AN TIR

Andreu Recheles. Name.

Submitted as Andrew the Reckless, the submitter requested an authentic form of the name for 13th century English. Withycombe, The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, s.n. Andrew, dates Andreu to 1273, and Reaney and Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames, s.n. Reckless, lists a John Recheles also in 1273. Therefore, we have changed the spelling to attested 13th century forms.

Avacal, Principality of. Badge. Quarterly argent and Or, a winged eagle's claw gules sustaining a glove sable.

This is clear of Riccardo di Pisa, reblazoned elsewhere in this letter, Argent, an eagle's wing fesswise terminating in a hand gules, maintaining a scimitar fesswise reversed sable. There is one CD for the change of field, and one for the change for half the primary charge group. Additionally, Riccardo's wing is fesswise.

Submitted as being for The Bravo of Avacal, that name is not currently registered, nor is it a generic description.

Avacal, Principality of. Badge. Quarterly argent and Or, a winged eagle's claw gules sustaining an arrow inverted sable.

This is clear of Riccardo di Pisa, reblazoned elsewhere in this letter, Argent, an eagle's wing fesswise terminating in a hand gules, maintaining a scimitar fesswise reversed sable. There is one CD for the change of field, and one for the change for half the primary charge group. Additionally, Riccardo's wing is fesswise.

Submitted as begin for the Champion of Arrows, that name is not currently registered, nor it is otherwise a generic description (such as the Champion of Archers).

Avacal, Principality of. Badge for the Champion of Arts and Sciences. Quarterly argent and Or, a winged eagle's claw gules sustaining a candle sable enflamed gules.

This is clear of Riccardo di Pisa, reblazoned elsewhere in this letter, Argent, an eagle's wing fesswise terminating in a hand gules, maintaining a scimitar fesswise reversed sable. There is one CD for the change of field, and one for the change for half the primary charge group. Additionally, Riccardo's wing is fesswise.

Unlike the other examples, Champion of Arts and Sciences is a generic descriptor and need not be registered

Avacal, Principality of. Badge. Quarterly argent and Or, a winged eagle's claw gules sustaining a sword sable.

This is clear of Riccardo di Pisa, reblazoned elsewhere in this letter, Argent, an eagle's wing fesswise terminating in a hand gules, maintaining a scimitar fesswise reversed sable. There is one CD for the change of field, and one for the change for half the primary charge group. Additionally, Riccardo's wing is fesswise.

Submitted as being for the Champion of Sword, the name is not currently registered to Avacal, nor it is otherwise a generic description.

Beatrice Domenici della Campana. Name and badge (see RETURNS for device). (Fieldless) A rose per pale argent and azure.

Submitted as Beatrice Domènici della Campana, the accent was not used in period; modern authors such as de Felice use them as pronunciation guides.

Bríg ingen Betháin. Name.

Cairbre macc Eochada micc Fedelmid. Name change from Cairbre poc Airgead and device. Sable, a stag rampant within a bordure potenty argent.

Submitted as Cairbre mac Eochaidh mac Feideilmid, the submitter requested that the name be made authentic to 7th century Ireland. We lack records of Old Irish that early, and its predecessor, Ogham, looks radically different. We could, however, make the name correct for circa 9th century Old Irish. We have also placed the second patronymic marker into the genitive form as required by Irish grammar.

The device is clear of Alric of Ashfield, Sable, a stag trippant within a bordure embattled argent. There is a CD for the posture of the stag, and there is a second CD for the difference between potenty and embattled. Please inform the submitter that the potent pieces should not be cut off diagonally at the corners; there should instead be more room left between them at the corners of the bordure.

Eirikr inn kengr. Name and badge (see RETURNS for device). (Fieldless) A trident Or.

The badge is clear of Bedivere de Byron, Azure, a serpent entwined around a trident palewise Or. There is a CD for fieldlessness, and a second CD for the deletion of the snake, which, because it is as large as the trident, is a co-primary charge.

Ginevra Domenichetti. Name and device. Argent billety gules, on a chief triangular azure a sun in splendor Or.

Please inform the submitter that the triangular chief should not come down to the fess line.

Giovanni Lorenzo da San Gimignano. Name.

Giuseppe Giordano Maria Falcionieri. Name.

Guineth the White. Name and device. Per pall inverted azure, argent and vair, in pale a roundel counterchanged Or and gules and a bee Or.

Idonea Morain. Name and device. Azure, a unicorn rampant contourny argent within a bordure argent semy of decrescents azure.

Submitted as Idonea de Morain, Morain is documented as a descriptive byname, and therefore can not be used with the preposition de.

Isobel FitzGilbert. Name and device. Vert, a seagoat and on a chief wavy argent three escallops inverted vert.

Lauretta Toulouse. Name and device. Argent, a jay rising wings elevated and addorsed and on a chief azure three fleurs-de-lys argent.

Maeve Hillery. Name.

Michael atte Calle. Name and device. Argent semy of clarions sable, on a chief triangular vert a sun in splendor Or.

Please inform the submitter that the triangular chief should not come down to the fess line.

Moreach nic Mhaolain. Joint badge with Ælfgifu verch Morgan. (Fieldless) A winged tower sable.

Roscelin Silversmith-doghter. Name.

Submitted as Roscelin the Silversmith's Daughter, no one was able to find evidence of patronymics formed in such a manner. We therefore changed the patronymic to a form consistent with a form found in 1379: Agnes Taylour-doghter (Bardsley, Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, s.n. Taylorson).

Ulric Morgan. Name.

The submitter requested an authentic 16th century English name; however, Ulric seems to have fallen out of use in England during that time. Therefore, while registerable, the name cannot be made authentic for 16th century England.

Ursula Georges. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Werburg of Wenlock. Name.

ANSTEORRA

Riccardo di Pisa. Reblazon of badge. Argent, an eagle's wing fesswise terminating in a hand gules maintaining a scimitar fesswise reversed sable.

ARTEMISIA

Isabelle MacLeod. Device. Per pall inverted gules, vert, and argent, two unicorns combattant argent and a tree eradicated vert.

This was pended from the November 1999 LoAR. Please instruct the submitter to draw the field division with the intersection at the center of the shield.

ATLANTIA

Aodhán Ó Cearbhaill. Name.

Aranwen Ddryw ferch Rhodri. Device. Per chevron purpure and vert, a crescent and a cat couchant Or.

Balthasar van Maldeghem. Name.

Bonne de Traquair. Name.

Ceridwen ferch Owain. Badge for House Gryphon Hall. (Fieldless) A griffin segreant bendy gules and argent.

Nice badge!

Ciarán mac Tighearnáin. Name and device. Argent, a stag trippant contourny azure, in chief three acorns inverted slipped and leaved proper.

Ealdthryth of Humberstone. Badge. (Fieldless) A spider azure.

Nice badge!

Feyerwary Ersebet. Device. Purpure, on a pile potenty argent a bat displayed sable.

This is clear of William de Lacy of Sherborne, Purpure, on a pile raguly argent a gauntlet aversant gules. There is a CD for the changes to the type and tincture of the tertiary, and there is a second CD for changing the pile from raguly to potenty.

James Byngham. Name and device. Argent, a cross of ermine spots sable, on a chief azure three escallops argent.

Julianna Fiorentini. Device. Azure, three peacock feathers argent issuant from in base a fleur-de-lys Or.

This was pended from the August 1999 LoAR. It is clear of the badge for Aelfgifu of the Hazel Thicket, Azure, four feathers fretted argent, with a CD for number of primaries and another for the independent change in arrangement.

Lucien de la Rochelle. Name.

Meliora Gwinear. Device. Azure, a lioness' head erased affronty, on a chief embattled Or three lion's jambes bendwise gules.

Meliora Trevethan. Device. Gules, a chevron inverted between a winged cougar sejant to sinister and two more sejant respectant argent.

Sorcha Lochlan. Name.

Wolfram von Aalst. Device. Per saltire argent and Or, a monkey dormant gules.

CAID

Áengus O'Flaherty. Name.

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 Gaelic Áengus Ó Flaithbertaig or fully English Aeneas or Angus O'Flaherty.

Aidan MacBain. Name.

Annora verch Llwyd Bryneirian. Name.

Antonio di Marco. Device. Per chevron argent and azure, two demi-horses combattant sable and a goblet argent.

Battista de Lagos. Name and device. Per fess vert and purpure, on a fess between two keys fesswise Or, two scorpions tergiant addorsed tails entwined sable.

Brictrec de Montaigne. Name and device. Purpure, a wolf rampant contourny and a chief argent.

Submitted as Brictrec du Montaigne, the article was changed to the grammatically correct form.

Caid, Kingdom Of. Badge for the Order of the Acorn. (Fieldless) An acorn proper.

Caid, Kingdom of. Heraldic title Furison Pursuivant.

Calam Stiúbhard. Device. Per pale gules and argent, a death's head counterchanged.

Callista Teresa di Bella. Name.

Submitted as Callista Terèsa di Bèlla, the accents were not used in period; modern authors such as de Felice use them as pronunciation guides.

Cassandre Nicole Loustaunau. Name correction from Cassandra Nicole Loustaunau.

Catalina Oro Sol. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Submitted as Catalina del Sol de Oro, no evidence was given, and none could be found, to show that "of the Golden Sun" is a valid byname in Spanish. The letter of intent suggested that it might be based on an inn name, but we know of no examples of an inn name being used as a byname in Spanish either. Given the dated example Oro Sol in the 13th century, one of the submitter's specifically requested alternates, Catalina Oro Sol, is possible as a name of the form <given name> <given name> <unmarked metronymic>. The submitter also requested an authentic name for 14th-16th century Spain or Portugal. We doubt that the name is authentic as the use of double given names was unheard of until the end of period and we have no citation of Oro or Sol at that time. Catalina Sol would be a reasonably authentic 13th century Spanish name.

Catrin ferch Madog. Name.

Cecilia la Feconda. Name.

Cedric Myles Madoc. Device. Quarterly sable and azure, a four-leaved shamrock saltirewise slipped argent.

Christiana de Mandeville. Name and device. Azure, a chevron between two escarbuncles argent and a fleur-de-lys Or.

Ciana Masina della Luna. Device. Azure, on a bend cotised argent three crescents palewise gules, in sinister chief a natural tiger rampant argent marked sable.

The submitter has permission to conflict with Karin Jorgensdotter Eldhierta, Azure, on a bend cotised argent three hearts palewise issuing flames to chief gules.

Cindy of Angels. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Quarterly lozengy Or and purpure and purpure, four triquetrae inverted argent.

Submitted under the name Móirne inghean Étaín.

Cindy of Angels. Badge. Per saltire argent and azure, a goute within a bordure gules.

Submitted under the name Móirne inghean Étaín.

Cyneburh æt Suðhamtune. Device change. Per pale vert and argent, a chevron counterchanged.

Nice armory! Her current device, Per bend purpure and vert, a yale's head couped argent, is retained as a badge.

Deirdre inghean Dhomhnaill mhic Maidecc. Name change from Anastasia MacDonald.

Submitted as Deirdre inghean Dhomhnaill mhic Madwc, the last element mixes two languages in a single phrase, violating RfS III.1.a. Therefore, we have replaced the last name with its Gaelic equivalent.

Deirdre is SCA-compatible.

Donnchadh Kethe. Name.

The submitter should be informed that mixing Scots and Gaelic spellings in a single name was vanishingly rare in period. The name would be considerably more authentic as a fully Scots Duncan Kethe.

Edith of Arbroath. Badge. (Fieldless) A crescent inverted and overall an arrow fracted in chevron inverted Or.

This was pended from the November 1999 LoAR.

Forveleth MacChruiter. Name.

Ghislaine d'Auxerre. Badge. (Fieldless) A cross potent Or.

The submitter should be informed to draw the arms of the cross so that they do not touch.

Ghislaine d'Auxerre. Release of badge. (Fieldless) A spur fesswise Or.

Godfrey Baldwin Maul. Badge. (Fieldless) Three swords in pall conjoined at the hilts Or.

Guinevere of Altavia. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Azure, a lioness statant guardant Or within an orle of increscents argent.

Submitted under the name Guinevere of Lyonesse.

Halla Haustmyrkr. Name.

Jacopa Maria di Matteo Adimari. Name.

Listed in the letter of intent as Jacopa Maria de Matteo Adimari, the forms had the grammatically correct di.

John Morgan of Caerleon. Name.

Karol Johanna Gartenheit. Name change from Karol Gartenheit and badge. (Fieldless) A jonquil blossom Or.

The submitter has a letter of permission to conflict with the Barony of Winter's Gate for the Order of the Gilded Lily, Sable, a lily blossom Or. Her previously registered badge, Per bend sinister Or and azure, in fess a card pique inverted and a jonquil blossom counterchanged, is released.

Líadan of Seahaven. Badge. Argent, on a fess wavy azure, a whelk pierced by an arrow fesswise point to sinister argent.

Luighseach nic Lochlainn. Device change. Vert, semy of lucys haurient Or two natural tigers sejant respectant argent marked sable.

Her current device, Vert semy of fish naiant Or, two domestic cats sejant respectant argent marked sable, is released.

Magnus Hrafnsson. Name and badge (see RETURNS for device). Argent, two dog's heads couped addorsed sable each collared and chained gules, a bordure azure.

Submitted as Magnus Hrafnarson, we corrected the construction of the patronymic.

Mivanou merch Deicyn Maur. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Mons Draconis, Canton of. Badge. (Fieldless) A fishhook vert.

This depiction of a fishhook is found in Gelre (41 verso).

Nicolette Isabeau d'Avignon. Name.

Qara Unegen. Name.

Robert of Altavia. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Per bend sinister vert and sable, a falcon striking and maintaining by the blade a rapier between three fleurs-de-lys Or.

Submitted under the name Robert Camulos Brigantius.

Rowen Seer. Name (See RETURNS for device).

Sarra the Gipsie. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Shereen al-Maghrebiyya. Name.

Submitted as Sheereen al-Maghrebiyya, the submitter originally requested Shereen, and al-Jamal was able to justify that transliteration.

Sigmund Svertingsson. Name and device. Per chevron azure and gules, a chevron argent between a lion's head cabossed and a lance palewise Or.

Please inform the submitter to draw the chevron larger and steeper.

Sorcha Spottiswood. Name and device. Argent, on a bend sable between two frogs vert a heart between two keys wards to chief argent.

Thea Gabrielle Northernridge. Name change from Thea Gabrielle of Northernridge.

Tighearnán Ó Séaghdha. Name.

Submitted as Tiarnán ua Séaghdha, the documentation for Tiarnán marks it as a form only found in the 20th century. Séaghdha is the standard late period form of the name, but ua was only found in Old Irish. We thus compromised and used late period Irish Gaelic spellings for the entire name.

Úrsúla Gunnarsdóttir. Name.

Zhigmun' Broghammer. Name.

Zhivana Anastasiia Svemirovna. Device. Gules, in pale a comet fesswise argent and an open book Or.

DRACHENWALD

Anya Mstislavlyaya. Name and device. Vert, on a bend between two Russian Orthodox crosses reversed Or two cartwheels conjoined by an axle sable.

Listed on the Letter of Intent as Anna Mstislavlyaya, the forms listed Annya Mstislavlyaya and the submitter originally requested Anya. As Anya is a reasonable spelling variant of Annya, we are registering the originally requested form.

Gotvik, Shire of. Device. Ermine, on a chevron azure three fleurs-de-lys argent, in base a laurel wreath vert.

Måns Knutsson. Name and device. Per pale sable and argent all goutty counterchanged, a sickle gules.

Valeria della Stelle da Firenze. Name and device. Per pale vert and azure, an increscent argent between three estoiles Or.

Submitted as Valeria delle Stelle da Firenze, the documentation lists della.

LAUREL

Society for Creative Anachronism. Badge for the Children's Officer. Per pale purpure and argent, two roundels counterchanged.

LOCHAC

Silvie de Rohan. Name and device. Sable, in pale a cat passant reguardant to sinister and three crescents interlaced in pall inverted, a bordure embattled Or.

Listed on the letter of intent as Silvi de Rohan, the submitter originally requested Silvie. As the documentation derived Silvi from the Silvius, the standard French feminization, Silvie, is at least plausible, so we restored the name to the original form.

The submitter requested a 14th century Breton name. Given the speculative documentation for Silvie and our lack of sources for that area, we were unable to determine whether the name is authentic or not.

MERIDIES

Amata Quentin Motzhart. Badge. Gules, a jester's cap lozengy argent and sable.

This depiction of a jester's cap is grandfathered to the submitter.

Brónach ua Mochonne. Name and device. Vert, in pale a crescent bendwise and a hound statant contourny Or.

Submitted as Brónach ua Mochonna, Mochonna needs to be put in the genitive form.

Some of the commentary attempted to make this name appropriate for an Irish woman, not realizing that the submitter was male because the given name was ambiguous and the intended gender was not mentioned on the LoI.

The device is clear of Alain du Val, Vert, in pale a crescent Or and a wolf passant reguardant to sinister argent, and Styrbjörn Halte, Vert, in pale a crescent inverted and a Thor's hammer Or. In each case there is a CD for orientation of half of the primary charges and either change of tincture or change of type of half of the primary charges.

Please inform the submitter to draw the crescent more fully and less naturalistically.

Cellach Cosnocht macCuain. Name change from Hugh Berfot.

Cera ingen Leoid. Name.

Submitted as Kára MacLeod, the submitter requested an authentic 10th century Scottish name. The name itself is a mix of a Norse name and a Scots spelling of a Gaelic patronymic derived from a Norse name. Scots did not appear as a separate language after the 10th century. Furthermore, the mixture of two spelling systems is not plausible for 10th century Scotland. While elements from Gaelic and Norse may have been used in a single name, the name itself would be written either entirely in Gaelic or Norse, although the same name could have been written in either language depending on the context. For registration we chose to make the name entirely Gaelic both because it is more "Scottish" and because the resulting name is closer in sound to the original. A fully Norse form would be Kára Ljótsdottír.

Edgiva of Leominster. Name.

Eldred Ulfsson. Name.

Jacqueline de Lyons. Badge. (Fieldless) A fleur-de-lys within and conjoined to an annulet gules.

Monford Allheisen. Reblazon of device. Azure, two trident heads shafts crossed in saltire Or.

Originally blazoned as demi-tridents, an examination of the emblazon shows that the charges are really trident heads.

Oyn Cefnog. Device. Sable, on a pile throughout Or three pheons gules.

The submitter has permission to conflict with the Shire-Marche of Grimfells, Sable, on a pile throughout Or a spiderweb throughout sable charged with a laurel wreath vert.

Paraskova Chemislava. Device. Azure, issuant from canton a quarter sun Or charged with an ankh sable.

Rowan Mac Quillan. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Listed on the LoI as Rowan Mac Quillian, the forms had Mac Quillan. As it also matches the documentation, we have returned the name to the submitter's requested form.

Smythkepe, Shire of. Device. Argent, on a bend embattled counter-embattled azure between two laurel wreaths vert three two-headed anvils bendwise sinister argent.

Sorcha Rhys. Name and device. Argent, on a Maltese cross nowy azure four swords in cross points to center Or between in saltire four passion nails heads to center argent.

The submitter requested that the name be corrected to an authentic 7-10th century Irish form. This is not possible because Rhys is Welsh, not Irish.

Tiernan O'Kernaghan. Name.

Submitted as Tiarnan O'Kernaghan, Tiarnan is listed as a form found only in the 20th century. We therefore substituted the Anglicized form of the given name, which also then matches the Anglicized surname.

Ulric Blackoak. Name and device. Argent, a bend vert cotised between an oak tree and a wolf rampant sable.

Ulrich Schwarzwolf. Device. Sable, on a chevron argent a double-bitted axe between two wolves combatant sable.

He has permission to conflict with Rafaella d'Allemtejo, Sable, on a chevron throughout argent an escallop vert.

Ulrich Tös. Name.

WEST

Adina Vischer von Hersbruck. Name and device. Vert, a weasel passant contourny reguardant argent collared and chained Or, a bordure argent semy of goblets sable.

Ahelissa of Greyvale. Name and device. Gules, a standing balance and a canton Or.

Christabel Heslington. Device. Per pale azure and Or, two single bitted axes counterchanged.

Codric Magee. Name and device. Per bend sinister vert and sable, two feathers palewise argent.

Diane de Winchester. Name and device. Vert, a chevron wavy between two acorns and an oak leaf inverted Or.

Please inform the submitter of the proper way to draw a heraldic oak leaf.

Elena verch Gwilim. Name and device. Per bend argent and gules, a seadog rampant counterchanged.

Nice name!

Gwenhwyvar verch Gwillim ap Peeter. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Ivan Ivanovich Streltsov. Name and device. Per chevron argent and vert, a mullet gules and a garb Or.

Submitted as Ivan Ivanovich Strelets, the submitter originally requested Ivan Ivanovich ot Streltsov. While the submitted version is registerable, Escutcheon noted that Streltsov is also correct and closer in sound and meaning to the submitter's original request.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the per chevron division higher.

Juliana Montalto del Mar. Name and device. Azure, a Continental panther rampant argent incensed proper and on a base argent four forget-me-nots in cross azure.

Padraig Ruadh Cille Chainnigh. Device. Per chevron argent and ermine, a chevron sable and in chief three towers vert.

Thomas of Iorvik. Name and device. Sable, two dog 's heads addorsed erased conjoined at the neck to a third affronty, in chief three saltorels couped argent.

THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN RETURNED FOR FURTHER WORK AN TIR

Beatrice Domenici della Campana. Device. Argent, on a pall between three roses azure four roses argent.

Conflict with Rosalyn of Thornabe on Tees, Argent, a pall arrondy between three forget-me-nots azure. There is a CD for the addition of the tertiary charges, but nothing for straightening the arms of the pall nor for the difference between a forget-me-not and a rose.

Eirikr inn kengr. Device. Per fess wavy argent and azure, a natural dolphin naiant azure.

Conflict with André of Stormhold, Argent, a whale naiant azure. There is a CD for the field, but nothing for the forced change in position on the field and nothing for the difference between a natural dolphin and a whale. Please also inform the submitter that the fess line should be drawn closer to the center line of the shield.

Harold Thorgoodson von Rheinhold. Device. Per bend sable and argent, a dragon salient vert incensed gules wings elevated and addorsed Or between a Greek lamp lit argent and an armorer's hammer bendwise sable.

The dragon is in an unblazonable posture. It is not volant as originally submitted, nor is it properly salient (given the position of the legs). Furthermore, please inform the submitter that placing a complex charge between two dissimilar charges appears far more often in the SCA than it did in period.

Ursula Georges. Device. Gules, a bear passant sable between three mullets of six points Or.

The submitter asked that this be registered under RfS VIII.6, Documented Exceptions. She included numerous examples of sable charges on gules from different areas of Europe. While there was enough evidence given to support Gules, a bear passant sable (which conflicts with Berlin, Argent, a bear passant sable), the only examples the submitter presented of a low contrast charge between high contrast secondaries the central charge was an ordinary. As ordinaries have a different level of complexity from an animate charge, we cannot consider their examples as sufficient. None of the examples present showed the case Gules, <an animate charge> sable between <charges> Or (or argent). The Documented Exceptions rule is by nature very conservative; one needs multiple examples of very similar patterns to allow extrapolations. Therefore, we must return the device.

ATLANTIA

Anna Ridley. Device change. Per saltire vert and azure, a saltire floretty throughout argent.

Conflict with Annalia Dragotta, Per saltire vert and azure, a saltire tripartite and fretted argent. There is only one CD for the type of the saltire.

Geneviève de Lyon. Name and device. Azure, two swords crossed in saltire proper, on a chief wavy argent a fleur- de-lys azure.

No name form was included in the submission. As we have no name form, we must return the device as well.

Griffin of Lochlan. Name.

The submitter documented Lochlan as Scots Gaelic for Norway and thus requested the byname as a lingua anglica form. The problem is that Gaelic did not use bynames of the form "of <placename>." In Gaelic, nationality was shown by using an adjectival form, e.g., instead of "of Norway" they used "Norse". Thus, there is not a Gaelic version of the byname that can be translated. As the submitter allows no changes, we must return the name.

Given that Griffin is English and Scots, we recommend two possibilities. If the submitter wants to be from Norway, a Scots form of the locative is of Norroway. If the submitter wants Lochlan, then Lachlann is a period Scots byname derived from the Gaelic given name Lachlan. Thus Griffin Lachlann would be registerable, but the name would mean either that Griffin was the son of Lachlann or, depending on the time, that Lachlann was an inherited surname.

CAID

Catalina Oro Sol. Device. Gules, a sunburst Or issuant from clouds argent within a bordure Or.

Conflict with Cordelia Fitzrobert of York, Gules, a demi-sun in splendor Or issuant from a cloud argent. There is only one CD for adding the bordure.

Eos Du. Name.

To quote Metron Ariston:

As far as I can determine, Eos was never used for a human being in the classical period or later, unlike Aurora, Hercules, Dionysia or Diana. H or Eos in Greek had the primary meaning of dawn or daylight or daytime. Only in a very secondary manner was the term used for a goddess, the personification of dawn. Indeed, unlike more popular Greek gods who produced theophoric names like Apollodorus or Heracles (Hercules), Eos does not seem to have spawned any names at all in classical Greek. Since most of the names adopted by the classical humanists (e.g., Mars, Hercules and Diana) were from the Latin store and involved deities or demigods who appeared in or were associated with the legendary genealogies of the Roman period, the use of Eos would be highly unlikely. Using it with a Gaelic epithet is even more unlikely. (If someone were going for a humanist name, they would be much more likely to go for a Latin translation with the same meaning. Here it would be likely to be nigra, i.e., black.)

Guinevere of Lyonesse. Name.

Lyonesse exists only in legend and is thus not a place anyone would describe themselves as being from.

Her armory was registered under the name Guinevere of Altavia

Jeanne-Marie la Verriere. Badge. (Fieldless) A jocelyn azure and Or belled Or.

Conflict with the Order of the Coill's Bells (Barony of Nottinghill Coill), A jocelyn wreathed Or and vert with six bells Or. While the bells themselves are significant enough to generate difference (thus making a jocelyn significantly different from a plain wreath), the actual number is not significant. Therefore, there is not a CD for the change of tincture of less than half the charge nor for the number of bells.

Lachlan Erskine of Comarty. Badge. (Fieldless) A sinister hand proper grasping in saltire a banner sable and a teasel Or.

The badge contains three different charges in the same group, violating the rule of thumb from RfS VIII.1.a.

Magnus Hrafnsson. Device. Per bend sable and azure, on a bezant a bird volant contourny wings elevated and addorsed sable.

Conflict with Gwynaeth Math o Ddylluan, Sable, a bezant charged with a raven on a branch bendwise all sable. There is a CD for the field, but the branch is not worth difference and there is not a CD for changing only the posture of the tertiary charges.

Mairead MacLabhrain. Name.

In Gaelic, the patronymic marker mac can only be used with a masculine name; this needs the feminine patronymic marker inghean instead. Additionally, Mairead is a 20th century form of the given name; the late period Máirghréad would be acceptable. The submitter, however, allowed no changes so we must return the name.

Mivanou merch Deicyn Maur. Name and device. Per bend sinister sable and azure, in bend a roundel between and conjoined in fess to an increscent and a decrescent and a sun Or.

There are three different types of primary charges on the field (roundel, crescent, and sun), violating the complexity rule of thumb in RfS VIII.I.a. Furthermore conjoining the roundel and the crescents severely reduces their identifiability ("The conjoining of the increscent, roundel and decrescent are distinctly non-period. While we will reluctantly register the arrangement of an increscent, roundel and decrescent if they aren't conjoined, the conjoining makes them unidentifiable as well as non-period. (Jaella of Armida, LoAR September 1997, p. 23)").

Móirne inghean Étaín. Name.

There are no known examples of metronymics in Gaelic names outside of two examples both involving royalty whose claim to the throne was through the female line. The documentation was also unclear as to whether Móirne was used in period.

Her device and badge were registered under the holding name Cindy of Angels.

Mons Draconis, Canton of. Badge. (Fieldless) In pale a demi-wyvern vert issuant from a tower gules.

The tower is drawn as issuant from base. As it is fieldless, it cannot issue from the edge of a non- existent field.

Red Lórien of Oak River. Device. Vert, a zebra rampant argent marked sable and in chief a compass star Or.

Conflict with Damon of Three Rivers, Vert, a horse salient argent within a bordure engrailed Or. There is a CD for changing the bordure to a compass star, but nothing for the stripes on the zebra.

Red Lórien of Oak River. Badge. (Fieldless) A compass star gyronny Or and gules within and conjoined to an annulet Or.

The compass star is barely overall, neither within nor truely overall. Moreover, the badge conflicts with Walter de Witte, Sable, a compass rose Or. The combination of compass star and annulet differs from a compass rose only in the lack of a fleur-de-lys, which is not enough for a CD. Additionally, less than half the color of the charge was changed, thus there is not a CD for tincture.

Robert Camulos Brigantius. Name.

No documentation was provided, nor could any be found, proving that Camelos was a place name. Reaney, Origin of English Placenames, states that Camulos was the name of a deity and the related place name was Camulodunum. Robert Colchester (the English form of the place name) would be a great medieval name.

His armory was registered under the name Robert of Altavia.

Rowen Seer. Device. Per chevron inverted argent and azure, an Orca embowed sable marked argent and three double-bitted axes argent.

The argent portions of the orca cannot be placed on an argent field.

Sarra the Gipsie. Device. Argent, a raven striking affronty sable maintaining in its beak a bezant and in base an ankh purpure, a bordure sable.

The posture striking affronty is not allowed as it is not known in period armory and is inherently three-dimensional.

Starkhafn, Barony of. Order name Order of the Radiance of Starkhafn and badge. Checky azure and argent, a pale sable overall a candle argent lit proper on a candlestick Or.

No evidence was given, nor could any be found, showing that the word Radiance existed before 1600. Moreover, it is too abstract to be a reasonable order name. The documentation cited by the submitter does not date the Order of Silence to period, and even then it is difficult to extrapolate from a single example.

The candle is just barely overall. It needs to be drawn either entirely on the pale or clearly overall.

Thomas Dudley. Name change from Seth Alexander Kygheley.

Withdrawn by the kingdom as it conflicts with Thomas Dudley (1576-1653), British colonial governor of Massachusetts. He has his own entry in the Encyclopædia Brittanica.

Þorfaster Varinsson. Device. Argent, a Norse serpent nowed sable and a bordure rayonny gules.

From the May 1998 LoAR:

The Lisbjerg gripping beast is actually just a variety of the Borre-style gripping beasts which were banned in 11/86, and therefore the Lisbjerg gripping beasts were banned at the same time. Finally, after the October 1998 Laurel meeting we will no longer register zoomorphic beasts of any kind. (Jaelle of Armida, LoAR May 1998, p. 28).

This charge is no longer registerable.

Zefiryna Mikhailovna. Name change from holding name Esmerelda of Dun Or.

No forms were included with the submission. Moreover, the College of Arms is not familiar with the source cited for the given name, and we would therefore require a more detailed discussion of the source in any resubmission.

DRACHENWALD

Bernard de Barre. Name.

Conflict with the registered name Bernard ben Barra. Neither ben nor de contribute to difference and the primary elements are not significantly different.

Ulfr Raude. Device. Gyronny vert and Or, a wolf rampant and in chief three barrels gules.

The Laurel office received only one color copy of the device forms.

LAUREL

None!

LOCHAC

None!

MERIDIES

Aubrée Symonne de Ver. Device. Or, on a fess between a sprig embowed to chief and a sprig embowed to base gules, a collie and a cat sejant respectant Or.

Collies as a breed originated after the 16th century, therefore they may not be used as a charge. Additionally, while not a cause for return, many commenters found the two similar but not identical sejant beasts on the fess to be visually confusing.

Beinntheine, Shire of. Badge. (Fieldless) A cauldron sable.

Conflict with the badge for the House of the Blackened Pot (Jana Aoibeall), Or, a cauldron suspended from a tripod sable. The tripod is not significant enough to contribute difference.

Meridies, Kingdom of. Order name Companionate of the Meridian Queen's Rapier Champion.

The name is too generic to register. Note that Meridies can have a Queen's Rapier Champion, and can even have a companionate of former champions, but the name Queen's Rapier Champion cannot be protected.

Meridies, Kingdom of. Badge. Sable, on a pale between two rapiers argent a rose gules barbed and seeded argent.

Conflict with the Order of the White Scarf (Kingdom of Ansteorra), Sable, on a pale argent between two rapiers, guards to center, proper, in chief a mullet of five greater and five lesser points sable, the Order of the White Scarf of the Outlands (Kingdom of the Outlands), Sable, on a pale argent between two rapiers proper, a stag's antler vert, and Gary of Dragon's Aerie, Sable, on a pale between two wolves combattant argent a rose slipped and leaved sable. For the first two cases, there is only a single CD for the changes to the tertiary charges. For the last case, there is a CD for the change of type of secondary charges, but nothing for adding the slip, and nothing for changing the tincture only of the tertiary charge.

Owain Edwardson. Name.

Conflict with the registered name Owen FitzEdward. There is insufficient difference between the given names because they are simply spelling variants of the same name. As Fitz and -son indicate the same relationship there is also insufficient difference in the bynames.

Phoenix River, Shire of. Name and device. Or, a phoenix gules within a laurel wreath vert, on a chief azure two mullets Or.

Precedence bars the use of Phoenix in English in SCA group names. The return of the name Coombe Phoenix (March 1998) says

The evidence that medieval English people were familiar with the legendary phoenix is not relevant unless one can demonstrate a pattern that they named places after legendary monsters. There are cultures where such a pattern might be demonstrated – Germany seems to be fairly prone to such things – but not for England...Therefore, barring evidence that Phoenix was used in English place- names, or at least that mythological animals were used, it cannot be used in English in SCA group names.

The device must be returned because the name is returned. Please ask the group to draw the laurel wreath as nearly a circle and make the chief deeper.

Rowan Mac Quillan. Device. Per chevron azure and vert, two decrescents and two increscents in chevron and a rowan tree argent.

Only one color copy of the device form was submitted.

WEST

Gwenhwyvar verch Gwillim ap Peeter. Device. Vert, a pomegranate argent.

Conflict with Katherine Lynten of CaerLeon, Per bend sinister rompu argent and gules, in sinister base a pomegranate slipped and leaved argent, seeded gules. As Katherine's pomegranate is forced to base there is not a CD for position on the field, and neither the slipping and leaving nor the tincture of the seeds generate difference. Therefore, there is a single CD for the field.