THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS HAVE BEEN REGISTERED:

AN TIR

Ælfgar the Pure. Device. Azure, a heron within a bordure Or.

Please ask the client to draw the bordure wider.

Aelfgifu Wolfsängerin. Badge. Vert, a wolf sejant ululant within a bordure azure.

Anna Elizabeth von Engelberg. Name and device. Argent, in pale a unicorn's head erased sable armed Or and a rose sable, barbed and seeded proper, between flaunches rayonny azure.

Artuir the Rogue. Name.

Avacal, Principality of. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Deirdre Kathleen O'Shaughnessy. Name.

Dulcinea von Pfeffers. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Edwin de Grey. Device. Azure, a pall, in chief three fleurs-de-lys, a bordure embattled Or.

Please ask the client to draw the bordure wider.

Etienne d'Avignon. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

George Slade. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Submitted as George Slade the Dragoon. The name has been modified to drop the post-Period byname.

Jane Lynn of Fenmere. Name and device. Purpure, a cattail and crutch in saltire within a bordure wavy argent.

Jazelle Rae de Leyster. Badge. Sable, a mountain within and issuant from two sheaves of rice in annulo argent.

Meri of the Bears. Name.

Mikael the Archer of Dragonwood. Name.

Porte de l'Eau, Canton of. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Richart von Pfeffers. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

River's Gate, Shire of. Name and device. Azure, a portcullis argent within a laurel wreath and in chief a demi-sun Or.

Really pretty armory!

Rose Scarlett Slade. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Rosemary Willowwood of Sainte Anne. Badge. Sable, fretty argent, a Arabian lamp within a bordure Or.

Sara Blackmoor of Darkwoods. Name.

Tomasz Pomaranski. Name and device. Per chevron dovetailed Or and gules, in chief two Pomeranian hounds combattant sable and in base a femur fesswise Or.

Tristan Blackmoor of Darkwoods. Name and device. Per bend sinister gules and sable, a bend sinister counterchanged fimbriated argent.

If I may quote Lord Batonvert: "This looks to be acceptable, by both SCA and period standards. A recent case (Tegen Meanbh, LoAR of Nov 91, p.23) had a field party sable and gules, with a crescent counterchanged and fimbriated; that case was returned for (among other reasons) fimbriation of a non-ordinary. Tristan's submission does use an ordinary, for which there are period examples -- notably the arms of Say, c.1586 (Papworth 550), Per pale azure and gules, three chevrons counterchanged, fimbriated argent.

This is about the limit of complexity we should accept for this sort of motif; but it should be acceptable."

Lord Laurel would note that he believes that this is at the limits of complexity we should accept for this motif, but given period examples of the motif and the College's allowance for the fimbriation of ordinaries, this proposal is registrable.

ANSTEORRA

Armand le Rouge. Name.

Brad Leah, Shire of. Device. Argent, a bend sinister wavy azure, overall a laurel wreath vert.

NICE armory!

Cassandra O'Connor. Device. Vert, a chevron embatled argent between two Hungerford knots Or and a dogwood blossom argent slipped proper.

Pended from the January 1992 Laurel meeting.

Eadmund Brennys. Name.

Helen of Haverhill. Name.

Ingemar de la Watere. Name and device. Per fess wavy argent and azure, two bars wavy azure and an escallop inverted argent.

Jean Estelle Marie Bouligny. Name and device. Argent, a panther rampant contourny sable, incensed gules, between three escallops inverted sable.

Jonathan DeLaufyson Macebearer. Augmentation. Azure, a saltire sable rayonny argent and overall a mace inverted argent, as an augmentation on an inescutcheon in honor point Or, a mullet of five greater and five lesser points between in pale a crown of three points sable and issuant from base a demi-sun gules.

The only real issue which would prevent registration here is the complexity of the base device and the augmentation (total complexity count of 11: five tinctures - azure, sable, argent, or, gules - and six charges - saltire, mace, inescutcheon, mullet, crown, and demi-sun). Laurel has said before (LoAR December 1990, p. 8) that augmentations by their very nature add complexity to a device, and augmented arms should not be held to comply to the same standards as unaugmented devices. [Indeed, Laurel finds a certain sense of appeal to Lord Codex's suggestion that augmentations consisting of separable units (such as a canton or inescutcheon) should be counted as a single charge for the purposes of the "rule of thumb" of the complexity guidelines, ignoring the charges and tinctures upon the augmentation. Using such a standard here would give a complexity count of six with three tinctures - azure, sable, and argent - and three charges - saltire, mace, and inescutcheon. Counting the augmentation as a single charge and its primary tincture (here, Or) may also be a reasonable rule of thumb. Laurel makes no ruling on this suggestion, but recommends it, with thanks to Lord Codex, to the College for their consideration in the development of a more objective standard.]

For those commenters who suggested that this augmentation was presumptuous of Ansteorra, I would point out that by removing the laurel wreath and orle from the Ansteorran arms, this coat would be registerable as a device to any royal peer, as it has two CDs from Ansteorra. Yes, it is highly reminiscent (which I believe was the Crown's intent in granting this augmentation), but it is not, by our Rules, presumptuous of the Kingdom.

Leofric Ealdricson. Device. Per chevron vert and azure, three eagles displayed within a bordure Or.

Loch Solleir, Barony of. Name for The Order of the Serpent's Toils of Loch Solleir.

Loch Soilleir, Barony of. Name and badge for The Order of the Otter of Loch Soilleir. Per fess wavy argent and vert, an otter embowed vert and a salmon embowed contourny and inverted argent.

Margaret Pearce. Badge. [Fieldless] A quatrefoil pierced quarterly sable and Or.

Michael Stringfellow. Name.

Osgar MagUidhar. Name and device. Per pale sable and argent, a tower and on a chief embattled three lozenges, all counterchanged.

Though missing in the LoI, a mini-emblazon for this was included in the March 1 Ansteorran letter.

Prudence of the Crossroads. Name and device. Per pale azure and vert, a pall Or between three bezants.

Roger of York. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Sarmasia Lakadaimoniote. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Submitted as Sarmasia Lakadaimoniotes. The name has been modified to agree in gender with the given name.

Sean Fitzpatrick. Name.

Sergii Boyoanovich Samopalov. Device. Per fess Or and sable, a griffin segreant contourny sable and two rapiers inverted in saltire argent.

Sloan de Lyn. Name.

Tempio, Shire of. Name.

Vladimir Carpatii. Device. Argent, a torch sable, fired gules within an orle vert.

The general consensus of the commenters was that we should not check for conflict against the merit badges of the Boy Scouts. Several good reasons were given: they change many of them every so often; the list of them changes periodically; the Boy Scout organization considers even tiny artistic changes to be sufficiently different. Thus we do not find this proposal to conflict with the Boy Scouts' Public Health merit badge, Argent, a torch sable, fired Or.

Wolfgang Schwarzburg. Name.

Submitted as Wolfgang Swarzburg. The name has been modified to match the submitter's forms.

Yseulte Trevelyan. Device. Gules, a lioness rampant guardant contourny argent between two flaunches barry wavy azure and argent.

ATENVELDT

Brighed O'Dáire. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Ceridwen de Bellême. Badge. [Fieldless] An escallop inverted sable.

Cynthia Nicol of the Highlands. Name change from holding name of Diana of Atenveldt.

Davan inn Spaki. Badge. Sable, a sickle bendwise Or within a bordure argent.

Duncan Bane fuar bhathais. Name.

Submitted as Duncan Bane fuar bhathias. The name has been modified to correct the spelling.

Elaine Madeline de Parfondeval. Name.

Erdöfalvi Natalya. Name and device. Purpure, ermined, on a bend sinister argent a mortar and pestle palewise sable.

Submitted as Erdofalvi Natalya. The name has been modified to match the documented form submitted on the client's forms.

Gerald the Inverter of Kilkenny. Device. Azure, a double-bitted axe between two oak leaves, all within a bordure embattled argent.

Godwin Blackrose. Name.

Guillame de la Vallée de l'Ouest du Lac Salé. Device. Gyronny azure and Or, an oak tree eradicated proper and a bordure counterchanged.

Ian Heath of Tadcaster. Name.

Lillian of the Distant Shores. Name.

Melyssande Dunn. Name.

Peregrine Falconer of Greenbriar. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Randall Andrew Thorrold MacBirny. Name.

Randwulf Witlac. Badge. Sable, a padlock and a bordure argent.

Sun, Principality of the. Device change for the Coronet's Arms. Argent, a fireball proper within a laurel wreath, in chief an ancient crown azure.

Sun, Principality of the. Device change for the Consort's Arms. Argent, a fireball proper within a chaplet of roses, in chief a ancient crown azure.

Sun, Principality of the. Badge for Order of the Eye of the Eagle. Gules, an eagle's head erased within seven pheons in annulo, points outward, Or.

The name of the Order was registered November 1989.

Thomas de Beaumont. Device. Per chevron purpure and vert, a chevron rompu and in base a sinister gauntlet grasping an artist's paintbrush bendwise argent.

ATLANTIA

Allen MacFarland. Device. Argent, a pantheon salient sable, estoilly argent between three hearts gules a bordure sable.

Angelica Bellini di Firenze. Change of name from Angela di Firenze and device resubmission. Azure, two rainbows in bend proper a bordure argent.

Bors Boden. Device. Argent, semy of double crosses sable a bordure gules, semy of double crosses argent.

Cecily de Catton. Device. Gules, a cat sejant affronty argent, a bordure argent semy of tuns palewise gules.

Given that we would give X.2 difference were the tertiaries the primary charge in each device, this does not conflict with Dunbar (Papworth, p. 119), Gules, a lion rampant argent within a bordure of the second charged with ten roses of the first.

Cerian Rhiannon ferch Tomos. Name.

Danyell Dagenhart. Name.

Deirdre ni Aodhfinn. Name.

Elaine de Catelei. Name.

Eldrid Tremain. Badge. [Fieldless] A Maltese cross quarterly Or and argent.

A number of commenters felt that this was too close to the badge of the Order of the Knights of the Hospital of St. John, [Fieldless] A maltese cross argent. It is sufficiently different by our standards, and no one presented any evidence that this badge needs extra protection (the way, for example, that the "cross couped gules" of the International Red Cross must have by international treaty and federal law).

Elfwyn of the Silvermoon. Device. Argent, a maiden statant affronty, arms upraised proper, vested and crined on a chief triangular sable, a decrescent argent.

The consensus of the commentary was that the allusions to paganism, though clear, were not excessive.

Elissa di Buoninsegna. Name.

Finn Marland O'Shannon. Name and device. Vair, two towers sable and a wolf statant Or.

Ian of Dogwood Hill. Name and device. Per saltire azure and sable, a stag's attires Or a chief erminois.

Jamie Amalthea Rowan. Name.

Lempriére shows Amalthea as the daughter of Melissus, King of Crete. Given this documention (of a human bearing the name), we believe Amalthea to be registerable in the SCA.

John Blacas. Name and device. Per chevron sable and gules, two fleur-de-lys and a pair of compasses with a plummet dependant from its pivot, a bordure embattled Or.

Katharine Wulfesege. Device. Argent, a wolf's head cabossed sable within an orle of vines vert.

Niccolo Stefani di Firenze. Device. Quarterly vert and sable, a pear within a bordure nebuly Or.

Niccolo Stefani di Firenze. Badge. [Fieldless] A pear Or.

Roderick Gilchrist. Name and device. Azure, a sword inverted proper, a pair of flaunches argent one charged with a dexter and one with a sinister wing vert.

Please make sure that the client is shown how to drawn the flaunches correctly, issuing from the corners of the chief.

Rosatrude the Shrew. Name and badge. [Fieldless] A water shrew statant to sinister sable marked argent.

Sigurd Ericsson of Bergen. Device. Per chevron rayonny argent and gules, an eagle displayed sable between three mullets of eight points pierced counterchanged.

Sigurd Ericsson of Bergen. Badge. Sable, a spur fesswise argent.

Stierbach, Shire of. Device change. Per fess embattled argent and gules, three bulls statant counterchanged, the one in base within a laurel wreath argent.

The original device, which had the bulls in pale so that the line of division went through the center bull, is released.

Storvik, Barony of. Badge. Azure, an owl displayed and on a chief triangular argent an apple gules.

Wolfram von Solingen. Change from holding name of Aleksei of Starkhafn.

Zillah de Barcelona. Name.

CAID

Anna Greenkeep of Emporiae. Name and device. Per bend vert and Or, on a bend gules between a sun Or and three roses proper four shamrocks bendwise sinister Or.

Connor Cruimseach MacIlvey. Name and device. Gules, two scarpes between two Celtic crosses argent.

Cynthia Lloyd of Hightower. Name and device. Per pale argent and sable, a tower and in chief three roundels counterchanged.

Eleonora van den Bogaerde. Name and badge. [Fieldless] A panther passant facing to dexter sable spotted in various tinctures and incensed proper.

Gamaliil Malekhievich Perevodchikov. Name.

Ghislaine d'Auxerre. Name change from Ghislane d'Auxerre.

Heinrich der Gelehrte. Name.

Ishmael of the Wells. Name.

Isobel Ramsay. Name and device. Or, a grape cluster gules and a bordure sable semy-de-lys Or.

Katherine la Juste de la Mer. Name and device. Barry wavy azure and argent, in pale an orca contourny proper and a conch shell fesswise reversed Or.

Miriel Gwenddwr Ty Arannell. Name and device. Quarterly argent and azure, a cross moline voided, a bordure engrailed counterchanged.

This cross appears to be at the very limits of acceptability for voiding and counterchanging.

Pagan le Chaunster. Name and badge. [Fieldless] An equal-armed Celtic cross Or.

Rafael Mercurio. Device. Vert, a phoenix and on a chief embattled argent a lion couchant sable.

Redman Bryce of Gordon. Name and device. Per Chevron ploye Or and azure, two wolf's heads cabossed and an escallop inverted Counterchanged.

Roderick der Gelehrte. Name and device. Azure, an open book argent, on a chief Or an arrow point to dexter azure.

Saroj Gauri Dvija. Name.

While several commenters questioned the compatability factors of allowing names from the Indian subcontinent in the SCA, it was the Portuguese who in the 15th and 16th Centuries broke the Arabian monopoly on the Indian Ocean trade and established a number of settlements in India. Given the historical facts, Laurel doubts the propriety of disallowing Indian names as being incompatible.

Talia Woods. Name and device. Or, on a heart azure a sword inverted proper, a bordure wavy sable.

CALONTIR

Adele Ote. Device. Per bend vert and counter-ermine, a bend between two garbs argent.

Angus of Blackmoor. Device. Sable, in fess two sunflowers Or, on a chief triangular argent a stag's head cabossed sable.

Aski O'Riain. Name and device. Per chevron azure and sable, a chevron argent, on a plate in chief a mullet of eight points vert.

Submitted as Ashi O'Riain. The name has been modified match the nearest documentable form.

Christobelle Andrea atte Layne. Name.

Der Thommain Breathnach. Name.

Doireann O Fhloinn. Name.

Gareth Strengmakere. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Guillaume de Rhodes. Device. Vert, a tricorporate sea-lion within a bordure Or.

Jane Fitzgerald. Device. Per bend vert and gules, a sheep passant reguardant ermine.

Jasper O'Malley. Name.

Miriam bat Yehuda. Device. Azure, semy of roses, a lion rampant contourny argent and in chief a coronet Or.

Percival Beaumont. Name.

Raffe Pencestre. Name.

Robert de La Trinité. Name and device. Azure, a sword interleaving a triquetra and a chief argent.

Tarlan Lewyngstoun of Iona. Name.

Submitted as Tarlan Lewyngstoun dheth Iona. The name has been modified to substitute the "lingua franca" particle for the grammatically incorrect particle. The idiom in the locative appears to be wrong. Dheth is the aspirated form of the third person singular masculine prepositional pronoun deth, 'of him, of it'.

EAST

Adelais Berengar. Name.

Allystir Athanasius Blackrock. Name and device. Sable, on a pall argent between in base two escallops Or three crosses formy fitchy gules.

Augusta Long. Name and device. Per bend sable and argent, an increscent and a double­boled birch tree eradicated counterchanged.

Bernadette Branagan. Name.

Bertram of Bearington. Release of badge. Argent, a bear's head cabossed within a bordure sable.

Bertram of Bearington. Release of badge. Argent, a bear's head cabossed sable, enflamed proper, within in annulo four lozenges in cross and four mascles in saltire sable.

Bertram of Bearington. Release of badge. Per pale gules and azure, in pale three staples between two gussets Or.

Brendan Brisbone. Name and device. Azure, a chevron rompu inverted in chief three candles in candleholders argent.

Submitted in the LoI as Brendan Brisbane, the name has been modified to match the submitted forms.

Elric ap Madog. Device. Per pale purpure and argent, a fess between two chevrons counterchanged.

Elsbeth Anne Roth. Badge. [Fieldless] A gout per pale vert and Or.

Her currently registered badge, Or, a pair of compasses vert, is released.

Galina Petrsdottir. Name.

Griss Flettir. Name.

Isabeau of Stormhaven Keep. Name and device. Argent, a bend sable surmounted by a tower azure and in base two bars wavy sable.

Kilde Jurgenstochter. Badge. [Fieldless] A linden leaf barry wavy argent and azure.

Versus Thomas Brownwell, [Fieldless] A gout barry wavy azure and argent, we believe there is a CD between a linden leaf and a gout. With a second CD for fieldlessness, this is clear.

Martin Mandrea. Device. Argent, on a pile azure between two roses, slipped and leaved proper, an increscent argent.

Martin Mandrea. Badge. [Fieldless] On an increscent argent, a rose, slipped and leaved proper.

Medb ni hUilliam O'Maille. Name.

Morgan O'Breen. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Morien MacBan. Name.

Mwynwen ferch Dingarth. Name.

Oriana della Fonda. Name and device. Purpure, a chevron engrailed between in chief two doves argent and a demi sun issuant from base Or.

Robert Buchanan of Linlithgow. Device. Sable, an open book and on a chief argent three feathers bendwise sinister sable.

Robledal, Shire of. Name.

Roderick of Whitehall. Name and device. Per pale azure and argent, on a chevron two coneys courant and in base a castle counterchanged.

Sigeraed filius Blaecwulf. Device. Per chevron vert and ermine, a wyvern erect contourny counterchanged, breathing flames argent, a bordure sable charged with three hearts argent.

Sybella Paganini. Name and device. Sable, in pale an arch and a wolf dormant argent.

Timothy Nicholls of Clan McQueen. Name and device. Azure, an escarbuncle between three trilliums argent.

Clear of U.S. Arctic Test Center (Military Ordinary #1195), Azure, a snowflake points in pale argent, with one CD for the addition of the secondaries and one for the difference in the type of primary.

Valery Eugenia Fitzgerald. Device. Azure, on a bend sinister invected between two galleons argent, three coulds palewise sable.

Pended from the January 1992 Laurel meeting.

Yasmin bint Shamli. Name.

MERIDIES

Alaxandair Coupare. Name.

Alexander de Quincy. Device. Per pale Or and vert, a mascle counterchanged within on a bordure per pale sable and argent semy of mascles counterchanged.

Amata Quentin Motzhart. Device. Lozengy sable and argent, a jester's cap and a bordure gules.

Arwen Meriel ferch Meirich. Device. Sable, on a pale gules fimbriated, a triquetra argent.

Nice device!

Conor of Clan Moncreiffe. Device. Per chevron sable and argent two horses' heads couped respectant and a raven displayed facing sinister counterchanged.

Francis Canny. Device. Azure, fretty Or, an eagle displayed, a bordure argent semy of quatrefoils slipped vert.

Garret Baldo. Name.

Goldmund of Aragon. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Gwendolynn nic Daniel. Name.

Jean­Robert François de Marseilles. Name.

Submitted as Jean­Robert François du Marseilles. The name has been modified to correct the grammar.

John of Blackmoor Woods. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Kaleb McCabe. Name and device. Erminois, two lions' heads conjoined at the neck respectant and on a chief sable a heart Or.

[Irreverent comment from the Laurel meeting: "Is this a stare-me-stare-you?"]

Kiera nic an Bhaird. Name and device. Per chevron argent and purpure, two crescents and a Celtic cross counterchanged.

Submitted as Kiera ni an Bhaird. The name has been modified to correct the grammar. Given the presence of Saint Kiara circa 680 from Ireland, the spelling Kiera seems a reasonable and allowable variant.

Konrad von Oberstein. Device. Pily-barry Or and gules, a tyger passant sable charged on the shoulder with a maltese cross Or.

Maelgwn ap Bleiddud. Name.

The LoI accidentally dropped the "p" from the patronymic particle. It was on the submitter's forms.

Marion of Wynterchase. Name change from Marion of Winterchase.

Pycard Dunstable. Device. Vert, two chevronels between two cats sejant respectant reguardant and a crescent argent.

Rolland Kyle of Kincora. Device change. Gules, a pall inverted between two lions rampant addorsed and reguardant and a lion couchant guardant Or.

His current device, Gules, a pall inverted between two lions rampant addorsed and a lion couchant guardant Or, is released.

Rosalind O'Maughan. Name.

Rosanda ni Shranachain. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

South Downs, Barony of. Name for Order of the Sable Keep.

Submitted on the LoI as Order of Sable Keep, the client's forms clearly show the particle.

MIDDLE

Aileen ní Bhrighde. Device. Azure, a fox passant and on a chief argent three increscents azure.

Anastasia of Tor Brant. Name and device. Azure, in fess a sea-unicorn argent scaly sable and a unicorn rampant contourny vairy ancient argent and sable.

Anastasia of Tor Brant. Badge. [Fieldless] A winged unicorn courant plumetty argent and sable.

Anastasia von der Wilgenhalle. Device. Per pale vert and azure, a Paschal lamb regardant proper within an orle of willow leaves argent.

Andrei Grigorievich Topolev. Device. Per bend sinister purpure and erminois, in bend two linden leaves stems issuant from the line of division counterchanged.

Antonio Franco di Milano. Name and device. Ermine, a tower vert and on a chief gules three lion's heads couped argent.

Brand the Black. Badge only (see RETURNS for household name). [Fieldless] An angel affronty proper, vested gules, winged argent, crined sable, haloed in flames and holding to its breast by their blades two swords in saltire Or.

Caelia Alexis vom Kirschwald. Name and device. Purpure, a double rose argent and purpure within a bordure argent semy of roses purpure.

Very pretty armory!

Cailean Bane McDougall. Name and device. Azure, a griffin segreant and on a chief indented argent three mallets azure.

Nice armory!

Cairistiona MacRorie of Loch Sterness. Badge. Per saltire azure and vert, in pale a sea-unicorn naiant argent and a unicorn passant regardant Or within a bordure Or semy of hearts azure.

This is right at the edge of our limits for complexity.

Elspeth Bibury. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Gawyne Mace Wollerton. Name and device. Quarterly checky vert and argent and azure, an increscent between in bend sinister two pairs of mullets of four points in bend Or.

Please ask the client to draw the increscent more like an heraldic increscent and less like a banana.

Geneviève de Château Licorne. Name and device. Per pale gules and vert, a unicorn rampant argent and a chief ermine.

Gerard de Langeleye. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Gerrich de la Foy. Name.

Guenièvre du Dragon Vert. Name and device. Chevronelly azure and Or, a dragon couchant contourny wings elevated and addorsed vert.

Isabella de Brecey. Name and device. Sable, a bend sinister gules fimbriated between two fleurs-de-lys all within a bordure Or.

Meurisse de la Lune Sombre. Name.

Sebastian Kühnbär von Dreihügel. Name and device. Quarterly per fess nebuly azure and argent ermined azure, in bend two bears rampant each brandishing a sword Or.

Sebastian Kühnbär von Dreihügel. Badge. [Fieldless] A bear rampant brandishing a sword azure.

Signý of Orkney. Name.

Una Wynifreed Berry. Name and device. Or, a natural rainbow proper between three Bowen knots purpure.

TRIMARIS

Ágeirr Jón of Cathanar. Name and device. Sable, in pale three squirrel hides inverted argent and a bezant, three and one.

Submitted as Ageirr Jon of Cathanar. The name has been modified to match the sumbitter's forms. The majority of the commenters seemed to feel that squirrels' hides are as identifiable as any other kind of hide.

Ágeirr Jón of Cathanar. Badge. Per pale Or and sable, a tree couped within a bordure embattled, all counterchanged.

Alrik Olesson. Device. Per chevron lozengy argent and gules, and sable, two drinking horns fesswise, mouths to center, and a bear's head erased Or.

Artur of Trimaris. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Argent, a hound's head erased gules, collared Or, maintaining a garden rose gules, slipped and leaved proper, a chief checky argent and gules.

Submitted as Artur Haun. Although the mini-emblazon in the LoI showed the chief as being countercompany, the large emblazon was clearly checky.

Elaine Cherie Viau. Name and device. Argent, semy-de-lys sable, on a lozenge gules an oak leaf argent.

Submitted as Cherie Elaine Viau. The name has been modified to match documented Period usage. The only evidence of Cherie as a given is undated and appears to be post-Period, while there is dated evidence for its use as a surname. The tertiary charge needs to be drawn more recognizably as an oak leaf.

Christiana Burke. Name.

Elisabeth priod o Dafydd. Device. Lozengy argent and purpure, a dragon segreant gules maintaining a gittern palewise sable, on a point pointed argent a cauldron sable.

Eric of Telemark. Badge. Azure, a grozing iron bendwise sinister between two closing nails argent.

Feoras de Marcy. Name and device. Per bend sinister rayonny gules and sable, two wolves' heads erased contourny argent.

Haakon Bjornsson. Name.

Heinrich von Gugenheim. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Ines Cecilia de Marcy of Allerton. Device. Azure, a bend argent cotised between two female centaurs passant, one maintaining a sword and the other a harp Or, a bordure argent.

Kaine Ashburne. Name.

Lucan of Suffolk. Name and device. Per bend sinister gules and sable, on a bend sinister bevilled between three daggers and three pawprints argent, four mullets sable.

Nicholaa Kelton. Device. Argent, in saltire four mice tergiant, tails to center, sable, on a chief vert two pairs of needles in saltire Or.

Rebekah Anne Parr of Pembroke. Name.

Rhiannon Bjornsdottir. Name only (see PENDING for device).

Sarah Rebekah the Gentle of Southbrent. Name and device. Quarterly gules and purpure, a dove reguardant argent, on a chief Or a lute reversed sable.

Takash al-Sadiq ibn Artuq al-Khwarizmi. Name and device. Azure, on a sun argent two lizards statant in annulo vert, on a bordure argent five palm fronds vert.

Submitted as Takash al-Sadiq ibn Artuq al-Khwarmizmi. The name has been modified to correct the typographical error in the LoI.

Thirza Leonovna Denisovskya. Device. Per bend sinister azure and argent, a unicorn's head couped at the shoulders argent and a garden rosebud bendwise sinister purpure, slipped and leaved vert.

Tjorvi Lodinsson. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Victoria Fox. Name and device. Purpure, on a bend sinister argent, between a pair hands couped Or, three red fox's tails inverted palewise proper.

Although the LoI noted that the previous submission for this name was "returned for terminal wierdness", Laurel is aware of no case of "terminal wierdness" being the reason for return of any submission. The previous name proposal, Vetrar the Fennec, was returned for an undocumentable construction of the given in combination with a North African fox name.

Ygraine Rhianydd Osbourne. Name.

Zelina Marie Durrant. Name.

THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS HAVE BEEN RETURNED:

AN TIR

Aelfgifu Wolfsängerin. Device. Chapé vert and azure, a chevronel enhanced throughout between a decrescent, an increscent and a wolf ululant coward argent.

Though submitted as "chapé vert and azure", we have been consistently blazoning "charged chapé" as per chevron throughout. In this case, however, there are additional problems. In addition to the per chevron line starting too high on the field, the chevron (not chevronel; the SCA does not register single diminuitives of ordinaries) acts more like fimbriation than a charge. Were it either problem alone we would probably register this with an instruction to the submitter to "draw the X properly". In this case however, the multiplicity of problems warrants return for redrawing.

An Tir, Kingdom of. Name for Honor of the Lion.

Conflict with Lyon King of Arms, Blanche Lyon Pursuivant, Noir Lion Pursuivant, and Finland's Order of the Lion. Changing the designator is insufficient difference.

Avacal, Principality of. Device. Quarterly argent and Or, a griffin segreant maintaining a sword and arrow gules, the sword environed of a laurel wreath vert.

Conflict with Nearnes (Papworth, p. 980), Argent, a griffin segreant gules holding in each claw a key proper. There is one CD for the field, but nothing for the assorted maintained charges. There were several other Papworth and Woodward conflicts, mostly "(Field), a griffin segreant gules". Additionally, a number of commenters expressed concern that the laurel wreath did not constitute "a significant element of the design", as required by the Administrative Handbook, I.D.2.

Caoimhe Fionnarun ni Roibaird bean Mhichil mac Aoidh. Name.

The name has some minor grammatical problems and no one was able to document a pattern which would allow the construction of the name Fionnarun. Since the submitter allowed no changes whatsoever to the name, we were unable to drop the problematic element or to make the minor grammatical corrections. If the submitter would consider the suggestions made by the commenting heralds, a corrected construction would appear to be Caoimhe ní Roibaird bean Mhichíl mhic Aoidh.

Dulcinea von Pfeffers. Device. Purpure, an edelweiss argent seeded within an annulet Or.

Unfortunately, by the current interpretation of the rules, this lovely device conflicts with the mon of Saito (Hawley, p. 16), Dark, a carnation within an annulet light. While we are willing to grant a CD for the type of primary charge, because we are having to treat mon as omnitinctured (but not fieldless), we can grant no difference for the tinctures.

Etienne d'Avignon. Device. Sable, an eagle displayed, on a chief argent a rose between two fleurs-de-lys purpure.

Conflict with Bridgewater (Papworth, p. 308), Sable, an eagle displayed and a chief argent. There is only one CD for the addition of the tertiaries.

George Slade. Device. Per chevron inverted azure and argent, in base a bar sable and overall a Caucasian chestnut centaur forceny proper, helmed Corinthian argent, maintaining in both hands a battleaxe argent hafted proper.

The biggest problem here is the partial overlaying of the primary charge on the bar. Medieval armory does not show perspective in this fashion. For only two charges, the device uses a lot of tinctures. (This is right at the limits of the rule of thumb for complexity with a charge type and tincture count of eight.) The position forceny has been disallowed for many years. The combination of all the problems of style and complexity is simply too much.

Geraldine of Glaummour. Name and device. Or, a cornucopia fluent between two sprays of ripe barleycorn and fructed olive all proper, in base a goblet azure.

As noted in the LoI, Glammour (also spelled Glaummour) means magical or fictitious beauty. This is not something one can be "of", and a number of commenters felt it to be a claim to magical powers. Of the (at least) four types of charges on the device, only one is not proper. The wreath of barleycorn and olive has poor contrast, at least for the barleycorn portion, with the field, and nearly every commenter found it to be too much like the required laurel wreath for branch arms. Additionally, combining two different types of charge into a single visual unit, as is done here with the barleycorn and olives, is visually confusing and poor practice. The result of all these problems is make the submission unregisterable.

Geraldine of Glaummour. Name and badge for House Glammour. [Fieldless] Two sprays of ripe barleycorn and fructed olive proper surmounted by a goblet azure.

The household name does not make linguistic sense ("House Magical Beauty"?) Nearly every commenter found the wreath of barleycorn and olive to be too much like the required laurel wreath for branch arms. Additionally, combining two different types of charge into a single visual unit, as is done here with the barleycorn and olive, is visually confusing and poor practice.

Porte de l'Eau, Canton of. Device. Argent, on a pile wavy azure goutty d'eau a portcullis argent, in base a laurel wreath vert.

If this design were closer to the arms of the "parent" Barony of Madrone, we might see registering the "forbidden" laurel wreath beneath the pile to the "child" group. However, the laurel wreath beneath a pile appears to be the only element in common with Madrone. As a consequence we do not feel that the grandfather clause should be applied here.

Richart von Pfeffers. Device. Per pale and per chevron argent and azure, on an eagle displayed a kleestengeln counterchanged sable and argent, between three roundels counterchanged.

The counterchanging of the eagle breaks up the outline to such an extent that identifiability becomes problematical. We believe the counterchanging here to be excessive per RfS VIII.3. There is more than sufficient documentation for the kleestengeln, which are representations of the wingbones found in German armory. They are blazonable, though they should probably not count for difference.

Rose Scarlett Slade. Device. Argent, three rustres azure and one rustre sable within an orle of pellets.

The combination of two different sizes of the same charge is not Period style and has been disallowed before. (See, e.g., the LoAR of 25 February 1990, p. 19.)

Rosemary Willowwood of Sainte Anne. Name for Household Crystal Scroll.

The household name is not one that would have been used in Period by any standards of name construction that we could find. Scrolls are not something that could be made from crystal. This is a fantasy-style name.

Sveyn Egilsson. Device. Argent, a swan displayed sable maintaining in dexter foot the hilt and in sinister foot the blade of a broken sword Or, all within a bordure dovetailed per saltire sable and azure.

(Several commenters noted that the name spelled in some editions of the Armorial as Sveyn without the "e" and some with Sveyne with the second "e". The files show that the original submission and registration were made with the spelling Sveyn.) The division of the bordure (per saltire) of two colors makes it very hard to recognize what is going on with the bordure. We would prefer some documentation that bordures were divided this way in Period before we register it in the SCA.

Torric of Three Mountains. Badge. [Fieldless] On a sun Or a tower sable, masoned Or.

Conflict with Stefan of Sewood, Azure, on a sun Or, an eagle displayed sable. There is one CD for fieldlessness, but not another for type only of the tertiary.

ANSTEORRA

Jan w Orzeldom. Augmentation. Per pale gules and argent, in pale a chevronel couped per pale and two crosses patty counterchanged, as an augmentation at honor point on an inescutcheon azure two bears passant erect addorsed reguardant argent each maintaining a berdiche proper and in base a laurel wreath Or.

While most of the College, and Laurel himself, has no problem with the use of an escutcheon as a vehicle for an augmentation, mundane and Society precedent reserve inescutcheons of actual arms to those legitimately claiming the right to those arms. In mundane usage, this augmentation is a claim that Hrabia Jan is married to the Baroness of Bjornsborg and that their children will inherit it. This is an inappropriate heraldic claim, and violates the standards set by Corpora IV.C.3.a., that the standards set by the College of Arms "shall be designed ... to avoid the appearance ... of false claims".

[There is also some question whether an individual or a group can grant the right to their undifferenced arms for use by someone else. The use of letters of permission to conflict (which is what Laurel considers the petition by the members of the Barony of Bjornsborg to be) in the College has always been to allow a reduced standard of difference, not to allow the use of arms undifferenced. It is Laurel's believe that the only way the use of arms registered to one party may be granted undifferenced to another is to transfer those arms, with the appropriate letters signed by both parties transferring the arms and accepting them.]

A second issue is the use of a laurel wreath on arms registered to an individual. Laurel wreaths have always been reserved in the Society to branches of the Society, and may not be registered to an individual. (See, e.g., Baldwin of Erebor, LoAR of 10 March 1985, p. 4.) It is Laurel's belief, and that of many of the commenting heralds, that this restriction applies to augmentations as well as to devices, the same way that coronets and loops of chain, even as augmentations, have been restricted to those who may rightfully bear them.

As has been noted by prior Laurel precedent, no Crown may specify the form an augmentation (or arms, for that matter) may take. Relevant prior rulings on this are found in the Cover Letter of 28 January 1983, p. 4; the Cover Letter of 7 December 1986, pp. 3-4; and the Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of 24 January 1988, p. 12.

It would seem that the simplest solution for this would be to make a resubmission of this and remove the laurel wreath from the augmentation. The augmentation would then be sufficiently different enough (with the "letter of permission to conflict" from the Barony) from the arms of the Barony to avoid the problems of perceived presumption and at the same time to avoid the restriction on the registration of laurel wreaths.

Willow de Wisp. Augmentation. Per pale Or and vert, a willow tree eradicated sable, fimbriated Or, leaved counterchanged, as an augmentation on an inescutcheon in honor point Or, a mullet of five greater and five lesser points between in pale a crown of three points sable and issuant from base a demi-sun gules.

While the problem of charged inescutcheons (for augmentations) has been addressed in this resubmission (see also Jan w Orzeldom and Jonathan deLaufyson Macebearer, elsewhere in this LoAR), the problem of contrast (the other reason for which this was returned previously) has been worsened by moving the inescutcheon onto the foliage. Now, instead of being only one-third Or on Or, this is half Or on Or, virtually on both sides of the palar line of the field because of the Or field showing through the vert foliage on one side and because of the Or foliage on the other. The best suggestion (coming independently from two different commenters) was to place the inescutcheon entirely on the trunk of the tree, where it would have good contrast.

Roger of York. Device. Or, on a hurt three annulets interlaced Or, a bordure rayonny sable.

RFS XI.4 states that armory that uses charges which themselves are charged in such a way as to appear to be arms of pretence is considered presumptuous, the explanation with the rule notes that such charges should not contain more than one charge. While it may be argued that the charges here form a single unit, they are, in fact, multiple charges, as the blazon itself notes.

Sarmasia Lakadaimoniotes. Device. Azure, a serpent glissant to base Or within an orle of bezants.

Conflict with Wonz (Woodward p. 275), Azure, a couleuvre Or. According to Woodward, page 723, a couleuvre is "a serpent, usually drawn in pale, and with undulating body." There is one CD for the addition of the bezants, but we do not see another for inverting the serpent.

ATENVELDT

Brighed O'Dáire. Device. Vert, a Celtic triquetrum brooch and a chief triangular argent.

The Celtic triquetrum brooch has been deemed unacceptable for registration in the SCA (see the LoAR of June 1991, p. 17).

Côte du Ciel, Shire of. Device. Gyronny gules and Or, a bear rampant argent, maintaining in its dexter forepaw a laurel wreath vert, a bordure ermine.

A number of commenters expressed concern that the laurel wreath did not constitute "a significant element of the design", as required by the Administrative Handbook, I.D.2. Given that we do not normally grant any difference for maintained charges, this opinion has weight.

Katherine Sunhair. Name and device. Azure, semy of crosses formy quadrate Or, a horse rampant argent, all points ermine.

Sunhair is not a Period style epithet, in that it does not appear to be formed in a Period manner. The closest that anyone could find for a similar epithet is Sherlock. Would the client consider Sherlock? The device is very complex. Although all three "points" are mentioned in heraldic tracts, in practice only the base one appears to have been used; and even in the tracts, the dexter and sinister points are described as abatements of honor, to be used separately, and not in conjunction. The semy is very complex being both irregular and hard to identify; at the necessary size to fit on the shield it is difficult to see that the crosses are formy quadrate, even on the large emblazon.

Mikhail Andreyevich Putnikov. Device change. Or, a three-headed dragon and a bordure gules.

Conflict with Dragmanni (Woodward, p. 100), Or, a dragon gules. There is a CD for the addition of the bordure but nothing for changing the number of heads or tails.

Mons Tonitrus, Barony of. Device for the Baroness' Arms. Argent, between in chief two piles in point sable, five fleurs-de-lys in annulo, points outward, vert, in base three chevronels braced sable.

Lady Harpy has stated it best: "The Baroness of Mons Tonitrus has arms already - they are the arms of the Barony! A Barony does not have a "sovereign" and "consort". (We ignore, for the moment, Palatine Baronies - which are another matter altogether.) A Baroness holds her lands from the Crown, just as a Baron does. If a Barony has both a Baron and Baroness they jointly hold it from the Crown with equal rights and responsibilities. Let us not try to force Baronies into the same mold as Kingdoms and Principalities. Their heads are chosen differently and symbolize something different. To assign arms to a territorial Baroness that are different from the arms of the Barony is to say that she is not a "real" ruler of the Barony but merely an appurtenance to the Baron. This is not my understanding of the status of a Baroness (and would, in my opinion, be an insult to territorial Baronesses everywhere)." There is no reason for, and appear to be compelling reasons against, registration of separate arms for the Baron and Baroness of a Barony.

Mons Tonitrus, Barony of. Name for Order of the Defenders of Mons Tonitrus.

While there appears to be no problem with the order name, no forms were included with the submission and Laurel's administrative assistant missed it when the packet was processed. This will need to be resubmitted with the proper forms.

Peregrine Falconer of Greenbriar. Device. Per pale and per saltire Or and vert, a chevron between two sheaves of arrows sable and a falcon rising, wings inverted and addorsed, gules.

Though blazoned as argent on the LoI, the arrows on the large emblazon were colored in as sable. Though the contrast between the arrows and the field is technically legal, the arrows, being narrow charges, lose much of their identifiability by being half sable on vert. The arrows lying on the lines of division of the field further confuse ready identifiability of just what is going on here. (Passant is not a bird position, so we have reblazoned the bird in the closest avian position, as "rising, wings inverted and addorsed".)

Rowena Montgomery McMichie. Device. Per bend azure and argent, a bend counterchanged between a butterfly-winged woman affronty argent and a rose gules, slipped and leaved proper.

Butterfly winged creatures have been disallowed since the LoAR of 26 May 1983, when Laurel returned a butterfly winged Bengal tiger.

ATLANTIA

Cedrin Etainnighean. Badge. Gules, a sword palewise environed by a vol all within a bordure Or.

Conflict with Torrin the Wanderer, Per pale gules and azure, a sword palewise between two wings displayed all within a bordure Or. There is one CD for the change to the field only.

Ito Nori. Device. Or, a tsuba and in chief three flames sable.

Conflict with Yamanaka (Hawley p. 63), A coin (a roundel pierced of a delft). As noted in the previous return there is a CD for the addition of the secondaries only, as mon are tinctureless and nothing can therefore be granted for tincture.

A number of the commenters still appear to believe that all tinctureless armory must be fieldless, simply because the explanation to rule X.4.d notes that "tinctureless armory may not count tincture of charges the Fieldless Difference will count for one change and the second change must come from a category that does not involve tincture." Like Lady then-Crescent now-Black Stag, Laurel is not comfortable with the amount of protection this interpretation gives to mon. On the other hand, I have not been comfortable treating armory with a field as "fieldless", either. Doing so would introduce a different "double standard" for the protection of mundane armory: two CDs for European and only one CD for Japanese. I would, however, like to see this issue discussed specifically and an informed consensus arrived at.

CAID

Jasper Greensmith of the Seagirt Glen. Household name for Scwaglannd Manor.

The arguments in the LoI for Scwaglannd as a constructed placename in its entirety push beyond the limits of reasonableness overall. Each of the individual parts may be okay, but all of the elements taken as a whole are too much.

Krisha Vanja Janina Kazimira. Name and device. Argent, a firebird volant bendwise sinister gules.

The name appears to follow no documentable Slavik naming pattern that any of the commenters could find. It cannot, however, be what the client says it is. From the sources we could find it would appear to combine a variant of a Czech dimunitive of a masculine name with a Russian diminutive of a masculine name with a feminine diminutive of a name and a Russian feminine name. We would recommend that the client write to Lord Dragon for assistance. The device conflicts with Hastini Chandra, Argent, a bharat peacock passant gules. After comparing the two emblazons, we found we could only grant one CD for the change to the posture.

CALONTIR

Abaigeal Fairchild. Device. Per chevron vert and gules, a mullet of eight points voided within a bordure Or.

Most of the commenters felt that a mullet of eight points was too complex a charge to void or fimbriate. This therefore runs afoul of RfS VIII.3, which notes that "voiding and fimbriation may only be used iwth simple geometric charges pladed in the center of the design."

Derek Logan. Device. Azure, on a plate between three lightning bolts Or, a unicorn's head sable.

The tertiary charge here is not as the blazon in the LoI stated a unicorn's head but a unicornate horse's head, a disallowed charge. If the submitter would redraw this as a unicorn's head it should not be a problem. (The submitting herald might also show the submitter how to draw correctly done lightning bolts.)

Gareth Strengmakere. Device. Per pale embattled azure and argent, two arrows counterchanged.

Conflict with Meinward Wighelm, Per pale raguly azure and argent, two swords palewise counterchanged. While there is a CD between swords and arrows, Laurel cannot in good conscience apply RfS X.2 to them, and since no difference is granted between raguly and embattled, these are in conflict.

EAST

Caroline Forbes of Oxfordshire. Badge. [Fieldless] A boar's head erased purpure.

Conflict with the badge of Hugh de Vere, Earl of Oxford, A boar's head, found in Fox-Davies' Book of Badges, p. 132. Conflict also the Zimbabwian 5th Brigade (Special Forces), [Fieldless] A boars head erased. This last is used in all of the standard heraldic tinctures and some of the stains.

Dyfan ap Iago. Badge. [Fieldless] A garlic bulb sprouting argent.

Conflict with Myfanwy Crisiant ferch Dafydd, Gyronny pupure and Or, a bulb of garlic argent. There is one CD for fieldlessness, but that is all.

Elric ap Madog. Badge. [Fieldless] A sword fesswise sable.

Conflict with Magnus Boskin, Argent vetu ployé, a sword fesswise sable. There is only one CD for fieldlessness.

Morgan O'Breen. Device. Sable, three eyes argent, pupiled gules.

Conflict with British Guards Armor Division, Sable, an eye argent. There is only one CD for the number of the primary charge(s).

MERIDIES

Brianna Ashirvagh. Device. Sable, on a mullet of eight points throughout argent, eclipsed sable, a fox's mask argent.

Though blazoned as "pierced", the primary was drawn as eclipsed, a much more significant change. As such, this is four layers, in violation of RfS VIII.1.c.2. It also conflicts with Rathnarr Blaiddgwyn (SCA), Sable, a wolf's head caboshed within a sun eclipsed argent. There is at very best one CD for change of type of primary, and it is questionable whether we should even allow that much for the difference between a mullet of eight points and a sun.

Gerberga of Ardennes. Device. Azure, a cinquefoil ermine pierced within on a bordure argent semy of mascles gules.

Conflict with Sir Rauff Astley (Foster, p. 5), Azure, a cinquefoil pierced ermine within a bordure argent. There is one CD only for the addition of the tertiaries.

Goldmund of Aragon. Device. Or, a fess enhanced sable, in base two lozenges in fess vert.

Conflict with Meurs (Papworth, p. 707), Or, a fess sable. There is only one CD for the addition of the secondary lozenges. With the addition of charges only in base, a fess would normally be drawn enhanced slightly to allow the secondary group sufficient visual "space" in base.

John of Blackmoor Woods. Device. Vert, semy of oak leaves Or, a cross bottony argent.

Conflict with Berrie (Papworth, p. 621), Vert, a cross crosslet argent. There is one CD for the addition of the semy, but a cross crosslet and a cross bottony are only artistic variations of the same charge, and were used interchangeably in period, so no difference may be granted between them.

Renée Dubois. Name.

Conflict with René du Bon Bois. Per RfS V.2, addition or deletion of an adjective is not sufficient for difference.

Rosanda ni Shranachain. Device. Per bend vert and gules, a bend between a horse salient and a rose Or barbed and seeded vert.

The bend as drawn is so thin as to be unregisterable. Please have the client resubmit with a properly drawn bend and we will be happy to reconsider this. (The "bend" in the large emblazon is drawn as the equivalent of fimbriation.)

Soni Koichi no Hirohito. Name change from holding name of Sonny of Small Grey Bear.

(The LoI called this a change from holding name of Soni of Small Grey Bear, but the holding name is actually Sonny of Small Grey Bear.) Soni is documented in O'Neill (p. 306) as a placename, but no evidence was presented in the documentation nor could anyone else demonstrate how placenames were used in Japanese personal names. There is no problem with Koichi (it is documented as a man's given name on p. 247 of O'Neill). The usage "no Hirohito" is a claim to be of the late Emperor's house (that is to say, family), and is a claim of relationship. (Laurel's thanks to Lady Gwendolyn, who reads Japanese and entirely by chance ended up sitting next to Laurel at the roadshow meeting and was able to help us with the client's documentation and proper usage.)

MIDDLE

Anne des Sept Monts. Device. Azure, a dove volant argent and a base indented Or.

Conflict with Kreis (Renesse, Volume I, page 408) Azure, a dove volant argent. There is only one CD for the addition of the secondary.

Brand the Black. Name For The Black Company.

Conflict with the Black Company, the name of a mercenary company in a continuing series by Glen Cook, the first book of which has that as a title. The applicable rule regarding protecting this is in the Administrative Handbook, Protected Items D, "Names ... of Major Characters from Literary Works". The subtext to this rule makes it clear that the Black Company falls into this category. This is an exact conflict.

Elspeth Bibury. Device. Purpure, on a cross quarter-pierced argent four lilies pendant checky purpure and argent slipped and leaved vert.

The identifiability of the flowers is severely hampered by the checky treatment of the blossoms. (See RfS VIII.3. Armorial Identifiability.)

Gerard de Langeleye. Device. Per bend ermine and Or, a ship of three masts in full sail azure.

Conflict with Galliot (Renesse, Volume 4, page 299), Or, a galleon azure. There is only one CD for the field.

TRIMARIS

Artur Haun. Name.

No one could document Haun even as a Welsh word, much less as a name or name element. One commenter stated that "Haun is on page 213 of Bahlow", but without any further information, and with no way of doublechecking that source, we could not determine whether Haun was appropriate for use here.

Brianna ni Connachaidh. Badge. [Fieldless] On a gurges azure, a celtic cross Or.

Fieldless badges cannot use charges which issue or are defined by the edge of the field. The gurges is such a charge, and therefore may not be used on a fieldless badge.

Ceridwen Ynys Clynnog. Device. Ermine, a hare sejant sable within a bordure embattled divided per fess gules and sable, in chief seven annulets conjoined in fess Or.

There are several problems with this device. The chain only in chief on the "bordure", is awkward to blazon, but the oversized middle link is too dominant to ignore. The combination of charging a bordure only in chief and at the same time dividing it on the per fess line makes this look much more like a divided field with a charge in chief and a charged inescutcheon (though one with an embattled edge). (See RfS VIII.3. Armorial Identifiability.)

Dirk d'Arsenal. Change from holding name of Dirk of Storm.

The name is still grammatically incorrect; "Dirk of Arsenal" is not correct for any language in Period. If he wishes it to be Italian (as it was stated to be in the LoI), it would be dell'Arsenale ("Dirk of the Arsenal").

Eoghan óg Niall. Name.

Aural conflict with Eoghan O'Neill.

Geoffrey of Lincoln. Device. Argent, a saltire quarter-pierced vert, overall a cross crosslet within a mascle sable.

The very precise placement of the overall charges as well as their very thin line nature gives a very modern look to the entire device, bringing this afoul of RfS VIII.4.d, Modern Style. (If drawn to a proper size, however, the mascle and cross become cramped and hard to recognize, losing identifiability.)

Heinrich von Gugenheim. Device. Per pale argent and Or, a pale gules between a garb sable and a bunch of grapes purpure, leaved vert.

With three types of charge and six tinctures, this exceeds the rule of thumb for complexity of VIII.1.a.

Raphael Caradoc. Device. Gules, a cat couchant to sinister Or, a bordure gyronny Or and sable.

Conflict with Nermont (Papworth, p. 120), Gules, a lion rampant Or, within a bordure company of the last and sable. There is one CD for the posture of the primary.

Tjorvi Lodinsson. Device. Or, on a cupping glass azure, a wolf passant Or, a bordure azure.

Conflict with Dirby (Papworth, p. 687), Or, an escutcheon within a bordure azure, and with Thomas Smyth of Ayre, Or, upon a dexter gauntlet clenched aversant palewise azure, an anchor Or, all within a bordure azure. Versus Dirby there is only one CD for the addition of the tertiary. We do not believe we can grant any difference between a cupping glass and an inescutcheon, as the cupping glass is in exact outline of one of the standard escutcheon shapes. Versus Thomas Smyth of Ayre, there is a CD for the change to type of the primary, but nothing per X.4.j.ii for the change to type only of the tertiary. (An inescutcheon, or a cupping glass, is not an ordinary or similarly simple geometric charge for the purposes of this rule.

Trimaris, Kingdom of. Name for Order of Black Widows.

Despite the contention in the LoI to the contrary, this name is indeed a conflict with Widow's Abbey per RfS V.2. Addition of an adjective is insufficient difference. Since we can grant no difference for the identifying designator (per V.4.d.), this is a conflict. As noted by Lord Batonvert, "Abbey" in Widow's Abbey performs the same function as the word "household" in the same position would. If the word "household" is the designator in "Widow's Household", "abbey" is the designator in "Widow's Abbey".

As for the argument in the LoI that a black widow is "a thing, a critter, a two word noun", if the College were to have to consider this submission on those grounds alone this would have to be returned, since the name "black widow" was not given to the spider until early in the 20th century (the earliest citation is 1927), well after the Society's 1600 cut-off date. (The arachnid is not itself native to the Americas, but was brought into this hemisphere in the late 19th or early 20th Century from the Far East.)

Regarding the "imposition" (as stated in the LoI) "of mundane political values upon the medieval functions of the Society", and the notion that the SCA is "not the DNC, Rainbow Coalition, ACLU, or any other mundane group", it must be reiterated that the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. is a 20th Century non-profit, educational corporation which has to obey a lengthy list of national, state, and local regulations before it can begin to impose its own rules upon its members. (Appendix A to Corpora notes that "The SCA, Inc. as a corporate person, along with all of its members as citizens, must obey the law of whatever jurisdictions apply to them in exactly the same fashion as all other corporations or citizens of those jurisdictions.") As an officer of that corporation, the Director of Heraldic Research for the SCA, Inc. does have certain responsibilities to ensure that his actions in fulfilling the duties of his office do not accept for the Corporation or imply acceptance by the Corporation of the actions or statements of any of its subdivisions (of which the "Kingdom of Trimaris" is one) which would knowingly violate any of those laws, including anti-discrimination laws.

As applied to this particular case, two written statements by the Corporation seem particularly on point: In the General Principles of the Rules for Submissions of the College of Arms it is stated that "no submission will be registered that is detrimental to the educational purposes or good name of the Society, or the enjoyment of its participants because of offense that may be caused, intentionally or unintentionally, by its use." The second is a reiteration of the Society's long-standing nondiscrimination policy made in the Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Directors held January 12, 1992: "The Board affirmed that the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc., has no policy whatsoever of denial of membership or participation based on reasons of race, age, creed, color, gender or sexual preference." The "policy decision" which Lord Lymphad states is "reserved to the Board of Directors" has already been made. The stated purposes of the submitted "order" are in violation of that policy decision. This was verified in a conversation on this submission with the Steward of the Society, who noted that "the SCA specifically does not limit things by gender", and that such an order is "not appropriate to our non-profit status". The Director of Heraldic Research of the SCA, Inc. cannot in good conscience, unless specifically told to do so by his "boss", the Board of Directors of the SCA, Inc., register this.

[As a side note, and for those commenters who are unfamiliar with its history, the "Order of the Oleander" mentioned in the LoI has never been registered by the College, nor, according to the text of the return in the LoAR of February, 1990, can it be. The reasons in that case were more for the "ugly politics" and bad feelings caused by the controversy about its attempted registration than that it was a gender-specific award, but since the Oleander was mentioned in the LoI, I thought that its disposition should be noted here. It is not, as one commenter had thought, a joint badge and household name, but is and has been unregistered and unregisterable.]

The threat, stated in the LoI, that "whether or not it is registered", "the Order of the Black Widows will exist, publicly, with the Crowns' approval and the acclaim of the populace", is an affront to the ideals of medieval chivalry and honor which the text of the LoI claims to support. Nor is this the first time that an LoI from this Kingdom has made that threat to the College of Arms to bolster its argument that something should be registered. The submitting herald should note that continuing to use an Order name which has been returned by Laurel violates Corpora (VII.B.2 and VII.B.3), which states in pertinent part that "the names and insignia of these awards and orders [both armigerous and non-armigerous] must be ratified by the Laurel Sovereign of Arms."

As always, the submitters may appeal any decision made by Laurel to the Board of Directors, and the LoI stated the intent of the submitting herald to do just that if this were returned.

THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN PENDED UNTIL THE JULY 1992 LAUREL MEETING:

ANSTEORRA

Annes Clotilde von Bamburg. Badge for House Starfire. Or, on a pomme a compass star Or, a bordure rayonny gules.

The tincture of the compass star was left out of the blazon in the LoI.

ATENVELDT

Egan Blackwolf. Device. Argent, goutty de sang, a ram-horned wolf rampant contourny guardant purpure.

The tincture of the wolf was left out of the blazon in the the LoI.

TRIMARIS

Cailean mac Duibhdhíormaigh uí Dubhlaoich. Device. Pily bendy sinister Or and sable, a sword gules, on a chief sable a dog, tail nowed, courant to sinister Or.

The LoI reversed the tinctures of the field and dropped the tincture of the charge on the chief.

Rhiannon Bjornsdottir. Device. Argent, a fess per fess vert and gules between a dragon passant vert and a leek gules.

The tinctures on the dragon and leek were reversed in the LoI.

Only TWO more Laurel meetings 'till retirement!

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