LoAR [dba]

THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN REGISTERED:

AN TIR

Alastair the Eastern Traveller. Device. Argent, a chevron inverted purpure between a Patriarchal cross gules and a three-headed thistle proper.

An Tir, Kingdom of. Title for Hazel Leaf Pursuivant.

Ariel de Courtenay. Badge. [Fieldless] In pale a thistle proper grasped by a falcon's leg erased inverted argent, belled and jessed gules.

Ariel de Courtenay. Device. Per pall argent, gules, and paly argent and sable, a pall sable and in chief a thistle proper.

Branwyn of Cotswold. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Cailean Aindrea Stewart. Name and device. Per saltire sable and gules, a falcon close on a chief argent three thistles proper.

Celeste de la Montagne. Name.

Corwin Falcone. Device. Sable, a mongoose passant regardant Or maintaining a sword proper between three increscents Or.

Drew Blackstone. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Submitted as Rook Drew Blackstone, Rook was only documented as a surname and the justification for it as a given name was too weak, particularly in conjunction with the fact that the rest of the name is very late period. We have, therefore, dropped the problematic element as the submitter allowed.

Eleri Llanrwst. Name change from holding name of Charlene of Terra Pomaria.

Huma'i al Rashida al Baghdadiyya. Name and device. Purpure, on an inescutcheon argent a double-bitted axe sable, hafted proper, within a bordure engrailed argent.

Ian Cnulle. Badge. Argent, a goat clymant maintaining in its dexter forehoof a hammer and in its sinister a punch sable within a bordure sable bezanty.

The punch was blazoned in the LoI as a "trussel", a coin-stamping die whose name is dated to 1473 in the OED, but, especially given that it is here a small held charge, we believe that "punch" is the more accessible term.

Ian Cnulle. Device. Per chevron argent semy of oak leaves vert and sable, and a hammer argent, a chief checky sable and argent.

Maris Shee. Name.

Moriah MacLachlan. Device. Gyronny argent and sable, a heart counter-changed gules and argent.

Terra Pomaria, Barony of. Badge. Azure, three chevronels braced and on a chief argent a sword azure.

Thorkell Haraldsson. Name and device. Azure goutty d'eau, on a pile raguly argent a fir tree eradicated gules.

ANSTEORRA

Ásdís Grímsdóttir. Name.

Cáel Mactier. Name and device. Per pale and per fess raguly argent and sable, two wolf's heads cabossed in pale counterchanged.

Catriona Heather MacLochlainn. Name and device. Argent, a catamount passant regardant and in base three shamrocks all within a bordure embattled vert.

Christoph of Shadwood. Name.

Submitted as Christoph of Shadowood, even the submitter's documentation demonstrated that the registered form above is far and away more likely.

David Falvy Falconer. Name.

Submitted as David Faílbe Falconer, the combination of late period English and ancient Irish Gaelic was not at all compatible. We have submitted the Englished form.

Duncan Montgomery Culhane. Device. Per pale and per fess indented gules and sable, in chief two horses combattant argent and Or.

Ekatarina Iadorovna Kharlampieva. Device. Per pale gules and argent, a chevron inverted and in chief a Russian Orthodox cross sable.

Erik Aethelwulf of Grimsby. Device. Per pale and per chevron argent and purpure, in bend two stags rampant contourny sable.

Isabeau Mercedes de Murcia. Name.

Jason MacPherson. Name.

Kazimir Petrovich Pomeshanov. Badge. [Fieldless] A tyger sejant erect gules.

Kieran Shepherd. Name.

Ludmilla Nikolaevna Volkova. Name.

Madog Barfgoch. Name.

Submitted as Madog y Barfog Goch, the Welsh did not use the definite article with bynames, and the remainder of the byname as submitted meant something like "of the red-bearded". We have modified it to "red-beard".

Maire Pacok O'Nolan. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Submitted as Maire Peacock O'Nolan on the LoI, the middle name had been modified at Kingdom. Palimpsest, however, has been able to document the submittor's original form to period from Black, p. 653.

Miguel Javier de Murcia. Name.

Sarai Rose Perlea. Name.

Submitted as Sarai Rose Perlai, the submitted form of the placename is from the Domesday Book, and is entirely out of place with the late period form of the name. We have modified the spelling of the locative to a documented form more compatible with the remainder of the name.

Sean O'Nolan. Name.

Vladimir Vitalievich Volkov. Name.

ATENVELDT

Alexandria Cecil of Fairbrook. Device. Azure, a bend sinister ermine between a candle and candlestick flammant and a Latin cross argent.

This was pended from the February 1994 Laurel meeting.

ATLANTIA

Andrew MacEdward. Name and device. Quarterly azure and argent, two unicorns rampant addorsed counterchanged.

Angelandis Eggerstedt. Name.

Atlantia, Kingdom of. Title for Sea Stag Herald.

The title is taken from the Order of the Sea Stag, already registered to Atlantia.

Atlantia, Kingdom of. Name for Order of the Nonpareil.

Atlantia, Kingdom of. Title for Pearl Herald.

The title is taken from the Order of the Pearl, already registered to Atlantia.

Atlantia, Kingdom of. Title for Sea Urchin Herald.

The title is taken from the Order of the Sea Urchin, already registered to Atlantia.

Atlantia, Kingdom of. Title for Owen Herald.

Atlantia, Kingdom of. Title for Golden Dolphin Herald.

To borrow from Baron Bruce's words in the March 1993 LoAR and apply them to this case, the title is taken from the Order of the Golden Dolphin, already registered to Atlantia. It is an ancient and honorable tradition to name heraldic officers after orders: Garter and Toison d'Or (Golden Fleece) are well-known medieval examples, while the classic Society example is (ahem) Laurel.

Bethoc MacAlpin. Name.

Brenna Kára. Name.

Devorguilla Norris. Name.

Edwarde de la Mountayne. Name.

Evita Maria da Lombardia. Name and device. Or, on a pile azure between two rapiers inverted sable a bee Or.

Submitted as Evita Matia di Lombardia, the "t" in the second name was a typo (as most of the commenters noted). The Italian preposition used with places is "da" ("di" is used to form patronymics).

Gelfradus Kunz. Name.

Isabelle Lang. Name and device. Vert, a vol inverted argent within an orle Or, all within an orle of cinquefoils argent.

Mirabel atte Rose. Name and device. Argent, a pall flory sable between three roses proper, a chief gules.

The presence of a pall patonce dated to 1441 in Papworth (Harrold, p. 1019), lends support to this treatment of a pall.

Rhiannon ui Neill. Badge. Argent, in pale a decrescent and a dragon statant contourny regardant azure, breathing flames of fire gules a bordure sable semy of decrescents argent.

Robert Bedingfield of Lochmere. Name.

Thorsteinn Orn Sveinsson. Device. Per chevron inverted invected gules and azure, issuant from the line of division a demi-sun Or and in base an eagle displayed argent.

Please ask him to draw the line of the per chevron at a more acute angle.

Winifred Corbet de Wynterwood. Household name for Ravenstreet Players.

Listed in the LoI as a household name and badge, the badge had been returned in kingdom.

CAID

Aaron Direidus. Name and device. Sable, a cock hardy wings elevated and addorsed Or between three ladies heads couped proper.

Submitted as Aaron ir Direidus, we have modified the name to drop the article, which appears from all the evidence not to have been used in Welsh bynames in period.

Albyn Buckthorne. Name.

Caitlín Nic Mhaoláin of Gleanntaigh. Name and device. Argent, two birds migrant respectant fesswise azure holding in their beaks a heart gules, a bordure invected azure.

Submitted as Caitlín Nic Maoláin Na Glenntiegh, the name has been modified to aspirate the patronymic and to correct, as closely to the submitted form as we could, the locative.

Catriona Nic Chlurain. Device change. Azure, a saltire ermine between four needles bendwise argent.

As noted in the LoI and in the commentary, by Laurel precedent the Grandfather Clause allows registration of this change despite conflict under the current rules with Backhurst (Papworth, p. 1057), Azure, a saltire ermine, because the device she is changing from has the identical conflict. Her currently registered device, Azure, a saltire ermine between four needles palewise argent, becomes a badge.

Charles de Lyons. Device. Argent, a lion passant contourny between three crescents gules, a bordure azure.

Please ask him to draw the bordure wider.

Christian Blackwolfe. Name.

Criseyde Chantal of the Two Seas. Device. Per saltire gules and argent, four roses counterchanged slipped, leaved, barbed and seeded, slips to center proper, a bordure counterchanged.

Derek of Nordvald. Name and device. Per chevron inverted gules and sable, an eagle displayed within a bordure dovetailed Or.

Dietmar Reinhart von Straubing. Name change from Dietmar Reinhart von Straubing an der Donau.

Duncan Andrew Songhawke Tengri-in Jida. Name change from Duncan Andrew Songhawke Tengri-in Jahd.

Fiona Gilanders. Badge. Quarterly azure and argent, a tern volant wings addorsed counterchanged, a bordure sable.

Ghislaine d'Auxerre. Alternate persona name for Raisa Sofronievna Chernookova.

Submitted as Raisa Sofronievna Chernookov, we have feminized the surname.

Gwenhwyvar Ainsley. Name and device. Vert, semy of bells Or, a panther sejant guardant argent spotted of various tinctures incensed proper.

Submitted as Gwenhwyvar Ainsley a'Ghio, the second (Gaelic) locative surname was not constructed properly. Its proper name, placed in the genitive as a byname, would be Beinne a' Ghlo. However, an additional problem is the dearth of evidence that a Welsh forename, an English locative surname, and a Gaelic locative surname could have come together in the name of a single individual. Gaelic, in particular, seems to resist mixed language combinations. As a consequence, we have dropped the most unlikely element in order to register the name.

Haakon Bloodaxe. Name and device. Sable, a bear statant contourny, on a chief argent a sword reversed sable.

As noted by nearly every commenter, the entry in the LoI of "Boodaxe" was a typo.

Ifor ap Morgiana o'Gwynedd. Household name and badge for Household Crescent and Dragon. Per chevron embattled sable and argent, two crescents Or and a dragon passant gules.

Joan Atzur d'Andorra. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Submitted as Joan Azul d'Andorra, we have modified the second element to place it in Catalan, to match the rest of the name.

Linda del Lago. Name and device. Per bend argent and azure, a rose purpure barbed vert and a lion's head affronty erased Or.

Lupus of Arundel. Device. Per pale nebuly gules and vert, two wolves rampant, in chief a sword argent.

Marcella de Breze. Device. Purpure goutty d'Or, on a bend sinister Or a heart between two fleams all palewise purpure.

Melusine of Windhill Wood. Badge. Azure, on a plate between three hawk's bells one and two, bases outward Or, a pawprint sable.

Michael MacGarry of Antrim. Device. Argent, on a pale embattled counter-embattled purpure between two crescents gules a Latin cross flory argent, a chief gules ermined argent.

Molly Gill Brae. Name.

Nigel the Byzantine. Name.

Orlando de Castilla. Name and device. Azure, a cubit arm issuant from sinister base argent, sustaining atop its palm a beehive, in chief three bees, a bordure Or.

[Talk about "minding your bees and cubits...."! J]

Portia de Audley. Name change from holding name of Portia of Nordwache.

Rukhshana Yasmin. Name.

Submitted as Rukhshanna Yasmin, we have modified the spelling to match the documented form of the given.

Ryusen Kiyoshi. Name.

Shakira Zarina al Diyarbakiriyya. Name.

Submitted as Shakira Zarina al Diyarbakiri, we have feminized the byname.

CALONTIR

David Dethewright. Name.

Elena Erastova. Device. Gules, a pall inverted barry azure and argent between two crosses moline and a ship argent.

Friedrich Hildiber. Name.

Submitted as Friedrich Hildebär, we have modified the byname in accordance with period forms of this name per Palimpsest's suggestions.

Hugh du Puy. Name and device. Sable, a chevron embattled Or between two mullets of four points and a sun argent within a bordure Or.

Jason Rodbeard. Device. Argent, on a pale between two pegasi combattant azure three drinking horns fesswise argent.

Maria Juanita de Valencia. Device. Argent, a unicorn's head erased sable, armed Or, on a chief embattled gules a needle Or.

Marie du Puy. Name and device. Argent, a sea-horse azure within a bordure sable, semy of mullets of four points argent.

Simon of Ravenwood. Name.

EAST

AEthelmearc, Principality of. Name for Order of the Jewel of AEthelmearc.

All questions of conflict under revised RfS V.2.c aside, they have letters of permission to conflict with both The Order of the Dragon's Jewel and The Order of the Jewel of the Keep.

Aleksandr the Traveller. Name.

Alienora Russeal. Name and device. Argent, a pall wavy azure between three trees couped and blasted vert.

Andrew Redbeard. Name and device. Argent, three piles inverted in point and a chief azure.

Piles inverted in point do not seem to be particularly good period style, as they have their widest parts in the narrowest portion of the shield. As this was the only unusual element, however, we did not feel that it was in and of itself sufficient reason for return.

Angelica de Boullanger. Alternate persona name and badge of Nabila bint Najm. [Fieldless] An lidded ewer Or.

Annor of Gleninagh. Name and device. Per bend vert and argent, a sprig of three ivy leaves, stem nowed, counterchanged.

Anysia of Carpasia. Name.

Araki Yatarou Takeyoshi. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Ariane of Greylyn. Device. Azure, a pall inverted engrailed between three fleurs-de-lys heads to center argent.

Æthric Daladier. Name.

Submitted as AEthric Daladier, the forms show Æ.

Bianca da Bari. Name.

Branwen Nimblefingers. Name and device. Vert, a cross triply parted and fretted and in sinister chief a mullet Or.

Caitlin Guttormsdottir. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Caitlin ni Cheallaigh. Device. Per chevron vert and argent, two whelks and a sea-lion counterchanged.

Cett Donegal. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Christence Heiseler. Name and device. Azure, a demi-sun Or issuant from base, and on a chief double arched argent three hearts sable.

Submitted as Christence von Heiseler, the name on the forms did not have the intrusive "von". Although most of the submitter's documentation did not adequately support the given, Albion has documented it as a reasonable Danish variant in period.

Chrystal Connaghty. Device. Per bend sinister argent and purpure, a unicorn rampant counterchanged within a bordure sable.

Ciaran Islwyn. Name and device. Per saltire vert and Or, a Celtic cross argent within an orle counterchanged.

Ciaran Mac Branain. Name and device. Sable, a phoenix Or, in chief three mullets argent.

Cigfa wniadyddes. Name and device. Vert, a fess gules fimbriated argent between a male griffin couchant Or and an increscent argent, all within a bordure Or.

Submitted as Cigfa Gwniadyddes, used as a feminine byname, the second element should be lenited.

Conchobar mac Amhlaoibh. Name.

Cyngen ap Gwenwynwyn. Name change from Arthur Whitewing.

Douglas Cameron Fitzrery. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Eleanor atte Knolle. Device. Vert, a pall inverted raguly between two roses and a horse's head couped argent.

Elisheva bat Moshe. Name and device. Azure, a gryphon sejant, sinister talon raised, and on a chief Or a demi-sun between two compass stars purpure.

Elleyne de Combourg. Name.

Elric ap Madog. Badge. Gules, chapé, in pale a mountain couped and a hammer argent.

Elwisia Mouche de Voujeaucourt. Name.

Esmeralda la Andaluza. Name.

Submitted on the LoI as Esmeralda al-Andalus, the submitter's forms have d'al-Andalus. Neither form is at all likely: the first is the Arabic for Iberia itself, not someone from there; the second is an odd combination Spanish or French combined with the Arabic. As she permitted grammatical changes, we have modified the byname to the Spanish form for a woman from Andalucia.

Flavius Sagittarius. Name.

Francesca Giovanna della Rovere. Name and device. Azure, on a cross couped Or a mullet azure, a bordure Or.

Francis of Tadecastre. Name change from Francis of Ashwell.

Galinda of the Sea. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Geoffrey Fitzodo de Montrouge. Name and device. Vert, two natural leopards statant guardant respectant Or spotted sable and in base a crescent inverted argent.

Geoffroi Fairebankes. Device. Or, three pine trees eradicated within a bordure engrailed gules.

George Emerson True. Badge. [Fieldless] A beehive Or charged with a fleur-de-lys sable.

Gregory of Lyme Regis. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Gretchen von Gernebach. Name.

Gwenllian the Forgetful. Name and device. Argent, a cat sejant contourny sable and a bordure engrailed azure.

Gwyneth Fayrfax. Name and device. Counter-ermine, a saltire azure fimbriated, overall an owl argent.

Hans von Munderkingen. Name.

Iago Benitez. Device. Erminois, on a chief dove-tailed gules, three crosses bottony Or.

Ilian of Bergental. Name.

Jean Xavier Boullier. Name and device. Vert, a saltire between in fess two suns Or; overall a sword proper.

Karl Abstreiter von Bayern. Name.

Submitted as Karl Arbstreiter von Bayern, the above is the documented form.

Katerina de la Marne. Name.

Submitted on the LoI as Katherina de Marne, the "h" in the given appears to have been a typo; it does not appear on the submitter's forms. We have also modified the locative to the documented form.

Katheryn of Heronter. Name.

Kathleen Gillespie. Name.

Katya Stesnaya. Name.

Kieran MacCrimmin. Device. Per pale vert and argent, two scarpes counterchanged between a garb Or and a bunch of grapes purpure, slipped and leaved vert.

Knut Guttormsson. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Lasair an Fhraoich. Name and device. Sable, on a plate a moth sable and on a base argent two branches of heather in saltire proper.

Submitted as a Luna moth, the earliest citation for a Luna moth is well post-period, dated in 1869. As a consequence, we are registering this as a "moth" and leaving the specific type to artistic license.

Lazaro Bettencourt de Vega. Name and device. Per pale Or and azure, a cross moline between in bend two crescents, all counterchanged.

Leonce the Lombard. Name and device. Gules, on a pall between three breadloaves Or, a cross formy gules.

Leonce the Lombard. Badge. [Fieldless] On a maple leaf Or a cross formy sable.

Versus Giles O'Culzean (SCA), Sable, on an oak leaf Or a battle-axe sable. there are CDs for fieldless vs. fielded and for maple leaf vs. oak leaf. The two leaves are not so visually similar as to warrant granting no difference between them.

Leoric de Tanet. Device. Per fess argent and azure, a dragon segreant between three suns, each charged with a cluster of grapes, all counterchanged.

Louis Loisel. Name.

Mairead Regane. Name and device. Lozengy gules and Or, on a chevron azure a lion sejant Or.

The given would be better as Máirghréad, and even more improved as Márgrég, Máirgég, or Máirgréc, as being the more period forms.

Margaret of Enniscorthy. Name.

Marian O'Neill. Device. Per pale gules and azure, a fox's mask within an orle argent.

Meadhbh Ó Suileabhain. Name and device. Argent, a pall gules between three roses azure barbed and seeded proper.

Really nice armory!

Morgaine Royse ferch Nesta. Device. Vert, a sun and on a chief embattled Or three lozenges purpure.

Morgan ap Harry. Badge (see RETURNS for alternate persona name). Argent, a pair of calipers inverted sable.

Submitted as a badge for the alternate persona name of Eduardo Negro y Albo.

Morgan Trelawney. Name and device. Per bend sinister Or and azure, a tower and a garb counterchanged, a bordure sable.

Nadira of the Lonely Tower. Device. Vert, on a bend between four compass stars Or, three more vert.

Nicoletta di Padova. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Nils Rixon. Device. Argent, on a bend sinister between two boars' heads erased sable, three goblets palewise argent.

Ogga the Soothsayer. Device. Azure, a human eye argent irised azure, a bordure engrailed argent.

Olav Guttormsson. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Phiala O'Ceallaigh. Name.

Submitted as Phiala O'Cheallaigh, it was stated to be a feminine form of O'Ceallaigh, but the feminine form is Ní Cheallaigh. We have substituted the surname form.

Piers Blackmonster. Name and device. Per chevron argent and sable, two griffins sejant respectant and a church counterchanged.

Raymund of Tadecastre. Name and device. Argent, a harp sable and on a chief gules a sword argent.

Nice armory!

Rhodri Ewias. Name and device. Per bend vert and azure, a bend between a celtic cross and a lymphad, sail furled, argent.

Rhonwen Angharad. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Rodolphus Amadeus Gilberti. Name and device. Argent, a wooden flute bendwise proper garnished Or.

Séadach Dubháilceach. Name.

Submitted as Seadach Duailceach, the documented accents were on the submitter's forms. We have made a minor correction to the grammar of the byname.

Seumas ap Gwalchmai. Name and device. Vert, a wolf rampant maintaining a sword and a shield argent, and on a chief raguly Or, three crescents vert.

Though the LoI blazoned the wolf as a "grey wolf" and both the wolf and the sword as "proper", they are entirely argent on all of the emblazon forms.

Sigeræd filius Blaecwulf. Badge. [Fieldless] A heart Or scaly sable.

Solamh Siridhe. Name.

Submitted as Solamh Rannsachair, the submitter sought help for the byname, which she wanted based on the word sir, "to seek, ask, search". We have modified the byname per Palimpsest's suggestion, meaning "a seeker or asker".

Suzanne de l'Ouest. Name and device. Per fess azure and vert, a dance and in chief a salmon naiant argent.

Thomas of Endless Hills. Holding name and badge. Argent, a bend sinister between a falcon striking to sinister and a tower all within a bordure sable.

Submitted as Gregor of Falcon's Roost.

Thorold Hawke. Name and device. Or, in pale a raven displayed wings inverted sable and a drakkar dismasted proper within a bordure sable.

Timothy of Edgewood. Device. Vert, a sheaf of arrows inverted Or between flaunches ermine.

Pretty armory!

Valgard Northern. Name and device. Argent, a sea-lion naiant sable, tail reflexed to chief vert, maintaining a sword sable, a chief wavy azure.

Victor of Shrewsbury. Name.

Wilhelm von Stromberg. Name and device. Gules, two halberds in saltire argent, on a chief triangular Or, a retort vert.

MIDDLE

Amalie Warrenne. Name.

Aonghus Macadair. Name.

Caitlin O'Hart. Name.

Catriona Dillon. Name.

Claricia Nyetgale. Name and device. Or, a dragon rampant contourny purpure maintaining a harp proper, in chief a water bouget sable.

A "harp proper" is, like all other wooden charges, brown.

Conall Ó Foghladha. Name and device. Argent, on a bend sinister between a griffin segreant and a boar passant sable three torcs Or.

Submitted as Conall O'Foghladha on the LoI, the name as registered above is as on the forms and the submitter's documentation.

David mac Dougal mac Rori. Badge. [Fieldless] Two escallops fesswise conjoined at the hinges argent.

Dorottya of Visegrád. Name.

Submitted as Dorottya of Visegrad, we have substituted the documented form of the placename, as in Hungarian the accent does make a difference (and, indeed, appears on the submitter's forms).

Eirik Hroaldsson af Svanhillu. Name and device. Azure, a swan naiant argent, on a chief indented Or three mullets gules.

Submitted as Eirik Hroaldsson af Svanhill, we have placed the locative into the dative case.

Elayna Lilley. Badge. [Fieldless] An open book Or bound and charged with a fleur-de-lys gules.

Pretty armory!

Erik Callahan. Name and device. Ermine, a crossbow within a bordure wavy purpure.

Eyrn[yacute] Ormarsdóttir. Badge. Per pale gules and sable, a sheaf of rapiers inverted within an orle of lozenges argent.

Gavin Hewlett. Name and device. Ermine, on a bend sable three lions passant fesswise Or, a bordure gules.

Ivarr Tregr. Device. Azure, issuant from chief three tiler's nails and in base a snail contourny Or, all within a bordure Or semy crosses bourdonny gules.

Jocelyn Kimber. Name.

Katerine Warrenne. Name.

Katrine Avelina Fitzalan. Name.

This would have been better with the given as Katerin or Katerine, as Katrine is a German form unlikely to appear in an otherwise English name.

Little John of Camden. Name.

Madeleine Bynortheweye. Device. Per chevron inverted purpure and vert, three roses Or within a bordure wavy argent.

Owen de Clare. Name change from holding name of Owain of the Marche of the Unicorn.

Owen Fitz Raven. Device. Per pale argent and azure, a chevron counterchanged and in dexter chief an eagle's head azure.

Pavel Feodorovich Stelkov. Device. Sable, on a saltire between four mullets argent four arrows, points to center sable.

Peter Kynsey. Name.

Ragnar Valgardsson. Name.

Rhys ap Bledri. Device. Azure, a cross bottony argent, a chief argent crusilly plain azure.

As we generally grant a CD between crosses bottony and crosses couped, this does not fall afoul of the "sword/rapier" ruling.

Rowena Lochmore. Name.

Sunniva Etain Maclae. Name.

Sveinn Raudskeggr. Name and device. Gules, on a bear's hide argent a bear's pawprint purpure.

Taliesin Dunnwulf. Name and device. Quarterly Or and argent, a sun within a bordure azure.

Thorbjorn Osiss Brandsson. Name.

Submitted as Thorbjorn Osis Brandsson, we have modified the byname to a much likelier construction.

Valérie la Rousse. Device. Azure, a dance between three swans naiant within a bordure argent.

OUTLANDS

Dana Moirreach. Device. Vert, issuant from a castle argent a demi-griffin, in chief three mullets Or.

This was pended from the February 1994 Laurel meeting.

TRIMARIS

Aindrea MacLeod. Name and device. Azure, a skull argent, on a chief Or a pellet between a decrescent and an increscent sable.

"The three tertiaries are thematically unified, but the 'phases of the moon' are not really period style." (Alisoun MacCoul of Elphane, LoAR of 27 August 1989, p. 22)

Darkwater, Barony of. Augmentation of arms. Sable, within a laurel wreath two dolphins haurient respectant Or, on a chief wavy argent three trident heads gules, as an augmentation, on the chief a canton throughout in base azure charged with a triskele argent.

Gillian von dem Walde. Device. Plumetty gules and argent, three swans rousant, wings addorsed, sable each holding in its beak an annulet Or, a bordure sable.

Listed on the LoI as Guillian van dem Wald, the above is the registered form of the name.

Isabeau de Poitiers. Device. Purpure, in pale an owl displayed Or and a plate within a bordure wavy argent.

Katherine of Thornholde. Device. Argent, on a pale azure between two roses gules another Or, on a chief azure an arrow reversed Or.

Lisabetta Maria da Firenze. Device. Argent, a fleur-de-lys gules, on a chief wavy vert four quatrefoils saltirewise argent.

Lucia del Mar. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Meghan Oriana Lauder. Badge. [Fieldless] A tricorporate horse rampant, head dexter facing, gules.

WEST

Alan of Blackthorn Valley. Name.

Alleyn of Kent. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Benedict Lamberton. Name and device. Or, a wooden torch proper enflamed gules, a bordure sable.

Dafydd the Wanderer. Name.

Erik Longbow the Navigator. Name.

Euriol of Lothian. Badge. [Fieldless] A goutte bendy sinister vert and argent.

Euriol of Lothian. Device change. Vert, a bend sinister doubly cotised argent.

Her currently registered device, Per bend sinister azure and sable, a pegasus salient to sinister within a bordure engrailed argent, is released.

Lynnette Cantwell. Name.

Maren Kærling af Jørgensted. Name and device. Sable estencelé Or, a crane in its vigilance argent between three roses Or.

Osric the Odd. Name.

Phaedria d'Aurillac. Release of badge. Vert, on a pile bendwise argent a seahorse contourny vert.

Swan the Red of Stonehall. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

West, Kingdom of the. Badge for the Falconer's Guild. [Fieldless] A falcon's hood vert.

William Bullson. Name and device. Azure, on a bend sinister between two suns and a bull's head cabossed Or, a passion nail gules.

Wolfram von Eisenberg. Name and device. Argent, three wolves teeth issuant from sinister sable and a bordure per pale sable and gules.

THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN RETURNED FOR FURTHER WORK:

AN TIR

Branwyn of Cotswold. Device. Per fess invected vert and argent, two dolphins urinant addorsed argent and a columbine blossom purpure.

There is a noted problem with the identifiability of the flower as drawn. (One commenter thought it was a cloud-wreathed volcano.) Were the submitter to copy the one in the Pictorial Dictionary, with slip and leaf, and without some of the petals at a 907 angle to the others as in the current submission, these changes would probably be sufficient to make the flower adequately identifiable for registration.

Drew Blackstone. Device. Per pale argent and sable, two rooks rising respectant counterchanged.

Conflict with Ascelyn Fraser Summerhawk (SCA), Per pale argent and sable, two hawks striking respectant counterchanged, all within a bordure gules. There is only one CD for the bordure. The postures of the birds were very nearly identical, with minor changes to the head position being the only noticeable difference.

Eleanor la Maladroite. Device. Quarterly gules and azure, a fools cap and a fools cap inverted conjoined at the brims counterchanged Or and argent.

It was the clear consensus of the commenters and those attending the Laurel meeting that the two charges, conjoined and counterchanged, are not at all readily identifiable. Though this redrawing clears the earlier conflict, the identifiability problem is still sufficient grounds in and of itself for return. (See RfS VII.7.a.: "Elements must be recognizable solely from their appearance." and VIII.3.: "Armorial Identifiability - Elements must be used in a design so as to preserve their individual identifiability.")

James the Tormentor. Device. Per bend sinister embattled argent and azure, a ship counterchanged.

Conflict with Neville (Combined Ordinary II, p. 247, from Fox-Davies Book of Badges, p. 127), A ship. There is a CD for fielded vs. fieldless, but nothing else here. Additionally, most of the commenters found the outline of the ship to be too badly broken up by the counterchanging over the complex line of division to be readily identifiable, which itself is a separate grounds for return. (See RfS VII.7.a.: "Elements must be recognizable solely from their appearance." and VIII.3." "Armorial Identifiability - Elements must be used in a design so as to preserve their individual identifiability.")

Miyamoto Yoshi. Name and device. Sable, a swan migrant between in dexter chief four mullets of eight points and in sinister base one mullet of eight points all within a bordure invected argent.

Even in the submitter's own documentation Yoshi is not listed by itself as a nanori, but only as an element in a nanori. It cannot stand as a name by itself, but must be used in combination.

The device, as almost every commenter noted, is grossly unbalanced and not period style. See, e.g., RfS VIII. "All elements of a piece of armory must be arranged into a design that is compatible with period armorial style, as is required by General Principle 1B of these rules." and VIII.1.b. "Armorial Balance - Armory must arrange all elements coherently in a balanced design."

Mountain's Edge, Canton of. Name.

The justification given in the LoI for the form of the name doesn't work. Even taking "edge" to mean "boundary, frontier", it is clear from the construction that the name means "boundary/ frontier belonging to the mountain", not "mountain frontier". Palimpsest's research found that the Old English ecg ("edge") in place-names is "the sharp edge at the top of a hill, esp. an escarpment", and suggested from this the name Mountain Edge. Even better would be Edgemont. But since they did not allow any changes whatsoever to the name, we are having to return this.

Mredyth Vetrgaupa. Name.

Not only is the combination of an Anglicized Welsh masculine given name with a compound Icelandic byname highly improbable, but the problems with documenting the form of the byname. There are no compounds of the form vetr-<name of animal>, and the examples cited in the LoI are not support for this form. Nor does the byname have any likely signification on its face. In the absence of adequate documentation, we are forced to return this.

ANSTEORRA

David Mícheál Mac Laisre. Name and device. Sable, on a flame proper between three triskeles a hammer argent.

The name it consists of three given names: Mac Laisre is a given name, not a patronymic (and since it means 'son of flame', it can't well be re-interpreted as a patronymic). No evidence has been found for the use of two given names in Irish, let alone three with no surname. That, combined with the fact that Mícheál is a modern spelling of older Míchél, while Dauíd (rather than David) is an older spelling of modern Daibhead, is sufficient cause for return. While the submitted allowed minor changes, changes sufficient to correct the problems here were not felt to be minor. You might recommend to him the changes suggested by Palimpsest.

As drawn, this conflicts with Reginleif the Unruly (SCA), Sable on a flame gules fimbriated Or, a rough-legged draft horse forcene argent. There is one CD for the addition of the triskeles, but nothing for the change to type only of the tertiary.

Maire Pacok O'Nolan. Device. Argent, a peacock in its pride vert.

Conflicts with Mahala de Sorbonne (SCA), Argent, a peacock in its pride proper, a bordure invected purpure; Munt (Papworth, p. 329), Argent, three peacocks in pride proper; and Tannis of Tir-y-don (SCA), Argent, a peacock passant regardant bendwise proper. As noted by Laurel in the LOAR of October 1992, p. 29, "peacocks have green bodies". As a consequence, there is only one CD against Mahal for the removal of the bordure; one CD against Munt for change in number; and a CD against Tannis for posture.

Robert Fergus. Name.

Conflict with Robert Ferguson, a 17th Century British conspirator and pamphleteer, and with Robert Ferguson, an 18th Century Scottish poet; each of them have their own entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica. Per the recently revised RfS V.1.a.ii.a., the bynames are insufficiently different in sound. ("Two bynames of relationship are significantly different if the natures of the relationships or the objects of the relationships are significantly different. ...Richards is equivalent to Richard and to Richardson; in each case the sound is insufficiently different."

Turris Aquilae, Shire of. Device. Or, on a hurt an eagle displayed Or and on a bordure azure a laurel wreath Or.

The laurel wreath is not, and indeed on a bordure cannot be, a wreath, which when properly drawn is nearly a closed circle. Rather, here it is "two sprigs of laurel, stems crossed in base".

ATLANTIA

None.

CAID

Alastar the Arcane. Name and device. Sable, two skulls and a mandrake, a bordure argent.

It is very unlikely that a rare, scholarly word (meaning "hidden") borrowed from Latin in very late period would have been used as a byname in our period of study. And while the name does not in any way conflict with that of Aleister Crowley, the early twentieth-century writer on "Magick", the combination of given name, byname, and device certainly reminded more than half the commenters of him. Given the volume of that reaction, I believe that RfS I.3. (Inappropriate Claims) applies here. ("A name and piece of armory may reinforce each other and appear to make a claim that is not perceived in either item by itself. If someone reasonably educated in period and modern history and culture would perceive a claim, that claim will be held to exist even if it is unintentional.")

Catriona Stewart of the Glens. Device. Azure, a cross patonce between four roses, a bordure argent.

Conflict with John mackay Bernard (Combo I, p. 283, from Lyon I), Azure, a cross flory between four bear's heads couped argent muzzled gules within a bordure argent. There is only one CD for the change to the type of secondary charges.

Dun Or, Barony of. Badge. Sable, an open book Or.

Conflict with Dean and Chapter of Raphoe, A book, as the entry in Papworth makes it clear that this is a seal, which is tinctureless. Thus, there is only one CD for fieldlessness.

Dun Or, Barony of. Badge. Sable, a tower per pale Or and azure, a bordure argent.

Unfortunately, even on the large emblazon, the tower was not recognizable as such because of the lack of contrast between its azure half and the field. Even though the charge is technically neutral, and could therefore be displayed on any tincture field, identifiability must be maintained. Here, it is not. See RfS VII.7.a. ("Elements must be recognizable solely from their appearance.") and VIII.3. ("Armorial Identifiability - Elements must be used in a design so as to preserve their individual identifiability.")

Eirik the Wandering. Name and device. Per pale sable and argent, five roundels in saltire counterchanged, a chief gyronny argent and sable.

No one was able to document an authentic English byname formed from the present participle of a word. Could we interest the submitter in a documentably period form such as Wydefare 1279 (Jönsjö, 190)?

We would expect that in a chief gyronny that the gyrons would issue from the corners of the chief as opposed to the unusual drawing style used here. There was also some question as to whether the combination of divided field with counterchanging five charges in saltire and a gyronny chief all in the same two tinctures could be considered excessive. See, e.g., RfS VIII.3. ("Armorial Identifiability - Elements must be used in a design so as to preserve their individual identifiability. Identifiable elements may be rendered unidentifiable by ... excessive counterchanging....")

Joan Atzur d'Andorra. Device. Sable, on a sun between three caltrops Or a caltrop sable.

Conflict with Kourost Bernard of the East Woods (SCA), Sable, a sun eclipsed Or. There is one CD for the addition of the caltrops, but nothing per X.4.j.ii. for the change to type only of the tertiary.

Philippe de Tournay. Device. Sable, a chevron gules fimbriated between three pairs of calipers Or, in base a reremouse argent.

Conflict with Bawdrick (Papworth, p. 481), Sable, on a chevron argent, another gules. There is a CD for the addition of the secondary charges but nothing for the change of the tincture of what is essentially fimbriation.

Rhiannon Alricesdohtor. Device. Barry wavy argent and azure, an escallop inverted counterchanged, on a chief azure two mullets of four points Or.

This is an excessive use of counterchanging. Period style would have the field or the primary as barry, not both. RfS VIII.3.: "Armorial Identifiability - Elements must be used in a design so as to preserve their individual identifiability. Identifiable elements may be rendered unidentifiable by ... excessive counterchanging.... For instance, ... [a] complex divided field could obscure the identity of charges counterchanged." Such appears to be the case here.

Sionan de Prendergast na tSeanachaidhe. Name.

The submitter's arguments are not on point. She appears to be confused as to the difference between an and na. It is not a simple difference of gender. In modern Irish na is used in the feminine genitive singular and in all cases and both genders of the plural; everywhere else the form an is used. In particular, an is used in the nominative singular of both genders. Since the byname is in apposition, must therefore be in the nominative case, so the article is an irrespective of the gender of seanchaidhe (or the person named). Moreover, the examples have nothing to do with the construction used in her name, as in each case the article is in the genitive.

As noted by the submitter, Irish has indeed undergone great changes. But the language still has a real grammatical structure; it isn't chaotic. Joyce's statement to the effect that Irish 'degenerated' after the Anglo-Norman invasion is more a matter of taste than historical fact; it would be safer to say simply that it changed. The loss of 'pure grammatical forms' to which he refers need be nothing more than the difference between Middle Irish and Early Modern Irish. Certainly there is no reason to suppose that he is describing a complete breakdown of the underlying grammatical system. The Norman invasion caused a breakdown only in the strongly and artificially conservative tradition of written Irish. Written Old Irish was a monopoly of the monasteries who, for reasons of their own, used a "classical" form of the language, much as medieval scholars continued to write in classical Latin as the spoken language took off on its own path. The profusion of dialectal variants that show up in written Irish after a clump of disasters including , but not limited to , the Norman invasion interrupted the monastic written tradition merely reflect the profusion of spoken dialects that had existed all along rather than a sudden breakdown of the language. (Laurel's thanks to both Palimpsest and Harpy for the extensive research on these issues.)

Wulfhere Slaende Falk. Badge. [Fieldless] A falcon striking to sinister argent.

Conflict with Johann Klaus Drager (SCA), Per pale sable and vert, an eagle rising to sinister, wings elevated and addorsed, argent. There is only one CD for fieldlessness.

CALONTIR

Maire O'Shannon. Device. Barry wavy vert and argent, a sea-unicorn contourny azure.

The field needs to be drawn more clearly and boldly wavy; even the large emblazon was more like irregularly "ripply". At the same time, it might be well to show the submitter what the standard sea-monster "erect" posture looks like.

EAST

Alex of Kintail. Device. Per pale sable and Or, a cross formy throughout gules and overall a double-headed eagle-winged wyvern double-queued displayed per pale Or and sable.

The cross is somewhere between a plain Latin cross throughout and a Latin cross formy throughout. As such, it is ambiguous, and needs to be redrawn as one or the other. The overall charge also has problems of ambiguity. The use of eagle's wings make it nearly impossible to distinguish from a double-headed eagle, except the double-queued tail is clearly not a bird's. As this kind of ambiguity is precisely the kind of thing that heraldry seeks to avoid, it should be drawn more clearly as either an eagle or a wyvern.

Allyn Min-Teanga. Name.

The byname needs a couple of minor changes to correct the grammar. The hyphen appears to be only a lexicographical device to indicate the construction and is therefore not part of the name, and the second element needs to be aspirated, resulting in mintheanga. However, as the submitter allowed no corrections whatsoever to the name, we are having to return it.

Araki Yatarou Takeyoshi. Device. Gules, a triangle inverted between three triangles one and two, all between three broadarrows inverted argent.

The arrangement of the triangles does not appear to be a period arrangement, but a modern artistic style. The device overall is neither good Japanese style nor good European style.

Caitlin Guttormsdottir. Device. Per pale argent and purpure, in pale a Viking tent arch and a unicorn statant counterchanged.

The College has not previously registered a "Viking tent arch" as a charge. As a consequence, this registration (and/or one of the others in this LoI) would be the "defining instance", and we need some documentation for it: either that it appeared in period armory in this form or that it is a period artifact and that this is its standard or typical form.

Cett Donegal. Device. Sable, on a chevron between three horses rampant argent, three oak leaves vert.

Conflict with Davies (Papworth, p. 485), Sable, on a chevron argent, three trefoils slipped vert. There is a CD for the addition of the secondaries, but the consensus among the commenters was that there was not the substantial difference required by X.4.j.ii. to grant the necessary second for the change to type of the tertiaries.

Ciaran Islwyn. Badge. [Fieldless] A tree issuant from a mount couped per pale vert and Or, the sinister half blasted.

The blazon on the LoI accidentally left out the tincture of the dexter half. However, the style of the badge, combining as it does what are essentially two variants of a single charge, is not good style and is sufficient grounds for return (rather than pending it for research under the corrected blazon). "The difference between the types of bladed weapon [sword and poignard] [is] a distinction rather than a difference and a distinction that would not have been made normally in period heraldry." (Alisoun MacCoul of Elphane, LoAR 23 April 1988, p. 13)

Delftwood, Barony of. Badge. Argent, a windmill, sails in cross, within a bordure embattled azure.

The sails of the windmill are effectively invisible here, even on the large emblazon. As a consequence, not only is the primary charge unidentifiable (itself grounds for return), but there are several conflicts, including Durner (Manesse 101, cited in Combo I, p. 658), Argent, a bell tower azure, roofed gules containing a bell argent; de la Tour (Papworth, p. 364), Argent, a tower with a steeple azure port gules; and Felice of Mayhem House (SCA), Argent, a broken tower azure, the upper half bendwise illuminated Or. In each case there is only the fieldless CD.

Donnchadh Dubhghlas. Device. Or, three wolves passant regardant conjoined by the tail in pall within an annulet gules.

There were no period exemplars of either beasts conjoined at the tails or for this type of rotational symmetry to which any of the commenters could point. All of the tricorporate beasts we could find had a single head; conjoining at the tails does not appear to be period style.

Douglas Cameron Fitzrery. Device. Per chevron vert and azure, two fleurs-de-lys and a standing balance, on a bordure Or, three thorn vines entwined in orle vert.

As noted by one commenter, "The stuff on the bordure is unacceptably thin-lined and looks like knotwork." We have had a long-standing ban on the registration of knotwork. "The orle is in essence a form of Celtic knotwork, which has been ruled illicit for Society use ('Knotwork is not, by and large, heraldic.' Karina of the Far West, July, 1979)." (Alisoun MacCoul of Elphane, LoAR 28 December 1986, p. 15)

Eibhlin Niccluir. Name.

The "patronymic" is unattested in the documentation. The only variant discussed in the documentation (dated to 1637) is Makcluir. Further, as an anglicized variant it is unlikely to have been combined with a Gaelic borrowing of the Norman Avelina and Emeline. The combination of two unlikely components is sufficient to cause return for rework and/or better documentation.

Galinda of the Sea. Device. Purpure, a Maltese cross argent surmounted by a Star of David Or, and in chief a dove volant to sinister argent.

The star overlying the cross in this manner is visually confusing and obscures the identity of both charges. See RfS VIII.3.: "Armorial Identifiability - Elements must be used in a design so as to preserve their individual identifiability. Identifiable elements may be rendered unidentifiable by ... being obscured by other elements of the design."

Gavin Mac Ciaran. Name and device. Per pale vert and argent, two Oriental dragons combattant counterchanged within a bordure sable.

The patronymic would be formed as Mac Ciaráin, not Mac Ciaran. As the submitter allowed no changes, we were unable to correct it.

The dragons are not "combattant"; indeed, no one was able to come up with a good blazon for their posture here ("combattant demi-tergiant"? "combattant displayed aversant"?). As a consequence, we are unable to register them.

Gregor of Falcon's Roost. Name.

The locative is entirely unlikely. As Harpy noted in her commentary, "The English language has , and had during period , a perfectly good technical term for the place where falcons 'roost'. It's called a 'mews'. I find it no more likely that a person in period would have felt the need to coin the term 'falcon's roost' than he would have felt the need to coin 'horse shed' to describe a stable."

The armory was registered under the holding name Thomas of Endless Hills.

Gregory of Lyme Regis. Device. Sable, a sun and on a chief Or, in pale a sword reversed and a sword sable.

Conflict with Otto the Obscure (SCA), Sable, a mullet of four greater and four lesser points, on a chief Or a spear fesswise sable. There is a CD for the changes to type and number of tertiary charges, but per the precedent set in the LoAR of April 1993, p. 12, nothing for the change between a sun and a compass star (citing an earlier precedent granting no difference between a sun and a mullet of many points).

Guttorm Arnessen. Device. Per pale argent and gules, in pale a Viking tent arch and an annulet counterchanged.

The College has not previously registered a "Viking tent arch" as a charge. As a consequence, this registration (and/or one of the others in this LoI) would be the "defining instance", and we need some documentation for it: either that it appeared in period armory in this form or that it is a period artifact and that this is its standard or typical form.

Blazoned in the LoI as a "targe", the large emblazon had the center "circle" tinctured as the field, leaving the visual effect of an annulet counterchanged on the per pale field. We were unsure what to make of the two interlaced lines on the annulet: on the one hand, they could simply be considered as diapering; on the other hand, they were drawn in black. In either case, they seem to be unblazonable.

John Quest. Name.

Conflicts with Jonny Quest. (Yes, I know he's a cartoon character. He is also, based on the commentary and reactions among those attending the Laurel meeting, apparently sufficiently well-known to meet Baron Bruce's guidelines for conflict with cartoon characters. See Cover Letter of 5 December 1992, p. 2). The discussion in the LoI regarding the different derivations of John and Jonny are not really to the point. A significant percentage of people hearing the name John Quest will immediately think of the cartoon character (even the "non-herald" attending the Laurel meeting cited the cartoon character immediately upon hearing the name, with no other background or hints).

Knut Guttormsson. Device. Per pale argent and azure, in pale a Viking tent arch and a boreas counterchanged.

The College has not previously registered a "Viking tent arch" as a charge. As a consequence, this registration (and/or one of the others in this LoI) would be the "defining instance", and we need some documentation for it: either that it appeared in period armory in this form or that it is a period artifact and that this is its standard or typical form.

Miriam Meggett. Device. Azure, a pile inverted ployé argent ermined azure between two cups Or.

Conflict with Ovingham (Papworth, p. 676), Per chevron sable and ermine, in chief two cups covered Or. There is only one CD for the changes to the field, as we have traditionally not granted difference between per chevron chapé and a pile inverted.

Morgan ap Harry. Alternate persona name for Eduardo Negro y Albo.

We need some documentation for the form of the byname; none of the commenters cited any examples of "[surname] y [surname]" to period. It is especially needed here, where the byname literally means "black and white".

Nicoletta di Padova. Device. Gules, a swan naiant and on a chief argent three roses gules.

Conflict (as cited in the LoI) with Parlan MacGillivray (SCA), Gules, a swan naiant, wings elevated, and on a chief argent three trefoil knots gules. There is a CD for the change to the type of tertiary in this simple armory, but the change in wing position is insufficient for the necessary second.

Olav Guttormsson. Device. Per pale argent and sable, two dragon's rails conjoined in annulo and in chief a viking tent arch, all counterchanged.

The College has not previously registered a "Viking tent arch" as a charge. As a consequence, this registration (and/or one of the others in this LoI) would be the "defining instance", and we need some documentation for it: either that it appeared in period armory in this form or that it is a period artifact and that this is its standard or typical form.

A number of commenters also had difficulty identifying the charge in base. Most thought it some kind of torque. And as Green Crown noted: "This rendering of a dragon's tail was declared unregisterable in the August 1992 LOAR (p.27); conjoining two of them only makes things worse."

Ori Vidfari. Name and device. Per fess embattled sable and azure, on a demi-plate issuant from the line of division a double-bitted axe gules, and in base seven mullets of four points in annulo Or.

The name was only documented as the name of a dwarf, a mythological creature, and none of the commenters could document it as a name used by humans, in or out of period.

The device is right at the edge of the complexity limits of VIII.1.a. That, combined with its very modern "feel". (See, e.g., RfS VIII.1.b.: "Armorial Balance - Armory must arrange all elements coherently in a balanced design.")

Rhonwen Angharad. Device. Vert, a heron-headed torque argent.

Conflict with Gyra (Riestap), Vert, an annulet argent. As in earlier returns of other armory in 1991 and 1992, there is only one CD between a torque and an annulet. Additionally, some commenters question whether any artifacts with this type of head have ever been found.

Rosalind Ashworthe. Device. Ermine, a rose proper between three gouttes de larmes, a bordure gules.

The use of gouttes intermingled with ermine spots of about the same size is visually confusing, as, as one commenter noted, the "gouttes get lost among the ermine spots". As they are necessary to clear a conflict with Beverly (Papworth, p. 859), Ermine, a rose gules, they must be visually prominent, and they are not here.

Saint Swithin's Bog, Shire of. Badge. Gules mailed Or, on a bezant a raven displayed wings inverted head to sinister sable.

Conflict with Gwynaeth Math o Ddylluan (SCA), Sable, a bezant charged with a raven on a branch bendwise all sable. There is a CD for the field, but the changes to tertiary charges are insufficient for the necessary second.

MIDDLE

Daibhidh Ruadh MacLachlan. Badge. [Fieldless] A lymphad gules sail set argent.

Conflict with Noble (Papworth, p. 1089), Or a galley, sails furled and oars in action, gules, flags azure; Neville (Combo II, from Fox-Davies p. 127), A ship; Both (Woodward, p. 370), Argent, a boat gules, and Wolfo (Papworth, p. 1089), Or, a boat gules. In each case, there is one CD for fieldlessness, but nothing for changing the tincture of the sail.

David mac Dougal mac Rori. Badge. [Fieldless] A melusine with tails to base vert.

Conflicts with Colin of Duntamknackam (SCA), [Fieldless] A merman bow in dexter and arrow in sinister tail raised to sinister. There is only one CD for fieldlessness.

Rising Waters, Barony of. Badge. [Fieldless] A fire arrow Or enflamed proper.

Numerous conflicts (from Papworth, Hawley's Mon, and Combo II (from Fabulous)) with [Field], an arrow Or. In each case there is only one CD for fieldlessness.

TRIMARIS

Damián Daskal De Valerio. Name.

No evidence was presented that Daskal is a period form; a book on American family names is not good documentation for our purposes, as many foreign names have undergone odd transformations in this country. Daskal appears to be a simplification, American and/or modern, of didáskalos 'a teacher, master'. The documentation for the surname is for the surname Valera (with "a" instead of "io"; Valerio is an Italian given name, not a locative, and its use with "de" here is inappropriate. We need better documentation for both these parts of the name.

Fiska-Silvester Lotharssohn. Device. Per fess argent and sable, a domestic cat passant contourny sable and a codfish naiant contourny counterchanged.

The cat is not really "passant" (one of the suggestions in the commentary was "mouse-ant"), and the fish has so much black in its outline and detailing that on the large emblazon it was necessarily fimbriated to show its outline. For both problems, we are having to return this for redrawing of both charges.

Lucia del Mar. Device. Azure, a goat's head couped, a chief wavy argent.

Conflict with Geoffrey of Northaven (SCA), Azure, a kid's head erased and on a chief nebuly argent three English robins volant proper. There is only one CD for removal of the tertiaries.

Lucia del Mar. Badge. Azure, a goat's head couped within a bordure argent.

Conflict with Carlos Richey (SCA), Azure, two rams heads in bend sinister erased and respectant within a bordure argent. There is only one CD for the change in number of primary charges.

Meghan Oriana Lauder. Badge. [Fieldless] Four hearts voided interlaced in cross, points outward, Or.

As several of the commenters noted, the hearts lose their identifiability when arranged and interlaced this way. Additionally, there is a visual conflict with Eilis ni Roibeard O'Boirne (SCA), [Fieldless] A quatrefoil knot. There is a CD for fieldlessness, but the differences between the two "knots" is too small to grant the necessary second.

Nicole-Julienne Laviolette. Device. Per chevron azure and vert scaly Or, three fleurs-de-lys in chevron, each within a mascle Or.

"The use of multiple gold fleurs-de-lys on blue is not permitted in SCA armory: it is too strongly suggestive of a claim of connection to French royalty. ... The prohibition is supported by period practice. ... The period examples are so numerous that I feel I must uphold the Society's ban on gold fleurs-de-lys on blue backgrounds." (Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme, LoAR July 1992, p. 23) That the fleurs here are within mascles does not lessen the suggestion of that claim.

WEST

Alleyn of Kent. Device. Gules, a chevron embattled potent between two reremice displayed and a tyger rampant Or.

The embattled line of division of the chevron is so badly broken up by the fur that while one can tell readily that "something" is going on there, it takes a little time to determine just exactly what. The complex line of division is simply not "readily identifiable", and ready identification is one of the hallmarks of period style heraldry. See RfS VII.7.a. ("Elements must be recognizable solely from their appearance.") and VIII.3. ("Armorial Identifiability - Elements must be used in a design so as to preserve their individual identifiability.")

Several commenters asked what the tinctures were of the chevron: they are blue and white, just as would be a chevron vair. Potent is a vair variant, and has the same default tinctures. (Had the blazon been "a chevron embattled potenty", now....)

Krista al Kamil. Name.

None of the commenters were able to find better documentation for the given. As the submitter's own source, Family Names in Australia and New Zealand, is clearly post-period and had no dated citations for the name, the name must be assumed without better evidence to be post-period. The example of combined Arabic/Spanish names is not sufficient support for combined Swiss/Arabic names. (The submitter seemed to be confusing the Swedes and the Swiss in her documentation. Caches of Arab silver coins have been found in Scandinavia, not Switzerland. And the presence of Arabic silver coins in Sweden is only evidence that the trade routes extended that far, not that the people at the two ends of those trade routes had any direct dealings with each other.)

Swan the Red of Stonehall. Device. Argent, a swan naiant contourny gules.

Conflict with Jocea Anne Gallowglass (SCA), [Fieldless] A swan naiant contourny gules. There is only one CD for fielded vs. fieldless.

THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN PENDED UNTIL THE AUGUST 1994 LAUREL MEETING:

ANSTEORRA

Angus Patrick de Ruthven. Device. Argent, on a pale between two fleurs-de-lis gules an axe reversed argent.

The LoI accidentally dropped the tincture of the pale and fleurs.

MIDDLE

Daibhidh Ruadh MacLachlan. Badge. Gules, a lymphad sail set argent within a bordure embattled Or.

The tincture of the bordure was accidentally left out of the blazon in the LoI.