THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS HAVE BEEN REGISTERED:

AN TIR

Aelfswith of Ringsted. Name.

Albreda of Lough Ree. Name and device. Paly of four vert and Or, an oak tree eradicated fructed within a bordure all counterchanged.

Anne d'Avignon. Device. Quarterly azure and argent, a sexfoil pierced counterchanged.

Aoife of Tir Eóghain. Name.

Brigid Talon. Name.

Duncan Macquarie. Badge. [Fieldless] A bat-winged grenade argent.

Elizabeth Braidwood. Name and device. Per bend sinister Or and vert, two bendlets enhanced and two holly leaves counterchanged.

Isolde the Nimble Fingered. Name and device. Per pale sable and argent, an escallop counterchanged.

Very pretty device!

Lachlan MacGregor. Name.

Mary of Leigh. Name.

Nicholas von Winterbach. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Thomas Gunn. Device. Per fess rayonny sable and Or, three decrescents in fess Or and a boar's head erased vert.

ANSTEORRA

Ansteorra, Kingdom of. Name and badge for Award of the Compass Rose of Ansteorra. Per chevron Or and gules, a compass rose sable.

Ansteorra, Kingdom of. Badge for the Premier Bard of Ansteorra. Or a rose sable barbed vert charged with a rose Or barbed vert seeded sable within the frame of an Irish harp sable.

The rose here is visually as well a technically the primary charge, thus this does not conflict with Landschaden (Siebmacher, plate 122), Or, a harp sable.

Submitted as Bertics Anna Tzagnie, the above form is better documented. Please ask the submitter to draw the orle wider.

Custance nic Raibert Macconnachie. Badge. A lily-of-the-valley (Muset de Bois) slipped and leaved proper.

Versus Aspinall (Papworth, p. 960), Argent, an aspen leaf proper, and Regroltzville (Woodward, p. 320), Argent, a linden leaf vert, there is a CVD for fieldlessness and another for the addition of what amount to a tertiary, the flower blossoms.

Girard Antoine de Beauchamps. Device. Per pale counter-ermine and ermine two dolphins urinant respectant argent and sable and on a chief vert three escallops inverted argent.

It would be nice to have fewer and larger ermine spots on the field.

Lyelf Hrothbjartsson the Lame. Name.

Randall der Krieger. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Seawinds, Shire of. Name.

Stephen of the Grove. Name and device. Gules on a bend sinister rayonny or three torteaux.

Steppes, Barony of. Badge for the Bard of the Steppes. Per bend vert and sable a bend indented to chief and overall an unstringed harp Or.

The bend should be drawn wider.

Aaron Exile. Name and device. Per fess argent and gules, two boots gules and an open book proper.

Adriana of Hawkwood. Name only (see PENDING for device).

Allen of Dunwich. Name.

Angela di Firenze. Name.

Antoine D'Aubernoun. Name and device. Per bend Or and sable, two lyres counterchanged.

This form of the name (with a capital "D") is documented in period. Beautiful armory!

Aoibheall Dylon. Badge. [Fieldless] A dragon rampant environed of a crescent argent.

Brangwain nic Stiubhard. Name and device. Azure, a shakefork Or between two dolphins hauriant respectant argent.

Brian Killian the Red. Name and device. Per chevron rayonny gules and Or, a sword fracted in chevron argent and a grenade sable, enflamed proper.

While the name is reminiscent of Killian's Red beer, the general feeling among the commenters was that the Law of Toyota should apply. ("You asked for it ....")

Cennydd the Wanderer. Name.

Chandelle Marie. Name only (see RETURNS for and device).

Ciarán O'Conaire. Name.

Constans von Württemberg. Name only (see RETURNS for and device).

Daoud al-Bodmani. Name.

I can do little better than to quote Mistress Alisoun on her acceptance of Amron al-Tashali in December 1989, "Under the new rules, ... the fact that the structure is compatible with Arabic naming practise makes the name admissible". That the locative is extremely unlikely (of which fact Laurel informed the submitter at the Pennsic consultation table; I tried to talk him into at least "al-Inglizi" [the Englishman], really I did!) does not make it unregisterable. It is formed in a manner consistent with Arabic practice. (And to answer Lady Brachet's query regarding the consonant cluster "dm" in Bodmani, any people that regularly use "ibn" in names should have no trouble with "dm", especially where each letter is in a separate syllable, as here.)

Submitted as Flathail Deorsa an Famhair, we have corrected the word order for proper grammatical construction.

Durand de la Berge. Name change from Durand le Berger.

Earnwynn van Zwaluwenburg. Name only (see PENDING for device).

Edmund Mowbray. Name.

Elian Tawedog. Name.

Elise Dominique Clairmont. Badge. [Fieldless] On a cauldron Or a bear's head cabossed sable.

Elizabeth Katherine of Sterling. Device. Per pall argent, gules and purpure, on a quiver containing two arrows Or, a heart gules.

Fionngula O'Rourke. Per pale wavy sable and ermine, a plate and a pellet, each charged with a swan naiant respectant, counterchanged.

Gareth of Guttenberg. Device. Sable, two cannon barrels in saltire between two halberds in fess and in chief a sallet helm Or.

Gaston de l'Abbaye. Name and device. Checky gules and argent, a frog salient vert.

Gwaeddan o Ystrad Llangollen. Device. Or, two foxes sejant respectant gules, a bordure embattled sable.

Gytha Katludottir. Name.

Heinrich Jaeger von Stuttgart. Name.

The device submitted concurrently with this was withdrawn at the request of the submitting herald.

Herveus d'Ormonde. Name and device. Vairy sable and argent, a phoenix gules rising from flames proper within a bordure gules.

Herveus d'Ormonde. Badge. [Fieldless] A phoenix per pale vert and Or.

Ian Angus MacAllen. Name.

Jorunn nic Lochlainn. Name and device. Vairy sable and argent,a phoenix gules, on a pale Or between a pair of gloves argent, a sword gules.

Julian Annabel Urquhart. Name.

Kaitlyn O'Tuepin. Name and device. Vair, a harp within a bordure embattled gules.

Katerina Sumer Quenstedt. Name and device. Argent, three bendlets purpure between six horseshoes inverted gules.

Please thank the submitter for arranging the secondaries in a standard, period heraldic arrangement.

Submitted as Katharina of Lairdragyn.

Katherine O'Phelan. Name and device. Per chevron engrailed Or and vert, three annulets linked fesswise purpure and a celtic cross Or.

Pretty armory. Please ask the submitter to draw the engrailings more boldly.

Lora Leigh. Name and device. Vert, a coney sejant erect and on a chief argent three turtles vert.

It was our feeling that the registration of Lora Leigh Hamlin (from which this name is sufficiently differenced by the Rules) established a precedent in not calling conflict with the classical Lorelei, more so since there were no allusions to Lorelei in the armory.

Magdalene Galway. Name and device. Per pale argent and vert, a rose barbed and seeded and a bordure rayonny counterchanged.

Pretty armory!

Clear by revised X.2 from Genevra of Estolat (SCA), Azure estoilly, a sun argent. The presence of the semy no longer prevents X.2 from applying.

Minna Hirneisen. Name and device. Per chevron gules and azure, a chevron argent between two quatrefoils and a stag trippant Or.

Misty Marsh by the Sea, Canton of the. Name.

Muirgen of Caer Ddu. Device. Per fess wavy argent and sable, two towers counterchanged.

Very nice!

Olivia Graeme. Name and device. Purpure, a bend sinister bretessed Or between an abacus palewise and scissors argent.

Otho d'Auvergne. Badge. [Fieldless] In saltire a garden rose slipped and leaved gules and a hammer sable.

Owen ap Morgan. Name and device. Vert, on a bend sinister engrailed argent three oak leaves vert.

[Lord Laurel would comment on this submission, but does not wish to get embroiled in the Atlantian-Western internecine dispute.]

Submitted as Qaylah bint-Aamir, we have deleted the obtrusive hyphen. Aamir (pronounced AH-mir) is not the same as the restricted alternate title Amir (pronounced ah-MEER).

The roses were not barbed and seeded proper but were argent in the color emblazon.

Sean Michael MacKay. Device change. Gyronny wavy gules and argent, in chief two roses counterchanged.

The submitter releases his currently registered device(s), Gyronny wavy vert and Or, on a chief per pale gules and argent, three roses counterchanged, barbed and seeded proper, and Gyronny wavy Or and vert, on a chief per pale gules and argent, three roses counterchanged, barbed and seeded proper.

Tadhg mac Aodháin uí Chonchobhair. Name and device. Per chevron sable, semy of compass stars Or, and purpure, a chevron and in base an Irish harp Or.

Submitted as Tadhgh mac Aedain ui Conchobhair, we have corrected the grammar as the submitter's forms allowed.

Submitted as Teresa Gabriela de Montoya y Seville, the Spanish name for the city is Sevilla. As Sevilla was never a kingdom, this does not violate the ban on "de X y [kingdom]" as presumptuous. Nice armory!

Violeta Pietra Aldobrandini. Name change only (see RETURNS for badge).

The submitter's previously registered name, Arielle de Roseau, becomes an alternate persona name.

Alexandrina Natalia Cristiano. Name.

Brendan MacRonan. Badge. Argent, a dolphin urinant vert.

Ciaran MacKintosh. Device. Argent, a bend sinister dovetailed sable between a lymphad vert and a pomme.

Constance of Graymore. Name and device. Per bend sinister counter-ermine and bendy sinister Or and sable, in dexter chief three roses Or.

It was felt that versus Bardolf (Papworth, p. 862), Azure, three roses Or, there was a CVD for the change to the field and a second for the position of the roses on the field. Though the roses would have poor contrast with part of the field in the standard two and one arrangement, perhaps even returnably so in the SCA, the change of placement to dexter chief is not necessarily forced by the change to the field.

Thistles are slipped and leaved by default in the SCA. A rose proper is gules, barbed vert, seeded Or. By using the heraldic defaults, we have been able to shorten the submitted blazon by six words, a substantial savings. (Ain't defaults wonderful?)

Erlendr Roussel. Name and device. Gules, semy of sparks argent, two triskeles arrondy and a seeblatt Or.

Submitted as Erlender Roussel, even the submitter's documentation had no support for the extraneous "e".

Commentary seemed generally favorable to allowing gemstones as charges, and since Lord Batonvert found period armory using a faceted gemstone, they will be permitted in SCA armory. However, no difference can be counted for them against delfs, billets, pillows, and other gemstones of any cut.

See comment on the registration of the device of Jacques d'Avignon, above, for a brief discussion on the permissibility of gemstones in SCA armory.

Submitted as Maeve de Navarre Kelly, the word order of the byname was not likely.

Norbert Fechter. Name and device. Vert, three swords in fess proper, on a chief argent three annulets sable.

Nice armory!

EAST

Adren cú Faol. Name only (see PENDING for device).

Alfred von dem Hugel. Release of name.

Blosgaidh O'Ghabhain. Device. Or, a wyvern erect reguardant holding in its dexter claw a hammer and on a chief indented azure three hammers Or.

Carolingia, Barony of. Badge for the Borough of Felding. Vert chapé barry wavy azure and argent, a vixen sejant guardant contourny argent.

Catalina Alvarez. Name change from Catherine Alvarez.

Derrick von München. Name and device. Per chevron azure and gules, a chevron embattled between two fleurs-de-lys argent and a cross fleury Or.

Dragonship Haven, Barony of. Badge only (see RETURNS for name). Per pale argent and azure, six elm trees in annulo counterchanged.

Submitted as badge for Elmeston.

Emilia Mazzo de Novella. Name.

Fionnghuala Siobhan nic an Chlerich. Badge. A linden leaf bendwise sinister Or.

Garrick Seafarer. Name and device. Per bend sinister sable and purpure, a bend sinister between a unicorn's head couped contourny argent and two anchors in saltire Or.

Griffyn Cleisiog ap Madoc. Name and device. Per chevron azure and sable, two polar bears combattant and a bordure argent.

Gwyneth ferch Meredydd Ynys Mon. Name.

Hans från Uppsala. Name and device. Quarterly gules and Or, four double-bitted axes counterchanged.

Submitted as Hans Igorsson of Uppsala, the combination of a Russian given with a Norse patronymic ending was so unlikely as to be disallowed by the Rules for Submission III.2.a and Laurel precedent. The submitter wished the correct Swedish for "of", and so we have given him what appears to be the most likely form. Beautiful armory!

The submitter's previously registered name, Rowan de Belchant, becomes an alternate persona name.

Juliana Stafford. Name and device. Per bend sinister embattled Or and vert, a pine tree couped and a cross fleury counterchanged.

Katriona of Beyond the Mountain. Holding name and device. Per pale azure and argent, an ankh counterchanged.

Submitted as Katriona an Brionna.

Killian Brock. Device. Or, a brock rampant contourny sable marked argent maintaining a goblet gules, a chief embattled sable.

Liam O'Foirbhithe. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Manfred Albrecht von Halstern. Badge for Haus von Halstern (household name already registered). Two wolves rampant addorsed argent.

The badge already registered for the household, Argent, a Gorgon's head cabossed sable, langued and orbed, within a pair of bull's horns gules, becomes a personal badge for Manfred. While the charges here are disconnected (which is not good style for a fieldless badge), the fact that then tend to form a visual unit permits their registration right now. (This may change pending the outcome of Laurel's request for commentary regarding fieldless badges with disconnected charges.)

Melisande of Saint Albans. Device. Per chevron argent and azure, in chief two sprigs of scottish bluebells azure slipped and leaved vert.

Michel l'Espiegle. Device. Sable, two falcons respectant and a demi-sun issuant from base Or.

Versus Robert of Nighthawk, Sable, two falcons statant respectant Or supporting a sword surmounted at the pommel by two swords in saltire crossed at the hilts proper, there are two CVDs for changing the type, position and tincture of the large secondary charge group. Versus Flavius Valerius Velis, Sable, two eagles combattant Or and a dove displayed argent, there are CVDs for the posture of the birds and another for change to type and tincture of the charge in base.

Rupert the Unbalanced. Name and device. Or goutty de sang, three cups sable.

Sean Kelson. Name.

Siglinde von Hartberg. Name.

Siubhan nic Cruimein. Device. Per saltire sable and gules, a saltire between in pale a mullet of seven points and a fox sejant guardant argent.

LAUREL

SCA. Title for Palimpsest Herald.

MERIDIES

Alduin Woodrow of Townsend. Name and device. Per bend sinister wavy azure and Or, in chief in bend sinister three pine trees couped and a triple-towered castle counterchanged.

Axemoor, Barony of. Augmentation of arms. Sable, in bend sinister an axe inverted reversed and an axe both bendwise sinister Or between two scarpes, overall a laurel wreath vert, for an augmentation, in chief three mullets argent.

Yes, this augmentation makes their arms much more complex. There are few augmentations (or for that matter arms to which augmentations could be added) which do not make the underlying arms much more complex. This augmentation did not seem to go beyond the bounds of allowable complexity for an augmentation.

Evart the Huscarl. Name.

Huscarl is not a restricted title, any more than is "the Apprentice" or, perhaps more appropriately, "the Fighter".

Georg von Staufenberg. Name.

Jacqueline de Lyons. Device change. Argent, a lion rampant to sinister and in chief a coronet sable, all between four fleurs-de-lys in cross gules.

This adds a coronet to her already registered arms.

Octavia of the Ocean. Name.

Shaul ben Yisrael of Poznan. Name change from holding name of Shaul of Poznan.

While there was some question as to whether this name combined with already registered armory which combined the "lion of Judah" and a six-pointed mullet might not be excessive allusion, the fact that the historical King Saul was a Benjaminite, not a Judahite, lessens the problem considerably. We did not, in fact, feel that the allusion was excessive.

Please inform the submitter to draw the piles properly, all issuant from the chief. While this is a technical violation of VIII.2.b.i regarding the necessity of overall charges having good contrast with the field rather than the charges they overlie, the fact that the overall charge was primarily on the piles led us to that in this case such technical violation would be permissible. This is not to be taken as a general precedent for violating VIII.2.b.i.

It was felt that the slight overlapping of the staves could safely be left to artistic license.

Aelfwine Edwineson. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Ælred Wulfweard. Name.

Aethelwyn Castrel of Arran. Name and device. Sable, three dice Or spotted sable.

Aibhilín ní Dhomhnaill mhic Ghiolla t-Seanáin. Name.

Aibhilín of Skye. Name and device. Gules, on a fess wavy between two round buckles Or three arrowheads inverted sable.

Alasdair MacRaibert ó Dhùn Alasdair. Name and device. Or, an owl displayed azure grasping in its talons a triangle inverted vert, a bordure embattled sable.

Alison Isabeau de la Chapelle. Name and device. Per bend argent and azure, a swan naiant counterchanged and on a chief azure three roses argent.

Ambrosius Postbane the Beloved. Name.

Andrei Grigorievich Topolev. Name.

Angeli du Bois. Name and device. Per pale purpure and vert, a tree blasted and eradicated within an orle of maple leaves Or.

Although blazoned as argent on the LoI, the primary was Or on the colored emblazon. Given the field tincture and the orle of leaves, the Laurel staff did some quick conflict checking and it was decided to register this rather than delay registration by pending it for three months.

Artemisia Lacebrayder. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Arthur of Rivenstar. Name and device. Per chevron inverted sable and gules, in chief a decrescent and an increscent Or.

Asgertha Ryland of Buchanan. Name and device. Argent, a sea-catamount sable tailed vert within a bordure quarterly vert and sable.

Aveline Rosa of Lyons. Name and device. Purpure, on a chevron inverted between three cat's pawprints argent a catnip leaf vert.

The chevron inverted should not issue from the corners of the chief but from the sides of the shield. Please inform the submitter.

Classic armory!

Céline de Frontenac. Name only (see PENDING for device).

Cianán ó Maoilsheachlainn the Visionary. Name and device. Sable mullety argent, a plate, overall a claymore counterchanged argent and sable.

Dafydd ap Morgan ap Gwydion. Name.

Dubhchobhlaigh ní Dhomhnaill. Name and device. Per pale sable and gules, a double-headed eagle and a chief invected argent.

Ekaterina Dimitriu. Name and device. Azure, two swans naiant respectant and on a chief potenty argent two escarbuncles azure.

Gerard von Löwenstein. Name and device. Azure, a bend sinister bretessed between an annulet surmounted by a mullet of four points and a lion passant to sinister argent.

Grimbold Hardax. Azure semy of arrows bendwise sinister inverted, on a chief embattled argent three pairs of double-bitted axes in saltire azure.

Ian Dougal MacLeod. Name and device. Per pall argent, azure, and vert, a mullet azure and two others argent.

Ingerith of Egilsey. Name and device. Or, an owl maintaining a needle gules and on a chief sable three holly leaves Or.

Jack of Dragonsmark. Holding name and device. Per bend sable and vert, a sword argent impaling on its point a demi-sun Or.

Submitted as Jack Green.

Jared Thallon. Name and device. Azure, a horse statant contourny barded and a chief argent.

Jean Mathieu d'Évreux. Name.

John of Rivenstar. Holding name and device. Argent, a hide vert within a bordure gules.

Submitted as John Skinner.

Killian Stewart. Name.

Lawrie of Orkney. Name and device. Per fess argent and Or, a fox's head erased and in chief four mullets gules.

While various forms of Lawrie were demonstrably surnames in period, Lawrie was also documented by the submitter and others as a diminutive of Lawrence, and Lawrence was documented as a given name in period. Therefore, Lawrie should be acceptable as a given here.

Lyulph Maukolum. Name.

Madeleine Papillon. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Máire of Birmingham. Name and device. Barry argent and azure, three harps gules.

Really nice device!

Martin Mandrea. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Medb nic Ruaidhrí. Name and device. Or semy of triskeles gules, a dragon passant to sinister sable within a bordure gules.

Medraut Beorhtwig. Name and device. Ermine, three drakkars in pale gules.

Morgaine Aelfdryda ferch Cadfael. Name and device. Or, on a pile inverted vert a crescent argent.

Even were a pile inverted negligibly different from per chevron throughout (and this is most frequently the case), this is clear by revised X.4.j.ii from Juterna the Musical, Per chevron throughout argent and vert, a recorder argent, with CVDs for the tincture of the field and for the change to type of tertiary.

Submitted as Moses des Falken, the article did not have the meaning the submitter desired (Moses [the property] of the falcon), so we have modified the article to give the submitter the desired meaning.

This is clear of Christiana Weislea (SCA), Argent, a peacock plume issuant from base proper and in chief a bar dancetty. There is one CVD for the removal of the bar, and another for the change in type of feather. The peacock plume in Christiana's device is quite distinct in shape, with a prominent "eye", and some difference in coloration from a solid azure feather.

This is clear of Branwen Scholastica (SCA), Azure, a raven volant argent between three acorns slipped and leaved and a demi-sun issuant from base Or, with CVDs for the removal of the acorns in chief and another for the modification not just to type of bird but position of the wings.

Phelim Liam MacIlhatton. Name and device. Or, a harp within an orle of goutes of flame gules.

Ranulf d'Aubraye. Name and device. Argent, a Maltese cross gules, overall a wolf passant reguardant within a bordure embattled sable.

Rebecca the Contrary. Name and device. Or, on a bend gules between a martlet contourny sable four mullets of four points Or.

René Deforge. Name and device. Or, a double-horned anvil within an orle of mullets sable.

Rowena of Warwick. Name and device. Or, a saltire engrailed between four fleurs-de-lys azure.

Clear of Burton (Papworth, p. 640), Or, a cross between four fleurs-de-lys azure, by the recently revised X.2.

Thorvald Urr Ulfsson. Name and device. Argent, a monster composed of the body of a naked man and the head, wings, and tail of a dragon statant affronty, head facing to dexter, vert, within a bordure rayonny gules.

While this is within the bounds of permissibility (Lord Batonvert came up with some research documenting similar-looking demons and their usage in period heraldry), a number of commenters felt it was pushing at the limits of acceptability. You might see if the submitter would consider a different heraldic monster which would even give him a cant -- an aurochs.

Wilhelmina Brant. Name and device. Or, two ring-necked pheasants respectant and in thief three garden roses in profile vert.

Wulf Thorunsson. Name.

This is clear from Wulfe Thoraldsson by what Laurel has come to term the "Auda-Ali test". There is a significantly sufficient change in the pronunciation of the patronymic to consider these clear.

Anndra Dyxsoun nan Creach. Name and device. Per pale azure and gules, a stag's head Or issuant from a tankard argent.

Aurnia of Carrigogunnel. Name and device. Purpure, on a plate a stag's head erased sable, on a chief embattled argent three shamrocks purpure.

Barra Dubh Fitzedward. Name and device. Argent, a bear rampant to sinister sable within a bordure azure.

Nice, simple armory!

Nice armory!

We felt that the depiction of the bear was within the limits of artistic variation for sejant erect, and did not feel that a new term ("sitting") was necessary for this posture.

Nice armory!

His current device, "Per chevron gules and Or, three drakkars under full sail and sailing to sinister, counterchanged" is released.

Tore Orvondr Ivarsen. Name.

Valgard Stonecleaver. Device change. Counter-ermine, a winged wolf rampant within an orle of chain Or.

His currently registered device, "Counter-ermine, a winged wolf rampant to sinister and a bordure invected Or", is released.

West, Kingdom of the. Title for Compline Herald.

West, Kingdom of the. Release of title for Nihonyama Pursuivant.

West, Kingdom of the. Title for Silvergull Pursuivant.

West, Kingdom of the. Release of title for Silverquill Pursuivant.

William Chester of Ackfordshire. Name and device. Vert, a cross and on a chief Or, three hearts gules.

Pretty armory!

AN TIR

Duncan Macquarie. Device. Sable, a pile argent, overall a dragon passant coward gules.

The emblazon did not show a pile, a chevron inverted, nor a field chaussé. A pile, which is what this is closest to, should not issue from the corners of the chief, but from the chief in from the corners. Per chevron inverted will issue from the sides of the shield; and a chaussé line of division will go from the corners of the chief to the point of the base. Per Rule VIII.2.b.i, overall charges should have good contrast with the field, rather than the charge(s) it overlies. Were the underlying pile correctly drawn, this problem would be more obvious. Considering this to be "Sable, a pile argent ....", it conflicts with Fourney (Papworth, p. 1022), Sable, a pile argent, with a CVD for the addition of the overall charge. Considering it to be either "chaussé" or "per chevron inverted", it conflicts with Wales, Per fess argent and vert, a dragon passant gules, with one CVD for the change to the field.

The use of the Gaelic patronymic particle is inappropriate with an anglicization of the patronymic name. The submitter permitted no changes whatsoever (or we could have changed it to O Kieran), so this has to be returned.

It was the clear consensus of the commentary and those at the Laurel meeting that the counterchanging on this device is excessive and that the design is too complex for period style (which the length of the blazon required helps to emphasize).

Conflict with Watt (Papworth, p. 1116), Argent, on a mount vert a tree proper, a bordure gules, with one CVD only for the removal of the mount, and O'Connor (Papworth, p. 1112), Argent, an oak tree erased proper, with one CVD for the addition of the bordure. We did not find the difference between a red trunk and a brown trunk to be worth a CVD in either case.

A bordure compony sharing a tincture of the field has not been allowed for several years now.

Elfsea, Barony of. Badge for the Order of the Keystone of Elfsea. On a crenelated keystone azure two bars wavy Or.

There was a serious problem with identifiability of the "keystone". While it may be possible to crenelate the chiefmost edge of a keystone, the submitters would be well advised to use a standard heraldic keystone.

Conflict with Ruppelin (Woodward), Or, a pall sable. There is only one CVD, for the addition of the group of secondaries.

Brian du Bois Breton. Badge. [Fieldless] A stag's head erased contourny Or.

Conflict with the British 91st AGRA (MilOrd #759), Vert, a stag's head in trian aspect to sinister Or. There is one CVD for fieldlessness, but nothing for the change to erased contourny from trian aspect to sinister, which is, after all, only a slight turn of the head.

Visual conflict with Robin Freawine (SCA), Argent, a natural leopard dormant sable and in chief an ivy vine wavy fesswise throughout vert. The visual similarity of these two devices, with the black "meatloaf" cats in nearly identical positions (right down to the tail!) with "green leaves" in chief, was overwhelming.

Conflict with the arms of Stefan in Murder at the War, Sable, a candle argent. There is only one CVD, for the addition of the bordure.

Conflict with Strachen (Papworth, p. 59), Azure, a stag trippant Or. There is one CVD, for the addition of the chief.

The locative does not make sense as constructed. Does she perhaps want "Dragynlair"?

The color emblazon showed the horse as plain brown, not bay. There is no "proper" for the pack on the pack-horse (the one on the emblazon was brown).

Conflict with Kenelm Reimund of the Plains (SCA), Argent, in pale a dolphin naiant and a dolphin naiant to sinister vert, spined and finned gules, within a bordure engrailed azure. There is one CVD for the tincture of the field, as was noted in the original return last December, when Mistress Alisoun noted that "under either set of rules, the only real difference is the field tincture." Given the overall symmetry of a dolphin's shape, we cannot see granting a CVD for the inversion of the bottommost one. [A dolphin proper is vert, spined and finned gules.]

Conflict with Bawdrick (Papworth, p. 481), Sable, on a chevron argent another gules, and with Hankford (Papworth, p. 481), Sable, on a chevron argent another nebuly gules. In each case there is a CVD for the addition of the secondaries, but the change to the line of division of the tertiary chevron is insufficient for another.

It was the general consensus of the commenters that the cross is too complex to fimbriate.

Maeve Kelly de Navarre. Device. Argent, two peacocks close statant addorsed, tails in saltire, vert.

Conflict with Tannis of Tir-y-Don (SCA), Argent, a peacock passant reguardant bendwise proper. There is only one CVD, for the addition of the second peacock (which forces the change in position on the field of the one). The position of the bird in Tannis' device is nearly identical with the dexter one here. Versus Sieglinde von Krause (SCA), Argent, a peacock pavonated in base proper perched on a linden branch fesswise vert, there are CVDs for number of birds and for posture; Sieglinde's is much more vertically oriented.

Conflict with Vaughan (Papworth, p. 75), Erminois, a lion rampant gules, and with Thorin Njalsson, Or, a lion rampant sable maintaining a claymore proper, with only one CVD in each case (one for the tincture of the primary, the other for tincture of the field). If the submitter were to move the crescent out of the cat's paw so that it became a separate secondary in and of itself rather than simply a held charge, this would clear both conflicts.

Pandora appears to be a unique name, borne only by the half-human heroine of myth. Barring documentation that the name was given to people in period, we cannot register it. The chest was nearly completely unrecognizable, in addition to bearing too great an allusion to the mythical Pandora (along with the anchor, the symbol of hope, the last thing to be released from Pandora's box).

Conflict with Wolfesley (Papworth, p. 97), Argent, a wolf passant gules. The only real difference between herissony and passant is the arch of the back and the position of one paw, so we are left with only a single CVD for fieldlessness here.

Ailis Catriona Mac an Tóisich. Device. Lozengy argent and sable, a seawolf erect gules.

Visual conflict with Ivar Krigsvin, Checky sable and argent a sea-lion erect gules. The visual similarities of these two devices overwhelm any technical differences for field and type of primary.

Conflict with Richard Tyler of Swiftwater, Per fess indented Or and azure, masoned Or, in chief a fountain. There is only one CVD, for fieldlessness.

No designation was submitted with the name Elmeston. Since they are based at a university, might we suggest "College of Elmeston"?

One cannot be "the Dream", even in Irish Gaelic. This is not an epithet that would have been given one in period. There is also an aural conflict with the registered Kaitriona ni Bhriain (SCA, 1983).

Conflict with 22nd East African Brigade (MilOrd #118), Sable, an elephant statant in trian aspect and trumpeting argent. There is only one CVD for the addition of the escallops, nothing for the minor changes in posture of the primary.

Conflict with Tearlach the Unwashed, Bendy sinister Or and sable, a stork statant to sinister argent, beaked and membered gules. As Master Baldwin noted in the case of Aeruin ni hEarain o Chonnemara (LoAR 10 November 1985, p. 1), "the Grey Heron is winged and tailed grey, breasted and throated argent, and crested and marked sable; basically, it is argent marked sable." This is supported further by Roger Tory Peterson's A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe (pp. 8 and 27). Thus there is only one CVD here, for fieldlessness.

Fiona Mairi MacQuarie. (With Loren of Blackthorn) Name and badge for House Blackthorn Rose. [Fieldless] A rosebud azure, slipped and leaved sable, surmounted by a sword and a quill pen in saltire argent.

Francis Canny. Device. Azure, fretty Or, in bend sinister an eagle displayed and a quatrefoil slipped argent.

Conflict with Curseyn (Papworth, p. 882), Azure, fretty Or. Since fretty has been shown to be a charge rather than a field treatment in period, X.1 does not apply. There is only one CVD, for the addition of the eagle and quatrefoil.

All problems with conflict with the well-known movie "Animal House" aside, the name of the household is not correct grammar (which would be "Maison des Animaux") and the submitter permitted no changes whatsoever. The badge has the problem of using two different types of the same charge (pawprints), which has been disallowed for some time (although usually we see this problem with different types of swords).

The name conflicts with the Order of the Rose. The badge is slot-machine heraldry, combining three disparate charges in a standard heraldic arrangement.

Aelfwine Edwineson. Device. Gules, three piles issuant from sinister Or.

Conflict with Robert Henderson (Lyon Ordinary Vol. I, p. 320, Gules, three piles issuing from sinister Or, a chief engrailed ermine, and with von Tettau (Rietstap), Gules, three wolves' teeth issuant from sinister argent. In each case there is only one CVD, respectively, for the addition of the chief and for the tincture of the primaries.

Though the field has but a single tincture, the appearance of marshaled arms is overwhelming. The eye tends to "draw" the quarterly division even though each of the "quarters" is azure.

The secondaries were unrecognizable as lace bobbins, even by some familiar with them through use. This is being returned for redrawing. (The senmurv was quite recognizable, and is not a problem.)

The submitter's documentation does not support his appeal. The documentation seems to indicate that "waldfrysk" applies to the dialect of Frisian ("Frisian of the wooded region") rather than to a geographical place. The byname would appear to be better formed (at least in German) as "vom Frieswald" ("of the Frisian wood").

Conflict with the English mythological figure, Jack in the Green.

Conflict with John Skinner (1721-1807), Scots songwriter who collaborated with Burns, who wrote a number of popular Scottish songs.

While "Oni" appears to be a name element, it is a protheme and not itself a given name. The submitter needs a given with this name.

Conflict with Mikhail Andreyevich Putnikov, Vert, a bend sinister between a bear passant and a lion rampant to sinister Or. There is only one CVD for the change to type of secondaries.

Conflict with the Royal Burgh of Inverberbie (Public Heraldry, p. 119), Azure, a rose argent barbed and seeded proper, and the British 23rd Division (Military Ordinary, p. 27), Azure, a rose argent. There is only one CVD, for the addition of the crescent. In the case of Aoibheall Dylon, cited in the LoI, the sizes of the two charges were so disparate that the crescent overwhelmed the dragon and was visually the primary charge. Here, the size differential is such that the eye does not necessarily make the immediate evaluation that the crescent is the primary. In such a case, the charge at the visual center of the field will normally be so considered.

Conflict with Cressell (Papworth, p. 1023), Azure, on a pile argent three crescents in pale proper. The difference between a pile and chaussé is blazonable, but is worth nothing in terms of difference. (Just as Master Baldwin counted no difference between chapé, a pile inverted, and per chevron throughout. See LoAR 8 June 1986, p. 6) There is thus only one CVD here, for the change in type and number of the tertiary charges.

Vanessa of Armorica. Device. Per bend sinister paly gules and argent, and counter-ermine.

Conflict with Aragon, Paly of ten argent and gules, as cited in the LoI. Rule X.4.a.ii specifies that a change to the line of division is worth a CVD; this is an addition of a line of division, which is forced by the change to the tincture of half the field and thus cannot be counted separately.

Conflict per RfS V.4.d with Harpyhold, the registered household of Allisandra Olympia Martiessa de Constantine.

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Adriana of Hawkwood. Device. Counter-ermine, on a pile inverted argent, a salamander statant reguardant vert, enflamed proper.

Conflict with Shafto (Fairbairn's Crests, p. 429), A salamander reguardant vert in the midst of flame proper. Pended until a decision is made regarding conflict checking against Fairbairn's.

Conflict with Adams (Fairbairn's Crests, p. 4), A lion rampant Or. Pended until a decision is made regarding conflict checking against Fairbairn's.

Adren cú Faol. Device. Per chevron pean and Or, in base a wolf sejant ululant sable.

Conflict with Buchan (Fairbairn's Crests, p. 82), A wolf sejant sable. Pended until a decision is made regarding conflict checking against Fairbairn's.

Céline de Frontenac. Device. Barry vert and argent, a sheaf of three arrows gules.

Conflict with Irving (Fairbairn's Crests, p. 255), Three arrows bound by a ribbon gules. Pended until a decision is made regarding conflict checking against Fairbairn's.

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