AETHELMEARC

Alia fitz Garanhir. Name and device. Argent, a fess conjoined in chief with a demi­pale between three mullets of six points gules.

Originally submitted as fitz Garanhir, it was changed at kingdom to FitzGaranhir. We have returned it to the form originally submitted.

Biota Merme. Device. Argent, a brown otter rampant contourny proper within a bordure purpure.

Cadell Blaidd Du. Name.

Caoinleán Seanchaidh. Name and device. Gules, a tower, on a bordure argent eight martlets sable.

Submitted as Caoinleán Seancloch, the documentation for Seancloch came from an unreliable source, Coghlan, Grehan, and Joyce's, Book of Irish Names. We have replaced it with the closest form that could be reliably documented.

Christiana of Sydeneia. Device. Argent, a caduceus between flaunches purpure, each flaunch charged with a mortar and pestle argent.

Note: the caduceus is no longer a restricted charge.

Cunedda Kell. Name.

Cynwulf Rendell. Name and device. Per pale sable and argent, a chevron embattled­counterembattled between three wolf's heads erased counterchanged.

Deirdre ingean Dhomhnaill. Name.

Dominique de la Croix. Name.

Dur of Hidden Mountain. Badge. (Fieldless) A cross within and conjoined to a mascle sable.

Edmundo da Monreale. Device. Argent, a heart enflamed to chief gules within an annulet azure.

Eleanore Godwin. Name and device. Or, on a cross formy throughout vert, an oil lamp argent.

Gwyneth de Grey. Name.

Morgan & Morgan note the feminine Welsh given name Gwineth in 1577. Therefore, Gwyneth is acceptable as a plausible variant of that name.

Hornwood, Shire of. Badge. Gules, a clarion reversed a bordure Or.

Please instruct the group to draw the bordure wider.

Kevin Kyl the Wild. Name and device. Per chevron sable and argent, two standing balances and a boar's head erased contourny counterchanged.

Konrad von Buren. Device. Or, three wolves rampant sable a bordure dovetailed gules.

Penelope of Helena. Name.

Rebekkah Samuel. Name.

Rose verch Catrin. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Sonya the Fair. Name and device. Per pale vert and purpure, an estoile between in fess two crosses crosslet fitchy argent.

Please inform the submitter that Sonia is a masculine name found in Wickenden, p. 224, dated to 1539. If she wants an all Russian form, a byname meaning fair/beautiful would be Krasivyi, which is in a masculine form, to match the gender of the name.

Tatiana Miroslavovna. Name and device. Per saltire gules and Or, in pale two lozenges ployé argent.

The byname was changed at kingdom from Miroslavna to Miroslavna. According to Escutcheon, the proper form closest to what the submitter wants is Miroslavovna. We have changed it accordingly.

Thorgrim Sindrason. Device. Azure, a chevron embattled­counterembattled Or between three two­horned anvils argent.

Please instruct the submitter in how to properly draw an embattled­counterembattled chevron.

William Malcolm. Device. Azure, in fess a tower between two stags combattant argent.

AN TIR

Aedan Hauksblod. Name.

An Tir, Kingdom of. Name for the Ordo Hastae Leonis.

An Tir, Kingdom of. Badge. (Fieldless) A sealion per fess azure and argent.

Avicia le Mey. Name and device. Per pale vert and argent, five hawthorn leaves in cross counterchanged.

Christopher Gow. Name and device. Or, a catamount's head caboshed within a bordure purpure.

Dana Charthair Saibhin. Name.

Note: Dana is the submitter's legal name.

Elgar of Stonehaven. Device. Sable chaussé ployé lozengy argent and gules, a Thor's hammer Or.

Frederick von Innsbruck. Name and device. Argent, on a bend sinister between six triquetra gules a spear argent.

An entirely German form would be Friedrich von Innsbruck, and an entirely English one would be Frederick of Innsbruck.

Garric of Dublin. Name and device. Purpure, a bend sinister between six martlets contourney Or.

Isable Dancere. Name.

Isolde de la Vielle­à­Roue. Device. Argent semy­de­lys sable, on a bend sinister gules three harps palewise Or.

Isolde de la Vielle­a­Roue. Badge. Argent semy­de­lys sable, a harp contourny gules.

Rupert of Runnymede. Name.

Saint Bunstable, College of. Device change. Sable, on a flame within a laurel wreath Or a cup purpure.

Their former device, Purpure, a husky rampant Or maintaining in it dexter forepaw a tankard argent, all within a laurel wreath Or., is hereby released.

Shiack NicGeoch. Device. Quarterly vert and sable, on a tree eradicated between in chief two crescents argent a wolf's head erased gules.

Theresia von Villach. Name.

Vasilisa Myshkina. Device. Argent, a chevron between three holly leaves vert.

Volodar Ivanovi . Name.

Submitted as Volodar Ivanovic on the letter of intent, the submitters forms and documentation had Volodar Ivanovi . We have restored the submitter's original spelling.

Wyewood, Canton of. Badge. (Fieldless) A bat­winged hamster segreant contourny Or winged and collared sable.

ANSTEORRA

Angelique de Saint Servan. Name.

Brighid Ellen Seward. Device. Or mullety, a catamount salient and on a chief sable, three thistles Or.

Lionardo Acquistapace. Name.

Rolf Sewardson. Device. Gyronny gules and ermine, a bear and a lion rampant addorsed Or.

Seward Olafson. Device. Ermine, three swords inverted in pile gules.

ATENVELDT

Eamon MacAindriu. Device. Argent, a grenade sable enflamed proper a canton vert.

This was pended from the July 1997 LoAR.

Harold of Pucklechurch. Holding name and device. Per bend gules and sable, a phoenix rising from flames and a praying mantis statant Or.

This was pended from the July 1997 LoAR. However, the submitted name, Phoinix of Pucklechurch, was returned on that LoAR. We have formed a holding name in order to register the device.

Marie of Clan Neil. Device. Purpure, a chevron between two roses and a harp argent.

This was pended from the July 1997 LoAR.

Tiernagh O'Mally. Device. Ermine, a trefoil pierced between flaunches purpure the dexter charged with a decrescent and the sinister an increscent, within the horns of each a mullet argent.

This was pended from the July 1997 LoAR.

ATLANTIA

Alesia la Sabia de Murcia. Badge. (Fieldless) A comet fesswise gules.

Alina Silverthorne. Name and device. Per pale purpure and sable, a pegasus rampant between three fleurs­de­lys argent.

A possible conflict was called with Heather of Whitby (SCA) Quarterly sable and gules, a pegasus rampant between three calla lilies argent. While it is clear fleurs­de­lys evolved from lilies, the majority of the evidence points to them as being considered difference charge in period. Therefore, we are giving the submitter the benefit of the doubt, and giving a CD between the calla lilies and the fleurs­de-lys.

Alwyn Kenweard. Device. Per pale gules and sable, a pale between a griffin segreant and a fret argent.

Amphelisia Baillie. Name.

Arianwen ferch Maelgwn. Name and device. Vert, a seeblatt argent, a chief argent fretty sable.

Submitted as Arianwen ferch Maelgwyn, while Gruffudd does list the spelling Maelgwyn, he references it to the correct form of the name Maelgwn. The form Maelgwyn is a modern one. While the Penguin edition of the Mabinogi and various other tales does list Maelgwyn in its index, this appears to be nothing more than a typo. The name appears in the text of that edition as Maelgwn and this is the spelling in the original manuscript as well. Therefore, we have changed the name to the documented form.

Chryse Raptes. Device. Vairy Or and sable, a bend and a bordure gules.

Cussata de Courtenay. Name.

Dálkr Hálftroll Snjolfsson. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Dúnlaith nic Niam. Name and device. Per bend sinister sable and gules, a bend sinister between six unicorn's heads erased contourny, a bordure argent.

Dunstan of Manchester. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Eleanor Hamilton. Name.

Elspeth Macalpin. Name and device. Or, a needle bendwise threaded sable, a chief embattled vert.

Emma Camber of Athelnay. Name.

Eógan Mac Ailpein. Name and device. Quarterly vert and gules, a hare sejant erect contourny argent, in chief three increscents Or.

Genevieve d'Evreux. Name and device. Azure, on a bend wavy argent between two butterflies Or three roses purpure.

Heinrich Kreiner. Augmentation of arms. Per saltire Or and azure, a hurst of oak trees proper, as an augmentation on a canton sable, a decrescent argent, a base indented of three points argent.

Hreodbeorht MacBeath. Badge. (Fieldless) A pheon inverted sable.

Iain Ruadh Mac Dhòmhnuill. Name and device. Per chevron throughout sable and gules, in base, a winged lion dormant wings elevated and addorsed Or.

Krestiia Alla Galychskaia. Name and device. Argent, on a bend bevelled sable two slippers argent.

Submitted as Krestiia Alla Galychskaya, that used two different transliteration styles. We have changed the surname to match the transliteration style of the given.

Lisa Filshenri. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Azure, a lion's head cabossed, on a chief argent three roses azure.

The name was submitted as Lyon Filshenri.

Luigi Santini da Sutera. Device. Or, a dragon courant and in base two trees vert, on a chief sable three mullets Or.

Mac Con mac Rodáin. Device change. Per pall azure, sable and argent, three paw prints two and one Or.

His previous device, Per pall sable, azure and argent, three paw prints Or., is hereby released.

Megara di Alessandra. Badge. (Fieldless) Two annulets interlaced issuant from a barrulet arched couped, overall a quill pen palewise sable.

Note: this motif is grandfather to the submitter.

Megara di Alessandra. Augmentation of arms. Sable, a fury rampant affronty, sinister hand lowered, vested argent, winged Or, maintaining in her dexter hand a torch bendwise sinister proper, as an augmentation maintaining in her sinister hand a round shield Or charged with a unicornate natural sea horse azure.

Morwenna of Oakleigh. Device change. Per chevron azure and Or, two escallops inverted argent and a turtle tergiant vert.

Her former device Or, a turtle vert within a mascle azure., is hereby released.

Philippa Grey. Badge. (Fieldless) A griffin sejant, dexter forepaw raised sable.

Very nice badge!

Rachael of Hawkeswood. Name and device. Per chevron throughout sable and azure, three increscents, a chief argent.

Sebastian Silverwolfe. Name.

Stefan O'Reilly. Name and device. Vert, on a pile between a two bows addorsed Or two fire arrows inverted in saltire sable enflamed gules.

Stefan O'Reilly. Badge. (Fieldless) A sheaf of three fire arrows inverted sable enflamed gules.

Talbot Beman. Name.

Temair MacDiarmada. Badge. (Fieldless) A comet bendwise sable bearded Or.

CAID

Alana Buchanan. Name.

Submitted as Alana Tara Buchanan, Tara was said to be the anglicized form of Temair. Unfortunately that statement is not correct. There is Laurel precedent that Tara is not simply "the anglicized form of Temair". From the January 1994 LoAR:

"The prior registration of Tara as a given name hinged on the statement 'If the given name and the place name [Temair] are identical in Irish, and Tara is a valid anglicization of the latter, then it should be acceptable as an anglicization of the former.' The problem is that Tara is not an acceptable Anglicization of Temair; only of the genitive case of the name: Temra (pronounced approximately 'tev­ra). Tara is not an Anglicization of Temair but rather an English name for the place derived specifically from the context in which it appears as a place name (e.g., hill of Tara'). (A similar case occurs with Erin, as a poetic English name for Ireland is based on the genitive case (Éireann) of the Irish name Éire.) Since the given name Temair would not normally be found in the genitive, it is unlikely that it would be taken into English in the genitive form."

We have dropped the middle name in order to register the name.

Alexia del Mare. Name and device. Gyronny Or and purpure, a sun gules, a bordure azure crescenty Or.

Anastasia MacDonald. Name.

Arabella da Siena. Device. Gules, on a pale between two hippogriffs combatant each maintaining a glaive argent, three cinquefoils sable.

She has a letter giving her permission to conflict from Katherine Linnet Holford (SCA) (Gules, on a pale argent a domestic cat statant reguardant, back arched, between two cinquefoils in pale sable.

Armand de la Croix. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Brendan Buchanan. Name.

Caid, Kingdom of. Badge for the Order of Chiron. Azure, a saggitary salient regardant and drawing his bow to sinister a bordure embattled argent.

Gealán mac Bheathan. Name and device. Quarterly azure and sable, four swords in cross throughout, hilts to center, Or.

Giuliana Bonheur. Name change from Isabeau Bonheur.

Her former name Isabeau Bonheur, is hereby released.

Llewellyn Flinthaven. Badge. (Fieldless) Three lightning bolts in pall argent surmounted by a cat's head couped gules.

Madawc Seumus Caradwg. Alternate name of Madawc ap Caradawc.

Melisande de Frayne. Name and device. Or, a tree proper, a bordure vert.

A possible conflict was called with Darien Tevarson (SCA) (Or, a cedar tree proper issuant from a mount all within a bordure vert. This is clear with one CD for the removal of the mount and one for the type of tree, since a Cedar tree is a fir tree, which is pointed, and in heraldry a generic tree is an oak tree, which is rounded.

Morwenna Gwir. Badge. (Fieldless) An arrow fesswise reversed argent surmounted by a periwinkle azure.

Nicolaus of Exeter. Name.

Seth Flann MacDougal. Device. Barry wavy argent and azure, a ship contourney proper sailed Or and a chief counter­ermine.

Thomas Blackswann the Lefthand. Device. Argent, three swans rousant contourney sable.

DRACHENWALD

Erich Rotbart. Device. Paly bendy azure and argent, a swan naiant wings elevated and addorsed and on a chief sable a sword fesswise Or, hilted argent.

Honor of Restormel. Name and device. Argent, a bend azure between two lozenges sable.

Honor of Restormel. Household name for House Restormel and badge. Argent, on a lozenge sable a mullet Or.

Jean Paul de Champaigne. Name.

John Peregrine of Restormel. Name.

Mairghread ni Fhlaithbheartaigh. Name and device. Azure, a greyhound passant and on a chief Or three frets couped vert.

Mealla inghean uí Shirideáin. Name.

Submitted as Mealla O' Sirideáin, this combines Gaelic and English orthographies in the same name. We have put in into an entirely Gaelic form.

Robin of Restormel. Name and device. Sable, a tower and on a chief embattled Or a lozenge between two mullets sable.

Rudolf Wimmer zu Nesselburg. Name.

Submitted as Rudolf Wimber zu Nesselburg, no documentation was provided and none could be found for Wimber. We have substituted the closest documentable form.

EAST

Daniel of Stonemarche. Badge. (Fieldless) On a boar's head erased contourny argent a caltrop azure.

Katerina Drachenklaue. Name and device. Barry wavy azure and argent, a dragonfly vert.

Marcks von Fleckenstein. Device. Vert, a turtle rampant Or.

Morgan Faraday. Name and badge. (Fieldless) A scorpion gules.

Stonemarche, Barony of. Badge. (Fieldless) On a vair bell purpure a bee Or.

LOCHAC

Ailerán Éireannach. Name.

Styvyn Longshanks. Device. Gules, a comet bendwise sinister argent ermined gules.

Urusla von Ausbach. Name.

MERIDIES

Aleksandr Morekhodov. Device. Azure, a chevron embattled Or between two compass stars elongated to base argent and a sea­dragon erect contourny Or.

Please ask the submitter to draw the chevron at a steeper angle.

Asa of the Wood. Device. Azure, semy of otters passant Or, overall a lozenge argent voided of a keyhole.

While we are willing to register this, after the March 1998 Laurel meeting we will no longer, barring period evidence to the contrary, register keyholes, nor will we permit voiding in any shape other than a simple geometric charge, or the charge itself, if the charge is simple enough to void.

Bethoc Maclean. Name.

Boo Høg. Name and device. Or, a bend sinister vert between two dragons addorsed gules a bordure vert.

Clare de Estepa. Name.

Colin Mackay. Name and device. Sable, a lit candle and on a chief argent three Latin crosses sable.

Elspeth Fitzwilliam. Name.

Grimwulf Harland. Badge. (Fieldless) A hammer reversed Or handled gules, fretted with two annulets interlaced in pale argent.

Kara Temur. Device. Sable, a reremouse argent, in chief an increscent Or.

Lorin Ranson. Device. Or, on a pale rayonny gules between a maunch and a maunch reversed azure, a spoon Or.

Magnus Ian Maclean. Name and device. Argent, a dance gules, in base a dragon passant vert.

Meridies, Kingdom of. Badge for the Order of the Meridian Broken Bow. Sable, on a pale between two bows argent a crossbow sable.

Meridies, Kingdom of. Badge for the Order of the Sable Sword. Sable, on a pale between two escutcheons argent a sword sable.

Mihel Louis D'Aigneaux. Name and device. Argent, a cross­crosslet fitchy gules, a chief embattled sable.

Patrick Hugh de Moireis. Name and device. Vert, on a pale between two shamrocks argent, a stag springing gules.

Peregrine, Canton of. Device. Sable, a peregrine close, perched atop and sustaining a battle axe fesswise blade to base, within a laurel wreath argent.

Torgan Gal. Name change from Richard of Troll Fen.

His former name Richard of Troll Fen, is hereby released.

William Bruce. Device. Or, a domestic cat sejant sable, on a chief embattled gules three decrescents Or.

MIDDLE

Amilia Mary Herteshorn. Name.

Anna Virago of Vest Yorvik. Device. Vert, a lion statant erect affronty, on a chief Or, issuant from the bottom edge a demi­sun gules.

A possible problem was mentioned that since the demi­sun was issuant from the bottom edge of the chief, did this violate the rule of tincture by effectively having a color charge on a color field. On the November 1990 cover letter, Laurel ruled in a similar situation:

"A demi-sun throughout on a chief must have good contrast with the charge upon which it lies (the chief). It will automatically by definition have poor contrast with the field which it adjoins (assuming that the field is not neutral). This will be permissible so long as the demi-sun is not of the same tincture as the field."

Antony Greigor MacGreigor. Device. Gules, a unicorn rampant lozengy azure and argent, on a chief argent three thistles gules.

Aryanhwy Prytydes merch Catmael Caermyrdin. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Brennisteinvatn, Shire of. Device. Sable, on a flame argent a lizard tergiant fesswise vert, all within a laurel wreath argent.

Claus Hoeger of Balgach. Name.

Submitted as Claus Heger of Balgach, this form was changed at kingdom from Claus Hoegger of Balgach. We have changed it to a form closer to what was originally submitted.

Conon Adamantius Dracontius Silentiarius. Name.

Damian le Gravenor. Device. Or, three seals naiant in annulo sable a bordure vert.

David O Kellahan. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Submitted as David Kellahan, this is too close to his legal name, David Callahan, which is a violation of III.A.9 Protected Names: Name Used by Submitter Outside of Society of the Administrative Handbook. We have changed the name to a form that is acceptable to the submitter that does not violate this rule.

Dougall Roderick McLeod. Name.

Duncan MacAlpin the Lost. Name and device. Per bend sable and argent, a fleur­de­lys inverted Or and two thistles slipped and leaved proper.

Edmund Langland. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Edward Brackenburye. Device. Azure, in pale a boar and a rose argent between flaunches Or, gouty de sang.

Elizabetha Venusta. Name and device. Sable, a heart Or, and in chief a sword fesswise reversed argent.

Fáelchú an Stalcair. Name and device. Vert, a stag's head cabossed and on a chief argent, three Bowen crosses vert.

Genevieve Duplessis. Device. Per chevron purpure and argent, semy­de­lys counterchanged, three bunches of grapes counterchanged slipped and leaved vert.

Isabella Sharman. Name (see RETURNS for device).

James the Mercer. Name and device. Or, three chevronels braced gules in chief fountain, a bordure gules.

Jocelyn McGlynn. Name.

Kateryne Dod. Device. Or semy of leeks vert, on a pomme a chatloup passant Or.

A chatloup is a monster with a wolf's body, a cat's face, and goat's horns.

Katherine Elenora de Lacy. Device. Vert, a unicorn couchant regardant argent, a bordure argent semy­de­lys sable.

Konrad Matthias Jaeger. Badge. (Fieldless) A wingless demi­dragon wielding two forks sable issuant from a tankard Or foaming argent.

Lia de la Fountaine. Name.

Loretta of Illiton. Name and device. Or, a wingless demi­dragon sejant vert issuant from a wooden war wagon proper, a bordure dovetailed purpure.

Michaela de la Chesnay des Bois. Name and device. Per pale embattled gules and argent, two ivy leaves counterchanged.

Morna Douglass Montgumery of Renfrewshire. Device. Purpure, a pall sable fimbriated between a fleur­de­lys and two thistles argent.

Patrick Connor O'Donnell McPhelan. Badge. Vert, a chevron inverted argent, between three bezants one and two.

Robert FitzRobert of Jersey. Name.

Sabina Vodnikova. Name.

Saidhbhín Anastasia Ní Dhuinn. Device. Per pale azure and argent, on a bend sinister between two frets couped four lilies, counterchanged.

Seamus of Bass of Inverrurie. Name.

Submitted as Shamus of Bass of Inverrurie, this was changed in kingdom from the submitted form of Seumas of Bass of Inverrurie, because it combined English and Gaelic orthography in the same name. However, since Bass of Inverrurie is an attested place name, it can be combined with a Gaelic first name under the Lingua Anglica allowance. Therefore, we have restored it to the originally submitted form.

Svein Bjarnarson. Name and device. Gyronny arrondy of six Or and azure, a stoat's head erased proper a bordure embattled sable.

Volodymyr Bohdan Blahuciak. Name change from Vladimir Bohdan Blahuciak and device change. Or, a Latin cross atop a crescent inverted azure.

His previous name, Vladimir Bohdan Blahuciak, is hereby released. His previous device Per chevron azure and Or, two cats passant guardant and a Latin Cross atop a crescent inverted counterchanged., is hereby retained as a badge.

Wilfrid of Sweflingham. Name and device. Per bend sinister Or and gules, a wyvern displayed counterchanged.

Wilhelm Schatzgeyer. Device. Sable bezanty, an eagle displayed Or.

The client has received permission from Arnulf Adler (SCA) to conflict with his arms Sable, an eagle displayed Or, perched upon a sword fesswise proper, all within an orle of fleurs­de­lys Or.

Wolfger von Lausfenburg. Name and device. Vair en pointe, a cockatrice displayed wings inverted head to sinister Or.

Possible conflicts were called with Barony of Dragons Laire Per pale gules and sable a two headed dragon displayed Or grasping in dexter forepaw a laurel wreath vert and in sinister forepaw a moneybag gules., and Beltran of the Mount (SCA) Vair, a wivern volant to sinister Or maintaining a pomme charged with three fountains. In both cases there needs to be a CD between a wivern/dragon and a cockatrice for the two submissions to be clear.

If period monsters, were not considered different in period, this device would conflict with both of these, since we do not normally give a difference for changing the head only of a beast or monster. However, since they were considered different monsters in period, and since the head is not obscured in any way, we are willing to grant it the necessary CD to make it clear of these possible conflicts.

SOCIETY FOR CREATIVE ANACHRONISM

Da'ud ibn Auda. Acceptance of Heraldic Title Transfer. al-Jamal Herald

Society for Creative Anachronism. Transfer of Title. al-Jamal Herald.

WEST

Alessandra Grissoni. Name.

Broinninn nic Labhruinn. Device. Argent, a chevron embattled in base a tower, and a bordure sable.

Conor Weisszahn. Name and device. Per chevron raguly sable and argent, two crosses bottony argent and an eagle gules.

David Hert. Name and device. Argent, a bend sinister between a stag's head couped and three Latin crosses one and two gules.

Deredere the Naughty. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Diana of Dragonskeep. Name.

Submitted as Diana of Dragon's Keep, we have concatenated the final elements and eliminated the out of period apostrophe in order the match the documentation.

Geoffroi D'Aubernon. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Kala Ljómi Trygvadottir. Name and device. Per chevron sable and azure, a winged lion salient, and in chief three compass stars argent.

Mary Anne Loveman. Name and device. Per pale gules and Or, a heart counterchanged and on a chief dovetailed vert three roses Or.

Rael Hengaer. Name change from Gonwynnlynn of Hrassvelg.

Her former name Gonwynnlynn of Hrassvelg, is hereby released.

Richard Johns of Griffinwood. Name.

Robyn McLaren. Name and device. Azure, a sheaf of arrows inverted Or and in chief three mullets argent.

Samuil Glukhoi. Name and device. Azure, in pale three lions passant argent marked sable a bordure argent.

Toran Weisszahn. Name and device. Per chevron raguly sable and argent, two crosses bottony and a lion rampant counterchanged.

THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN RETURNED FOR FURTHER WORK:

AETHELMEARC

Ailith of Sarum. Name.

Unfortunately, Sarum is not the OE name for Salisbury, but rather is a ghost name. In manuscripts the Latin Saresberia was abbreviated to something that looks rather like Sa4. This was 'merely an early manifestation of the medieval scribe's habit of abbreviating such letters as ended in a horizontal stroke by means of a vertical stroke through this', but because the resulting symbol (represented here by 4) 'frequently stands for ­rum', the abbreviation has been improperly extended to Sarum (Johnson & Jenkinson, 67). The contemporary form of the name can be seen in William de Salesberie (1115) and Robert de Salisbyr' (1273). Clearly Old Sarum must then have been called something like Old Salisbury; Old Sarum seems to be an antiquary's name for the older ruins, based on a misreading of the medieval records. Since the submitter does not allow changes, we are forced to return this name.

David Rosensoldat. Name.

According to the letter of intent, Rosensoldat means Soldier of the Rose, in German. However, no documentation was presented, and none could be found for bynames formed in this fashion. Barring such documentation the name will have to be returned.

Fionn MacMorna. Name.

According to the LoI, the documentation for the byname comes from, Fionn MacCumhaill, Celtic Myth in English Literature, by James MacKillop, p 19, which says Cumhal is killed at the battle of Cnucha (modern: Castleknock western County Dublin) by Goll mac Morna of Connacht." However a book on Celtic Myth is not evidence that a name was used by human beings during our period. Barring such documentation, the name would have to be returned.

Morna is also an Anglicized form of the female Irish name Muirne. However, considering the byname as an Anglicized metronomic introduces other problems. First, since Fionn is a Gaelic name, the byname would have to be put into Gaelic. However, to the best of our knowledge, Gaelic did not use metronomics, so an all Gaelic form of the name as a metronomic would not be registerable.

Barring further documentation, we have no choice but to return the name.

Paul Franz von Drachenschloss. Badge. (Fieldless) A winged tower argent.

This visually conflicts with Guillaume di San Marino (SCA) Pean, a tower argent, issuant from its battlements two plumes pendant to base argent. There is clearly one difference for the field, but the plumes look very much like wings.

Rose verch Catrin. Device. Gules, a bend sinister between two roses argent barbed and seeded proper.

This is being returned for lack of paperwork; no armorial forms were sent to Laurel. Additionally, this conflicts with Fiona Julienne nic Lowry (SCA) Purpure, a bend sinister between two garden rosebuds slipped and leaved bendwise sinister argent., with one CD for the changes to the field.

AN TIR

An Tir, Kingdom of. Name for Honor of the Lion's Sword.

RfS III.2.b. requires that "Branch names, names of orders and awards, heraldic titles, and household names must consist of a designator that identifies the type of entity and at least one descriptive element." This name does not meets that requirement, since it has no designator. RfS III.2.b.ii. requires that "Names of orders and awards must follow the patterns of the names of period orders and awards.". No evidence was presented in the letter of intent to show that this name follows the patterns of period orders and awards, and none was presented in commentary.

Laighe na Gréine, Port of. Device. Per pale Or and azure, a tower argent within a laurel wreath counterchanged.

The group name was returned on the September LoAR and without a registered name the device must be returned. We do not form holding names for groups.

ANSTEORRA

None!

ATLANTIA

Dálkr Hálftroll Snjolfsson. Device. Sable, a horse skull affronty Or, flaunches argent estencely gules.

This is being returned for a redraw. As drawn, the horse's skull is virtually unidentifiable.

Dunstan of Manchester. Device. Ermine, a panther rampant gules incensed azure, on a chief gules a sword reversed proper.

This is being returned for a redraw. As drawn the monster is not clearly a panther, a Continental panther or a tyger, but something that shares the characteristics of all three. Since we register the picture not the words, this must be redrawn to be clearly one thing or another.

Lyon Filshenri. Name.

Lyon was stated in the letter of intent as coming from Dauzat. While this is a true statement, Dauzat only shows it as a surname, and not as a given name. Without documentation that it was used as a given name in our period, it cannot be used as a given name in the SCA, so are forced to return this name. The armory was registered under the holding name Lisa Filshenri.

CAID

Armand de la Croix. Device. Gyronny sable and Or a fret counterchanged overall an orle azure.

This is being returned for excessive counterchanging. The fret counterchanged over the gyronny field is virtually unidentifiable.

Melisande de Frayne. Device. Or, a tree proper, a bordure vert.

This conflicts with the Barony of Forgotten Sea Argent, ermined, a poplar tree, its roots nowed in the form of a Ukrainian trident head inverted, all within a bordure vert., with one CD for the field, but nothing for the nowing of the roots.

Sionnach of the Highlands. Name.

According to MacLysaght, Sionnach is in fact a byname rather than a documented given name: ". . . it is mainly found on Cos. Mayo and Galway and used there synonymously with Fox. An Sionnach (the Fox) was the epithetal designation of the chief of the Ó Cathernaigh sept." Even in modern Gaelic sionnach is the common word for a fox (Mac & Mac, Gaelic Dictionary, p. 301). If he wants an actual Irish given name that sounds and looks almost identical, he might opt for Senach which appears to have been a very common early Irish name but is derived from sen meaning ancient (Ó Corrain and Maguire, p. 164).

DRACHENWALD

Aodhnait inghean mhic Chárthaigh. Device. Sable, a griffin segreant argent.

This conflicts with Brandon d'Arindel (SCA) Sable, a male griffin rampant argent., with one CD for the difference between a standard and a male griffin.

EAST

None!

LOCHAC

None!

MERIDIES

Kiera nic an Bhaird. Household name for Cruadalach damh and badge. (Fieldless) A borage flower purpure, barbed vert, seeded argent.

The household name is being is being returned for several reasons. First, for violating RfS III.2.b. which requires that "household names must consist of a designator that identifies the type of entity and at least one descriptive element." There is no designator. Secondly, it is incorrectly constructed. The words need to be switched to follow correct Gaelic word order. Furthermore, the name does not really mean "courageous hart". The primary meaning of cruadalach is "dangerous, grievous" and the period meaning (as given in the Dictionary of the Irish Language) is "harsh, cruel, severe". The word, at least in the modern language, can be interpreted as "courageous, hardy" but this would not be the primary understanding. A word that appears to have much closer connotations to what is intended is meisnemail (DIL) or misneachail (Dwelly). They are both adjectival formations from misneach (courage). Finally, even if the name was correctly constructed, it does not fit the pattern of Scots Gaelic entity that we know of, nor does it fit any of the exemplars in the rules.

One possibility that they might consider is that a grammatically correct phrase meaning "courageous stag" could be Damh Misneachail -- but that, in itself, seems unlikely as a household name. Since damh appears as a root in given names (e.g. masculine Damhán), one historically plausible solution would be for them to invent an eponymous ancestor for a clan: e.g., Clann Damháin <courageous>.

The badge conflicts with Alyanore of Vinca (SCA) Argent, a periwinkle (vinca minor) proper. A periwinkle proper is very close in color both to purple and to blue; there is not a CD between it and either purpure or azure.

Pelacho the Kindhearted. Name.

This name is being returned for non­period style. It appears to be invoking the lingua Anglica rule on the byname, but that still requires that the element be demonstrated to be a valid byname in one or the other of the languages involved.

MIDDLE

Aeneas Oakhammer. Device. Vert, on a bend argent a sheaf of arrows inverted sable, in sinister chief a sprig of oak leaves fructed argent.

While the field was blazoned on the LoI as vert, it was actually halfway between azure and vert. Since we register the emblazon, not the blazon, this must be returned for not being clearly one color or another.

Antonio Cellini. Device. Per pale purpure and argent, two ferrets rampant addorsed each maintaining a sword, on a chief two Maltese crosses counterchanged.

This is being returned for a redraw. The animals as drawn look halfway between a ferret and a squirrel. Since we register the emblazon, not the blazon, this must be returned for not being clearly one type of animal.

Aryanhwy Prytydes merch Catmael Caermyrdin. Device. Argent estencely sable, in pale three stoats passant, counter­passant, passant purpure.

Withdrawn by submitter.

Aryanhwy Prytydes merch Catmael Caermyrdin. Badge. (Fieldless) A stoat passant purpure.

Withdrawn by submitter.

Bennett Weissenstein. Device. Per fess sable and checky argent and sable, in chief three towers argent.

This conflicts with David of Catlewhyte (SCA) Per chevron gules and sable, three castles argent. Bennett's towers cannot be two and one due to the field, so there is nothing for arrangement. This leaves only the one CD for the field.

Bjorn Strongarm of Illiton. Device change. Sable, a spiderweb, overall a lightning bolt bendwise sinister Or.

This conflicts with the Order of Arachen's Web Sable a spiderweb argent., with one CD for the addition of the overall charge. Additionally, this has a drawing problem as the web is not clearly couped or throughout. Note: we do not give any countable difference for couping any charges except ordinaries.

Caitrin of Appin. Name.

This is being returned for lack of paperwork. No name submission forms were received.

David O Kellahan. Device. Per pale sable and vert, a dolmen argent.

This conflicts with the badge of Cadwalladyr Stone of Stonecroft (SCA) Vert, a dolmen of three uprights capped by two lintels argent.

David O Kellahan. Badge. (Fieldless) A dolmen argent.

This conflicts with the badge of Cadwalladyr Stone of Stonecroft (SCA) Vert, a dolmen of three uprights capped by two lintels argent.

Edmund Langland. Device. Per pale vert and paly­bendy Or and gules, overall a maunche argent.

This conflicts with Barony of Fettberg Per fess argent ermined gules and gules in base a maunch argent. There is one CD for the change to the field, but since the placement of the Fettberg maunch is forced by the field tincture, there is nothing for the change of position on the field.

Eva MacCarthy. Device. Gules, a goblet Or and in chief a mullet of eight points argent, a bordure indented Or.

This is being returned for a redraw. The indented bordure is drawn with the indents far too small and too closely together; the classic "pinking shears".

Iain McConnor McCrimmon of Lymavady. Device. Sable, an escarbuncle, a bordure Or.

This conflicts with Ginevra die Hohe (SCA) Sable, three escarbuncles and a bordure Or., with only one CD for the change of number of primaries.

Isabella Sharman. Device. Azure, a sexfoil, a chief invected argent.

This conflicts with Catrin ferch Dafydd (SCA) Azure, a rose slipped and leaved within a bordure dovetailed argent., with one CD for changing the chief to a bordure.

John of Blackmore. Device. Azure, a Celtic cross Or charged with a rose gules.

This is being returned for unidentifiability. In the case of Kenneth die Katze, (Fieldless) Within a Celtic cross gules, a rose sable., the barbs of the rose overlaid the annulet. In this case, the rose does not appear to be either on the cross or overall, but somewhere in between. At any distance it blends in and looks like a wheel in the middle of the cross. We have grave doubts about the suitability of charging a Celtic cross in with fashion.

Keja Tselebnika. Device. Azure, a gurges, overall an owl displayed argent.

This is being returned for violating the rule of contrast, which creates in this case a major problem with identifiability. The contrast here is quite poor. Whether one sees the gurges as a charge (the standard, and correct interpretation) or as a field division, this is an argent charge on a half-argent background.

Nicolaa de Bracton of Leicester. Badge. (Fieldless) A pomegranate gules.

This conflicts with Granada (Important Real­World Arms) Argent, a pomegranate seeded gules slipped and leaved vert., with only one CD for fieldlessness.

Valentina Andreyevna Sokolova Krasnaya. Household name for House of the March Hare.

This conflicts with Barony of the Middle Marches Order of the March Hare. Since House and Order are transparent, these two names are identical.

WEST

Deredere the Naughty. Device. Per bend sinister gules and sable, a padlock debruised by a key bendwise, wards in base, argent

This is being returned for unidentifiability of the charges. With the argent charge overlying an argent charge, the only way you can tell which is what is because the padlock and the key are outlined in black.

Geoffroi D'Aubernon. Device. Quarterly vert and sable, a harp argent.

This conflicts with Fionnbharr Starfyr of the Isles (SCA) (Fieldless) A harp argent., with only one CD for fieldlessness.

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