June 1989 LoAR

JUNE XXIV (1989)

THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS ARE APPROVED:

KINGDOM OF ANSTEORRA

Acelin O'Comraidhe. Name only.

Arthur Blackmoon. Name only (see RETURNS for device and badge).

Axel von Bremen. Name only.

Caol of Bannockburn. Name and device. Vert, two seahorses combattant argent, maintaining between them a staff topped by a harp Or.

Carlota Maria de Granada. Change of device. Bendy argent and sable, a decrescent Or, overall a cross botonny gules.

Caroline de Loreyne. Device. Argent, on a bend wavy between two hearts pierced sable, three hawk's bells palewise argent.

Catrin ferch Bradwen. Name only.

Cycalye of Monmouthshire. Name only. The given name is documented as a spelling of Cecily in the Yorkshire Recusant lists of 1604. As those listed were generally those fined for non-attendance at required services, it may generally be assumed that they were "of the age of reason" at that time.

Eleri Rhiannon ferch Cian. Change of name from Deborah Caddell and change of device. Azure, on an escallop inverted argent, a spider azure, all within a bordure engrailed argent.

Erika Arenvaldsdochter. Device. Per saltire sable and erminois, a maunch counterchanged.

Genevieve of Willow Springs. Name only.

Giovanni Lorenzo di Montefiori. Change of name from Giovanni dei Fiori.

Gryphon's Rooste, Shire of. Name only.

Jolitte Marie Catherine Tollmache. Name and device. Vert, on a fess of three fusils three fleurs-de-lis sable.

Namron, Barony of. Or, a pile wavy sable. Note that this is essentially the Barony's arms without the laurel wreath.

Patrick Domhnall O'Dea. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Tadhg Liath of Duncairn. Badge (see RETURNS for household name). On an escallop inverted gules, a Celtic cross crossletted Or.

Teresa von Asselen. Device. Per bend gules and sable, a bend cotised between two garden roses bendwise, slipped and leaved, Or.

Thorgard inn Svarti. Change of name from Thorgard the Black. The name was submitted as Thorgard Inn Svarti, but the article is usually not capitalised..

Yseulte de la Rose. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

KINGDOM OF CAID

Alys Meghan Cattewynne. Name and device. Gules, three roses and on a chief dovetailed Or, a domestic cat couchant guardant sable.

Brendan Morgansbane. Device. Gyronny argent and vert, a raven displayed, wings inverted, sable, within a bordure counterchanged. Please tell the submittor to draw the bordure wider. [Ed. Note: we finally gave up and created a macro for this. . .].

Fadl Swiftrunner. Name and device. Per pale Or and gules, a fret counterchanged.

Isolde Baird. Device. Azure, a wolf's head cabossed between two flaunches argent. She has permission to conflict with Janek Shiron ("Azure, a harp reversed between two flaunches argent, each charged with a quill azure.").

John ap Gwyndaf of Holdingford. Name and device. Quarterly sable and gules, a sword inverted between four lozenges, all within a bordure argent. Please ask the submittor to draw the bordure and lozenges larger.

Merry of Wintermist. Holding name and device. Purpure, honeycombed Or, three butterflies argent. The submission was made under the name Drisana Aminah Ayishah.

Stephen Locksley. Device. Vert, a panther rampant to sinister between two pallets engrailed argent.

Thurstan de Barri. Device. Quarterly vert and argent, a winged lion-dragon sejant to sinister Or. He has permission to conflict with the badge of Brann Morgan Dunmore of Galloway ("A cockatrice erect to sinister Or drawing a sword from a scabbard proper."). This would be improved if the head of the lion did not lie entirely on the argent portion of the field, making it more difficult to identify.

KINGDOM OF CALONTIR

Alejandro Arquero. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Alisaundre Muir. Name and device. Per fess wavy azure and vert, in pale a seagull displayed guardant and a frog sejant affronty argent.

Anastasia Minskaya. Name and device. Per pale azure and argent, an open scroll within a bordure counterchanged.

Caitlin MacLeod. Name and device. Gules, three roses in fess argent, barbed and seeded proper, and three chevronels braced, all within a bordure argent. Please tell the submittor to draw the bordure wider.

Christian d'Hiver. Badge. An escarbuncle purpure surmounted by an annulet argent.

Coinneach Aindrias MacLeod. Badge. Per fess azure and argent, an axe palewise inverted surmounted by two axes in saltire, all within a bordure embattled counterchanged. The submission was made under the name Coinneach Anrias Macleod an Sidheach, but the form above is the form in which the name was registered in December, 1988.

Dugald MacPherson. Name and device. Or, semy of turtles vert, a claymore gules.

Elkshire. Device. Per chevron sable and argent, two elk's heads, erased and respectant, argent and a laurel wreath vert.

Eric of Novgorod. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Glas de Carraig. Name and device. Vert, two krakens inverted in pile Or. By Society precedent going back to 1971, the normal posture for a kraken is with the tentacles in chief.

Glas de Carraig. Badge. A kraken bendwise inverted Or.

Ida Lundy. Name only.

Janet of Riverhold. Holding name and device. Per bend sinister sable and gules, a decrescent, within its horns a mullet argent, and a griffin passant Or. The submission was made under the name Zarifa bent Bad'r.

Katerina Arondel. Name only.

Luned ni Luarain of Kilkenny. Name only. The name was submitted as Lyneth ni Luaran of Kilkenny. While "Lyneth" does appear in Gruffudd (p. 63), it is stated there that it is derived from the French "Lynette" which is itself derived from the period Welsh form "Eluned". No date for this form is given and, failing documentation for the spelling, the presumption is that it is post-period. Therefore, we have substituted the documented period Welsh spelling "Luned". The Irish patronymic requires that the father's name be in the genitive, not the nominative form used in the submitted name.

Maddelena Jessamyn di Piemonte. Device. Or, on a fess wavy vert, a cinquefoil Or.

Morgan the Tanner. Name and device. Or, on a hide sable a half moon knife argent, hilted Or. The defining instance of the "hide" in Society heraldry is the device of Vuong Manh, for many years Kraken Herald of Atlantia. As Badger has provided documentation for a knife/axehead of essentially this shape used in German heraldry prior to 1483 (in the arms of Frankenstein!!!), the tertiary charge seems acceptable.

Natalia Groutt. Name and device. Per chevron sable and argent, a mullet of four points and in chief two vols Or. Though technically legal, this device is rather unbalanced, the more so since the lower portion of the mullet almost disappears in the argent portion of the field.

Nicholas Colfox. Device. Argent, a fox's mask sable within a bordure sable, platy.

Randwulf aus dem Schnee. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Raonull Modar. Device. Per pale flory counterflory argent, ermined purpure, and purpure, to sinister a mullet of eight interlaced mascles argent, all within a bordure counterchanged.

Raonull Modar. Badge for Rinaldo Moretto da Brescia. Azure, ermined, three wolves' teeth issuant from dexter argent.

Regina Lisle. Name only. As the forms still had the name as "Regine d'Lisle", we assume that the submitted form is the result of consultation. Please emphasize to the submittor why the preposition may not be used with her given name, even though "Regina" is her mundane name.

Rhianwen ferch Bran ap Gruffydd. Name and device. Argent, a sea-horse, erect and sinister facing, maintaining a trident, gules between two flaunches azure, each charged with a rose argent, barbed and seeded proper.

Sabria de l'Ardennes. Name and device. Gules, semy of sparks, on a bend rayonny Or, a dragon courant vert. Please ask the submittor to draw the wings on the dragon larger. As drawn, it is not surprising that some mistook this for the (wingless) Chinese dragon.

Stanislas Blachuta. Device. Per fess sable, mulletty argent, and argent, in base a wolf statant guardant sable.

Susan of Forgotten Sea. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Azure, a tree blasted couped Or between three escarbuncles argent. The submission was made under the name Suzanne of Winterwood.

Three Rivers, Barony of. Name for Baron's Order of Gallantry. [Irreverent comment from meeting: "BOG?".]

Three Rivers, Barony of. Name for Baroness' Order of Patronage. [Irreverent comment from meeting: "BOP?".]

KINGDOM OF THE EAST

Arianna McPhearson. Name only. The name was submitted as Arriena McPhearson. Examination of the sources in several languages confirmed Crescent's observation that all the variant forms from Ariadne preserved the "a" in the latter part of the name so that this is probably not a reasonable variant of the name "Arianna". If she is wedded to the "e" grade in the name, she might want to consider the classical name "Arienis", the wife of Astyages of Medea, cited by Dolphin.

Astrid of Normandy. Name and device. Purpure, a squirrel sejant to sinister between four mullets in cross Or.

Beatrice de Winslow. Name and device. Purpure, a dolphin naiant between three open books argent.

Beorhtric von Adlerheim. Name only.

Ceara MacKieran of Arundel. Name and device. Argent, a pegasus salient, on a base dovetailed sable a harp argent, stringed Or.

East Kingdom. Title for Mosaic Pursuivant.

East Kingdom. Release of title for Barleycorn Pursuivant.

East Kingdom. Release of title for Ercinee Pursuivant.

East Kingdom. Release of title for Misty Pursuivant.

East Kingdom. Release of title for Silver Cloud Pursuivant.

East Kingdom. Release of title for Snowdrift Pursuivant.

Emrys y Crwydryn. Change of name from Turlough Mac Art the Red Wolf. As with the Shofar and Hund staffs, many of the Laurel staff had serious twitches about the use of the name "Emrys" with an epithet like "the Wanderer" which is so appropriate for Merlin. However, the name is now this side of acceptability, whatever the intentions of the submittor.

Gareth the Eccentric of Saint Albans. Name only.

Genna of Dragonslair. Name only.

Gisela von Salzburg. Name only (see RETURNS for device). The name was submitted as Gisela Hohenstaufen von Salzburg. Brigantia argued that the name Hohenstaufen, though the name of a dynasty forbidden for use in the Society since at least 1982, was analagous to the names "Stuart" and "d'Este" which had since been allowed. However, the analogy is not close: both of the cited names which have been permitted have been documented in clearly non-dynastic contexts. This cannot be said of the Hohenstaufen name which is closely associated with the German kingship and Holy Roman Empire. To register the name we have dropped this dynastic surname.

Gwydion Caithnes of Wyk. Name only. The name "Gwydion" has recently been ruled acceptable for Society use in the case of Gwydion Rhys ap Rhianwen.

Isabella Bianca. Name only.

Isobel Reid of Stirling. Name only.

Jean de la Rue. Name only.

Marten Jeros Bröker. Badge. A bridge vert.

Nicetas Lecapenus of Antioch. Name and device. Per chevron inverted gules and azure, a chevron inverted between a goblet inverted, distilling a goutte, and in pile two gekko lizards statant addorsed, tails entwined, Or.

Nikolai Jaggar. Change of name from Nikolai Jager and device. Per chevron gules and sable, a fetterlock within a bordure argent. For those who were wondering, his mundane given name is "Mike".

Peter Grimsby. Name and device. Vert, a pale gules, fimbriated, between two rabbits combattant Or.

Port Oasis, Shire of. Name and device. Azure, a lymphad in full sail, oars in action, Or within a laurel wreath and on a chief argent three bars wavy azure.

Robin MacLaine. Name and device. Per bend embattled argent and sable, a lion rampant gules and a unicorn rampant argent.

Robyn the Sharpe. Name only.

Sean Gobha. Name only. The name was submitted as Sean Gobhinn. Unfortunately, this is a genitive form used after the typical "mac" of a patronymic. When the word for "blacksmith" is used as an epithetic surname, it is "Gobha" (pronounced "Gova"). If he wishes the sound rather than the meaning of the submitted name, he would be well advised to use the Anglicised form "Gowen".

Thibault MacDonald Elliot de Valenciennes. Badge. A cinquefoil between four batons interlaced gules.

Veronica of Manchester. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Vratislav Netopier. Name and device. Barry bendy argent and purpure, a reremouse displayed Or. Given the recent release of the movie, there was an inevitable discussion as to whether this infringed on the assumed arms of Batman. . .

Wolfgang Krieger. Name only.

KINGDOM OF MERIDIES

Alexandria Amatoria. Name only. Note that, while the adjective "amatorius" is from the Latin word for "lover", it has a more generalized meaning of "pertaining to passionate love" (as in Ovid's Ars Amatoria). While this does not necessarily have the "sex toy" connotation mentioned by Crescent, it could and the submittor should be probably told of this fact.

Michael of Wolfhaven. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Azure, two axes in saltire between two lightning bolts palewise inverted Or, issuant from a chief nebuly argent. The submission was made under the name Mailloch of Wolfhaven.

Oskar den Frivillige Ungkarlen. Name and device. Gules, a claw hammer argent, handled Or, within an orle of passion nails argent, a chief per fess azure and argent.

Osprey, Shire of the. Augmented arms. Azure, an osprey stooping within a laurel wreath, in chief three mullets in chevron argent.

Patricia le Wyneter. Device. Purpure, a pall inverted and in sinister chief a mullet of four points elongated to base, all within a bordure Or. The submission was made under the name of Patris le Wyneter, but this is the form in which the name was registered in February, 1989. Note that this would be much more balanced were there a similar mullet in the dexter compartment of the field.

Rolland Kyle of Kincora. Name only (see RETURNS for device). The submittor originally wished Kyle of Kincora. Recent research has documented "Cael" as a period Irish given name (pronounced "keel") meaning slender and he may be interested in that as an alternative (if he is really not going to use Rolland. . .). For details see O Corrain and Maguire, Gaelic Personal Names, p. 40.

Sebastian Halyburton. Device. Quarterly sable and argent, a griffin segreant to sinister within a bordure counterchanged.

Thomas Tarn Travis. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

KINGDOM OF TRIMARIS

Benén Mactire. Name only (see RETURNS for device). The name was submitted as Banan Mac-tire. However, the citation from Yonge does not cite "Banan" as a period given name and the other sources available did not show this form from Irish or any other Celtic language. Therefore, we have substituted the similar sounding "Benén" (the final "é" is pronounced like the "o" in "show"). As far as we can tell, the hyphen was a misreading of the citation in Mac & Mac, which used it to indicate the component parts of the compound, not because it would be used in a period Gaelic word.

Charissa the Compulsive. Name only. The name was submitted as Carrissa the Compulsive with a reference to the previous registration for Carissa of Burgundy. It should be noted that that registration was from the grand "Heraldicon" in 1979: so much was done in such haste in those few days that many submissions were registered that would not have in calmer times. In point of fact, we found no documentation whatsoever for the name in the file for Carissa of Burgundy. However, as Spenser used "Charissa" as a form of the Renaissance name "Charis", we have substituted that period, if late, name. (The submittor should be informed that, though the spelling differs, the pronunciation is almost identical since Italian and mediaeval Greek use a "k" for the "ch" (or "chi" in the case of Greek).

Côte de Vert, College of. Name only. The name was submitted as Cote d'Vert. We have restored the circumflex accent to the primary noun and, since the "e" does not elide before a "v", also restored the "e" to the preposition and removed the apostrophe.

Eglantine de Wolfe. Device. Quarterly nebuly argent and azure, in bend two wolf's heads, erased and addorsed, sable, in bend sinister two roses argent, barbed and seeded proper.

Elfwyn de Barfleur. Name and device. Argent, in pale two artist's brushes sable, bristled gules, and a drakkar sailing to sinister sable, marked gules, all between two pallets azure. It was our feeling that this sailed just this side of overcomplexity.

Lorcán ab Arthur. Name and device. Or, two chevronels fretted with a chevronel inverted sable, on a chief vert three mullets Or.

Maredudd ap Cynan. Name and device. Per pale sable and argent, in pale a ferret statant and a single-horned anvil counterchanged.

Michaela of Heron's Rest. Name and device. Per pale vert and Or, in fess a heron in its vigilance and sinister facing and an estoile of eight points, in base two barrulets wavy counterchanged.

Sarah Lynnette of Carlisle. Name only.

Stephen Greyhawkes. Device. Azure, on a plate between three croses moline Or, a hawk's head erased sable, a chief indented argent.

Susan van Ham Langille. Name only.

Thomas du Lac. Name only.

Thomas Stewart. Name and device. Per fess vert and sable, in pale two staffs in saltire and a sword reversed fracted chevronwise argent.

Todd of Golden Keype. Holding name and device. Sable, a pale chevronelly Or and gules between in chief a thistle, slipped and leaved, and a cross crosslet fitchy argent. The submission was made under the name Kamber MacKinnon.

Torrin of Swansea. Name only.

Ulrica Wren de Montgomery. Name and device. Purpure, a Bowen knot between three wrens close, those in chief respectant, Or. Please ask the submittor to draw the wrens more "wrenishly".

Xanthus Drake Ruthendale. Name only. Although "Xanthos" was used as a given name in classical Greece, it was also used as a geographic name for several towns and rivers. Indeed, the conjunction of these names in the mundane analogue to Xanth made some of the College more than a little twitchy. . .

Zubayda von Drachenberg. Name only.

KINGDOM OF THE WEST

Angela of Silverwood. Change of device. Or, an orca haurient embowed sable, marked argent, on a chief azure, two mullets argent.

Anastacia of Warwick. Name and device. Vert, a bend sinister rayonny between two roses argent, barbed and seeded Or.

Arenvald von Hagenburg. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Arthur of Cruach Mhór. Name and device. Azure, a sea dog rampant to sinister within a bordure wavy argent. The name was submitted as Arthur o Cruach Mhór. As this form would require declension and a consequent significant change in sound of the noun and adjective, we have used the lingua franca for the preposition: English prepositions are not uncommonly used with the nominative form of a Gaelic place name in period and modern Anglicised names such as this.

Christian du Glaive. Badge. Sable, a lion rampant to sinister, bearing in its forepaws a cross botonny, argent.

Christian du Glaive. Badge. Gules, a grenade Or, enflamed proper, within a bordure rayonny Or. Please ask him to draw the flaming more "properly", i.e., with more gules on the flames.

Eadward Fetel. Name only.

Laura Rydal of Grasmere. Name and device. Gyronny argent and sable, in cross four roses proper.

Margaret de Trobrigge. Name and device. Argent, three pallets vert, on a chief gules a martlet argent. The letter of intent gave the surname as "of Trobrigge" but on her forms she indicates she wishes the documented form with "de".

Morgan the Wanderer. Name only.

Myfanwy ferch Dafydd. Change of name from holding name of Myfanwy of Innilgard.

Ríonach O'Melaghlin. Name only (see PENDING for device).

Saint Monica, College of. Name and device. Per chevron azure and argent, two quills in saltire and a laurel wreath counterchanged. As the bulk of the commentors who had problems with this submission previously were persuaded by the appeal or were silent, Laurel felt bound to grant the appeal on the name. [Ed. Note: Vesper errs in stating that noone seemed to have thought that the previously registered Colleges of Sts. Bartholomew, Andrew, Augustine and Katherine conflicted: at least one Elmet Herald and Brigantia Herald expressed very strong doubts on these names. . .].

Selwyn Searobyrig. Name and device. Purpure, mulletty, in fess two towers argent.

Siana Alyna of Muirwood. Badge. Argent, on a cushion sable, belled at the corners gules, a wolf's jambe fesswise erased argent.

Thomas Cordwainer of Elderwood. Name and device. Or, three suns in splendour within a bordure indented gules.

Viviana de Castelloza. Name and device. Argent, a demi-fleur-de-lys within and conjoined to a crescent vert, all within an orle sable.

THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS ARE RETURNED:

KINGDOM OF ANSTEORRA

Arthur Blackmoon. Device. Sable, on a sinister hand appaumy couped Or, a decrescent moon sable. As no difference can really be derived from the a sinister hand versus a dexter hand, this is in conflict with the badge of the Kingdom of Atenveldt for its Hospitallers ("Gyronny azure and gules, a dexter hand appaumy couped Or.") and with Barbara of Vandelalven ("Per gyronny argent, azure, gules and sable, a dexter hand appaumy, couped at the wrist and fingers spread, Or, charged with a flame gules.").

Arthur Blackmoon. Badge. On a sinister hand appaumy couped Or, a decrescent moon sable. This is functionally identical to the submitted device and would have had to have been returned, had that passed, since there must be at least a minor degree of difference between items of registered armoury, even those for the same person. As it is, being fieldless, it conflicts with the conflicts cited for the device.

Cassandra Louise Marchand. Device. Argent, a swan volant, wings displayed, sable within an orle of pansies purpure, slipped and leaved vert. Conflict with Bridget of Perth ("Argent, an arrow inverted sable within a chaplet of violets proper."). It should also be noted that a wreath of pansies has previously been ruled to be too close to the queens' wreath of roses to be registered to one who is not entitled to a wreath of roses (April, 1985).

Patrick Domhnall O'Dea. Device. Per pale embattled purpure and Or, a demi-lion rampant issuant from base and in chief two crosses pointed, all counterchanged. After much consideration, we were bound to agree with the commentors who felt that the counterchanging along the line of division unacceptably reduced the identifiability of the already unusually placed demi-lion. Note that this had nothing to do with the depiction on the emblazon sheet, which was admittedly poor: even after rendition by a good heraldic artist the "crazy- quilt" effect diminished the recognisability of the lion, already diminished by its placement in base.

Tadhg Liath of Duncairn. Name for Fraterculi Thelonii. This runs into several problems. A large number of commentors noted (and groaned at) the play on the name of the famous jazz musician Thelonius Monk. Additionally, a diligent search of Liddell and Scott ("the BIG Greek dictionary") and several glossators reveals no Greek "theloneos" of which this is stated to be a Latinate form. As Crescent noted, compounds involving willingness, such as this is stated to be, retain the "e" in compounds. (You cannot simply compound the first person singular of a verb, "thelo", and the masculine singular nominative of an adjective, "neos", in Greek to form a new adjective.) Indeed, the nearest Greek word to this form is "thelone", a feminine noun denoting a wet nurse, which we doubt is a meaning with which Actuarius would feel comfortable ("The Wetnurse Friars"?). As a matter of fact, the more mediaevally oriented members of the Laurel staff did not note the modern jazz allusion initially, but immediately took the name as a rather too close play on the monks of Rabelais' Abbey of Theleme.

Yseulte de la Rose. Device. Azure, a chevron throughout ermine between two roses and a unicorn rampant argent. Unfortunately, it was ruled some time ago that the "chevron throughout" is merely a period variant of the chevron and no difference can be derived from enhancing the chevron. Therefore, there is a conflict with both the pieces of armoury cited on the letter of intent: Ladbroke ("Azure, a chevron ermine.", as cited in Papworth, p. 373) and William of Martinvast ("Azure, a chevron ermine between in chief three mullets in fess and in base a martlet argent.").

KINGDOM OF CAID

Alys Meghan Cattewynne. Badge. Gules, semy of cat's faces Or, a rose argent, barbed and seeded Or. Despite Laurel's well-known prejudice in favour of semy of cat's faces, we had to agree with Brachet that this does infringe on the white rose of York.

Connor MacNicol. Device. Sable, two bendlets disjointed, the upper portions enhanced, gules, fimbriated argent. This submission raised a number of questions: whether this new treatment for bends should be accepted for Society use, how it should be blazoned and, if acceptable, whether it was too complex to fimbriate. We had to agree with Crescent that the overall design was conceptually simple (although some of the Laurel staff also agreed with the heralds in Aneala who saw a resemblance to a freeway entry sign. . .). Under recent rulings there is no doubt that two plain bendlets could be fimbriated in this design. The issue of the proposed treatment is less clear. No clear evidence has been presented for the period use of this treatment, although Crescent is correct in stating that it is conceptually similar to bevilled, which has been ruled "Society-compatible". On the whole, we are inclined to feel that the usage is compatible with Society practise, although it is also clear that the limbs could be disjointed with the lower or upper limbs elevated and so these must be specified. (While this is similar to a bend bevilled, it is not identical: if the upper edge of the lower portion of the bend bevilled is extended, it runs through the center of the bend, not along the lower edge as is the case of the bend here.) However, after much consideration we concluded that the addition of the fimbriation here adds an unacceptable degree of confusion to the visual effect which seriously reduces the overall identifiability of the unusual bend.

Drisana Aminah Ayishah. Name only. While the latter two names are documented as Arabic feminine names, the only documentation provided for the given name was from The New Age Baby Book, which claimed it was Sanskrit and meant "daughter of the sun". As no documentation was provided for its use by humans in period and the College could neither document it as a period given name nor rule out its use for Hindu divinities, we felt it had to be returned for lack of adequate documentation.

KINGDOM OF CALONTIR

Alejandro Arquero. Device. Sable, a dragon segreant argent, in dexter chief a rose Or, seeded gules. Conflict with Alexander Greylorn ("Sable, a dragon segreant incensed of icy breath and a chief rayonny argent.") and Alfhild the Mad ("Sable, a dragon rampant argent, armed Or, in chief two lymphads sailing to sinister, sails furled, flags flying and oars in motion, all Or.").

Duncan Bruce of Logan. Device. Or, on a heart gules, a Thor's hammer Or, all within a bordure gules. Brachet is correct in calling a technical conflict under the current rules with the device of Aislinn Gildara of Breemore ("Gules, on a heart Or a chaplet of heather vert, flowered purpure, all within a bordure Or."). The current rules require that only a single major point of difference be given for the counterchanging of the field and the charges. This is ironic since the proposed device is visually much closer to that of Wanda von Halstern ("Or, a heart gules surmounted by a spray of five daisy flowers slipped and leaved proper within a bordure engrailed gules."). However, under the current rules, Wanda's device is clear because the daisy flowers are in fact overall (when the device was passed the proper flowers appear to have been considered neutral despite the low contrast of the flowers themselves with the field).

Eric of Novgorod. Device. Or, a pall azure, in chief a tyger salient, holding a goblet with his tail, gules. Because of the "secondary limit" in the current rules, this conflicts with Winifred Corbeaunoir ("Or, a pall azure between three ravens rising to sinister, wings elevated and addorsed, sable.").

Jacques d'Avignon. Device. Per bend sinister azure and Or, a table cut gemstone fesswise, seen from above, argent and a bunch of grapes purpure. While a number of gemstones were registered in the early days of the Society (indeed the blazon given above for the stone draws partially on one of these), this does not seem to meet our current standards for identifiability of charge. As has frequently been noted before, not all items documented in period are suitable for heraldic charges and this seems to fall into that category of exceptions. In effect, without the interior markings, this is a peculiar billet fesswise argent and not really identifiable without the blazon as the gemstone he desires.

Randwulf aus dem Schnee. Device. Argent, a wolf rampant to sinister sable and three wolves' teeth issuant from sinister gules. As Hund noted, this is in conflict with Eirianedd o Randir Mawr ("Argent, a hawk rising, wings addorsed and inverted, sable, issuant from sinister three wolve's teeth gules."). It is also uncomfortably close to Rohais of Wolfhill ("Argent, a wolf rampant to sinister sable atop a mount vert, in chief a rose gules, barbed and seeded proper.").

Suzanne of Winterwood. Name only. Direct conflict with Susan of Winterwood, registered in January, 1988.

Three Rivers, Barony of. Name for the Order of Three Rivers. As we traditionally consider the type designator (group type, order/award, or heraldic grade) as "transparent" when considering conflict, this name is identical to the name for the Barony. Under our rules at least some minor difference in name (e.g., translation) must exist.

Zarifa bent Bad'r. Name only. While Star has noted "Zareef" as a masculine name in a modern source and indicated that the feminine formation is correct, it would be necessary to have solid evidence of the period use of the given name since it is also a title. As noted by the OED (s.v. "shereefa"), this is the title of the wife of a "shereef" (also transliterated commonly as "zareef"). "Zareef" is clearly used as a title of rank and honour, in some sources referring to a descendent of Mohammed through Fatima (and thus to one priestly rank), but more commonly to Moslem princes. Indeed, this is the usual title in early English sources and many works translated from Arabic for both the period ruler of Morocco and the magistrate who ruled Mecca itself. The apostrophe, even in transliteration, usually indicates that something has been elided from the word or name. In this case "Badr" as such appears in period sources and so the apostrophe is superfluous.

KINGDOM OF THE EAST

Arval Benicoeur. Badge. A cross patoncy per saltire sable and Or. Under the current rules, which allow no difference for field for fieldless badges, this is identical to his registered device. Since some minor difference is required between items of Society heraldry even with permission (permission to conflict with oneself is assumed), this ironically cannot be registered, although it is already effectively registered since it could not be used by anyone else!

East Kingdom. Title for Azure Yale Pursuivant. Technically, this does indeed technically conflict with the Yale Pursuivant. However, as Crescent has demonstrated that this title is held by Yale University, it might be possible to gain permission to conflict. (The title is used for the baronial pursuivant of the Barony of Dragonship Haven whose Baroness and many of whose members are employees or students at Yale.)

Gisela von Salzburg. Device. Argent, a Maltese cross, on a chief purpure three papal crosses argent. In the article cited by Brigantia as a source for the papal crosses here, White Stag specifically noted that the cross was not used in secular armoury except in those cases where it was granted as an augmentation by the Pope. This being the case, we feel it inappropriate to modify its current status as a reserved charge. Used in this context, with a cross associated with the Knights of Malta (albeit in a different tincture) even without the Hohenstaufen name originally associated with this submission, it is "right out".

John the Pell. Device. Argent, a pell proper. As a pell has no fixed form or material, it is difficult to see how it could be "proper". (We have seen modern and period exemplars made from various kinds of woods, with and without metal sheathing, from cloth and from metals, even --- in the case of modern pells --- plastics.) What is depicted on the emblazon sheet is "Argent, a brown billet." which caused some unfortunate comments from the Laurel staff since this is one of the common blazons for "cow pats" in the heraldic version of the children's game for long automobile trips. If this were defined to be a "log palewise proper" and so depicted, it would be in conflict with Holdsworth ("Argent, the stem of a tree couped and eradicated in bend proper.") and Here ("Argent, the trunk of an oak tree, sprouting afresh, sable.").

Lakes, Principality of. Name and device. Gules, an escarbuncle argent within a laurel wreath, in chief a crown Or. They have permission to conflict with Black Lake, the submitted group name of Lakeland, etc. There is also a letter from the Seneschale of the Middle indicating that there would be no problem with the defunct group of Genevieve's Lake, although this technically also requires the signatures of the King and Queen of the Middle which were not present on the letter. However, this also conflicts with the name of the Lake District in England, an area of such fame that it cannot be ignored. As for the problem of "The Lady of the Lake" mentioned by Brigantia in his responses, this did cause major twitches to a number of folk who commented verbally to Laurel immediately after the submission was made, although most did not put this in writing ("non scriptum, non est".). Normally Laurel blocks out anything that she may have seen or heard at Society events when considering submissions, but since no less than four individuals present at the late East Kingdom Coronation where the incipient Principality was proclaimed have complained to her about the usage given at that time to the area's temporary titular head ("Lady Protectress of the Lakes"), there was a feeling on the Laurel staff that some force was lacking in Brigantia's reports of the "categorical" nature of the asseverations of the founders of the Principality that they would use no form resembling "Lady of the Lake".

Mitchell MacBain. Badge. A moth quarterly sable and gules. After a comparison of the emblazons, we had to conclude that the difference in shape between the moth and the dragonfly were not tantamount to a major point of difference and so this is in conflict with the device of Andrew of Selcom Rest, cited on the letter of intent ("Or, a dragonfly displayed gules."). As the crimson tipped butterfly of the badge of Anne of Caerdydd is almost entirely argent, this is less a problem visually.

Tanaka Raiko. Device. Sable, three crane's heads, couped and conjoined at the beaks, argent. Conflict with Colm the Defrocked ("Vert, a triskelion of bird's heads argent."). As noted by Crescent, the "special rules" for mon discount the difference in field tincture. Also, we had to agree with Brachet that the conjoint arrangement of the heads diminished seriously the identifiability of the charges: a full point of difference could not be derived from the changes to the triskelion.

Veronica of Manchester. Device. Argent, a chevron cotised, overall a double tressure flory at the outer edge purpure. After a considerable amount of comparisons of the various depictions of the reserved royal tressure of Scotland, we decided that this tressure was just too close to be acceptable for Society use.

KINGDOM OF MERIDIES

Almaric von Mainze. Name and device. Chevronelly azure and argent, a lion rampant reguardant, maintaining in its dexter forepaw a sword inverted, Or. Unfortunately, there was an almost unanimous consensus that the name is in conflict with that of Alaric von Mainz, registered in December, 1988. As Star put it, "These two names would be hard to distinguish in a small room, much less at an outdoor event." The device conflicts with that of William MacQueen of MacQueen ("Per bend argent and azure, a mountain lion rampant proper."): while there is a major point for the difference in fields, we could not see granting a cumulative major for the changes to the lion, particularly since the sword is virtually invisible, since it lies almost entirely on an argent portion of the field.

Berthrad Athalbrand von Strassburg. Badge. Quarterly azure and gules, a cross swallowtailed quaterpierced argent, surmounted by a lozenge counterchanged. This submission was returned by Pennon for overly modern design and complex counterchanging. The submittor appealed to the College of Arms. Almost to a man/woman the College supported Pennon's original return. [Gnomic statement from Laurel staff: "We do not register quilt patterns."]

Dagmar Omarsdottir. Name and device. Argent, a staff of Aesculapius vert, flowered gules at its tips, issuant from a mound, at each flower supping a hummingbird hovering vert, overall two gores azure. The rules specifically state that a patronymic suffix shall be in the language of the father's name or in English. Thus the combination of "Omar", which is Persian, and "dottir", which is Norse, is not acceptable, whatever the submittor's persona story. ("Dagmar bint Omar", while unlikely, would be registerable.) The consensus in the College was that the device was just not period style. Specifically, the complex central charge, with its unusual variation of a standard charge (the staff of Aesculapius), the addition of the ruby-throated hummingbirds and the mount and the gores add an unacceptable degree of complexity in type and tincture of charge. Moreover, the gores give a non- period effect of paper shades drawn away from a diorama or diptych and are extremely three dimensional in effect.

Heather of Newcastle. Name and device. Azure, issuant from a vase Or, a bunch of heather flowers, overall two unicorns salient addorsed argent, armed and hooved, and on a chief indented Or, a castle sable. Unfortunately, Heather has been considered a modern "flower name" and unsuitable for Society use for some years now. All the exceptions registered in recent years have been accepted under the "mundane name allowance". The arrangement of primary and secondary charges is unheraldic and distinctly pictorial: in particular the three-dimensional effect of the unicorns in front of the vase created problems for many. That the lack of contrast between the argent unicorns' tails and the Or vase makes this less identifiable just makes the situation worse.

Mailloch of Wolfhaven. Name only. The submittor stated that the given name was a constructed variant of "Malachi". Pennon valiantly attempted to support such a form with compounds of Irish and Gaelic linguistic elements. However, the form really can only be documented as a variant of the Gaelic word "mailleach" (which is used as an attributive surname). As this refers to a coat of mail and is not documented as a given name, we found the name unacceptable. Perhaps he could be interested in a documented Irish name such as "Máelán" or "Máenach"? If he is willing to consider a Welsh name, Dennys (Heralds and Heraldry, p. 70) cites a twelfth-century Welsh noble, one of the supposed founders of the fifteen noble tribes of Wales, who rejoiced in the name "Maeloc Crwm".

Raibeart de Braose. Name only. No, he may not be Robert Bruce!

Richard Prugess. Name only. The surname was coined by the submittor from the word "purge", but this was not done in a period manner. ("Purger" would be a period formation.) Pennon valiantly attempted to provide support for the name by analogies for the component portions of the name ("Pru" and "-gess"), but the components were not in fact separable from the given name. The submittor is advised to use a form having the meaning he wishes (e.g., "Purger") or a documentable form with a different meaning but similar sound. ("le Pugeis" or "Purkess", cited on the letter of intent would be possibilities.)

Rolland Kyle of Kincora. Device. Gules, two chevronels between two lions rampant, reguardant and addorsed, and a lion sejant guardant, all Or. Conflict with Esterne ("Gules, two chevronels Or.", cited in Papworth, p. 542).

Thomas Tarn Travis. Device. Per fess vert and Or, on a roundel a tree issuant from the mouth of an amphora, all counterchanged. Conflict with Tamar the Gypsy ("Vert, a bezant charged with a wyvern statant vert.") and the insignia of the 2nd South African Division ("A roundel per fess Or and vert.", as cited in the Military Ordinary of Vuong Manh).

KINGDOM OF TRIMARIS

Amyergorod, Shire of. Name only. The letter of intent indicated that the submittors desired a name which meant "Honor City" in Russian. As several commentors noted, "Amer" does not mean "honor" in Russian. We believe that Crescent is correct in supposing that this is a misreading of the note in the Russian dictionary that cited "honor" as an American spelling of the word (the abbreviation would be "Amer"). Courtesy of Shofar, an analysis of several period styles for name formation for alternatives with the correct meaning have been provided. Perhaps the closes of these would appear to be "Chestnogorod".

Benén Mactire. Device. Per bend sinister sable and azure, a wolf's head cabossed argent between three acorns Or. Conflict with Fandrel Silverfox ("Sable, a fox's mask argent.")

Kamber MacKinnon. Name only. As noted in the return of Camber of Ambrii in November, 1989, the only period evidence for the use of the Camber appears to be the eponymous ruler of Wales ("Cambria"). All the linguistic evidence points to the name being a backformation from the placename, which itself is a Latinized form from "Cymru", the Welsh name for their own land. Apart from this probably fictional character, the primary exemplar for the name is the Deryni saint of Katharine Kurtz' fiction. (The "Camber Eben" whose name was registered some years ago in the Society, when he was about two years old, had the mundane given name "Camber", presumably Deryni derived.) As far as we can determine, this was regarded in period as a unique name and was not actually used by individuals in the same manner in which "Arthur" or "Gawain" were, for instance.

Otto Bötticher von Spreebrucke. Device. Argent, seven swords, fretted with pommels outwards vert. Since no emblazon was submitted with the letter of intent so that the commentors could not judge the accuracy of the blazon of this unusual collocation of charges when checking for conflict, this must be returned. (If the problem were merely one of tincture or minor errors in depiction, this could be pended, but the commentors must have an emblazon from Lymphad before they can comment adequately.)

Romana Luisa Leonore de la Vega y Navarre. Change of name from Romana Luisa Ayesha de la Vega. When the name was registered in October, 1987, "y Navarre" a final portion of the name was dropped, primarily because it tripped the name over the "four languages" limit and the French form "Navarre" was felt to be inappropriate as part of the phrase which composed the otherwise Spanish surname. Additionally, a number of the Laurel staff felt uncomfortable with the use of the name of an independent kingdom in a usage which is commonly used in Spanish to indicate descent from the rulers of a particular area. The appeal addresses the former issue by changing the language of one of the middle names and demonstrating that the kingdom of Navarre was part of mediaeval Spain. That this is true is somewhat irrelevant, however, since it does not address the fact that "Navarre" is not the Spanish form of the name which would follow "de la Vega y". It also does not address the problem of potential presumption here, a problem which is enhanced by the submittor's documentation which indicates that "Vega was used in midieval [sic] Spain in Navarre. They were Viscounts."

Shire of Storm. Name only. They have permission to conflict with the Shire of Stormhold, Stormvale, etc. However, they do not have permission to conflict with Stormsport nor have they correct permission to conflict with the defunct group of Stormgate with which their name was cited for conflict when it was returned in December, 1986. For permission to be granted for defunct groups, written permission must be present from both the Kingdom Seneschal and the Crown: their letter from the Kingdom Seneschale of Atlantia simply refers the matter to Triton and there is no mention of the Crown.

Tha'alibi al'Abi. Name and device. Azure, on a bend cotised between a quill bendwise and a scimitar, inverted bendwise and fracted, Or, two crescents palewise azure. As far as the name is concerned, perhaps it is simplest to quote Star: "I question the 'i' on the end of Tha'alabi - at least without an 'al-' preceding it (as in Ahmad ibn Muhammed al- Tha'labi, d. 1035. . .). I could find no Tha'alabi in any of my sources; the closest I could come was Tha'lab and Tha'libah. . . The only names that I can find ending in 'i' are all epithets, mostly geographical, and all having the article 'al-' prefixed to them. As far as 'al-Abi': First the submittor should give usa translation for any epithets, which this clearly is. Second, I cannot find 'abi' in any form which would be an epithet in any of my sources. . . . Without better documentation from the submittor regarding both Tha'alabi (without the 'al-') and al'abi, I would hesitate to accept the name." The submittor's photocopies make reference to a couple of writers named "Tha'alibi", but the context makes it clear that these are epithets rather than given names (known epithets of writers, e.g., "Ibn Qutaybah" are used in a directly parallel manner). The device conflicts with Stewart the Stalwart ("Azure, on a bend cotised Or three keys palewise, wards in chief azure.").

Verron Wolfgang von Groth. Name and device. Sable, a mullet of eight points between two scarpes Or. There are several problems with both the name and the device. Firstly, documenting "Verron" as an acceptable variant form of a geographical name, which has now been done, automatically disallows the use of the form as a given name, unless it can be demonstrated that it actually was so used in period, proof that is now lacking. Moreover, there is some doubt whether "de Groth" is actually a period German form, although this is more plausible as a surname than "Veron" as a given name. Use of a similar period given name like "Varin" or "Warin" would be advisable. As for the device, the mullet as drawn is not really a mullet but a bezant engrailed. In any case the submission conflicts with Anastasia Vladimirovna ("Sable, two bendlets sinister Or, and in bend three mullets argent.").

Vetrar the Fennec. Name and device. Purpure, on a bend sinister argent between a sinister hand and a dexter hand, both couped and aversant, Or, three fox's tails gules. Again, there are problems with both name and device. On the letter of intent, it was indicated that "vetr" meant "winter" and that "-ar" was a common Scandinavian name ending. Unfortunately, we have been unable to document "vetr" in any period Scandinavian language and the suffix "-ar" is used as a genitive which is inappropriate here. Moreover, there is no evidence for "winter" plus any suffix as a given name formation in Scandinavia. In itself the given name is unacceptable. When conjoined to the weird North African fox name, the name as a whole becomes downright excessive. The device unfortunately conflicts with Urien Aflonyddwynt ap Taliesin Darianlas ("Purpure, on a bend sinister argent, three roses purpure, barbed and seeded proper.").

KINGDOM OF THE WEST

Arenvald von Hagenburg. Device. Per chevron chequy Or and azure and sable, in base a dragon segreant Or. Silver Trumpet and Dolphin are correct in calling this a technical conflict under the current rules with the device of Brian the Inquisitive ("Per fess rayonny argent, ermined gules, and gules, in chief a dragon rampant Or.").

Kaatje van der Hagen. Name only. Unfortunately, "Kaatje" is a diminutive form which is not permitted under the current rules. As the lady allowed no changes to the name, this problem could not be corrected.

Ríonach O'Melaghlin. Device. Per fess wavy argent and purpure, a harp and an otter statant counterchanged. The emblazon was omitted from the letter of intent, causing most of those who commented on this letter to omit comment on this submission. This sort of technical infringement would normally cause a submission to be pended, but the Laurel staff finds itself unable to include drawings of omitted emblazons at this time. We would urge Vesper to resubmit this with a proper emblazon as soon as possible.

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