This was pended from the August 1998 Laurel meeting.

Nice armory!

Nice armory!

This is clear of Elspeth of the Wood Vert, on a pale azure, fimbriated, an oak tree Or., with once CD for addition of the overall charge, and one for changing the type and tincture of the tertiary charge.

Please instruct the group to draw the fimbriation wider.

Submitted as Xene Therianos, the given name is feminine while the byname is in the masculine form. Since Byzantine names agree in gender, we have put the byname into the feminine form.

Submitted as Cailin Anne Mulligan, no documentation was presented for Cailin and none could be found. Therefore, we have dropped it in order to register the rest of the name and the device.

Submitted as Caitriona of Douglas, this combines Gaelic and English in the same name. We have changed the given name to the closest English form.

Submitted as Colum Mac Eoghan Ui Niall, the bynames needed to be put into the genitive. We have done so.

Please ask the submitter to draw the lions larger.

The armory was submitted under the name Duncan MacLean of Duart.

This is to be associated with their badge Azure, in base three mountain peaks vert, fimbriated and snow-capped argent, charged with a mullet Or.

Note: Lezlee is her legal given name.

Note: Lyn is her legal given name.

Submitted as Matthias Alexandros Casca, the name was said to be an attempt at a late Roman name. Therefore, we have Alexandros into the proper Latin nominative.

Note: while this is only one CD away from Lindorm Eriksson's Or, a wingless wyvern statant gules., he has provided a blanket permission to conflict, providing 1 CD (the tincture difference of the monsters provides the other).

The armory was submitted under the name Tatiana Ariadna Kalisfena Kazimierova.

Submitted as Teunis van Driele, no reliable documentation was presented and none could be found, for the name Teunis as a period given name. Therefore, we have substituted Tonis, which the submitter said he would accept and which can be dated between 1200 and 1400 as a Dutch given name.

Her former name Emma Lawles is hereby released.

Note: he has received a letter of permission to conflict from Corun MacAnndra Per chevron argent and vert, in chevron three mullets of eight points pierced sable and a harp argent.

Note: Nora is dated to 1379 in Bardsley's Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames.

Note: he has changed his alternate name to his primary name and is releasing his former primary name Sweyn Erik Grafell. His former device Gules, on a bend sinister sable fimbriated between an open book and a double-bitted axe bendwise sinister, three torches palewise argent. is hereby released.

While this has some humorous elements, Brut von Köln is no more obtrusively modern than Drew Steele or Miles Long, both of which we have registered.

Submitted as Ceara Ó Cellaig, this combines a Gaelic feminine given name with a masculine byname. We have corrected the byname to the feminine form.

Submitted as Conor Mac Muireadhach this combines English and Gaelic orthography in the same name. We have, therefore, made it entirely English.

This cross is at the very limits of acceptability for counterchanging.

Her former name Generys of Llandygai is hereby retained as an alternate name.

This conflicts with Tour d'Or Herald, registered to the Kingdom of Caid. However, as in the case of The Order of the Gordian Knot, which conflicted with Gordian Knot Herald, if the crown and the kingdom herald agree, the barony can use the name of the heraldic title for an order name. We have received a statement to that effect from Crescent.

Note: since Tour d'Or is already registered, any possible conflicts are grandfathered.

Submitted as Victoria von Rohrbach, no documentation was presented for Rohrbach being the name of a town in period. Since Brechenmacher's Etmologisches Wörterbuch der Deutschen Familiennamen, dates Rohrbach to 1302 as a surname without the von, we have dropped it.

Submitted as Cai Dubhghlas, this combined Welsh and Gaelic in the same name which we don't do. We have anglicized the Gaelic in order to register the name.

Nice armory!

He is releasing Azure, on a hide argent, a rose azure.

Lovely armory!

Her former device Per bend sable and Or, a griffin segreant counterchanged., is hereby released.

Found on the LoI as Seraphina Bruyari, the name on the forms, as well as the documented form is Brugari. We have corrected this.

Please show the submitter how to draw a seahorse.

Submitted as Sven the Kendtmand no documentation was presented for the use of the in the name. Therefore, we have removed it.

Originally blazoned as Purpure, a harp between three increscents argent., we have reblazoned it to better describe the emblazon.

Note: she has a letter of permission to conflict with Martin le Mechant, Sable crusilly argent, a horned demon's head, a bordure ermine.

Note: he has a letter of permission to conflict with Lyssandre le Téméraire Sable crusilly argent, a horned demon's head in chief three fleurs-de-lys Or, a bordure ermine.

His former device Argent crusilly fitchy sable, a horned demon's head couped gules. is hereby released.

Note: this is not "slot machine" since the sword is maintained and not sustained.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the bordure larger.

Submitted as Mollison Rose Kekilpenny, the submitter misunderstood the documentation. Mollison is a metronomic byname, referring to Molli's son, which was used on the Laurel web page to document the name Molli. Since it is not a given name, we have changed Mollison to the closest given name form.

Note: this was previously registered to her as a badge, and she is making it her device.

The armory was submitted under the name Bogdan din Bra ov.

Please tell the submitter to draw the base larger in the future.

Note: while the name Deirdre has been ruled SCA compatible, Black's Surnames of Scotland, in the spelling Deredere has a citation from 1166.

Note: Natalia is her legal middle name.

Please advise the submitter on how to draw a proper rayonny.

Note: Reaney and Wilson's A Dictionary of English Surnames cite William Beowoulf from 1297.

Her former name Rosamund de Chastemont is hereby released.

Note: there was only one item on the LoI.

This is being returned because as colored neither Laurel, nor any of the approximately 20 Ansteorrans at the Laurel road show could determine if the field was azure or purpure.

This was originally returned October 1991 in the form Duncan MacLean for conflicting with the character Duncan MacLean in the Deryni series by Katherine Kurtz. In an attempt to clear that conflict, a place name has been added. Unfortunately, that now puts the name in violation of our rules on pretention. Master Bruce, as Laurel, covered the issue of pretention in the form of "X of Y" in Scottish names.

Adam & Innes, Clans, Septs and Regiments of the Scottish Highlands, shows that Duart is the castle and seat of the chief of the MacLeans. As such this name is presumptuous. We have added the name of his local group to form a holding name which is not presumptuous and does not conflict.

The armory was registered under the holding name Duncan MacLean of Atenveldt.

The only documentation presented for a chief enmanché was found in Eugene Zieber's Heraldry of America, and the usage there is out of period. The term enmanché can be found in other heraldic sources, but not for a chief that looks anything like what was submitted.

Barring documentation that a chief divided in this fashion was done in period, this must be returned.

This is being returned for a redraw. While blazoned on the LoI as Purpure... a chief triangular Or. what was drawn was really Per pall Or, purpure and purpure, which we do not allow.

The name is being returned for lack of a given name. Gethyn is not a given name, but rather only a byname. If the client wishes a correctly formed Welsh name, he should contact the Harpy Herald. Her e-mail address is hrjones@socrates.berkeley.edu.

This conflicts with the Ensign of the Kingdom of Ansteorra, Or, a mullet of five greater and five lesser points within a bordure sable., with one CD for change of tincture of the sun/mullet. Phillip Stuart of Silverhill Per saltire azure and argent, a sun in glory gules fimbriated Or within a bordure sable., with one Cd for changes in the field, and nothing for the fimbriation. And, Elizabeth Amy Godwin Or, a compass star gules and a gore sinister sable., with one CD for changing the type of peripheral ordinary from a gore to a bordure.

This is being returned for a redraw. As drawn, the bear looks like a teddy bear, and not a medieval bear. Furthermore, it is not clearly in a sejant erect affronty position; normally we would not see the bottom of the animal's feet.

This is being returned for a redraw. The hands are not erased, but appear to be dripping blood.

The question of conflict with the Red Hand of Ulster was raised in commentary. It is an augmentation of Baronets in Great Britain Argent, a dexter hand appaumy gules. We do not currently protect it, but the Red Hand of Ulster will be pended for commentary as to whether or not we should add it to our protected list. If it is added, then this submission will conflict with it.

This is being returned for using a triple given name in Russian, for which there is no evidence of any usage any time in our period. Even double Christian given names in Russian are considered a weirdness, since the documentation for them is virtually non-existent. Furthermore, no documentation was presented for the variant spelling of the final byname, and none could be produced by our Russian name expert.

The armory was registered under the holding name Tatiana of Sundragon.

This is being returned for lack of documentation for the given name. The only documentation for Tresa came from Coghlan which is not a reliable source. Without a given name, the name as a whole must be returned.

This conflicts with Eleanora Valentina Beota Azure on a pile ployé argent, a hummingbird rising, wings elevated and addorsed, vert. Windale's device is equivalent to a charged pile. As such it gets naught for ployé and only one CD for changes to the tertiaries.

This conflicts with Gwenhwyvar Telynores Purpure, in pall a harp between three increscents argent., with one CD for changes to the field, and nothing for changing one of a group of four.

This is being returned for a redraw. The mice as drawn are not identifiable as mice. They are far too small, and too stylized to be identifiable.

Withdrawn by request of the submitter.

This name has two problems. First, it combines Gaelic and English orthography in the same name which we do not permit. More importantly, while the LoI documented the use of Black as a place-name element, no evidence was presented, and none could be found for rune used with any color name elements. Barring such documentation, the name must be returned.

This is being returned because with the wolf on the trunk of the oak tree, the wolf becomes unidentifiable and the tree trunk must be distorted so much that it makes the tree look highly unusual. The submitter could consider having a wolf surmount the trunk of the tree. This motif is quite common in some areas of Europe during our period and underused in the SCA.

This is being returned for a redraw. The feathers are not clearly palewise or bendwise sinister. No one could come up with a blazon which will adequately reproduce the emblazon, which is a requirement of RfS VII.7.b.

The name was originally returned at Kingdom level 9/93. An appeal was made to Laurel at that time. That appeal was returned 3/94. The submitter is now appealing this return to the Board of Directors. We are also returning the name, but we will be forwarding his appeal along with the original return and commentary, and this set of information. The original return said:

The submitter said in his appeal:

Unfortunately the submitter still has failed to provide documentation that Abaddon was a name used by human beings in period. While is it true that both Gabriel and Michael are names of angels they are also names that were used by human beings in period. While we do allow names from literature, (see next month's cover letter for a discussion on using names from period fiction), the names must be names of human beings.

Note: while the appeal addresses a return for violating our clause on offensive names, in fact the 3/94 Laurel return did not address that issue at all, and only addressed the issue of names used by human beings.

The armory is being returned for using two different types of cross in the same armory, a cross formy and a Maltese cross, therefore running afoul of the "sword and dagger" rule.

This conflicts with Dorothea of Caer Myrddin Argent, a cross patty sable., with one CD for fieldlessness, and with the protected badge of the Teutonic Order: (Fieldless) A Latin cross formy sable fimbriated argent., with nothing for the fimbriation, so again the only CD is for fieldlessness.

This conflicts with Carl of Caermarthin Azure masoned argent, a ram's head cabossed argent., and with Morgan Argante Elandris of Cantref Gwaelon, Sable, ram's skull cabossed argent. In both cases there is one CD for difference in the fields.

The name is being returned for lack of documentation. While the LoI glosses Fyren-Ar as meaning Burning Ore in Anglo-Saxon, nothing was presented to show that the name followed the pattern of period place-names.

The armory is being returned for a number of reasons. First, since there is no name, it must be returned since SCA armory is registered only to an SCA name, and there is no name to register this, and we do not form holding names for groups. However, even if the name had been registerable, the armory would have been returned for the following reasons: "The [copper charges proper], whose default tincture must be heraldically Or, are metal on metal because of their position [against argent and Or primary charge], to the extent that they were unidentifiable at any distance." (Alisoun MacCoul of Elphane, LoAR 27 September 1986, p. 14) The "copper" brazier is metal on metal. The bordure can be more succinctly blazoned as gyronny gules and sable. However, this blazon makes it even more apparent that it falls afoul of RfS VIII.2.b.iii., which states specifically that: "Elements evenly divided into two parts, per saltire, or quarterly may use any two tinctures or furs." This is not divided per saltire or quarterly, but gyronny or per saltire and quarterly. It thus may not consist of two metals or, as here, two colors.

There is insufficient contrast between purpure and sable to use a complex line of division such as urdy to separate them. It becomes unidentifiable.

This is being returned for lack of paperwork.

This was withdrawn by the submissions herald.

This is being returned for a redraw. The compass star is not just "of sixteen points", but of "four greater, four lesser, and eight even lesser points". Basically, it is a variant of a non-period charge, the compass star. Variants of non-period charges have been disallowed before, as being not one but two steps from period practice. "The submitter's argument that a Maltese star cross is but one step from a recognized period charge, a *Maltese cross*, is interesting but not particularly compelling. The fact remains that six armed crosses are not a period charge." (Da'ud ibn Auda, LoAR December 1993, p.10) Neither are compass stars of sixteen points. If the compass star was redrawn as a sun or a standard mullet, that would take care of the problem.

This is being returned for a redraw. As drawn it is not per chevron inverted, but Per pall gules, vert and vert which we do not allow.

This is being returned for breaking our rules on "slot machine", by having three different charges (wolf, abacus and bezants) in the same charge group.

The name is being returned for multiple problems in construction. To quote Escutcheon:

The armory is being returned for a redraw. While the blazon had the rabbit counterchanged, in fact an outline of the rabbit was drawn in the contrasting tincture, with the rabbit actually being the tincture of the field. This violates our rules on contrast, thin line heraldry, and identifiability.

Unfortunately, the effect of the flory counter-flory line of division was to put three gold fleur-de-lys on a blue chief, making it a chief of France. We do not permit more than two gold fleurs on a blue background, since that is how augmentations of France were done in period. Using a different line of division, or a different tincture would fix this problem.

The name is being returned for incorrect structure. While Brude is found in Black's Surnames of Scotland, there is some doubt about it. However, we would have normally given the submitter the benefit of the doubt, and allowed him to use it. However, even if we permit the use of Brude as a name element, we would have to put it into the genitive. Since he allows no changes, we are forced to return the name. Furthermore, while Torc Dubh does mean Black Boar as the submitter states, no documentation was presented for descriptive names of that sort being used in Gaelic names.

The armory conflicts with Dubhghall macEbhearair Argent, a boar sejant sable armed and langued Or. There is only one CD for the change of posture of the boar.

This is being returned for a redraw. As drawn the fox's mask is only partially within the laurel wreath. It needs to be either entirely within it, or entirely out of it. While not in and of itself grounds for return, please instruct the group on how to properly draw a laurel wreath. To be considered a proper laurel wreath, it should be drawn nearly circular.

This conflicts with Buchanan of that Ilk Or, a lion rampant sable., and Flanders Or, a lion rampant sable. There is just one CD for the number of charges.

This conflicts with Deidre O'Rourke Or goutty sable, a sprig of oak fructed proper., with a single CD for removal of the secondaries.

Bogdan din Bra ov. Name.

The name is being returned for lack of documentation for the use of din. While documentation was presented in the LoI for Bogdan as a period Romanian given name and Brasov as period Romanian place, nothing was shown for din. While we might assumed that din was Romanian for from, no evidence to support that assumption was presented in the LoI, and no one in the college presented any supporting evidence. Barring such evidence, the name must be returned.

The armory was registered under the holding name Bogdan of Würm Wald.

The name is being returned for lack of documentation for the use of din. While documentation was presented in the LoI for Despina as a period Romanian given name and Brasov as period Romanian place, nothing was shown for din. While we might assumed that din was Romanian for from, no evidence to support that assumption was presented in the LoI, and no one in the college presented any supporting evidence. Barring such evidence, the name must be returned.

This is being returned for lack of documentation for both Euriant and Deri. The LoI glossed Euriant as appearing in the 15th-century Romance of Gerard de Nevers. However no evidence was presented to show that it was used as a name of a human being or that it was a given name. No documentation of any sort was presented for Deri and none could be found. Barring documentation for both names, we are returning this.

This is being returned for a redraw. The three branches conjoined in pall are not clearly three branches, or anything else, though most commenters felt it was closest to an oak tree.

This is being returned for a redraw. As drawn it is not Per chevron purpure and vert... but rather Purpure.....a point pointed vert. That puts a vert point on a purpure field which breaks the rule of tincture.

This is being returned for a redraw. As drawn the attire is not recognizably an attire, or any other charge.

This conflicts with Charles von Strasburg Vert, three Celtic crosses swallowtailed and a chief embattled Or. There is a CD for difference in number of primary charges, but nothing for the swallowtailing. It also conflicts with Aithbric an Ardain Dhuibh Vert, a Celtic cross within a bordure Or. There is only one CD for change to the type of the peripheral.

This conflicts with Ximena Aubel de Cambria Gules, a triturated castle, on a chief Or three owls' heads erased gules., with one CD for the difference in the tertiaries.

Cathleen McCollom. Device. Per pale sable and gules, a pall inverted bretessed argent.

This conflicts with the Barony of Twin Moons Azure, a pall inverted bretessed argent. There is only one CD for the change of the field.

The LoI omitted the tincture of the sword and the bordure.

The blazon left out the tincture of the bordure.

The question was raised in commentary as to whether we should add this to our protected list. al-Jamal said: