December 1988 LoAR

DECEMBER XXIII (1988)

THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS ARE APPROVED:

KINGDOM OF ANSTEORRA

Boris of Woodland. Badge. Azure, a horse rampant to sinister and in base a scimitar fracted chevronwise inverted argent.

Eimile Seilide as Draeighean. Name and device. Sable, a snail passant guardant argent within an orle wavy of thorn Or.

Eldern Hills, Barony of the. Badge for the Order des Cotes Anciennes. Argent, a mountain of three peaks issuant from base gules.

Helmut Heinrichsohn. Device. Azure, in bend a compass star and a bear's head erased argent within a bordure embattled Or. He has permission to conflict with Gerard MacEanruig ("Azure, a polar bear's head erased argent within a bordure dovetailed Or.").

Ishida Kuan. Name only (see RETURNS for device). While the letter of intent documented "Kuan" only as a surname, Monsho was able to provide a source which gives it as a Chinese given name.

Kaylitha Rhiannon of Southhaven. Change of device. Azure, three estoiles and on a chief Or, three crescents azure.

Kira de Saint Gilles. Name and device. Paly argent and azure, two flaunches vert, semy of key crosses Or.

Mara of the Crystal Sword. Device. Vert, a saltire raguly ermine between two horses's heads, couped and respectant, argent.

Nevell Landswalker. Name and device. Argent, a sword inverted gules, hilted sable, between two dragons combattant, that to dexter sable, that to sinister gules, their tails twined in base about the blade of the sword, all within a bordure per pale gules and sable.

Rognvaldr Tilbuinn. Device. Per chevron argent and sable, in pale a chevron gules and a mullet of ten points argent, in chief two mallets in chevron sable. Please ask him to draw the field division and the chevron properly.

Tostig Logiosophia. Device. Azure, on a plate a pall azure, on a chief argent, a compass star between two mullets of four points azure. The use of the two different mullet variations on the chief is very poor style.

Ulf Gunnarsson. Name only.

KINGDOM OF ATENVELDT

Atenveldt, Barony of. Badge for Order of the Palm of the Barony of Atenveldt. Argent, two palm trees couped, trunks crossed in saltire, and in chief a flame proper.

Callista Balgaire. Name and device. Argent, a red fox salient proper within a double tressure sumrounted by an orle of eight trefoilds, stems set alternate inwards and outwards, vert. The name was submitted as Calista Bhalgair, with the notation that it was intended to mean "most beautiful". To have this meaning the doubled "l" is required. While the form gave some twinges in view of its association with Artemis Kallista (who is frequently referred to in Greek sources as "he Kallista"), it seems reasonable as a feminine form of the documented period masculine name "Callistus" (one of the early popes of Rome). The byname "fox" desired by the submittor is a masculine noun in Gaelic. While adjectives regularly suffer lenition when applied to female nouns, the examples we could find seemed to indicate that masculine nouns when placed in apposition appear to act as if a copulative verb intervened, i.e., no lenition occurs. While Crescent and others are correct in seeing a basic resemblance to Fuchss (Argent, a fox rampant gules."), this is clear under our rules: the definitions in Determination of Difference clearly state "rampant vs. salient" as examples of posture differences worth a minor point.

Damon Hawke. Device. Sable, a triangle Or charged with another sable. This was previously returned for conflict with Morgan of the Misty Glen ("Sable, on a triangle throughout Or, between three crosses couped Or a tree proper."). Morgan has now granted permission to conflict.

Helena of the Lighted Torch. Name and device. Purpure, a torch argent, enflamed Or, and a chief Or, fretty purpure.

Rowena Serenarianaidd. Name only. The name was submitted as Rowena o Serenarianaidd. As Brachet noted, the preposition "o" would usually mean "from" in a Welsh name. Since stars are not permitted as places of origin in the Society, we have therefore deleted the preposition.

Stefanie of Sun Dragon. Holding name and device. Gyronny of six per pale sable and argent, an opinicus sejant erect, wings elevated and addorsed, Or within a bordure gules, charged with three acorns, slipped and leaved, fruit to chief, Or. The submission was made under the name of Orlenda ferch Llyn.

Steffan yr Ysgolhaig. Badge for Ty'r Llen. Sable, a cross crosslet fitchy azure, fimbriated argent. This badge was previously returned for use of "thin line heraldry". While there was some disagreement in the College on the legitimacy of fimbriating a cross crosslet, there was a considerable body of thought which held that this badge was covered by the "Grandfather Clause" since it was a simplification of one previously registered to the submittor ("Per fess indented sable and ermine, a cross crosslet fitchy azure, fimbriated argent."). After some soul-searching, we were compelled to agree.

KINGDOM OF CAID

Adrianna de Tarente. Change of name from Alisha von Froschheim die Turnerin and badge. Per bend sinister argent and azure, a bend cotised counterchanged, overall a pegasus segreant sable.

Aldred von Lechsend aus Froschheim. Addition of designation of Froschheim to already registered badge. Quarterly erminois and ermine, a chain crossed in saltire throughout sable.

Alyce Renée of Montauban. Name only.

Anton le Changeur des Armes. Change of name from Anton de la Mer. While Star is correct in stating that the usual meaning of "changeur" today is to designate a money-changer, i.e., be limited to those who exchange money, the radical verb does mean "to barter", "to exchange", etc. and so the byname would seem reasonable.

Bogdan Il'ich Volknoi. Badge. Chequy argent and gules, on a dexter gore Or, a Celtic cross gules.

Catherine Wyndsford. Name only.

Christian de la Croix. Name and device. Per pale a wolf rampant to sinister, maintaining a sword bendwise sinister, on a chief three fleurs-de-lys, all counterchanged.

Christian Heidtmann der Bastler von Lüneburg. Name and device. Azure, on a pall argent between three garbs Or, three owls palewise sable.

Connor Sackett O'Neill of Connaught. Name and device. Per pale Or and sable, in fess a wolf's head erased and an apple counterchanged, a chief triangular gules.

Darla of Castle Kirk. Name and device. Azure, in pale two swans naiant argent and a fleur-de-lys issuant in base from a bordure Or. Darla is the submittor's mundane given name.

David Gerland de la Croupe. Name and device. Argent, on a bend sinister below a cross crosslet fitchy azure in dexter chief, in chief a lion's gambe palewise Or.

Deirdre Roswythe Dunwyn. Name and device. Per pall inverted arrondy Or, sable and gules, in fess two trefoils slipped counterchanged and in base a crescent Or.

Eliada Melisande d'Alessandria. Name and device. Or, fretty sable, three roses proper within a bordure sable.

Elizabeth of Berwick. Name and device. Argent, a garden rose bendwise sable, slipped and leaved vert, between two bendlets gules.

Gareth Nikodemos Shadowcat. Name and badge. Per pale gules and Or, a tower counterchanged.

Iarulind Godecild. Name only.

John Broadmouth. Name and device. Per bend sinister azure and gules, in bend an elephant statant and an elephant statant to sinister Or, linked at the necks by a chain bendwise argent.

Julia Gilyneta Ahearn. Badge (see RETURNS for household name). Argent, in fess two strung bows palewise, strings to center, sable within a bordure azure.

Llywellyn Lasley Caerdydd. Name and device. Per fess argent and vert, a wyvern-tailed demi-lion gules and three Celtic crosses, two and one, Or. As Brachet has noted, "Caerdydd" is not a coined place name, as stated on the letter of intent, but the actual Welsh name for Cardiff.

Malachy MacAuliffe. Name only.

Marina Foscari. Name and device. Quarterly sable and gules a cross between in bend two gondola prows, all within a bordure argent. Evidence for period use of the gondola prow in a fixed form, cited by White Stag, has convinced us that the gondola prow is identifiable as such and therefore legitimate for use in the Society. However, the submittor is counselled to draw all the charges much larger than they appear on the current emblazon.

Matteo del Oceano. Name and device. Per pale sable and Or, a cross within a bordure counterchanged. This is carried clear of the device of Siegfried Heydrich by a fine point which adds an extra measure of difference: the bordure on Siegfried's device rather unusually surmounts the cross. As a result, not only does the line of division, tinctures and tincture arrangement differ so that the points of tincture correspondence are significantly diminished, but also the area of the bordure which surmounts the end of the cross is also counterchanged, which produces an additional visual difference.

Matteo del Oceano. Badge. Or, three piles wavy sable, each charged with a sword inverted Or.

Medb the Spinner. Name and device. Per bend sinister argent and azure, a spider tergiant and a quill pen bendwise sinister counterchanged.

Melusine Morgan. Name only.

Phillippa Llewelyn Schuyler. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Randall Baldwin. Name only.

Scannlach Faolscátha. Change of name from Maryann of Naevehjem.

Sean Vuibhearn. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Sebastian Hawkwood. Name and device. Argent, a hawk's head erased and affronty gules between two flaunches purpure.

Skarphedin of Grimhalla. Name and device. Purpure, a plate between in cross four wolf's heads couped, faces to center, argent.

KINGDOM OF CALONTIR

Aldred de l'Inconnu. Name only (see RETURNS for device). The name was submitted as Aldred d'Inconnu, with the notation that it was desired to mean "of the Unknown". Since the article is necessary to have this meaning, we have added it.

Angeline Marie le Chat du Coeur. Change of device. Per pale flory counterflory vert, ermined argent, and argent, ermined vert, in fess a domestic cat rampant to sinister argent and a domestic cat rampant vert. Her previous device ("Argent, a cat couchant guardant within a double tressure, all between three pawprints vert.") becomes a badge.

Anna of Skye. Name and device. Per bend sinister argent and purpure, a serpent nowed sable and a harp argent. The name was submitted as Anna Stuart of Skye, which is directly in conflict with that of Anne Stuart, daughter of James II and last of the Stuarts to actually rule England. As the submittor allowed changes to the name (we think: the wording of the double negative on the forms caused some confusion), we have dropped the "Stuart" to register the basic name and the device.

Anne Lockwood. Name only.

Anne McHenry. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Ariel of Glastonbury Tor. Name and badge (see RETURNS for device). Gules, a winged lion sejant affronty Or.

Ceiridwen Chevelure de Corbeau. Name and device. Azure, in pale a unicorn rampant and an open book, all within an orle argent.

Ceridwen o Forgannwg ferch y Prydydd. Device. Argent, two unicorns, passant reguardant and addorsed, on a chief azure, three mullets of ten points argent.

Coinneach Aindrias MacLeod. Name only. The name was submitted as Coinneach Anrias MacLeod an Sidheach. Although the submittor enclosed some pages from Ian Grimble's Clans and Chiefs, the reference to "Anrias" as the Gaelic equivalent of Andrew seems to be a typo as all the references in Black (Surnames of Scotland, p. 452453) retain the "d". The submittor gave the meaning of "Sidheach" as "wolf", but no form of the word for wolf even resembles this. What is more, the closest form we could find "sidhideach" is the term for fairy or a human taken prisoner by the fairies (e.g., Tam Linn).

Dabhaidh Orcheard. Name and device. Azure, a goblet Or and in chief two hammers in chevron argent.

Deirdre Llyn Stormdreamer. Badge for Hafen Arianniwlog. Azure, a double-towered castle argent and in chief three mullets of eight points in chevron argent. According to Brachet, the household name means something like "Silver-misty Haven".

Gawain McHenry. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Gwendolen Elizabeth Stewart. Name only.

Gwennan nic Ailpein of Loch Sheil. Name only (see RETURNS for device). The name was submitted as Gwennant nic Ailpein o Loch Sheil. Since we were unable to document the form with the "t" except as a geographical term and Brachet could document the similar given name "Gwennan" in Bartrum, we have substituted that form. Since the submittor chose to use the Welsh preposition with the English version of the Gaelic place name (Loch Shiel), we have also substituted the English preposition.

Gwyneth Espicier. Name and device. Argent, a cinnamon tree eradicated vert within a bordure wavy azure, semy of cloves argent.

Jenna of Southwind Hall. Name and device. Argent, two natural dolphins uriant addorsed and on a chief triangular azure, a mullet of four points argent.

Kenneth Lyon of the Curr. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Mikal the Ram. Name and device. Sable, two ram's horns couped affronty within a bordure argent.

Morag MacKilcullen. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Phillipa Lloyd de Tarifa. Badge. Gules, a pile inverted throughout counter-ermine, overall a horse's head couped argent.

Phillippe de Mortain. Name only.

Randgar Schmidt. Name and device. Per fess sable and Or, two horseshoes and a single-headed chess knight counterchanged.

Riverwatch, Incipient College of. Device. Argent, four pallets wavy azure, surmounted by a laurel wreath vert, all within a bordure wavy gules. Check on name.

Sherry Foxwell. Change of device. Sable, a horse's head extended palewise to chief, couped at the shoulders, argent.

Thomas Gunn. Name only.

Victoria of Forgotten Sea. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name and badge). Gules, a fess of four lozenges argent, each charged with a cross couped sable, a chief embattled argent. The submission was made under the name of Ljubljana Kovaca.

KINGDOM OF THE EAST

Alys of Eisental. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Argent, on a bend wavy vert between two swans naiant sable, a sprig of foliage argent. The submission was made under the name of Alys of Bath.

Amee de Jardyn. Device. Per chevron vert and azure, a chevron cotised and in base an escallop Or.

Birgitta Gladarodd Fredriksdottir av Knusslig Hamn. Name only.

Brid of Narrenbeck. Holding name and device. Per chevron argent and azure, in pale a stag courant proper and a cross formy within and conjoined to an annulet Or. The submission was made under the name Brid Ceile De, which had been returned in October, 1988.

Connor MacSeamus O'Neal. Name and device. Per fess azure and vert, a fess Or between three mullets in fess argent and a winged lion passant Or.

Elias Barbarossa von Zweibrücken. Device. Gyronny argent and gules, a unicorn and a ram rampant combattant, each maintaining a scimitar, sable.

Kilde Jurgenstochter. Change of name from Kilde Fredriksdottir av Knusslig Hamn and device. Barry wavy argent and azure, on a pall gules, four linden leaves palewise argent. The name was submitted as Kilde Jurgensdottir. As the given name in the patronymic is German, we have modified the form for "daughter" into that language.

Lyndhaven, Shire of. Name only.

Magnus Blodax. Badge. Argent, ermined purpure, an axe bendwise sinister reversed sable, the blade embrued gules.

Margaret Elizabeth Peyton de Lascaux. Name and device. Per bend sinister on a chevron cotised between a decrescent and three ostrich plumes palewise in bend sinister argent, a needle, point to base, sable.

Nicolette Bonhomme. Name only.

Nikolai Jäger. Name only.

Ruth of the Debatable Lands. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Vert, a vulture close and a chief Or. The submission was made under the name Achren of the Debatable Lands.

Settmour Swamp, Barony of. Name for Order of the Bronze Tower.

Seanan an Chasur. Device. Sable, a pegasus salient to sinister argent, gorged of an Eastern crown Or, between three increscents argent. Note that he is a count, although this was not mentioned on the letter of intent. Several commentors cited a conflict with Phillipe des Pegases, which at the time it was registered was blazoned as "Sable, a pegasus salient to sinister argent between two scarpes, in dexter chief a compass star Or and in base a greatsword bendwise sinister proper." Examination of the original emblazon indicated that the beast was actually "courant bendwise sinister" rather than "salient" (the foot position is distinctive. (See the reblazon elsewhere on this letter.) Moreover, there are two sets of secondary charges on Phillipe's device: the cotises which lie on either side of the beast and the miscellaneous charges in the opposing corners of the device.

Taliesin Dylyn map Meredudd. Name and device. Per bend sinister Or and sable, in bend a raven close to sinister sable and two comets bendwise sinister in pale Or, all within a bordure ermine.

Torin Geffries. Device. Per pale argent and sable, a unicorn's head couped counterchanged, maintaining in its mouth a rosebud gules, slipped and leaved vert, in sinister chief an increscent argent. This is not particularly good style, but it is legal, despite the fiddling rosebud proper and the lack of balance produced by the increscent.

KINGDOM OF MERIDIES

Angus Mac Owen. Name and device. Per bend sinister Or and bendy sinister sable and Or, in dexter chief a bull passant to sinister azure, maintaining a halberd bendwise sable.

Angus Mac Owen. Badge. A bull passant to sinister azure, maintaining a halberd bendwise sable.

Brieuc Aelwyn the Wolfhead. Name and device. Per bend sinister bendy argent and vert and argent, in sinister base a brown wolf's head, erased and affronty, proper, maintaining in its mouth a garden rose gules, slipped and leaved vert.

Gloria Kirkhouse of Tain. Name only (see RETURNS for device). Gloria is the submittor's mundane given name. Tain has been documented as a period place name from Moncreiffe's Highland Clans (p. 213).

Jasper Murtagh. Name and device. Argent, three chevronels inverted gules, overall a dragon sejant erect, maintaining a sword palewise, azure. Note that this is not "chevronelly inverted", as submitted, since the field is not evenly divided of the two tinctures (i.e., there are four argent sections and three gules).

Kendra of Kent's Wood. Name only.

Nikolai Piotr Danovich. Name only.

Pieter Van Doorn. Badge. Argent, a cross crosslet countercompony Or and sable.

Robert Brandon Smythe. Change of name from Robert Smythe.

Stephen de Soissons. Name and device. Per chevron embattled argent and sable, three crescents in chevron gules and a nightingale close to sinister argent. King Stephen of England was known as Stephen of Blois so this name does not infringe on his.

KINGDOM OF THE MIDDLE

Ann O'Carolan. Device. Or, a pear tree eradicated per pale vert and sable, the sinister half blasted, within a bordure vert, semy of pears Or.

Anna of the Western Hill. Name only.

Aquilina Thecla of Dragon Ridge. Name and device. Gules, ermined or, a tricorporate Chinese dragon Or, ermined gules.

Bran Cuilean mac Muirchiu ua Néill. Name and device. Gules, two wolves rampant and on a sun Or, a raven migrant bendwise sinister to sinister sable, all within a bordure Or. The name was submitted as Bran Cuileann Mac Muirchu Ui Neill. The form "cuilean" is actually not Irish, but Gaelic, and does mean "puppy" or "whelp", as did the old Irish name. It is perfectly acceptable as an epithet. The appropriate genitive form of Muirchu after the patronymic appears to be "Muirchiu" and the singular form of the "Ui" desired by the submittor is "ua".

Catherine Loxley of Tirnewydd. Name only.

Dermot Lachlan MacDermot. Name only.

Dunchadh Mac Aodha Mhoir. Device. Azure, a sword palewise proper between in fess two arrows palewise, a base rayonny Or.

Eduard von Schönberg. Name only.

Elwyn ferch Alwyn. Device. Azure, in saltire two roses, slipped and leaved, argent, barbed and seeded proper, on a chief triangular argent, a compass star azure.

Fionnuala Amber Dunnachaidh. Name only. The name was submitted as Fynvolla Amber Dunnachaidh. Unfortunately, we could find no solid evidence of the substitution of "y" for the "io" oran actual "v" for the "u" sound in this context in period Irish. Therefore we have substituted the well-documented form of the name.

Galyon le Archer. Name only. The name was submitted as Galyon Le Archer. We have corrected the spelling to that supported by Reaney (p. 11).

Garlanda de Staines. Device. Or, a dolmen sable between two flaunches plumetty sable and Or.

Jocelyn Christianna of Lincolnshire. Name and device. Vert, on a pale between two pairs of arrows in saltire Or, a horse rampant azure. Several commentors thought that the recent discussion of cotises should bring this into conflict with Lora MacMorna ("Vert, on a pale endorsed Or, a redwood tree proper."). However, Society tradition appears in most cases to enumerate charges in saltire as separate elements for the purpose of difference and so there is a major and minor point for the difference in type and number of secondary charges as well as the difference to be derived from the tertiaries.

Lucrezia Constancia del Belcuore. Name and device. Argent, a catamount sejant reguardant to sinister within an orle of ivy vert. The name was submitted as Lucrezia Constancia di Belcuore. As "Belcuore" is descriptive rather than locative, we have added the article to the preposition: "del" as would be normal in Italian for such formations.

Marcus Zimri. Name only.

Pelinora de Orion. Badge (see RETURNS for household name). Azure, crescenty Or, on a bend argent, a natural dolphin embowed sable.

Rayna Haakonardottir. Name and device. Ermine, three fir trees couped within a bordure vert. This given name seems reasonable as the Oxford Dictionary of Saints (p. 340) shows "Rayne" as saint honoured in Somerset (possibly this is an English simplification of "Regina" based on the French "reine").

Skalla Geirmundr Ulfsson. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Stormvale, Shire of. Name only.

Terence Golddragon. Name only. The name was submitted as Terence Goldragon. To get the meaning he clearly wants, the "d" should be doubled.

Thomas Mailer. (Change of name from Thomas of Rivenstar). The name was submitted as Thomas Mailer of Douglas. We have dropped the locative byname to take the name definitively clear of the original conflict with Thomas Douglas.

Torsten Reinhardt. Name only.

Wilhelm von Büch. Name and device. Or, a chevron embattled counterembattled between three mullets of four points azure.

William the Bear of Nottingham. Name and device. Purpure, a bear passant, on a chief embattled argent two cauldrons sable.

KINGDOM OF THE OUTLANDS

Aileen Bardon. Name only.

Alaric von Mainz. Name and device. Per pale azure and vert, an open-faced helm affronty between in fess two swords palewise argent.

Breichiol map Lludd o Fannauc. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Edrick of the Woods. Name and device. Per pale argent and sable, on a saltire between four oak trees, eradicated and fructed, in saltire a bow and a sword, all counterchanged.

Elizabet Anmutig von Geinhausen. Name and device. Purpure, a bend sinister dovetailed argent between a dolphin naiant bendwise sinister to base and a lion passant bendwise sinister to base Or.

Geyla of the Dragons. Device. Argent, a dragon dormant, wings elevated and addorsed, purpure, in base a compass star azure.

Konrad Lothar. Device. Per chevron pean and sable, a chevron between a wolf couchant guardant and four wolf's pawprints in cross, all Or.

Morguen na Locha Soluis. Name and device. Vert, goutty d'Or, in saltire a goblet Or and a lily, slipped and leaved, argent. The name was submitted as Morgwen na Lochsolas. As Brachet has noted, the evidence supports either "Morwen" or "Morguen", but not the submitted form. As White Stag indicates the less common form (Morwen is by far the better documented form in both Welsh and Cornish sources), we have used that. The placename was stated to mean "of sunny lake", but we could not support that with anything approaching the sound submitted, which the submittor indicated she desired. However, "solus" does in fact mean "light" (albeit often specifically the light of the moon) so the meaning of the Gaelic used here ("of the Lake of Light") is not so far removed from the submittor's original intent and retains the sound nearly intact.

Paul le Seul. Name and device. Per fess azure and sable, in pale a tower argent and a wingless dragon dormant Or. The name was submitted as Paul le Seul d'Olivia. The submittor appeared from his documentation to think that the epithet meant "the only son", which it does not. Rather it means "one who is alone", which is a perfectly good epithet, but does not really make any sense with the possessive. We have therefore dropped it to register the name.

Ruter Rotbart von Rothenberg. Name only (see RETURNS for device and badge). The name was submitted as Reutnor Rotbart von Rothenberg. No documentation was provided for the given name and we could not adequately document its component parts in the Germanic given name pool. However, Laurel staff was able to discover a similar sounding name documented from the fifteenth century (from Ruter Henne, a burger at Minzenberg, who is cited from c. 1440 in Arnburger Personennamen: Untersuchungen zum Namenmaterial aus Arnsburger Urkunden vom 13. - 16. Jahrhundert, p. 91). This name seems to be the same given name that appears in modern times as "Rutger".

Thorfinn Rognvald Hundr. Name and device. Per pale argent and sable, in fess two drakkar prows palewise counterchanged. The letter of intent indicated that the spelling had been "normalized" from Jones' English transliteration "Hound". There is no need to extrapolate this byname: Geirr Bassi cites it as a documented Old Norse byname (p. 23).

Trystan de Beaumaris. Name and device. Vert, a dragon segreant Or and on a dexter tierce argent, a sheaf of three arrows inverted vert. This charged tierce is very poor style.

William the Navigator. Device. Per fess indented argent and azure, in pale a dolphin naiant and a dolphin inverted naiant to sinister counterchanged. The original return of this submission was for visual conflict with Theron de Chenay ("Per fess wavy argent and azure, five bottle-nosed dolphins embowed in annulo counterchanged."). White Stag based his appeal on the fact that the field division had been reblazoned from "dancetty" to "indented", asserting that this created a false similarity. As has been well established in the past by a considerable body of mundane scholarly research, as well as by Society precedent, period usage appears to have reserved the term "dancetty" for ordinaries rather than lines of division: the distinction between "dancetty" and "indented" when applied to ordinaries being not one of amplitude, as White Stag suggests, but a distinction parallel to that between counterembattled and bretassed. The second point, that the dolphins in William's device are not really "in annulo" is somewhat arguable as the bulk of the bodies are curved in an annulate manner. At the time of the original submission the sense of the Laurel meeting after a comparison of the emblazon sheets was that the two were visually too close. As this was always a "judgement call" and White Stag's excellent draftsmanship has persuaded the bulk of opinion in the College to a view that the two are clear, however marginally, we feel it would be unreasonable not to accede to the appeal.

KINGDOM OF TRIMARIS

Grania ni Fhearghuis. Name and device. Azure, two bendlets invected fretted with two scarpes invected, all between four dogwood blossoms argent, seeded Or. The name was submitted as Grania ni Fearghus. As the submittor allowed, we have modified it to the aspirated genitive form which normally follows the feminine patronymic particle.

Katherine Angelique d'Artois de Berry. Device. Gules, a grenade and on a chief rayonny Or, three towers gules.

Robin MacLeer. Name only (see RETURNS for device). The family name appears to be an anglicized form of mac Giolla Uidhir, rather a patronymic from Lir.

Rolfe Dürer. Name and device. Per bend sinister Or and sable, a dragon displayed and a keg fesswise counterchanged. The name was submitted as Rolfe von Duerer. As the documented period name Dürer (the extra "e" in the submitted for is clearly there to provide some indication that there should be an umlaut over the "u") is not used with the preposition, we have dropped that.

Sean de Carrigfergus. Name and device. Per pale and per chevron argent and vert, in bend two pairs of cogwheels in bend sinister vert.

Seumas Colla MacEoghainn. Name and device. Per fess embattled argent and sable, in pale a hurst of three trees proper, issuant from the line of division, and an open book Or. The name was submitted as Seumas Colla MacEobhainn. As noone could document the form of the byname used in the patronymic, we have modified it to the more usual "Eoghainn".

Siegfried Heydrich. Name and device. Quarterly Or and gules, a cross surmounted by a bordure, all counterchanged.

Vaca del Mar, Shire of. Name only.

Victoria of Swansea. Name only. The name was submitted as Victoria o Swansea. Since "Swansea" is the English form of the name, we have modified the preposition to the English equivalent.

KINGDOM OF THE WEST

Angelica of Bohemia. Name only.

Ayabe Ichiro. Name only.

David de Saxby. Device. Gyronny argent and sable, a monster statant consisting of the body and head of a lion, issuant from its back a goat's head guardant, tailed of a serpent, Or. He has permission to conflict with Alwyn Stewart ("Gyronny argent and azure, a sea griffin erect Or within a bordure counterchanged.").

Dietrich von den Weinbergen. Device. Per bend Or and vert, in bend sinister two fructed grapevines bendwise counterchanged.

Elizabeth of Gordonsward. Name only.

Jessica of Fearn Abbey. Name and device. Purpure, three acorns inverted Or and a chief triangular erminois.

Karel of the Three Isles. Device. Per saltire gules and argent, in base a set of panpipes argent.

Königsstadt, Canton of. Device. Vert, a chess king between three broad arrowheads, on a chief embattled Or, three laurel wreaths vert.

Myfanwy of Abersytwyth. Device. Per chevron argent and azure, two ravens close sable and a wolf's head cabossed argent within an orle counterchanged. She has permission to conflict with Duncan MacAlpin Shieldsbane("Per chevron argent and sable, two ravens passant and an estoile within an orle, all counterchanged.").

Phillipe des Pegases. Reblazon of device. Sable, a pegasus courant bendwise sinister argent, cotised Or, between a compass star Or and a great sword bendwise sinister proper. When the device was registered in March, 1985, the position of the pegasus as well as the relative positions of the star and the sword were blazoned in a confusing and inexact manner.

Richard Longstride. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Rivenoak, Shire of. Change of device. Gyronny argent and sable, an acorn inverted within a laurel wreath Or.

Rivenoak, Shire of. Change of badge. Gyronny argent and sable, an acorn inverted Or.

Saint Julian the Hospitaller, College of. Name and device. Quarterly argent and azure, a cross flory counterchanged sable and argent, in dexter chief a laurel wreath and on a chief sable, three mullets argent.

Tor von Butterberg. Name and device. Or, a Latin cross couped fretted with a delf voided gules, on a chief embattled vert, three harps argent. Vesper has provided documentation from Black (Surnames of Scotland, p. 769) which demonstrate the name "Thor" in this spelling to have been used by humans in period. Since neither the byname nor the device have any allusion to the divinity, the name is acceptable for Society use.

THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS ARE RETURNED:

KINGDOM OF ANSTEORRA

Alaric Liutpold von Steinman. Change of device. Gules, an eagle displayed, wings inverted, on a chief embattled argent, three crosses formy gules. Conflict with Stephanie of Ean Airegead ("Gules, a dove migrant to chief and on a chief embattled argent, three tulips gules."). A number of us also felt rather strongly that this was visually in conflict with the arms of Poland (Gules, an eagle displayed argent, armed and crowned Or."), since the Or details are frequently omitted from period and modern depictions of the arms.

Ishida Kuan. Device. Per bend sinister gules and argent, a sinister hand couped aversant between in fess a sword palewise inverted and a tonfa palewise inverted, all counterchanged. This arrangement of charges is almost random and certainly unbalanced, given the field division. Moreover, there is a serious question in the minds of most of the College of Arms as to the identifiability of the tonfa (apparently a martial arts weapon used by ninja). Some question was also raised as to its documentability as a period artefact (though Monsho feels it was) and other commentors feel that, apart from the question of identifiability, it is inappropriate for use as a charge because of its dishonourable associations in Japanese culture.

Rebekka die Blonde Akrites. Change of name from Rebekka die Blonde. As constructed the byname would mean "the blonde borderer" and involve a Greek masculine noun modified by a German feminine article and adjective, which is not permitted under our rules. The problem could have been ameliorated (although the result would not have been culturally probable) by changing the word order to "Rebekka Akrites die Blonde", but the submittor forbade any changes.

Thora the Red. Name only. Crescent has pointed out, quite properly, that Thor is regularly depicted in Norse sources as having red hair (an unusual feature for that part of the world!) and that, as a result, this may be considered presumptuous, even though it is a feminized form.

KINGDOM OF ATENVELDT

Orlenda ferch Llyn. Name only. Orlenda was presented as a feminine variant of the Italian name "Orlando". However, no evidence was adduced for the modification of the vowels in this name. "Llyn" is indeed Welsh, as stated on the letter of intent, but it is also a common noun (meaning "lake") rather than a proper name so it should not be used with "ferch". The submittor is advised to drop the "ferch" and use a period given name like "Oriana": Oriana Llyn.

KINGDOM OF CAID

Achmed Al'Gran Shaban. Change of name from Babur ibn Yesugai. The commentors were totally unable to provide any evidence for "Al'Gran" as meaning "left-handed". Star noted that a thorough search of all his sources showed no Persian or Arabic words beginning with "gr". Moreover, the term that appears for the left hand in the Persian dictionaries that could be consulted appears to be "dast-i chap". The name could be registered as "Achmed Shaban" (= "Achmed the Shepherd"), but the submittor allowed no changes to his name save to form a holding name. Since this was a name only submission, no holding name could be formed.

Arianne Lightheart of Whitehold. Device. Per bend azure and ermine, to dexter in fess three mullets of four points azure, a base sable. It was our feeling that this design, taken in its entirety, was excessively modern. To derive this particular emblazon, the line of division must be at a rather more shallow angle than usual and the base must take up literally the bottom third of the shield. Note as well that, although the mullets are blazoned on the letter of intent as being in base, they are in fact at the very center of the vertical axis of the shield, being in the dexter flank and fess point, and are not arranged in the "standard" manner for three charges placed below a bend or in the lower portion of a field divided per bend. Moreover, Hund is correct in noting that the mullets azure, at the scale required by the design, are insufficiently distinguished from the ermine spots of the field.

Julia Gilyneta Ahearn. Name for House Greywood. As Star noted, the household name conflicts with the previously registered name of the Shire of Graywood. We apologize to the submittor for not catching this earlier.

Monique l'Arrivée. Name only. Unfortunately, "l'Arrivée" does not appear to mean "the arrived" as noted on the letter of intent. Used as a noun as here, it means "the arrival" (as of a person), "finish line", etc. which makes very little sense in either a medieval or modern context. While Crescent says that he had not "the faintest idea" why the submittor selected this form, the submittor's forms appear to indicate that she feels that "monique l'arrivée" would mean "the arrival of the advisor" (apparently deriving "Monique" from its Latin "Monica" and assuming that to be itself derived from the Latin verb "moneo", which can mean "advise" or "warn").

Phillippa Llewelyn Schuyler. Device. Argent, a lavendar plant proper, on a chief invected azure, a quill pen fesswise reversed argent. Conflict with Jennet Witeney of Little Cowarne ("Argent, a lady fern frond vert, on a chief invected azure, a whelk shell fesswise opening to sinister Or."). The similarity of shape in the two plants seemed too great to allow a full point of difference for type here in addition to the partial tincture difference. The visual resemblance is even more striking when one considers the similarity in shape of the two tertiary charges when placed on the chief invected.

Sean Vuibhearn. Device. Gules, two lyres and a wyvern erect argent. Conflict with Brent ("Gules, a wyvern sejant, the tail nowed, argent."): the difference in posture of one foot did not seem adequate to carry this clear.

KINGDOM OF CALONTIR

Aldred d'Inconnu. Device. Azure, on a bend sinister between a bunch of grapes and a goblet Or, a bendlet couped azure. Conflict with Richard Andreivitch of Rus ("Azure, on a bend sinister Or, an estoile sable."), Blair Dubois ("Azure, a bend sinister between a cat sejant guardant and a dove close Or."), etc.

Anne McHenry. Device. Azure, a chevron argent between two crosses bottony and a thistle, slipped and leaved, Or. Conflict with Thorstein fra Agnefit ("Azure, a chevron throughout argent between two gouttes d'Or and a bear statant erect argent."), Angela of Stony Oak Forest ("Azure, a chevron between two acorns and an oak leaf argent."), Writington ("Azure, a chevron argent between three crosses crosslet fitchy Or."), etc.

Ariel of Glastonbury Tor. Device. Azure, a domestic cat sejant Or. Conflict with Mary Margaret of Derby ("Azure, a domestic cat passant to sinister Or."), Jordre Pargon of Windhover's Reach ("Azure, a snow leopard sejant argent, spotted sable.") and Jerimia von Braun ("Azure, two domestic cats sejant respectant, tails sufflexed and crossed in saltire, Or.").

Gawain McHenry. Device. Vert, a chevron between two thistles, slipped and leaved, and a horse's head, couped and sinister- facing, Or. Conflict with Sterling of Toad Hall ("Vert, a chevronel Or between in chief two bulldogs statant respectant erect, each gorged of a collar sable, and in base a squirrel sejant erect.") as well as the mundane arms of Skewis ("Vert, a chevron between three thistles Or.", as cited in Papworth, p. 424), Curle ("Vert, a chevron Or.", Papworth, p. 377), etc.

Gwennan nic Ailpein of Loch Sheil. Device. Vert, two bendlets wavy between four escutcheons, two and two, Or. Conflict with Anton the Fair ("Vert, two bendlets wavy between two suns Or."), registerd in October, 1988.

Kenneth Lyon of the Curr. Device. Azure, on a pile inverted throughout between two lions rampant argent, a lion rampant azure. Conflict with Rowena d'Anjou ("Azure, on a pile inverted throughout between two fleurs-de-lys argent a swan naiant affronty, wings inverted and addorsed, head to sinister, sable."), Ripley ("Per chevron argent and azure, three lions rampant counterchanged.", as cited in Papworth, p. 168), etc.

Ljubljana Kovaca. Name and badge. Argent, a sprig of holly vert, fructed gules. Since "Ljubljana" is the name of the period city that is the capital of Slovenia, some documentation is needed for its use as a given name in period. The badge is in conflict with the badge of the Barony of Rowany ("Two rowan leaves conjoined vert pendant therefrom three berries gules.") as well as the badge of Alen Elegil ("Two holly leaves, stems in saltire, vert.").

Morag MacKilcullen. Device. Or, a bend sinister cotised gules, overall a horse's head couped sable. Conflict with John of Dreiburgen ("Or, on a bend sinister cotised gules, three triangles palewise inverted, each within and conjoined to an annulet Or.").

Moriagh Teige O'Flaithbheartiagh. Device. Gyronny azure and argent, a trefoil slipped counterchanged. Conflict with Olwen of Buckland ("Azure, a trefoil slipped argent.").

Nina Camarata. Name and device. Azure, a two-tailed mermaid affronty, holding a tail in either hand, between three escallops argent. The given name is both a diminutive form from Russian names and a common noun in Spanish so it may not be used without evidence for its use in period. As the submittor insisted that no changes whatsoever be made to her name, the entire submission had to be returned.

KINGDOM OF THE EAST

Achren of the Debatable Lands. Name only. There was a considerable consensus in the College that the name Achren was too closely associated with the non-human for use in the Society. In the submittor's own documentation, the name is only associated with women of superhuman magical powers. Other citations which suggest Achren is closely associated with the underworld (and in some sources may even be an alternate name for Arawn) made commentors uncomfortable, particularly when taken in conjunction with the vulture on the device.

Alexander Chulannan. Name only. It was the consensus of the commentors that the byname, which was presented in the letter of intent as a variant of "Cullinan", "O Cuileannáin" and "Cullinane", was not proved to be a valid variant. The forms presented did not have an aspirated initial letter and in a noun in apposition after a masculine noun such aspiration would be unlikely. Moreover, the switch to the internal "a" is not demonstrated (the old Irish forms of "cuilean" end in a simple "en" as do some later forms indicating that the "a" does not become dominant, particularly in the penultimate syllable). As the submittor allows no changes to the name, we have to return the name as a whole.

Alys of Bath. Name only. As Vesper has noted, this name is in conflict with that of a very famous Chaucerian character: "Alison, wyf of Bath". (Alison is a period derivative of "Alis" or "Alis".)

Wulf Darkstalker. Device. Per pale and per bend gules and sable, in fess a lion sejant to sinister Or and a wolf sejant argent. The device was returned in April, 1988, because of the field division which is illegal under AR2a. Brigantia appealed this return on the grounds that the contrast here was at least as good as it would be for gyronny sable and gules which would be permissible under the current rules. As several commentors pointed out, however, in the case of the gyronny, there is at least the "presumption of identity" since the tinctures are evenly divided in a standard field division. In this case the field division is not standard and so is much less identifiable (there was an overwhelming desire to blazon it as quarterly when looking at the device quickly). In point of fact, were the gules portions of the field metallic, the most elegant method of blazoning this arrangement would be as "gyrons". Here this would produce "false heraldry" and so the blazon avoids this. As in the case of conflicts, if an alternate blazon applies, the device must be tested against that blazon: in this case, using the alternate blazon clarifies just what the identifiability problems are.

KINGDOM OF MERIDIES

Fiona O'Mull. Badge. Azure, on a sun throughout argent, a unicorn's head couped azure. Conflict with the badge of Micheila ni Fhionghuin of Skye ("Azure, a sun eclipsed azure charged with a mullet voided argent."): no more than a minor point can be assigned for the changes in type of the essentially blue objects on the sun.

Gloria Kirkhouse of Tain. Device. Gules, a cradle bendwise sinister Or, charged on the head and footboards with towers sable, within a bordure Or. As submitted, the cradle is drawn in trian aspect and is nearly unidentifiable. It is difficult to see how the towers could be depicted on the cradle if it were depicted in profile, which would make it most identifiable.

Knikolos Major of Salem-by-the-Sea. Badge. On a sun quarterly sable and gules, a plate. Conflict with Glynn Llan-y-Rhyllwyn ("Potenty gules and argent, a sun sable eclipsed argent charged with a mullet throughout sable."): no difference can be derived from the field and the eclipsing is essentially identical to the plate so the visual echo is great. Since the sun is not an ordinary, this is also in conflict with Boncueur ("Ermine, on a sun gules, a heart Or."): only a minor point can be derived from the changes to the tertiaries in addition to the minor for the partial change in the tincture of the sun.

KINGDOM OF THE MIDDLE

Caryn O'Hirwen. Name and device. Per pall azure, vert and sable, an abacus argent. As Crescent noted, the form of the given name is a period spelling for "carrion" and so may not be used without evidence for this spelling in period. We could not substitute her mundane given name of "Karen" because she forbade any grammatical or spelling changes to the name. Therefore the submission as a whole had to be returned. (Parenthetical note to all the commentors who noted the "binary" nature of the abacus: it probably was intentional since her forms indicate that she selected the charge because she is a mathematician.)

Galiena Goshawk. Device. Or, on a pile purpure between five lizards tergiant palewise, two, two and one, vert, a sinister hand appaumy Or. Unfortunately, it has previously been ruled that, since period piles would have extended almost to the bottom of the shield, there would not be space for a charge below a pile. Therefore, this submission must be returned.

Pelinora de Orion. Household name for Casa del Moro el ojo azul. The submittor forbade any changes to the household name saying "it is correct". Unfortunately, she erred in that belief. The English translation of the household name was "House of the Blue-Eyed Moor". If she meant that she wanted to indicate that the Moor had one blue eye and one of another tincture, she could have "Casa del Moro del Ojo Azul". However, it is much more likely that she wishes simply to indicate that the Moor is blue-eyed. In that case, the household name should be "Casa del Moro de los Ojos Azules".

Skalla Geirmundr Ulfsson. Device. Chequy Or and azure, a winged domestic cat passant argent. Conflict with the badge of Windmaster's Hill ("A winged cat passant, forepaw extended, wings elevated and addorsed, argent.").

KINGDOM OF THE OUTLANDS

Breichiol map Lludd o Fannauc. Device. Argent, three triangles conjoined azure. White Stag has produced ample and elegant documentation for this device, producing parallel examples of voided and conjoined geometric figures fro period heraldry and thus disposed of the stylistic objections for which this submission was originally returned. Unfortunately, Monsho has adduced the logo of the Rengo Shiki Company which is identical save for the tincture of the triangles. In his response to commentary White Stag stated that, since this is a trademark, it "must be considered a badge" and therefore sufficient difference exists. However, DR1b specifically indicates that a major and a minor point of difference are required "from all other mundane and fictional arms, badges, trademarks, and flags." [Italics ours.] Moreover, as Crescent has noted, the special difference regulations for mon in the current rules specify that only a minor point of difference can be allowed for tincture between mon and a device or primary mon which are both colour on metal (DR8). Even were that not the case, however, the only difference here under the "normal" difference count is for tincture which will produce only a single major point of difference which is insufficient.

Diana of the Tulips. Azure, five lozenges conjoined in fess Or between a compass star and a seal naiant to sinister argent. Conflict with Percy ("Azure, five lozenges conjoined in fess Or.", as cited in Papworth, p. 702).

Ian of Nightsgate. Device. Sable, on a saltire between four swords, hilts to center, argent, a pellet. Unfortunately, this conflicts with Dianne of the Golden Chalice ("Sable, on a saltire argent a chalice Or enflamed sable.").

Lydia of the Pines. Device. Argent, a pine branch in bend sinister, fructed proper, within an orle vert. This submission was originally returned for conflict with Lydia Nove ("Argent, a gore vert, in sinister a pine bough leaved and fructed proper."). White Stag's appeal of this return included analysis of registered armory where individuals with similar names used similar charges in their devices. While this was interesting, it was to some extent irrelevant, since this was not really a factor in the original submission. There is clearly a point of difference for the change of the gore to the orle. The remaining difference then must be derived from the position of the two pine boughs, since they are identical in tincture and type. White Stag's depiction of the bough is not entirely alien to the depiction on the emblazon sheet in the Laurel files, which was consulted at the time of the original submission. However, the boughs are more linear and the gore occupies rather more of the field. This being said, the orientation of the central portion of the bough is in a bendwise sinister position, with side shoots being drawn in and the whole constructed to fit around the gore. In the case of the proposed device, again the central orientation of the bough is bendwise sinister, although no side shoots are present in the depiction used by White Stag and by the submittor. Were such shoots present, which is a legitimate (and according to the files quite normal Society) depiction for pine boughs, the whole would be in almost the precise position of the boughs on Lydia Nove's device. It is the difference between the gore and the orle that forces the differences in position (much as a lion rampant would be more erect when placed to one side of a pale than he would be placed beside a gore). This being so we found it impossible to grant a full point of difference for the difference in position which was, as several commentors noted, more than usually susceptible to artistic interpretation.

Regina Masquer. Badge for the Sisterhood of Oeorpata. Or, three links of chain in chevron, the uppermost link fracted to chief, vert. By the submittor's own documentation the term "Oeorpata" is the name given to the Amazons by the Scythians according to Herodotus. Leaving aside the issue of the non-human origins of their namesakes, the combination of the name and the badge struck a number of the commentors as being to evocative of the Free Amazons of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover (who are also called "the Sisterhood"), particularly as presented in the novel entitled The Shattered Chain.

Ruter Rotbart von Rothenberg. Device. Per bend azure and sable, a bend cotised within a bordure argent. Conflict with Maddy the First Born ("Azure, a bend between a sword argent, hilted gules, and a mullet, all within a bordure argent.").

Ruter Rotbart von Rothenberg. Badge. Two swords inverted in chevron surmounted by a sword palewise, all proper, overall an eagle displayed Or. Conflict with Andra of Northeton ("Azure, two swords inverted in saltire, surmounted by another palewise proper, overall a unicorn's head erased Or.").

Robert aus den Nordlichten. Change of name from Robert of Windkeep. The name was originally returned because the byname means "from the Northern Lights" in German and there was considerable feeling in the College that this was tantamount to a claim of non-human origin. White Stag eloquently argues that this is an example of synecdoche (the figure of speech where the part stands for the whole, e.g., blade for sword, sail for ship, roof for house, etc.). Unfortunately, not only is German more given to pleonasm than synecdoche in its geographic names, but this is not truly a case of synecdoche, since the Northern Lights are not really a part of the human settled lands of the north. The preposition "aus" has a very specific sense of being "out of" or "having one's origin in" the noun that follows and in Germanic legend the Northern Lights are very much a domain of the superhuman. Alas! the analogue with the registered name of "Randall von Nordlichwald" is false since the missing "t" changes the meaning considerably from the translation given by White Stag: the German "nordlich" is an adjective simply meaning "northern" so that the place name is equivalent to "Northwoods". If his intent is really to convey that he is from the far north, the name "Robert aus den Nordländern", which is not so different in sound, would be perfect. . .

KINGDOM OF TRIMARIS

Aylwin of Stone's Leah. Device. Argent, on a bend sinister azure between two cinquefoils vert, three escallops argent. check name. Conflict with Rory O'Rourke ("Argent, a bend sinister azure between two four-leaved shamrocks vert.")

Robin MacLeer. Device. Argent, on a pale vert between two escallops inverted gules, a seahorse Or. Conflict with Gwydion Pendderwen ("Argent, on a pale vert, a crescent above three acorns Or."): there is a major point for adding the secondaries, but the changes to the tertiaries do not equal a major point of difference under the current rules.

Stanson Garrette. Name and device. Gyronny purpure and argent, a mullet nowy of four points Or. The given name is clearly a patronymic formation and, as such, is not permissible as a given name unless definite period exemplars can be found. The device alas conflicts with Paul of Sunriver ("Azure, a compass star Or.").

Trevor Morningstar. Name and device. Argent, on a mullet of seven points arrondy within an annulet purpure, a mullet of seven points argent, the whole between three golpes. As a number of commentors have noted, Trevor appears to be a modern usage when used as a given name, being a surname of geographic origin from "Trefor" (="big town"). Morningstar falls afoul of House Morningstar, registered to Telbyrne Morningstar in 1979. The device also presents difficulties. While the use of the trademark gave many members of the College a queasy feeling, the device is technically clear. However, the central charge (i.e., the trademark) is so complex as to be essentially unidentifiable in this context and also creates an unacceptably modern effect for the device as a whole.

KINGDOM OF THE WEST

Arielle of Amberwood. Name only. Unfortunately, the "coined" placename was previously constructed by Aislynn of Amberwood and registered by her for House Amberwood.

Ivan Nikolaevich Kozorézov. Device. Or, two legless wyverns combattant and in base a cross swallowtailed, all gules. The attributed arms of Uther Pendragon, which appear in a number of rolls of arms, are variously blazoned has having two "dragons" or "wyverns" (there is little doubt that the two were interchangeable in the early period) "combattant" or "respectant". In some manuscripts they are shown as vert, in others as gules. Such is the fame of the bearer and the popularity of Arthurian display in our period that it seems foolhardy to allow such a close variation of these arms. It should be noted, that in the later manuscripts the red dragons are shown as crowned gules and the gules dragons are shown as crowned vert, which reinforces the impression that the two versions of the arms derive from the same tradition. Given the tradition that Cadwallader of Wales bore as his personal standard the dragon gules, which even today appears on an argent and vert field as the emblem of Wales, one can suspect that the older tradition would have the dragons gules.

Richard Longstride. Device. Per fess azure and argent, a mullet counterchanged. Unfortunately, Seraph and Crescent are correct in pointing out a technical conflict with the tinctureless badge of Astra Christianna Benedict ("On a mullet, a cross crosslet."). Perhaps in the interest of good heraldry, she might be persuaded permission to conflict. . .?

Saint Monica, College of. Device. Per chevron azure and argent, in pale two quills in saltire and a laurel wreath counterchanged. The name was returned in November, 1988. Since holding names cannot be formed for groups, the device must be returned. The proposed armoury is, moreover, uncomfortably close to that of Rosemary the Nightengale ("Per chevron argent and azure, in chief two quills and in base an ankh within an annulet countercharged."), as Vesper has noted.

THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSION IS PENDED:

KINGDOM OF THE MIDDLE

Middle Marches, Barony of. Badge for Order of the Gilded Arrow. Two arrows inverted in saltire Or, barbed argent, overall a pheon inverted Or. This badge was submitted with the arrows blazoned as "proper". However, the emblazon sheets depicted the arrow shafts and fletching to be metallic gold while the barbs were metallic silver and the pheon overall was yellow. This badge is pended until the May meeting to allow the commentors to check for conflict on this basis and for Dragon to check with the submitting barony what they really intended. If the arrows really are meant to be dark wood, tipped argent, with tinctured fletching (fletching must be specified), a resubmission with appropriately tinctured emblazon must be made.

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