ANSTEORRA

Amber Lea Fairchild. Name.

Annais Eleanor de Montgomerie. Name and device. Sable semy of hearts Or, in saltire a plume and a staff pennoned argent.

Carl Ælfhelm. Name.

Cassandra O'Connor. Name.

Clare Isibeál Séadhachán. Name.

Diorbhail ní Ruaidhri. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Submitted as Diorbhail ní Ruadhri, we have corrected the grammar as the submitter's forms allowed.

The documented names FitzNeill and Fitzpatrick, as only two examples of mixed Norman/Gaelic patronymics, lend credence to this usage.

Flaunches should issue from the corners of the chief. Please ask the submitter to draw them properly.

Pended from the January 1991 Laurel meeting until a decision could be made regarding checking for conflict against crests.

Sean McConnul Duncan. Name.

Sean Tabor. Name.

Subodai Khasar. Name.

Thomas Henry Morice. Device. Sable, a lion passant to sinister argent crined between three ladders bendwise Or.

There was much discussion regarding the combination of the Morris surname with a device which is clearly derivative from the Morris arms (Sable, a lion passant between three scaling ladders argent, and Sable, a lion passant Or between three scaling ladders argent -- Papworth, p. 132). However, there are three and four CVDs from each of these arms, respectively: reversing the lion, tincture of the ladders, and orientation of the ladders (bendwise vs. palewise); and reversing the lion, tincture of the lion, tincture of the ladders, and orientation of the ladders. This should be sufficient, even considering the similarity of the surname. (I recommend to you Lord Badger's article "On the Use of Family Arms in the SCA" in The Millrind, Vol. II, Issue 3. The Millrind is available from Eastern Crown Herald, Lady Alison MacDermot, for $3.00 per year. [This has been an unpaid, non-commercial announcement.])

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

Pended from the December 1990 Laurel meeting until a determination could be made regarding checking for conflict against crests.

Pended from the December 1990 Laurel meeting until a determination could be made regarding checking for conflict against crests.

Alethea Charle. Name and device. Lozengy argent and gules, a doe lodged and on a chief sable two arrows inverted in saltire argent.

Andreas of Green Village. Device. Azure, four holly leaves in saltire, stems to center, argent.

Andrew Wyrmholde. Name.

Submitted as Andrew Wyrmholden, we have corrected the grammar as the submitter's forms allowed. ("Holden" is the past participle of the verb "to hold".)

Submitted as Brayden Avenel Durrant, the addition of the "y" seemed extremely unlikely, given the extensive change in pronunciation. We have therefore modified the given (as the submitter's forms allowed) to a slight variant of the documentable "Bradan".

Extremely nice armory!

Submitted as Conrad Leliasson.

Clear of Rowena Lindsey (Per saltire vert and Or, in pale a swan naiant and an Arabian lamp enflamed Or) registered elsewhere in this LoAR, by X.2, Difference of Primary Charges.

Mikhail Nikolaevich Kramolnikov. Name.

Mikhail Nikolaevich Kramolnikov. Badge for Dom Kramolnikova. Per pale Or and vert, a kraken counterchanged.

Miles d'Eath. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Olaf Skytja. Device. Per pale sable and Or, three pheons inverted counterchanged.

Very nice armory!

Wulfgar Hrafnfoedir. Device. Per fess embattled Or and gules, two harps and a raven contourny counterchanged.

Wulfgar Hrafnfoedir. Badge for Hrafnheim. Per fess embattled gules and Or, two decrescents and a raven contourny counterchanged.

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

Pended from the December 1990 Laurel meeting until a determination could be made regarding checking for conflict against crests.

Pended from the January 1991 Laurel meeting until a decision could be made regarding checking for conflict against crests.

Anneyse of Caernarvonshire. Name and device. Purpure, on a chevron between three decrescents argent, a reremouse sable.

Submitted as Anneyese o Caernarvonshire, the second "e" was not supportable in any documentation, and the locative mixed languages. We have corrected both as the submitter's forms allowed to correct the grammar. Regarding the creature blazoned a "bat" in the LoI, the Fool of Arms said it best, in Motley Heraldry:

You may say to bats in a belfry

"You're bats." They won't mind, 'cause they are;

But you mustn't say "Bats" to the one in shields --

You'd better be silent by far;

(You may call him a flittermouse, too)

And if you say "Bats" to the reremice proud

They'll answer, "And bats to you!"

Eirik Guthröthson. Spelling correction of name and device. Argent, two bendlets sinister sable between a mullet environed of a crescent inverted and an eagle's wing gules, all within a bordure sable.

The name was registered on the October 1990 LoAR as Elrik Guthröthson (thus proving that not only can't Laurel type, but sometimes he doesn't even read very well!).

Submitted as Gavin MacFearghus of Athallwood, the name was registered in the above form.

Kenrick Bosch. Name.

Kira Asgrimsdottir. Device. Argent, two unicorn's heads, erased and respectant, horns crossed, on a point pointed sable, a python erect argent.

Versus Crosby (Papworth, p. 937), Per chevron argent and sable, three unicorn's heads couped counterchanged, there is a CVD for changing the type of charge in base and another for modifying the line of division of the field from straight to "ployé" or embowed to base.

Submitted as Leonora Isabella Nicollini, the above form was registered in the LoAR of September 1989. Very nice armory!

Mary of Edgefield. Name and device. Per pale wavy Or and vert, two pallets wavy gules and on an oak leaf inverted Or a heart gules.

Please ask the submitter to draw the wavy line of division much more boldly!

Submitted as Quentin de Boors, the submitted form was not documentable. As Lord Batonvert noted, the existence of "the Miller" does not justify "of Millers". We have modified the name as the submitter's forms allowed to the documented form.

Submitted as Rosslyn MacLarren of Scot's Eyrie, the above is the registered form of the submitter's name.

Submitted as Soni Kurai Chikara Hito.

Adrien de Troyes. Name.

Ælfgar the Irrepressible. Name.

Æthelwulf of Dover. Name and device. Argent, a sea-wolf gules and on a chief azure three mullets of four points argent.

Arnora Dunestan. Name and device. Sable, a horseshoe inverted and on a chief argent three roses gules.

Arnora Dunestan. Badge. Per pale sable and argent, two serpents coiled erect addorsed counterchanged.

Bohemond of Salisbury. Name.

Brandr the Ironhearted. Name and device. Per bend Or and argent, on a quiver of arrows sable fletched gules a heart argent.

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

Pended from the December 1990 Laurel meeting until a decision could be made regarding checking for conflict against crests.

David Martin Failsworth. Name and device. Argent, a winged Afghan hound rampant within a bordure embattled vert.

[Irreverent comment from the Laurel meeting: "Conflict with the 14th Afghan Airborne!"]

Eustace FitzJames. Name.

Éva nic Ean. Name and device. Per pale gules and Or, two owls rising and facing each other wings addorsed counterchanged.

Fearann na Crìche, College of. Name.

Frederick Dubh. Name and device. Argent, a sword inverted sable between flaunches azure.

Jean Xavier Devereaux. Name.

Josceline Levesque. Name.

Although Levesque means "bishop", which is a restricted title in the SCA, it is also a documentable period surname. It is Laurel's opinion that Levesque should be registrable under the same general restrictions as Regina; that is, so long as it is not used in such a way as to appear like a title.

Kobayakawa Ariake. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Korsväg, Shire of. Name.

Mary Garrett of Seasalter. Name and device. Barry engrailed argent and azure, on a saltire cotised gules a covered saltcellar argent.

This covered saltceller is in the same form as that on the arms of the Worshipful Company of Salters (Elvin, plate 39, no. 39). [Irreverent comment from the Laurel meeting: She salts saltires by the seashore.]

Very pretty device!

Odoacer Probissimus. Device. Sable, on a pale Or two crosses potent gules within a bordure Or.

Please ask the submitter to draw the bordure wider.

Ragnar Thorbergsson. Badge. [Fieldless] A drawn bow fesswise nocked of an arrow proper barbed of the crown of a tree vert and flighted gules.

[Irreverent comment from the Laurel meeting: Obviously, the draw weight on this bow is tree pounds!]

Reina Sainte Claire. Name and device. Ermine, three fleurs-de-lys gules and a chief sable.

Submitted as Reina de Sainte Claire, that form of the name takes on the aspect of a title, "Queen of Saint Claire". We have deleted the article "of" in order to remove the appearance of presumption and to register the name.

Rowena Lindsey. Name and device. Per saltire vert and Or, in pale a swan naiant and an Arabian lamp enflamed Or.

Thorvald Redhair. Redesignation of device and badge.

Device (new): Argent, a sun within a bordure embattled gules.
Badge (new): Argent, a sun within a bordure embattled gules, overall a chief azure ermined argent.
The submitter is exchanging his currently registered device and badge.

Yseult de Cherbourg. Name.

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Aelfrike Ryngewevyre. Name and device. Per bend sinister argent and sable, in bend three pairs of lozenges bendwise sinister conjoined in bend sinister counterchanged.

Alaric Hawkwood of Hawkwood Manor. Name and device. Sable, a hawk displayed and on a chief embattled Or, three fir trees eradicated sable.

Alison Bonaventure. Name.

Arielle Beaumaris. Change of holding name from Anita Beaumaris.

Christian of the Faeroes. Name and device. Vert, on a bend sinister between an arrow and an arrow inverted argent, five mullets palewise vert.

Claire de la Mer. Name.

Craig Eideard MacGhille Aindrais. Name.

David of Caer Darth. Holding name and device. Per bend sinister sable and Or, a lion dormant within a bordure counterchanged.

Submitted as David ben Avraham.

Eric of Huntington. Name.

Gytha Halfdan. Name.

Hieronymus de Hansworst. Name.

Juliana d'Antioche. Name.

Leah Raedaelf of Pagham. Name and device. Or, a fret azure within a bordure azure semy of lozenges Or.

Meadhbh O'Labhraidh the Malevolent. Device. Azure, four lozenges in cross and a chief engrailed Or.

Pedair na Cluaine Bige. Name and device. Purpure, on a bend sinister engrailed Or a bend sinister pean, in dexter chief a griffin segreant Or.

Submitted as Pedair na Cluain Bheag, we have corrected the grammar as the submitter's forms allowed.

West, Kingdom of the. Title for Canon Pursuivant.

[Irreverent comment from the Laurel meeting: Just what the College needs: another loose "cannon" on the deck!]

Submitted as Wolfgang Travaal.

ANSTEORRA

Alarich Liutpold von Steinman. Device change. Gules an eagle displayed wings inverted and on a chief embattled argent two crosses formy gules.

Conflict with Rev. Reid (Lyon, Vol. II, p. 123), Gules, an eagle displayed argent, beaked and membered azure, on a chief embattled of the second a cross moline between two bells sable. There is only one CVD for the changes to the tertiaries.

The name was submitted as invented by C.J. Cherryh (in The Dreamstone). However, the name there was used only by an elf (the last living one in that world), and hence not suitable for humans. The purported derivation by Cherryh of Arafel from Aoibheil seems extremely unlikely. And although the two themes of the name, "ara" and "fel", appear in Searle's Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum (pp. 72 and 240, respectively), the fact that they appear without any examples of their use in actual names (and that they are not in his extensive list of themes on pp. xv-xix) makes them suspect, to say the least. (Searle seems to indicate that "-fel" may be a misreading of "-wulf", and "ara" refers the reader to "Haraldus", where it is more clearly not a protheme.) The Anglicized form of Caerleon has only a single "l" (and it does make a difference in pronunciation).

Conflict with modern American sculptor David Smith (influential on Minimal art during the 1960's), noted by his own entry in the Encyclopedia Brittanica. Addition of the article "the" is not sufficient to clear.

Conflict with the attributed arms of St. Prisca (Fabulous Heraldry, cited in the LoI), Argent, a lion couchant gules. There is one CVD, for the addition of the chief (which was vert, as noted in the letter of correction sent out in February, not Or as noted in the LoI).

Blazoned in the LoI as "Sable, a Heneage knot argent and overall a fess counterchanged", an ordinary, when present, is normally considered the primary charge and should be blazoned first. Blazoned this way, it is much clearer that this is in conflict with Beancastle (Papworth, p. 708), Sable a fess argent, as noted in the LoI. In previous cases where a piece of armory could legitimately be blazoned in either of two ways, if either blazon had a conflict, the submission was returned.

Conflict with Tav Alandil (SCA), Vert, a bend sinister argent between a hawk close and a lighting bolt, both Or. There is one CVD for the change to the type of the secondaries, but the change of tincture to what is effectiely 1/4 of the secondaries is insufficient for the second. There was also some concern that the enflaming of the raven might be considered complex fimbriation. (Laurel has some qualms about it, but isn't sure that it's enough cause in itself for return.)

Conrad Leliasson. Name.

No documentation was given to show that the Latin Lelia could have been combined with the Norse patronymic particle -sson. Without demonstration of such a practice, we must return the name because the two parts of the patronymic do not agree in language.

Conflict with West, Kingdom of, Badge for the Royal Archer (SCA), Or, four arrows fretted sable, barbed gules. There is one CVD, for changing the arrows to swords.

Conflict with the flag of Brazil, Vert, on a lozenge Or a celestial sphere azure. There is only one CVD, for the changes to the tertiaries.

Soni Kurai Chikara Hito. Name.

No documentation was included to demonstrate that this is a properly formed period Okinawan or Japanese name, and there is some documentation that it is not. O'Neill lists Soni only as a place name, Kurai only as a surname, and Hito only as a place name referring to the Phillipines. We need proper documentation before we can register this.

Fuyuzuru Tadashi. Name change from Thaid mak Tlesown and device change. Gules, the Ganji character for mountain within an annulet Or.

The submitter's name was changed from Thaid mak Tlesown to Fuyuzuru Tadashi at the Laurel meeting in February 1985. Because we were forced to the conclusion that mundane mon must be treated as tinctureless, this is an exact conflict with Yamamoto (Hawley 91), The character for 'yama' within an annulet. Per X.4.d., no difference can be granted on the basis of tincture against tinctureless armory, and that is the only difference here.

Conflict with Matsuchiro of Okochi (Hawley 58), Three fans conjoined in annulo one and two, bases to center. The only changes here are to tinctures, and as mundane mon could have legitimately been displayed in these colors, it is an exact conflict. [Irreverent comment: Laurel disagrees with those commenters who remarked that this looks like a P-47 engine affronty, believing it to be much more like a P-26.]

Conflict with Dragonflight, by Anne McCaffrey, the first book of the well-known Dragonrider trilogy.

The "dragon's teeth" here are not really identifiable as such. (They don't even match the form used in the emblazon for the Middle's Award of the Dragon's Tooth. Were the emblazon here redrawn so that the teeth matched, Laurel would be obliged to register the charge(s).)

David ben Avraham. Name.

Conflict with David ben Abraham, well-known 10th century Hebrew lexicographer and author of "Agron".

Conflict with Custance (Papworth, p. 973), Or, a rustre sable. There is only one CVD, for the changes to the "tertiaries".

The currently registered blazon, Argent, a mug sable charged with a sword Or, within an annulet within a bordure gules, much more accurately reflects the emblazon and the primary nature of the mug.

As a constructed name, tra- would need to be shown to be a Dutch protheme compatible with the (here, deutero-) theme "vaal" (meaning grey-brown, drab). We could find no such theme or word in Dutch. Without some supporting documentation, we cannot register this.

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Edward of Ironsteed. Name.

The name was given in the LoI as Eric of Ironsteed (the fact that it was between Edric Rannulf and Eric of Huntington on the LoI probably contributed to the typo). This is pended so that commenters may properly check it for possible conflicts.

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