{AE}THELMEARC {AE}thelmearc, Kingdom of. Badge. Argent, on an open scroll gules an "{AE}" Or. {AE}thelmearc, Kingdom of. Order name Order of the Fleur of {AE}thelmearc and badge. Per saltire gules and Or, four fleurs-de-lys bases to center counterchanged. The kingdom has a letter of permission to conflict against the Order of the Flower (Kingdom of the Outlands). Ambrose Fitzwilliam. Name and device. Per bend sinister gules and sable, on a bend sinister argent a spear sable. Nice name! Behrend von Elmendorf. Device. Argent, a sea-wolf gules within a bordure engrailed sable. Bleddyn of Hornwood. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Per pale azure and sable, a wolf's head caboshed within and conjoined to an annulet argent. Submitted under the name Bleddyn ap Llwelyn. Brandric of Rhydderich Hael. Badge. Vert, a foi bendwise couped Or. Brigit Kelly MacLean. Device Change. Per chevron argent and azure, in chief three gillyflowers gules slipped and leaved vert, in base a fret issuant from the line of division Or. Her current device, Counter-ermine, an hourglass within a bordure argent, is released. C{a'}el{a'}n {O'} Ruairc. Name and device. Per pale azure and sable, a wolf sejant ululant between three decrescents argent. Catherine O'Herlihy. Name (see RETURNS for device). Conull Cameron. Name and device. Gules, on a chevron Or three saltorels gules, in chief two arrows Or. Conchobar MacFloinn. Name and device. Vert, a winged stag segreant, on a bordure raguly argent three lozenges vert. Dewi de la Brooke. Name. Florian Dupommier. Device. Per saltire Or and gules, a Maltese cross sable between in cross four fleurs-de-lys counterchanged. Hauoc the Wild. Name. Jochen of Nithgaard. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Azure, a helm argent between three lightning bolts in pall Or. Submitted under the name Jochen Blitzkopf. Kathryn de Lyon de Savoie. Name change from holding name Kathryn of Saint Swithin's Bog. Maynard von dem Steine. Name and device. Per chevron gules and sable masoned, in chief three crosses formy one and two argent. Morwenna n{i'} Mheachair. Name and device. Argent, a raven displayed sable, on a chief enarched vert a mallet argent. Please inform the submitter that mixing Welsh and Gaelic spellings was extremely rare at best in period. Also ni is either a post period or English spelling of inghean u{i'}. The name would be significantly more authentic as Morwenna Meagher. Oeric Lestrange. Name and device. Purpure semy-de-lys argent, a scorpion tergiant Or. Rys Chwith ap Madog. Name and device. Argent, a tree blasted and eradicated sable within a bordure sable bezanty. Thorstein Christianson Ronnow. Name and device. Azure, a chevron potenty in point Or and gules, in chief two griffins combattant argent. AN TIR Alanus de Bunghea. Device change. Per chevron azure and Or, in base a flame gules. His previous device, Per chevron azure and Or, two leatherworker's knives blades to center Or and a flame gules, is released. Andras Truemark. Name and device. Or, a pall inverted sable between three pairs each of an arrow inverted and a sword crossed in saltire gules. This byname is justifiable as a patronymic surname derived from True Mark. Surnames derived in the same way, including Jolirobin, Godedick, and Litelwatte, are found in Reaney, The Origin of English Surnames. The device is clear of Labhruinn MacMh{'i}cheil, Or, a pall inverted sable between three mullets of seven points gules. There are two CD's, one for change of type and one for change of number of the secondaries. Hrollaugr Nj{a'}lsson. Name. James the Obscure. Name. Lisa of Stromgard. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name and badge). Vert, a sagittary passant and on a chief argent three arrows inverted bendwise sinister sable. Submitted under the name Tanwen Glyn Helfarch Maryn Grey. Badge. (Fieldless) A pantheon rampant sable mullety argent. Perrin del Bosc. Name. Ramon de la Vega. Name and device. Per saltire vert and sable, four crescents conjoined in cross points inward argent. Stiven le Brewere. Name. Sunnifa {A'}gmundsd{o'}ttir. Name. Sveinn rau{dh}skegger Einarsson. Name. Teresa la Roja. Name and device. Gules, a zebra rampant proper within a bordure rayonny Or. The submitter requested that the name be made authentic for 13th c. Flanders. While Teresa la Roja is a good Spanish name, it is not possible to make it a name from Flanders. Teresa was not found in any form in Flanders until well after 1600. Turpin Akraspillir. Name (see RETURNS for device). Vernacci Armellini de Alario. Name and device. Sable, a bar gemel between in chief three ermine spots and in base five roundels in cross Or. ANSTEORRA Amalia Zavattini. Name and device. Argent, a lizard tergiant bendwise sinister within an orle vert. Ameline du Bois. Name and device. Or, on a pile inverted throughout gules between two amphorae vert a cup Or. Armand Dragonetti. Name. The submitter requested an authentic 15th century name, but we can not do so because we do not know whether he wants a French name (to match his given name) or an Italian name (to match his surname). Armando de la Cabanna. Name. Catherine de Lance. Name. Catot d'Ardennes. Device. Gules, a chevron romp{u'} Or and in base a swan naiant contourny wings elevated and addorsed argent. Please advise the submitter to draw the chevron at a steeper angle. Colin McCrandall. Name and device. Per fess gules and Or, a crane argent and a saltorel sable. Submitted as Cullin McCrandall, Cullin was only documented as a locative. Therefore, we have changed the name to a similar-sounding given name that the submitter, in a subsequent letter, specifically allowed. Daniel Stewart de Guthre. Name and device. Gules ermined, a chevron cotised Or. Duncan MacDougall of Mendersham. Name. Eirn{i'}n Shea. Name. The submitter should be informed that mixing an Irish given name with an Anglo-Irish surname was extremely rare in period. If she wants an authentic early Irish form, she should use Ern{i'}ne ingen u{i'} Sh{e'}gdai; if she wants a late period Irish form, she should use Eirn{i'}n inghean u{i'} Sh{e'}ghdha. The submitter may also want to know that in period Ireland Eirn{i'}n Shea and Rodan Shea (assuming that the mixed orthography was used) would be assumed to be brother and sister instead of husband and wife. Eleanor Cleavely. Name. Falco Silva. Name and device. Sable, on a bend sinister between two skulls argent three lizards statant heads to sinister base vert. Gavin McKitrick. Name and device. Purpure, on a saltire argent two swords in saltire sable, in chief a bear's head cabossed Or. Geoffrey Biedermann. Badge (see RETURNS for device). Argent, a stag's head erased vert. John Thorn. Name and device. Gules, a chief embattled argent. Nice name! Please inform the submitter to draw more embattlements on the chief. Karolus Janos. Name and device. Sable, a patriarchal cross argent. Please inform the submitter that Karolus Janos is a documentary form; a more fully Hungarian form would be Karoly Janos. Nice armory! The device is clear of the flag of Cornwall, Sable, a cross argent; there is a substantial difference between a patriarchal cross and a plain cross throughout. Linnet of Lindisfarne. Name. Submitted as Linnet of Linisfarne, both the forms and the documentation included the "d". Lucius Claudius Scaevola. Name. Malachi Morgan. Name. Mendersham, Shire of. Household name Guild of the Needle and badge. (Fieldless) A needle argent. Nice badge! Monica de la Cueva. Name. Muirenn Faulkner. Name. Myghell MacEdward de Grey. Name and device. Quarterly sable and vert, a snow leopard's head affronty erased proper collared gules. This is clear of Rebecca of Twywn, called the Demanding, reblazoned elsewhere in this letter, Vert, a domestic cat's head affronty collared and sustaining in his mouth a dagger fesswise argent hilted sable. The dagger is large enough to generate difference. Phelippe Descors. Name. Reinne du Bois. Name. Richard of Leslie Castle. Name. Rod{a'}n Shea. Name. The submitter should be informed that mixing an Irish given name with an Anglo-Irish surname was extremely rare in period. The name would be considerable better as the fully Gaelic Rod{a'}n ua S{e'}gdai. The submitter may also want to know that in period Ireland Eirn{i'}n Shea and Rodan Shea (assuming that the mixed orthography was used) would be assumed to be brother and sister instead of husband and wife. Valentina Bandinelli. Name. ARTEMISIA Chaia bat Johanan. Name and device. Azure, three annulets interlaced one and two between three wolf's heads erased ululant contourny argent. Submitted as Kaia bat Johanan, Kaia was given as a spelling variant of Chaia. Chaia, however, is derived from a Hebrew name using the initial letter "het", and "K" is not a valid transliteration of that letter. As we had no other documentation for Kaia we registered the documented form. Clare inghean Dh{o'}mhnuill. Name and device. Per chevron azure and Or, two winged bears combattant argent and a thistle proper, a bordure counterchanged. The submitter should be informed that mixing English and Gaelic spellings in a single name was vanishingly rare in period. The name would be considerably more authentic as a fully English Clare ny Donald or Clare MacDonald. Conrad von Zuberbuehler. Badge (see RETURNS for household name). (Fieldless) A pike haurient gules. Duncan Walensis of Selkirk. Device. Argent, on a pile inverted throughout between two wolves combattant sable, a stag's head cabossed argent attired Or. Duncan Walensis of Selkirk. Badge. (Fieldless) On a tree argent, a wolf's head couped sable. Hr{o'}{dh}gierr Hr{o'}{dh}gierson. Name and device. Argent, two elephants combattant counter-ermine. Submitted as Hrothgar Hrothgarsson, Hrothgar is the Anglo-Saxon form of the name so cannot be used with Norse grammar. As the submitter wanted an authentic Norse name we have replaced the given name and patronymic with their Norse equivalents. Iain MacLeoid. Device. Per chevron sable and gules, a chevron rayonny on upper edge Or between two thistles and a great helm affronty torsed and mantled argent. Iris Lillywhite. Name. Iris is the submitter's legal name. Ivan of Zemgale. Device. Purpure, a bend sinister argent, in bend three griffins counterchanged. Please inform the submitter to draw the griffins on the field larger. Kelwin Ratslayer. Device change. Azure, a panther rampant Or hurty and a bordure Or semy of rats passant feet to center azure. Matthias the Scribe. Device. Sable, an eagle displayed ermine between three mullets argent. Please ask the submitter to draw the mullets larger and to draw the eagle with ermine spots on the wings and legs as well as the body. Rainald Cameron. Device. Or, two bendlets wavy on upper edge vert. Sanchia de Illora. Name (see RETURNS for device). Theodora of Trebizond. Name and device. Sable, a chevron fracted and in base a Pierrot mask argent. This is clear of Katerina von Halberstadt, Sable, a chevron rompu and in base a rose argent. There is one CD for the difference between a chevron rompu and a chevron fracted. There is a second CD for the change in type of secondaries. Thomas Foxhall of Gravesend. Name and device. Lozengy argent and gules, on a chief sable an otter statant argent. Nice armory! ATENVELDT Adrienne de la Montagne. Badge. (Fieldless) A sewing needle bendwise sinister argent doubly-threaded vert and purpure piercing a bead sable. Alis ni Malone. Name and device. Purpure, two fire arrows inverted crossed in saltire argent enflamed proper on a chief rayonny argent three pairs of knitting needles crossed in saltire purpure. Submitted as Ailesh nic Rose ni Malone, the submitter requested and authentic 11th century Irish name meaning "Ailesh, daughter of Rose of the clan Malone." We cannot make this name authentic for 11th century Ireland for several reasons. First, there is no documentation that Ailesh is an Irish name at all. The closest Irish name, Alis, is a borrowing of the Norman-French Aliz and did not appear in Ireland until after the 11th century. Similarly, Rose is English, and its Irish form, R{o'}is, did not appear in Ireland until after the 11th century. Furthermore, there is no evidence that metronymics were used in Ireland; the only examples found involved genealogies of royalty whose claim to royalty involved descent through the female line. The 11th century form of "of the clan Malone" is ingen u{i'} M{a'}el{e'}oin, but it does not match the rest of the name. The best we could do is form a late period Irish name, Alis inghean u{i'} Mhaoileoin, or a late period Anglo-Irish name, Alis ni Malone. We chose the latter as being the closest to the submitted name. Ailionora of Tir Ysgithr. Holding name and device (See RETURNS for name). Per chevron embattled gules and azure, two horse heads couped and a heart ensigned with a cross Or. Submitted under the name Ailionora Caointiarn. Alexandra de la Mer Verte. Device. Argent, a fess vert between three crosses bottony fitchy gules and a griffin segreant maintaining a sword vert. Amazonia Longa. Name change from holding name Erin of Atenveldt. Anita de Challis. Name (see RETURNS for device). Anita is the submitter's legal given name. Annelise von Aachen. Name and device. Per chevron gules and purpure, a chevron dovetailed between two lit Arabian lamps spouts to center and a dove migrant argent. Damaris Saint Cloud. Device. Or, a sinister dragon's wing vert and a gore gules. Dietrich Kurneck von Hammerstein. Device. Quarterly argent and checky gules and Or, in bend three dragons segreant each maintaining a war hammer sable. Dughall Mach Eoghainn Mach Laomuinn Mach Fhearchair. Device. Vert, on a pale Or three thistles purpure. Emrys Dragon. Device. Gyronny Or and purpure, a dragon segreant and a bordure argent. Francesca Valentina d'Ivrea. Device. Argent, a violet purpure slipped and leaved vert, a chief embattled gules. 'Inan of Aurochsford. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Argent, a saguaro cactus and in base three lozenges two and one sable. The saguaro cactus is an acceptable (if improbable) charge because the Spanish were in the desert southwest United States by the 1520s. Submitted under the name 'Inan Nihlah. Isabelle d'Avallon. Name and device. Azure, three natural dolphins naiant in annulo, a chief wavy argent. Please inform the submitter to make the dolphins larger. James the Just. Name change from holding name James of Atenveldt. Jordan Wolfram. Name and device. Per pale argent and sable, a standing balance counterchanged in chief two pairs of eyes, the dexter pair sable irised argent, the sinister argent irised sable. Karen Olivet. Device. Per bend sinister sable and Or, a spiral trumpet and an ostrich plume bendwise sinister counterchanged. Karen Olivet. Badge. Or, a spiral trumpet fretted with an ostrich plume bendwise sinister sable. Katherine Lamond. Device. Per saltire argent and gules, three whales contourny one and two, the one in chief sable and those in fess argent. Malkolm Tay. Name (see RETURNS for device). Owen Blakshepe. Badge. (Fieldless) A ram statant sable. Nice badge! Rhiannon Llygad Flaidd. Name and device. Per chevron gules and vert, a chevron throughout argent between two roses slipped and leaved and a wolf's head erased Or. Rhiannon is SCA compatible. R{u:}lich Sturmveder. Device. Gules, on a cross conjoined with a saltire argent a sun sable. R{u:}lich Sturmveder. Household name House Black Lance. R{u:}lich Sturmveder. Acceptance of transfer of badge from Tighearain Blackwater. Argent, two tilting lances crossed in saltire, a chief indented sable. This badge is to be associated with House Black Lance Serena O'Neill. Device. Per saltire purpure and vert, on a lozenge argent ermined vert a dove migrant purpure. Sorcha n{i'} Dhonnghaile. Device. Gules, two martlets respectant, a bordure dovetailed Or. Temur Arslan. Name (see RETURNS for device). Tighearain Blackwater. Device. Per bend wavy argent and sable, two crosses formy counterchanged. Tighearain Blackwater. Badge. Argent, two tilting lances crossed in saltire, a chief indented sable. Tighearain Blackwater. Transfer of badge to R{u:}lich Sturmveder. Argent, two tilting lances crossed in saltire, a chief indented sable. William Xanthos. Device. Per bend sinister argent crusily sable and Or crescenty, on a bend sinister sable a sword proper. Current precedent disallows two different sets of strewn charges directly on the field. In this case, however, the device would be acceptable (if not particularly authentic) if there were three of each type of charge on the field. We see no reason to make a distinction between three and an unnumbered set of strewn charges when there is, as here, a well defined boundary between the two groups of charges, such that either set of charges could be dropped without requiring the other set to fill the field. ATLANTIA Alaric Domhnullach. Device. Azure, a claymore inverted proper enfiled of a circlet between three harps Or. Alric Azor. Name. Alys Montgomerie. Device change. Per pale sable and Or, a goblet sustained between two talbots counterchanged, a bordure embattled gules. Her current device, Per pale sable and Or, a goblet sustained between two talbots combattant counterchanged, on a chief gules three bees volant en arriere Or, is released. Atlantia, Kingdom of. Badge for the Order of the Hippocampus. (Fieldless) A seahorse erect argent tailed azure. Bartola de Rossa. Name. Listed on the Letter of Intent as Bartola de'Rossa, it was listed on the form as Bartola d{e'} Rossa. The documentation, however, does not include the accent. Catelin Azor. Name. Catrin ferch Llewelyn o Aberystwyth. Device. Per chevron gules and argent, two lions double-queued combattant argent and a Bowen cross azure. Celeste de Lyle. Name. Ceridwen merch Tudwal Penwyn. Name and device. Quarterly purpure and argent, an estoile Or between four increscents counterchanged. Ceridwen is SCA-compatible. Denise Duvalier. Device. Or, two lions combattant, in chief a fleur-de-lys vert. Dominick Elphinstone. Name. Eldrich de Exeter. Name. Erica Poitevin. Badge. Argent, on a lozenge fesswise gules a pig statant argent, a chief and a base sable. This does not violate rule VIII.1.c, Armorial Depth, because it is a charged lozenge between a chief and a base, not a charged fess, even though it could be blazoned as a charged fess. In this case the blazon can make a difference: while you cannot "blazon your way out of" a conflict, you can "blazon your way out of" a style problem. If not, all submissions of per chevron, three would be returned because they could also be blazoned as a charged chap{e'}. Friderich Mengo{sz} Chrypffs. Name. Garin le Chasseur. Name and device. Azure semy-de-lys argent, a pale argent semy-de-lys azure. Geva de Chadewycke. Name. Margery Winterbourne. Name. Rieinmelt ferch Owain. Name. Robert Redmoor. Name. Rosalind Delamere. Device. Per pale azure and sable, a chevron between three roses argent barbed vert seeded Or. Roxanne Crabbe. Name and device. Paly argent and gules, a bend counterchanged, in sinister chief a crab sable. Roxanne is the submitter's legal name. Toby of Isenfir. Device. Potent, a horse rampant within a bordure Or. CALONTIR Bianca Caterina da Siena. Device. Per bend sinister vert and argent, an escallop and an escallop inverted counterchanged. This was pended from the October 1999 LoAR. DRACHENWALD Anna de Byxe. Device. Azure, an owl displayed argent and on a chief indented Or three roundels gules. EAST Jennifer of Eisental. Holding Name and Device. Per bend sinister argent and purpure, a bunch of grapes slipped and leaved proper and two needles in saltire argent. This was pended from the October 1999 LoAR. Submitted under the name Caitlin MacKenzie, the name was returned in October 1999. LOCHAC Idris Blaidd. Name. Vera Lupa. Name. Submitted as V{'e}ra Lupo, the accent was used in De Felice, Dizionario dei Nomi Italiani, only as a pronunciation guide. Furthermore, a descriptive byname needs to agree in gender with the given name. MERIDIES Bogi Bogsveigir Sigvatsson. Name and device. Argent, in pale two drakkars proper sailed azure. Caedmon of Jorvik. Device. Per pale gules and azure, a griffin segreant Or between in chief two swords argent, a bordure erminois. Cristina Elyenora Paget. Name. Eva inghean Bhriain. Name. Submitted as Eva inghen Bhriain, the patronymic marker was corrected to a form that matched the form of her father's name. Grigorii Elisseyevich. Device change. Azure, a pall inverted sable fimbriated between three lozenges argent each charged with a drakkar sable, a bordure argent. Grigorii Elisseyevich. Alternate name Harvey Bastien. Gwenhwyvar de la Mere. Name and device. Azure, an escallop and on a chief invected argent five roundels azure. Iain Geirmundsson. Name and device. Quarterly vert and sable, four daggers inverted argent. Ingunn of Wyrmgeist. Holding name and device (See RETURNS for name). Per saltire azure and sable, in pale two reremice and in fess two decrescents argent. Submitted under the name Ingunn V{o:}lsungsd{o:}ttir. Jasmine K{o'}llisd{o'}ttir. Name and device. Per chevron sable and purpure, a chevron embattled between two hearts and a spider argent. Submitted as Jasmine K{o'}lisd{o'}ttir, the byname was corrected to match documented forms. Jasmine is the submitter's legal name. Please inform the submitter that she should draw fewer and deeper embattlements. Lethann ingen {A'}eda. Name. Loch Cairn, Shire of. Name and device. Per fess purpure and sable, two wingless sea dragons affronty Or maintaining between them a laurel wreath argent. Randal{i'}n Kirchendahl. Name and device. Per bend gules and sable, a mermaid in her vanity between in bend two roses argent. Rebecca of Twywn, called the Demanding. Reblazon of device. Vert, a domestic cat's head affronty collared and sustaining in his mouth a dagger fesswise argent hilted sable. Rebekah Ziemer. Name. Richard Stewart of Saint Andrews. Device. Per fess sable and gules, in fess an eagle displayed and a Celtic cross Or. T{e'}arlach MacDonnachaidh. Device. Sable, a mascle and on a chief Or three lozenges sable. MIDDLE Alfah Beaufiz de Antioch. Name. Alicia MacQuaid. Name. Anne Geoffreys of Warwick. Name and device. Per bend sinister azure and gules semy of pheons Or, in dexter chief a natural tiger rampant contourny argent striped sable. Anne Geoffreys of Warwick. Augmentation. Per bend sinister azure and gules semy of pheons Or, in dexter chief a natural tiger rampant contourny argent striped sable, as an augmentation maintaining between both paws an annulet Or. Anne of Dragonhurst. Name. No evidence was supplied that Dragon- was a period element in placenames. Drakehurst would be significantly more authentic. Nevertheless, a cursory search found over 30 SCA names with Dragon- as locatives. Therefore Dragonhurst is SCA compatible. Arabella Silvermane. Name (see RETURNS for device). Bathory Anastasia. Name (see RETURNS for device). Bebinn Dub. Name and device. Vert, on a fess between three roundels argent, a turtle statant contourny azure. Submitted as Bebhinn Dubh, the submitter requested an authentic 12th century name. At that time lenition marks were not typically written (although they were pronounced), so we removed them. Another form of the name, although atypical for her chosen time, would include the lenition marks, but would include all of them, making the name Bebhinn Dhubh. Bettina von Hasenfeld. Name. Submitted as Bettina von Haschenfeld, h{a:}schen means "young hare" not "hare" which makes it less likely as a place name element. The citation of Haschentaler from Brechenmacher, Etymologishes W{o:}rterbuch der Deutschen Familiennamen is marked by Brechenmacher as a scribal error. Brechenmacher does, however, list a real place name Hasenfeld meaning "hare field", so we have replaced the surname with a documented example. As it is a real place name (as opposed to a generic toponymic), it can be used with the preposition von. Cassandra de Layre. Name. Cassandra of Glastonbury. Name. Cathal Macdoyl. Device. Per bend sinister wavy vert and azure, a thistle and a compass rose Or. Charles Buchanan. Name and device. Per bend vert and argent, all semy of lucy bendwise sinister inverted, a boar rampant to sinister counterchanged. Nice name! Charles of Whithorse. Name (see RETURNS for device). Chrestienne la Croniere. Name and device. Or, a horse rampant, on a chief azure a serpent erect Or between two bezants. Submitted as Chresti{e'}nne la Croniere, the documentation lacked the accent. Christopher Jameson. Name and device. Gules, a pale betressed argent, in chief three crosses crosslet counterchanged. Clarissa Wykeham. Release of badge. Or, on a chevron azure between three hearts gules two swords conjoined at their points argent, all within a bordure embattled gules. Colban Silver. Name. Cynfyn ap Rhiwallon. Device. Sable, in pale a phoenix Or and an open book argent. Darkstone, College of. Branch name (see RETURNS for device). Donal Bane of Blakmers. Name and device. Argent, a falcon displayed vert sustaining a sinister cubit arm fesswise fist clenched and on a chief sable three feathers bendwise sinister Or. Donato Pulcinella. Badge for the Commilitoni della Balestra. Sable, a crossbow and on a chief Or a chain sable. Edmund Cornwaleis. Name. Egil Thorkelsson Br{o:}berg. Name and device. Or, an eagle displayed gules, on a chief azure three winged boots Or. Submitted as Egil Thorkelsson af Br{o:}berg, the final locative mixed two languages in a single phrase. Even though Br{o:}berg is grandfathered to him, his mother did not use it with af and its use is not otherwise allowable. Eli{sv}ka of Plze{nv}. Name. Submitted as Eli{sv}ka of Pl{zv}en, the forms had Ple{zv}n and the Czech form of the place is Plze{nv}. We thus corrected the name to a correct form. The English form of the place name, Pilzen, would also be acceptable. Eloise of Tree-Girt-Sea. Name (See RETURNS for Device). Elspeth O'Shea. Name and device. Party of six pieces gules and Or, three swans naiant Or and three estoiles gules. Submitted as Elspeth O'Seaghdha, while the mixture of Scots and Gaelic spelling is a weirdness and not returnable, if the byname is in Gaelic it must follow the rules of Gaelic grammar. {O'} Seaghdha (or O'Seaghdha) cannot follow a feminine name. We have therefore Anglicized the byname. If she wants an entirely Irish name she could have Sib{e'}al inghean u{i'} Sheaghdha, where Sib{e'}al is a Gaelic form of Elizabeth/Isabel. Geoffrey of Warwick. Name and device. Per bend sable and Or, three crosses bottony in bend and three pheons inverted in bend counterchanged. Gudrun of the hills. Name. Submitted as Gu{dh}r{u'}n of the Hills, she originally requested Gudr{u'}n of the hills. Reaney & Wilson (p. 231 s.n. Hill) date the form o the hil to 1313, showing that capitalizing the byname is not necessary. Additionally, "d" is a reasonable variant of "{dh}." A form of the name with "d", however, would not include the accent. Gunther Friedrich von Bodenheim. Device. Lozengy azure and argent, a lion's head cabossed gules, on a chief argent three crosses formy sable. Ia ingen {A'}eda. Name. Jacobus Tallon of Greenwich. Name. Maynard Wolven. Name and device. Gules, a wolf's head cabossed between flaunches Or each flaunch charged with a goutte de sang. Meave de Clare. Household name House Vermoncourt and badge. Per pale gules and vert, a Maltese cross Or. Submitted as simply Vermoncourt, the name needed a designator. It was possible that -court could be the designator, but that element was more of an integral part of the name, i.e., more like the element -ley in English names than -shire. Therefore, as the submitter allowed major changes, we decided to add the generic designator House rather than return the name. Meave de Clare. Badge for House Vermoncourt. Per pale gules and vert, a monster composed of the forepart of a raven and the hindquarters of a rat displayed argent, in chief three Maltese crosses in fess Or. This is a second badge associated with this household name. Middle Kingdom. Release of order name Captaincy-General of Guatemala. Middle Kingdom. Release of heraldic title Dragon Surrogate Herald. Middle Kingdom. Association of badge with the Award of the Dragon's Flight. (Fieldless) A pheon inverted within and conjoined to an annulet Or. Middle Kingdom. Release of heraldic title Falcon Herald. Middle Kingdom. Release of heraldic title Mich-Ont Herald. Middle Kingdom. Release of heraldic title Northshield Herald. Middle Kingdom. Release of heraldic title Ohio-Kentucky Herald. Middle Kingdom. Order name change Award of the Purple Fret from the Order of the Purple Fret. The request was to change the Order of the Purple Fret to the Award of Purple Fret, but as the request was to only change the designator, we kept the article. Middle Kingdom. Association of badge with the Order of the Red Company. Gules, two flanged maces in saltire argent. Middle Kingdom. Order name Award of the Sapphire and badge. (Fieldless) A step-cut gemstone fesswise azure. This name does not conflict with the personal name Sapphyra (registered August 1971) because personal names do not conflict with order names. Middle Kingdom. Release of heraldic title Third Shield Herald. Nordskogen, Barony of. Badge. (Fieldless) A fool's cap per pall Or, gules, and vert. {O'}l{a'}fr Gr{i'}m{o'}lfsson. Device. Azure, a winged wolf rampant, on a chief rayonny argent a battle-axe sable. This was pended from the October 1999 LoAR. Otto Volkmar Tannh{a:}user. Name. Pawel Blisnecz z Kraja. Name and device. Quarterly argent and sable, a goat's head erased counterchanged. Ragnvaldr J{o'}nsson. Name (see RETURNS for device). Rebekah Tallon of Greenwich. Name. Rhys ab Idwal. Name and device. Per pale azure and sable, on a plate a wolf salient sable. Ricard Ealdwulfes sunu. Name. Submitted as Richard Ealdwulf, the submitter wanted an authentic 8th century Old English form. Therefore, we have replaced the given name with an older version and added the patronymic marker required of Old English names. Please inform the submitter, however, that Richard is not a native Old English name but a Continental import. Tairdelbach ua Conaill. Name. Tigernach mac {E'}oghain ua {A'}eda. Badge. (Fieldless) A cross crosslet per pale gules and argent. Ulrich von Landstuhl. Device. Vert, a wolf rampant argent, on a chief Or a halberd sable. THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN RETURNED FOR FURTHER WORK: {AE}THELMEARC Bleddyn ap Llwelyn. Name. Conflict with the registered name Bleddyn ap Llwelyn. His armory was registered under the holding name Bleddyn of Hornwood. Brion Enkazi. Name. This was an appeal of a kingdom return. The appeal was based largely on a persona story which has no bearing on the acceptability of the name. Brion is acceptable as an Irish name, although the submitter should be informed that we know of no examples of the name in Central Europe where he based his persona. Enkazi was documented as an Italian mercenary name based on a mispronunciation of und Kazi, but no evidence was given that any byname was formed from this type of transformation, much less an Italian mercenary name. Therefore we must deny the appeal and return the name. Catherine O'Herlihy. Device. Per fess wavy azure and vert, an otter statant and a pen bendwise sinister argent. No paperwork was included for this device. Jochen Blitzkopf. Name. No evidence was given, and none was found, to indicate that Blitzkopf, "lightning-head," was a reasonable byname. The German surnames ending in -head all use modifiers that describe heads, such as "broad head," "hard head," "pretty head," "curly head," and "black head." His armory was registered under the holding name Jochen of Nithgaard. Kazi Enkazi. Name. This was an appeal of a kingdom return. The appeal was based largely on a persona story which has no bearing on the acceptability of the name. No evidence was given that Kazi was a name used by huans in period. Enkazi was documented as an Italian mercenary name based on a mispronunciation of und Kazi, but no evidence was given that any byname was formed from this type of transformation, much less an Italian mercenary name. Therefore we must deny the appeal and return the name. Rhydderich Hael, Barony of the. Badge for the Cooks Guild. Sable, a base rayonny paly gules and Or. The line of division is not rayonny or indented but somewhere in between. Furthermore, we would like to see some documentation for the edges of the paly and the indentations being lined up this way. AN TIR Aonghas Cu. Device. Or, on a pale azure a tree argent. Conflict with Elspeth of the Wood, Vert, on a pale azure, fimbriated, an oak tree Or. There is a CD for the field, but Aonghas' tree, though blazoned as a fir tree, was drawn round enough that we could not call it significantly different from Elspeth's oak tree. Tanwen Glyn Helfarch. Name. No documentation was given for Tanwen except as a possible spelling variant for Tonwen or Tangwen; however, such spelling variants do not appear to be valid for Welsh names. Even though Tonwen appears in the Welsh Miscellany, the author indicates that the name is unlikely, as it is only listed as an alternate name of the mother of a 5th century saint. The byname was intended to be a translation of "hunter's glen", but both the word choice and the grammar is incorrect. Helfarch means a horse used for hunting, not a human hunter. As for the grammar, I can do no better than to quote Harpy Herald: It isn't unheard of for period Welsh place-names to include references to occupations - most often when the land involved was part of the traditional "salary" of a person engaged in that occupation for the local nobility ... It's not a particularly common type of place name. The usual pattern (for what that's worth) of such names is . An article on the place-name element dryll (a type of field) lists, for example: dryll y go (1600) "smith" dryll y melinidd (1647) "miller" dryll y pannwr (1611) "fuller" dryll y pobyth (1393) "baker" Thus, the most minor change from the submitted form that would follow some sort of period Welsh practice would be Glyn y Hel(i)wr. (Both helwr and heliwr appear in medieval records and neither form is preferred, but heliwr is the modern standard.) Therefore a name such as Tangwen Glyn y Heliwr would be acceptable, but that is more of a change than should be made without consultation with the submitter. Her device was registered under the holding name Lisa of Stromgard. Tanwen Glyn Helfarch. Badge. Per fess purpure and vert, a chess pawn Or. There was no documentation given showing that this form of a chess pawn is a period depiction. Turpin Akraspillir. Device. Argent, a vanilla leaf inverted proper, a chief azure. The primary charge is the leaf of a vanillaleaf plant (genus Achlys). Europeans did not discover it until the 18th century so cannot be used in SCA armory. ANSTEORRA Geoffrey Biedermann. Device change. Quarterly sable and Or, a Maltese cross throughout argent between four hearts, points to center, counterchanged. The combination of distorting the shape of the Maltese cross to place charges between the arms of the cross, the marginal contrast between the argent charge and the Or quarters, and placing the cross throughout eliminated the identifiability of the primary charge. Hans Faust. Name. Conflict with Johann Faust, better known as Doctor Faustus, a significant legendary character. Hans is a diminutive of Johann. ARTEMISIA Conrad von Zuberbuehler. Household name Company of the Pembroke Luce. The documentation given did not show that or was a pattern given to organized groups in period. "Household names must follow the patterns of period names of organized 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)" (RfS III.2.b.iv). Sanchia de Illora. Device. Argent, a foxglove purpure slipped and leaved vert and on a chief embattled azure three roses argent. This plant is not recognizably foxglove. Foxglove flowers hang down from the stem. Varia Goffe. Device. Vair, a drakkar reversed sable. Conflict with Earl of Aran of Old (important non-SCA arms), Argent, a lymphad sable, and the Lord of Lorne of Old (important non-SCA arms), Or a lymphad sable. In both cases there is a CD for the field, but by long standing precedent nothing for reversing a ship or between a drakkar and a lymphad. ATENVELDT Ailionora Caointiarn. Name. Ailionora and Caointiarn are both Irish feminine given names. We know of no examples of Irish names consisting of two given names. Nor can we make the second name a metronymic. There is no evidence that metronymics were used in Ireland; the only examples found involved genealogies of royalty whose claim to royalty involved descent through the female line. We recommend that Ailionora choose a name for her father and form a name from that. Her armory was registered under the name Ailionora of Tir Ysgithr. Alexandra de la Mer Verte. Badge. (Fieldless) A griffin segreant maintaining a sword vert. Conflict with the badge for Margaret Holmwood ({E'}ta{i'}n Dhomhnullach), A gryphon segreant, its dexter forepaw gauntleted and maintaining a sprig of three holly leaves vert, fructed gules. There is no difference for the maintained charges, thus only a single CD for fieldlessness. Anita de Challis. Device. Gules, a schnecke issuant from sinister chief argent, on a chief Or, a xonecuilli fesswise gules. The only registrations of a xonecuilli were to John the Idiota in 1978 and again by him in 1982. It is listed in the Pictorial Dictionary as an Aztec artistic motif. We no longer register artistic motifs even from European sources without evidence that they are compatible with heraldry. Therefore we declare that the xonecuilli is no longer registerable barring evidence that it is compatible with medieval heraldic style. 'Inan Nihlah. Name. Both 'Inan and Nihlah are Arabic feminine given names, but there is no evidence that Arabic names were formed of two given names. As they did not use metronymics we could not fix this by making the second name a metronymic. Her armory was registered under the holding name 'Inan of Aurochsford. Malkolm Tay. Device. Azure, a chevron argent ermined vert surmounted by a man-catcher issuant from base Or. The identifying features of the man-catcher are the joint of the handle and the head and the spikes, both of which are on the low contrast chevron. Therefore this is returned for unidentifiabilty. If the man-catcher is drawn so that the entire head is on the azure field it would be acceptable. Temur Arslan. Device. Or, in fess two skulls sable, a wolf tooth issuant from chief and another issuant from base gules. We know of no examples of wolf's teeth issuant from anywhere but from dexter or sinister, nor do we have any examples of them being used singly. We must therefore return the device pending documentation of this use of wolf's teeth. William Flanagan. Badge. (Fieldless) A tree couped gules. Conflict with Anne the Quiet, Per bend sinister embattled argent and gules, a tree eradicated gules, and the badge for the Shire of Copper Tree, Quarterly azure and argent, a crabtree eradicated gules. In both cases there is a CD for fieldlessness, but nothing for the type of tree nor for the difference between eradicated and couped. Against Anne the Quiet there is also not a CD for the change in position on the field. ATLANTIA Maura MacPharlain. Name. Maura is not justifiable as a period Irish name, as it is a diminutive of Maire, which did not appear in Ireland until the end of our period. There is a possible justification of Maura as a feminization of an 8th c. Frankish male name, but there are other problems. Morlet lists Maura to 739, while MacPharlain is first cited in 1385 (Black, s.n. MacFarlane). Thus the name would have two weirdnesses: the combination of French and Scots Gaelic and temporal incompatibility. DRACHENWALD None! EAST Lucan von Drachenklaue. Badge. Sable, a mullet of four points elongated to base within a bordure embattled argent. Conflict with Anna Tuomaantyt{a:}r von Urwald, Sable, a mullet and a base wavy argent. There is only one CD for changing a base wavy to a bordure embattled. This was pended from the October 1999 LoAR. LOCHAC Kassandra Gatto Ammiratore. Device. Argent, a cat statant within a bordure sable. Conflict with Sibyl of Dragon's Eyrie, Argent a catamount triply queued statant guardant and a chief dovetailed sable, with only one CD for the change of peripheral charge from a chief to a bordure. It is also in conflict with Moshe Pantera del Fuego Negro, Argent, a natural panther salient incensed of flame, all within a bordure sable, with only one CD for the posture of the feline. Had there not been a conflict, the device would still be returned because the name was returned in June 1999, well before the date of the Letter of Intent. Parvus Portus, Canton of. Badge. (Fieldless) A tower sable masoned argent within and conjoined to a laurel wreath gules. Only group devices can have laurel wreaths. MERIDIES D{o:}regene Naran. Badge. (Fieldless) A bottle-nosed dolphin haurient contourny azure maintaining in its mouth a garden rose proper. This violates Rule VIII.4.c, Naturalistic Depiction: "Excessively naturalistic use of otherwise acceptable charges may not be registered. Excessively natural designs include those that depict animate objects in unheraldic postures, use several charges in their natural forms when heraldic equivalents exist, or overuse proper..." The combination of a natural dolphin and a garden rose, neither of which were known in period heraldry, is excessive. If she used a heraldic dolphin or a heraldic rose (preferably both), the device would then be acceptable. Grigorii Elisseyevich. Badge for Harvey Bastien. Or, a chevron inverted and in chief two roundels, a bordure sable. This was not submitted on a badge form, but a device form, and the submitter already has a device. Several commenters observed that this submission resembled a "smiley face," but the inclusion of a bordure and a chevron inverted (rather than a chevron inverted couped or a crescent) makes this (barely) acceptable. Ingunn V{o:}lsungsd{o:}ttir. Name. There is no evidence that Volsung was ever used outside of legend. Her device was registered under the name Ingunn of Wyrmgeist. Malachi of East River. Device. Argent, a bend embattled counter-embattled gules between two anvils sable. Conflict with Leif Tryggvason, Argent, a bend bretessed gules between a dragon rampant and a maple leaf sable. There is only one CD for change of type of the secondary charges. Malcolm MacAdaim. Device. Gules, two serpents volute about each other, heads to center fesswise, argent and Or. No documentation was provided showing examples of two serpents being combined in this manner (two interleaved spirals). Furthermore, the emblazon is not reproducible from this blazon (it is unclear which serpent is argent and which is Or), nor could anyone come up with a better one. MIDDLE Arabella Silvermane. Device. Per pale gules and sable, a griffin segreant maintaining an axe Or. Conflict with Degary Golafre of Pembroke, Quarterly sable and gules, a griffin segreant coward bearing in her dexter talon a Celtic cross and in her sinister talon a sword inverted Or. There is a CD for the field but nothing for changing the maintained charges and nothing for the tail position. Bathory Anastasia. Device. Per fess wavy sable and barry wavy Or and sable, in chief a decrescent Or. The submitter withdrew the device. Charles of Whithorse. Device. Quarterly sable and gules, two horses combattant argent. Conflict with Evandre of Middleham More, Quarterly sable and gules, a horse rampant argent. There is only one CD for the number of primary charges. Clarissa Wykeham. Device change. Or, a seeblatt azure. While the armory was lovely, Only one copy of the device form was submitted. Darkstone, College of. Device. Per fess indented gules and sable, a laurel wreath and in chief a roundel Or. First, there was no petition submitted for the device. Second, the laurel wreath is not closed (or even nearly so), and if it were, there would be no room for a roundel. A properly drawn laurel wreath should not have sufficient room between its tips to place another charge. Third, if properly drawn, the laurel wreath will overlap the complex line of division enough that identifiability is reduced. Eloise of Tree-Girt-Sea. Device (See ACCEPTANCES for Name). Argent masoned sable, on a bend sinister azure a unicorn's horn argent. Only one copy of the device form was submitted. Katherine mac Ewen. Name. Conflict with the registered name Katheryn MacEvin. Both elements are simply spelling variants of each other. Canton of Kennasport. Branch name. The documentation for Kennasport was as a spelling variant of Keneport or "Cena's port". The "e" in Cena, however, is long, so it is not appropriate to double the "n". Also the additional "s" was not used in this type of formation. Either the Middle English Keneport or the Old English Cenanport would be acceptable; however, the letter of intent stated that the canton would not accept either change. While the forms did not include the designator Canton, the petition did. The element -port in this case can be a designator (although Corpora (V.C) then requires the group to be a military institution), or it can be a more integral part of the name similar to -ton. Middle Kingdom. Household name Middle Kingdom Archers. This name is too generic to register by itself, although it could be used as an identifier for a badge. The badge it was to be associated with, A pheon inverted within and conjoined to an annulet Or, was also requested to be associated with the Award of the Dragon's Flight. While we will allow more than one badge to be associated with a single order or household, we do not allow a single badge to be associated with more than one item. Midewinde, Shire of. Device. Only one copy of the device form was submitted. Ragnvaldr J{o'}nsson. Device. Per pall argent, sable, and azure, in pale a sword inverted and a spear crossed in saltire azure and a drakkar argent. The sword, spear, and drakkar are all co-primaries, violating our current rule of thumb (Rule VIII.1.a - Tincture and Charge Limit) disallowing three different types of charges in the same group. Stephana Relicta le Clark. Device. Or, three piles in point, the center one charged with a comet Or. Only one copy of the device form was submitted. Three Walls, Valley of the. Branch name change from Canton of Threewalls. This was an appeal from a kingdom return of the name. The canton justified the construction Valley of the with three examples: Avenue of a Hundred Fountains (in Italy), the Valley of Five Polish Lakes, and the Valley of the Seven Castles (in Luxumbourg). None of the examples, however, are English, one is a street, and the others lack evidence that the names were used for these places in period (given that the places are not in England the period names are definitely not the ones given, although the given forms may be reasonable translations of the period place name). No one else was able to justify Valley as an element in an English place name. Therefore we must deny the appeal. Vladislav de Jaffa. Device. Per chevron ermine and sable, a lion's head erased argent. Conflict with the badge for Kasilda Kubasek, Gules, a natural leopard's head erased argent, spotted sable. There is a CD for the field but nothing for the forced change of position on the field. Nor is there a CD for markings on the head of Kasilda's leopard.