THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS ARE APPROVED: 2/87

Kingdom of Ansteorra

Alanna of Downpatrick. Name and device. Vert, a unicorn couchant and in chief three crescents argent.

Note that the male name Alan, although derived from the Celtic languages, appeared in a Latin form as early as the Domesday Book (Withycombe, p. 8). Moreover, it was in common use in official records for the name in French and other non-Celtic languages early in period (e.g., Alain de Lille is commonly referred to in period scholarly sources as Alanus de Insulis). Therefore, the use of the Latin formation for a feminine name by substituting the feminine suffix "-a" is reasonable.

Alexander MacAonghais. Device. Per pall Or, gules and sable, a double-bladed axe sable and in pile two scimitars inverted addorsed Or.

Angelina Panattoni di Lucca. Device. Per chevron azure and Or, three compass stars, one and two, argent and a crescent azure.

Cadfan ap Morgan Godrudd. Change of name from Cadfan Dragonwys.

The name was submitted as Cadfan ap Morgan y Godrudd. His paperwork indicated that he wished the proper Welsh form for Cadfan, the son of Morgan the Wild. As it is usual practice in period (and modern) Welsh to omit the article used in English before a modifying adjective, we have dropped the article. After some research we came to the conclusion that, although it is rather more common for adjectives after masculine personal names to mutate, it is possible for the name to retain the "radical" form. The primary criteria for this decision seem to be euphony and clarity of the identity of the original adjective. In this case, both would seem to dictate that the original "godrudd" be retained.

Catrina Cassanelli di Mantova. Name only (see PENDING for device).

Chrystal Ariana MacRuari. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

The given name seems to be a late period form for Christopher in the Lowlands Scots. The submittor should be informed that it is not a feminine name.

Conor Mac Cinneide. Device. Per fess azure and argent, two pallets counterchanged, overall a dragon rampant gules between three compass stars sable.

Devin Phelan O'Donnabhain. Name and device. Per bend sinister counter-ermine and argent, a bend sinister vert and in sinister base a quill bendwise sinister sable.

The given names appear to be common Anglicized forms for period Irish names, although not necessarily those cited as primary sources in the letter of intent. Devin is derived from the name Daimhin, borne by one of the kings of Airgialla (he was said to have been taken up to heaven in the days of St. Columbcille; see O Corrain and Maguire, p.68). Likewise Phelan is a common rendering, not of Phelim as stated in the letter of intent, but rather of the old Irish name Faolan. Please ask the submittor to draw the ermine tails properly: the counter-ermine portion of the field had a distinct resemblance to a carbon-ring schematic!

Galen Ambrosius MacIntyre. Device. Sable, on a pile gules, fimbriated Or, a dove rising, wings displayed and inverted, grasping in its beak an olive branch, argent.

Keith of Bryn Gwlad. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Gules, a winged beagle argent, spotted sable, passant to sinister, wings elevated and addorsed, a chief counter-compony argent and sable.

The name was submitted as Caith of Heliodor.

Galswinthia MacFie. Name and device. Per pale purpure and argent, three chevronels interlaced and in chief a pair of scissors, points to chief, counterchanged.

Gwyneth de Codinton. Name and device. Ermine, on a chief triangular azure, a cinquefoil argent.

This submission presented two separate problems. As noted by Crescent and others, the name Gwyneth was almost certainly a late derivation from the geographic name Gwynedd and was not a given name in period. I have to agree that Gwynedd, which is the usual spelling for the place, should not be allowed in the Society as a given name. However, the name Gwyneth seems to have acquired a separate existence in the Society and has been registered at least twenty times (as Gwyneth or Gwynaeth) including more than one occurrence within the last year. I have to conclude therefore that Gwyneth should belong to that select group of non-period names like Corwin or Fiona that the Society at large has elected as being "compatible". The device presented a trickier question since the echo of the arms of Brittany was inescapable, the more so since the ermine field was charged in chief with two standard cadency marks: a chief and a cinquefoil. Moreover, while "plain fields" are specifically not protected from conflict furs are not, strictly speaking, a plain field but a specialized form of semy and there is precedence for protecting famous seme fields (e.g., France) or complexly divided plain fields (e.g., Bavaria). In reviewing this issue, we considered how ermine fields simply charged had been treated in the past and were forced to the inescapable conclusion that Society tradition does not protect the ermine field of Brittany unless it appears in the context of quartering or attached to a name which is strongly redolent of Brittany.

Hrodric Gairovaldson. Device. Quarterly sable and Or, a decrescent and an increscent counterchanged.

Please ask the submittor to draw the crescents properly (i.e., with a much more strongly pronounced curve).

Jean Richard Malcolmson. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Kasilda Kubasek. Name and device. Per saltire argent and gules, in pale a cup gules and a castle sable, masoned argent between in fess two leopard's heads erased respectant argent, spotted sable.

The submittor has provided documentation from Oakeshott's Sword in the Age of Chivalry, p. 134, for the given name.

Kaylitha Rhiannon of Southhaven. Badge. Vert, a sheep courant within a bordure wavy argent.

Loch Solleir, Shire of. Device. Per fess wavy argent and vert, a sea-serpent in annulo, head in chief, counterchanged, in base a laurel wreath argent.

Miguel Francisco de la Vega. Name and device. Per bend potent argent and sable, a cross patonce Or, overall a griffin segreant vert.

The name was submitted on the letter of intent as Miguel Francisco de Vega, while the forms had "da Vega" Neither is correct in Spanish: we have substituted the proper period Spanish surname. Please ask the submitter to draw the griffin larger.

Roselyne d'Angleterre. Badge for Maison du Flamant Sauvage. Gules, on a lozenge argent, between four fleurs-de-lys in saltire, bases to center, Or, a flamingo statant, sinister leg raised, proper.

Rose Mary of the Golden Light. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

The given name was submitted as Rosemary. As the herbal name was not used as a given name, we have bisected the name into its two component parts which were used in period.

Rothbeorht of Oak Knoll. Name and device. Argent, a Latin cross throughout sable, overall a griffin segreant within a bordure gules.

Seamus MacDonald. Name and device. Per chevron gules and azure, two Bengal tiger's heads cabossed Or, marked sable,, each within an annulet argent, and in base a Bengal tiger passant to sinister guardant Or, marked sable within an annulet argent.

Seamus of the Cats. Badge. A sea-moose vairy azure and Or, gorged of a coronet embattled Or.

Siona Devereaux. Name only.

Susan of Bryn Gwlad. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Per bend sinister argent and azure, a wyvern statant, wings addorsed azure, and in bend sinister three casks Or.

The submission was originally made under the name Svavadis Sorladottir.

Wulf Fairhair. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Zinaida Likhitovna Umanskaya. Change of device. Per bend sinister gules and sable, a bend sinister between a pomegranate and a bear's head erased Or.

Kingdom of Atenveldt

Albern Bran. Device. Sable, a mullet of four points elongated throughout gules, fimbriated argent, within a bordure countercompony gules and argent.

Moire MacMurtrie. Change of name from holding name of Moire of Tir Ysgithr.

Samal Kaan Uxmalil. Badge. Sable, a she-wolf statant reguardant within a bordure Or.

Kingdom of Atlantia

Dafydd ap Gwystl. Name change from holding name of Dafydd ap Morgan of Storvik.

Greta Klusenaere. Name and device. Gules, on a bend dovetailed between two thistles Or, a bendlet sable.

Note that Withycombe (p. 132) documents the given name from an Assize Roll of 1218.

Randall Arrowsmith. Name only.

Robert MacGillivray. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Tearlach the Unwashed. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Winfred Cromwell. Name and device. Sable, a chevron between three lozenges Or, a chief chequy Or and sable.

Kingdom of Caid

Duncan Crockett MacKay. Name and device. Azure, a winged lion sejant guardant gules within a bordure chequy gules and argent.

Elspeth O'Connor of Kerry. Device. Paly vert and argent, a bee volant en arriere within a bordure Or.

Margarette Cathrine Helen de Burgh of Silvermoor. Name only.

Shirkuh al-Athir. Name and device. Argent, three mullets of five greater and five lesser points vert, each charged with a decrescent argent, all within a bordure vert.

Simon of Gardengate House. Device. Gules, a comet palewise inverted and on a chief argent three human ears gules.

Valeran do Pico. Addition of designation of Casa do Pico to previously registered badge. Gules, on a cross formy Or a cross pointed gules, a bordure embattled Or.

Valeran do Pico. Badge. Gules, a cross formy Or charged with a cross pointed gules, all within an annulet of chain Or.

He should be reminded that, since his badge uses the restricted insignia of the chivalry, it may not be borne or used by anyone not of that rank.

Kingdom of the East

Aelis Helen. Name only.

Ah Kum of the Ger-Igren. Device. Per fess argent and vert, a Mongolian yurt azure.

Albrecht von Halstern. Change of name from Albrecht Donner.

Alwyn Stewart. Badge for House Muircheartach. Azure, a seagriffin erect, wings elevated and addorsed, within a bordure Or.

The household name was submitted as "Muyrcheartach", but the use of "y" in Scots Gaelic spelling is not random as here. Therefore, we have substituted the normal spelling of "Muircheartach".

Anne De Witte. Name only.

Note that the capitalization follows the form of the previously registered name of her father Walter De Witte.

Anne Elizabeth of Surrey. Name only.

Aquel of Darkstead Wood. Badge for Carolingian Brewer's Guild. Per fess engrailed enhanced azure and Or, at the honour point an egg counterchanged.

To judge from commentary in the College the allusion was not as obvious as it might be to non-brewers. As my father was wont to put it "what do you want, egg in your beer?".

Astrid Radulfsdottir. Change of name from Astrid Sigrid and Device. Per chevron sable and gules, two wings conjoined in lure and a wolf's head erased argent.

Balthazar Thornguard. Name and device. Argent, on a long cross throughout between in base two lions combattant sable, a sword inverted argent, enflamed proper.

Broken Bridges, Bailiwick of. Device. Or, a laurel wreath vert between two bridges fesswise throughout, fracted at the center, all within a bordure sable.

Please ask them to draw the bridges correctly as identifiable bridges!

Cedric Meurdoch. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Christian Darmody. Name and device. Per pale sable and azure, two chevronels between three towers Or.

Christianna Weislea. Device. Argent, a peacock plume issuant from base proper and in chief a bar dancetty vert.

Cigfran o Gaer Walch. Name only (see PENDING for device).

Constance d'Orleans. Name and device. Or, a lion couchant vert, armed and langued purpure, on a base nebuly vert, three fleurs-de-lys Or.

Cu Ulad MacGryphon. Name and device. Per bend sinister azure and argent, a roundel argent charged with a gurges and a lute bendwise sinister azure.

Note that Cu Ulad is not a variant of Cu Chulainn, but one of a series of "hound" names documented in early Irish literature and history. O Corrain and Maguire (Gaelic Personal Names, p. 65) describes this name as "common in the early period amon the families of Ulaid and Airgialla".

Davide Michelotto. Device. Chequy vert and argent, on a bend sinister gules a sackbutt Or.

Deirdre Kyle. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Elain de Northwode. Device. Per pale vert and azure, a pale raguly between a stag trippant and three mullets in pale, all argent.

Eirik Wolfdragon. Name only.

Fiacha of Glencar. Name change from Fiachna of Glencar.

Friedrich Tomasson av Knusslig Hamn. Change of name from Friedrich vander Delft and badge. Barry wavy argent and azure, a sun within a bordure Or.

Gareth of Warwick. Name only.

Guenivere Katherine of Trail's End. Name and device. Purpure, two chevrons couched and braced between four cat's pawprints, all argent.

Harabanar Hugilaikir. Name and device. Gyronny gules and sable, a bezant between in pale two swords fesswise reversed and in fess two ravens statant close, all Or.

Harabanar is a documented early form of the given name which appears in Latinized Carolingian sources as Hrabanus. Hugilaikir is an early Swedish form of the name more familiar in its Saxon form from Beowulf: Hygelac. Note that the birds were submitted as "Norse" ravens. The style in which the birds are drawn is best left to the submittor and his artist.

Helen of Dianasgrove. Name only.

Ian Colga MacAodha. Device. Per bend sinister argent and Or, a bat displayed sable and a tree eradicated proper.

Isabel de Marmande. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Jan Rafiel Shkoder. Name and device. Vert, a mount of six hillocks between two falcon's heads erased Or.

Note that this mount is in the Italian fashion familiar from the arms of the late Pope Paul VI.

Jessa of Avondale. Name and device. Argent, three pallets wavy azure, overall a bridge throughout sable, masoned argent.

Judith the Uncertain. Name and device. Per pale and per chevron argent and azure, two trefoils and a crescent counterchanged.

Joedda Francesca la Charmante. Name only.

Her mundane given name is Joedda (she enclosed a Xerox of her birth certificate: that's documentation!).

Juenevere de Cleres. Name and device. Argent, a chevron between three cinquefoils and on a chief gules, two jeweler's hammers in saltire argent.

NOTE: The letter of intent had the name under this form; the emblazon sheet had the byname "of the Mallow Rose" instead of "de Cleres"; the name information sheet had both forms, with the registered form in parentheses, but with the documentation portion of the forms showing documentation for the place name. There would seem to be no problem with the alternate byname if that is what she really desires.

Leofwine the Lost. Name and device. Vert, two bendlets between two annulets, all within a bordure argent.

Lindorm Eriksson. Name only.

Although we were not able to find the name Lindorm as such, this follows one of the major patterns for Old Norse names described by Geirr Bassi: the prefixed nickname with a common given name (as in Skarphedinn or Skallagrimr). In this case, the given name is Orm, the Danish and Swedish form of the Old Norse Ormr listed in Batonvert's listing of Scandinavian Personal Names from Domesday Book in the Proceedings of the Caerthan Heraldry Symposium. "Lind" means lime-tree in Old Norse, Swedish and Danish and seems a reasonable byname, particularly given the documented byname of "Lindiass" ("limetree beam").

Shirley of the Debatable Lands. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Purpure, a lozenge Or and a chief indented argent.

The submission was made under the name Auxrutiene of Lithuania.

Kingdom of the Middle

Adeliz Argenti. Name only.

Adrian Blaktarn. Name and device. Or, a sea-griffin vert issuant from a base wavy, barry wavy sable and argent.

Aelfric of York. Device. Or, a bend sinister engrailed between two maunches sable.

Aimil Sorcha Dhuileach. Name and device. Azure, a rat sejant erect coward argent and on a chief Or three swans naiant gules.

The name was submitted as Aimil Sorcha Duilach. As the paperwork permitted we have changed the byname to the aspirated feminine form of the adjective "duileach". The submittor probably should be told that the byname means "the covetous".

Aindreas MacRaibeart Boyd. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Ali al Ahmed Abdullah. Name and device. Argent, on a bend sinister between two boar's heads erased gules, three quills argent, all within a bordure gules.

We do not legislate persona, but perhaps it would be advisable to point out to him how unlikely it would be for someone with such a devout Islamic name to bear the head of an unclean animal as his talisman!

Amelie d'Anjou. Name and device. Or, four pallets azure, surmounted in chief by a musician's bow fesswise, strings to base, the whole between two fleurs-de-lys vert.

Ancel FitzCharles. Device. Vert, a fess embattled argent, masoned sable, between three hammers Or.

Andrew Gillies. Device. Purpure, chape ploye Or, ermined purpure, a bear's pawprint Or.

Andrey Mikhailovich Rostov. Name and device. Vert, a bear's pawprint argent and a chief counter-ermine.

Aodhan MacCoinnigh. Name only.

The name was submitted as Aodan McCoinneac. As the paperwork permitted, the given name has been modified to the normal Irish spelling and the family name to the usual modern Irish spelling as shown in MacLysaght's Surnames of Ireland (p. 184).

Arthur ab Idwal. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Arwyn of Ravenspur. Name and device. Counter-ermine, a crescent argent, overall a garden rose Or, slipped and leaved vert.

It might be argued that in this case the slipping and leaving are non-trivial and should be required to obey AR 4 which dictates that charges overall should be required to have adequate contrast with the field, not the underlying charge. However, in this case, where the rose itself is Or and the foliage in any reasonable emblazon will lie primarily on the argent crescent, we elect to allow an exception as specifically provided for in AR 4. This exception is peculiar to this submission and should not be taken as setting any general precedents.

Baldwin of St. Ives. Name only.

Birgitta Heringsdochter. Name and device. Purpure, a morningstar chevronwise and on a chief wavy argent, three roses purpure, barbed, seeded, slipped and leaved proper.

The name was submitted as Birgitta Heringadotter. Since the paperwork indicated that the byname should be Frisian, we have modified it according to the form given in the OED for daughter in Old Frisian.

Blackhawk, Shire of. Badge. Argent, in pale three feathers bendwise sable.

Brian Karlner. Device. Argent, a cobra erect and sinister facing, tail nowed, gules between three rivenstars sable.

Brigh of Writer's Keep. Name and device. Or, on a bend engrailed azure between two penguins affronty proper a quill pen Or.

Carolyne von Schonberg. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

The name was submitted as Carolyne von Schoneberg. Since "berg" is a masculine noun we have dropped the "e". Note that her mundane name is Carolyn.

Catriona nicHugh McLae. Name and device. Or, a bend rayonny gules within a bordure sable.

The name was submitted as Catriona nicHugh of Mclaey. Since Mclaey seems to be an undocumented alternative of the clan Scots clan name MacLae, we have dropped the preposition and modified the spelling.

Ceridwen of Caernarfon. Name and device. Or, a rose, slipped and leaved, gules, on a chief indented sable two crosses potent argent.

The name was submitted as Ceridwen Glyndwr of Caernarfon. However, Glyndwr appears to be a byname solely associated with Owain Glyndwr which does not seem appropriate for general use.

Charles Cedric Morton. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Constans Erikson. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Dafydd Bretnach an Dun Breatunn. Badge. A monster erect composed of the head, forelimbs and carapace of a turtle joined to the tail of a fish Or.

Danyal Barham Ravani. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Dona of Flaming Gryphon. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for device). Vert, a winged lion passant to sinister and on a chief indented argent a compass star elongated to base sable.

The name was submitted as Kalina Crna zvjesda.

Duncan mac Thearlach. Badge. Per pale wavy vert and sable, a unicorn rampant to sinister and a wolf's head cabossed argent.

Duncan of Blackrock. Name and device. Per fess and per bend sinister argent and vert, two pellets in bend sable.

Dunchadh Mac Aodha Mhoir. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

The name was submitted as Dun-chadh Mac Aed Mor. As the paperwork permitted, the non-period hyphen in the given name has been dropped and the byname has been modified to the proper Irish form.

Eadgar de Cockagne. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Edward FitzRanulf. Device. Quarterly Or and gules, four crosses couped counterchanged.

Ellis of Caer Anterth. Name and device. Azure, a crux ansata within a bordure Or.

Note that Ellis is documented as a period form of the Biblical name Elijah (Withycombe, p. 98). The angularity of the loop at the top of the cross is a matter of artistic license: the charge submitted is essentially that which has been blazoned in the past as a crux ansata.

Elwyn ferch Alwyn. Name and badge. Or, seme of pellets, an estoile of five points azure.

The name was submitted as Elwynor ferch Alwyn. The given name, however, was not properly formed: neither Welsh nor Old English randomly adds the suffix "-or" to another name to form a new name.

Emrys ap Gwyn. Name and device. Argent, a tower sable issuant from a base barry wavy azure and argent, a chief gules.

Enid Aurelia of the Tin Isles. Badge. Gules, a hare salient to sinister argent within a delf voided and fracted in cross Or.

This is clear (just) from Ogami Akira ("Gules, a triangle argent within a delf voided and fracted in cross argent.") However, as they live in the same general area, she ought to be prepared to have those who wear her badge be mistaken for Ogami's squires.

Finn Silverfox. Name and device. Vert, chausse chequy argent and sable, a fox dormant argent.

Francis Pesket of Arundel. Name and device. Per chevron Or and azure, a longship affronty under full sail counterchanged.

Frank of the Dark Oak. Name and device. Or, two oak trees eradicated and an acorn proper.

The name was submitted as Frank Son of Dark Oak. This implied too strongly that he was claiming to be the son of a tree so we have simplified the byname to "of the Dark Oak", as suggested by several commentors. Note that, since there are heraldic defaults for both the tree and the acorn proper, this did not seem to be excessive use of proper.

Friedrich Eric Helmut von Rheinhausen. Change of name from Friederich Eric Helmuth von Rheinhausen and device. Erminois, an eagle displayed within a bordure sable. His former device ("Argent, an eagle displayed vert.") becomes a badge.

Friedrich Wolfgang von Unterstein. Name and device. Lozengy gules and argent, an eagle displayed Or, and on a chief argent, three seeblatter vert.

The "seeblatt", a German charge, is described by Frankyn and Tanner (p. 298) as "a conventionalized water-plant leaf, heart-shape, pointed to base, and having a cruciform incision at the point where the stalk would normally be attached."

Garth ap Collin. Name and device. Argent, a pall wavy azure between three hunting horns in annulo sable, bowed Or.

Note that his mundane name is Garth so that the otherwise unacceptable given name is permitted here. Please ask him to draw the pall wider.

Genevieve Chastellain. Name and device. Per bend sinister embattled sable and ermine, a unicorn's head couped to sinister and a slipper counterchanged.

The name was submitted as Genevieve Chastellain l'Angevine. While Chastellain by itself was a not uncommon occupational surname by the end of our period, in conjunction with "Angevin" it struck us as a bit presumptuous. Those in the College long enough to recall the lists of dynastic names compiled in the tenure of Master Wilhelm will recall that the Angevin dynasty of England (as some historians prefer to refer to the early Plantagenets) played no small role.

Gerald Goodwine. Name and device. Per chevron sable and Or, two hops Or and in base a hound's head affronty couped sable, issuant from a grape vine vert, fructed with three clusters of grapes purpure.

Gerard de Lisieux. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Gregory of Eoforwic. Name only.

Greyhope, Shire of. Name only.

Helen Nelsdotter. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

The patronymic form is not miscellaneous "Scandinavian" as the submittor indicated, but is relatively modern Swedish. This is legitimate, but she should be informed that the older form (from Old Norse) would be "Njallsdottir".

Hermina Matilda de Ainesleah of Meredene. Change of name from Aine of Meredene.

Iain Lucas MacLeoid. Device. Argent, on a pale bretassed between a mask of comedy and a mask of tragedy azure, a claymore inverted argent, all within a bordure embattled azure.

Illiton, Barony of. Badge for Order of the Crossed Needles. Azure, two needles in saltire, points to chief, argent.

Illiton, Barony of. Badge for Order of the Golden Seine. Azure, a rectangular net Or, in its dexter chief corner a plate.

Illiton, Barony of. Order of the Silver Cushion. Name only.

Isabella Flamank. Name and device. Azure, five roses in saltire argent, barbed and seeded proper, within a bordure Or.

John Finar of the Salt Bluff. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Erminois, four mullets of four points azure, each surmounted by four loenges in saltire argent.

The name was submitted as Kyle Finar of the Salt Bluff. Since the given name was not acceptable, we have substituted his mundane given name.

Katherine Stonehand. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Lancelin Peregrinus. Name and device. Argent, four tilting spears fretted sable within a bordure nebuly gules.

Leonardo Rossi. Name only.

Megan Elizabeth Marie Marlin. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Meyer Wolfram of the Black Forest. Name only.

The name was returned by Master Baldwin with a request for documentation of the use of Meyer as a given name, since he believed it to be a surname. The surname is a patronymic surname from the German version of the Hebrew given name "Meir". This name was very popular in period, probably because of the second century tannaist to whom all anonymous rulings in Mishnah are by tradition attributed. Among the more notable to bear this name in our period were Meir ben Baruch of Rothenburg, who wrote a famous elegy on the burning of the Talmud at Paris in 1242, Meir ben Elijah of Norwich, a liturgical poet exiled from England in 1292, and Meir ben Samuel of Ramerupt, a twelfth-century French commentor on the Talmud who is credited by many with giving the Kil Nidrei the form it essentially has today.

Miles Ravenslock d'Arcy. Name and device. Argent, a raven sable maintaining in its claws a fetterlock gules and in chief two crosslets potent sable.

Mireille Catherine Chauvelin. Name and device. Azure, three mullets of eight points, elongated to base argent and a demi-sun issuant from chief Or.

Morgan Leland. Name and device. Per fess wavy sable and Or, in chief three swords inverted and in base a sword counterchanged.

Mynydd Coren, Shire of. Device. Argent, on a fess between two turtles tergiant and a laurel wreath vert, a snowflake argent.

Omarad the Wary. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Padraic Finbar O'Leary. Name and device. Argent, a winged sea-lion erect to sinister gules, grasping a tau cross bendwise sinister sable, distilling three gouttes de sang.

The name was submitted as Padraic Mac'Finbar O'Leary. Since the form Mac'Finbar is incorrect in form, we dropped the patronymic particle as the forms allowed.

Patrick of Jaravellir. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Gules, three hands in pall inverted, conjoined at the wrist, within a bordure wavy Or.

The submission was made under the name of Rathlin Ogham Trilamhan.

Raynor of the Glen. Name and device. Per bend sinister azure and argent, a mullet of eight points Or and a scorpion statant bendwise gules.

Please request the submittor to draw the field division properly issuant from the sinister chief corner of the shield and not to draw the scorpion in trian aspect as it appeared on the emblazon.

Ricard of Sable Tree. Badge. Gules, a tree blasted couped sable, enflamed proper.

Note that the blazon is drawn directly from that of his registered device.

Richard Morgan of Cumberland. Name only.

Rinaldo of Blackhaven. Badge for Household of the Dark Winds. Or, a pegasus salient sable ridden by a man in armour guardant vert, maintaining a sword sable.

Rising Waters, Canton of. Change of device. Gyronny arrondi gules and argent, a goblet Or within of a laurel wreath vert.

Robert FitzAlwyn. Name and device. Argent, a dragon sejant affronty, wings elevated and displayed, on a chief triangular sable a broad arrow gules, enflamed Or.

Robert Wylmot. Name and device. Per chevron argent and counter-ermine, two bears combattant counterchanged.

Robin Freawine. Badge for House of the Snowy Lake. Azure, a hart lodged reguardant and in chief a snowflake argent.

Rogier de la Roche sur Yon. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Although Crescent is correct in stating that the city of La Roche sur Yon was founded in the Napoleonic era, since the meaning of the place name (the rock on the Yon river) is consonant with period place name formation, we felt the name should be acceptable.

Rokkehealden, Shire of. Device. Gules, a castle atop a mount and on a chief embattled Or, three laurel wreaths gules.

Rosamund of Derby. Name and device. Gules, a chevron inverted ermine, and overall a snaffle bit chevronwise Or.

Sandor the Hunter. Name and device. Azure, a drawn bow fesswise, arrow palewise, Or, the bow winged argent, all within a bordure Or.

Septentria, Barony of. Change of device. Gules, three chevronels braced argent, overall a laurel wreath vert, and in chief a bear passant argent.

Septentria, Barony of. Badge for Order of the Bear's Heart. Gules, on a bear's paw print argent, armed azure, a heart gules.

Sigulf Karlner. Device. Sable, monster affronty, composed of the head and trunk of a man and the arms of a sextopod, maintaining in each arm an axe, and in base a rivenstar Or.

Sternfeld, Barony of. Badge for the Order of the Golden Tower. Azure, a tower Or within a bordure Or, mulletty of four points azure.

Please draw fewer mullets larger.

Strikkenwoode, Shire of. Name and device. Or, an oak tree split and eradicated proper between in fess two laurel wreaths vert.

Please request that they draw the laurel wreaths much larger.

Theodora von Schmetterlingswald. Name and device. Argent, a fess azure, ermined argent, between three pine trees couped sable and a butterfly azure.

Thorval Wronghand. Device. Or, in pale a crescent and a serpent in annulo azure.

Torhthelm Eadmunding. Device. Azure, a dolphin hauriant and on a chief embattled argent three mullets sable.

Trygve Sophister. Device. Gules, a tree eradicated argent and a chief potent azure and Or.

Welfengau, Canton of. Change in designation from Shire and device. Or, a triple-towered tower sable within a laurel wreath and on a chief gules a griffin passant Or.

Will of Yellowford. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

William Ransom. Device. Azure platy, three wheels of four spokes argent.

Please draw the plates larger.

Wulfgang von den Lowen. Name and device. Or, two lion's heads erased conjoined at the neck and a chief sable.

The name was submitted as Wulfgang von Loen. It has been corrected to the proper German for "of the Lions" as the submittor desired.

Wulfhild Thorarinsdottir. Name and device. Azure, two narwhals hauriant respectant, horns in saltire, and in base a snowflake argent.

Wulfrun Spakona. Name and device. Sable, a goat and a lion combattant and on a chief argent three crabs gules.

Yvonne Dominique de Rouen. Name only.

Kingdom of the West

Aislinn de Valence. Badge. Azure, a mascle Or, a bordure argent.

Arianwen de Lynn. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Bronwen Mac Allestyr. Name only.

Bjorn Kathrynson. Spelling correction.

The "h" was dropped erroneously from the name by a typist when the name was approved in December, 1986.

Charles of the Park. Name only.

Douglas Andrews of Berwick. Name and device. Argent, a chevron rompu between three crosses crosslet purpure.

Douglas Edwin MacAllestyr. Name correction.

The change of name from Edwin von Elsass, recorded in the January, 1987, should have been to Douglas Edwin MacAllestyr, not to Donald. Note, if you will that Withycombe specifically states that the family name "Douglas", which is clearly of geographic origin (it is a river name), was used as a given name at the very end of our period.

Elsbeth Ann Roth. Badge. Or, a pair of compasses vert.

Heather of Stormhold. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Argent, a decrescent azure between in fess two heather branches leaved and flowered proper, all within a bordure invected azure.

The name was submitted as Genna Gaireacdaic a Froac.

Goscelin Fitzalan of Amberley. Name and device. Purpure, on a chevron argent between three hearts Or, three violets purpure.

Jeanne d'Audierne. Release of badge. Quarterly sable and azure, a delf Or pierced of the field.

John of the Hills. Name and device. Or, on a pall purpure between three swepes sable, a tower Or, enflamed in chief gules.

Kenneth ap Howell. Blazon correction. Or, a dragon's gamb erased bendwise vert, clutching a torteau.

The tincture of the gamb was omitted when this was accepted in October, 1986.

Lachlan O'Sheridan of Falconhold. Change of device. Per pale Or and sable, a thistle and a bordure all counterchanged.

Lauren Grey. Badge. Vert, a water bouget argent.

Llewen the Unruly. Name only.

The given name appears as a variant of Llywen in Early Welsh Geneological Tracts.

Melody of Windymeades. Blazon correction. Gules, a decrescent argent between three plates, a chief embattled erminois.

The tincture of the decrescent was omitted when this was accepted in October, 1986.

Nikki Whitelaw. Name and device. Argent, a rose azure bendwise, slipped and leaved vert, within a bordure gules.

Nikki is her mundane name.

Osgot of Corfe. Device. Per chevron argent and barry wavy argent and azure, a pall inverted vert between three ram's heads cabossed gules.

Peredur Medrus ap Tristan. Spelling correction.

In typing his name when it was accepted in December, 1986, the typist added an unnecessary "a" to the second name to produce "Maedrus".

Rachel Ravenlock. Name and device. Per fess sable and argent, in pale a plate and a sprig of three cherries gules, slipped and leaved vert, all within a bordure

counterchanged.

Valgard Stonecleaver. Badge. Or, a scourge sable.

It is not necessary to specify that this has three lashes since this is the default for this charge (Franklyn, Shield and Crest, p. 207). Note that each lash should be knotted along its length; please ask the submittor to draw this correctly.

Valgardr Vigason. Name and device. Per chevron gules and Or, three drakkars under full sail and sailing to sinister counterchanged.

Westermark, Barony of. Badge. Five plates in annulo between in fess two chevronels inverted and conjoined to an annulet argent.

There is no need to confuse the issue by registering five badges when what is desired is a fieldless badge. The blazon has been modified to reflect what appears on the emblazon sheets: there is a distinct line of separation where the "field" touches the encircling argent at the top of the badge. Therefore, although the appearance is clearly reminiscent of the letter "W", it is not in fact a letter of the alphabet. Note that in period armoury, where multiple chevrons appear in fess without being braced they assume an elongated form as they do here.

Wyll MacConachie. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS ARE RETURNED:

Kingdom of Ansteorra

Almina Inez Martyn Dorand. Name only.

The given name Almina was not adequately documented as an actual period form. The nearest related form would seem to be "Mina" which is only documented as an out-of-period diminutive of Wilhelmina. In any case, if the given name is in fact a valid Arabic feminine name, this name would consist of four languages: Arabic + Spanish + English + French (since the spelling of "Dorand" actually derives from French rather than Spanish of English). Since the lady allowed no changes to her name whatsoever, the submission must be returned in its entirety.

Arenvald Kief af Kierstad. Device. Gules, a sinister cubit arm in armour bendwise sinister, maintaining in the hand a hammer bendwise Or.

Conflict with Francis Boyd the Smith ("Sable, a dexter gauntlet bendwise sinister grasping a hammer bendwise Or.").

Caith of Heliodor. Name only.

Caith is stated to be the original form of the modern given name Keith (which is his mundane name). All testimony indicates that this is a modern usage from a Gaelic geographic surname (see, for instance, Withycombe, p. 187). Although there is some evidence for a modern usage of Heliodor as a name for a South African beryl, in period this was a Greek given name: Heliodorus. The structure "of" + unmodified common noun does not seem to be period in English. He could be Keith Heliodorus or Keith of House Heliodor or some similar structure. As we were uncertain of his preference and he had specifically stated on his forms that "of Bryn Gwlad" was acceptable, we have used this to form a holding name pending information from him on his preference in the matter of bynames.

Chrystal Ariana MacRuari. Device. Per bend wavy sable and gules, a serpent throughout bendwise wavy Or.

Conflicts with the device of Rhiannon of Starfire Retreat, registered in January, 1987, both technically and visually ("Per bend wavy sable and purpure, a bend wavy Or, in chief a compass star argent.") Visually, this serpent is virtually identical to a bend wavy.

Isleif Brimstone. Badge for Munekoshi Kotai. Sable, a hana-gusari argent.

No documentation was provided for the alternate persona name. It has not been established that this is an unvarying heraldic charge, even in the Japanese system, which could be depicted solely from the blazon by a competent heraldic artist. If blazoned in western terms, the links in profile definitely become a serious anomaly.

Jean Richard Malcolmson. Device. Per bend sinister purpure and vert, a caltrap Or.

Since a major and minor point are required between Society badges and Society devices, this is in conflict with several items cited in the letter of intent: Morgan of Aberystwyth ("Azure, a caltrap Or."), Scellanus of Skye ("Gules, a caltrap Or.") and Selena of the North Woods ("Sable, a caltrap Or.").

Jurdi Throndsson. Device. Quarterly Or and sable, a Norse serpent, nowed and sinister facing, vert, orbed sable.

The primary charge could not be accurately reconstructed from the blazon by a competent heraldic artist: there are literally dozens of Norse serpents possible in the various documented styles. Even if there were a standard depiction, however, the contrast between the sable portions of the field on which the key portions of the head and body lie and the vert of the beastie that it would still be unrecognizable.

Kentiggerma the Rebellious. Badge. Purpure, a sword bendwise argent, the blade enflamed Or.

The blade is not really enflamed: the surrounding metal is more properly engrailed fimbriation. In any case, the "flaming" Or surrounding the argent blade has insufficient contrast to the point where the blade is nearly invisible so that the weapon looks rather like an eccentric cinquedia Or, hilted argent. Were the flames proper (i.e., gules against the blade, Or against the field) the contrast would be immeasurably improved.

Lianna de Bern. Name only.

As far as can be determined, Lianna is not a feminine form of Liam, but rather a diminutive form from Juliana and similar Latin derived feminine names. We do not register diminutives unless they can be demonstrated to have had a separate existence in period.

Raynier Kiefsson. Name only.

Since Kief is not a given name, but a place name, a patronymic should not be formed from it. He might be Raynier of Kief, Raynier Kief or Raynier Helmcrusher (using the nickname indicated on his forms).

Rebekka die Blonde. Device. Purpure, on a bend sinister between two hearts Or, three hearts palewise purpure.

Conflict with Raynardine of the Glaive ("Purpure, a bend sinister between two glaive heads addorsed Or.")

Rose Mary of the Golden Light. Device. Per bend purpure and Or, a sun counterchanged.

Conflict with Bruce of Brandy Hall ("Purpure, on a sun in his splendour, a dagger gules"): there is a major point for counterchanging along the line of division and a minor for the addition of the tertiary charge. It also conflicts with Llywellyn ap Madog "Per bend sable and Or, a compass star counterchanged".): only a minor point can be derived from changing the colour in the two devices and taken with the change in type of primary charge, the two are not sufficiently different.

Svavadis Sorladottir. Name only.

By the submittor's own documentation Svava is the name of a non-human entity, specifically a Valkyrie, in the Eddas. Moreover, there is no evidence that this particular name element was ever used in combination to form a human name as were those of others from the Norse pantheon (Thor, for example). Batonvert has also pointed out that Sorli is one of the famous Niflung (better known as the Nibelung in German epic) who are dubious candidates for ancestors under our rules.

Talwyn Devana. Device. Per bend sinister vert, Or, sable and Or, and purpure, in sinister base a snail bendwise sinister passant to sinister argent.

We have been unable to find any period precedent for such a multiply tinctured chequy. If such could be found, we would entertain an appeal; otherwise, we feel that this is an innovation that we would rather not make in Society heraldry.

Tostig Logiosophia. Device. Or, a pall voided azure between three compass stars argent, fimbriated, all within a bordure wavy azure.

Although this was omitted from the blazon on the letter of intent, the compass stars, whether blazoned as fimbriated or voided, are predominantly argent. This produces "thin line heraldry" which is not period in style and cannot be accepted.

Vashti of the Flaming Tresses. Device. Purpure, an estoile within an orle of tongues of flame Or.

Unfortunately, this lovely device conflicts with Esmerelda Dancingstar ("Purpure, a shooting star bendwise sinister Or."). There is not a full point of difference between the shooting star and an estoile. It is also very close to Martin of the Fallen Star ("Purpure, in base a mullet of twelve points Or.")

Wulf Fairhair. Device. Gules, a wolf's head caboshed within a bordure argent.

Conflict with Wulfstand Darroldson ("Purpure, a wolf's head cabossed within a bordure argent.").

Kingdom of Atlantia

Aelfrun Errantmaid. Device. Azure, a bend sinister Or between a hedgehog statant to sinister and a quatrefoil argent.

Conflict with Dennis Flaxenhelm ("Azure, on a bend sinister Or, a goblet upright sable."), with Blair Dubois ("Azure, a bend sinister between a cat sejant guardant and a dove close Or."), and with Barbara Caballeus ("Azure, a bend sinister Or between in chief an open book argent, leathered Or, and in base a horse trippant Or.").

Damhnat Bean-Toruidhe. Name only.

We could not document the form Toruidhe which was given as meaning "rogue" or "scoundrel". The nearest appropriate noun from Gaelic seems to be "toraiche" which means a pursuer (it is the source for the English proper noun "Tory".) As she would not allow any changes in spelling or meaning, we were compelled to return the name as a whole.

Hadi the Aspiring. Name only.

From his own documentation "Hadi" appears to be an epithet rather than a given name ("the Quiet"). This is not permissible.

Moriah of Land's End. Device. Per pale Or and vert, two chevrons issuant from dexter and sinister, fretted, counterchanged.

Her name was returned in December, 1986. The device conflicts with Bjorn Bjorklund ("Quarterly vert and Or, a chevron couched dexter and another sinister conjoined at the points counterchanged.") and Aymbros Turlion de Laisard ("Per pale Or and vert, on a saltire five crosses of Lorraine fitchy at all points palewise countercharged.")

Robert MacGillivray. Device. Sable, on a saltire argent a boar's head cabossed gules and in chief a thistle argent.

Conflict with Diane of the Golden Chalice ("Sable, on a saltire argent a chalice Or enflamed sable.")

Tearlach the Unwashed. Device. Or, on a bend sinister sable a stork statant to sinister argent.

Conflict with Ulric von Ravensway ("Or, a bend sinister between a drakkar under sail and a raven close to sinister sable.").

Kingdom of Caid

Talorc the Pict of Calafia. Name only.

For good or ill, Society tradition has protected the names of mundane kings and regnant princes as being "important" by definition. To say that Pictish kings collectively or individually were less important than, for example, Richard the Lionheart or Frederick Barbarossa may well be true, but it does not change the ban on conflicting with their names. The fact that no "real" Pict ever made it to Calafia is, of course, irrelevant: as Batonvert noted, Richard the Lionheart of Calafia would still be a conflict and to the best of our knowledge Richard never even conceived of the possibility of Calafia! In this instance, where the only examples of the given name offered were Pictish kings, we are compelled to take the conservative line.

Kingdom of the East

Aquel of Darkstead Wood. Badge for House Skold. Vert, a skold proper.

Commentary in the College generally divided between the "old timers" who were around for the previous bouts on this badge and household name and the newer members of the College. In general, those who had not been exposed to the hot debate of past years, did not find it overly offensive. In and of itself, it is no more offensive than the scourge registered elsewhere in this letter or fetterlocks, both of which suggested "leather and bondage" to more than one member of the Laurel staff. However, since the brideskold can appear in various tinctures and forms, there can be no "proper" and a specific form must be specified (e.g., an open helm affronty argent, armed with a stag's attires, belled, Or).

Arnulf Adler. Badge. On an eagle displayed, wings inverted Or, maintaining a sword fesswise proper, three fleurs-de-lys sable.

This still conflicts with Gayton ("Sable, an eagle displayed Or."), the conflict for which it was returned by Master Baldwin in 1985. Being fieldless, it now also conflicts with Gilbert of the Glens ("Azure, an eagle displayed grasping a sun in both claws Or."): the addition of the tertiaries is a minor point but the visual difference in the position of the wings and the change in the minor charge grasped in the bird's talons do not carry the weight of a clear major point of difference.

Auxrutiene of Lithuania. Name only.

Since no documentation was provided for this unusual name it must be returned.

Cedric Meurdoch. Device. Purpure, an antelope rampant to sinister argent.

This is lovely, but conflicts with Jamie MacRae ("Purpure, a winged stag rampant to sinister argent."). At most one point of difference for type of charge can be derived here.

Deirdre Kyle. Device. Azure, a bend sinister between a phoenix rising to sinister, wings addorsed, and a lute bendwise sinister and edge on, all Or.

Conflict with Blair duBois ("Azure, a bend sinister between a cat sejant guardant and a dove close Or.")

Fiona na Gealache Micclaus. Name and device. Bendy sinister sable and argent, a greyhound couchant reguardant to sinister gules.

The name is not properly formed Irish Gaelic for "of the moon of ill repute" (which would probably be "na gealai mhichlu", according to Batonvert). Since the submittor has forbidden any changes to the name, we have been compelled to return the lovely device as well.

Isabel de Marmande. Device. Azure, two wooden spoons in saltire and in chief a bell, all Or.

We were compelled to agree with Brachet that there was a visual conflict with Hrorek Halfdane of Faulconwood ("Azure, two spears in saltire and in chief a mullet Or.")

Kingdom of the Middle

Ailis FitzUre. Name and device. Argent, a Solomon's knot azure, within three orles purpure, azure and purpure.

By the submittor's own documentation, "Ure" is the name of a river and cannot be used with the patronymic particle "fitz" (see the discussion on Eadmund FitzTonge below). The "Solomon's knot" is not a standard heraldic charge and no documentation has been provided for its use. Several commentors noted that from the blazon many heraldic artists would depict the "Solomon's seal" which is quite a different thing. Further, the use of the nested orles in different tinctures is an anomaly for period heraldic style.

Aindreas MacRaibeart Boyd. Device. Quarterly Or and gules, a sun between three thistles counterchanged.

Conflicts technically with Jack Nimble ("Quarterly Or and vert, a sun counterchanged.").

Alfred of Mercia. Name only.

While Alfred the Great was not crowned King of Mercia, by the Peace of Wedmore he clearly became overlord of Mercia with the Ealdormen of Mercia clearly under his rule.

Arthur ab Idwal. Device. Per chevron gules and sable, a chevron between two owls close respectant guardant and a bee volant Or.

Conflict with Meghan of Tara Hill ("Per chevron gules and sable, a chevron Or between two winged rams combattant and a sun argent.") and Mariposa de los Montoyas ("Per chevron sable and gules, a chevron between three butterflies Or, wings voided."). Note that only a minor point of difference can be derived from merely reversing the tinctures of a partitioned field, even when these are a metal + colour combination (Determination of Difference 4.B.1.c.)

Arthur Fitzwilliam the Scholar. Device. Party per pall azure, vert and sable, in chief an eagle displayed and in base a dolphin hauriant and a three headed dog rampant Or.

Three different charges on a field party per pall have been ruled previously to be too complex by definition to be registered in the Society (AR 6c).

Carolyne von Schonberg. Device. Azure, on a pile inverted argent, three feathers bendwise sinister in pale azure and in chief a scimitar argent.

As noted by several commentors, what is drawn on her emblazon is neither a proper pile inverted nor a field per chevron nor a true point pointed. If it were drawn properly as a pile inverted, there would not be space for the scimitar in chief. If properly drawn as a point pointed, there would be inadequate space for three quills in pale. Even with a field per chevron the quills would be cramped for space except in a more usual one and two orientation (and even that would be tight!).

Charles Cedric Morton. Device. Potent argent and gules, a tyger passant sable.

Conflict with the badge of the East Kingdom ("A tyger passant azure."): according to precedents set by Master Baldwin and enshrined in DR2, no difference may be derived from the field.

Constans Erikson. Device. Quarterly purpure and azure, a compass star within a bordure embattled Or.

Conflict with Paul of Sunriver ("Azure, a compass star Or.")

Danyal Barham Ravani. Device. Azure, a goldfish urinant Or and in chief a natural rainbow proper, fimbriated Or.

The rainbow is too complex a charge to fimbriate. Moreover, the natural rainbow is by definition a colour plus metal and therefore neutral charge (see the Glossary of Terms under "proper".)

Dark Horde. Badge. Per pale embowed and counter-embowed gules and sable, a lightning flash bendwise sinister within a bordure argent.

This badge submission specifically plays against their device which was passed in 1981, well before the ban on natural lightning bolts and, according to well-established precedent, would be allowed to claim protection under the Grandfather Clause. However, as Brachet has pointed out, this is virtually identical to a logo of the Grateful Dead and therefore must be returned for conflict.

NOTE: There seemed to be some confusion on the part of some commentors between the "Hardship Clause" and the "Grandfather Clause". The former is designed to aid submittors who have through no fault of their own had submissions delayed for a period of time in which the rules have changed. There is normally a time limit for such submissions to legitimately claim leniency under this clause. The Grandfather Clause, on the other hand, protects from future rules changes armory which has already been registered. Whatever my personal feelings on the subject, there have been many rulings in the past to indicate that, where a badge uses the primary charge(s) from a device which would not be licit were they submitted for the first time today, the badge gains an associative protection under the Grandfather Clause.

David de Kunstenaar. Badge for House Painter. Vert, an artist's palette Or.

Visual conflict with La Rana ("Vert, on a cushion Or, a frog sejant affronty vert, crowned Or."). Since the cushion on La Rana's device is in exactly the same orientation, it is difficult to tell the cushion and the palette apart at any distance. (Note: yes, his device also conflicts with La Rana: the College of Arms simply did not catch the conflict at that time!).

Dunchadh Mac Aodha Mhoir. Device. Azure, a sword proper, cleaving a Viking helm Or, horned argent.

Conflict with Tolbert Regnault ("Azure, a sword proper, balanced on its point a pair of scales Or.").

Eadgar de Cockagne. Device. Vert, on a band sinister argent between two cronals Or, a tilting spear gules.

Although they are a documented period charge, the cronals are clearly too close visually to the reserved crown/coronet to be accepted for use in the Society. There is also a conflict with Tav-Alandil ("Vert, a bend sinister argent between a hawk close and a lightning bolt, both Or.") and Dail y Eiliwriad o Cwm Cwymp Dwr ("Vert, a scarpe argent between an oak leaf and a castle of three stepped towers Or.").

Eadmund FitzTonge. Name and device. Pean, a bull passant to sinister argent.

The device seemed all right, but since the submittor specifically barred any changes to his name we were compelled to return the whole submission. The citations from Domesday Book, as noted by Batonvert, were false analogies since those were generally in Latin and the forms presented were later "equivalents", sometimes made by folk less acquainted with the linguistic customs of the day. In fact, there is no real evidence that "Tonge" or any other place name was ever used to form a patronymic of this sort. As a family name, however, "Tonge" is perfectly licit. He could be Eadmund Tonge or, if he wishes a patronymic, form it on the similar sounding Cornish name Tanguy.

Elocyn Alexander. Name and device. Azure, on a lozenge argent, a domestic cat couchant guardant to sinister gules, gorged of a collar sable, resting in a bed of violets proper, and in chief two mice combattant Or.

"Elocyn" is not a valid variant of Alison: the modifications of the vowels in Middle English are not random and none of the documented forms of Alison do a substitution of "e" for "a" or "o" for "i" in this manner. The bed of violets is totally unidentifiable as such and the humanoid mice are neither rampant (as the combattant implies) or statant erect.

Enid Aurelia of the Tin Isles. Badge for House Aurelia. Sable, a square Roman candle lantern Or, candled argent.

Neither the name household name nor the badge are acceptable. The name clearly conflicts with the Roman gens Aurelia (House Aurelia), which was one of the great Republican and Imperial clans of ancient Rome (remember Marcus Aurelius?). The badge conflicts with Arthur of Lockhaven ("Azure, a lanthorn Or.") and, in addition, is in trian aspect which is not permitted in Society heraldry.

Gerard de Lisieux. Device. Paly bendy sinister argent and azure, a bordure embattled sable.

Conflict with the arms of Bavaria ("Lozengy bendwise azure and argent.").

Gwendolyn Arwen des Estoiles d'Or. Device. Per pale and per saltire azure and Or, a pegasus rampant argent.

Conflict with Arianwen of Urquart ("Vert, a horned pegasus salient argent, armed and unguled azure."). There is a major point for the difference in fields, but the total changes between the two beasts cannot be held to be a full point of difference, the more so since Gwendolyn's beast is actually halfway between salient and rampant and the azure horn on Arianwen's beast is almost invisible against the vert field.

Hayashi Wolfshadow. Device. Sable, on a pale between two wolves sejant ululant argent, another sable.

(Note from Jaelle - the printed LoAR gave no reason).

Helen Nelsdotter. Device. Purpure, an eight-legged horse rampant to sinister, holding a sword in its jaws, argent.

Conflict with Sarah MacColin ("Purpure, a unicorn rampant to sinister argent and in sinister chief a mullet Or.") The cumulative changes to the horse do not create a clear major point of difference. Moreover, we are by no means convinced of the appropriateness of the Sleipnir for Society use, notwithstanding the fact that it has been registered in the past.

James ap William. Name and device. Per pale Or and vert, two sea-lions combattant counterchanged.

The form of the patronymic is not correct since the particle is Welsh and "William" is purely English. If he wishes the Welsh equivalent of his mundane name of James Williams, it would be Iago ap Gwilym. The device technically conflicts with Aaron Elvenspeed ("Per pale vert and Or, two dragons serpentine combattant counterchanged.")

Johan von Metten. Device. Sable, a cracked goblet within an orle of escallops inverted argent.

Conflict with Tristan ap Howell ("Sable, a goblet between in fess two hearts argent.").

John of the White Boar. Name and device. Sable, a cross botonny between four annulets Or, overall a boar rampant argent.

While it is true, as Crescent noted, that Richard III may have had many retainers named John, he also had a bastard son, John of Gloucester, who would be entirely too closely associated with this name for our comfort. The boar obscures the underlying charges to such a degree that the identity of the annulets is not sufficiently clear.

Kalina Crna zvjesda. Name only.

Insufficient documentation was provided to demonstrate that Kalina was a period given name in Serbian or any other language. Documentation in support of the formation and meaning of the byname would also be helpful.

Katherine Stonehand. Device. Per fess azure and Or, a lymphad sable, sail argent, charged with a pawn gules and a hand appaumy vert, atop the mast a pennon Or.

"Sails may not normally be charged in the SCA" (Wilhelm von Schlussel, August, 1983).

Khalil el Hadji. Device. Or, an Egyptian sphinx couchant gules.

Conflict with Micheal Sacristain's badge for Clan Couchant ("Or, a lion couchant coward gules."). Save for its head, an Egyptian sphinx is a lion.

Klaus Meyer. Name and device. Per bend sinister Or and purpure, a red squirrel rampant to sinister proper and a rabbit rampant argent.

The given name is a diminutive form of Nicholas. If this cannot be documented as being in use in period as an independent name, he must register a fuller version of the name. Since he indicated that no changes could be made to the name, the submission as a whole must be returned.

Kyle Finar of the Salt Bluff. Name only.

Until this century, Kyle exists only as a family name derived from a place name.

Megan de Grinstead. Device. Lozengy argent and purpure, on a pale gules three marguerites Or.

Conflict with Bronwyn Glendower ("Barry wavy azure and argent, on a pale gules a dolphin embowed between two fleursdelis Or."): there is a point for the field but only a minor point for changing the type of tertiaries.

Megan Elizabeth Marie Marlin. Device. Argent, three chevronels braced azure and in chief three martlets vert.

Conflict with Michael the Maladroit ("Argent, three chevronels braced azure beneath two crescents gules.").

Michael Arthur of Kerry. Device. Azure, a bear couchant between three compass stars argent.

Visual conflict with Roxana of Windymeads ("Azure, an ibex passant between three mullets of eight points argent.").

Middle Kingdom. Title for Rastaban Herald.

We were compelled to agree with Brachet that the name conjured up unfortunate connotations of dreadlocks and other phenomena of the Rastafarian movement. Although the name derived from the perfectly good Arabic phrase Al Ras al Thuban (The Head of the Dragon) which is applied in period to both Beta Draconis and Gamma Draconis, it is just too close to "Rastaman" for our comfort.

Moraig Annabella Drummond. Name and device. Argent, six holly leaves vert, conjoined in the center, vert, fructed with three berries proper, between two bars wavy gules, all between three mullets of four points sable.

Unfortunately, the submittor's own documentation compels us to agree with Crescent that the name is not only a conflict with Annabella Drummond, Queen of Robert III of Scotland, but that the device is excessive. Through a rather tortuous multi-lingual explanation the submittor has attempted to demonstrate that Morag means "princess" (and so the name means Princess Annabella Drummond). Additionally, the primary charges on the arms of the Drummonds branches are three bars wavy gules, while both the holly and the caltrap are Drummond badges, the latter in commemoration of the exploit of the then chief of the Drummonds in strewing caltraps before the English cavalry at Bannockburn.

Nikolaus der Auslander. Device. Argent, a barn swallow volant proper.

No Latin name was provided to confirm the submittor's intent with regard to this bird. The emblazon shows a hirundine bird of a solid reddish brown. The Barn Swallow (Hirundo erythrogastra) appears to be a "steel blue" (generally depicted as a sable variant) on its upper parts; chestnut brown on its under parts. If this is the bird intended then the emblazon errs for in the position that the bird is depicted it would be almost entirely sable and thus conflict, as Brachet noted, with the town of Arundel ("Argent, a swallow volant in bend sinister sable.") as well as Curson ("Argent, a martlet sable."). If the bird is another variant of swallow that is more red-brown, then it would presumably conflict with Greathead ("Ermine, a martlet gules.").

Omarad the Wavy. Device. Quarterly gules and argent, a compass star throughout counterchanged, overall a griffin segreant sable.

The griffin overlies the visually complex underlying charge to such an extent that it is unidentifiable without the aid of the blazon.

Rachel bat Shimeon min-Verulamium. Name only.

Unfortunately, the submittor's own documentation indicated that "min" is an "inseparable preposition" from Hebrew. By our rules this means that the place name would have either to be Hebraic or be from a language which demonstrably merged in this manner. No such documentation has been provided. Although she could be Rachel bat Shimeon of Verulamium, she will allow no changes of grammar or spelling to her name so it must be returned in its entirety.

Rathlin Ogham Trilamhan. Name only.

Neither Rathlin nor Ogham are "common period Irish names" as the submittor's documentation states. A rath is an Irish ring fort and the term appears as the initial element in many Irish place names. Ogham is the name given to an early Celtic alphabet associated in many sources with Druidic learning. Also, the submitted byname appears to mean "three gauntlets" not "three hands" as the submittor believed.

Rogier de la Roche sur Yon. Device. Azure, a bend sinister between three sea-goats erect, two and one, Or.

Conflict with Blair duBois ("Azure, a bend sinister between a cat sejant guardant and a dove close Or.")

Septentria, Barony of. Badge. Gules, a bear passant Or.

Conflict with the badge of Gunwaldt Gullbjorn for the House of Gullbjorn ("A bear passant reguardant Or, maintaining in his dexter forepaw a torch gules enflamed Or.").

Thorbjorn the Greysides. Badge. Azure, a compass needle palewise argent.

This charge was not identifiable. While a compass point is mentioned in Parker (p. 388), no indication is given that this was used as a charge in period.

Will of Yellowford. Device. Vert, a bend Or surmounted by a bend sinister wavy azure, fimbriated Or.

Conflict with Melisande de la Fleur Cachee ("Vert, a bend Or, overall a rose gules fimbriated Or, surmounted by another argent, both proper and seeded sable.") Melisande's rose is essentially a Tudor Rose fimbriated Or.

Kingdom of the West

Arianwen de Lynn. Device. Quarterly azure and gules, a hind courant and a bordure argent.

Conflict with Liesel von Blauen Donau ("Azure, a winged stag springing argent, winged, attired and unguled Or, within a bordure argent."). There is only a minor point of difference between the fields and the difference in posture between the deer courant and a deer springing as depicted on Liesel's device was not so pronounced that the cumulative changes to the deer could be considered to equal a clear major and minor point of difference.

Coille Dubh, Barony of. Name and device. Argent, an oak tree eradicated and on a chief sable three laurel wreaths Or.

Under NR 20, this name conflicts by direct translation with the Shire (formerly Barony) of Myrkwuud which also means Dark Forest. Since the names share only meaning and not assonance, it might be possible to gain permission to conflict from Mirkewoude. Since holding names may not be generated for official groups, the device must be returned.

Genna Gaireacdaic a Froac. Name only.

Although Genna might be considered a valid orthographic variant of the pre-seventeenth century West Cornish name Jenna (see Names for the Cornish, p. 29), the remainder of the name does not seem to be properly formed Irish for the meaning "laughter of the heath" which the submittor desired. Moreover, this is not the sort of byname that was generally used in the Irish world for actual (rather than epic poetic) use. Since the submittor forbade any changes to the name, the name as a whole had to be returned.

Wyll MacConachie. Device. Per bend sinister sable and gules, a tower erminois, the battlements enflamed proper.

Conflict with Margharita di San Gimignano ("Per bend argent and azure, a conical tower erminois."). There is a point for the field differences, but the differences between the towers are minor.

THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS ARE PENDING:

Decisions on all submissions will be made at the July meeting, when the members of the College will have had adequate time to consider them.

Kingdom of Ansteorra

Catrina Cassanelli di Mantova. Device. Argent, in pale a catamount dormant sable and a decrescent Or, fimbriated sable, all within an orle of ivy slipped vert, leaved gules.

This was blazoned erroneously on the letter of intent with the entire orle being gules, instead it is predominantly vert, with only the leaves being gules. Additionally, there was some question as to whether the fimbriation here constituted "thin line heraldry". We would like the opinion of the College on this matter: should fimbriation be limited specifically to ordinaries and subordinaries?

Roderich von Wolfach. Device. Argent, mulletty sable, two gores azure, the dexter one charged with a tyger rampant, the sinister one with a tyger rampant to sinister, both Or, and in chief a mullet of twelve points sable.

On the letter of intent the blazon implied the mullet was azure. On the emblazon forms it is not. (Note: no blazon appeared on the emblazon forms to verify whether the coloration of the mullet was intentional or an omission. All paperwork should include the proposed blazon on the forms!)

Kingdom of the East

Cigfran o Gaer Walch. Device. Per bend sinister vert and argent, a hand appaumy bendwise argent and a raven rising to sinister sable.

The tincture of the hand was omitted on the letter of intent.

Kingdom of the Middle

Ladislaus Vulcu. Device. Per chevron argent, seme of bats displayed sable, and gules, in base a mullet of four points pierced argent.

No meaning was given for "Vulcu" at the time his name was registered, other than that the submittor stated that it was his ancestral name. Inasmuch as the "alias" given on the original forms was "Vlad the accursed, we feel that we must have some meaning provided for Vulcu to confirm that this was not in use for Vlad the Impaler or one of the other "Dracula" models before passing such an allusive device.

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