THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS HAVE BEEN REGISTERED:
AN TIR
Aelfgifu Wolfsängerin. Device. Vert, a wolf sejant ululant within a bordure argent.
This was her registered badge, and as a consequence is grandfathered to her.
Alys Rosamund of Clun. Name.
Christina Barnabas Anderson. Device. Per fess argent and vert, an orca haurient embowed proper, a bordure wavy per fess azure and argent.
Darbie of Ironmaid. Device. Per pale sable and argent, two dragons statant erect respectant counterchanged breathing flames proper, a chief per pale ermine and counter-ermine.
Eoin Mac Leòid. Name.
Geneviève sens solatz. Name.
Submitted as Geneviève sens solaz, Lord Palimpsest was able to document the submitter's originally desired form.
Isabeau de Montessori. Name and device. Sable, three piles in point Or each charged with a fleur-de-lis sable, a chief ermine.
John Wolfstan. Device. Per pale azure and gules, a bend embattled counter-embattled Or, overall a wolf's head erased ululant contourny argent.
Please ask him to draw the bend a little wider.
Killian Nc Iain VcFarland. Device. Per bend sable and vert, a griffin couchant argent.
Versus Maureen ha-Ivarah (SCA), Azure, an Assyrian griffin couchant gazing to chief wings displayed argent, there is a CD for the change to the field, and Laurel precedent (LoAR of 17 June 1990, p. 1) grants another for posture in the difference between wings addorsed and wings displayed.
Marco Valentino. Name and device. Argent, a cross crosslet fitchy square pierced purpure between four gouttes gules.
Roland Rix. Device. Per pale and per chevron argent and sable, in chief two eagles displayed counterchanged.
Versus Anika Gael Quicksilver (SCA), Per bend sinister argent and sable, in bend two hawks rising addorsed, wings displayed, counterchanged, there are unquestionably CDs for the field and the posture of the birds, with the possibility of another (see discussion re Huffam, below) for position on the field. Versus Huffam (Combined, cited from Aus. Pers.), Per bend sable and argent, two eagles displayed, wings inverted, counterchanged, there is a CD for the change to the field and another for position on the field. This is not as easy to see as a change for, say, posture, but still exists. Because the charges are counterchanged, they could legitimately be placed anywhere on the field, even over the line(s) of division. As a consequence, the change in position of the birds cannot be considered to be "forced" by the field division (though in Huffam they are in the expected position, one on either side of the line of division), thus giving a CD for position on the field.
Stergar of Wessex. Device. Bendy azure and argent mullety of six points azure, a bordure Or.
Pretty armory.
Terrick de Rijkaard. Device. Per fess sable and gules, a sealion erect and in chief two roses Or.
Titus Antonius Archelaus. Name change from Titus Anthony Archelaus.
Tobin Drogo. Name.
Tuirn Brecc. Name and device. Per chevron inverted gules and vert, a chevron inverted argent between a triskele and a falcon displayed Or.
Valley Wold, Shire of. Device. Or, a portcullis sable within a laurel wreath vert within an orle gules.
ANSTEORRA
Alexander Pearce. Name and device. Argent, on a saltire between four quatrefoils vert, a fleur-de-lys Or.
Bjornsborg, Barony of. Name for Order of the Ursae Australes.
David Saint David. Name and device. Sable, a sword between a pair of wings displayed argent, on a chief embattled Or three wheels gules.
Submitted as David St. David, as most of the commenters noted, we do not register the scribal abbreviation, though the submitter is certainly allowed to use it.
Dimitrii Stanislavich Riazanov. Name change from Halfdan Halfdanarson.
François la Flamme. Name only (see RETURNS for device).
Hillary Rose Greenslade. Device. Vert, an anchor, on a chief argent three roses vert.
Jean Maurice le Renard. Name.
Josephine de Champagne. Device. Azure, a cross of Cleves, on a chief argent three crosses of Cleves azure.
Kazimir Petrovich Pomeshanov. Badge for Sommerfield Hall. [Fieldless] A gunrest sable surmounted by a coiled match argent.
Blazoned in the LoI as "a coiled match argent, flamed proper", we have deleted the flaming as an artistic detail of the same order as orbing, arming, and languing, and because someone unfamiliar with the charge may have drawn it with a lot more flames.
Reyna bat Asher. Name.
Tobin Pearce. Name.
William Silke. Name.
William Howard of Ramsey. Name.
Zahra Hewitt. Name.
Zoë Littlefair. Name.
ATLANTIA
Aislynn Fyralockar. Name change from Aislynn Fairlok.
Submitted as Aislynn Fyralock, we have corrected the byname to the proper plural.
Alexandria of Sacred Stone. Name and badge. Sable, an alicorn conjoined at its base to a pair of wings argent between three mullets Or.
Angharad of Morfa Caer. Name and device. Per pale gules and argent semy of caltraps two dragons combattant all counterchanged.
Angharad Melys. Name and device. Per saltire sable and vert, on a flame argent a lizard contourny gules.
Anne of Carthew. Device. Azure, a goblet Or on a chief embattled argent three roses gules.
Aonghus Camshròn Mac a'Chléirich. Device. Gyronny argent and sable, a quill pen fesswise dependent on a strap conjoined to its center, a fleece Or, and on a chief azure two rapiers crossed in saltire argent.
Avisa of Dun Carraig. Name.
Azurmont, Canton of. Device. Per chevron argent and azure, a laurel wreath counterchanged and in chief between its branches a mullet azure.
Nice armory!
Balthasar of Aragon. Name and device. Sable, a stag's head couped and on a chief triangular argent a pellet.
Bébinn Ó Corcra. Name.
Branwen Madyn Wallis. Name.
Brocmale of Rhuddlan. Name and device. Vert, on a bend sinister engrailed Or three sinister hands palewise vert.
Caitlin of Naevehjem. Name and device. Per fess wavy azure and argent, a swan naiant counterchanged.
Ceallach Maraidhe. Name and device. Per pale argent and sable, two dogs spotted combattant counterchanged.
Céline Doucerain. Device. Azure, a fess argent goutty de larmes between two fleurs-de-lys and a rose argent, barbed and seeded proper.
Ciarán Mac Breandáin. Device. Quarterly Or and vert, two wyverns erect vert.
Coinneach mac Risteaird. Name and device. Argent, a sea-bear sable maintaining an Irish harp and on a chief azure a thistle fesswise and another fesswise reversed, slips entwined, Or.
Submitted as a "sea-wolf", even on the large emblazon the charge is much more ursine than lupine.
Cynegyth de Hauteville. Device. Purpure, ermined Or, a horse couchant argent.
Edine Fairfield. Name and device. Barry wavy purpure and Or, a winged dolphin haurient and on a chief argent three decrescents purpure.
Eldgrimr Brotamadr. Name and device. Sable, a dragon and a bear combattant, on a chief argent three mullets gules.
Enid nic Eoin. Badge. [Fieldless] A wyvern statant contourny perched on a nest Or.
Frithuric Ullman. Name only (see RETURNS for device).
Giles Green. Name.
Hashim Abd-al-Salam. Name and device. Quarterly azure semy of crescents and argent, a scimitar bendwise sinister azure.
Jamie de Javaudan. Name and device. Argent mullety azure, a tortoise sable winged azure.
Submitted as Jaimie de Javavdan; we have modified the name to match the documented forms.
Kevin of Storvik. Holding name and device. Per saltire argent and sable, a dragon and a pegasus combattant argent and on a chief azure three mullets of four points pierced Or.
Submitted as Nasir ibn Khaziz.
Lerben of Cambion. Badge. Per fess dovetailed gules and vert, in base a cat's pawprint Or.
Magnus Baldwin. Name.
Marion Lang Boogschutter. Name and device. Sable, a lion rampant Or and on a chief argent three crosses formy gules.
Submitted as Marion Lang Boogschuter on the LoI; we have corrected the spelling to match the documented form found on the submission forms.
Matsudaira Kentarou Toshiyori. Name.
Melissa of Waldren. Name.
Submitted as Melissa Waldren, the name on the submitter's forms and in the correction sent out by Lady Triton is the form registered above.
Morgan MacDonnough. Name and device. Per bend sinister azure and argent, an owl displayed and a decrescent counterchanged.
Morgan Madog ap Cadwaladr. Name.
Morien Gwynne Bran. Name only (see RETURNS for device).
Submitted as Morian Gwynne Bran, we have modified the given to match the documented form on the submission forms.
Owain ap Rhys. Name only (see RETURNS for device).
Richard ffaukes. Name and device. Azure, on a bend sinister between two foxes' masks Or, three estoiles gules.
Rinaldo Diego. Name and device. Argent, a unicorn rampant sable between three fleurs-de-lis gules and on a chief embattled sable, three fleurs-de-lis Or.
Rüdiger Lindun. Name.
Storvik, Barony of. Badge. Paly argent and gules, a drakkar prow sable.
In its prior submission, Lord Laurel indicated that the charge would be acceptable if submitted in a standard heraldic tincture. The submitters have done so.
Talan on Hræfnestûne. Name.
Submitted as Talan on Hræfnestune, we have corrected the locative as the submitter's forms allowed to the dative case.
Tangwystl ferch Morgana. Device. Per fess embattled sable and argent, in chief three crescents in fess argent and in base a thistle proper.
Thorgeirr Brimill. Name and device. Gules, a sword inverted between in chief two oak leaves Or.
Tymoteusz Konikokrad. Device. Or, two orcas in pale sable marked argent between three meat cleavers palewise sable.
Ursula MacVarroun. Name and device. Azure, on a bend between two bees Or, a bear sejant erect palewise sable.
Willem Herbertson. Device. Per bend sable and argent, a bear rampant between three swords counterchanged.
Wulf McLachlan. Name.
Ysabeau Madeleine de Gascogne. Name.
CALONTIR
Arthur Blackhand. Name and device. Per bend sinister indented Or and gules, a sinister cubit arm sable and a mullet of seven points voided and interlaced Or.
Clarisse de Wroxeter. Name.
Leonhard von Löwenturm. Name only (see RETURNS for device).
Submitted as Leonhard Von Löwentürm, we have modified the locative to correct the orthography and spelling.
Riona Gillian McAllister. Name.
Seeger of Ringhaven. Name.
Please inform the submitter that the name would be better with the German article von instead of of, or better still with the Dutch article van.
William Jonathan Hogue. Name.
EAST
Aislinn Rose. Name.
Aldberct the Smith. Device. Or, on a fess vert between three hammers sable a sword reversed argent.
André l'Épervier. Name.
Submitted as André le Épervier, we have modified the byname to correct the grammar.
Cattlin of Sweetheart Abbey. Name.
Colin of Lushington. Name.
Conor Ó Ceallaigh. Name.
Submitted as Conor O'Cealaigh, we modified the patronymic to correct the grammar.
Corwin Alexander Templeton. Device. Vert, a chevron vairy Or and sable between two griffin's heads erased and a sword argent.
Criofan Mac Dara. Name and device. Or, a fox's mask gules and in chief three sprigs of mistletoe inverted proper.
Cynuise ó Cianáin of Bardsea. Alternate persona name for Robin William Crawford.
Cynuise ó Cianáin of Bardsea. Alternate persona name for Francis Alys Crawford of Lorne.
Delphine du Dauphiné. Name only (see RETURNS for device).
Submitted as Delphine au Dauphiné, we have corrected the grammar, as the submitter's forms allowed.
Derek vom Schwartzwald. Name only (see RETURNS for device).
Elen Alswith of Eriskay. Name.
Elspeth Keyf of Neddingham. Badge. [Fieldless] A daisy flower proper surmounted by two needles in saltire sable.
This would be better with the needles entirely on the daisy. (Daisies proper are defined as argent, seeded Or.)
Everard Martel. Name.
Fiona Kyle. Name and device. Azure, two tusks tips crossed in saltire between three coneys rampant each holding a spear argent.
Forestgate, Canton of. Name and device. Vert, a bear rampant maintaining a key within a laurel wreath Or and a chief Or grillage sable.
Franz the Dreamer. Name.
It might be well to inform the submitter that the byname has no meaning like "poet" or "dandy".
Galen of Armagh. Name.
Submitted as Galen of Armaugh, we have modified the locative to the documented spelling.
Gilcryst MacLochlainn. Name and device. Sable, a winged unicorn rampant contourny Or.
Submitted as Gilgryst MacLochlainn, we have modified the given to more closely match all of the documented forms found.
Ian of Iron Bog. Name and device. Sable, on a plate charged with a wolf's head couped sable, on a chief rayonny Or three lozenges gules.
John Linsdell of Tresco. Name only (see RETURNS for device).
Kamilla van Anderlecht. Device. Azure, on a pile argent between in base two bezants a fox salient contourny gules.
Katerina Affodil. Name.
Katherine Kyle. Name and device. Argent, two tusks tips crossed in saltire and on a chief gules three roses argent.
Lena Solway. Name.
Submitted as Lena Solloway; the derivation of the byname was not entirely convincing. We have substituted the closest documented form in pronunciation.
Liadaine of Wicklow. Name.
Lucrezia Malatesta. Name and device. Gules, on a fess rayonny between three hawk's lures Or, a harpy displayed sable fleshed proper.
Malachi Halfhand. Name.
Meadhbh ní Ruadháin. Name.
Submitted as Medb ni Ruadhan, we have modified the spelling and grammar as the submitter's forms allowed to match the given and patronymic in period and to place the patronymic in the genitive. (The other good alternative would have been Medb ingen Ruadáin, but the registered form is closer in pronunciation to the submitted form.)
Nancy of Woodstock. Name and device. Vert, a chevron between three pairs of lace bobbins, a chief urdy Or.
Olwen ferch Rhys of Aberdovey. Name and device. Vert, semy of roses argent, a horse salient and on a chief Or three mullets of six points vert.
Submitted as Olwen ni Rhys of Aberdovey; we have modified the patronymic particle to match the language of the patronym.
Piers Campbell. Device. Azure, a dragon couchant reguardant, in chief two boar's heads erased argent.
Rowena ni Dhonnchaidh. Badge. [Fieldless] A unicorn couchant argent charged on the shoulder with a cross of four passion nails sable.
Sebastian Góral. Badge. [Fieldless] A winged fish volant bendwise sinister sable.
Sebastian Góral. Name and device. Per bend sinister vert and gules, on a bend sinister argent three winged fish volant sable.
Submitted as Sebastian z Góral; we have dropped the article to correct the grammar.
Sofia Staritskaia. Name (see PENDED for device).
Submitted as Sofia Staritskaia Rhosia; Rhosia appears to be extremely out of place in an otherwise Russian name and is placed inappropriately for Russian usage. We have therefore dropped it in order to register the name.
Thomas of Bear Woods. Name and device. Per chevron ermine and gules, two bears rampant sable, each holding a longbow gules, and an open book argent charged with a tankard sable.
Torquil ban MacNeil. Name.
MIDDLE
Adalbert von Mölln. Name.
Adelicia Katherine McLeod. Device. Per chevron throughout sable and argent, two owl's heads cabossed and a tower counterchanged.
Alfred of Chester. Badge. Vert, two rapiers in saltire proper, on a chief argent a dragon passant vert.
Andrew Wallace the Wanderer. Name and device. Or, a bend sinister wavy gules between a compass rose and an open scroll purpure charged with a feather Or.
Aodhfin Seibert. Name and device. Per bend gules and azure, on a bend raguly Or, an arrow inverted sable.
The ragules on the bend should be drawn larger, and should point up rather than down. Please let the submitter know.
Arabella Ravenscroft. Name.
Submitted on the LoI as Arabella Ravenscraft, the byname was -croft on the submitter's forms and the documentation provided in the LoI.
Bjorn Sveinssen. Device. Gules, a mallet argent winged Or, a bordure argent.
Border Downs, Shire of. Name and device. Vert, a laurel wreath between four horse's heads couped in cross Or.
Pretty armory!
Brian Caradoc Walsh. Name.
Ceridwen Maelor verch Gruffyd. Device. Argent, a horse rampant and a chief rayonny pean.
Cerridwen of Crowford. Name.
Coemgen MacDaid. Device. Argent, a stag lodged proper and on a chief embattled azure, two pheons argent.
A stag "proper" would seem to be a dark brown (see, e.g., James Parker, A Glossary of Terms as Used in Heraldry, 1982, pp. 197-198, where all of the stags "proper" are on metal fields).
Conal Mac Dhòmhnuill. Name.
Donnershafen, Shire of. Name and device. Gules, on a pile throughout argent a swan naiant sable within overall a laurel wreath Or.
Submitted as Donnerhafen, we have corrected the grammar as the submitters' forms allowed. Lord Palimpsest has noted that there are a number of mountains with donners- as the beginning element, making the name here much more plausible.
Duncan MacLeod of Duirinish. Name and device. Argent, a pheon gules and on a chief indented azure three towers argent.
Baron Bruce covered the issue of pretention in the form of "X of Y" in Scottish names. "We will continue to prohibit the use of a Scots clan name with the seat or territory of that clan (e.g. Cameron of Lochiel), or a surname with the phrase of that Ilk (or its functional equivalent, e.g. Macintosh of Macintosh). That usage, with or without the given name, is the title of the actual chief of the clan or his immediate kin; its use in the SCA represents a direct infringement on actual nobility, and also appears to be a claim to rank, either of which is grounds for return. But by and large, the use of a Scots surname with a Scots placename is acceptable for SCA use." (LoAR March 1993, p. 8) Based on that precedent, this name is registrable.
Ealdormere, Principality of. Name for Award of the Wolf's Tooth (see RETURNS for badge).
Elena Anatolievna Pavlova. Badge. [Fieldless] A standing balance Or.
Eric the Wanderer. Name.
Evan Little. Name.
Ewen of Melmerby. Name and device. Sable,, a aeolus, on a chief argent a salamander azure enflamed sable.
Falco le Macecrer. Name.
Gwendoline Rosamond. Device. Vert, a phoenix Or, in chief a crescent argent.
Submitted on the LoI as Gwendoline Rosamund, all of the forms show the above form registered July 1993.
Helena O'Shea. Name.
Hilderich der Biterolf. Name and device. Vert, on a bend sinister between two wolves' heads erased argent three crosses formy palewise gules.
Ilsa von Westfal. Badge. Purpure, fretty argent, a goblet Or.
Isabeau de Foirbeis. Device. Per chevron purpure and argent, a horse courant contourny reguardant sable, saddled and bridled Or, in chief two decrescents argent.
Isabella Drummond. Name.
Ivan Kalinin. Device. Sable, semy of anchors argent, a cockatrice erect contourny Or.
Bo of Baile na Scolairi. Name only (see RETURNS for device).
Jean Claude Marcel. Device. Gules, a griffin segreant contourny within an orle of fleurs-de-lis Or.
Please let him know that this would look better with fewer (say, 8 to 12) and larger fleurs.
Johannes Kaspar Zurfluh. Device. Per fess embattled argent and gules, an eagle displayed and a swiss voulge head bendwise sinister reversed counterchanged.
(The embattlements on the large emblazon were properly regular; only on the mini-emblazon were they uneven.)
Jonathan Stonehouse. Name.
Kassandra Tenebrosa. Device. Sable, a wolf's head erased affronty and on a chief argent three clusters of holly leaves inverted vert, fructed gules.
Please ask her to narrow the wolf's neck a little; as drawn, it appears to include part of the shoulders.
Kenneth Ulrich. Name.
Submitted as Kenneth Ulrich Ochiern, no one was able to corroborate Ochiern, nor is the submitter's source (Arthur, An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names) considered a reliable one. As a consequence we have dropped the problematic element to register the name.
Laurence Jowell. Device. Per pale azure and argent, a pheon inverted counterchanged.
Nice armory!
Matheus Arcuarius. Device. Per bend sable and Or, a sun and a decrescent counterchanged.
Morwenna Adeva ferch Gruffudd of Northaven. Name only (see RETURNS for device).
Odo Uthyr of Jararvellir. Badge (see RETURNS for household name). Per pale argent and gules, in pale a falcon volant and a roundel counterchanged.
Pagan du Bord du Lac. Release of name.
This was not on the LoI, but was an action which Baron Bruce had intended to make in the June 1993 LoAR.
Owain ap Howell. Device. Per pale azure and sable, a cross crosslet fitchy within an orle argent.
More nice armory!
Reinmar the Alchemist. Name.
If he would like an all-German name, it would be Reinmar der Alchemist.
Robert Fairweather of Eastcote. Name.
Melissa of Sternfeld. Holding name and device. Per pale sable and gules, an elephant's head cabossed argent maintaining in its trunk a sheaf of arrows fesswise reversed Or, a bordure argent.
Submitted as Robin Wilderkyn.
Rolf de Chablis. Name only (see RETURNS for device).
Sean O'Gillroy. Name for House O'Gillroy.
Solveig Gunnadóttir ór Úlfey. Device. Per pale Or and argent, six lozenges three, two and one, and a chief sable.
Sybelle Madeleine MacKee. Name.
Tausius Valgas. Name.
Tegan Drummond. Name.
Wasserstrasse, Canton of. Name and device. Azure, two scarpes wavy argent between two laurel wreaths, overall a natural seahorse contourny Or.
Please ask them to draw the scarpes more boldly wavy.
Western Keep, Shire of. Name and device. Azure, on a sun within a laurel wreath Or a tower azure.
You might let them know that this would be even better as Westkeep or Westerkeep.
William Michael Kelrickson. Name and device. Gyronny Or and azure, a mullet of eight points gules within a bordure dovetailed counterchanged.
Blazoned on the LoI as a compass star, the arms of the primary charge are all the same length. We have therefore reblazoned it to match the emblazon. Please ask him to draw the bordure wider.
OUTLANDS
Catlin O'Connellan. Name and device. Per bend sinister vert and sable, on a bend sinister embattled Or three fleurs-de-lis sable, in dexter chief a domestic cat salient contourny Or.
Submitted as Catlin O'Coinghiolléin, we have fully anglicized the name to best match the grammar and keep the sound of the name, which the submitter noted as being most important to her. The fully Gaelic form would have been Caitlín Ní Choinghiolláin.
Lêofsige Ó Caoimh. Device. Gyronny argent and vert, on a chief Or three cat's pawprints vert.
We blazon the type of pawprints for the same reason that we blazon specific types of sword; it may not grant any heraldic difference, but there are sufficient differences in the various types to warrant mentioning in the blazon.
Taliesin ab Iago. Name.
TRIMARIS
Curran O'Farrell. Name.
Eoghan Wuduweard. Name.
Guendolen of Skye. Device. Or, an escallop and on a chief embattled azure three escallops Or.
Nice armory!
Maerric atte Mor. Device. Argent, three axes in fess and on a chief embattled sable a dolphin naiant argent.
Monique de Montfichet. Name.
Rolf von Sternstein. Name.
Sebastian Blacke. Name.
Stephan von Strassburg. Name.
Tanarian Brenaur ferch Owain fab Bran. Household name for Teulu Prenaur and badge. Checky Or and gules, a winged ewe courant holding a dagger sable.
Submitted as Teulu Brenaur, teulu is masculine and would not cause mutation in the name following it. We have therefore corrected the grammar as the submitter's forms allowed.
Trimaris, Kingdom of. Badge. Azure, a triskele argent within a triangle of three arrows interlaced Or.
Wolfgang von Strassburg. Name.
WEST
Alethea of Shrewsbury. Device. Sable, on a pall inverted between three frets couped argent, four lozenges gules.
Asceline d'Ypres. Name and device. Argent, three sprigs of ash inverted conjoined in chief and on a chief purpure four crosses moline argent.
Bridgit ferch Teleri. Device. Vert, a sun within an orle Or.
Nice armory!
Cathan MacCathail. Name and device. Vert, in pale a roundel and an eagle displayed within a bordure Or.
On the large emblazon it was more obvious that the roundel and the eagle are two equal-sized charges, so the registered blazon is better than Vert, an eagle displayed and in chief a roundel.... (It was also clear from the large emblazon that the bird is an eagle, not a [smooth-feathered] falcon.) Please ask the submitter to draw the bordure wider.
Clare de Schirle. Name and device. Per bend sinister vert and sable, a phoenix within an annulet Or.
Crosston, Shire of. Name change from Pren Tal and device change. Sable, a saltire argent, on a chief Or three laurel wreaths sable.
Nice, very nice. Their currently registered device, Per chevron azure and ermine, in base a Coast redwood tree erased proper, its base environed of a laurel wreath vert, is released.
Elena ate Weyhacche. Name and device. Per fess vert and gules, in chief three candles in fess flammant and in base a gate Or.
Emrys Cynydd. Name.
Submitted on the LoI as Emrys Cynwydd, the registered form is the documented form on the submission forms.
Frederick Sebastian Valentine. Name and device. Quarterly lozengy purpure and argent, and argent, a cock close contourny, sinister claw raised, gules.
Gaufridus of Blackthorne. Device. Gules, an anchor argent debruised by a sealion naiant contourny, tail reflexed over its head, within a bordure Or.
Kimberley of Mountain's Gate. Holding name and device. Argent, a pegasus passant sable within an orle of roses purpure.
Submitted as Tara ni Connmhaigh.
Kyrielle de Meaux. Name and device. Per bend sinister gules and sable, on a bend sinister argent a bend sinister engrailed sable, in chief a rose argent barbed and seeded proper.
Lothar an dem Berg. Name and device. Or, issuant from a mount sable a pine tree vert, on a chief azure three bezants.
Submitted as Lothar an Dem Berg, we have corrected the orthography.
Macha ni Fhearghuis. Device. Argent, three sinister wings sable, on a base gules a cup argent.
Michael von Kieselbach. Name.
Submitted as Michael von Kiesselbach, there was no datable documentation for the double "s". We have therefore dropped it as the submitter's forms allowed.
Nicolette Dufay. Name.
Submitted on the LoI as Nicollete Dufay, the registered form was the documented version on the submitter's forms.
Norbert of Iken. Name and device. Per fess sable and azure, in bend a swan naiant contourny reguardant between two decrescents argent.
Richard of Kingsbury. Name and device. Quarterly azure and Or, a cross counterchanged, in canton a cross potent argent.
Ronald of Wuduholt be Secg. Holding name and device. Gules, a drakkar and in chief a lightning bolt fesswise Or, a bordure invected argent.
Submitted as Thorkil Stormchaser, the name was returned at the December 1993 Laurel meeting.
Saint Hildegard, College of. Release of name.
Wolfric Hammerfestning. Device. Azure, a grinding wheel between three axes reversed argent.
Ynys Fawr, Barony of. Badge. [Fieldless] An apple vert transfixed by a dagger inverted proper.
THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS HAVE BEEN RETURNED:
AN TIR
None.
ANSTEORRA
François la Flamme. device. Vert, a flame Or.
Conflict with Kristen Ahearn (SCA), Vert, upon a ball of flame Or, a bull rampant to sinister head lowered sable, as cited in the LoI, with only one CD for the removal of the tertiary charge. Given the very irregular outlines of the flames in both devices, we could not grant a second CD for "shape" of the primaries.
Modius Monsdraconis. Name and device. Sable, a flame between three points argent.
The grammar appears to be incorrect; normal Latin formation would keep the elements separate as either Mons Draco (dragon mountain) or as Mons Draconis (dragon's mountain). In addition, the locative would almost certainly use the preposition de, which takes the ablative case, as "de Monte Dracone" or "de Monte Draconis". While the submitter permitted minor changes, he also noted that the sound of the name was important to him, and we felt that either of the changes here exceeded the level of changes allowed.
As noted in a the return of another proposal which also used three points: "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." (LoAR April 1992, p. 19).
ATLANTIA
Frithuric Ullman. Device. Argent, on a chevron between three fleurs-de-lys purpure a sun jessant-de-lys argent.
While we have extended the ability to be jessant-de-lys to animal faces other than leopards, the only documented historical animal to have this treatment, extending it to a sun becomes two steps from documented historical practice, which is farther than we are willing to go.
Hannah Ó Neilane. Name.
None of the commenters could find the patronymic in this precise form. We would have registered the anglicized Hannah O Neilane, but the submitter permitted no changes at all to the name. Thus, we are having to return this.
Morien Gwynne Bran. device. Purpure, a bird close, a bordure rayonny argent.
Conflict with Rosamund of the Misty Meadows (SCA), Purpure, a heron close supporting in dexter upraised talon a rose argent barbed and seeded proper. There is one CD for the addition of the bordure but as a generic "bird", this could legitimately be drawn as nearly any kind of bird, and we cannot in good conscience grant a second CD for type.
Nasir ibn Khaziz. Name.
Then-Lord Clarion was unable to document either Nasir as a given name in its own right (it appears as a phrase in a title), nor the patronymic. As no documentation was enclosed in the Laurel packet which supported either of these elements, we are having to return the name.
The armory was registered under the holding name of Kevin of Storvik.
Owain ap Rhys. Device. Azure, on a fess between three celtic crosses Or a castle azure, a bordure lozengy azure and Or.
The bordure is very odd. As colored on the large emblazon, there is a row of blue demi-lozenges along the chief portion of the azure field, and the bordure and field blend into each other.
Robyn of Pevensy. Name.
Every spelling found of the placename has an "e" at the end (i.e., Pevensey and Pefenesea and Peuenséa). As the submitter would allow no corrections whatsoever to grammar or spelling, we are having to return this.
CALONTIR
Leonhard von Löwenturm. Device. Pean, a lion couchant contourny Or.
Conflict with Mairi Rhianna nam Beanntan (SCA), Per fess argent and vert, a catamount (felis concolor) couchant sinister proper. There is only one CD for the changes to the field.
Thea Siobhan Wolve. Name.
Thea is a post-period diminutive and therefore, unregisterable in the SCA. Siobhan is out of place in anything but an all-Gaelic name, being usually anglicized as "John". None of the commenters were able to corroborate the surname, and the submitter's only documentation appears to have come from a "bucket-shop" heraldist, not a very reliable source.
EAST
Brian the Blackhawk. Device. Argent, an eagle displayed within an orle within an orle of lozenges orlewise sable.
As this could equally well be blazoned (as Papworth has done with similar designs), Sable an inescutcheon argent charged with an eagle sable all within a bordure argent semy of lozenges sable, it conflicts with Fylkyn (Papworth, p. 687), Sable an escutcheon argent within a bordure of the last charged with billets of the first. There is one CD for the addition of the tertiary eagle, but because this is not simple armory as defined in RfS X.4.j.2., there is nothing for changing the type only of the tertiary charges on the bordure.
Cedric of Armorica. Badge. [Fieldless] On a tankard azure a billet Or.
Conflict with Brangwain nic Stiubhard (SCA), [Fieldless] On a beaker azure a dolphin hauriant Or. There is one CD for the fieldless difference, but the modest changes in type of primary are insufficient for the second, and X.4.j.ii. does not apply to the difference in type of tertiary charges here.
Ciaran Cian Cullenwaine. Device. Vert, a peregrine falcon proper displayed perched on a harp reversed, a bordure Or.
"The College of Arms will no longer register flora and fauna in their natural 'proper' tinctures if to do so they require the Linnaean genus and species. Proper is allowed for natural flora and fauna where there is a widely understood default coloration for the charge so specified." (Cover Letter, May 1991, p. 2). Given the number of times the various commenters asked the question in the commentary received on this item, it is obvious that a peregrine falcon does not have a "widely-understood" proper tincture. As a consequence, we are having to return this.
Criofan Mac Dara. Badge. [Fieldless] A fox's mask gules.
Conflict with Haakon Thorgilsson (SCA, 6/93), Per fess indented argent and vert, in chief a fox's mask gules, and with the British 10th Armoured Division (Military Ordinary #782), Sable a fox's mask gules marked sable. In each case there is only the fieldless difference.
Delphine du Dauphiné. Device. Azure mullety Or, a vol argent.
Conflict with Bairinn de Taahe (SCA), Azure, two wings conjoined argent enflamed between in annulo six mullets of six points Or. In this case there are no CD's for the number or type or arrangement of the mullets and nothing for the enflaming of the wings.
Derek vom Schwartzwald. Device. Or, a bend sinister embattled counter-embattled gules between a tree eradicated and an axe and a hammer in saltire sable.
Also, even on the large emblazon form, the bend sinister was neither embattled-counterembattled nor bretessed, but somewhere halfway between the two. This needs to be redrawn as clearly one or the other. Please ask the submitter to draw the bend sinister wider in any resubmission.
Dugaul of Wolf's End. Name.
None of the variants of Dubgall has a "u" in the second syllable. Only Green Anchor, among all the commenters, was able to find any support for the locative, and even that is a bit of a stretch, since none of the examples of "End" he found had an animal with them.
Gilcryst MacLochlainn. Badge. [Fieldless] A winged unicorn rampant contourny gyronny Or and gules.
While there are many period examples of animate charges barry or paly of two tinctures, no one could find any precedent for a gyronny treatment. As it stands, the tinctures are not really divided evenly around the charge and the gyronny treatment tends to badly confuse its identifiability.
John Linsdell of Tresco. Device. Or, a bottle bendwise inverted azure distilling a goutte and a base gules.
The bottle is not a shape which was used in period, but rather one which came into wide use after the 17th century. RfS VII.3. "Period Artifacts - Artifacts that were known in the period and domain of the Society may be registered in armory, provided they are depicted in their period forms." In any resubmission the goutte should be drawn larger.
Tora-no-Shida Gozen. Name.
We need more complete documentation for the elements of the name. (No documentation was included in the Laurel packet.) The only name element that the commenters were able to independently support was Tora, though gozen was found as a common noun meaning "morning"). No, though spoken, usually isn't written in Japanese. The submitter's understanding of the name's meaning is not entirely correct; it would be "Gozen of the Tora branch of the Shida clan".
Ulrich von Adlerburg. Badge. [Fieldless] A heart Or charged with another sable.
As this could as easily (and not incorrectly) be blazoned [Fieldless] A heart sable fimbriated Or, this still conflicts with van Roden, Argent a heart sable (Rietstap). In addition, as a heart is demonstrably a standard shape for the display of armory in period, this also conflicts with Flanderis (Papworth, p. 342), Gules a bordure Or, Bass (Papworth, p. 343), Sable a bordure argent, and Corane (Papworth, p. 343), Sable a bordure Or, a label gules. In each case there is only one CD for the change to the field, to the tincture of the bordure, or for removing the label, respectively.
Urho of the Pines. Name and device. Argent, a pinecone and on a chief vert an arrow argent.
No one was able to document Urho as a given name and it was not cited as such in the submitter's documentation. We need documentation of its use as a given name in period before we can register this.
The pinecone is substantially unrecognizable as rendered, appearing here only as a pointed cartouche with cross-hatching.
William Ravenhair. Name.
The earliest citation (and the only one in period) for "raven" as referring to color is dated 1600, and is used as an adjective to describe the shade or quality of blackness, not as a substitute for black ("My Misteresse eyes are Rauen black"). Would the submitter consider the period expressions Blacklock, Blakelok or Blakheued?
MIDDLE
Ealdormere, Principality of. Name for Friendship of the Trillium.
No documentation was submitted showing that this form of order name follows any period exemplars. Neither has "friendship" been accepted as an alternate designator for "order" or "award".
Ealdormere, Principality of. Badge for Award of the Wolf's Tooth. Azure, a wolf's fang within a bordure argent.
Conflict with John Shark the Wanderer (SCA), Azure a shark's tooth point downwards proper. There is only one CD for the addition of the bordure. They might consider resubmitting with the German wolves' teeth.
Egill Gunnbjarnarson. Device. Sable, on a pale between two mullets argent a pine tree eradicated proper, on a chief argent three reremice sable.
With five types of charge in four tinctures, this exceeds the complexity limits of RfS VIII.1.a. While it is true that armory exceeding this "rule of thumb" has been registered on rare occasions, these exceptions have only been made for particularly elegant proposals.
Gabrielle Therese Gonneau. Name.
While there was no commentary on the name (implying its acceptability), no name submission form was found in the files.
Ixtlilxochitl de los Indios. Name.
No evidence was submitted or noted by any of the commenters supporting this combination of Nahuatl and Spanish. From all of the historical evidence we could find, the Native Americans were given Spanish Christian names by the Spaniards under their forced Christianization and at no time was a mixed name in this style ever done.
The armory was registered under the holding name Bo of Baile na Scolairi.
Moriz von Nordlingen. Device. Lozengy couped in fess argent and sable, on a chief azure three roses barbed and seeded gules.
Conflict with Brown (Papworth, p. 576), Barry of six argent and azure on a chief of the second three 5-foils Or, Chabnor (Papworth, p. 576), Checky argent and gules on a chief azure three 5-foils Or, and Mockett (Papworth, p. 576), Or on a chief azure three 5-foils of the first. In each case there is only one CD for the changes to the field.
Morwenna Adeva ferch Gruffudd of Northaven. Device. Gules, on a flame Or a mullet gules, a chief embattled Or.
Conflict with Anthony of the Light (SCA), Gules on a sun Or a cross of St. Anthony gules a chief embattled Or. There is one CD for the change to type of the primary charge, but not a second for the change to type only of the tertiaries. On any resubmission, please ask the submitter to draw the chief wider.
Odo Uthyr of Jararvellir. Name for House Pillaging Falcons.
No support could be found by any of the commenters for the household name, nor does it appear to be formed in a period style.
Richard Larmer. Device. Gules, a boar's head couped Or, on a chief ermine three gouttes de larmes.
The chief as drawn is not "ermine" charged with three gouttes de larmes, but rather is "argent, charged alternately with ermine spots sable and gouttes de larmes". If he would redraw the chief with more and smaller ermine spots so that it truly appeared to be ermine (e.g., two rows of spots), it would correct this problem.
Robin Wilderkyn. Name.
By following the examples given by Lady Ensign of Boykin, Webkin, and Revekyn, the byname here would appear to mean literally "little wild animal". As a consequence, this version appears to suffer from the same problem as its previous incarnation, Robin Wildeorcynn (returned in the LoAR of 11/93). The armory was registered under the holding name of Melissa of Sternfeld.
Rolf de Chablis. Device. Per pale Or and sable, a chevron counterchanged and overall a wyvern displayed gules.
Unfortunately, this striking device conflicts with Flegg (Papworth, p. 376), Per pale Or and sable, a chevron counterchanged. There is only one CD, for the addition of the overall charge. (If he resubmits with this wyvern, please tell him to make it all gules. The belly, underlegs and underwings on the large emblazon were argent, amounting to nearly half the tincture of the monster, and nary a way to blazon it adequately.)
Thierry Gutherie. Device. Sable, a bee, on a chief urdy Or two bees sable.
Not even the large emblazon was clearly either a chief urdy or a field per fess urdy. It needs to be redrawn as one or the other.
OUTLANDS
None.
TRIMARIS
Geoffrey of Lincoln. Device. Argent, a saltire vert, overall within a mascle a cross crosslet sable.
Conflict with Bloxham (Papworth, p. 1057), Argent, a saltire vert. There is only one CD for the addition of the group of overall charges. (It was noted by several commenters that the cross and mascle are still drawn too thin.)
Rhianna Valeria. Name and device. Argent, three gouttes in annulo, in chief a county coronet and on a chief gules two roses argent.
No one could find any support for the given name, and it has been noted many times in the past that prior registration in the SCA does not constitute adequate documentation.
While it is clear what effect the submitter is trying for on the device, it only works with this specific rendition of the gouttes. It has been Laurel practice in the past to return items which only "work" because of a specific artistic rendering. In this case, were the gouttes drawn in a common period style (like icicles) it would vastly alter the triskele effect in the center of the shield. Would the submitter consider a torteau charged with a triskele argent?
Rolant von Reichenau. Device. Purpure, five gingko leaves stems crossed in center Or.
Conflict with Ooka (Hawley's Mon p. 13), In cross four gingko leaves stems to center. There is one CD for fielded vs. fieldless, but the addition of only one leaf to the same arrangement is insufficient for the necessary second CD.
Trimaris, Kingdom of. Name for Order of the Argent Morningstar of Trimaris.
While the name appears to registrable under the Rules, no name submission form was included in the paperwork.
Trimaris, Kingdom of. Name for Order of the Argent Sword of Trimaris.
While the name appears to registrable under the Rules, no name submission form was included in the paperwork.
Trimaris, Kingdom of. Name change for Order of the Cravat Blanche of Trimaris from Order of the White Scarf of Trimaris.
No name change form was included in the paperwork. Additionally, the word cravate appears not to be dated to period; both citations which Lord Palimpsest found were just outside the "gray area" of 1600 to 1650. (Were it determined to be permissible, the correct form would appear to be cravate blanc.)
WEST
Linnet the Bewildered. Name.
The byname was only documented from a citation to 1685, 35 years beyond the limits of our "gray area" for documentation. The byname is clearly post-period.
Tara ni Connmhaigh. Name.
The prior registration of Tara as a given name hinged on the statement "If the given name and the place name [Temair] are identical in Irish, and Tara is a valid anglicization of the latter, then it should be acceptable as an anglicization of the former." The problem is that Tara is not an acceptable Anglicization of Temair; only of the genitive case of the name: Temra (pronounced approximately 'tev-ra). Tara is not an Anglicization of Temair but rather an English name for the place derived specifically from the context in which it appears as a place name (e.g., "hill of Tara"). (A similar case occurs with Erin, as a poetic English name for Ireland is based on the genitive case (Éireann) of the Irish name Éire.) Since the given name Temair would not normally be found in the genitive, it is unlikely that it would be taken into English in the genitive form.
The armory was registered under the holding name of Kimberley of Mountain's Gate.
Vair Couvert, Shire of. Appeal of return of name change from Shire of Encinal.
The submitted name is not just an Anglo-French hybrid; it has the specific form <English nominal descriptor> <French toponym>. The examples of Bumpstead Helion and Teyn Gegras do not apply (and are slightly inaccurate). Bumpstead is by itself a complete English place-name to which has been added the French surname of the man who once held the lands, Tihel Britto or de Helion. Teyn Gegras (properly, Teyn Gras), is another example of the form <English place-name> <surname of French owner>. Vair Couvert follows another pattern altogether, one that still hasn't been documented. (And since the pattern involves the use of two languages in a single phrase, it must be documented pretty thoroughly; one or two isolated examples would probably be insufficient.) As the Laurel office is unable to consider alternate submissions, we were unable to register the documentable change they said they would accept ("Vair Hollow"). Initial commentary by some of the commenting heralds would seem to indicate that Vair Hollow is a registrable name.
THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS HAVE BEEN PENDED:
EAST
Sofia Staritskaia. Device. Per pale vert and sable, Saint George mounted and passant contourny, spear piercing a dragon in base within a bordure Or.
The blazon in the LoI had the primary charge and dragon as argent. This is pended to the April 1994 meeting for research under the correct blazon.
MIDDLE
Elena Anatolievna Pavlova. Device. Per chevron inverted vert and sable, on a chevron inverted between a standing balance and three roundels Or two daggers inverted sable.
The tincture of the chevron and the balance were only implied in the LoIs blazon of "bezants". While many of the commenters thought this to be the case, I thought it best to pend this until the April 1994 Laurel meeting for research under an unambiguous blazon.