THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS HAVE BEEN REGISTERED:

ATENVELDT

Alexandra del Monte di Pietà. Device. Pean, a pomegranate Or, seeded gules, slipped and leaved vert, between flaunches Or.

Registered February 23, 1991, the accent over the final "a" in the byname went the wrong direction. We are correcting that now.

Angela Sara Maria Diaz de Valdez. Name and badge for alternate persona of Arashi Tetsuko. Sable, two bars embattled, in base a cross couped triply parted, a bordure argent.

As many of the commenters noted, the badge here is clearly not Japanese style mon and is very complex for a European style badge. It is, however, within the bounds of acceptable SCA style.

Bran Mac Murchada. Name and device. Per bend vert and sable, a bend embattled counter-embattled argent between a Celtic cross Or and a decrescent argent.

Dalla Rowden of the Misty Forest. Name change from holding name of Pamela Rowden of the Misty Forest.

Daria of Durmast. Device. Argent, in pale a ferret statant to sinister sable and a chevron dovetailed counter-dovetailed gules.

Eliada of Thun. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Erc Mortagh the Pict. Name.

Gavin MacIntyre. Name and device. Per bend gules and sable, a bend raguly ermine between a falcon argent and three mullets of four points elongated to base two and one Or.

This would be ever so much better style if the client would allow the three mullets of four points to simply follow the default rather than specifying "two and one."

Lleywellyn MacLamont. Name and device. Per pale Or and gules, an acorn counterchanged and on a chief dovetailed sable four ragged staves fretted in cross Or.

Marco Andrea Vendramin Veneziano. Name and device. Argent, on a fess azure between four towers sable, three and one, a lymphad argent.

Several commenters supplied additional documentation for Vendramin and for Veneziano. Pretty armory!

Stefan van der Weide. Name and device. Per pale argent and azure, a bat-winged cobra displayed guardant erect tail nowed, all counterchanged.

Although the LoI said that the name was German, it is actually Dutch and formed correctly for that language.

Wulf Ivarsen. Name.

Submitted as Wulf Ivarsen the Runesayer. The name has been modified to drop the intrusively modern epithet. "The Runesayer" is not a Norse expression nor does it appear to be formed on a Period exemplar. Runes are not something that needed "saying," and the byname appears to be a modern fantasy idiom.

ATLANTIA

Adelinde Katla. Device change. Plumetty azure and argent, a dragon statant in annulo and on a chief Or three roundels azure.

Her currently registered device, Or, semy of swords gules, on a spider tergiant inverted sable an hourglass argent, is released.

Anastasiya Dolgorukova. Name.

Angharad verch Rhuawn. Badge. [Fieldless] A rowan branch argent fructed gules within and conjoined to an annulet sable.

Anne du Cygne Noir. Name.

Asgar Otkelsson. Badge. [Fieldless] A pale wavy within and conjoined to an annulet azure.

Atlantia, Kingdom of. Badge. [Fieldless] A unicornate hippocampus Or.

Atlantia, Kingdom of. Badge. [Fieldless] A unicornate hippocampus contourny Or.

Atlantia, Kingdom of. Title for Hippocampus Herald.

Berley Court, Canton of. Device. Azure, a human head contourny, vested in a jester's hood within a laurel wreath on a chief indented Or a sperm whale naiant to sinister azure.

Bronwen Huntress. Name and device. Sable, a pall inverted wavy between three bear paw prints argent.

Ceara O Toughill. Device. Per pale vert and azure, two lions combattant tails nowed, a demi sun issuant from base Or.

Daniel O'Gavigan. Name.

Daoud al-Bodmani. Device. Per fess engrailed sable and barry engrailed argent and azure, an astrolabe argent and a pair of compasses inverted Or.

Deryk Balthasar Symonds. Device. Gyronny Or and azure, a winged boar passant sable a bordure counterchanged.

Duncan MacKinnon of Tobermory. Name.

Elizabeth of Rosewood. Device. Azure, on a bend sinister wavy cotised argent three roses proper.

Eveleen O'Flynn. Name.

Gerard FitzGerald. Device. Per bend purpure and sable, a saltire between four crescents argent.

Please ask the client to draw the crescents less banana-like.

Mordeyrn Rhiannon. Name.

Morgan Emrys. Name.

Niall Duncan MacFarlane. Device. Argent, a three peaked mountain sable, on a chief azure a saltire Or.

Nicole Sinclair. Name change from Nicole de Saint Clair.

Raadgjer Katla. Badge. [Fieldless] A double-bitted axe its haft surmounted by a shamshir fesswise reversed, blade to base, argent.

Rayya bint Badr. Name.

Rhiannon ui Neill. Device. Azure, on a chevron cotised argent, three decrescents palewise sable, in base a castle argent.

Stephen Walerand. Name.

Sybyl ferch Llywelyn ab Einion ap Gruffydd. Name and device. Per bend sinister potenty sable and gules, a decrescent Or and a unicorn rampant argent.

Please ask the client to draw the potents bigger.

Thomas Ó Finn. Name and device. Argent, a fox's head cabossed per pale sable and gules within an orle gules.

Timmeke Haakonson of Nordheim. Device change. Gules, on a roundel Or a hawk rising wings elevated and addorsed gules within a bordure indented Or.

Pretty armory! His currently registered device, Azure, upon a plate a hawk rising wings elevated and addorsed gules, all within a bordure indented argent, is released.

William the Stout. Name.

Wulf Gall. Name.

CAID

Andrew Dexter. Badge. [Fieldless] A boar's head erased contourny sable transfixed by a spearhead argent.

Angeline Cymraes. Name.

Submitted as Angeline gan Cymru. The name has been modified to correct the grammar.

Antonious Tesel. Name.

Arianna Kateryn Nunneschild. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Lord Dragon has documented this kind of formation for the byname.

Arianwen Megan McBride of Arainn. Name and device. Argent, on a fess between two arrows fesswise reversed azure, a Wake knot argent.

Nice device!

Beatrice of Skep Glen. Name.

Brandon Galloglass of Land's End. Name and device. Vert, in fess a sea-griffin contourny argent and a sword Or enflamed proper.

Caoimhe ó Raghalligh. Name and device. Name and device. Per bend checky argent and gules and sable, in base a pair of smith's tongs between two mallets argent.

Catherine Jane Page. Device. Per pale argent and azure, a rose between two snakes in orle repectant counterchanged.

Cerdic Whitewynde of Wessex. Name.

Ciaran MacDarragh. Badge (see RETURNS for household name). Per fess sable and gules, a fess embattled, in chief three crescents Or.

Please ask the client to draw the fess wider.

Cristie ni Cairbre O'Callanáin. Name and device. Per chevron pean and erminois, two panther's faces Or enflamed proper and a Celtic cross sable.

Dun Or, Canton of. Device (see RETURNS for name change). Argent, two dragons rampant addorsed reguardant and in base a laurel wreath all within a bordure embattled sable.

Submitted with name change to Barony of Linttrache.

Frank le Lyon d'Afrique. Name.

Giovanna Sofonisba la Veneziana. Name.

Guillaume Lenfant. Device. Per pale sable and Or, a bend dancetty counterchanged.

Please ask the client to draw the bend wider.

Hansel von Drachenwald. Name.

Ian the Wanderer. Name and device. Per chevron gules and argent, two open books argent and a wand proper.

Jessica Tanhäuser. Name and device. Per chevron sable and argent, an annulet within an orle counterchanged.

Submitted as Jessica Tanhaüser. The name has been modified to correct the grammar and to match the documented form.

John Jameson. Name and device. Vert, two swords inverted in saltire argent between four hearts Or.

Kelan McBride of Arainn. Name.

Kurt von Arriksleva. Badge. Per pale sable and gules, a four-headed wyvern rising wings displayed, between three compass stars one and two Or.

Magnus Boskin. Badge. [Fieldless] Four fireballs two and two, flames conjoined proper.

Melaina Caerlaverock. Name.

Contrary to the assertion in the LoI, it appears that the Latin "Melania" is a variant spelling of the submitted Greek Melaina, according to the client's documentation.

Melina Jolisyeux. Name.

Michael Crookfinger of Blackpool. Name and device. Sable, a bend gules fimbriated between a lantern Or, candled argent and enflamed proper, and three mallets Or.

Morag ní Shabháin. Name and device. Per bend sinister azure and gules, a bend sinister between a spoon inverted and a sewing needle, both bendwise sinister argent, a bordure invected Or.

Submitted as Morag ui Sabháin. The name has been modified to correct the grammar. Sewing needles are point to base by SCA default.

Rafael Mercùrio. Name.

Rebecca Marchand d'Alsace. Device. Vert, a seeblatt argent.

Nice armory!

Roland of Skep Glen. Name and device. Vert, a beehive between three bees wings close Or.

Nice armory!

Sebastian von dem Schwartzwald. Name and device. Per pale Or and sable, an estoile within a bordure counterchanged.

Sorcha Caerlaverock. Name and device. Azure, on a bend sinister cotissed between two lozenges bendwise sinister argent, three lozenges azure.

Valentina la Valente. Name and device. Argent, a chevron inverted wavy and in chief a dove volant gules.

By Laurel precedent (Baldwin of Erebor, LoAR of July 1986, pg. 6), chevrons inverted should issue from the sides of the shield not from the corners of the chief.

Vildan el-Taalebatun. Name and device. Gules, on a fess indented to chief between a mullet and a decrescent argent, a quill pen nib to dexter gules.

Vitale Michael Giustiniani. Name and device. Per pale argent and vert, a doubled-headed cockatrice, heads addorsed, holding a mace counterchanged, a bordure per pale azure and argent.

CALONTIR

Alessia di Lago del Cigno. Device change. Purpure, a swan displayed argent and on a chief Or two sphinxes sable.

Her currently registered device, Purpure, a swan displayed argent and on a chief Or three sea-lions erect contourny vert, is released.

Brendan Mac Ronan. Device change. Argent, a saltire between in fess two dolphins urinant, a chief invected vert.

His currently registered device, Per pale embattled Or and sable, three dolphins embowed counterchanged, is released.

Coeur d'Ennui, Barony of. Name and badge for Order of the Boar's Song. [Fieldless] A boar salient gules maintaining in its forepaws a bell argent.

Coeur d'Ennui, Barony of. Name and badge for Order of the Boar's Tooth. [Fieldless] A boar's tusk surmounted by a boar's head couped close gules.

Coeur d'Ennui, Barony of. Name for Order of the Crashing Boar (see RETURNS for device).

Coeur d'Ennui, Barony of. Name and badge for Order of the Mace of Honor. [Fieldless] A mace argent surmounted by a boar's head couped close gules.

Eckerich Rothvalken von Stromburg. Name and device. Or, three bars wavy azure, overall a falcon displayed gules within a bordure embattled sable.

Fynn MacGuire. Name and device. Argent, a bend sinister vair en point ancient of two traits between a Bowen knot in cross and three quatrefoils vert.

Kaitlin of Glenloch. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Klarissa of Layne. Name and device. Per bend sinister vert and purpure, a bend sinister invected Or between two double roses argent.

Muirgheal Mag Raith. Name and device. Per bend and per bend sinister wavy Azure and Or ermined azure, a pile inverted bendwise counterchanged.

This device pushes at the limits of acceptable style.

Niall Mac a'Ghobhainn. Name.

EAST

Adrienne Francesca de Montaigne. Device. Argent semy of flames vert chapé, a demi-dragon wings addorsed and inverted sable.

Aethelwine Aethelredson. Name.

Aislinn of Ravenwood. Name and device. Vert, a stag at gaze argent within a bordure argent semy of oak leaves vert.

Nice armory!

Alistrina de Mann. Name.

Angharad of the Sleeping Lion. Badge. [Fieldless] On a tower argent, a lion rampant azure.

Aquila Blackmore. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Arthur of the Black Marsh. Device. Sable, two dragons combattant within a bordure embattled Or.

Arthur of the Black Marsh. Badge. [Fieldless] On a cross potent Or four torteaux.

Beatrice de Winslow. Badge. [Fieldless] A goutte barry wavy sable and argent.

Bedawyr of Avaricum. Name for Tuath an Fhír-éin.

Submitted as Tuatha Firen. We have modified the household name to correct the grammar, giving the client the meaning he desires. (Tuath Fhíréan, while closer in sound to the submitted name, has a different meaning.)

Borkr Hálftroll Thorbjarnarson. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Submitted as Borkr Hálftroll Thorbjarnason. The name has been modified to correct the grammar.

Brigid of Skye. Name and device. Per chevron azure and argent, three clouds counterchanged.

Brion O'Cullen of Glen Cullen. Badge. [Fieldless] On a daisy Or an escallop inverted azure.

Cáemgen mac Daill. Name and device. Argent, in fess an arrow inverted azure and a tabby cat sejant gules, tail entwined about the arrow, all within a bordure azure.

Camma an Daraich. Device. Vert, a clarion and on a chief Or three pheons vert.

Classic design!

Cassair of Máeldun. Name.

Cassandra of Kendal. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Cathleen of Greystones. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Ceole Seabhac. Device. Azure, perched upon a harp a hawk close guardant argent, a chief argent fretty azure.

Clarissa da Svizzera. Name and device. Argent fretty gules, on a goutte de sang a quill pen palewise argent.

Concordia of the Snows, Barony of. Name and badge for Order of the Pine. [Fieldless] A pine cone stem to base argent.

Connor Bowsplitter of Clan MacFarlane. Name.

Corinna of Nithgaard. Name.

Cynewulf Magnusson. Name.

Submitted as Cynewulf Magnusson the Foehammer. The name has been modified to drop the epithet. Foehammer is not formed in the same pattern as the period names "Bloodaxe" or "Longsword". Such epithets were normally formed along fairly literal lines; he carries a "bloody (or blooded) axe", or carries a "long sword". This byname does not follow that pattern.

Damon Blackthorn. Name and device. Per pale argent and sable, a tree blasted and eradicated within a bordure counterchanged.

Deirdre O'Bardon. Name and device. Purpure, on a bend between two harps Or a quill pen purpure.

Submitted as Deirdre ó Bárdáin. The name has been modified to correct the grammar of the patronymic.

Dougall de Leslie. Name and device. Vert, a shakefork between two anchors Or.

East, Kingdom of the. Name and badge for the Chamberlain of the East Kingdom. [Fieldless] A cushion purpure.

Edmond Dracatorr. Device. Per chevron vert and sable, a dragon courant wings elevated and addorsed Or and a tower argent.

Eiríkr Lambason. Name.

Eleri of Nefyn. Badge. [Fieldless] On an oak leaf vert a hand argent.

Eowen Annasdottir. Name and device. Azure, a duck naiant Or and on a chief nebuly argent, three annulets azure.

Please ask the client to draw the nebules less like potents.

Fenice d'Aix. Name.

Ffiona ferch Rodric. Name.

Given the acceptance (admittedly, on a special basis) of Fiona, we did not feel that we could reasonably disallow this variant.

Freydís ór Thelamörk. Name and device. Purpure, a fox sejant within a bordure argent.

Nice aromory!

Genevieve d'Angoulême. Device. Or, a seahorse within an orle of escallops vert.

Greger Eberhard. Name.

Gwendolyn Sylvania. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Henry of Maldon. Name and device. Per pale sable and vert, a wolf passant Or within a bordure embattled argent.

James the Forrester of Malmesbury. Name and device. Vert, a moose's attires between three hunting horns Or.

Jaric de l'Ile Longe Sault. Device. Per fess sable and gules a fess conjoined in chief with a demi-pale between two unicorn's head couped respectant and a phoenix displayed head facing sinister argent.

Jehan d'Aigle. Name.

Jehan le Batarde and Ygraine of Preston . Badge. Or, a mullet of six points fesswise azure between in annulo six sprigs of poison ivy vert.

Jocetta Thrushleigh of Rowansgarth. Device change. Quarterly vert and azure, in bend two thrushes contourny, tails erect, Or.

Her previously registered device, Quarterly vert and sable, in bend two singing thrushes counter-close Or, is released.

John Lyttleton. Name and device. Per bend rayonny vert and argent, two horse's heads couped counterchanged.

Julyan Lyttleton. Name and device. Vert, a lion rampant to sinister and on a chief rayonny argent three hearts sable.

Katharina Jourdain. Device. Purpure, a seahorse and on a chief Or three Catherine wheels purpure.

Katja Orlova. Name and device. Azure, three catamounts sejant guardant argent and a bordure argent semy of stars of David azure.

Submitted as Katja Orlovna. The name has been modified to correct the grammar of the surname.

Llywelyn ab Adda. Name and device. Argent chaussé dovetailed, in a chief a millrind azure.

Lord Laurel is unsure of the propriety of registering a dovetailed line of division on a chaussé field. (Anyone care to comment on this?)

Lorenz der Jäger. Device. Per bend Or and gules, a hawk displayed gules and a boar-spearhead argent.

Lorenzo Orsini. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Maelpádraig MacConmara. Name and device. Per pale argent and azure, a celtic cross counterchanged and a chief chequy azure and argent.

Marcus Ferguson. Name and device. Sable, two lions combattant and on a chief nebuly argent three Aaron's rods sable.

Maria Cristina de Cordoba. Name.

Morwenna of Western Sea. Device. Ermine, a mermaid proper crined Or, between three cinquefoils purpure.

Ogga the Soothsayer. Name.

Onorio d'Amerigo. Name and device. Per bend sinister gules and azure, a horse salient and in sinister chief a horseshoe argent.

Orianna Fridrikskona. Name change from Orianna vander Delft of Winfield and device change. Argent, on a pile cotised azure, three escallops in pale argent.

Her currently registered device, Ermine, a unicorn sejant to sinister within a bordure azure semy of shamrocks argent, is released. The cotisses should meet in base.

Otto von Mergenthal. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Ragnar of Elandris. Device. Or, three anvils azure.

Nice armory!

Raine Devereaux. Name.

Rebecca Greylever. Name and badge for House Greylever. [Fieldless] A unicorn's head couped contourny gules.

Richard von Alaricsberg. Name and device. Quarterly azure and gules, a sea dog passant Or.

Clear of Anubis (and others), Gules, a dog (talbot, hound, etc.) passant Or, with CDs for the field and for the type of primary. While I do not believe that X.2 would apply between a dog and a sea-dog, I do not have a problem with granting a CD, especially given the separate heraldic existence of a sea-dog from any other kind of dog.

Rom ben Yosef del Castillo del Toro Negro. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Rosamunde of Axbridge. Name and device. Argent, a lamb passant sable maintaining a hollybush proper and on a chief gules three saltorels argent.

Rosemund von Glinde. Name.

Sapphira the Navigator. Name and device. Per pale azure and argent, a fig leaf counterchanged.

As I have been loath to do with Withycombe and other of our "standard" names sources, I do not wish to start going the through the Bible and making lists of exceptions to the names documented therefrom. Yes, as a number of commenters noted, the name Sapphira has sufficient negative connotations in the Bible itself that it is unlikely to have been used as a name in Period. The fact remains, however, that it was in the "pool" of available Biblical names, and it should remain available to members of the SCA until and unless proven "guilty" of sufficient impossibility or sufficient offense to warrant banning it.

Seadna Adare. Name and device. Per chevron azure and argent, two wolves combattant argent and an oak tree proper.

Shahira bint Abdul Samad. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Sigebeorht Aethelbrand. Name and device. Argent, two demi-unicorns combattant purpure.

Solveig Throndardottir. Device. Argent fretty sable, a sun azure eclipsed argent.

Solveig Throndardottir. Badge. [Fieldless] On a sun azure a hammer argent.

Thorvald of Bungay. Name and badge. [Fieldless] A two-headed bear statant affronty maintaining in dexter paw a sword and in sinister an arrow inverted azure.

Ulfr Gangler. Name.

Uther Hardwin. Name.

Submitted as Uther Hardwind. The name has been modified to match the documented form. No one was able to document Hardwind, nor did the client include any documentation for it.

Vivienne Marie de Beauvais. Badge. [Fieldless] A fleur-de-lis per pale sable and azure.

Versus James III of Scotland, [Fieldless] A fleur-de-lys, there is a CD for fieldlessness and another for the addition of a line of division on the charge. The assumption (until proven otherwise) is that mundane badges were displayed only in solid tinctures (including the furs). It is therefore reasonable that the addition of a line of division should count for difference, as here.

William James Foxworthy. Name and badge for House Blackwood. Azure, on a billet Or a tree blasted and eradicated sable.

Wolf of Ulster. Name.

MIDDLE

Aelfwyn of Longwood. Name.

Aibhilín ní Dhomhnaill mhic Ghiolla t-Seanáin. Device. Or, two unicorn's heads couped sable and a sheaf of three arrows and on a chief purpure three roses Or.

Aidan Sceotend æt thæm Mistigum Merum. Name and device. Per chevron gules and argent, a chevron throughout between two arrows inverted in chevron and an eagle rising wings displayed all counterchanged Or and gules.

Alaric Styrr. Name and device. Purpure, a wyvern statant wings displayed argent charged on each wing with a mullet sable.

Alastair ap Maelgwyn. Device. Per bend Or and bendy sinister argent and sable, in sinister chief a griffin segreant gules.

Aldred of Ascalon. Device. Gyronny azure and argent, a phoenix Or within a bordure gules semy of double-bitted axes Or.

Alesia de Castile. Device. Or, a dolphin naiant gules between three roses proper.

Alisaundre Juliana de Sentís. Device. Sable, on a bend between two fleurs-de-lys argent three Maltese crosses palewise purpure.

Clear of Martin Saenger, Sable, on a bend between two dragon's heads issuant from sinister argent, a recorder between two crosses paty palewise gules, with CDs for type and orientation of the secondaries. (The dragon's heads on Martin's device are quite obviously bendwise.)

Ambrosius Postbane the Beloved. Device. Per fess Or and argent, a heart gules between three gouts azure.

Annys Moryson. Name and device. Per chevron purpure and argent, in base three fleurs-de-lys one and two purpure.

Pretty device!

Arinbjorn Rúnólfsson Rafnssonar. Name and device. Per pale sable and argent, a wolf passant between three decrescents and in chief a tower all counterchanged.

This is just within the limits of complexity for counterchanging. It would be ever so much better without the tower.

Arwen ferch Morgan. Name and device. Purpure three flames bend sinisterwise, issuant from dexter base Or.

Aveline de la Rose. Name and device. Sable, a cross avellane Or between four roses argent barbed and seeded Or.

Bertram Leder. Name.

Búcar ibn Tariq. Name and device. Argent, on a bend sinister gules between an increscent sable and a dromedary statant contourny proper three scimitars palewise argent.

Caitriona Jenne. Name.

Cathan MacCullaich. Name.

Catriona Béibhinn. Name and device. Azure, on a pile indented argent a rat tergiant sable.

Catriona Elspeth Montgumery of Renfrewshire. Name.

Ceinwen ferch Rhys. Name and device. Azure, a mouse sejant erect and in chief three mullets of four points Or.

Cíara ní Mhaille. Device. Or, a swan naiant sable between three acorns vert.

Corwyn de Wemyss. Name and device. Argent, two chevronels between three mullets azure and overall a dragon passant contourny vert.

The overall charge would be more identifiable if the client would move the chevronels closer together.

Cuilén Ceárd Leathair. Name and device. Per pale sable and argent, two wolves salient addorsed counterchanged within a bordure azure crusily argent.

Cwenwyn Beorhtwig. Name and device. Per chevron azure and argent, on a hurt a flame argent.

Given the many attestations of "Cwen" both alone and as a protheme in Period, I believe that we should give it the same allowance that we do the name Regina: so long as it is not used in a name in such a way as to imply landedness, it will be acceptable for registration.

Cynwrig the Wanderer. Device. Azure, a wolf passant ululant between two bars and in chief three roundels argent.

Dakyn le Puk of Meriden. Name and device. Per bend sinister vert and Or, a sea-lion counterchanged.

Nice device!

David Ritchie Mullins. Name and device. Per bend sinister vert and azure, two annulets Or.

Nice simple armoury!

Dietrich von Hamburg. Name.

Doireann Scholastica Escriveyn. Name.

Duncan Ghlasthugah. Name and device. Sable semy of double-bitted axes argent, on a bezant a dragon's sinister forefoot reversed issuant from base gules.

Submitted as Duncan Tuagh Ghlas. The name has been modified to correct the grammar.

Ealdgyth of Spaulding Abbey. Device. Purpure, an urchin statant argent and a chief invected Or.

Edelgard Erzsébet von Württemberg. Badge. [Fieldless] Between the peaks of a mountain of two peaks argent issuant from park pales gules a hurst of trees proper.

Edward Geoffry de Montaign of Huntington. Name and badge for Castrum Sagittariorum. Or, a thunderbolt and on a bordure gules a lightning bolt in orle Or.

Elína in Hárrauda. Name and device. Sable semy of Thor's hammers within a bordure indented argent.

Émann Mac an Ghabhann of Sligo. Name and device. Sable, a bend sinister Or between two lozenges argent all within a bordure Or.

Emelina Sharparowe. Name.

Emmeline Lambourne. Name and device. Per pale argent and azure, a saltire engrailed counterchanged debruised by a cushion, between in pale two goblets Or.

The counterchanging, hidden as it is by the cushion and goblets, makes it difficult to recognize quickly what is going on with the field and saltire in this device. However, we felt that it was just within acceptable limits.

Eyrný Ormarsdóttir. Name.

Fenix, Shire of the. Device. Per chevron engrailed Or and vert, two laurel wreaths and a phoenix counterchanged.

Friedrich der Halsabschneider. Badge. [Fieldless] A dagger bendwise inverted gules.

Fritz Bare. Name and device. Bendy sinister nebuly argent and sable, a phoenix erminois, enflamed or.

Please ask the client to draw the nebules bigger.

Galyon le Archer. Device. Per pale sable and gules, a winged lion segreant argent and on a chief embattled Or two pheons gules.

Pretty device!

Gareth of Tirnewydd. Device. Per pale and per bend vert and argent, in bend sinister two swords inverted sable.

Gerald Loosehelm. Name and device. Sable, a sinister arm fesswise reversed embowed proper armored Or grasping three tulips Or slipped vert all within a bordure Or.

Gisèle Percheron. Device. Vert, a bend sinister ermine between three roses and a horse salient contourny guardant argent.

Henry of Exeter. Name and device. Per fess embattled azure and argent, three falcons migrant counterchanged.

Hinach ben Josef. Device. Per fess argent and sable, a feather bendwise counterchanged gules and Or.

Ian of the Red Hawk. Device. Gyronny azure and argent, a hawk displayed head facing sinister wings inverted within a bordure gules.

Jesca McCutchen. Name and device. Lozengy Or and gules, an oak leaf bendwise inverted vert.

Kevin O'Shaughnessy. Name.

Korsväg, Shire of. Device. Azure, a drakkar reversed Or, sail set argent and charged with a laurel wreath vert, all within a bordure Or.

Please ask the client to draw the bordure wider.

Linnet Staig. Name.

Lothar Gottfried von Katzenellenbogen. Device change. Sable, semy of comets inverted, issuant from base a demi-sun argent.

His present device, Sable, semy of comets fesswise reversed, a demi­sun issuant from base argent, is released.

Lothar Gottfried von Katzenellenbogen. Badge. [Fieldless] A comet inverted argent.

Lothar Gottfried von Katzenellenbogen. Badge. Gules, semy of comets inverted, issuant from base a demi-sun Or.

Margoton Laflèche du Bois. Name and device. Vert, a chevron inverted Or between a unicorn's head couped and two recorders in saltire argent.

Marsali Sorcha na Liosa Mòire. Name.

Miriam of Gateacre. Name.

Otto von Schwartzkatz. Badge. [Fieldless] A bumblebee volant bendwise wings addorsed proper.

Philip MacDuncan Sinclair. Name and device. Per saltire argent and gules, a saltire engrailed between in pale two dexter hands fesswise couped each grasping a cross crosslet fitchy and in fess two thistles slipped and leaved all counterchanged.

Rafael van Antwerpen. Name.

Raibert MacArthur. Name and device. Per chevron gules and sable, a thistle slipped and leaved Or and a chief gyronny sable and argent.

Steren Codha, Shire of. Name.

Thomas Haler Cnutsson. Name and device. Per saltire argent and gules, a sheaf of arrows inverted gules between two compass stars argent.

Three is the default for the number of objects (besides wheat) in a sheaf.

Thomas of the River's Edge. Name.

OUTLANDS

Albert von Dreckenveldt. Badge. [Fieldless] A hawk displayed within and perched upon a dragon's tail couped embowed to dexter Or.

Ariana Montgomery. Name and device. Purpure, a pegasus segreant within an annulet Or.

Crispin an Tulaich. Name change from Bjorn Halvorsson and device. Vert, three chevronels braced and on a chief argent a rapier reversed sable.

Submitted as Crispin O'Tulach. The name has been modified to correct the grammar.

Dona av Skarsten. Name and device. Purpure, a pale Or, and overall three chevronels braced counterchanged.

Dona is not the same as the title Doña, and therefore is not subject to restriction as a title.

Guillaume Joseph Robert. Name and device. Per pale azure and sable, on a plate within an orle argent a rose per pale azure and sable, barbed vert.

Gunnar Oxnamegin. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Hieronymus the Sarabite. Name and device. Quarterly argent and sable, a mascle counterchanged.

The device is right at the very edge of acceptability, being highly reminiscent of a modern "op art" style.

Irik Julian of Black Elk. Device. Per fess with a left step to sinister sable and Or, a griffin salient to sinister and a bat winged wyvern tailed demi stag erect, counterchanged.

Karl Wolfgerson. Device. Per chevron sable and gules, a chevron between two mullets and two swords inverted in saltire surmounted by a double-bladed axe, within a bordure argent.

Please ask the client to draw the bordure and chevron bigger.

Kostbera Ulfsdottir. Name and badge. Per pale and per chevron azure and argent, three roses counterchanged.

Meghan Ruadh ni Guinne. Device. Per pale vert and azure, a horse's head couped contourny and in chief three mullets argent.

Ramon the Chronologer. Device. Argent, a hourglass gules within an orle of compass stars azure.

TRIMARIS

Adémar de Montpezat. Name and device. Argent, a sea-griffin erect sable within an orle azure.

Versus Langley (Papworth, p. 979), Argent, a basilisk wings endorsed, tail nowed sable, and Langley (Papworth, p. 979), Argent, a cockatrice sable, combed and membered gules, there is one CD for the addition of the orle and a second for the posture (erect vs. the default [passant]) of the primary.

Alberic of Seawall. Name.

Arianne des Jardins. Device. Or, five lozenges conjoined in cross azure, each charged with a fleur-de-lys Or.

Asa Thorfinnsdottir. Name change from Asa Thorfinnsdottir of Byrum and device change. Per saltire sable and gules, a drakkar between in pale a Thor's hammer and another inverted, Or.

The client's currently registered device, Sable, a bend sinister gules fimbriated surmounted by a sword inverted within a bordure Or, becomes a badge.

Brenna Montgomery Cameron. Device change. Argent, on a bend sinister between two fleurs-de-lys purpure, three roses argent.

The client's currently registered device, Argent, on a bend sinister between four fleurs-de-lys gules, three roses argent, is released.

Brianna ní Dhonnachaidh. Name and device. Per pale sable and azure, a Celtic cross and a chief indented argent.

Submitted as Brianna ni Donnachaidh. The name has been modified to correct the grammar.

Brion Gennadyevich Gorodin. Device. Sable, a bend sinister argent, ermined gules, cotised argent.

Cadwyd Enwir. Name and device. Quarterly azure, ermined argent and counter-ermine, an arm bendwise maintaining a battle-axe bendwise sininster, between in bend sinister two boar's heads erased, respectant argent.

Celeste de Saint Étienne. Name.

Cordelia Scriven. Name and device. Azure, in pale an open book and two feathers in saltire, on a chief invected Or two escallops azure.

Submitted as Cordelia des Scriven. The name has been modified to match the documented form.

Daibhead MacUater. Name and device. Sable, a castle, on a chief argent three pheons sable.

Nice armory!

Deirgrainne ní Fhinn an tAblaigh. Name and device. Azure, a tree eradicated Or, leaved argent, in chief two suns Or, a bordure argent, goutty de larmes.

Submitted in the LoI as Diergrianne ni Fionn Ablach. The name has been modified to correct the grammar. There were additionally a couple of typographical errors in the LoI which were correct on the client's forms.

Elizabeth Stafford Parr Pembroke. Name and device. Argent, five bars argent, a martlet volant and an orle of martlets azure.

Enya of Gael. Name.

Isabella Julietta Diego y Vega. Name.

Submitted as Isabella Julietta Diego y Vega de la Mañana. The name has been modified to remove the unlikely epithet. "Of the morning" is not a reasonable epithet in any language.

James Kincaid. Name and device. Sable, on a bend between two fleurs-de-lys argent, four shamrocks palewise vert.

James the Tavern Keeper. Device. Sable, on a bend between two mugs Or, a mace sable.

The client should try to draw a more distinctive mace, as the one here was initially mistaken by some commenters for a cooking spoon.

Jean Paul the Mace. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Joanna Eleanor Barrington. Device. Gules, a winged single-headed chessknight within a bordure Or.

Mikael du Mouchel. Badge. [Fieldless] On a Maltese cross argent two arrows in cross sable, the palewise arrow inverted.

Myfanwy Crisiant ferch Dafydd. Name and device. Gyronny purpure and Or, a bulb of garlic argent.

Russell de Botelsford. Name.

Fortunately for the client, Lady Ensign supplied documention for Russell as a given name in Period. The client's citations noted it as a surname.

Sexwulf the Transgressor. Name and device. Ermine, a cross formy fitchy, on a chief wavy azure a reremouse ermine.

Sexwulf the Transgressor. Badge. [Fieldless] On a cross formy azure, a reremouse ermine.

Southkeep Shire of. Badge. [Fieldless] On a mullet of eight points azure, two cooking spoons in saltire between four garlic bulbs argent.

Sur le Mer, Shire. Name and device. Per chevron wavy sable and Or, in chief three estoiles and in base a sea-swan contorny wings displayed within a laurel wreath counterchanged.

Taliesynne Nychymorh yr Angyfannedd. Badge (see RETURNS for Household Name). [Fieldless] On a portcullis argent, an oak tree eradicated stocked sable, leaved gules.

Submitted for Vnycornes' Hospice.

Thirza Leonovna Denisovskaya. Name.

Submitted as Thirza Leonova Denisovskya. The name has been modified to correct the grammar.

Trimaris, Kingdom of. Name for Order of the Trade Winds of Trimaris.

Wolfram Faust. Name and device. Argent, scaly vert, a sea-wolf tailed as a fish erect sable attired of ram's horns Or.

Zâhir ibn Zaki. Name and device. Sable, a bezant between three daggers inverted argent.

Nice armory!

THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS HAVE BEEN RETURNED:

ATENVELDT

Alexandra del Monte di Pietà. Badge. Azure, a salamander salient reguardant sable, enflamed proper, within a bordure Or.

As drawn on the large emblazon, the salamander is on a flame gules, fimbriated Or. As a consequence, it is color on color. (Nor have flames fimbriated been allowed for some time.)

Arnkatla Solveigardottir. Device. Vert, a sea-ewe naiant and a bordure wavy argent.

Conflict with Kaylitha Rhiannon of Southhaven, Vert, a sheep courant within a bordure wavy argent. There is one CD for the difference between a sheep and a sea-ewe, but X.2 does not apply.

Eliada of Thun. Device. Azure, a fess wreathed Or between a sunburst and a lotus blossom in profile argent.

There is precedent disallowing wreathing of single tincture. Were this the only problem with this submission, we would simply call the fess invected and register it without comment on the "diapering". However, the use of two different but visually similar secondaries creates serious identifiability problems. [While Laurel has tried very hard to avoid application of the informal "Rule of Two Weirdnesses" during his tenure, this proposal appears to have run into it.] Either making the secondary charges identical (the preferred choice) or clearly different would considerably ease the problem.

ATLANTIA

Annabella Kirkpatrick. Device. Argent, a saltire engrailed sable and on a chief gules three doves migrant argent.

Conflict with Johnston (Papworth, p. 1064), Argent, a saltire engrailed sable, on a chief gules three cushions Or. There is one CD for the changes to type and tincture of the tertiaries.

Óengus Mac Mhíolchon. Device. Argent, a gurges azure and overall on a sinister gore sable a norse suncross argent.

This is four layers (field, gurges, gore, suncross). There is serious doubt as to whether peripheral charges (e.g., bordures, chiefs, gores, etc.) may be used as an overall charge in this manner. Certainly we would much prefer to see some evidence of its acceptability in Period before registering it in the SCA.

CAID

Abaris Damn Féidh Ciar. Name change from Uilliam of Reisling.

While the byname translates literally to the meaning the client desires, it appears to bear the same relation to correct Gaelic that "Dusky male deer" bears to "Sablehart". A better form would appear to be Damh Dubh or Fiadh Dubh, depending on whether he wishes to emphasise either the masculinity or the "deer-ness" of the name. While he allowed minor changes to correct the grammar we felt that these changes did not fall within a "minor" range.

Arianna Kateryn Nunneschild. Device. Gules, a stag rampant between three decrescents argent.

Conflict with Martellini dit Della Cerva (Renesse Vol. 2, Page 480), Gules, a stag rampant argent. There is only one CD for the addition of the secondaries.

Ciaran MacDarragh. Name for House Tristatera.

The household name appears to be formed to refer to an object that does not exist. A triple balance is not a very plausible object.

David Fletcher Stanwood. Blazon correction. Counter-ermine, a snowy owl contourny proper holding two arrows, a double tressure Or.

It has long been the practice of the College that when a standard blazon using heraldic tinctures is available that that blazon is preferable to using naturalistic propers. In this case, the only difference between the registered owl argent and the client's snowy owl proper is some of the internal detailing in sable. As this is exactly the level and kind of artistic detail that has always been left to the whim of the artist, we do not see sufficient reason to change the blazon here.

Linttrache, Barony of. Name change from Canton of Dun Or.

The "Barony of Dragon" does not make sense in German or English. At the very least it needs an article. As the clients allowed no changes, we are having to return this.

CALONTIR

Coeur d'Ennui, Barony of. Badge. Per fess argent and gules, in chief a boar's head couped close gules.

Conflict with Eerdeswike (Papworth, p. 908), Argent, a boar's head couped gules, with one CD for the change to the field. There are several similar "[field], a boar's head gules", all with the same CD count.

Coeur d'Ennui, Barony of. Name and badge for Order of the Bon Coeur. [Fieldless] On a heart gules a mask of comedy argent.

The name conflicts with Boncoeur (SCA). The badge conflicts with Thomas Heath, Argent, on a heart gules, a unicorn passant reguardant argent. There is one CD for fieldlessness, but nothing for change to type only of the tertiary.

Coeur d'Ennui, Barony of. Badge for Order of the Crashing Boar. Per fess nowy inverted argent and gules masoned argent, a boar's head gules.

Conflict with Eerdeswike (Papworth, p. 908), Argent, a boar's head couped gules, with one CD for the change to the field. There are several similar "[field], a boar's head gules", all with the same CD count. As Mistress Alisoun noted in the LoAR of January 1990, the Period nature of a nowy field line of partition is in question. We need clear documentation of its Period use before we can register this.

Kaitlin of Glenloch. Device. Per chevron gules and ermine, two roses Or and one gules.

Conflict with Brett (Papworth, p. 873), Per chevron embattled gules and Or, three cinquefoils counterchanged. There is a CD for the changes to the field, but nothing for the minor change between cinquefoils and roses.

Rosamund Samborski. Device. Sable, on a spiderweb argent, a spider between three roses Or.

This is being returned once again for conflict with Arachne's Web, Sable, a spiderweb argent. Despite the assertion in the device appeal letter, spiderwebs are throughout by default and thus there cannot be a CD for "throughoutness" here. A spiderweb is not like any of the other field treatments, in that no part of it reflects the same pattern as the whole. In this way it much more closely resembles a gurges, which is a charge. Thus, there is only one CD versus Arachne's Web for the addition of the overall charges.

EAST

Adrienne Francesca de Montaigne. Badge. [Fieldless] On a dragon's wing inverted sable a flame argent.

The primary charge is not identifiable, and the term inverted when applied to wings could create more than one possible emblazon, thus failing the reproducibility test of the RfS (an emblazon must be reproducibly from the blazon).

Anthea Maecenas. Name and badge for House Warrington. [Fieldless] A cross couped gules irradiated Or.

Warrington is a real place in the middle ages and should not be registered to a single individual in the SCA. The badge conflicts with the insignia of the International Red Cross, not by our rules, but by theirs. As stated in Corpora Appendix A, "the Society recognizes the absolute precedence of law issued by civil authorities over any of its internal rules." International treaty severely restricts the use of a cross couped gules, and this takes precedence over any of the Rules for Submission, including those for difference, of the SCA.

Aquila Blackmore. Device. Argent vêtu ployé gules, a mullet sable within a bordure argent.

As drawn, the emblazon shows the bordure overall. If the client would redraw this so that the corners of the vêtu are not cut off by the bordure, this design would be acceptable.

Borkr Hálftroll Thorbjarnarson. Device. Sable, a bear Or and a ram argent combattant.

Conflict with Berton (Papworth, p. 61), Sable, a goat rampant argent. There is one CD for the addition of the bear.

Cassandra of Kendal. Badge. [Fieldless] On a trefoil slipped vert three hearts points to center argent.

The radial arrangement of the tertiary charges is not period style, and their placement makes this effectively "a shamrock vert, voided argent", which is not permissible because it becomes effectively "thin-line" heraldry.

Cathleen of Greystones. Device. Vert chapé embattled, a pine tree eradicated argent.

Conflict with Hastur (Fabulous Heraldry, pg. 42), Azure, a fir argent. There is one CD for the changes to the field. Additionally, there is some question among the commenters as to whether we should allow any complex lines besides ploye on a chapé field.

Catriona Mairghread nic Dhuibh of Moray Badge. [Fieldless] On a flame Or, outlined gules, a closed pair of scissors inverted argent.

The scissors here are metal on metal. As the flames are primarily Or with only outlining of the points of flame in gules, the contrast of the scissors against the flames is insufficient for identifiability.

Gwendolyn Sylvania. Device. Vert vêtu, a mushroom Or.

Conflict with Battista del Cascabel, Quarterly purpure and sable, a mushroom Or. There is only one CD for the changes to the field.

Jorinde van Soelen. Name.

The documentation for the given is extremely tenuous. The Grimm Brothers collected their stories well post-period from professional story tellers, and there is absolutely no way of determining which elements are period and which are not. In this particular case, the "paired" names of the protagonists (Jorinde and Joringel) only serves to increase the doubt that the name is period. We need some harder documentation before we can register this name.

Kellen Oddsdottir. Device. Azure, a demi-sun Or issuant from a cloud argent within a bordure engrailed argent estoily azure.

The charges on the bordure, even on the large emblazon, are not estoiles but rather eight-armed asterisks. If the client would redraw them as estoiles....

Lorenzo Orsini. Device. Azure, two stalks of wheat in saltire Or surmounted by a column argent entwined by a snake vert.

The snake in this position is unidentifiable as such. This design has the appearance of having three types of charge (column, wheat, and snake) in a standard heraldic arrangement (a sheaf), falling afoul of the complexity limits. (Laurel does not, however, buy the argument made that this is four layers - field, wheat, column, snake. We do not believe such an argument to be reasonable. A charge entwined about another is more like a held charge than it is a tertiary.)

Otto von Mergenthal. Device. Azure, on a bend between six fleurs-de-lys bendwise in bend argent a griffin segreant contourny palewise sable.

No evidence was presented that this style of device follows any Period exemplars. Normal practice both in Period and since would have been for the tertiary to follow the line of the bend and the secondaries to be palewise. To deliberately reverse the normal defaults for both the secondaries and the tertiary gives this a very post-Period look.

Rom ben Yosef del Castillo del Toro Negro. Device. Gyronny of six per pale azure and argent, three stars of David argent alternating with three bulls rampant azure, all within a bordure embattled sable.

Prior Laurel precedent has returned alternating charges on a gyronny field (September 1988 LoAR, p. 18). The one example of this style noted by Lord Codex in Italian armory has semys rather than single charges in each gyron. Given the weakness of this evidence, we are hesitant to register a design which has the appearance of being modern style.

Shahira bint Abdul Samad. Device. Azure, a unicornate seahorse naiant argent crined and finned between three sand dollars Or.

In the cover letter of January 6, 1992, the ban on unicornate seahorses was specifically upheld. There was some question among the commenting heralds as to whether sand dollars were known in Period.

MIDDLE

Ælfgar the Irrepressible. Device. Barry and per pale gules and checky sable and argent.

Conflict with Payto (Papworth, p. 52), Barry of six argent and gules, per pale counterchanged. There is one CD only for the change from argent to checky sable and argent.

Clarissa Volontè. Device. Argent, a hammered dulcimer gules between three shoe soles sable.

The secondaries are not recognizable as "shoe soles" (and barely as "footprints"). The primary is extremely difficult to recognize for what it is supposed to be. As a consequence, we have to return this.

Fionna Goodburne. Badge. [Fieldless] A thistle purpure.

Conflict with the badge of Clan Stewart (Fox-Davies pg. 146), A thistle. There is one CD for fieldlessness, but nothing for tincture in this case.

Gwenneth ni Gallighir. Device change. Per pale sable and argent, two domestic cats sejant, dexter paws raised, between two crescents and a mullet all counterchanged.

Although the cats are blazoned as the primary charges here, their visual weight is such that this could just as easily be blazoned Per pale sable and argent two crescents, two domestic cats sejant, and a mullet, all counterchanged. As such, it violates VIII.1.a., the tincture and charge limit (slot-machine heraldry), with three different types of charge in a standard heraldic arrangement (2, 2, and 1).

Jararvellir, Barony of. Name for Order of the Pisces.

The name conflicts with the very well-known astronomical constellation and astrological sign Pisces.

Thorvald Redhair. Badge for House Redhair. [Fieldless] A pheon purpure.

Conflict with the English royal badge, A broadarrow. There is one CD for fieldlessness, but nothing for tincture or for the difference between a pheon and a broadarrow.

OUTLANDS

Drahomira Jaroslavna. Name change from Drahomira Jaroslavovna and device. Per saltire vert and gules, a fret within a bordure Or.

The correct patronymic form for the byname would appear to be the client's already-registered Jaroslavovna. The device conflicts with Hudleston, (Papworth, p. 887), Gules, fretty and a border Or, with one CD for the changes to the field. As has been demonstrated in the research before there is no difference in Period between fretty and a fret.

Gunnar Oxnamegin. Device. Sable, a bull courant affronty and on a chief rayonny Or a cross gules.

The primary is not in an heraldic position. The effect is of a bull charging out from the shield, which is a very modern style. If we might suggest the client consider "statant affronty"?

Sean Uí Neall. Name.

Conflict with Shane O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, the famous Irish revolutionary during the reign of Elizabeth I.

TRIMARIS

Alysoun Jeuneterre. Badge for House Catherine's Wheel. Barry wavy argent and purpure, a Catherine wheel counterchanged.

The household name is not registered, as implied in the LoI. Unfortunately for the client, it cannot be as it conflicts with the Barony of the Wheel. The counterchanging of the badge is excessive and unacceptably reduces the identifiabily of the primary charge.

Brion Gennadyevich Gorodin. Badge. [Fieldless] A mascle, overall an ermine spot argent.

While the style of ermine spot is not a problem here, when two charges of the same tincture overlap to this degree, their identifiability is reduced to an unacceptable degree.

Giovanna di Piacensa. Device. Argent, semy of grape clusters purpure, on a bend sinister counterchanged three horns fesswise Or.

Counterchanging a semy over an ordinary is appears to be modern and not Period style.

Ilse vom Rhein. Badge. [Fieldless] A delf Or surmounted by a mullet of four points azure charged with a sea-lion naiant Or.

We do not allow quarternary armory (except on occasional charged overall charges, usually ordinaries).

Isidoro no Tsuji Ban'nin. Name and device. Quarterly Or and azure, a cross counterchanged surmounted by a Japanese stone lantern lit proper.

While Ishidoro (with an "h") appears to be acceptable as a constructed surname, neither Tsuji nor Ban'nin could be found as acceptable given names by any of the commenters. O'Neill lists Tsuji only a surname and Ban'nin appears to be formed as a houmyou (Chinese-style Buddhist name). We need more documentation that this is a standard style of "Japanese stone lantern" and that there is not much variation in the design of Japanese stone lanterns, as if registered this would be the defining SCA example.

Janos der Kleine. Device. Sable, a fess wavy between three lions passant to sinister argent.

Conflict with King (Papworth, p. 750), Sable, a fess wavy between three escallops argent. There is only one CD to the change of type of secondaries.

Jean Paul the Mace. Device. Azure, a cross moline argent between four increscents Or.

Conflict with Bentinck (Papworth, p. 608), Azure a cross moline argent. There is only one CD for the addition of the secondaries.

Lars Knarrarsmidr. Device. Gules, on a bend between a rooster displayed argent and lion's pelt Or, a spear gules.

As Lord Trefoil noted, the "lion's pelt" does not appear to meet the identification and reconstruction requirements of VII.7.a and b in the Rules for Submission. Pelts are normally displayed as hides rather than like a fleece, as here. Yet we could not bring ourselves to allow an invented new charge, the "lion's fleece". And calling it a lion would not help because of the very unusual "posture" of the beast (which is essentially unblazonable. The closest anyone could suggest was "herissony", which really doesn't describe it).

Morgan Bloodaxe. Device. Azure, three broadaxes interchangeably posed, the palewise axe inverted and edged to sinister Or, a base per fess ingrailed Or and gules.

"Interchangeably posed" is not a meaningful blazon term. None of the commenters could come up with a good blazon which adequately described the relationship of the axes here. We believe that dividing a base this way is not Period style.

Southkeep, Shire of. Badge. [Fieldless] On a bottle azure, a crux stellata argent.

The heraldic bottle (found in Parker, pg. 75) does not look like this. This is a post-Period form of bottle.

Taliesynne Nychymorh yr Angyfannedd. Household name for Vnycornes' Hospice.

Conflict with Unicorn Pursuivant (Great Britain). Hospice, being the designator here, is invisible, so this is a direct conflict. We would prefer to register the standard orthography (Unycorne; the i/y switch is not a problem) for greater consistency in filing and conflict checking in the future. The policy here would be similar to that of our registration of the fully-spelled out "Saint" rather than the scribal abbreviation "St.". The client may certainly use it with an initial "v", as that was a fairly common usage in period, but for consistency's sake we would register the standard form.

Tanarian Brenaur ferch Owain fab Bran. Badge. [Fieldless] On a lozenge Or, on a compass star gules a daffodil blossom Or, counterchanged per chevron abased throughout.

"Fieldless" badges consisting of a charged lozenge have always been treated as fielded armory displayed on a lozenge, a standard form for heraldic display. (Were such allowed, Laurel would be the first to submit "[Fieldless] On a lozenge gules, in pale three lions passant guardant Or", with five CDs from England: one for fieldlessness, one for type of primary charge, one for number of primary charges, one for tincture of primary charge, and one for the addition of the tertiary charges. As may be seen from this, the restriction of fieldless badges consisting of a charged lozenge is not unreasonable.) Taken as a fieldless badge, this proposal contains a quarternary charge, which has not been allowed for many years. As many commenters noted, the counterchanging here, through three layers and dependent in part upon the precise placement of the charges on the field and each other, can be considered excessive.

Tanarian Brenaur ferch Owain fab Bran. Badge. [Fieldless] On a lozenge fesswise argent, a Welsh tricolor corgi dormant argent.

As noted above, "fieldless" badges consisting of a charged lozenge have always been treated as fielded armory displayed on a lozenge, a standard form for heraldic display. There is not a widely understood default for a "Welsh tricolor corgi", and so this falls afoul of recent precedent regarding the use of "proper" in armory.

Trevelyan Morningstar. Name.

Trevelyan is a Cornish placename. The client needs to have a given name.

Trimaris, Kingdom of. Name for Order of the Mermaid's Pearl.

Conflict with the Order of the Pearl, registered to Atlantia.

THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS HAVE BEEN PENDED UNTIL THE MAY 1992 MEETING:

CAID

Mikhail the Knotmaker. Device. Argent, three scarpes and in chief a snake nowed bendwise sinister azure.

The LoI mistakenly listed the tincture of the charges as argent (the veritable "polar bear in a snowstorm"). They are azure.

Only FOUR more Laurel meetings 'till retirement!

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