Sebastianus is not originally a given name at all, but a Latin adjective of origin for someone from Sebaste. This is noted in Withycombe (s.n. Sebastian) so the information is pretty accessible. These sorts of locative names either as the primary name for a slave or as a cognomen in the tria nomina were fairly common in Latin and occur as given names and bynames in Greek as well. Since the saint Sebastianus was apparently a soldier martyred under Diocletian, I would guess that the use of that name derived from such a locative. (The fact that a name becomes a standard given name does not mean that its radical descriptive meaning falls out of use: Graecus was both a common slave name, a cognomen and a plain descriptive in classical times.)
Since Diomedes is the usual Latin transliteration of the Greek name of the character from Greek myth (and is also used as a "regular" name in Greek circles and for Greek immigrants and slaves at Rome), the name is actually fully Latin, but with heavy Greek overtones, nicely appropriate for early Byzantium.
Because the name can be documented as a Latin name, it is registerable.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Diomedes Sebastianus. Device. Vert, in pale an eagle displayed perched atop a crescent pendant, a dexter tierce argent. 
Withdrawn by the submitter.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Eericka av Öland. Name and device. Quarterly azure and argent, four octopuses counterchanged. 
Submitted as Erika of Öland, this name has two problems. First, the Saint Gabriel report used to document the given name lists Erika as the standard modern form and dates the spelling Eericka to the mid 16th C. Barring evidence that Erika is a reasonable pre-1600 form, it cannot be registered. We have changed the given name to Eericka to match the documentation.
The byname combines the English preposition of with a Swedish locative. RfS III.1.a states "In the case of place names and other name elements frequently used in English in their original form, an English article or preposition may be used." However, as English does not use umlauts, Öland cannot be a form used in English. Therefore, we have changed the preposition to the Swedish av to make the byname phrase linguistically consistent.
(Irreverent comment from the peanut gallery: Nice arms, all 32 of them.)
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Esperanza Razzolini d'Asolo. Household name La Casa della Croce a Fiori. 
No documentation was submitted nor any found that this name follows period Italian inn name or household name practice. Unfortunately, we are unable to recommend a good single source for Italian inn names. However, there is no evidence that inns in Italy were named in the way that English and German inn sign names are formed. In addition, while the words given here literally translate to "House of the Flowered Cross", no evidence was presented that this is a reasonable Italian phrase or description. For one, we are unsure what a flowered cross would be. If the intention is a cross made of flowers, modern Italian usage tends toward "croce di fiori."
[RETURNED May 2004]
Étaín ingen uí Chommáin. Name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Geoffrey the Younger. Name and device. Quarterly erminois and vert, an annulet quarterly sable and argent. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Gianotta dalla Fiora. Name. 
Submitted as Gianotta Dallafiora, the name was documented from The Online Catasto of 1427. This source lists names in all capital letters and eliminates spaces in name phrases. The usual documentary form of this byname is dalla Fiora; we have changed the byname to this form.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Guenuureth filia Thomas. Device. Or, on a chevron azure three roses Or, in base a domestic cat sejant azure. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Hedinn inn Rauði. Badge. (Fieldless) A mullet per fess argent and sable. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Johan Kronenwache. Badge. (Fieldless) A snake erect tail nowed per fess gules and sable. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Katherine Barr of Cumberland. Name and device. Gules, a chevron erminois between three stag's heads cabossed Or. 
The tincture of the stag's heads had been omitted from the blazon on the Letter of Intent. However, enough commenters checked this for conflict against both Or and argent heads that we are able to register this without pending it first.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Klaus the Red and Thaddeus von Orlamünde. Joint household name Gesellschaft mit der Mondsichel. 
This name translates to "Company of the Crescent Moon", which is extremely evocative of The Order of the Croissant, included by the submitters as part of their documentation. The symbol of the Order of the Croissant was the crescent moon. This Order had members from many part of Europe, including Germany. However, none of the commentors found a form for this Order name other than The Order of the Croissant.  Because names do not conflict in translation, these two names are not in conflict.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Klaus the Red and Thaddeus von Orlamünde. Joint badge (see PENDS for household name). Per pale sable and Or all crescenty counterchanged. 
This badge is to be associated with the household name Gesellschaft mit der Mondsichel if that name passes. (The name was pended on this LoAR.)
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Laurencia MacLeod. Device. Or, a spear sable between three drop spindles purpure. 
This is returned for a redraw. The drop spindles are not identifiable as such. With the very thick "thread" winding around their central axes, a number of commentors thought they were stylized versions of the modern treble clef sign.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Livia Petralia. Name and device. Or, a spider vert between three triangles inverted sable. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Lorita de Siena. Name and device. Per chevron inverted purpure and Or, a chevron inverted sable between two roses counterchanged. 
The submitter requested authenticity for 13th C Italy. Because da is the usual Italian preposition used in a locative byname, the commentors questioned whether the preposition de was correct. However, as Kraken notes, "In the 13th century (the desired time frame), the transition from medieval Latin to Italian was in its early stages, and the Latin preposition de would still be in use..."
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Marianna Gentilcore. Name and device. Azure, a sprig of grape vine bendwise sinister and on a chief argent a feather reversed azure. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Marietta Aurelia da Bari. Name and device. Argent, three gouttes and a chief vert. 
The submitter requested authenticity for 11th C southern Italy but accepted no changes. Maridonna Benvenuti's "Mercator's Place Names of Italy in 1554" shows the spelling Barri. Therefore, we are willing to give the submitter the benefit of the doubt that Bari is consistent with period forms. However, the College could not provide documentation for either of the given names in the 11th C. Finally, double given names did not come into use in Italy until after the 11th C. Marietta Aurelia da Bari is registerable, but it is not an authentic 11th C Italian name.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Marietta da Firenze. Name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Mariot de Berwic. Name and device. Or, a tower and in chief three thistles azure. 
Nice name!
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Milesenda de Bourges. Name and device. Or, a phoenix, on a chief purpure a quill pen bendwise sinister Or. 
Submitted as Melisande de Bourges, several variant spellings of this name exist, but none that support the -sande spelling. Therefore, we have changed the given name to Milesenda, a form documented from Morlet, Les Noms de Personne sur le Territoire de L'Ancienne Gaule du VIe au XIIe Siècle.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Osmond de Berwic. Name. 
Nice name!
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Ruantallan, Barony of. Populace badge. Per pale azure and argent, a kraken counterchanged. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Sabatina da Valle. Name. 
Submitted as Sabatina Da Valle, we have changed the name to Sabatina da Valle. In period Italian names, locative prepositions are written in lowercase. 
The submitter requested authenticity for 12th-13th C Italian language/culture and accepted only minor changes. The College questioned whether the preposition da, meaning "from," was appropriate with a generic toponymic byname, especially since the dated examples found by the College all showed the expected preposition+article, della or dalla, meaning "from the". A popular website on the history of San Marino, a state on the Adriatic coast of Italy (http://www.libertas.sm/), lists a Cecco di Giovanni da Valle as one of the Captains Regent of San Marino in 1442. While the name spellings on this website appear to be modern, there seems to be no reason to doubt the basic formation of this byname.
This is a reasonable 15th C Italian name. However, no documentation was provided and none found for 12th-13th C forms of these names. Therefore, we are unable to confirm that this is an authentic 12th-13th C Italian name.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Sarah bas Mordechai. Name and device. Gules, a fleece argent and in chief a spoon fesswise reversed Or. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Seumas Camshronach an Lochabair. Alternate name Seumas Mór MacCoinneach. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Sidonia Zaridina. Device. Azure, two swords in saltire surmounted by an open book Or. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Steinhard Helmschrot. Name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Susanna Lockheart. Name and device. Sable, on a bend between two hearts argent three fetterlocks palewise purpure. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Swannoc Walter. Name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Symon Fitz Gilbert. Name change from Symon Quixwoode and device change. Gules, a boar's head erased close and on a chief Or three mullets gules. 
His old name, Symon Quixwoode, is released.
Parker blazons similarly depicted heads as simply erased. In accordance with SCA tradition for heads couped and with prior registrations we are using the (apparently SCA-specific) term erased close to describe this depiction.
His previously registered device, Bendy gules and Or, three oak leaves sable, is released.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Thaddeus von Orlamünde. Name. 
The given name was submitted as Thaddeus, but documented from Talan Gwynek's article, Medieval German Given Names from Silesia as Thadeus. Luther's translation of the Bible shows the saint from whom this name is derived as Thaddäus. Palmer also found a citation in Bahlow for the same spelling as the one found in Luther's Bible. Thaddeus should be a reasonable spelling variant for this name.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Una Logan. Device. Per fess argent and azure, a fess vert and in chief three hearts gules. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Vassili Miroslavich. Name and device. Vert, a lion argent within a bordure argent semy of pretzels sable. 
Submitted as Machin Vassili Miroslavich, the submitter requested authenticity for 11th-13th C Russian language/culture. As submitted, this name uses two Christian given names in a Russian name; this was ruled a step from period practice in June 1997. Furthermore, Nebuly points this out about the first given name:
The given name Machin appears in Wickenden only as a hypothetical header form, back-formed from the patronymic Machinevik (dated 1253). Based on the pronunciation, and what I find in the SSNO for related Polish forms, this is a diminutive of the name Matthias à Macz à Machin. The SSNO (s.n. Mac, Macz) has a citation for "ad Matthiam dictum Macz" dated to 1470-1480. I presume the -in was added to form an additional pet variant here, though I would normally expect that ending on a patronymic only. However, Wickenden lists Mazcinek as a given name (the -ek is another diminutive ending!), which is why I make the assumption about how -in is being used here.
To partially fulfill the submitter's request for authenticity, one of the given names must be dropped. Machin is a hypothetical form rather than a documentary form, we are dropping this name, leaving Vassili Miroslavich. Because the patronymic Miroslavich is documented to the 14th C instead of the 13th, we are unable to fully comply with his authenticity request.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Wentlian Harper. Name and device. Per bend argent and vert, a harp reversed and an ivy leaf inverted counterchanged. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]

MERIDIES
Alasdair MacDonald of Lorne. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
The submitter requested authenticity for Scottish language/culture and accepted minor changes. This name mixes a Gaelic given name with Scots bynames; such a mixture is one step from period practice.  We would change this name to an all Scots form to comply with the submitter's request for authenticity, but changing the language of an element is a major change.
The construction of the name, given+surname+locative, is well attested in Scots name in the 16th C. A fully 16th C Scots form would be Alexander MakDonald of Lorne. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Alasdair MacDonald of Lorne. Device. Per pale wavy azure and Or, two mullets in pale argent and three lymphads in pale sable. 
The full size form was not large enough; the height of the escutcheon (including the very thick boundary lines) is not close enough to the 6 inch standard specifid in the Admin Handbook.
This device also raised great concern in the College about having the appearance of marshalling despite adhering technically to the Rules; while we decline to rule on that at this time, we note that drawing the waves more boldly on the line of division could significantly reduce the appearance of marshalling.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Alban de Albion. Name. 
This is being returned for presumption against Saint Alban, also known as Alban of England. Albion is the old name for Britain/England in both Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (History of the English Church and People) and in Laymon's Brut, an early Middle English history of Britain. Although we have no reference to Saint Alban by the name submitted here, the allusion is too strong.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Caitríona inghean Ghuaire. Device. Per saltire sable and argent, a spiderweb counterchanged and overall a cat couchant contourny vert. 
Please instruct the submitter to draw the cat a bit larger and with more distinguishing features.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Cormac Ó Mannacháin. Name. 
Submitted as Cormac Ó Manacháin, the submitter requested authenticity for 13th-14th C Ireland.  We have changed the name to Cormac Ó Mannacháin to fulfill this request. The submitted documentation postulates a normalized Early Modern Irish Gaelic form of Ó Manaháin based on the identical form in use today.  Woulfe's Irish Names and Surnames says of the same name, "the name of a Connacht family who derive their descent from Manac(h)án, a famous warrior mentioned by the Four Masters in the year 866."  A search of the Annals of the Four Masters, though, shows the form in the 866 Annals as Mannachan.  No forms of this name with just the single -n- were found in the Annals, but forms with the double-n are found in both the Annals of the Four Masters and in the Annals of Connacht, including Donn Ua Mannacháin, tigherna Ua m-Briúin na Sionna in the mid 12th C and Domnall h. Mannachan in the mid 13th C.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Cuilén the Bald. Name. 
As there is an Early Modern Irish descriptive byname, Maol, which means bald, this name is registerable under the Lingua Anglica allowance.  A fully Early Modern Irish form of this name is Coileán Maol .
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Dana the Quarrier. Device. Per pale azure mullety argent and argent, a cross moline sable. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Dubhagán mac Ruairc. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Dubhagán mac Ruairc. Device. Per pale azure and argent, three wolf's teeth issuant from dexter and another two issuant from sinister counterchanged. 
This is being returned for improper drawing and non-period style, stemming from improper use of wolf's teeth.
The examples of wolf's teeth in the Pictorial Dictionary and in Siebmacher show that the teeth invariably extend almost to the center line; where teeth come from both sides they almost touch. Those on this submission do not come close. This is in itself grounds for return.
Furthermore, wolf's teeth appear in groups of three or more; barring evidence of wolf's teeth appearing singly or in pairs, there should be three or more teeth issuing from the same side. The use of fewer than three teeth is a step from period practice. The imbalance between the number of teeth on either side is also a step from period practice, independent of the the number of teeth. Therefore, even if the wolf's teeth were drawn correctly, the use of three on one side and two on the other would not be registerable as the motif is two steps away from period practice.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Eckhart von Eschenbach. Badge. (Fieldless) On an elfbolt Or a sea-wolf purpure. 
The tincture of the sea-wolf was not identifiable as purpure: the first three guesses at the meeting were red, murrey and brown. This appears to be the result of a color-printer form (whose emblazon space, by the way, is only barely large enough).
[RETURNED May 2004]
Eíbhlín inghean Fhearghusa. Badge. (Fieldless) On a lion's jambe erased Or a fret couped vert. 
Blazoned on the LoI as ...a lion's paw..., the emblazon clearly shows a significant amount of forelimb. We have adjusted the blazon accordingly.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Geoffrey de Boketon. Device change. Per pale azure and ermine, in pale three stags courant Or. 
His previously registered device, Per pale vert and ermine, in pale three stags courant Or, is released.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Geoffrey de Boketon. Badge. (Fieldless) A lion gules marked on the hip with a lit grenade and sustaining a bec de corbin Or. 
The tertiary charge on the lion is not identifiable at any reasonable distance. Even as a tertiary charge, the grenade should be drawn large enough to be recognizable. Complex primary charges such as lions can be charged, but the space available for the tertiary charge will necessarily be small, so special care must be taken with the depiction.
The polearm is large enough to qualify as a co-primary charge, and so the LoI was correct to blazon it as sustained.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Ian Gordon. Name and device. Gules, on a chevron sable fimbriated three wolf's heads couped argent and in chief a rose argent barbed and seeded vert. 
Ian has been ruled SCA-compatible.
This name does not conflict with the registered name Johannes Gordan.  There is sufficient difference in sound and appearance between Johannes and Ian to avoid conflict between the two names.
The chevron need not be blazoned as abased since the charge in chief forces the chevron down. However, this is as low as a chevron can get without being returned.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Jonathan MacAlpyne. Name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Judith Wilkinson. Name and device. Argent, a squirrel sejant erect gules maintaining a lozenge suspended from its forepaws, a bordure sable. 
Nice name!
Listed on the LoI as Judith Wilkinson (of Northampton), the forms and the summarization noted that Judith Wilkinson was the form actually submitted; the form under which the name was listed included an alternative byname to use in case the submitted name was not registerable. Please do not include information about alternative names acceptable to the submitter in parentheses with the submitted name.  Instead, please include it in the summary of the documentation and information provided on the form.  Putting this information in the header confuses the commenters about which name is being submitted.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Lailiane Asenina. Device change. Or, a fret engrailed and a bordure engrailed sable. 
Her previously registered device, Gules, an open book argent and on a chief indented Or three compass roses gules, is released.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Máel Coluim Mac Donnchaid. Name and device. Per saltire sable and vert, four owls argent. 
This name does not conflict with Malcolm MacDhomnuill. Dhomnull and Donnchad are sufficiently different in sound and appearance that neither these names nor patronymics formed from these names conflict.
Listed on the LoI as Máel Coluim Mac Donnchaid (of Errogeil), the forms and the summarization noted that Máel Coluim Mac Donnchaid) was the form actually submitted. The form under which the name was listed included an alternative byname to use in case the submitted name was not registerable. Please do not include information about alternative names acceptable to the submitter in parentheses with the submitted name.  Instead, please include it in the summary of the documentation and information provided on the form.  Putting this information in the header confuses the commenters about which name is being submitted.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Margarete von Nürnberg. Name and device. Per fess wavy gules and sable, three edelweiss argent seeded Or and an elephant's head cabossed proper. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Maud Dee Bywater. Name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Medb inghean ui Maolainbhthe. Name. 
Listed on the LoI as Medb inghean ui Maolainbhth, the forms showed Medb inghean ui Maolainbhthe. No evidence was presented and none was found that the submitted form of the patronymic, Maolainbhthe, is a period form.  The spelling was documented from MacLysaght, The Surnames of Ireland, but the Gaelic forms of names in that work are explicitly modern forms.  Often these modern forms are consistent with Early Modern Irish Gaelic orthography, but this is not the case here. Ó Corrain and Maguire, Irish Names, show an Early Modern Irish Gaelic form of this name as Maolanaithe, which would give the feminine patronymic inghean ui Mhaoilanaithe. A fully Early Modern Irish Gaelic form of this name would be Meadhbh inghean ui Mhaoilanaithe, while an appropriate Middle Irish Gaelic form is Medb ingen ui Máel Anfaid. However, as the submitter accepts no changes, we are unable to change the byname to a registerable form.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Muirgen of the Mists. Name change from holding name Debby of the Mists. 
The submitter requested authenticity for 5-10th C Irish/Welsh.  Submitted as Muirghein of the Mists, we have changed it to Muirgen of the Mists to partially comply with the submitter's request for authenticity. Muirghein is the Early Modern Gaelic (1200-1700) form of this name, Muirgen is an early form. Because the Mists is the name of an SCA group, this name cannot be made fully authentic.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Obela Taras'eva Kartsova. Name. 
Obela is not constructed following the rules for name formation for Russian feminine names.  The given name Obela was justified as a hypothetical feminization of the masculine given name Obel.  Unfortunately, Nebuly points out that "The only example of a Russian feminized name formed by adding -a given in the LoI is Krasa, which may be of either gender."  He explains that for other apparent examples, both the masculine and feminine forms were borrowed from other languages:  "Unfortunately, the pattern of feminization established for Agripina and Anastasiia from Agripin and Anastasii is a pattern from Latin and Greek (respectively) prior to their importation, and not a feminization that was made in Russian.  Imported Classical names cannot establish a pattern of feminization in native Russian names, as the counterexamples given in the LoI attest. The citation of Mara does not indicate a Russian feminization of Mar, since the note under that name in Wickenden indicates that the individual was the daughter of a Serb and not a native Russian.  In general, Slavic languages do not form feminine equivalents of masculine given names by adding -a except in cases where the name is an original Slavic deuterothematic name.  Since Obel is not such a deuterothematic name, we cannot form a feminine equivalent."
The form of the name given+patronymic+patronymic is fine for a Russian name.  If the submitter chooses a Russian feminine name, the rest of the name should be registerable.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Pesty Potÿncza. Name. 
Submitted as Kispesty Potÿncza, the submitter requested authenticity for 15th-16th C Hungary and allowed all changes. The submitter included photocopies from Towns in Medieval Hungary, by Lázló Gerevich which shows that a medieval settlement existed that is known today as Kis-pest.  However, the submitted documentation failed to demonstrate that this was the medieval name for this place.  Furthermore, the College was unable to find documentation for Kispest as a medieval place name. Nebuly provided a succint summary of the problem:
The Blaeu Atlas map (p56) of the Danube's course has both Buda and Pest, but not Kis Pest . In fact, Kázmér's dictionary of early Hungarian surnames does not even have a header for  Kispesty , so I tend to doubt that the name of the town is period, or if it was then the distinction between the city of Pest and the suburb of Kis Pest was not recorded in any byname. The best I can offer is the byname Pesty dated to 1576 (Kázmér, s.n. Pesti). I do not find a period pattern of prefixing the name of a town with the word Kis "little", so I can't recommend the submitted form as a plausible construction. My recommendation is that we register the name as Pesty Potÿncza.
We have changed the name to Pesty Potÿncza to match the documentation available and to fulfill her request for authenticity.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Pier of Marion Glen. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Per chevron sable semy of grenades Or and gules, in base a castle argent. 
Armory submitted under the name Pier van der Utrecht.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Pier van der Utrecht. Name. 
Because Utrecht is a place name and not a generic toponym, the correct form of the byname is van Utrecht. Unfortunately, we are unable to drop the problematic element from this name. In the past, precedent has held that adding or removing a particle is only a minor change.  However, according to the College of Arms Glossary published December 2003 "Major changes include dropping an element or phrase..." While der is not a complete phrase, it is a distinct element of the locative name phrase here. Therefore, dropping it would be a major change. We note that Pier van Utrecht is a lovely 15th C Dutch name.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Ruth O'Kelly. Name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Simon MacLeod and Katerine Radford of Dreywick. Joint badge. (Fieldless) A castle sable charged on the dexter tower with a lion's head erased and on the sinister tower with a unicorn's head couped respectant Or. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Thomas van Lubeck. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
The submitter requested a name authentic for German language/culture and accepted minor changes. Submitted as Thomas von Lübek, we have changed it to Thomas van Lubeck to fulfill this request.  Brechenmacher, Etymologische Deutsche Familiennamenbuch, s.n. Lübeck(er), cites Joh. van Lubecke in 1406 and Nikol. Lubeck in 1411. As Nebuly notes, Lübek is in Northern Germany and van is the Northern German form for the preposition von.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Thomas van Lubeck. Device. Azure, a bend sinister vert fimbriated Or. 
This conflicts with Richard Andreivitch of Rus, Azure, on a bend sinister Or an estoile sable, and with Denis Flaxenhelm, Azure, on a bend sinister Or, a goblet upright sable. Per the LoAR of June 2002 and Laurel precedent before and after that date, an ordinary voided or fimbriated can also be interpreted as an ordinary charged with another of the same type. Under this interpretation, Thomas's submission must also be treated as Azure, on a bend sinister Or a bendlet sinister vert. Using this blazon, there is only one CD between Thomas's submission and the two registered armories for changes to the tertiary charges.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Thomas Wilkinson. Name and device. Or, on a pall azure a trefoil knot inverted Or. 
Nice name!
Listed on the LoI as Thomas Wilkinson (of Northampton), the forms and the summarization noted that Thomas Wilkinson was the form actually submitted; the form under which the name was listed included an alternative byname to use in case the submitted name was not registerable. Please do not include information about alternative names acceptable to the submitter in parentheses with the submitter name.  Instead, please include it in the summary of the documentation and information provided on the form.  Putting this information in the header confuses the commenters about which name is being submitted.
Trefoil knots and triquetrae have a single lobe up by default. This submission's knot has the single lobe down, and must be blazoned as inverted.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Umm al-Mundhir 'Inan bint Sufian. Name and device. Purpure, two chevronels inverted and in chief a cloud argent, an orle counterchanged. 
The counterchanging of the chevronels across the orle is registerable:
The only time we permit a charge to be counterchanged over another is when they are both ordinaries. [Dec 1998, Ret-Artemisia, Crystal Crags, Shire of]
[Registering Or, a pall inverted azure surmounted by an orle counterchanged] We allow an ordinary surmounted by another to be counterchanged. While this is not good style, it is at worst one weirdness. [Aug 1996, Acc-Middle, Pietro Niccolo da San Tebaldo]
Please instruct the submitter to use more argent and less internal purpure on the cloud.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Wulfran Forester. Name and device. Sable semy of caltrops Or, a winged unicorn segreant argent. 
Submitted as Wulfram Forester, the submitter requested authenticity for 12-14th C English and accepted minor changes.  We have changed the name to Wulfran Forester to comply with this request.  Although the submitted documentation shows a church that is now known as Saint Wulfram that was built in 1200, it does not show that this is the spelling of the name used at the time the church was built. However, Reaney and Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames cites a John Wulfrun in 1230; the other spellings from this period in Reaney and Wilson also include the terminal -n instead of a terminal -m.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]

MIDDLE
Adalasia Serena. Device. Per bend sable and gules, a bend bevilled argent. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Adwen Raa. Name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Aidan Alpin of Dunkeld. Name and device. Quarterly gules and sable, in bend two thistles within a bordure Or. 
Given the lack of double-given names in Scots and the classic Scots naming pattern of given+surname+placename, Alpin in this name must be interpreted as an unmarked patronymic. The registerability of this name hinges on whether there is a pattern in Scots of Anglicized or Latinized Gaelic personal names becoming unmarked patronymics.  A search through Black shows a few examples including Kilschyn Gilcrist in 1296 and William Bran, 1629. This is sufficient to give the submitter the benefit of the doubt.
The documentation was not adequately summarized on the LoI. It is not sufficient to say that a name appears as a header form in a source; many sources, including the sources used to document this submission, include explicitly modern names and describe them as such in the text. It is necessary to summarize what such a source says about a name and to provide dated examples if possible. If the College had not provided the missing dates and descriptions, we would have been forced to return this submission.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Alured Husher. Name. 
Submitted as Alfred Usher, the submitter requested authenticity for Scottish language/culture, accepted minor changes and specifically allowed changing the given name to Alured. We have changed the name to Alured Husher to comply with this request. Black, The Surnames of Scotland, s.n. Alfred notes that "The name of Alfred the second prior or Newbattle Abbey...was usually written as Alured" and dates this spelling to 1179 and 1158. s.n. Usher, he notes Thomas the Usser in 1291, Thomas dictus le Ussher in 1296, and Husher in 1296. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Avelina Clarice. Name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Border Keep, Canton of. Branch name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Constance ingen Chonchobair. Name. 
Submitted as Constance inghean Conchobair, the patronymic mixes a Middle Irish Gaelic patronymic with the Early Modern Irish Gaelic patronymic particle.  In addition, Gaelic grammar requires that patronymics beginning with the letter C must lenite or soften when used as part of a feminine name.  Therefore, we have changed the name to Constance ingen Chonchobair to make the patronymic temporally consistent and to correct the grammar.
This name mixes English and Gaelic orthographies in a single name; this is one step from period practice.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Diego Santos de la Hera. Name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Dolcia Bourdon. Device change. Azure, in pale two dolphins naiant counter-naiant Or. 
Her previously registered device, Per chevron wavy argent and vert, in chief three caltrops azure, in base a reremouse argent, is released.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Eve Stoneheart the Wagand. Name change from Eve the Wagand. 
The byname Stoneheart is not an epithetical name constructed on period English naming patterns. The documentation presented two arguments. The first argument was that this might be a variant of the surname Stannard.  However, neither Reaney and Wilson nor Bardsley show a variant of this name ending in -heart.  The second argument was that it was a similar constuction to the pattern hard-object+body-part, such as Ironfoot. However, no examples of stone-+bodypart were found, nor were examples of mineral-+-heart.
If the submitter is interested in a form of Stannard with similar spellings to Stoneheart, she may wish to consider Stanhart or Stonhard; both are period forms found in Reaney and Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames, s.n. Stannard. We would change the byname to one of these forms, but the submitter accepts no changes.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Eve the Wagand. Device (see RETURNS for name change). Azure, on a pile argent an iris azure slipped and leaved vert, on a chief Or three pheons inverted vert. 
Under the recently published revision of RfS X.4.j.ii, this submission is simple for the purposes of this rule; thus this is clear of Wuduholt be Secg, Azure, on a pile argent, a Coast Redwood tree couped proper, on a chief Or, three laurel wreaths vert, with one CD for the substantial change in type of the tertiary charges on the chief (from laurel wreaths to pheons), and another CD for aggregate changes to the tertiary charges on the piles.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Fiachra mac Domhnaill. Name and device. Per bend azure, and gules semy of oak leaves, in sinister chief a trefoil knot interlaced with an annulet Or. 
Questions were raised in commentary about the identifiability of the motif a trefoil knot interlaced with an annulet. We note the recent registrations of a triquetra braced with an annulet (Aoife inghean ui hEaluighthe, July 2002) and a Bowen knot crosswise braced with an annulet (Fergus O'Fey, September 2001). This motif is very similar to those motifs, and is therefore also acceptable. The depiction of this motif in this submission was identifiable as such, so we are registering it.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Francesca Cesareo. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Francesca Cesari. Device. Azure, a chevron gules fimbriated Or between three roses argent. 
This conflicts with Matthais Rosenstern: Azure, on a chevron Or between three roses argent, six mullets azure. Per the LoAR of June 2002 and Laurel precedent before and after that date, an ordinary voided or fimbriated can also be interpreted as an ordinary charged with another of the same type. As noted by Boar, under this interpretation Francesca's submission can be reblazoned as Azure, on a chevron Or between three roses argent a chevron gules, yielding only 1 CD for the changes to the tertiary charges.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Gilebert le braceeur. Name and device. Gules semy of mascles Or. 
Submitted as Gilebert le Brassier, the submitter desired an authentic 14th C French name meaning "Gilbert the Brewer". Unfortunately, Brassier(e) means "baby's or woman's blouse", not "brewer".  We have changed the byname to le braceeur, which is a French byname from the 1292 Paris census with the submitter's intended meaning.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Hesychia Bryennissa. Name and device. Or, a pomegranate slipped and leaved gules, on a chief rayonny vert three gouttes d'eau. 
Submitted as Hesychia Bryennina, we have changed the byname to Bryennissa to match the submitted documentation.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Isabeau de Kendale. Name and device. Vert, a pall argent between two lions combatant Or. 
The submitter requested authenticity for 13th C English language/culture, but indicated she wished to keep the spelling Isabeau. Because no documentation was found for the form Isabeau in 13th C England, this name is registerable, but it is not authentic for her desired place and time.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
John ye Elder. Name and device. Or, a castle gules between three eagles sable. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Juliana of Frisia. Name and device. Azure, a phoenix Or, on a chief argent three hearts gules. 
A note on the forms indicated that the submitter wished to submit the byname van Zweeloo instead of of Frisia. However, this was not the submitted byname, nor is it a form of the submitted byname. Because the submitter did not actually submit Juliana van Zweeloo, we cannot in good conscience change her name so completely and register it.
Submissions heralds should note that the resources of the College of Arms are at their disposal. If a submitter wishes to submit something when documentation should exist but is not available to the submissions herald, that is the time for the herald to avail themselves of these resources. This can be done informally, by asking someone either in person or on any of the kingdom or SCA-wide heraldic mailing lists, or formally by noting that they were unable to document an item and asking the College for help in the submission.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Katerine vander Brugghe. Name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Kendal Macalpin. Name and device. Azure, a sunburst, on a chief Or three open books azure. 
This name does not conflict with Kenneth MacAlpin, king of Scotland. Kenneth and Kendel have different middle and end sounds, and the spellings are different enough to avoid confusion between the two names.
This name combines Welsh and Anglicized Gaelic elements, which is one step from period practice.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Lassarina O'Malley. Name and device. Quarterly vert and azure, a dragon segreant, on a chief argent three fleurs-de-lis vert. 
Listed on the LoI as Lassarina O' Malley, the forms showed Lassarina O'Malley.  As no mention was made of a change, we believe this was just a typo.  We have returned the name to the originally submitted form.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Lettice Webbe. Name and device. Vert, an oak tree couped fructed Or, a chief wavy barry wavy azure and argent. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Lochloinn samhach mac Griogair. Name (see PENDS for device). 
Submitted as Lochlainn samhach macGrioghair, the submitter requested authenticity for 12th-14th C Highland Scots and accepted minor changes. We have changed the name to Lochloinn samhach mac Griogair to comply with this request. The spelling of the given name, Lochlainn, is an Irish spelling; in Scottish Gaelic the name is spelled Lochloinn.  The spelling of the patronymic, Grioghair, is a modern Scottish Gaelic form; the College was unable to find a 12th-14th C Scottish example of this name, but the spelling Griogair is documented from the 15th to the 17th C. Finally, in both Scottish and Irish Gaelic, the patronymic particle is separated from the patronymic with a space.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Lochloinn samhach mac Griogair. Device. Per chevron azure and ermine, in base a tower vert, in canton a falcon rising wings displayed argent. 
The Letter of Intent blazoned this as Per chevron azure and ermine, in canton a falcon rising, wings elevated and displayed argent, in base a tower vert. This blazon led commentors to believe that the charges were co-primary; that is not the case. The tower is the sole primary charge on this emblazon, with the falcon clearly a secondary; we have reblazoned it accordingly. The evidence suggests that this was not checked for conflict under the correct interpretation. We are, therefore, pending this device so that it may be checked for conflict as a single primary charge with a secondary charge in canton.
[PENDED May 2004]
Maggie of Cnoc Cait. Device change. Argent semy of leaves bendwise sinister vert, a domestic cat couchant guardant purpure. 
Her previously registered device, Argent, a cat couchant contourny guardant, a bordure purpure, is released.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Marsaili inghean Domhnaill. Name and device. Or, a New World pineapple vert, on a chief sable a sun in its splendor Or and a moon in its plentitude argent. 
Submitted as Marsaili inghen Domnaill, the submitter requested authenticity for 12th-14th C Gaelic and accepted changes to the byname only.  The spelling Marsaili is not found in period; the only period Gaelic example of this name is from the Annals of Ulster which lists a Mairsil ingen t-Seaain, mic Domnaill, mic Sheaain, mic Domhnaill h-Ui Fherghail. Marsaili is a hypothetical Early Modern Gaelic form of this name. This form of the given name is registerable, but it is not authentic. Because the given name is Early Modern Irish Gaelic forms, an Early Modern Irish Gaelic form of the patronymic and particle are also appropriate given her request for authenticity.  The form ingen Domnaill is an earlier form, with inghean Domhnaill being the later period form.  We have changed the patronymic and particle to the latter form to partially fulfill her request for authenticity. An authentic 15th C form of this name would be Mairsil inghean Domhnaill.
The bromeliadic fruit used as a charge on this armory was blazoned on the Letter of Intent as simply a "pineapple." However, these are a New World fruit, and the term "pine(-)apple" has often been used in period (non-SCA) blazon to mean the charge which the SCA blazons as a "pine cone." As the fruit was mentioned in period journals and apparently brought back to Europe by early explorers, we will allow it as a registerable charge. To minimize the possibility of confusion we will no longer use the term "pineapple" unmodified. We will hereafter blazon the fruit as a "New World pineapple" and continue to use the term "pine cone" to refer to the seed cases of coniferous trees. The single prior registration of a pineapple (the fruit) has been reblazoned elsewhere in this LoAR (West, Turold of Normandy).
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Mathildis Death. Name and device. Per bend sinister vert and argent, a swan naiant counterchanged, on a chief argent a feather vert. 
Submitted as Mathildis De'Ath, the byname De'Ath was documented as a header spelling in Reaney and Wilson.  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 may not be registerable. Reaney and Wilson regard the derivation of the byname from "de Athe" as plausible, but spend far more time giving good solid English derivations from "death" and "deeth". In addition, neither Reaney and Wilson nor Bardsley give any dated examples using the apostrophe.  We have, therefore, changed the byname to the form Death, dated in Reaney and Wilson to the time of Edward I, and in Bardsley to 1598.
The feather here has its nib (pointy end) to dexter. According to the Glossary of Terms, this is the default for a feather fesswise.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Meriel FitzWilliam. Device change. Sable, a fess between three seahorses naiant argent, crined and tailed Or. 
Her previously registered device, Sable, three sea horses naiant argent, crined, tailed and finned Or, a chief erminois, is released.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Meriel FitzWilliam. Badge. (Fieldless) A seahorse naiant argent, crined and tailed Or. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Myrddin ap Maelgwn Coed Du. Change of device (see ACCEPTANCES for device reblazon). Argent, on a bend vert between two sprigs of three holly leaves in pall vert fructed gules, a lion courant tail nowed Or. 
A visual check of this submission against the submitter's current device (registered April 1996) shows only minor changes to the lion's legs; both emblazons generate the same blazon (though the 2004 emblazon is a better drawing of courant by current SCA standards). Since the present submission does not have a blazonable difference from the device already registered to the submitter, the present submission is a duplication and cannot be registered.
The lion was blazoned on the Letter of Intent as salient. However, lions and other beasts follow a bend as if it were a fess, so this lion is properly blazoned as courant. As the submitter's previously registered device used a similar improper blazon, it has been reblazoned (under ACCEPTANCES on this LoAR).
[RETURNED May 2004]
Myrddin ap Maelgwn Coed Du. Reblazon of device (see RETURNS for device change). Argent, on a bend vert between two sprigs of three holly leaves in pall vert fructed gules, a lion courant tail nowed Or. 
This was originally registered in April 1996 under the blazon Argent, on a bend vert between two sprigs of three holly leaves in pall fructed proper a lion rampant tail nowed Or. However, lions and other beasts follow a bend as if it were a fess, so this lion is properly blazoned as courant and we are now reblazoning it as such.
This month, Myrddin submitted a change of device; though the new emblazon has a more SCA-standard courant it is still effectively identical to his already-registered device. Thus our proper actions are to reblazon the original device and return the "change" that really isn't a change (under RETURNS on this LoAR).
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Myrddin ap Maelgwn Coed Du. Badge. (Fieldless) A lion's head cabossed Or sustaining in its mouth a holly branch fructed proper. 
What the lion has in its mouth is truly a holly branch and not just a sprig as blazoned on the LoI. (Irreverent comment from the peanut gallery: "Ouch?") The holly branch is just big enough to be regarded as co-primary with the lion's head, which brings this submission clear of the various possible conflicts featuring cat's faces as the sole primary charge; in each case there is one CD for number of primary charges and another for fieldlessness.
This is also clear of Tobias of Emerickeskepe: (Fieldless) A lion's head caboshed Or, sustaining in its mouth an oak wreath fructed proper. On that badge, the wreath is a full-circle wreath, easily worth a CD for type against a branch to go with the CD for fieldlessness.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Nadrah al-Zarqa'. Name and device. Gules, two elephants statant respectant, trunks elevated and crossed in saltire, on a chief argent three roses gules seeded argent barbed vert and on a base argent a rose gules seeded argent barbed vert. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Otto Helmsmid. Device. Gules, an amphisbaena between three anvils, a bordure Or. 
While not blazoned on the LoI, the bordure was blazoned on the actual form, and obviously present on both miniature and full-size emblazons. Enough commentors checked for conflict with an Or bordure that we are able to register this without having to pend it first.
Please instruct the submitter to draw the bordure wider.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Raibeart Ulfr. Device. Per bend sinister gules and azure, a bend sinister Or, overall a horned wolf's head erased argent. 
This violates RfS VII.7.a, Identification Requirement. Commentors and staff at the meeting found it impossible to identify just what type of head this was, even when they ignored the horns. The aforementioned rule states that "Elements must be recognizable solely from their appearance" and this is not.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Randall Clark. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Randall Clark. Device. Per fess azure mulletty of four points Or and vert, a fess wavy Or, overall a dragon rampant wings displayed argent. 
This violates RfS VIII.3, Armorial Identifiability, which states in part that "Elements must be used in a design so as to preserve their individual identifiability. Identifiable elements may be rendered unidentifiable... by being obscured by other elements of the design." Here, the dragon overlies the fess in such a way as to almost completely obscure its top line, rendering it unidentifiable.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Robert Downey of Forfar. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Robert Downey of Forfar. Device. Ermine, a tower and on a chief embattled vert three fiddles inverted argent. 
The charges on the chief are not identifiable at any reasonable distance. This is primarily due to their small size. This problem is almost inevitable if one tries to put such a charge palewise on a chief.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Ruthardus Hruga. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
The submitter requested authenticity for an unspecified language/culture. This name mixes a German given name with an Old Norse byname; such combinations are one step from period practice. The name is registerable, but we are unable to make it authentic.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Ruthardus Hruga. Device. Per pale "brown" and Or, a bird displayed and in base two crescents and a sun counterchanged. 
Blazoned on the LoI as "sable", the dark colored parts of the field and charges are very much Crayola brown. This appears to be the result of a color printout, color photocopy, or combination of both.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Tacye de Birchwood. Name. 
Listed as Tayce de Birchwood on the LoI, the given name on the forms was Tacye; we have returned the given name to the spelling on the forms.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Yehuda ben Maimon. Device. Per pale gules and Or, a roundel counterchanged. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]

NORTHSHIELD
Giovanna Battista da Firenze. Name and device. Or, a pavilion between three fleurs-de-lys gules. 
Submitted as Giovanna Teresa Battista da Firenze, the submitter requested authenticity for 15th C Italy.  The documentation provided states that the name Teresa was unknown outside the Iberian peninsula until the late 16th C. Therefore, we have dropped this problematic element from the name to fulfill her request for authenticity.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Noiregarde, Shire of. Branch name (see RETURNS for device). 
The submitters requested authenticity for 13th-14th C France.  While this name formation was shown to follow period patterns, no documentation was provided and none found indicating that this is a 13th-14th C spelling.  Therefore, we are unable to comply with the submitters' request for authenticity.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Noiregarde, Shire of. Device. Sable, a rapier within a laurel wreath, a chief embattled argent. 
The laurel wreath on these arms is not sufficiently wreathlike. It is round, but not sufficiently closed on top. We note the following precedents:
[a tower sable ... environed in base with a laurel wreath vert] The armory had an additional problem which would not allow it to be accepted. Laurel wreaths should not be drawn with another charge between the tips of the wreath, except possibly when the charge between the tips is very thin. [Apr 2002, Ret-Atenveldt, Hawk's Rest, Shire of]
[A laurel wreath and in chief a roundel] Second, the laurel wreath is not closed (or even nearly so), and if it were, there would be no room for a roundel. A properly drawn laurel wreath should not have sufficient room between its tips to place another charge [Feb 2000, Ret-Middle, Darkstone, College of]
While a sword might be considered thin enough to be allowed between the tips of an open laurel wreath (per the 2002 precedent), the opening must not be large enough to fit a wider charge into. The depiction in the miniature emblazon is a borderline case at best, but the full-color emblazon was "redrawn by Keythong to ... remove 2 leaves of Laurel wreath" which makes it painfully obvious that the wreath's opening is too large.
This also conflicts with Morrow's Keep, Shire of: Sable, a sword and in chief a crescent inverted, all within a laurel wreath argent. There is just one CD for changing the crescent in chief to a chief.
[RETURNED May 2004]

OUTLANDS
Charles Robert Blackstone. Badge. (Fieldless) A cross raguly couped gyronny sable and Or. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Dulcia de León. Name and device. Azure, a chevron rompu inverted between a decrescent and three dragonflies argent. 
Listed on the LoI as Dulcia de Léon, the actual forms had Dulcia de León. As this is the correct placement for the accent, we have returned the byname to this spelling.
Some commentors noted that Dulcia was a documented English spelling of this name, but not a Spanish one.  However, Siren reports, "Dulcia is a perfectly normal Latinized form of Yehoshua's [Yehoshua ben Haim haYerushalm, "A sample of Jewish names in Valencia 1293-1485"] Dulcie or the Dolça found in the Gesta Comitum Barcinonensium (the deeds of the counts of Barcelona); in the c. 1200 Latin text it's Dulcia, in the 14th c. Catalan text, it's Dolça." 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Geoffrey fitz Robert. Badge. (Fieldless) A compass star quarterly azure and gules. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Gwydion ap Lewelyn. Name and device. Vert, a dragon passant, on a chief Or three triskelions of spirals vert. 
Submitted as Gwydion ap Llewelyn, we have changed the name to Gwydion ap Lewelyn to partially comply with the submitter's request for an authentic Welsh name circa 1280.  Although the College was unable to locate a 13th C form of the name Gwydion, Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn's article "A Simple Guide to Constructing 13th Century Welsh Names" lists Lewelyn and Lewelin as 13th C forms of the name Llewelyn.
The triskelion of spirals is registerable as a weirdness. From the December 2003 LoAR:
The SCA has previously registered one triskelion of spirals.... The SCA does not have a defined charge of a spiral, and spiral ends are not standard for other charges (such as crosses). However, the SCA has an established and wide-ranging pattern for registering triskelions of objects, or triskelions ending in objects. As a result, we are reluctant to refuse further registrations of this charge (as suggested by some of the commentary). The triskelion of spirals may continue to be registered, but as one step from period style (a "weirdness"). [Dec 2003, Acc-West, Ellisif þunnkárr]
As this submission does not include any other steps away from period style, it may be registered.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Magdalena Flores. Name and device. Ermine, on an egg gules a fleur-de-lys Or. 
Nice name!
The egg is a period charge: Woodward cites three examples, one of which (Jaworsky) is found in Siebmacher.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]

TRIMARIS
Constance de Barfleur. Badge. Vert, a fret couped within a bordure Or. 
This conflicts with Stephen Trahern: Gyronny sable and gules, a fret couped within a bordure Or. The only CD is for changes to the field.
Please advise the submitter that, upon resubmission, the bordure should be drawn with a uniform width all around the edge.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Davyd Robertson. Device. Quarterly azure and sable, a domestic cat herissony between three triquetras argent. 
Please instruct the submitter to draw the triquetras a bit larger and thicker.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Elianora Feverel. Name. 
Nice name!
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Ever O'Felan. Name. 
The given name Ever is documented from a Victorian-era translation of a late period Irish document. Such translations are not reliable for Anglicized forms of period Gaelic names. However, Black, The Surnames of Scotland, s.n. Ivar dates Ever to 1478, and says "the name of Ivar Campbell of Strachur (in the first half of the sixteenth century) appears in contemporary documents as Evar, Euer...". Therefore, the submitted name is a reasonable 16th C Anglicization of a Gaelic name.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Isabella Maria-Magdalena Fernandes de Chaves. Name. 
Triple given names are not registerable in a Spanish context. Siren says it best:
<Maria> and <Magdalena> are plausible names, but there is no evidence for compound names like <Maria-Magdalena> in period Spain That gives this submission three given names The only evidence for three given names in Spain is the name of a daughter of Philip II, born in 1566 (<Isabel Eugenia Clara>; her sister only had two given names) This is not sufficient for registration.
Dropping one of the given names should make this name registerable. Unfortunately, the submitter will not accept changes, so we must return this name.
While not in itself a reason for return, the name mixes English and Spanish, which is a step from period practice. The given name, Isabella, was documented from Withycombe, The Oxford Dictionary of English Given Names. Unfortunately, Withycombe is an unreliable source for names outside of England. The Spanish form of Isabella is Isabel or Ysabel; the name is found in these spellings from the 13th through the 16th C. If the submitter is interested in an authentic Spanish name, we suggest that she use one of these spellings.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Isabella of Mathom Trove. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Argent, a cross parted and fretted azure between four keys sable. 
Submitted under the name Isabella Maria-Magdalena Fernandes de Chaves.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Jacqueline Kathryn Lyonnais. Device. Purpure, on a flame Or a pavilion gules, a bordure ermine. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
M{a-}hdukht al-Zarqa'. Name and device. Argent, a peacock in his pride purpure tailed gules and on a chief purpure three crescents Or. 
Submitted as Shajarat ad-durr al-Mãhdukht al-Zarqá, the phrase Shajarat ad-durr is the regnal name (not given name) of the first Sultana of the Bahri Mamluks, who came to power in 1246 upon their overthrow of the Ayyubid dynasty in Egypt. This is a type of name used to denote royalty; its use in an SCA name is a claim to rank. Furthermore, this particular regnal name appears to be unique, which also makes it inappropriate for registration.
The element al-Mãkdukht had several problems. First, al-Jamal states that Mãhdukht is a transcription error for M{a-}hdukht The name M{a-}hdukht is a Persian name; combining it with the Arabic al mixes Persian and Arabic in a single name phrase, in violation of RfS III.1.a. The byname al-Zarqá has a transcription error as well; the correct form is al-Zarqa'. In order to register the name, we have dropped the problematic elements and corrected the transcription of the remaining parts, giving M{a-}dukht al-Zarqa'. 
The submitter requested authenticity for Arabic language/culture and accepted all changes. However, as the name mixes a Persian given name with an Arabic byname, we are unable to fulfill the submitter's request for authenticity.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
M{a-}hdukht al-Zarqa'. Badge. (Fieldless) A peacock in his pride purpure tailed gules, the tail charged with a crescent Or. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Maximilian Wolfhart von Hutten. Name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Melisenda Alix de la Croix. Name. 
Submitted as Melisende Alix de la Croix, the submitter included a citation from a modern work for a queen of Jerusalem named Melisende. This queen is widely known by this spelling today. However, documents contemporary to her spell her name Melissent. The College was unable to locate an example of this spelling in period. Lacking evidence that Melisende is a plausible period form, it is not registerable. The College located a number of variant spellings of this name, including Melissent, Milsenda and Milesenda. These variants support a hypothetical spelling Melisenda, and we have changed the given name to that spelling.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Parnell Aline Wynter. Name. 
The submitter requested authenticity for 16th C. Although double given names in English are rare prior to 1600, they are occasionally found in England in the 16th C. Therefore, this is a reasonable 16th C English name.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Rivermoor, Shire of. Branch name and device. Per fess wavy gules and azure, on a mullet Or a laurel wreath vert. 
This name was justified as a constructed English placename; however, the constructions are not plausible as submitted. Two possible derivations were presented by the submitters and the College to explain this construction, but neither held up under scrutiny:
	-	The name is constructed like Riverhead, which is cited in both Mills, A Dictionary of English Placenames, and Ekwall, The Oxford Dictionary of English Placenames. Both derive Riverhead from the parts River from Redre-, "cattle", and hithe/idde, "a landing place."  However, only the modern form uses the River- spelling of the protheme; neither Mills nor Ekwall give a dated form in this spelling. In these sources, none of the dated examples or any of the other examples of names deriving from the protheme Redre- bear much resemblance to River-. The modern forms tend start with Rother- or Ruther-, and some of the period examples are Reder-, Redre-, Ruther-, and Rether-. Given these examples, we would expect forms like Redermore or Redremor for a name meaning "cattle moor". This suggests that the placename Riverhead is a modern formation. While there are placenames combining river names and -moor, these tend to use actual names of rivers; examples from Mills include Dertemora in 1182, "Moor on the river Dart", and Exemora in 1204, "Moor on the river Exe." 
	-	The name is constructed from the family name River and the topographic Moor. When family names, as opposed to given names, are used in English placenames, the family name usually comes after the descriptive feature. However, Mills does have some examples of "family name+topographic", including s.n. Towersey, Turrisey, "of the Tower family, Towers' eg" 1240; s.n. Tey, Great, Merkys Tey, "Tege of the de Merck family" 1475; s.n. Leigh Bessilles Lee, " Leigh of the Bessil family" 1539. None of these justifies Rivermoor, because the family name is not in the genitive (possessive) case here. Reaney and Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames cite a John Riuer in 1327, so an appropriate form of a name meaning "Moor of the River family" is Riversmor(e) or Rivers Mor(e).
We would change this name to one of the forms suggested above. However, the group will not accept changes.
This armory conflicts with a badge of Astra Christiana Benedict: (Tinctureless) On a mullet a cross crosslet. While there is a CD for adding the field against a tinctureless badge, tincture cannot contribute to any other CDs, and as a mullet is not suitable for application of X.4.j.ii, there is no CD for changing the type only of the charge on the mullet.
In addition, this field has a low-contrast complex line of division that is mostly obscured by an overlying charge. RfS VIII.3 notes: "Armorial Identifiability - Elements must be used in a design so as to preserve their individual identifiability. Identifiable elements may be rendered unidentifiable by ...being obscured by other elements of the design. For instance, a complex line of partition could be difficult to recognize between two parts of the field that do not have good contrast if most of the line is also covered by charges." Too much of the line of division is overlain by the mullet in this instance. This problem could be solved by (for example) moving the mullet off the line of division, by using a plain line of division, or by using a high-contrast tincture combination (one metal and one color). The question of conflict would still need to be addressed, however.
The line of division is drawn too shallowly; please advise the submitter to draw the waves more deeply.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Roland le Palmer. Name. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Trimaris, Kingdom of. Order name and badge for Order of the Silver Saddle of Trimaris. Per fess azure and vert, a tournament saddle argent. 
Using a placename in an Order name was declared a step from period practice in 11/96. However, Argent Snail argues, "If you look at the list of order names, there are ones that have place names in them, usually because there is  more than one order with the same name -eg the Order of Saint Jaelle of Jersusalem and the Order of Saint Jaelle of London."  Meradudd Cethin's "Project Ordensnamen", describes Order names of the form [name+place] as the third most common pattern in the data set. Given such evidence, Order names containing place names are consistent with period practice. However, the Order name Order of the Silver Saddle of Trimaris is one step from period practice. By precedent, use of the descriptive term Silver in an Order name is one step from period practice.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]

WEST
Gavin MacRobert. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Gavin MacRobert. Device. Or, on a chief triangular gules a hawk close argent. 
The actual form is too small: the height of the emblazon is much smaller than the 6-inch standard given in the Administrative Handbook.
In addition, the "chief triangular" extends down to the center point of the shield; it is not a chief triangular but the top compartment of a per saltire field division. This has long been cause for return:
(Returning Argent, on a chauseé azure an aeolius argent, a laurel wreath vert where the field division started in the top corners and extended to the center point of the shield) The field is not really chaussé; it is not per chevron inverted, it is not a pile, it is not a chief triangular; being somewhere between all of these, we really don't know what it is. Chaussé issues from the corners of the chief and would touch the base point of the shield; per chevron inverted would issue from the sides of the field (rather than the chief corners); a pile would issue from farther in on the chief (rather [than] from the corners) and would almost touch the base point of the shield and would not have room for a charge beneath it; and a chief triangular would not descend the field nearly so far as the one here does. Please have them choose one and reemblazon it properly. (The device was returned for this problem alone) [Oct 1990, Ret-Trimaris, Storm, Shire of the]
This has been reaffirmed by every Laurel since then, and we reaffirm it now.
While the miniature emblazon on the Letter of Intent more clearly shows a chief triangular, it is the full-size emblazon that we consider for registration. Also, significant discrepancies between the miniature and full-size emblazons are cause for administrative return, and such is the case here.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Giana Vettoria Colonna. Name. 
The submitter requested authenticity for 12th-14th C Italy and accepted only minor changes. Double given names just started to come into use in the 14th C in Italy.  While this name is registerable, the name would be a much better re-creation if only one given name were used.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Joan la Harper. Name and device. Per pale vert and purpure, on a chief indented argent three harps vert. 
The submitter requested authenticity for 12th C England. Submitted as Joan the Harper, we have changed the name to Joan la Harper to fulfill this request. In 12th C English, la would be the article generally used in a woman's occupational byname.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Mikha'il al-Tayyib ibn Khalid ibn Ahmad al-Tayyib al-Gharnatii. Name. 
al-Jamal notes that "as a general rule, Arabic places the bynames (like al-Tayyib) at the end of the name, unless such are being used as an 'ism, a given name, which is not the case here.". The submitter will not accept major changes, so this name must be returned.  In resubmitting, we suggest the form Mikha'il ibn Khalid ibn Ahmad al-Gharnatii al-Tayyib.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Moira O'Connor. Name and device. Per pale vert and sable, two pegasi combatant argent. 
The given name Moira (which may be viewed as either Scots or Anglicized Irish) has been ruled SCA compatible
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Oertha, Principality of. Badge. (Fieldless) A compass star elongated to base quarterly azure and argent. 
This conflicts with Eric Blaxton: Quarterly argent, scaly sable, and azure, a mullet of four points counterchanged azure and argent. There is one CD for the field, but none for type between a mullet of four points and a compass star:
[a mullet of four points elongated to base vs. a compass star] There is no difference between a mullet of four points and a compass star per the LoAR of January 2001: "As neither a compass star nor a mullet of four points are period charges, and they differ only by the addition of the lesser points, there is not a CD between a mullet of four points and a compass star." There is also no difference for the slight artistic variant in elongating the bottom point of a mullet. [May 2003, Ret-Atenveldt, Catherine Diana de Chambéry]
[(Fieldless) A mullet sable] ... in conflict with ... A mullet of five greater and five lesser points distilling goutes. As with the mullet of four vs. a compass star (see the June 1995 LoAR, pg. 23), the lesser points of the mullet have very little visual impact, and as mullets of greater and lesser points are not known in period, the visual difference counts. This reaffirms the precedent set in July 1990 (pg. 13). [May 2000, Ret-Atlantia, Chirhart Blackstar]
[a compass star vs a mullet of four points] The overwhelming visual similarities between a mullet of four points and a mullet of four greater and four lesser points/compass star, both of which are non-period charges, mandates against granting a ... CD for this relatively minor difference. [Jun 1995, Ret-Atenveldt, Raffaelle de Mallorca]
The tincture of Eric's mullet is quarterly azure and argent, which matches the tincture of this submission's compass star. Therefore there is no CD for tincture, leaving just the CD for the field.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Ragnsteinn frá Andréssmýri. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
Ragnsteinn frá Andréssmýri. Device. Gules, two battleaxes in saltire Or hafted of wood proper, a chief wavy checky Or and azure. 
This is being returned for unidentifiability of the axes against the field. RfS VIII.3 (Armorial Identifiability) is relevant: "Identifiable elements may be rendered unidentifiable by ... marginal contrast ..." While the most important part of an axe is the head, and these heads have good contrast with the field, the brown wood of the handles all but disappears against the gules field at any distance. As these hafts constitute a significant part of the charge, they must have enough contrast against the field to be identifiable, and they do not.
[RETURNED May 2004]
Turold of Normandy. Reblazon of badge. Purpure, a New World pineapple Or leaved vert. 
Originally registered in February 1983 as Purpure, a pineapple Or, leaved vert, this contains the first (and up to this month, the only) registration of the pineapple (the fruit) as a charge in the SCA. However, these are a New World fruit, and the term "pine(-)apple" has often been used in period (non-SCA) blazon to mean the charge which the SCA blazons as a "pine cone." To minimize the possibility of confusion we will no longer use the term "pineapple" unmodified. We will hereafter blazon the fruit as a "New World pineapple" and continue to use the term "pine cone" to refer to the seed cases of coniferous trees. We are reblazoning Turold's badge to conform with this decision.
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
William MacDougall. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
Submitted as William Alexander MacDougall, the submitter requested authenticity for 13th-14th C Scottish language/culture. As we have no evidence for the use of double given names in Scots, we have dropped the second given name, Alexander, to fulfill this request. 
[ACCEPTED May 2004]
William MacDougall. Device. Per pale argent and sable, two chevronels counterchanged and in canton a thistle proper. 
The actual form is too small: the height of the emblazon is much smaller than the 6-inch standard given in the Administrative Handbook.
[RETURNED May 2004]