AN TIR

 

Caversgate, Shire of. Name.

This name was returned on the December 1997 LoAR for lack of a petition of support. Since they have provided the necessary petition and no problems were found in the original round of commentary, we will, in this instance, register the name, since otherwise, due to An Tir policy on incipient groups, the group would be dissolved.

 

 

ANSTEORRA

 

Alexis Chambers. Name.

Please inform the submitter that in period Alexis was a male name.

 

Anna Beneyt atte Wode. Name and device. Argent, a bend wavy azure between a Latin cross vert and an oak tree proper.

 

Caradog y Blaidd. Name and device. Or, a wolf's head couped sable and on a chief gules, a dragon passant Or.

Note: the byname y Blaidd (of the wolves) follows the documented byname y Cwn (of the dogs).

 

Celeste Courtenay de Montmorency. Name.

 

Darius of the Bells. Name and device. Argent, a fess bretessed gules between three mullets of four points and a bell sable.

 

Dimitrii Stanislavich Riazanov. Device. Argent, a chevron inverted and in chief a dolphin naiant sable.

His former device Or, on a tankard azure a falcon volant Or, in base three bars wavy azure., is hereby released.

 

Eleanor Fitzgerald. Name and device. Per pale sable and vert, two wolves salient addorsed and in base a cup argent.

 

Etienne de Saint Amaranth. Name.

 

Gregory Baldwin. Name.

 

Gwyddno ap Gryffydd ap Emrys Eurdorchog. Name change from holding name Gwyddno of Tempio.

Submitted as Gwyddno ap Gryffydd ap Emrys yr Eurdorchog, the "yr" does not belong in this construction, so we have removed it.

 

Isobel Grace Hadleigh. Name.

 

Lisette de Meyners. Name.

 

Matheu Matson. Device. Argent, a demi-cat passant guardant sable and a base gules.

 

Melisenda de Barcelona. Device. Or, a borage flower azure and on a chief purpure, three annulets argent.

 

Predslava Vydrina. Name and device. Per fess embattled azure and gules, two otters passant Or.

 

Robert MacAllister of Loch Fyne. Device. Quarterly azure and argent, in bend sinister two roundels gules.

 

Rosalia O Brogan. Name.

 

Verginia Urdiales del Bosque. Device. Per saltire Or and gules, two swords inverted in saltire argent between two unicorns rampant sable.

 

 

ARTEMISIA

 

Aletheia Isidora of Philae. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Submitted as Aletheia Isidoridos of Philae, most of the exemplars we have been able to find for the early period, which the submitter wants, do not use true patronymics at all, but attributive bynames, some of which appear to be heritable or at least dynastic.

Almost without exception these bynames are in the same case and gender as the given name. Thus Alexius Comnenus and his daughter Anna Comnena. (Note that these bynames of quasi-heritable sort stayed with the woman like a modern Icelandic patronymic. Anna Comnena married Nicephoras Bryennios, but remained Anna Comnena in all the sources.

Therefore, we have changed the byname to Isidora. It is not merely a feminine name but is a descriptive.

 

Aletheia Isidora of Philae. Badge. (Fieldless) An ankh and a feather conjoined at base in chevron inverted azure.

 

Aurelia of Whitebrook. Name.

 

Bronwyn Morgan the Embroiderer. Device. Per bend azure and vert, in sinister chief two fleur-de-lys in bend and in dexter base an escallop inverted argent.

 

James Ulrich MacKellar. Name and device. Per chevron ermine and sable, two eagles displayed, dexter wings inverted and sinister wings elevated gules, and a set of bagpipes Or.

 

Melisande Alys Deschaux. Device. Argent, a bend sinister dancetty gules between a decrescent and an increscent sable.

 

One Thousand Eyes, Barony of. Order name for Order of the Paon d'Argent.

 

One Thousand Eyes, Barony of. Badge for Order of the Swan and the Escallop. Per saltire azure and Or, an escallop inverted a bordure argent.

 

Rhiannon the Gentle. Name change from Cairstiona Gordon and device. Azure, on a chevron inverted between three fleurs-de-lys one and two argent, two sprigs of thyme azure.

Her former name Cairstiona Gordon, is hereby released.

 

Tatiana Nikitovna Alekseeva. Name and device. Lozengy argent and sable, a horse's head couped vert.

Submitted as Tatiana Nikitovna Alekseiva, according to Escutcheon, Alekseiva is a typo in Temanova and the correct form is Alekseeva. We have corrected this. Please inform the submitter that while Nikitovna is registerable, the more period form would be Nikitina.

 

Theoderic der Rot. Name and device. Per pale gules and sable, three hedgehogs rampant in pale between two chess rooks argent.

Wilhelm von Adlersheim. Device. Per bend sinister sable and gules, an eagle rising, wings elevated and inverted Or, a bordure erminois.

 

 

ATENVELDT

 

AElfthryth Fey. Name and device. Per bend argent and sable, a cat salient contourny counterchanged.

 

Alaric Akeson. Name and device. Or, an eagle displayed, wings inverted, on a chief azure three mullets Or.

 

Alwin of Chailewai. Name and device. Per pale argent and sable, two lions rampant addorsed regardant counterchanged, in chief a goblet Or issuant therefrom a demi-sun gules.

 

Brendan mac Artuir ap Alan. Badge. Per saltire sable and argent, a sun counterchanged surmounted by a sword inverted Or.

 

Dýrfinna Knarrarbringa Vilhjálmsdóttir. Name.

Submitted as Dyrfinna Knarrarbringa Vilhelmsdottir, the proper form of the Old Norse patronymic is Vilhjálmsdóttir. We have made the appropriate correction.

 

Eufemia Serafina da Bergamo. Name and device. Per bend purpure and bendy sinister Or and purpure, a bee and three fleurs-de-lys in bend Or.

 

Muriella Sibilla de Oseburnham. Name and device. Per saltire purpure and gules, a tricorporate lion between four cinquefoils argent.

 

 

ATLANTIA

 

Afanasiia Volokhovna. Device. Argent, two wolves combatant sable, a ford proper.

 

Àine Aislingthech ingen Sorcha. Name and device. Vert, a ferret statant guardant contourny Or, in chief three crescents argent.

Submitted as Àine Aislingeach ingen Sorcha, Aislingeach is the modern form. We have substituted the period form, taken from The Dictionary of the Irish Language.

 

Àine Aislingthech ingen Sorcha. Badge. (Fieldless) On a crescent argent a crux ansata azure.

 

Alisaundre Quinnye. Device. Vert, on a bend between six roses argent a cat's face palewise sable.

 

Angharad of Bright Hills. Device. Azure, on a bend sinister between six Celtic crosses argent three wolves rampant contourny sable.

 

Arianna Morgan. Device. Per bend vert and sable semy of pheons inverted, a bend embattled counter-embattled, in sinister chief a lyre Or.

 

Astil Alysone Sandilands. Name and device. Checky azure and argent, a tankard and on a chief embattled sable three natural dolphins haurient argent.

 

Astrid Thorvardsdatter. Name (see PENDS for device).

 

Atlantia, Kingdom of. Change of badge for Order of the Nonpareil. Or, a sword between four towers sable.

The former badge Argent, a manatee hauriant azure between three hearts gules. is hereby released.

 

Atlantia, Kingdom of. Order name for Order of the Hippocampus.

 

Bran Mac Conraoi. Device. Sable, three wolves rampant, a chief indented Or.

 

Brendan Mad. Name and device. Per chevron inverted vert and paly vert and argent, a chevron inverted, in chief a round buckle Or.

Submitted as Brendan Y Mad, the definite article is not normally used with adjectival bynames in Welsh, so we have dropped the Y.

 

Brenna McKenzie. Name and device. Argent, a mountain couped vert enflamed proper, in chief two harps sable.

 

Cáelainn inghean uí Ríordáin. Name and device. Per pale sable and argent, a crescent between three open books counterchanged.

Submitted as Cáelainn ó Ríordáin, we have corrected the surname to match the gender of the given name.

 

Caitríona inghean Ghiolla Phádraig. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Submitted as Caitríona inghean Ghiolla-Phádraig, we have removed the superfluous hyphen.

 

Daniel Davidson. Name and device. Sable, a bear passant, a base indented argent.

 

Edward le Blanc. Name and device. Argent, a chevron, in chief two hammers in chevron vert.

 

Eldred Ælfwald. Device. Azure, three wheels, on a chief argent a dragon statant azure.

 

Eldred Ælfwald. Badge. Argent, semy of pine trees couped vert, a tankard gules foamed Or.

 

Eldred Ælfwald. Badge. Argent, a wheel, a bordure embattled azure.

 

Elizabeth the Unknown. Acceptance of transfer of armory from Elizabeth Unwyn.

 

Elizabeth Unwyn. Release of name and transfer of armory to Elizabeth the Unknown.

 

Elspeth Hinds. Name and device. Per bend dovetailed argent and azure, a hind's head erased and a unicorn’s head erased counterchanged.

 

Eóin Ó hEochaidh. Name and device. Per pale azure and vert, a wolf sejant ululant between three roundels argent.

 

Felina von Behren. Name.

Submitted as Feline von Behren, no documentation was presented for Feline. We have substituted the Italian Felina.

 

Finnr Grimulfsson. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Found on the LoI as Finnr Grimolfsson, it was changed in kingdom from Finnr Grimulfsson, for lack of documentation for Grimulfsson, to an attested form from Geirr Bassi. However, Grimulf is Danish and found in Danmarks Gamle Personennavne, cols. 397-398), so we have restored the name to the originally submitted form.

 

Gerald Saunders. Name and device. Per fess Or and argent, a dance azure between two escallops gules and a crescent azure.

 

Gisele l’Orpheline. Device. Per chevron azure and Or, a natural antelope courant Or and a turtle rampant vert, a bordure counterchanged.

 

Graham of the Bright Hills. Name and device. Per fess azure and barry argent and azure, in chief a thistle Or between a pair of clenched gauntlets argent.

Note: Graham is the submitter's legal given name.

 

Isabel Grimault. Name.

 

Ivan Ivanovich Nemytyi. Name and device. Per chevron Or and vert, two open books azure and a catamont couchant erminois.

 

Jason Kynslay. Name and device. Checky azure and Or, on a chevron sable three standing balances Or.

Submitted as Jason Kinslayer, no documentation was presented for the form Kinslayer. We have substituted the closest attested form.

 

Juan Iñigo de Navarra. Name and device. Per pale sable and argent, a bend sinister between two crosses couped and pierced counterchanged.

 

Kökö Erdene. Name and device. Gules, on a chevron inverted Or a lozenge azure.

 

Lyon Filshenri. Change from holding name Lisa Filshenri.

 

Marion Rapp. Name.

 

Megan ni Phádraig. Name and device. Argent, a statant couchant, on a chief embattled azure three mullets argent.

Submitted as Megan ni Pádraig, the patronymic needed to be lenited; we have done so.

 

Mieszko Zielénski. Name and device. Per fess sable and vert, a fess, in canton a roundel argent.

Submitted as Mieszko ten Zielen, no documentation was presented for the byname as a period form. We have substituted an attested form which has the same meaning.

 

Nottinghill Coill, Barony of. Award name and badge. Award of the Coill's Guiding Beacon. Per chevron Or and vert, a wake knot issuant from the line of division vert, a lantern Or.

 

Nottinghill Coill, Barony of. Badge for the Order of the Gordian Knot. Vert, two wake knots conjoined in pale Or.

 

Nottinghill Coill, Barony of. Badge for the Order of the Sword Knot. Per chevron Or and vert, a wake knot issuant from the line of division vert, a sword fesswise reversed Or.

 

Percival Aldridge. Name and device. Quarterly sable and argent, a cross flory Or between four roses counterchanged.

 

Ragnachar Radagaist. Name and device. Vert, a serpent in annulo argent.

 

Richard Storm. Name and device. Sable, a lightning bolt Or and in chief a cloud argent.

 

Rowan Berran McDowell. Name and device. Gules, a winged bull rampant guardant argent between three estoiles of eight rays Or.

Found on the LoI as Rowan McDowell, it had originally been submitted as Rowan Berran McDowell, and the Berran had been dropped for lack of documentation. Metron Ariston was able to provide suitable documentation for Berran as a period Scottish place, so we have restored the name to the originally submitted form.

 

Snæulf Hrolfsson. Name and device change from Ross Blackwood. Vert, on a roundel argent a tree eradicated sable, on a base argent a wolf statant sable.

His former device Vert, on a plate an oak tree eradicated sable, a base argent., is hereby released.

 

Sven Olafssen. Name.

 

Takeda Yoshinaka. Name and device. Azure, on a fan argent a roundel gules.

 

Thomas Broadpaunch. Name and device. Or, a talbot rampant sable, maintaining in its mouth a burning brand, in sinister chief a mullet of eight points gules.

 

Tobias of Emerickeskepe. Badge. (Fieldless) On a compass star elongated to base per pale sable and argent within and conjoined to an annulet gyronny sable and argent a tower Or.

This badge is to be associated with the Household name House Emerickeskepe.

 

Tristan FitzGerald. Name.

 

William of Cathair Daibhidh. Holding name and device ((see RETURNS for name). Vert, on a bend sinister Or a bow gules, in chief an arrow bendwise sinister inverted and a base enarched and indented Or.

The armory was submitted under the name Mæth Storm Crowe.

 

Willem of Bruges. Badge. Sable, an amphora, on a chief argent three flames gules.

 

Wolf Jade. Name.

 

Wulfric Adler. Name and device. Checky gules and argent, a sword inverted Or, overall an eagle's head erased sable.

 

 

CAID

 

Allan Blackharp. Name.

 

Anne Cathryn of Wicken Bonhunt. Device. Argent, a hunting horn between three lilies sable.

 

Dougal MacRae. Device. Or, three chevronels braced gules on a chief sable a lion couchant Or.

 

Hrothbeorht Matheus. Name and device. Per fess azure and sable, on a mullet of eight points argent a roundel gules a bordure argent mullety of eight points gules.

James Andrew MacAllister. Joint registration of badge with Ghislaine d'Auxerre. (Fieldless) A cross-crosslet fitchy argent charged with a compass star azure.

Their previously registered joint badge Per chevron azure and vert, two compass stars argent and a bear passant., is hereby released.

 

Jamie Snawberd of Ross. Name.

 

Josephus Piscator. Name and device. Argent, on a lozenge azure a compass star throughout Or.

 

Mathghamhain MacRaith. Name.

 

Rós nighean Somhairle. Name.

 

Seán of Naevehjem. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Argent, a dolphin haurient vert, on a bordure sable four escallops in cross Or.

The armory was submitted under the name Seán na Mora.

 

Susan of Dublin. Name and device. Argent, on a fess wavy between three natural dolphins azure a rose Or, barbed argent and seeded azure.

 

 

CALONTIR

 

Alaric von Thurm. Device. Per chevron throughout invected Or estoilly and sable, in base a hawk displayed head facing to sinister, argent.

A possible conflict was called against Este and Modena (important non-SCA arms) Azure, an eagle displayed argent, crowned Or., and Poland, Gules, an eagle displayed argent, crowned Or. In each case there is a CD for changes to the field and a second one for the secondary strewn estoiles.

 

Ailéne ingen Aedáin Name change from Ailene nic Aedain.

 

Brynhildr uppsaling Grimkelsdottir. Device. Argent, two drakkars sable between two scarpes azure.

This is clear of Vladimir of Wroclaw, Argent, three eagles in bend sinister between two scarpes azure. The arrangement of charges in bend between bendlets is period, as in the arms of Hacket, Argent, three fleurs-de-lis in bend between two cotises gules. (Papworth p. 854). There are three possible interpretations: that the interior charges are primaries and the bendlets secondaries, that the bendlets are primaries and the interior charges are secondaries, or that this is a charged bend and the "interior" charges are actually tertiaries. The last is the only interpretation which results in conflict, and it is the least likely of the three. Mundane heraldry texts consistently blazon this arrangement as [interior charges] between two bendlets or cotises. It is clear that all the charges are considered as being on the field. Whichever charges are primary or secondary, this results in this submission being clear.

There is a well-established rule that one cannot blazon one’s way out of a conflict. As a general rule this is true, but it should not be taken to overrule period interpretation. For example, "Argent, a fess sable" could also be blazoned as "Sable, a chief and a base argent". We would not infer therefore that "Argent, on a fess sable three eagles argent" conflicts with "Sable, in fess three eagles argent" with only one CD for the removal of the peripheral charges. Not all possible blazons are equally plausible, and implausible blazons don't necessarily result in a conflict.

 

Catelin Brock MacLeod. Name and device. Vairy argent and vert, a bend embattled counter-embattled between two brocks' heads cabossed Or.

 

Catelin Munro of Ailsa. Name and device. Ermine, a pall inverted sable between three Catherine's wheels gules.

Submitted as Caitilín Munro of Ailsa, this name combines English and Gaelic orthography in the same name. We have changed the Gaelic Caitilín to an English form.

 

Cerridwyn Eurgledde ferch Owain ap Bychan Glyndyfrdwy. Name change from Cerridwyn Eurgledde ferch Owain and device. Sable, in chief an open book Or overall a sword proper.

Submitted as Ceridwyn Eurgledde ferch Owain ap Fychan o'r Glyndyfrdwy, the first name was misspelled on the LoI, and was corrected to Cerridwyn. We have corrected the spelling of Fychan since in the cited example it was lenited and in the submitted form it is not. We have dropped the inappropriate o'r.

 

Donngal Erikson. Device. Azure ermined Or, a cross throughout gyronny gules and Or.

 

Egill Halldórsson. Name.

Submitted as Egill Halidarson, the patronymic was incorrectly put into the genitive. We have corrected this.

 

Ekaterina ha Varanga. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Submitted as Ekaterina ha Varangoia, the submitter asked that the name be corrected to 11th-12th century Greek. We have corrected this to the form suggested by Metron Ariston.

 

Gillian Warrender. Name and device. Ermine, an oak leaf inverted vert a bordure sable.

 

Gwendolyn A'Brook. Name and device. Per saltire Or and sable, a saltire between in pale two roses and in fess two lobsters counterchanged.

 

Harriette of Dun Ard. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Vert, on a bend between two roses Or three fleurs-de-lys palewise vert.

The armory was submitted under the name Terwen ap Gwynedd.

 

Jóhann brattsteinn Marteinsson. Name.

 

Khadija bint Shuja. Name and device. Per fess sable and gules, a scimitar fesswise blade to base, fracted and a crescent inverted a bordure Or.

 

Mairghead de Chesholme. Name and device. Or cruscilly sable, a boar's head erased closed gules.

While this mixes English and Gaelic orthography in the same name, since Chesholme is a place it is permissible under the Lingua Anglica allowance.

 

Nika Nikievna. Name and device. Per pale and per chevron sable and argent, in chief two wolves combattant counterchanged a bordure gules.

 

Olaus Simone Silvano. Badge. Ermine, an acorn gules.

 

Owen of Calontir. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Per bend sinister argent and azure, a lion rampant counterchanged, a bordure engrailed counterchanged.

The armory was submitted under the name Owen Cwiran.

Phillip Tulloch. Name.

Submitted as Pilib Tulloch, this combines Gaelic and English orthography in the same name. We have substituted the English form of Pilib in order to register the name.

 

Rory de Graham. Name.

Submitted as Ruaidridh de Graham, this combines Gaelic and English orthography in the same name. We have substituted the English form of Ruaidridh in order to register the name.

 

Tsunetaro Hayashi. Name.

 

 

DRACHENWALD

 

Adamestor, Shire of. Name and device. Gyronny azure and argent, a sea lion erect Or, within a laurel wreath vert.

 

Adeliz of Acle. Name and device. Argent, an eagle's head erased between three billets sable.

 

Bertrade Deslapins. Device change. Or, two ragged staves in saltire sable.

Her former device, Or, a coney's head erased contourny sable and on a base embattled vert a saltire raguly couped Or., is hereby retained as a badge.

 

Daniel Olavinpoika Sulka. Name and device. Per pale gules and argent, a chief embattled counterchanged.

 

Drachenwald, Kingdom of. Badge for the Company of Archers. Or, in pale a dragon passant coward sable and two arrows in saltire gules.

 

Drachenwald, Kingdom of. Herald's title for Rabe Herald.

 

Drachenwald, Kingdom of. Herald's title for Rautahirvi Pursuivant.

Rautahirvi was originally documented as a war cry, but no evidence was presented to show it would have been a period war cry. However, Schwartzdrachen has been able to document Rautahirvi as a place name constructed in a period manner for Finnish places. Since period place names were one of the sources for herald's titles this is registerable.

 

Eilwen Rhys of Huntingdon. Name and device. Argent, a bend sinister azure between two seeblatter gules.

While Eilwen cannot be documented as a period Welsh name, it can be plausibly justified as a hypothetical compound name on the basis of elements found in period Welsh names (e.g., Eilfyw, Eiludd; Ceinwen, Dwynwen, Tudwen -- see Jones-Compound Names).

 

Gráinne inghean uí Uaithne. Device. Vert, a bridge throughout Or between two increscents argent.

 

Gráinne inghean uí Uaithne. Badge (see RETURNS for household name). Per pale vert and argent, a pair of dexter hands clasping throughout, issuant from the flanks, that to dexter Or, that to sinister sable.

 

Guntram von Wolkenstein. Badge. (Fieldless) A cinquefoil per pale Or and sable.

 

Lachlan mac Nachdan. Name and device. Per bend argent and sable, a chain of three links bendwise sinister and a bordure counterchanged.

 

Sadra Martelet. Name and device. Per chevron inverted azure and sable, a chevron inverted embattled on the lower edge and in chief a martlet argent.

 

Sigismund Jaeger. Name.

 

 

MERIDIES

 

Asleif Gunnadottir. Name.

 

Axemoor, Barony of. Order name for Order of the White Pillars of Axemoor.

This is to be associated with the badge Sable, in bend sinister an axe inverted reversed and an axe both bendwise sinister Or between two scarpes, overall a pillar argent.

 

Camden Tor, Shire of. Name and device. Azure, a sun Or and on a chief checky azure and argent three laurel wreaths Or.

 

Donn MacRoaich. Device. Per pale indented vert and sable.

 

Döregene Naran. Name and device. Sable, on a bend sinister argent, between two daggers proper, a rose gules, slipped and leaved proper.

 

Eilíonóra Fágán. Name and device. Argent, two dragons rampant respectant vert sustaining a wooden chalice proper.

 

Eric Wolfson. Name (see RETURNS for device).

 

Erketu Mungqaq. Name.

 

Esteban Diaz de la Mancha. Name and device. Azure, a chess rook between two compass stars in fess argent.

 

Gillian Starke of Aberdeen. Badge. Argent a wolf rampant maintaining a gillyflower azure slipped and leaved, a bordure vert.

 

Godric the Gallant. Name (see RETURNS for device).

 

Hawk Gunnulf. Name and device. Per bend sinister gules and argent, a hawk striking to sinister and a wolf passant counterchanged.

 

Knut Thorfinnsson. Name.

 

Louis Phillippe Richard de Paris. Name and device. Sable, two dragons sejant erect respectant, that in dexter Or and that in sinister argent between in pale two fleurs-de-lys per pale argent and Or.

 

Magge Reichenberg. Device. Per pale argent and gules, a drop spindle proper threaded Or, between two sheep passant to sinister counterchanged.

 

Malcolm MacLachlan. Device. Sable, on a pile wavy inverted bendwise Or, a wyvern erect vert.

 

Merwydd of Effington. Device. Per saltire argent and counter-ermine, a monster composed of the head and torso of a bull, the tail of a snake, the wings of an eagle and the forearms of a man, erect, wings elevated and maintaining a bow gules.

While this is an extreme example of a constructed monster, given the carefree abandon with which chimerical monster were employed in Renaissance heraldry this is just within the limits of acceptability. It is no more improbable than the gender-confused lamia, found in the 16th century canting crest of Lambert and described by Randall Holme as "a beast...which hath a Woman’s Face, and very large and comely shaped spots on her breasts, which cannot be counterfeited by Art; having an excellent colour in their fore parts; they hisse like Dragons. They are, as some write, scally all over; and the legs the same, to the feet; which foremost are like a Lyon, and the hinder a Goat, with a busy tail like a Spahiel Dog, or an undockt Horse, his stones great and hanging down."

 

Merwydd of Effington. Badge. (Fieldless) A monster composed of the head and torso of a bull, the tail of a snake, the wings of an eagle and the forearms of a man, erect, wings elevated and maintaining a bow gules.

While this is an extreme example of a constructed monster, given the carefree abandon with which chimerical monster were employed in Renaissance heraldry this is just within the limits of acceptability. It is no more improbable than the gender-confused lamia, found in the 16th century canting crest of Lambert and described by Randall Holme as "a beast...which hath a Woman’s Face, and very large and comely shaped spots on her breasts, which cannot be counterfeited by Art; having an excellent colour in their fore parts; they hisse like Dragons. They are, as some write, scally all over; and the legs the same, to the feet; which foremost are like a Lyon, and the hinder a Goat, with a busy tail like a Spahiel Dog, or an undockt Horse, his stones great and hanging down."

 

Molly Fagan. Name (see RETURNS for device).

 

Osric de Wolf. Device. Per pale argent and sable, a pithon displayed wings inverted counterchanged.

 

Rhiannon of the Isle. Badge. Vert, a dragon passant Or, gorged of a county coronet gules, maintaining an hourglass proper, in chief three mullets in chevron argent.

Note: the submitter is a countess and thereby entitled to use a coronet in her personal armory.

 

Rhiannon of the Isle. Badge. Per saltire vert and pean, a dragon passant Or, gorged of a county coronet gules, in chief three mullets in chevron argent.

Note: the submitter is a countess and thereby entitled to use a coronet in her personal armory.

 

Sanzio Sansovino. Name (see RETURNS for device).

 

Sefferey of Wessex. Name change from Jefferey of Wessex.

 

Ségán ua Flaithfhiled. Name (see RETURNS for device).

 

Síle of Limerick. Name.

While this combines Gaelic and English orthography, something we do not normally permit, it is permissible under the lingua Anglica rule.

 

Susan Landbeorht. Device. Per pale counter-ermine and Or, two hounds sejant erect respectant counterchanged issuant from base a demi-sun gules.

 

Thaddeus Camberwell. Name and device. Sable, a pale engrailed Or semy of pawprints inverted sable between two natural leopard heads erased respectant argent spotted sable.

 

Valamir von Straubing. Name.

 

Viviane of Essex. Name (see RETURNS for device).

 

 

MIDDLE

 

Adalasia Serena. Name.

 

Ælfwine se Pyttel. Name.

 

Alan Fairfax Aluricson. Badge. (Fieldless) A hand in benediction azure.

 

Alison de Winfeld. Name.

 

Alix de Coucy. Name and device. Azure, a bear statant erect muzzled, on a chief argent four retorts gules.

 

Angelica d'Aquila. Name.

 

Antonia di Marino. Name and device. Argent, a bear rampant, on a chief sable three roses argent.

 

Arthur Atkinson de Kyrkeschawe. Name.

 

Arthur Knox of Bannockburn. Name and device. Per pale sable and azure, two double-bitted axes in saltire Or.

 

Arwyn of Leicester. Device. Purpure crusily Latin, a Bouchier knot, a bordure Or.

 

Aryanhwy Prytydes merch Catmael Caermyrdin. Alternate name Aryanwy Lyghtefote and badge. (Fieldless) A stag salient argent, winged Or.

Submitted as Aryanhwy Lyghtefot, per the submitter's request, we have changed the given name to a Medieval Welsh form.

 

Audrey Fletcher. Device. Azure, on a pale argent between a rapier proper and a needle argent threaded Or, a cat rampant sable.

 

Big John MacLellan. Name change from Eoforwine Bigga and device change. Argent, a boar's head couped close gules armed sable between three holly leaves vert.

His former device Argent, a thistle purpure between three holly leaves vert., is hereby released.

 

Bläß von Bremen. Name (see RETURNS for device).

 

Bläß von Bremen. Badge. Vert, a horse passant contourny argent, on a chief Or, three roses proper.

 

Bodvarr skipasmidr. Household name for Vargáhús.

Submitted as Varg Has, we have corrected this to the proper Old Norse form. However, this is in conflict with Vargbyhus, which is registered to Juhana Maununpoika Kivisuo. He has graciously provided a letter of permission to conflict.

 

Brenan Egan. Name and device. Or, three thistles slipped and leaved conjoined in pall proper.

A possible conflict was called against Annette of Faire Monte, who was blazoned Or, in fess three thistles slipped and leaved proper conjoined at their bases and enflamed gules. A visual comparison of her submission shows that her thistles are not enflamed, but rather on a flame, making these two submissions clear of each other. See under WEST for reblazon of her device.

 

Brice Colquhoun. Name and device. Per bend sinister vert and azure, a wolf sejant ululant and a tree couped Or.

 

Cáelainn Doinngeard. Name.

 

Cailean mac Dubhghaill mhic Leoid. Name and device. Per bend sinister sable and argent, eight roundels in orle counterchanged.

 

Caldrithig, Canton of. Device. Gules, a chevron rompu argent overall a laurel wreath Or.

 

Calum Ra’arsach mac Leoid. Name and device. Per bend indented argent and purpure, a bull's head cabossed sable and a dragon dormant argent.

 

Caoilfhionn inghean Cheallaigh uí Mhórdha. Name and device. Argent, three chevronels braced vert, on a chief azure three decrescents argent.

 

Cassandra Elissa Castellano de Cervantes. Device. Argent, a cross fleury fitchy throughout sable between four towers gules.

Please inform the submitter on how to properly draw a cross fleury.

 

Catherine Margaret Oakley of Rivendale. Device. Per pall argent, sable, and vert, a Catherine's wheel and an oak leaf argent.

This was registered on the February 1998 LoAR.

 

Catlin O'Connor. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Found on the LoI as Catelin, it was originally submitted as Catlin and changed by the kingdom. Since documentation has been provided for Catlyn as a period English given name, and since is it possible to make a y/i switch in English, we have restored this to the originally submitted form.

 

Ceara ní Loideáin. Name change from Cristina Wynde.

 

Cecily de Kenton. Name.

 

Cillian MacClure. Name and device. Argent ermined azure, on a fess between three wolves passant gules, an arrow argent.

The Gaelic form would be Cilléne mac Giolla Uidhir.

 

Curteis le Criur. Name and device. Quarterly vert and argent, in bend two straight trumpets bendwise Or.

 

Damhnait of the Cleftlands. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Azure, two dragons combattant Or.

The armory was submitted under the name Damhnait Uniacke.

 

Damian Crowe. Name.

 

David ben Eliezar. Name.

 

Dougal of Icolmkill. Name.

 

Duftach Scott the Bastard. Name and device. Per bend sable and gules, on a bend cotised Or, three bears rampant palewise sable.

 

Dungall Gunnarsson. Name.

 

Edward Dowe of Ayrshire. Device. Lozengy sable and argent, a Celtic cross Or, a bordure engrailed gules.

 

Edward Reinherz. Device. Per chevron rayonny sable and Or two roses slipped and leaved Or and a rose gules slipped and leaved vert.

 

Eirik the Dark. Name.

 

Emelye de Mercia. Name and device. Or, a chevron purpure between three slips of bluebells azure.

Please instruct the submitter on how to draw bluebells.

 

Eve the Wagand. Name.

Submitted as Eve Stonehart the Wagand, no documentation was presented for the Stonehart. We have dropped the problematical element in order to register the name.

 

Everard Gein. Name and device. Vert, a bear statant and on a chief argent three Latin crosses fleury azure.

Please instruct the submitter on how to properly draw a bear.

 

Feargus MacLachlainn. Name (see RETURNS for device).

 

Garth Brandon. Device. Gules, on a chevron between three escallops inverted Or, five fleurs-de-lys sable.

 

Geileis nic Dhughaill. Name and device. Purpure, a lion rampant between three cinquefoils argent.

Submitted as Geiléis nic Dhùghaill, we have removed the unnecessary accents.

 

Gerhard Finsterwalder. Device. Per pale azure and argent, a tree eradicated counterchanged argent and sable, a chief counter-compony sable and argent.

 

Gerontius Fabianus of York. Name.

 

Gillian of Rotherwood. Name and device. Sable, a moon in her plentitude argent, a bordure argent semy of oak leaves gules.

 

Grífín mac Breandáin. Name and device. Azure, an oak leaf within a torque, a bordure argent.

 

Guy Wicker. Name (see RETURNS for device).

 

Guy Wicker. Badge. Argent, a crux ansata, a bordure rayonny gules.

 

Gwenfron Bran. Name (see RETURNS for device).

 

Gwenhwyvar verch Owen ap Morgan. Name.

Per RFS VI.3 permission is required from Owen ap Morgan to register this item because it unmistakably implies a close relationship to him. He has graciously provided this permission.

 

Hannah the Innocent. Name.

 

Henri Beausoleil. Name.

 

Isabel Jimenez de Gaucin. Name.

 

Isabella de Vézelay. Name and device. Per pale vert and azure, a demi-sun issuant from base argent.

 

Ivarr Valfrekr. Name.

Submitted as Ivarr Valtrekr, the LoI misspelled the byname. The correct form is Valfrekr. We have made the appropriate correction.

 

Ivor Dragon. Name (see RETURNS for device).

 

Jacinthe Ritchie. Name.

 

Jeanne Anne la Bonnetière. Device change. Per bend argent and gules, in base in bend five annulets in bend Or.

Her former device Gules, a griffin with the forelegs of a horse passant contourny regardant coward between five annulets two, two, and one, all within a bordure Or., is to be retained as a badge.

 

Johannes Braunhausen. Name (see RETURNS for device).

 

John Cholmondeley. Device. Sable, a tree Or between two birds rising, wings elevated and addorsed argent.

 

Karl von Brandenburg. Name (see RETURNS for device).

 

Kerkira Anastasia Tamarina. Badge. Per pale vert and azure, two unicorn horns crossed in saltire argent.

 

Kieran MacLeod. Name.

 

Lillias Marion de la Val. Name and device. Per bend sinister azure and vert semy-de-lys argent, a pegasus salient argent.

 

Linnett of Monadh. Name and device. Gules, three buckets in pale Or.

Nice armory!

 

Lyulf of Urquhart. Device. Per pale argent and azure, a sea serpent naiant contourny, a tressure conjoined in chief to a fleur-de-lys counterchanged.

 

Máel Coluim mac Flainn. Name change from Patrick Angus Flynn and device. Per pale vert and azure, a lymphad and on a chief dovetailed Or three Celtic crosses sable.

 

Marguerite le Reed. Name.

 

 

Marion FitzWilliam. Badge. Argent, a raven contourney sable perched atop a chevron vert.

Questions were raised in commentary as to whether having the raven perched on the chevron was period style. The 15th c. arms of Fawkener are Azure, three bars and perched on each a falcon argent. (found in the Dictionary of British Arms, Vol. I, Chesshyre & Woodcock eds).

 

Marion FitzWilliam. Household name for House Galbraith.

 

Meadhbh inghean uí Broíthe. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Submitted as Meadhbh ui Broíthe, the surname was not in the proper feminine form. We have corrected this.

 

Michael Rhys Armitage. Badge. Vert semy-de-lys Or, a swan rousant argent collared and chained Or, a bordure compony gules and argent.

 

Morwith Blackthorn. Name.

 

Oakford, Canton of. Device. Argent, four oak leaves conjoined in cross within a laurel wreath vert, a ford.

 

Oonami Yoshirou Kageyoshi. Device. Sable, three crescents conjoined at the tips pallwise argent.

This was accepted on the February 1998 LoAR.

 

Rafaela de Montoya. Name.

 

Roger de Bar. Name.

 

Rónnait ni Chatharnaigh. Name and device. Or, a fox's mask proper within a trefoil knot vert.

 

Rosalyn MacGregor. Device. Argent semy of combs vert, a rose purpure, slipped and leaved vert, a bordure engrailed purpure.

 

Streonwold Wulfesbana. Name and device. Sable, on a bend between two seaxes bendwise, edges to center, the lower reversed Or, a natural panther courant sable breathing flames gules.

 

Thora Njalsdottir. Name.

 

Vittoria Gabrielli. Name and device. Or, two cats sejant and in chief five ermine spots in fess sable.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the cats larger.

 

Wyllyam MacGregor. Name and device. Per saltire sable and argent, two frets Or and two round buckles sable.

 

 

OUTLANDS

 

Cáelainn ní Neachtain. Name and device. Per bend Or and sable, in bend sinister two calla lilies stems issuant from the line of division counterchanged.

Submitted as Cáelainn ní Cynric Mac Naughton, this name mixes Welsh, Gaelic, and English orthography in the same name. We have dropped the Welsh elements and made the name entirely Gaelic and put the byname into the feminine form.

 

Cullen O'Neill. Device. Azure, two daggers inverted in saltire Or surmounted by a cup, a bordure embattled argent.

Eric Morrison of Thistlekeep. Badge. (Fieldless) Two arms embowed and interlaced gules, the dexter maintaining an arrow and the sinister maintaining a recorder Or.

 

Isabella de Luna. Badge. (Fieldless) A compass star Or within and conjoined to the horns of an increscent argent.

 

Jan van Hees. Name and device. Per chevron Or and gules, two oak trees proper and a tower Or.

 

Kathleen MacCarthy. Name and device. Vert, two bars wavy argent between three crosses of St. Brigid and a harp Or.

 

Leona Roy Colquhoun. Name.

Submitted as Leona Ruadha Colquhoun this mixes English and Gaelic orthography in the same name. We have substituted the English form of Ruadha.

 

Masina di Giovanni. Name.

Submitted as Masina Giovanni, the submitter has not used the Online Catasto correctly. The column labeled "patronymics" gives the father's name in the nominative, not the genitive, and in the actual Catasto all such cases use the preposition. As we have no evidence of completely unmarked patronymics in Italian, the name needs to become Masina di Giovanni to be grammatically correct. We have made the necessary correction.

 

Michael Patrick MacBain. Name.

 

Ursula die Taube. Device. Sable, a sun in glory Or between five crescents in annulo points outward argent.

 

 

TRIMARIS

 

Adelric Drago. Name and device. Per chevron inverted sable and Or, in chief a dragon passant and in base three swords fesswise in pale counterchanged.

 

Antonio Miguel Santos de Borja. Name (see RETURNS for device).

The majority of the original documentation for this name came from the International Genealogical Index published on CD-ROM by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. We will repeat what has been said before about the Mormon Church's International Genealogical Index (IGI), as it applies to the use of the IGI as a source for documentation of names in the SCA:

"The IGI is a database originally intended to record ordinances performed in behalf of ancestor of LDS members. It was recognized that the information contained would or could be a valuable tool for other individuals searching for their ancestors so the information was made public. Effort is made to insure the best, most accurate information is used in the performance of these ordinances, but human beings do the work and thus errors are made. Understand that it is a record of ordinances that contain genealogical information, not the other way around. Since it's a record ordinances, you can't change want was done, you can only correct the errored information and resubmit." (Jeffrey Smidt, <jsmidt@iastate.edu, soc.genealogy.misc newsgroup, Tue, 22 Jul 1997 09:08:07 -0700, Message-ID: <33D4DAE7.332A@iastate.edu>)

In other words, the records may contain a lot of errors, much of the information is sent in by amateur genealogists (which makes it more error prone), and it is, at the very best, a mediocre secondary source for SCA purposes, and more often, a poor tertiary or quaternary source, with names normalized and/or mistranscribed in many cases. It should only be used for SCA purposes with all of that in mind.

Fortunately for the submitter, members of the College of Arms were able to provide reliable documentation for his submission.

 

Dafydd Chwith Nanheudwy. Name.

 

Daniel of Silverwaters. Device. Azure, on a bend wavy between two lions sejant erect guardant Or an arrow inverted vert, a bordure Or.

 

Desirata Wendaway. Name and device. Or, on a pale wavy purpure three sunflowers proper, a bordure purpure.

 

Étaín ingen Mháel Ísu. Name.

 

Jonathan Harbour. Name (see RETURNS for device).

 

Mocholla MacDhaibhidh. Name change from holding name of Jennifer ní Dhaibheaid.

Submitted as Mocholla MacDaibhead, the patronymic was not correctly constructed. We have corrected this.

 

Randwulf æt Blæcrose. Name and device. Argent, a rose slipped bendwise sinister sable, a bordure sable semy of wolves' heads erased argent.

 

Sibilla Goodenough. Name and device. Azure, on a bend argent between a sun in splendor and an opened scroll Or, three mullets purpure.

 

Sven Förlorad. Quarterly arrondi sable and Or.

 

Trimaris, Kingdom of. Badge. Argent, a saltire between four triskeles azure.

This is to be associated with the Pages Guild.

 

Waclaw von Pressburg. Name.

Submitted as Wáclaw von Pressburg, we have dropped the inappropriate accent in Waclaw.

 

Wilhelm von Meissen genannt Frawenlop. Device. Purpure, a recorder and on a chief argent three musical notes gules.

 

Wyvernwood, Barony of. Augmentation. Vert, a wyvern passant argent, winged and bellied within a laurel wreath Or and as an augmentation on a chief wavy argent three triskeles azure.

 

 

WEST

 

Annette of Faire Monte. Device. Or, on a flame gules in fess three thistles slipped and leaved proper conjoined at their bases.

This is a reblazon from a 12/71 blazon.

 

Cedifor Caddno. Name and device. Argent, on a chevron vert between three foxes rampant gules three roundels argent.

 

Cristin ferch Ieuan Cuffin. Name.

 

Cynan ap Cedifor. Name.

 

Cynthia de Greenfield. Name and device. Vert, a closed book palewise and in chief three needles bendwise sinister threaded Or.

 

Danaë FitzRoberts. Name and device. Argent, a tree blasted and eradicated gules surmounted by a peacock close reguardant vert.

Note: Danaë is the submitter's legal given name.

 

Duncan McClay. Name and device. Argent, a horse’s head couped gules, on a chief sable two increscents argent.

 

Duncan McClay. Badge. Argent, a horse’s head couped gules.

 

Elena ferch Cedifor. Name.

 

Elsabeth ferch Cedifor. Name.

 

Felix MacAvady. Name.

 

Huw ap Cedifor. Name.

 

Lance Artur de Beauregard. Device. Plumetty gules and argent two ravens addorsed regardant sable.

 

Loren of Lindisfarne. Name and device. Vair, on a chief azure three escutcheons Or.

 

Rupert Paxton. Name and device. Gules a lion’s head couped Or on a chief argent a cross throughout azure.

 

William Aikenhead. Name.

THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN RETURNED FOR FURTHER WORK:

 

ANSTEORRA

 

Alfredo Gabriel Halcón. Badge. (Fieldless) A sword Or perched on its quillons two falcons rising respectant wings elevated and addorsed gules.

This conflicts with Dmitrii Volkovich A sword Or. The only CD is the one for fieldlessness.

 

Theodric Afhaims. Badge. (Fieldless) A mouse's head cabossed argent.

This conflicts with Twila of Meridies Quarterly vert and sable, a mouse head caboshed argent., with only one CD for the fieldless versus field.

 

 

ARTEMISIA

 

Aletheia Isidora of Philae. Device. Azure, on a pale endorsed argent a lotus affronteé azure.

This conflicts with Muireann á Dùn na Tráighe Céiene Azure, on a pale endorsed argent, three lozenges azure., with one CD for the changes to the tertiaries.

 

One Thousand Eyes, Barony of. Badge for Order of the Iron Talon of One Thousand Eyes. (Fieldless) A talon erect argent grasping an orb sable.

This conflicts with Damianus Petrolino (Fieldless) a dragon's jambe erased inverted clutching a roundel argent. We give no difference between an eagle's jamb and a dragon's jamb. Since the default for a dragon's jamb is claws up and the default for an eagle's jamb is claw's down, there is no difference for orientation, leaving the only difference the CD for fieldlessness.

 

One Thousand Eyes, Barony of. Badge for Order of the Talon d'Or. Per bend sinister azure and Or, a talon erect Or grasping an orb azure

This conflicts with the Barony of Calafia, (Fieldless) a dragon's jambe inverted Or. There is nothing for type of talon/jambe leaving the only CD the one for fieldlessness. Note: even if there had been no conflict, this would have been returned for style since as emblazoned, much of the Or talon is on the Or field, leaving zero contrast for that portion.

 

Tatiana Nikitovna Alekseeva. Household name for Household of Fire and Frost and badge. Sable, a leaf inverted argent and in base a demi-arch of five flames Or.

The name is being returned for non period style. Household names must follow period exemplars of groups of people. Possible models include Scottish clans (Clan Stewart), ruling dynasties (House of Anjou), professional guilds (Baker's Guild of Augsburg, Worshipful Company of Coopers), military units (The White Company), and inns (House of the White Hart). This follows none of these examples.

The armory is also being returned for style. As emblazoned, the flames are not identifiable as such from the drawing alone. Furthermore, since the tenure of Baldwin of Erebor as Laurel King of Arms, a demi-arch of charges has been ruled to be not registerable.

 

Uilleam Nial McAndrew. Name and device. Vert, fretty Or, on a chief argent a rose, a rosebud and a rose azure.

The name mixes Gaelic and English orthography in the same name, thereby breaking our rules on name construction. An entirely English version would be William Nial McAndrew. A Gaelic form would be Uilleam Mac Aindriu. Note: the Gaelic form must lose the middle name, since Gaelic does not use double given names. Since no changes were allowed, we must return the name.

The armory is being returned for breaking two different style rules, each in and of themselves grounds for return. First, we do not register rosebuds. Second, by combining rosebuds and roses the submission violates our "sword and dagger" rule, by using two variants of the same charge on the same piece of armory. Armory is used for identification. Using two variants of the same charge in the same piece of armory is visually confusing.

 

 

ATENVELDT

 

Josephine Ysabelle de Laval. Name and device. Argent, a hedgehog sejant proper, a bordure gules.

According to Withycombe "The Empress Josephine, who is responsible for the modern vogue of the name, was actually named Marie Josèphe Rose, Josephine being a pet-name." Barring documentation that Josephine is a period given name, it cannot not used. Since the submitter refuses any changes we cannot remove the out-of-period element and register the rest of the name. For the same reason we cannot form a holding name, so the armory must be returned as well.

 

 

ATLANTIA

 

Atlantia, Kingdom of. Heraldic title. Alpen Pursuivant.

According to the LoI, Alpen is the German plural of Alp. Since, however, the Alps have their own entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica, and we protect any place that has its own entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica, this must be returned for conflict.

 

Caitríona inghean Ghiolla Phádraig. Device. Argent, a fret couped, on a chief azure a hound courant argent.

As drawn this is not clearly per fess, or field a chief, but rather something halfway between. Therefore, this must be returned for a redraw.

 

Finnr Grimulfsson. Device. Argent, two arms embowed fesswise manacled, chain sundered, hands grasped sable, a stump proper atop a mount vert.

As colored the arms are not sable, but gold which breaks the rule of tincture, by having a metal on a metal.

 

Mæth Storm Crowe. Name.

While Maeth is found in Searle, it is found as a protheme, not a personal name. While either byname is fine by itself, the combination of the two does not make any sense. The armory was registered under the holding name William of Cathair Daibhidh.

 

 

CAID

 

Eridana Ambra Dragotta. Badge. (Fieldless) On a compass star quarterly Or and argent a roundel tincturelessness.

Fieldless badges must be pierced of the field, and not be untinctured.

The 'piercing' of the cross here is essentially an attempt to use a tinctureless (or rather, omni-tinctured) tertiary charge. Such have been disallowed for some time. 'It is not possible to eclipse something `of the field' on a fieldless badge.' (Da'ud ibn Auda, LoAR February 1991, p. 18) It is true that we have registered fieldless badges consisting of a charge which has been pierced, but in these cases the piercing was part of the definition of the charge (e.g., a mascle, a rustre) and can hardly be considered as being in the same category as a 'cross pierced of an (omni-tinctured) mullet'." (Da'ud ibn Auda, LoAR January 1996, p. 27)

 

Mons Draconis, Canton of. Badge. (Fieldless) A dragon's tail couped vert.

This is being returned for unidentifiability. As Aurum has shown there are a wide variety of period depictions of dragons’ tails. Those found in most period heraldic sources simply have a rounded end, but there are other possibilities (though none quite like this submission). While period examples of lions’ and foxes’ tails used as charges lend plausibility to the dragon’s tail, the dual problems of identifiability and reproducibility make this problematic, prior registration to the Midrealm notwithstanding.

 

Seán na Mora. Name

This is an aural conflict with Seán O' Móráin as cited on the LoI. The armory was registered under the holding name Seán of Naevehjem.

 

 

CALONTIR

 

Antonio Bouchard. Device. Per pale sable and argent, a castle within an annulet counterchanged.

This conflicts with Michel d'Avignon Per pale sable and argent, a two-towered castle counterchanged., with one CD for the addition of the annulet.

 

Ekaterina ha Varanga. Device. Per chevron throughout Or and vert, two sixfoils and a candle sconced counterchanged.

This is being returned for lack of paperwork. We received only one copy of forms.

 

Orabella Gráinne O'Briain. Name.

This name combines Gaelic and English orthography in the same name. A totally Irish name would be Sibéal ni Bhriain, without a middle name as Gaelic didn't use double given name in our period. For an English form, as Gráinne is frequently anglicized by Grace in the late period (cf. Grace O’Malley), Orabell Grace O’Brian would be appropriate. Since we do not know what form the submitter would prefer, we are returning this so she can decide.

 

Owen Cwiran. Name.

This is being returned for lack of documentation of the byname. While the documentation cites the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles for both names, without any attached documentation, Owen is Welsh while no one in the College could provide any documentation for Cwiran. The spelling of the byname that is commonly associated with the Olaf cited in the LoI is Cwiran which is a Gaelic spelling, and therefore cannot be combined with the Welsh Owen.

The armory was registered under the name holding name Owen of Calontir.

 

Terwen ap Gwynedd. Name.

Terwen is an undocumented female form of modern Welsh given name. Welsh uses verch or ferch for "daughter of", not ap which means "son of". Gwyndedd is a place name, not a personal name, so "son" of a town is not appropriate. The armory was registered under the holding name Harriette of Dun Ard.

 

 

DRACHENWALD

 

Gráinne inghean uí Uaithne. Household name for Domus Digitabulum Impar.

The name was intended to be Latin and mean "House of the Pairless Glove. However, this is not a period household name, and the Latin is not formed correctly. While an appositive nominative could occur, using the medieval style the attributive would be placed in the genitive. The vocabulary used does not mean quite what the submitters think. While digitabulum is a classical Latin word, it refers to a specific type of hand covering: a particular variety of gardening glove used in olive cultivation. It is as inappropriate to use this word for the intended meaning (unless the ladies are all olive-cultivators) as it would be to use cestus, the word for a boxing glove. The more general term is manucium. While par is cognate with pair, impar does not have quite the meaning that the phrase "unmatched gloves" would suggest. It does mean "unequal to", "uneven", event "unjust" but the nearest meaning to the one sought would be "dissimilar" which puts a rather different spin on the phrase. Barring evidence that household names were formed in this fashion, even if this is put into correct Latin it will have to be returned.

 

 

MERIDIES

 

Chateau de Normandy, Shire of. Name and device. Per fess purpure and sable, two wingless seawyverns erect Or maintaining between them a laurel wreath argent.

This is being returned for several reasons. First, this combines two designators, Shire and Chateau. Barring documentation of such a combination, it must be returned. Second, if we drop the word Chateau this conflicts with Normandy, which is important enough to protect. Finally, the construction itself doesn't work. A name of Chateau/Castle was virtually always combined with a personal name not a place name. Since we do not form holding names for groups, the armory must be returned as well.

 

Eric Wolfson. Device. Paly of four argent and gules, a rustre sable.

Unfortunately for this lovely device, there is ample precedent for piercing being considered the equivalent of a tertiary charge. As such, this conflicts with Edward of Effingham Argent the kanjii "mae" in gyosho script within a rustre sable. The kanjii is considered a quaternary charge and as such does not count for difference. Therefore, there is one CD for the field, but nothing for the change of tincture of the tertiary roundel.

 

Godric the Gallant. Device. Per chevron sable and azure, a pall inverted argent between a mullet within a decrescent and a mullet within an increscent Or and a unicorn's head couped to sinister argent.

This is being returned for violating our rule on "Slot machine". The rules for submission, Rule VIII.1.a., disallow three or more dissimilar charges in a single charge group. While precedents treat all crescent variants as a single charge type for purposes of this rule, this does not eliminate the problem created by having a crescent variant, a mullet, and a unicorn head in a single charge group when all three charge types are of roughly equivalent visual weight.

 

Molly Fagan. Device. Sable, on a plate a bat volant wings elevated and addorsed sable.

This conflicts with Sean a' Claidheamh Sable, on a plate a hound crouching to sinister upon a pile inverted sable., Shron Ravenhair Sable, on a plate a mullet of six points throughout sable charged with a compass-star of twelve points throughout pierced argent., Cassandra of the East Winds Sable, on a plate a flame gules., and Damian Nighthawk Sable, on a plate a falcon migrant sable and a point pointed Or., with only one CD in each case for changes to the tertiary(ies).

 

 

Sanzio Sansovino. Device. Per pall inverted gules, sable, and argent.

This conflicts with Josse Gößler Per pall inverted sable, argent, and chevronelly gules and argent. There is one CD for rearranging the colors, but nothing for changing less than one half of the colors.

 

Ségán ua Flaithfhiled. Device. Vert, a hawk close Or, on a chief three hands appaumy vert.

This conflicts with Ruth of the Debatable Lands Vert, a vulture and a chief Or., with one CD for the addition of the charges on the chief.

 

Viviane of Essex. Device. Quarterly azure and gules, a cross throughout between in bend two mullets argent and in bend sinister two roses Or.

This is being returned for violating our rules on marshaled armory. Two relevant precedents on the subject are:

[Returning Quarterly . . . a cross between in bend two <charges> and in bend sinister two <other charges>]. This device submission violates Rules for Submission XI.3. Marshalling. "divisions commonly used for marshalling such as quarterly or per pale, may only be used in contexts that ensure marshalling in not suggested." The fillet cross was often used on marshaled arms and thus the cross here does not remove the appearance of marshalling. LoAR 12a/93, p. 16

[Quarterly gules and argent in bend two <As> argent and in bend sinister two <Bs> vert, overall a cross sable.] "Given that crosses overall were not infrequently used in marshaled arms in period, this has every appearance of the marshaled arms of [Gules an <A> argent and Argent a <B> vert]." [The submission was returned for this reason.]LoAR 11/91, p. 16.

This submission is being returned for exactly the same reasons as those in the exemplars.

 

 

MIDDLE

 

Alan Fairfax Aluricson. Device change. Bendy sinister Or and gules, for augmentation on a canton sable an annulet Or.

Per the precedent of Bruce as Laurel King of Arms:

Augmentations in Society armory should always be blazoned as such; the bearer has the option of displaying the armory with or without the augmentation, and conflict should be checked against both versions. (Rondallyn of Golgotha, September, 1992, pg. 26)

The base coats conflicts with Eustace FitzJames Bendy sinister embattled Or and gules., with one CD for the embattling.

 

Antoinette du Vallon. Device. Per pale wavy Or and argent, a cat sejant regardant sable within an orle of cat's pawprints purpure.

The field consists of a complex line of partition (wavy) between two low contrast tinctures (Or and argent) which is largely obscured by the overlying charge of the cat sejant regardant. Per rule VIII.3., this is considered to be unidentifiable, and therefore is returned.

 

Bläß von Bremen. Device. Quarterly Or and vert, between in bend three roses barbed and seeded proper, two horses courant contourny argent.

No paperwork was received for this device.

 

 

Bläß von Bremen. Household name for House Whitrose.

Per VI. 4. Other Presumptuous Names - Some names not otherwise forbidden by these rules are nevertheless too evocative of widely known and revered protected items to be registered.

Such items include the peerage orders of the Society and such well-known items outside the Society as the Order of the Garter. The House of the Rose and Laurel does not conflict with the Order of the Rose or the Order of the Laurel, but it is too evocative of both to be registered. Similarly, the Award of the Blue Garter is too evocative of the Order of the Garter, whose badge is a blue garter.

This is too close to the Society Peerage order, Order of the Rose, to be registered.

 

Cassandra of the Western Green. Badge. Argent, a sprig of honeysuckle bendwise gules, slipped and leaved, within a wreath vert, ribboned argent.

This was blazoned on the LoI as a wreath vert, ribboned argent. Were this in fact a wreath or torse we would consider registering it based on its being found in the arms of Ringenbert in the Zurich Wappenrolle. As drawn, however, the field is entirely within the wreath. As an eccentric bordure this is an improbable extrapolation of a unique and eccentric charge, placing it beyond the limits of registrability.

 

 

Catlin O'Connor. Device. Argent chaussé ployé azure, an iris purpure bearded Or slipped and leaved vert.

This conflicts with Azure, on a pile ploye argent, a hummingbird rising, wings elevated and addorsed vert (Eleanora Valentina Beota, 5/87). Both pieces of armory can be regarded as charged piles, leaving one CD for the difference in the tertiaries.

 

Damhnait Uniacke. Name.

This name combine English and Gaelic orthography in the same name which has been against our rules for the last three years.

The armory was registered under the holding name Damhnait of the Cleftlands.

 

Feargus MacLachlainn. Device. Per chevron azure and gules, on a chevron Or three thistles slipped and leaved proper.

This is being returned for a redraw. As drawn this is not clearly per chevron or a point pointed, but rather something halfway in between.

 

Guy Wicker. Device. Or, a fireball gules marked Or.

This is being returned for a redraw. The flames need to be done solidly gules.

 

Gwenfron Bran. Device. Counter-potent Or and azure, a bird close sable breasted argent.

Blazoned on the LoI as an osprey, as drawn it is not clearly any species of bird, so we have reblazoned it as a generic bird. Unfortunately, generic birds conflict with all birds, so this conflicts with Serlo of Litchfield Gyronny gules and Or, a vulture close sable., and Eleanor of Pica Vert, a magpie (pica pica) close proper grasping in its dexter talon a feather argent., with the only CD being the one for the difference in the field.

 

Hassan al-Rashid. Name.

This is a direct conflict with the already registered Hassan al-Rashid.

 

 

 

Ivor Dragon. Device. Per pall inverted rayonny gules, Or, and sable, a crescent Or, a crescent gules, and a dragon sejant affronty Or.

This is being returned for a redraw. As drawn the dragon is not in an identifiable heraldic position and the rayonny needs to be more regular and symmetric than this.

 

Johannes Braunhausen. Device. Azure, a bow, on a bordure Or six intertwined garden roses gules, slipped and leaved vert.

As drawn, the intertwined roses look like a wreath of roses, which are reserved to former consorts of a kingdom and arms of a consort. Barring documentation that this submitter is entitled to use a wreath of roses we must return this submission.

 

John Paul Devereaux. Device. Azure, in fess a mullet gules fimbriated between two double-bitted axes palewise Or.

This conflicts with Morgan Bloodaxe Azure, a triangle of three battleaxes fretted Or. There is a CD for arrangement, but nothing for changing the type or tincture of one out of three charges in either of these arrangements.

 

Karl von Brandenburg. Device. Per chevron azure and sable, a chevron between three anvils and a gauntlet issuant from dexter sustaining a smith's hammer argent.

This is being returned for violating the "slot machine" rule, by having a single group on the field (around the chevron) consisting of three types of charge: gauntlet, hammer and anvil(s).

 

Meadhbh inghean uí Broíthe. Device. Sable, a wingless Greek sphinx rampant guardant, a bordure engrailed argent.

Without the wings, this is visually a lion. As such this conflicts with Oliver Cromwell Sable, a lion rampant argent. There is a CD for the bordure, but since the only real difference between these two charges is the head, there is no other CD.

 

 

OUTLANDS

 

None!

 

TRIMARIS

 

Antonio Miguel Santos de Borja. Device. Azure, a chevron erminois between three owls Or, a bordure erminois.

This is being returned for a redraw. The color of the field is not clearly blue or purple but halfway between.

 

Jonathan Harbour. Device. Per chevron gules and argent two roses argent slipped and leaved vert and a tower gules.

This is being returned for breaking the rules of tincture. The slipping and leaving are vert, a color, on a color field. Making them entirely argent would eliminate this problem.

 

 

WEST

 

None!

 

The following items are pended to the August 1998 Laurel meeting:

 

ATLANTIA

 

Astrid Thorvardsdatter. Device. Per pale argent and azure, two wings conjoined in lure counterchanged.

This was blazoned on the LoI as Per pale azure and argent, two wings conjoined in lure counterchanged.

 

 

MIDDLE

 

Bodvarr skipasmidr. Badge. (Fieldless) A drakkar, sails furled sable.

It was suggested in commentary that we should add to our protected list the arms of Earl of Aran of Old Argent a lymphad sable., and The Lord of Lorne of Old Or a lymphad Sable. Both of these arms are included in the 1542 roll of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, in an unquartered manner. The Argent version appears in one other coat in the Lindsay roll, and the Or version appears 3 more times in Lindsay and once in the Scots Roll. The Argent version appears, for the Lordship of the Isles, in the arms of HRH the Duke of Rothesay as matriculated in the Lyon register, and appears to be included in the arms of the Duke of Argyll. Everything else in these sets of armory are already protected by the SCA.

If either or both of these are considered important enough to protect, then Bodvarr skipasmidr badge will have to be returned for conflict.