THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN REGISTERED:

AN TIR

Anne-Marie l'Amasseresse. Name and device. Azure, three ducks passant in fess between two bars wavy argent.

Palimpsest noted some support for late period French double-given hyphenated names.

Brigid Talon. Device. Vert, a bull's head cabossed between three flames argent.

Giacinta da Venezia. Name and device. Per saltire vert and ermine, on a lozenge Or a rose barbed and seeded proper.

Submitted as Giacinta di Venezia, the particle was incorrect for locatives. We have therefore modified the particle to the proper locative form.

Gunnarr Brunwulf. Badge. [Fieldless] On a chalice per pale Or and purpure a wolf's head erased purpure and a unicorn's head erased argent respectant.

Listed on the LoI as being for Ducal Household Brunwulf, the household name was returned in the June 1994 LoAR. We are therefore registering it as a badge for the submitter, which he may use as he chooses.

Isabella de' Medici. Name.

Sera of Glymm Mere. Holding name and device. Vert, a natural tiger rampant contourny argent marked sable winged argent, within a bordure gyronny Or and sable.

Submitted as Sinéidin Ban Thorin.

Windwic, Shire of. Name.

ATLANTIA

Anna Ridley. Name.

Bran Mac Conraoi. Name.

Canice Scrupe. Name.

Submitted as Coinneach Scrupe, we have been unable to find fully Gaelic given names combined with English surnames. As the submitter allowed minor changes, we have substituted the usual Englishing of the given.

Ciar O Byrne. Name.

Conall Mac an Druaidh. Name.

Submitted as Conal Mac an Druaidh, we have substituted the documented form of the given.

Edwarde de la Mountayne. Device. Per chevron azure and argent on a pale counterchanged between in chief two suns a third in base Or.

Jael Grabow. Name and device. Per fess wavy Or and azure, in chief three pheons gules and in base an escallop Or, a bordure vert.

Joscelin Charles. Name and device. Per pale argent and Or, on a chevron between three cinquefoils vert an estoile Or.

Lasair Burke. Name.

Lyneth verch Llwyd. Name.

Mikhail Kazimirovich Pomeshanov. Name.

Raimund Lateiner. Name.

Rhiannon ui Neill. Badge. [Fieldless] A decrescent azure.

Robert of Sacred Stone. Name.

Rowena Jade of the Lion Isles. Name and device. Vert, a sealion and on a chief argent three stepcut gemstones vert.

Sacred Stone, Barony of the. Name for Order of the Phoenix's Heart.

Though the use of the apostrophe to indicate a possessive is post-period, the use is grandfathered to the Barony, which has several other phoenix's parts registered.

Susanna Grey. Name.

Tàmhas Craib. Name.

Wesley Byron Cauldwell. Name.

The first name was only a surname in period, but is registered to the submitter under the Legal Name Allowance. The use of two locative surnames is unusual and not typical.

Wulf McLachlan. Device. Azure, a seawolf on a chief argent three wolf pawprints sable.

Ysabel Farquhar. Name.

CAID

Alais Nic Thighearnáin. Name and device. Or, a sprig of rosemary vert, a demi-sun issuant from base purpure, a bordure vert.

Submitted as Alais Mac Thighearnàin, no examples have yet been found of a woman using a masculine patronymic when the name is written in Irish. We have therefore substituted the feminine patronymic form.

Albyn Buckthorne. Device. Or, a pale gules surmounted by two goats combattant, a bordure embattled sable.

Please ask the submitter to draw the bordure thicker.

Alexandria of The Isles. Name.

Anna of Eichenwald. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Antonello Giovacchini lo Voiello. Name.

Submitted as Antonello Giovacchini Voiello on the LoI, the article was dropped by the kingdom. Palimpsest has found sufficient support for restoring it.

Béibhinn nic Earnáin. Name.

Brighid Nic Thighearnáin. Name and device. Quarterly purpure and vert, a sea-serpent ondoyant contourny between three crescents argent.

Submitted as Brighid Mac Thighearnàin, no examples have yet been found of a woman using a masculine patronymic when the name is written in Irish. We have therefore substituted the feminine patronymic form.

Cecily Nicole Keighley. Name.

Christian Blackwolf. Device. Per bend sinister azure and argent, a Celtic cross argent and a wolf salient sable.

Christopher of Canterbury. Name and device. Per bend sinister argent and gules, two Bowen crosses counterchanged.

Clare Michaels. Device. Or, on a pile between two crosses of five lozenges vert a sun in his splendor Or.

Deidre an Dùin Éideann. Device. Per chevron rayonny sable and Or, three crescents counterchanged.

Diego Alfonso de Navarra. Device. Per pale gules and Or, a chain fesswise between three roses couped counterchanged.

Domhnall Cú Chaille. Name.

Eibhilín Nic Thighearnáin. Name and device. Argent, two sea-horses erect respectant, in chief an ivy leaf vert, a base wavy.

Submitted as Eighilin Mac Thighearnàin, no examples have yet been found of a woman using a masculine patronymic when the name is written in Irish. We have therefore substituted the feminine patronymic form.

Eirikr Sigurdharson. Badge (held conjointly with Astridr Seir Leifsdottir). [Fieldless] A demi-eagle displayed gules issuant from an estoile Or.

Elizabeth Annora Dernelof. Name.

Elmer Slade. Name.

Finella Harper. Name and device. Quarterly argent and sable, on a bend azure between two harps Or three jester's hoods argent.

Fritz der Gefolgsmann. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Gautier d'Isigny-sur-Mer. Device. Ermine, a jester's cap gules.

Versus Barony of Bjornsborg (SCA), A jester's hood gules, doubled and belled Or (as reblazoned in the Errata Letter accompanying this LoAR), there are CDs for the field vs. fieldless and for the difference between a jester's cap and a jester's hood; the latter has the fabric which would normally extend down over the shoulders and well onto the chest, with large dags, and a hole in the front for the face to show through. It was the consensus of those at the Laurel meeting that the difference was visually equivalent to the difference between a lion and a demi-lion, for which we also grant a CD.

Ghislaine d'Auxerre. Badge (held conjointly with James of Amberwood). Per chevron azure and vert, two compass stars argent and a bear statant contourny Or.

Ghislaine d'Auxerre. Badge. [Fieldless] A pantheon rampant azure semy of compass stars argent collared and chained Or.

Heinrich of The Isles. Name.

Ianthe Delfini del Mare. Name.

Irena Johanna Eisenschimmel. Name.

Ishmael of the Wells. Device. Azure, a palm tree couped argent between two arrows argent flighted Or.

Isobel Arivière de Saint-Etienne. Name.

Issabell Annabella Aliot. Name and device. Barry Wavy Or and azure, a natural sea-turtle vert and a bordure azure.

Jane de Hawkhurst. Name.

Katherine of Greymist. Device. Azure, a unicorn's head couped contourny, on a chief argent an escallop between two escallops inverted azure.

Leandra Fleur. Name.

Lisa of Dun Or. Holding name and device. Per bend sinister azure and vert, a hummingbird rising, wings elevated and addorsed, argent and a Celtic cross Or.

Submitted as Elspeth nic Léighinn, the name was returned in the April 1994 LoAR.

Manus Branduff of Ardmore. Name.

Ristil ingen Cathail. Name.

Submitted as Ristil MacCathail, no examples have yet been found of a woman using a masculine patronymic when the name is written in Irish. We have therefore substituted the feminine patronymic form.

Robert of Waterford. Device. Per chevron gules and argent, a chevron sable between three broad arrows counterchanged.

Robert Ruadh of The Isles. Name and device. Per fess vert and Or, a sun in his splendor Or and a harp gules.

Rufus MacDaniel. Name.

Seán Tioránach mac Conmara. Name.

Thorulf Stigandi. Name.

Thorvald Olafson the Swordmaker. Device. Per chevron sable and gules, between a chevron and a chevron inverted interlaced a roundel Or.

Tristram Faustus Chantereau. Device. Per pale sable and gules, a ram's head cabossed argent armed Or, a bordure embattled argent.

Please ask him to draw the bordure thicker.

Ulfhethinn the Bold. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Western Seas, Barony of. Name for Order of the Sable Clarion of the Western Seas.

William Tinker. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

CALONTIR

Barbary Elspeth Ham. Badge. [Fieldless] On a pavilion Or a griffin statant sable.

Caitilin nic Rorik. Name and device. Per chevron inverted Or and argent, a chevron inverted gules between a rose proper and a wolf couchant contourny sable.

Edward Blythe of Nottinghamshire. Name and device. Per bend sinister gules and sable, a fool's cap and a Latin cross argent.

Gaufrid mac Domhnaill. Device. Argent, two chevronels azure, in chief two boar's heads cabossed, on a chief sable a boar's head cabossed argent.

Ida Lundy. Device. Or, a rat salient holding a hand bell azure.

Jantije Goudenpaard. Name and device. Per bend vert and purpure, two horses' heads couped Or, crined argent.

Julian Percy. Name and device. Sable, a horse rampant contourny within a bordure embattled argent.

Versus Lynne the Farrover (SCA), Sable, a pegasus salient affronty, wings displayed, within a bordure embattled argent, there are CDs for deleting the (very prominent) wings and for change of posture.

Lorenzo di Monte San Savino. Device. Per chevron gules and vert, a chevron embattled to base between two dragons passant respectant and a tree argent.

Maeve Kelly de Navarre. Device. Purpure, two peacocks pavonated to base addorsed, tails crossed in saltire, on a chief urdy argent three fleurs-de-lys vert.

Mikail Azadan Askoldovich. Name.

Muriel the Red. Device. Argent, a fox rampant gules maintaining a quill pen and on a base embattled purpure a demi-sun issuant from base Or.

Niall Mac a'Ghabhainn. Device. Erminois, a wyvern erect contourny holding a dagger and a goblet, a bordure gules.

Roselyn of Aberdeen. Name and device. Quarterly azure and vert, a rose within a bordure engrailed Or.

Tiberius Antonius Vitellianus. Name.

Submitted as Tiberius Antonius Vitellius, Vitellius is also a nomen (as is Antonius). We have modified the name per both Palimpsest and Harpy to put the name into the classical prænomen, nomen, cognomen form, which change falls into the submitter's allowed changes to grammar.

DRACHENWALD

Alina Dabrowska. Name and device. Per chevron vert and azure, a chevron and overall a stag's head cabossed argent.

Submitted as Alina Dabrowka Dombrovski, none of the commenters were able to support the spelling of the "middle" name or to support the last name at all. We have therefore modified the byname to the closest documented form and have dropped the undocumentable second surname.

Anastasia Borisovna Oleneva. Name and device. Per pale sable and gules, a winged stag springing argent between three pairs of oak leaves conjoined by the stems Or.

Aveline of Darkmoore. Name.

Though registered a number of times in the SCA, "dark" does not appear to be an element used in English placenames. You might tell the submitter that she would do better with Blackmoor or Swarthmoor.

Balian de Margat. Name and device. Per bend sinister azure and sable, on a bend sinister wavy argent three roses sable.

Though several commenters noted that the mini-emblazon showed the bend to be more "wavy bretessed" than simply "wavy", the large emblazon was closer to the latter. (Although the "waves" were slightly out of "sync" even there.) Please tell the submitter that the "waves" of the bend should match on both sides.

Blanka Biörnsdottir Måne. Name.

Bure Höök. Name and device. Argent, a hawk rising to sinister sable and a base embattled purpure.

Cathryn of Chester. Name change from Catheryn of Chester.

Ceowulf Vandraren Eriksson. Name.

Cormac Lawless O'Toole of Bray. Name.

Dag Eriksson. Device. Per pale purpure and azure, three sunbursts Or issuant from clouds argent.

Egbert of Fairdale. Name.

Éire ní Dhaniél. Name.

Submitted as Eira ní Dhaniél, Eira as a name is a modern invention. However, Harpy noted that Éire, though primarily known as that of the goddess after whom Ireland is named, has been used as a name by humans. As the submitter allowed changes, we have therefore substituted it as the closest documentable name to Eira.

Eric Ålstene. Name and device. Potent, a dragon passant gules atop an anvil sable.

Erik Skræm. Name and device. Argent, a bend sinister wavy azure, overall a serpent bendwise embowed counter-embowed gules.

Please ask the submitter to draw the waves of the bend much more boldly.

Erland Lövensköld. Name.

Eskil Eskilsson Örn. Badge. [Fieldless] A camelopard rampant erminois.

Gabriel Eriksson Röde. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Gilbert of Horncastle. Device. Azure, an oak branch and on a base argent an open book gules.

Though a number of commenters noted that the Pictorial Dictionary gives no default for the orientation of branches, slips, etc., from a review of Parker it would appear that trees and "tree parts" are all palewise by default. Unless evidence to the contrary is found, we are going to treat the default orientation of trees, branches, sprigs, slips and leaves as palewise.

Gorm Gutesson. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Gyllengran, Canton of. Name.

Haakon Pipare. Name.

Hardwin Gering. Name change from Hardwin Longfellow only (see RETURNS for device).

Hawas Arna Krämplösa. Name.

Hugh de Bois. Name change from Jacques Gilbert de Gascogne and device. Azure, a compass star and on a chief argent three fleurs-de-lis azure.

His currently registered name is retained as an alternate persona name.

Ilaria Morgan. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Submitted as Jenni Ilaria Morgan, no documentation at all was included to demonstrate that Jenni is the submitter's legal name, and the spelling she used on the form was Jenny. As has been stated before we do not register variants of a name under the legal name allowance. We have therefore dropped the problematic element as the submitter's forms allowed in order to register the name.

Infimus Mons Aureus, Stronghold of. Name.

Isabella Hansdotter Sprockhövel. Name.

Isobel of Fife. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

John Blackrose. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Jürgen Danske. Name and device. Sable, a sword and a quill pen in saltire Or within a bordure Or mullety sable.

Kristina Katludotter. Name.

Submitted as Kristina Katladotter, the genitive form is Katlu. We have therefore corrected the matronym as the submitter's forms allowed.

Ludwig Schlegel. Name.

Morgan fitz Arthur de Grey. Alternate persona name for Morgan of Ravenscrag.

Morgan fitz Arthur de Grey. Household name only for Freehold of Ravenscrag (see RETURNS for personal badge).

Nikolas de Mont Nord. Device. Sable, a cockerel's leg bendwise sinister couped argent and a bordure embattled argent goutty de sang.

Olof Gudmundsson Stormkråka. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Olof Vitval. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Patrick of Holmrike. Holding name and device. Gules, a trident and on a chief rayonny Or three mill-wheels sable.

Submitted as Comar Longius Blackburn.

Rhiannon ferch Llywelyn ap Padrig. Name and device. Purpure, a dragon passant and on a chief engrailed Or three escallops purpure.

Please ask her to draw the engrailing of the chief more boldly in the future.

Rhonwen Alyna Nic an Chrosáin. Name and device. Per saltire vert and Or, in pale two bowen knots saltirewise Or and in fess two acorns vert.

Submitted as Rhonwyn Alyna Mac an Chrosain we have modified the name to correct the given to the documentable (and feminine) form, and have corrected the patronymic to match the gender of the rest of the name.

Roland von Boitzenburg. Name change from Roland Haraldsson Hampe only (see RETURNS for device).

Sestrid Rödräv. Name.

Sibylla Gunlögsdotter. Name.

Submitted as Sibylla Gunlögsdottir, even the documentation quoted by the submitter had the "-er" ending on the patronym.

Styrbjörn Halte. Name and device. Vert, in pale a crescent inverted and a Thor's hammer Or.

Thorgrimr Olafsson. Name and device. Argent, a seahorse naiant gules and on a chief azure three pheons argent.

Submitted as ThorgrimR Olafsson, there was no documentation for the capitalized R at the end of the given. We have therefore substituted the documented form.

Torkel Leifson. Name and device. Sable, three gouttes Or and a chief embattled argent.

Ulf Mjödtunga. Name and device. Vert, in pale a crescent inverted and a Thor's hammer argent.

Ulv Ingvorason. Name.

Ulvberget, Canton of. Name and device. Argent, a wolf's head erased sable, within a laurel wreath vert and on a chief gules three lozenges argent.

Valter Henriksson Djerve. Name.

Submitted as Valter Henriksson Djervh. The spelling of the epithet was undocumented; we have substituted the closest documentable form the commenters could find.

Vanna Edwinsdochter Dawburn. Device. Per bend sinister vert and gules, a lynx rampant within a bordure embattled argent.

Walderik Birghersson Gröne. Device. Per fess embattled gules and vert, a cat passant guardant and a wheel Or.

Walter of Kentbridge. Name and device. Per bend gules and sable, a goblet between flaunches Or.

Submitted as Walter of Centbridge, the submitted form of the locative is unlikely in the extreme (all the evidence showed that the OE spelling of "cent" with a "c" is incompatible with the late period spelling of "bridge"), we have substituted the closest documentable form. Please ask submitter to draw the flaunches bigger.

Wiglaf Vidarsson. Badge. [Fieldless] A queue couped argent.

Blazoned on the LoI as a "lion's tail", the heraldic term is "queue".

William of Friedrichsburg. Badge. Argent, a phoenix gules rising from flames Or between in cross four Latin crosses swallowtailed gules.

EAST

Adelheid Koller von Regensburg. Name.

Adrianna of Westmarch. Device. Or, a tree eradicated proper and on a chief embattled azure two lions passant guardant respectant Or.

Ælfwine Akeworthe. Name only (see RETURNS for badge).

Submitted as Aelfwine Akeworthe, both the forms and the documentation had Æ in the given. We have therefore restored it here.

Alarice Blackhawk. Badge. [Fieldless] A hawk perched on a bar raguly couped, the hawk maintaining in the dexter claw a mug, sable.

Versus Hiltoft (Papworth, p. 298, as cited in the LoI), Argent, an eagle rising sable armed Or, the commenters were pretty evenly split on whether the bar raguly was sufficiently sized to allow us to allow a CD for its presence. Laurel feels compelled to agree with Palimpsest's note that it "is a significant charge, but only just."

Alexandre Ledebuhr. Name.

Andreas Morgan. Name and device. Sable, a German chimera rampant and on a chief argent a flanged mace sable.

Angelica de la Rosa. Name and device. Argent, a pall counter-ermine between three roses purpure.

Anthony Reese. Device. Per pale sable and argent, an escarbuncle counterchanged.

Versus Rodrigo Diaz Mendoza (SCA), Per pale sable and Or, an escarbuncle counterchanged, by the Rules there are CDs for changing the tincture of half the field and for changing the tincture of half the primary charge.

Nice device!

Antonio Vela de Lugo y Payan. Device. Argent, on a lozenge ployé gules between four pheons in saltire, bases to center, sable, a bear rampant contourny guardant argent and attired of stag's attires Or.

Avigaal bas Yaahov. Name and device. Gules, on an open book sustained by a cubit arm vested issuant from base argent two stars of David sable.

Submitted as Avigaal Bas Yaahov, the more usual form is not to capitalize the patronymic particle.

Brenna nic Adam. Name.

Catriona Mairghread nic Dhuibh of Moray. Badge. [Fieldless] A talbot argent sejant atop a stool azure.

Catriona Mairghread nic Dhuibh of Moray. Badge. [Fieldless] A pair of scissors, points to base, argent issuing tongues of flame proper.

Versus Thomas of Eastbrook (SCA), A pair of weavers shears argent, as reblazoned in the Errata Letter accompanying this LoAR, there is a CD for fieldlessness and another for the addition of the gouts of flame which are here sufficiently large and numerous enough to be considered as equivalent to adding wings; that is to say, worth a CD.

Edrick Quarterstaff. Name.

Elizabeth Talbot of Meath. Name and device. Or, a heart vert pierced by two needles in saltire gules, a gore rayonny vert.

Elizabeth Talbot of Meath. Badge. [Fieldless] A heart Or pierced in saltire by two needles vert.

Erich Forester. Name.

Fáelán Caomhánach. Badge. Per fess embattled argent and sable, in chief a wolf sejant ululant and in base two more respectant counterchanged.

Filib Mac Séamuis Ó Conaill. Name and device. Azure, on a pale argent between two hippogriffs salient addorsed Or, a pine tree eradicated vert.

Submitted as Filib MacIamis O'Conaill the name as submitted is a confusing mixture of Gaelic, Anglo-Scottish, and misspelled Irish-Gaelic. We have substituted the closest homogeneous form.

Griss Flettir. Device. Sable, a millrind between four wolves' heads, two and two, couped respectant argent.

Helena Hrolfsdottir. Name and device. Per pale azure and argent, two winged sea-unicorns respectant counterchanged.

Jacqueline Helene Loisel. Name and device. Azure, a doe trippant contourny between three martlets Or.

Jehanne de Troyes. Name and device. Per bend sinister purpure and vert, a Star of David argent and a lion's head erased quarterly argent and sable.

Meadhbh ní Ruadháin. Device. Argent, three frogs in pall, legs extended, heads to center, within a bordure engrailed vert

Submitted as Medb ni Ruadhan, the above is the form registered in January 1994.

Melisande de Palma. Badge. [Fieldless] A swan rising proper charged with a C-clef sable.

Thorfinn Jarlsson. Name and device. Azure, a bear passant to sinister and on a chief embattled or three barrels proper.

There was some discussion whether the byname was a pretentious claim ("son of the Jarl" ("Earl" or "Count")). Given the citation of the name Nils Jarlsson (dated 1355), and our clear rules on titles documented as names or name elements so long as there is "no suggestion of territorial claim or explicit assertion of rank" (RfS VI.1.), the use here is undoubtedly registrable.

Uther Shieldbreaker. Badge. [Fieldless] Two talbots combattant argent maintaining between them a thighbone gules.

Ygraine of Kellswood. Household name for House Thornewood.

MERIDIES

Alewyn Quentin Murtagh. Name.

Submitted as Alewyn Quenten Murtagh, every documented form of the middle name shows in "i" in the final syllable. We have therefore substituted the documented form.

Aoife Eorann ní Bhriain. Name.

Submitted as Aoife Eorann ni Brien we have modified the patronymic to the correctly aspirated form of the documentable spelling of the patronymic.

Brighid of Ferncliff. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Catherine Marie Stewart. Name and device. Per saltire argent and sable, two roses gules, slipped and leaved vert and two swans naiant argent.

Elizabeth O'Brien. Name.

Hrothgar Fiscabana. Name and device. Sable, on a fess wavy Or between in chief three escallops and in base a mullet argent, a fish naiant vert.

Submitted as Hrothgar Banafisca, the byname had its component parts in reverse order. We have therefore corrected the grammar of the byname.

Lora Greymare. Name and device. Per pale sable and vert, two horse's heads couped and addorsed argent.

Luke of Amesbury. Name.

Rondallyn of Gòlgotha. Device change. Gules, three holly leaves conjoined in pall between three double roses Or, and for augmentation three mullets in chief one and two argent.

Her currently registered device, Vert, three holly leaves conjoined in pall between three skulls argent, on the point of conjunction a bezant, and for augmentation, three mullets in chief one and two argent, is released.

Versus Hamilton of Woodhall (Combo II, from Lyon I), Gules, three holly leaves conjoined at the stalk Or between as many cinquefoils argent. there are CDs for the tincture of the secondaries and for the arrangement of the leaves (which are unlikely to be conjoined in pall).

Tamara Enderkelyn. Name.

Submitted as Tamora Enderkelyn, that spelling was only documented from "Titus and Andronicus", one of Shakespeare's plays appearing in 1594, and there was no documentation that it ever entered into general use. We have therefore substituted the documented form.

MIDDLE

Arnold Kuntz. Name and device. Vert, two mascles interlaced in pale within a bordure embattled Or.

Arnold Kuntz. Badge. [Fieldless] A sword enfiling two mascles interlaced in pale sable.

Arnold Kuntz. Badge. [Fieldless] A three-headed wolf sejant affronty, dexter and sinister heads addorsed argent, charged on the breast with an estoile of four points sable.

Cian mac Imair. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Cyra Wren. Name and device. Vert, a winged ounce passant and on a chief Or three compass stars vert.

Elaine Ladd. Badge. [Fieldless] A nesselblatt argent charged with a columbine slipped azure.

Elspet NicDhubhghlaise bean Iain MhicThomaidh. Device. Azure, three cats couchant in annulo argent, each biting the bail of the cat previous.

This had been previously returned for conflict Azure, a lion dormant argent, the Duke of Cassan from the Deyrni novels of Katherine Kurtz. The submitter has received a letter of permission to conflict from Katherine Kurtz. We must agree, as did almost all of the commentary, with Palimpsest, who said that "Katherine Kurtz [as a member of the SCA] knows what her permission to conflict means and does indeed have the right to give it."

Guido de Canale. Device. Per fess urdy azure and gules, a wingless dragon couchant reguardant and an Arabian lamp flammant Or.

Please ask him to draw the line of division a little more boldly (with fewer "urds").

Heather of Tyson. Badge. Azure estencelé Or, a panther passant facing dexter argent gorged with a ducal coronet Or.

This treatment with a coronet is to be encouraged of those entitled to coronets who want them on their arms.

Jurgis Magnus. Name.

Nikolai of Trakai. Badge. Vert, two arrows inverted in saltire surmounted by a tower Or.

Rhiannon de la Medewe du Lou. Device. Sable, a wolf's head cabossed argent between three cinquefoils within a bordure dovetailed Or.

Tatiana of Verena. Device. Per fess gules and vert, a sea-unicorn and in chief two recorders in chevron Or.

OUTLANDS

Ian of Edingight. Device change. Per chevron azure and Or, two chevronels Or and a sailless drakkar proper.

His presently registered device, Per chevron azure and Or, two chevronels Or and a sailless galley proper, is released.

Isabeau Celeste de la Vallière. Device. Per pale gules and sable, a lion rampant within an orle Or.

This had been returned previously for conflict with Aron Caomhanach (SCA), Per bend sinister gules and purpure, a Bengal tiger Or, marked sable, within an orle Or, with only one CD for the change to the field, no difference being granted for type of feline. It was appealed because it is, with a tincture change to half the field, identical to the registered device of her father, Walter Kempe of Falconhold, Rampart Herald. Under the Grandfather Clause, if he wished to change his device to the one submitted here, he could do so: it has no conflict that his registered device doesn't already have. As the Grandfather Clause generally extends the same courtesy to blood relatives, as was noted in the discussion on the submission of Stephan of Bellatrix in the LoAR of September 1991 and more recently by Baron Bruce in the Cover Letter of December 1992, then she, too, may register it.

Maelgwn McCain. Device. Per pale azure and sable, a castle argent between in pale an eagle displayed and two barrulets wavy couped Or.

As noted in the return of Miriel d'Estoile in the February LoAR, which had a compass star and three bars wavy couped, "the arrangement of the charges is very modern." However, the primary reason for that return was conflict. As no one cited a conflict here, we are not inclined to return it solely for an element which is not so very different from "in waves proper a castle argent", a not uncommon heraldic treatment. (Additionally, modern style was not given as a reason in the previous return in August 1993, only conflict.)

Meredith Guaire. Name.

Rosalinda Lucinda Mondragon de la Vega. Name and device. Plumetty Or and sable, two squirrels sejant erect respectant gules.

Submitted as Rosalinda Lucinda Concepcion Mondragon de la Vega. No dates at all were found for adduced for Concepcion. The reference in Hanks and Hodges referred to the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, and not the name Concepcion. Lacking adequate documentation we have dropped the problematic element.

TRIMARIS

Augustina of Constantinople. Name and device. Per pale argent and Or, two cats sejant addorsed guardant sable, on chief triangular vert a Latin cross bottony Or.

Catarina Ginevra Falconieri. Name and device. Chevronelly inverted purpure and Or, a kestrel rising, wings addorsed, jessed and belled, and on a chief argent a fleur-de-lys purpure.

Christina la Rose. Name.

Christina la Rose. Alternate persona name of Pipin the Jester.

Elizabeth FitzPatrick. Name and device. Per fess vert and Or, a seahorse maintaining a harp reversed between three Celtic crosses counterchanged.

Giuseppe Francesco da Borgia. Name.

Submitted as Guiseppe Francesco di Borgia, the spelling of the given was unattested, and the article used with locatives is "da". We have therefore substituted the documented forms as the submitter's forms allowed.

Irene Kilpatrick. Name.

Rolant von Reichenau. Device. Purpure, five gingko leaves crossed, stems to center, within a bordure Or.

Though some documentation was presented to demonstrate that ginkgoes were not known in period, such was not mentioned as a reason in the last two returns. As a consequence, I am hesitant to force the submitter back to "Square One" at this date. Certainly it should be kept in mind for future submissions of gingko leaves.

Somhairle Ó Laidhigh. Device. Purpure, a boar's head erased argent between three pairs of drinking horns crossed in saltire Or within a bordure embattled argent.

The drinking horns were blazoned as "boar's tusks" in the LoI, but the prior submission called them drinking horns, and we are inclined to believe that they are more identifiable and reproducible if blazoned as such.

Subadai the Bear. Name.

You might let him know that Brickbat suggests an all-Mongolian name, Subadai Babagai, with the same meaning.

Trimaris, Kingdom of. Name for Order of the Argent Morningstar of Trimaris.

Trimaris, Kingdom of. Name for Order of the Argent Sword of Trimaris.

Una of Blackberry Hollow. Household name for House Blackberry Hollow.

WEST

Alwin of Spottiswoode. Device. Per saltire sable and azure, a bat-winged sea horse erect contourny argent, a chief ermine.

Anne Isabella del Gardin. Name.

Benji of the Mists. Holding name and device. Azure, in pale three millrinds Or between flaunches Or fretty sable.

Submitted as Valentine FitzKathrine.

Brion Thornbird ap Rhys. Device change. Sable, in pale three dragons passant argent.

His currently registered device, Argent, a dragon segreant sable and in chief three crescents gules, all within a bordure engrailed sable, becomes a badge.

Caitríona ní Fhlannagáin. Device. Gyronny sable and argent, an equal-armed celtic cross.

Curnan MacDowell. Name and device. Quarterly sable and azure, a bordure embattled Or.

Submitted as Curnán MacDowell, we have been unable to find fully Gaelic given names combined with Anglicized Gaelic patronymics. As the submitter allowed minor changes, and since Curnan (without the accent) is a reasonable englishing, we have substituted it as the closest form to that submitted.

Éireannach Katleen Nic Ghiolla Chainnigh. Name change from Éireannach Katleen of Kilkenny.

Submitted as Éireannach Katleen Mac Giolla Chainnigh, early Gaelic feminine name such as Éireannach appear always to have used the feminine patronymic form and not the masculine, we have therefor substituted that form here.

Gwendolyn Anne the Obscure. Device change. Erminois, a fleece sable.

Nice device! Her currently registered device, Gyronny sable and argent, a hound couchant reguardant gules, is released.

Gwilym Llonydd. Name and device. Per pale vert and argent, a stag's head cabossed and on a chief embattled, two lozenges fesswise counterchanged.

Juturna di Parma. Device change. Vert, on a pale endorsed argent three roundels vert.

Versus Paval Iosefovich (SCA, August 1984), Vert, a pale cotised argent, overall a wren proper, there are CDs for removing the overall charge and adding the tertiary roundels.

Her currently registered device, Per chevron throughout argent and vert, a recorder argent, becomes a badge.

Nice armory!

Lassar Fhína ingen Gharbáin. Name and device. Argent, a horse's head couped to sinister sable, on a chief vert three horse's heads couped to sinister argent.

Submitted as Lassar Fhína ingen Gháibín, Palimpsest could find no evidence of a personal name of which Gháibhín is the genitive. As the submitter allowed minor changes, we have substituted the patronymic of Garbán, per Palimpsest's suggestion.

Liadan Cloves of Saint Johns. Name and device. Per chevron Or, semy of cloves gules, and vert, in base a unicorn's head couped argent.

Submitted as Liaden Cloves of Saint Johns on the LoI, the forms and the documentation both had Liadan.

Olof Gudmundsson. Name and device. Gules, an eagle striking between three mullets Or.

Versus Owen Owain of Corn Valley (SCA), Gules, a peregrine falcon rising wings elevated and displayed grasping in both talons a halberd proper, there are CDs for the addition of the mullets and for the posture of the primary charge; wings elevated and displayed is a significant outline difference from wings elevated and addorsed, and worth a CD.

Peter the Dark of Riga. Name and device. Sable, a demon affronty wings displayed argent, grasping in its sinister hand a garden rose gules, slipped and leaved vert, standing on a mountain Or.

Ramón de Castellón de la Plana. Device. Azure, issuant from a chevron between three compass stars, a demi-lion contourny maintaining an anchor.

Richenza von Schwerin. Name.

Susannah of Locksley. Name and device. Argent, a lion rampant queue forchy vert within an orle of six thistles proper, a chief checky gules and argent.

Tangwystl Tyriau Gleision. Name.

Submitted as Tangwystl Tyriau Gleisson on the LoI, the "s" for "i" exchange was a typo.

Ulric le Alefondere. Name and device. Or, a bend sinister gules between a rose slipped and leaved proper and a tower gules.

Waldemar of Livonia. Name and device. Gules, on a bend bretessed between two foxes masks argent a hurst palewise proper.

THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN RETURNED FOR FURTHER WORK:

AN TIR

Sinéidin Ban Thorin. Name.

Sinéidin may be a (relatively slight) misspelling of Sinéidín. It is probably not period, and is at best a late-period spelling. Ban is definitely period; the modern form is bean. Thorin is a Norse name that may have been used by human beings but that certainly must have been rare; its use in an Irish name is therefore doubly improbable. The Irish appear to have modified borrowed names to match Irish spelling and pronunciation; though we may guess at how Thorin would have been treated, but we can't know. And since it would have undergone some changes, the name cannot be correct as submitted, even if we allow all of the other anomalies. A possible "fix" was a very speculative modern Sinéidín Bean Thoráin. Other alternatives include Ban Thoráin or Ban Thoirenn, but only with a given name demonstrably early enough to match this form. However, since the submitter allowed no corrections, we are having to return the name. (Laurel's thanks to Palimpsest for a very detailed discussion, of which this paragraph is the gleanings.)

The armory was registered under the holding name Sera of Glymm Mere.

ATLANTIA

Simkin Colfox. Device. Argent, a fox courant contourny sable between three trefoils vert.

Conflict with Fergus Mac Ruaidhri (SCA), Argent, a fox courant to sinister gules between three trefoils vert. There is only one CD, for the change in tincture of the primary.

CAID

Anna of Eichenwald. Device. Per pale azure and sable, a bird rising wings elevated and addorsed argent.

Though blazoned as a dove on the LoI, the bird here has none of the distinguishing features of a dove. As such, it conflicts with Fotherby (Papworth, p. 304), Gules, a falcon argent rising argent, holding in the dexter claw a oak branch proper acorned Or. There is a CD for the field but nothing for type of primary charge between a generic bird and any other specific bird.

Camilla Saebu of North Audal. Device. Per pall inverted vert, sable, and Or, a unicorn rampant contourny argent.

Conflict with Edward Bolden (SCA 3/94), Pily bendy sinister gules and Or, a unicorn rampant contourny argent. There is only one CD, for the changes to the field.

Christina of Riesling. Device. Quarterly Sable and azure, a quill pen argent.

Conflict with the badge of the Prince of Wales, An ostrich feather argent. There is a CD for fielded versus fieldless, but all of the evidence appears to indicate that feathers were not distinguished by type in period for difference. Additionally, it conflicts with Monna (Hawley's Mon, p. 51) A feather, and with Saive nic Andreis (SCA), Per chevron sable and gules, a quill pen argent. In each case there is only one CD, for fieldless versus fielded and for the changes to the field, respectively.

Fritz der Gefolgsmann. Device. Gules, a hound courant, a bordure Or.

Conflict with Chaffin (Papworth, p. 60), Gules, a talbot passant Or. There is one CD for the addition of the bordure, but nothing for this rendition of "courant" and passant. Courant means "in full flight", and has both the front and rear legs are noticeably extended. The emblazon here is much closer to statant then it is to courant.

Gwendolyn of Skye. Name.

Conflict with Guendolen of Skye (SCA), registered June 1992.

Kathryn of Wolf's Glen. Device. Per pale embattled gules and vert, in dexter a seawolf argent and in sinister two arrows Or.

Though technically this is not, by the Rules, marshalled arms (because of the complex line of division), the arrangement of the charges is so unbalanced that it cannot be considered to be period style (per RfS VIII.1.b.).

Lupus of Arundel. Badge. Argent, on a flame of fire proper a gout de sang, a bordure sable.

The gout is unrecognizable as such on the flames, appearing to be a part of the flames rather than a separate charge. Additionally, the flames are (for the most part) Or, fimbriated gules, which is not allowed.

Sionan de Prendergast na t'Seanachaidhe. Device. Argent, a cockatrice erect gules holding in each talon an oak leaf, on a chief vert three bells Or.

The bells are not recognizable as such. Handbells would have handles, and even church bells would have a "loop" at the top where it would normally attach to the crossbeam and would have the clapper showing. These are drawn as hillocks couped as much as anything.

Thecla Doria of Andritsaena. Badge. [Fieldless] A candle enflamed Or.

Conflict with Gilraen of Regen (SCA), Vert, a candle and candlestick flammant Or. A visual check of the files indicates that Gilraen's candlestick is the vertical type and therefore insufficient to grant a CD, leaving us with only the fieldless difference.

Ulfhethinn the Bold. Device. Sable, a panther rampant guardant argent spotted sable incensed gules and an orle of plates.

Conflict with Prenne (Papworth, p. 134), Sable, a lion rampant argent between eight plates. There is a CD for type for the difference between the cats, but that is all.

William Tinker. Device. Azure, a bull rampant contourny atop a base argent.

Conflict with Chrystofer Kensor (SCA), Azure, a wolf rampant to sinister argent maintaining a halberd argent hafted Or. While there is certainly a CD for the differences between the beasts, a visual check of the files demonstrated a clear visual similarity between the two devices.

Wynne Snowmane of Ravens Keep. Name.

The documentation for Wynne is weak; this spelling does not seem to have appeared until after the name became a surname. (Palimpsest did suggest an alternate, the Welsh Wyn.) The most serious problem, however, is the lack of documentation for the element "mane". Given the very large number of documented nicknames which refer to hair, and their high frequency of use, this lack of documentation is significant. We need better support for the byname.

CALONTIR

None.

DRACHENWALD

Chandra Avenell of Whitehaven. Name.

No one was able to find dated (or even better) documentation for the given than the submitter's citation from Hanks and Hodges, where Chandra is stated to be a variant of the Sanskrit candrah, a masculine noun meaning "moon". Additionally, the combination of Hindi in an otherwise all English name (Avenell is found in Reaney & Wilson) is particularly jarring, and would not have occurred in period.

Comar Longius Blackburn. Name.

The only documentation that anyone could find for Comar was as a surname. The name therefore lacks a given. (The correct form for "long" in Latin is longus not longius. Had that been the only problem, we would have dropped the "i" to register the name.)

The armory has been registered under the holding name Patrick of Holmrike.

Comar Longius Blackburn. Household name and badge for Crossing Arrows Saxon Household. [Fieldless] Two arrows inverted in saltire Or.

The household name follows no period exemplars of which we are aware, nor could any of the commenters find any support for it.

The badge conflicts with Richardson Patrick of Drumsheugh, Two arrows in saltire points up. There is only one CD for fieldlessness.

Elénor of Lyonesse. Name and device. Azure, a salamander vert enflamed within a bordure Or.

Lyonesse is a mythical land which is not allowed as a locative in the SCA. Despite the assertion in the LoI, it has been registered only four times, not "many times previously", and the most recent registration was 1981.

On the device, the "salamander" is not enflamed, but is rather on a flame. It is additionally in trian aspect. As drawn, the flames act like complex fimbriation of a complex charge, which has been disallowed.

Gabriel Eriksson Röde. Device. Gules, semy of mallets Or.

Conflict with Martell (Papworth, p. 901), Gules, three hammers Or. There is only one CD for the change to the number of charges.

Gorm Gutesson. Device. Quarterly azure and gules, a chevron couched from dexter interlaced with another from sinister argent.

Conflict with Bracegirdle (Papworth, p. 541), Azure, two chevrons arched couched and fretted argent. There is one CD for the change to the field, but given the blazon we are pretty much forced to assume that the chevrons are in the same position as those here.

Greifental, Shire of. Name.

While Laurel is sympathetic with the travails of the shire in registering its name, a petition which is almost three years old really is a little too far out of date to be considered as adequate support for the current submission. That said, there does not appear to be any other bar to registration. A rapid resubmission with an updated petition should be sufficient.

Hardwin Gering. Device. Per pale azure and vert, on a bezant a dragon's head couped sable.

Conflict with Douglas of Blackstone (SCA), Per pale azure and vert, on a bezant a wolf sejant ululant to sinister sable. There is only one CD, for the changes to the tertiary charge.

Iona of Monaghan. Name and device. Chevronelly inverted vert and Or, on a pale sable three fleurs-de-lis Or.

Iona is the name of an island, and not a given name. Ione, of which it was suggested Iona may be a variant, is a 19th Century name and is therefore post-period. A variant would then be even more modern.

The device conflicts with Knight-Erskine of Pitrodrie (Combo I, citing Lyon I), Argent, on a pale sable three fleurs-de-lys Or. There is only one CD for the change to the field.

Isobel of Fife. Device. Gules, a lion's face jessant-de-lys Or, on a chief argent three quatrefoils sable.

As drawn the primary charge is more a fleur-de-lys banded of a lion's face Or then it resembles a lion's face jessant-de-lys. As such it conflicts with Brock (Papworth, p. 848), Gules, a fleur-de-lys Or on a chief argent a lion passant guardant of the first, with only one CD for the changes to the tertiaries.

Ilaria Morgan. Device. Azure, a bird rising to sinister, wings elevated and addorsed, within a bordure argent.

Conflict with Podenham (Papworth, p. 314), Azure, an eagle displayed and a bordure argent. There is certainly a CD for the posture change to the bird, but though the bird here was blazoned as a "dove", there was nothing about it to distinguish it as a dove as opposed to a generic "bird". As such, it falls under the precedent of not granting difference between a "bird" and any specific type of bird.

John Blackrose. Device. Per pale argent and gules, a rose slipped and leaved issuant from base sable.

Conflict with Martynaux (Papworth, p. 868), Argent, a cinquefoil sable, and with Wildenfels (Woodward), Or, a rose sable, each with only one CD for the change to the field, and with Nightingale (Papworth, p. 859), Per pale argent and gules, a rose counterchanged, with one CD for the change to the tincture of the primary.

Kamal al-Din Mas'ud Shirazi. Name.

al-Din appears always to be used as part of a title in period (in the submitter's documentation, Kamal al-Din, Sharaf al-Din, and Jalal al-Din). [al-Din is usually translated as "of the Religion" or "of the Faith".] Mas'ud can be dated to period in Dodge (The Fihrist of al-Nadim), vol. 2, p. 1042. Shirazi appears to be lacking the article which Arabic normally requires: al-Shirazi. As the submitter allowed no changes, and we were unclear on which would be the most acceptable to him in any case, we are forced to return this for more work or better documentation.

Kenneth MacQuarrie of Tobermory. Badge. [Fieldless] A Norse sun cross argent.

As in the return of the badge for the Barony of Bonwicke (April 1994), there is a conflict with Shimazu (Hawley's Mon, p. 65), A sun cross, with only the fieldless CD. Additionally, precedent still disallows armory consisting of a single letter or abstract symbol which, as the astrological symbol for Earth, this is.

Kenneth MacQuarrie of Tobermory. Badge. [Fieldless] A Norse sun cross sable.

As in the return of the badge for the Barony of Bonwicke (April 1994), there is a conflict with Shimazu (Hawley's Mon, p. 65), A sun cross, with only the fieldless CD. Additionally, precedent still disallows armory consisting of a single letter or abstract symbol which, as the astrological symbol for Earth, this is.

Mathieu Chartrain. Device. Per pale gules and azure, two bars enarched between four annulets, three and one, Or.

Conflict with Burdus (Papworth, p. 29), Sable, two bars between three annulets in chief and a fleur-de-lys in base Or. There is a CD for the field, but nothing for either the enarching of the bars or change to type of one-fourth of a group of secondaries.

Morgan fitz Arthur de Grey. Badge. Argent, a griffin's head erased vert, beaked gules, collared by a viscount's coronet and chained Or.

Though the LoI noted that the badge was for the household, the forms indicated that it is a personal badge for the submitter.

As noted by several commenters, there is no defined viscomital coronet, "either as a physical entity or an heraldic convention." As noted in the return of Lucan von Drachenklaue (LoAR November 1991), "Viscounts and Viscountesses may use the default heraldic coronet (a crown indented of three points) if they so choose." The "griffin's head" lacks the prominent ears which differ a griffin's head from an eagle's. Given that the coronet is necessary to obtain sufficient difference from Fitz-Thomas (Papworth, p. 913), Argent, a griffin's head erased sable, we are returning this for redrawing.

Olof Gudmundsson Stormkråka. Device. Per pale wavy argent and barry Or and sable, in dexter a crow sable.

Conflict with Trenothen (Papworth, p. 214), Argent a Cornish chough sable and with Hampden (Papworth, p. 295), Argent, a raven croaking sable. There is one CD for the change to the field, but the position on the field is forced by the change of tincture to the sinister half (since it is not allowable to place a charge on a divided field which is of one of the tinctures of that field, as the identifiability of the charge would then be nearly negligible).

Olof Vitval. Device. Sable, a fess wavy between in chief a whale and in base a snowflake, all argent.

Conflict with Sir Francis Drake (Papworth, p. 751), Sable, a fess wavy between two polar stars argent, and Bullbrooke (Papworth, p. 761), Sable, a fess wavy between two helmets argent. There is only CD for the changes to the secondary charges. You might let him know that in any resubmission that snowflakes are no longer allowed as charges (see Cover Letter to this LoAR).

Roland von Boitzenburg. Device. Gyronny argent and azure, an estoile within a bordure Or.

Conflict with Catheryn Cameron Stewart Morgan (SCA), Gyronny of twelve azure and argent, a mullet of eight points within a bordure Or. There is a CD but not sufficient difference between a mullet of eight points and an estoile, nor is there anything for the number of panes in a gyronny field.

Róna of Abergavenny. Name.

All of the documentation that any of the commenters could find indicates that Rona is a 19th Century name, well out of our period.

Stanislaw Dumbrowski. Name and device. Argent, a ram rampant sable within a bordure counter-ermine.

No documentation was submitted for the byname, and none of the commenters were able to find any which was not post-period.

The device conflicts with Buckton (Papworth, p. 60), Argent, a goat salient sable attired Or. There is one CD for the addition of the bordure. Conflict also with Bishoprick of Chur (Siebmacher, p. 10), Argent, a goat rampant sable, by the same count.

Styringheim, Canton of. Name.

No documentation was included, nor were any of the commenters able to supply any, for the formation of the name. Branch names are generally modeled on place names; "land of the unruly" does not appear to follow any period model of which we are aware.

Vidhar Ulfr Frøsgodes son. Name and device. Per pale argent and vert, a tree eradicated and in dexter chief a boar's head erased gules.

Withdrawn from consideration at the request of the submitter.

EAST

Ælfwine Akeworthe. Badge. Vert, a tree blasted and eradicated argent and overall a sinister fist Or.

Conflict with Ioseph of Locksley (SCA), Vert, a tree eradicated argent. There is a CD for the addition of the overall charge, but as has been noted before, in period trees were often drawn with branches each ending in a single leaf, which is not sufficiently different from a tree blasted to allow us to grant a CD between them.

Angelena of the Wild Roses. Name and device. Or, a dragon rampant sable, and upon a chief sable a garden rose fesswise reversed slipped and leaved Or.

Angelena was stated to be a diminutive of the submitter's legal name. The legal name allowance only covers the exact form of the submitter's legal name, not variants or diminutive. We need documentation for Angelena. No documentation was submitted for the byname, nor did any of the commenters find any support for it. We need documentation that "of the Wild Roses" is a period byname or follows a specific pattern of period bynames.

The "garden rose bud" is not identifiable as such; as drawn it was mistaken for a stalk of wheat. Would the submitter consider a standard heraldic rose slipped and leaved?

Cecelia Erwyn of Etterick. Badge. [Fieldless] a griffin passant close gules maintaining a goblet Or.

Conflict with Lutwyche (Papworth, p. 97), Or, an heraldic tyger passant gules. There is a CD for fieldlessness, but the griffin with its wings down is nearly indistinguishable from the tyger (a representation of which appears on the submission form as part of the demonstration for how large the reduced emblazon should be). Versus Fiammetta Attavanti (SCA), Gyronny azure and Or, an opinicus statant gules, there are CDs for fieldlessness and for the effective removal of the wings.

Conrad vom Dunkelschloss. Name.

Based on the names the commenters could find, the locative is not very probable. Though dunkel is found as an Upper German field-name for a field on the north, or shaded, slope of a hill, its combination this in this form with schloss is extremely unlikely. The usual generics for castle, etc. were -burg, -berg, and -stein, and somewhat less often -fels, -eck, and -feste. The few examples of schloss, none of which are clearly period, use the word as a prefix: Schloss X. Given the extreme rarity of dunkel as a placename element at all, the combination seems to make Dunkelschloss far too improbable to register. Dunkelstein, Dunkelburg, Dunkelberg, and Dunkelfels would probably all be registerable: the first element is still somewhat unlikely, but the overall construction is fine, and so the use of dunkel would be only "one weirdness". (Any of these would make as good a name for a town as for a castle, so the article dem could be dispensed with, e.g., Conrad von Dunkelfels.) If he really wants to get Schloss in there somewhere, Palimpsest recommended Conrad von Schloss Dunkelfels (or one of the other variants); this matches the actual use of Schloss in the few examples that he could find. (Again the article dem is unnecessary.) Since these changes are too big to be considered "minor changes", we are returning it to allow the submitter choose one of the many acceptable forms.

MERIDIES

Alaric the Bearded. Name and device. Azure, on a chevron Or two anhks sable, in chief, a crescent argent.

Somehow none of the submission forms made it into the Laurel packet. Without the paperwork, we cannot process this submission. Additionally, the commenters could find no support for this form of the byname. All of the variants found appear to be based on either "beard" or "with the beard". The use of the adjectival past participle does not appear to be documentable, and is therefor unregistrable.

Brianne nic Auslan de Buchanan. Name and device. Sable, a sword inverted Or, overall, in saltire, two Trumpet lilies argent slipped and leaved vert.

Brianne is a modern name and apparently could only arise as a French version of Brianna; a hypothetical French form of a probably non-existent Latinized feminine form of a masculine Irish name [to borrow Palimpsest's wording] is farther from documented practice then we are willing to go.

The flowers are more than half vert, making them effectively color on color.

Brighid of Ferncliff. Device. Azure goutty d'eau, a cross formy fitched and a gore sinister argent.

The "gore" is drawn here as half-gusset, half-gore. It needs to be redrawn as clearly one or the other.

Caitlyn of Dolwyddelan. Name change from holding name of Dena of Trollfen.

Unfortunately, this must be returned again, as again the submitter does not allow any changes to be made. The given is documented only as Caitlin (even in the submitter's own documentation -- photocopies from Today's Best Baby Names by Alfred J. Kolatch!), and Irish does not use the English "i/y" switch. We could have registered the name as either Irish Caitlin or Englished Catlyn, but.... No mention was made of this last time around because although the submitter's forms have the given spelled Caitlyn, the LoI gave it as Caitlin.

Rondallyn of Gòlgotha. Badge. [Fieldless] A double rose proper conjoined to three holly leaves in pall Or.

The rose here is drawn as "just barely" overall, which has been cause for return in the past. However, if drawn correctly as "overall", it falls afoul of the requirements on fieldless badges with charges overall promulgated by Baron Bruce, as both the identifiability of the underlying charges would be compromised and the area of intersection would not be small.

MIDDLE

Cian mac Imair. Device. Azure, in pale three wolves couchant contourny reguardant argent.

Conflict with Crowan (Papworth, p. 172), Azure, three wolves statant in pale argent collared Or and with Barneis (Papworth, p. 157), Azure, three greyhounds courant in pale argent collared Or. In each case there is only one CD, for the change in posture to the canines.

Erasmus the Dane. Badge. [Fieldless] An oak branch, its tip enflamed proper.

Conflict with Mayster Gulford (Combo II, citing Fox-Davies, p. 106), [Fieldless] A ragged staff inflamed at the top and sides all proper, with only one CD for fieldlessness. The only other differences are the two leaves in the submission and the precise depiction of the enflaming, both of which are the visual equivalents of maintained charges.

Red Spears, Barony of. Badge. [Fieldless] A boar's head proper transfixed by a boar-spear gules.

There does not seem to be a defined heraldic "proper" for boar's heads, and the beasts in nature run from a light mottled brown to almost black.

OUTLANDS

None.

TRIMARIS

None.

WEST

Chrodegang der Zaunschlager. Name and device. Argent, a raven close contourny sable clutching an arrow gules, a bordure sable.

(Zaunschlanger in the heading is a typo for Zaunschlager.) There are several problems with the name. The byname as constructed does not appear to be idiomatic; "fence-feller" doesn't appear to make any sense in German or in English. Additionally, the given is an Old High German name and the byname is modern German. As such there is well over an entire millennium of language development between the two. This is too large a gap even for the SCA.

Though the bordure on the device was very well drawn in the LoI, on the emblazon forms it was nothing more than a heavy outline. As what we register is on the emblazon forms, this is being returned for redrawing of a proper bordure.

Valentine FitzKathrine. Name.

The form of the byname (Fitz<mother's name>) does not seem supported by the evidence. All of the documented names formed on forenames are formed on masculine ones. The exceptions that were noted were not formed on forenames at all: Henry fis le Rey ("son of the King") and FitzEmpress (the latter cited in the LoI). Neither of these support the form of the byname submitted.

The armory was registered under the holding name Benji of the Mists.