ANSTEORRA

Adela Wolfel. Name.

Ælfmæg McKuenn. Name and device. Per fess azure and Or, a leaf and an escallop counterchanged.

Except in rare instances (Regina being the prime example), we don't care about the putative meanings of given names, so long as they're correctly formed period names.Ælfmæg seems to be such a name, and is thus acceptable. More worrisome was its use with a late-period surname; Alfmay McKuenn would have been a much more plausible spelling. You might suggest it to the submitter.

Aelfric se Droflic. Badge. (fieldless) A spear Or, surmounted by a boar's head erased gules.

Aelfric se Droflic. Household name and badge for Seeker's Keep. (fieldless) On a tower argent, an acorn sable.

Against the badge of Eileen O'Kitspa (In the doorway of a tower argent, masoned sable, a lion couchant guardant Or; above the keystone a cat's pawprint sable), we count a CD for type and number of tertiary charges; as drawn, the lion in the doorway is effectively a tertiary. That, with the CD for fieldlessness, brings this clear.
Keep is the household designator here.

The chief was a mark of primary cadency in period (Gayre's Heraldic Cadency, p.153), and it became part of the Stodart system of cadency used today in Scotland. Thus, the addition of a chief to quartered armory would not remove the appearance of marshalling. However, the chief's use as a brisure was never as widespread as the bordure's; where the bordure would be used to cadence all forms of marshalling, the chief would only be used to cadence quartering. In the case of impalement -- which implies a marital coat, not an inherited one -- the addition of the chief is sufficient to remove the appearance of marshalling.

His previous device (Per chevron argent ermined azure, and azure, in pale a rose proper and a lion dormant argent) is released.

Alan MacRonan MacCalum. Badge. (fieldless) A tree blasted couped Or, overall a cat's face sable.

Alasdair Alaric MacIain. Name.

Alastrina McKeary. Badge. (fieldless) A Celtic cross quarterly sable and Or.

Alastrina McKeary. Badge. Sable, three bezants in pale between two flaunches Or.

Aldrich the Black. Device. Sable, on a saltire raguly Or a heart sable.

Aleksandr Ivanovitch Budishchev. Name and device. Azure, a bear rampant between two flaunches argent, each charged with a bow, string to center sable.

Aleric Ironleg. Badge. Gules, three armored legs couped at the knee and conjoined in pall within a bordure Or.

Alexis Sinclair. Name.

Alfredo Gabriel Halcón. Device. Per bend sinister argent and azure, a lion rampant guardant contourny and a bordure fleury counterchanged.

Anastasia Seraphine. Name and device. Gules, a cross moline and on a chief doubly enarched Or, three shamrocks vert.

Andrew Selwyn. Badge. (fieldless) A sword, blade surmounted by a stag's head couped affronty argent.

Angeline Aldwyne. Name and device. Per chevron inverted azure and argent, three compass stars one and two counterchanged.

Angelina is a period given name: Butler's Lives of the Saints notes the Blessed Angelina of Marsciano, b.1377. The submitted name is the French form.
The charge in chief was blazoned a compass star elongated to base in the LOI. The full emblazon showed only a slight elongation, well within the variation permitted for a charge filling the available space; we have left it unblazoned. Were the mullet significantly elongated (enough to mandate mention in the blazon), this would have to be returned for using two almost-but-not-quite-identical charges.

Angus MacKinnon. Name.

Angus Mac Taggart. Badge. (fieldless) On a castle argent, a rose azure.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the rose larger; as it provides the difference needed to clear the badge of conflict, it's important that it be seen.

Anne of Rosemont. Device. Quarterly sable and Or, a garden rose slipped and leaved, between in bend two Greek lamps reversed counterchanged.

Ansteorra, Kingdom of. Heraldic title for Dobharchú Herald.

Ansteorra, Kingdom of. Heraldic title for Gunstone Pursuivant.

Ansteorra, Kingdom of. Heraldic title for Stellar Scroll Pursuivant.

Ansteorra, Kingdom of. Heraldic title for Raven's Heart Pursuivant.

Ansteorra, Kingdom of. Name for Ansteorran Longship Company.

Antonia Bianca Santiago da Lagos. Name.

Arabella of Thornwood. Name change (from Arabella Radcliffe) and device change. Per pale purpure and argent, a chevron cotised counterchanged.

Her previous device (Per pale azure and argent, three chevronels braced and in chief three roses two and one counterchanged, barbed and seeded proper) is retained as a badge.

Arenvald Kief av Kiersted. Badge. Argent, a raven contourny sable within a bordure embattled gules.

Arnbiorg Nic an Ghabhann. Name and device. Or, a raven sable, on a chief embattled gules three Thor's hammers Or.

The byname was submitted as Mac an Ghabhann, a masculine patronymic form. As Arnbiorg is a feminine name (as, indeed, are all names ending with -bjorg), we have substituted the feminine patronymic form.

The given name was submitted as Arrion, but none of the cited documentation supported that spelling. We have substituted Arrian, based on the citations from Morlet; Arion would also be acceptable.

Classic badge design!

Please instruct the submitter to draw the bordure wider.

August Kroll. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Berengaria Rossi. Name change (from Berengaria of the Wode).

Bjolfr Standali Vilmundarson. Badge. Bendy sinister wavy Or and purpure.

Björn Haraldsson. Name and device. Per pale azure and vert, two horses combattant and a demi-sun issuant from base argent.

Brendan Hugh Guarin. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Brian Gam. Name and device. Per bend sinister Or and azure, a decrescent and a garb counterchanged.

The byname was spelled Gam on the submission forms, and was changed to the documentable Gamme on the LOI. Lady Harpy cites the original spelling from Morgan & Morgan, as the Welsh for "lame, squinty-eyed". We have thus restored the submitter's desired spelling.

Please have the submitter draw the charges larger.

Brianna ny Oran. Name and device. Per chevron azure and argent, two raven's heads erased argent and a horse rampant gules.

The byname was submitted by the client as ni Oran, which combined an anglicized Irish name with a purely Irish particle; the particle was deleted on the LOI. Fortunately, the former Lord Dragon had found instances of anglicized female patronymics using ny and nyn, so we were able to satisfy the client's wishes as well as our compatibility requirements.

Caedmon Hawke. Name and device. Per fess azure and sable, on a plate a hawk's head erased azure.

Caíreach ni Rúadhágan. Badge. (fieldless) A cross of Toulouse vert, overall a rose gules, barbed and seeded Or.

Caitlin Decourcey Corbet. Name and device. Argent estencely, a cat couchant sable.

Though visually similar, this is clear of the arms of Wither (Papworth 75), Ermine, a lion passant sable. There's a CD for posture; and I would grant a CD (at least) between ermine and argent estencely sable. (Though, to judge from the discussion in Brault's Early Blazon, no period difference would be granted between estencely and mullety or estoilly.)

Caitriona Keavy ni Ainle. Name and device. Per bend sinister embattled argent and gules, a honeysuckle flower vert and a hummingbird volant Or.

The patronymic was submitted as ni hAinle. According to Lord Palimpsest, while the particle Ó prefixes an h to the following vowel, ni does not. We have corrected the grammar.
Hummingbirds are a New World species, but they appear to have been known to period Europeans. The OED cites the first use of the English word to 1637, within our fifty-year "grey zone" for documentation, and I suspect the Spaniards or Portuguese were familiar with the bird even earlier.

The name was submitted in this form, but was changed to the documentable Hurlin on the LOI (and subsequent LOCorrection). However, given the examples of Hurcot and Hurley, Hurland is a reasonable locative construction; and there are ample examples of the Norman de used with English placenames. We have restored the submitter's desired form.

Catlin nic Sheumais Chaimbeil. Name and device. Argent, on a bend vert between a horse's head couped and three paw-prints sable, a rose argent.

The second byname was submitted as Caimbeul. We have corrected the grammar to the genitive case, to match the case of Sheumais.

Ceara Ríona Murphy. Name and device. Purpure, a squirrel argent grasping a nut Or, a bordure argent.

Cecilia MacInnes. Name (see RETURNS for device).

The byname was submitted as mac Innes, meaning literally "son of Innes" -- which wouldn't be used with Cecilia. We have substituted the late-period equivalent, which was a true surname.

Chrestien Brûlé. Name.

This would be more temporally consistent if the byname were spelled in the older form Brûslé.

Cluanach de Creagdubh. Name.

The byname was submitted as de Creag Dubh, combining the Norman preposition with the Gaelic toponymic. Such combinations, rare in their own right, almost always involved a Normanization of the original Gaelic. We have made the appropriate minor spelling changes, as the submitter permits.

Conrad of Castleton. Name.

Cúmheá Ó Neachtáin. Name.

The name was submitted as Cumhea ua Neachdainn, which not only omitted some diacritical marks and used an undocumented spelling of the byname, but also mixed old Irish and modern Irish forms. We've corrected the grammar and, as the submitter permits changes, substituted a temporally consistent spelling; Cú Mheadha ua Neachtáin would also have been acceptable.

Dairenn Raney Uí Sheachnasaigh. Name.

The byname was submitted as Ó Seachnasaigh, which is a masculine patronymic form. We have corrected the grammar to the feminine form. The anglicized Dorren ny Raney O'Shaughnessy would also be acceptable.

Damiana Juliana de Kyme. Name and device. Vert, a mouse dormant contourny and a chief embattled Or.

Morlet (vol.II, p.39) cites Damianus as a period given name; Damiana would be the feminine form.

Against the badge of Macsen Felinfoel (Gules, a dragon statant erect to sinister, wings displayed argent), there's a CD for the gore and a CD for the posture of the wings.

Given Withycombe's citation of Danyell in 1379, and Dauzat's citations of Michelle and Gabrielle, Danielle seems a reasonable French feminine form. You might suggest, however, that the Italian Daniela would better match the rest of the name.

David van den Storm. Name change (from Cyndcyrn Conn Corr).

The byname was submitted as Van den Storm, but the v wasn't capitalized in Dutch names until later, when they were coalesced into a single surname (e.g. Vanderbilt). We have amended the spelling.

David van den Storm. Badge (see RETURNS for household name). (fieldless) Two lightning bolts in saltire, overall a tower argent.

Deborah bat Yosef. Name and device. Per fess argent and vert, a musimon statant guardant sable and three hearts argent.

The charge in chief was submitted as a Jacob ram, a breed of sheep noted for its piebald coloration and double horns. (The name comes from a story in Genesis, chapter 30, where Jacob indulged in a remarkable feat of early genetic engineering.) Unfortunately, the breed dates only to the 18th Century; and since a Jacob's sheep is piebald by definition, it loses its distinctiveness when made a solid tincture, as here.
We've reblazoned this as the heraldic monster known as the musimon, defined to be a cross between a ram and a goat, with the horns of both. It is described in Guillim's Displaie of Heraldry, 1632.

The byname was submitted as Ó Fathartaigh, which is the masculine form. We have corrected it to the feminine form, pending evidence that period Irish feminine given names were used with masculine patronymics.

Dervilia O'Shannon. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Detlef von Marburg. Name change (from Detlef Linus von Marburg).

Diarmuid mac Ruis. Name change (from Conor Diarmuid mac Ruis).

His previous name is retained as an alternate persona name.

The household name does not conflict with the Order of the Silver Needle; per Rule V.4.b, translation is sufficient difference between names (except when pronunciation remains unchanged).

Donatus Canute Hillebrand. Name (see PENDED for device).

Duncan Brodie MacCrimmon of Strathspey. Name change (from Ishikawa Moritake).

Duncan Montgomery Culhane. Name.

Dunestan of Ashdown. Name and device. Or, a crab azure between four torteaux, three and one.

Dyan du Lac des Calandres. Quarterly sable and Or, in pale an arrow fesswise and a flame counterchanged.

Dyan is the submitter's mundane given name. The byname was submitted as de la Lac Calandre, in an attempt to render the submitter's home of Calender Lake into French. We have corrected the grammar, and note in passing that the placename means "of the Lake of Corn-Weevils"; Dauzat's Nouveau Dictionnaire Étymologique cites the earliest use of the term calandre in 1539, with this meaning.

Edward Douglas Mac an Ghabhann. Name.

Edward Ironhand. Name.

Egill Ívarsson. Name and device. Sable, on a saltire argent between four eagles rising, wings displayed Or, five roses gules.

Eibhlín ní Fháilbhe. Name.

The byname was submitted as Ó Fáilbhe, a form which would be used by male descendants of Fáilbhe. We have substituted the feminine form; she could also use the anglicized form O'Falvey.

Einarr Vígormr Tryggvason. Name.

The byname was submitted as vígsormr, intended to mean "battle serpent". Given such compounds as vígvölr "battle-stick" and vígmaðr "warrior", the above seems to be the more correct form.

The middle name was submitted as Ethelinda, but despite the LOI's assertion, the name is not documented in Withycombe as a period name. We have substituted Adallindis, the (documented) name from which Ethelinda is supposed to derive.

Erc FitzMungo. Badge (transferred from David van den Storm). (fieldless) A card-pique argent.

Ericus the Silverhand. Badge (see RETURNS for household name). (fieldless) Two cup-hilted rapiers inverted in saltire, overall a harp argent.

Estevene Grippon. Name and device. Per chevron azure and sable, a griffin rampant Or, and in base two bezants.

The given name was submitted as Estevennes, with Yonge's History of Christian Names as the source. Yonge is no longer considered a trustworthy source. Her main strength is the breadth of languages she covered; for many of those languages (including French) she has been superceded by far more reliable works, none of whom support Estevennes as a form of Steven. We have substituted a variant from Lebel's Noms de Personnes en France.
Please remind the submitter that "Griffins got ears."

The byname was submitted as DuPray. Reaney [DBS2, p.258] cites de Pre, de la Preye from the Old French pray "meadow"; and Dauzat cites the form Dupré. Neither source supported the coalesced, doubly-capitalized form submitted, but once that was corrected, the spelling seemed acceptable,

The byname was submitted as ní hEachtighearna; apparently the h is unneeded here.

Fionna ní Cheallaigh. Name and device. Azure, a tower and on a chief invected argent, a lion passant guardant sable.

The byname was submitted as Ó Ceallaigh, which is a masculine form. Pending a full discussion on Irish patronymics, we have substituted the feminine form.

Fredrich der Rothirsch. Name and device. Per pale Or and gules, a stag's massacre surmounted by a heart per pale gules and Or.

As noted in the case of Erc Mortagh the Pict (LoAR of August 92), adding horns to inanimate charges doesn't appear to have been a period usage; certainly, I'd like to see some evidence for the practice. In this case, the visual effect is of a set of antlers and a heart overall, and that's how we've blazoned it.

Galiena Gruenstein. Name.

Gate's Edge, Canton of. Device. Argent, a portcullis between and conjoined to two towers sable, on a chief vert two laurel wreaths Or.

The primary charge is blazoned as above for the sake of the cant, but is indistinguishable from a castle. Against the Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh, cited in the LOI (Argent, a castle triple-towered and embattled sable, masoned of the first, and topped with three vanes gules, windows and portcullises of the last, situated on a rock proper, on a chief vert eight plates four and four), we count a CD for the tertiaries and a CD for the rock.

Geneviève Cordelia d'Outremer. Name.

The bynames were submitted as Cordellia de Outremer. We have substituted the documented form (from Shakespeare) for the former, and corrected the grammar for the latter.

Gerard MacEanruig. Device change. Per chevron azure and Or, two bear's heads erased respectant argent and on a hurt a coronet Or.

His previous device (Per chevron azure and Or, two polar bear's heads erased respectant and on a roundel azure a goblet argent) is released.

This is the fieldless version of his current device, registered May 91: Per pale vert and sable, a narwhale haurient embowed argent. Several commenters called conflict against the badge of Balin the Fairhaired (SCA): Sable, a whale haurient argent. The same conflict call was made against his device, during its submission. Lord Laurel explicitly ruled the two armories to be clear of conflict: "There's a CVD for the field and a CVD for haurient embowed versus haurient." Exactly the same point count applies to the badge.
I happen to disagree with that ruling: I don't think there's a CD between haurient embowed and haurient, and I won't be granting it in future. However, I also believe that, given such an explicit ruling, in good conscience we have to call Gest's badge clear of Balin's. The Grandfather Clause does apply to conflict, as well as stylistic problems; the badge conflicts no more (and no less) than the device, and if Gest may display the latter, it would be unreasonable to tell him he may not display the former.

Gillian of Argyll. Name.

Giolla Bhríghde Gwaelyn. Name.

The name was submitted as Giolla Bhríghde Gwaelynn an Ceann Deireanach. Gwaelynn was supposed to be Welsh for "poor, ill, base, vile"; the closest Lady Harpy could come in justifying it required us to drop the final n. The final byname was intended to mean "the last one" (i.e. the last child born), but none of the commenters found that to be a plausible period byname. (The Irish for "last" was misspelled, as well; it should be deireannach.) Pending evidence that "lastborn" is a valid epithet, we have deleted the problematic part of the name.

Godric Gordon Redwolfe. Name.

The byname was spelled Redwolfe on the submission forms, and Redwulf on the LOI. Neither form is itself documented, but either could be assumed to derive from the OE Raedwulf; that being so, we've restored the submitter's original spelling.

The given name was submitted Grimver, without an accent, but the documentation showed only the accented form. We've made the appropriate correction.

Gwenllian ferch Maredudd. Name.

Halldís Steinarsdóttir. Name and device. Azure, a sea-horse reguardant Or, in base two barrulets wavy argent.

Halvdan Stormulv. Name.

Hannah of the Four Corners. Name and device. Vert, a saltire sable, fimbriated argent, between a demi-sun issuant from chief and a chalice Or.

Black, p.171, cites de la Cornere from the Hundred Rolls, 1273. This submission is thus not unreasonable, though Anna Cross would be a more authentic period form with the same meaning.

Hugh Kerr. Name and device. Azure, on a chevron gules fimbriated, three mullets argent, in base a sun in his splendor Or.

Tell the submitter to draw the fimbriation wider!

Iain Dougall MacDuff. Name.

Iain Draker. Name and device. Or, an hourglass and on a chief sable two roses Or.

Irena Anastasia Petrovna. Name.

Isabel Olivia du Cygne. Name.

Ives Devereux. Name.

James Allen Mark Forbes. Name.

James Killian. Name and device. Per fess sable and argent, a compass star and a mountain counterchanged.

Jane Middleton of Northumberland. Name and device. Azure, a lion's jambe fesswise erased and on a chief argent, two rapiers inverted in saltire gules.

Please instruct the submitter to draw her rapiers thicker henceforth.

Johannes vom Weidenwald. Name and device. Per saltire Or and sable, four mullets of four points counterchanged, on a chief azure a lightning bolt Or. The preposition was given as von "of" on the LOI, but as vom "of the" on the forms. In this case, vom is correct; Weidenwald appears to be a constructed noun, not an actual placename. We've thus restored the original form.
Please tell the submitter to draw the chief wider.

John Lightfoot. Name.

John of Severn. Device. Azure, on a bend sinister bretessed argent a rose vert.

Jon of the Mists. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Jon Tall of Threehawks. Device. Sable, two bendlets sinister argent, in bend three falcons close affronty Or.

Josephine de Champagne. Name.

Julian de Bretagne. Name.

Julianna Cathcart. Name.

Kaitlyn McKenna. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Kasia of Caesarea. Name.

Kassandra NicKraken. Badge. (fieldless) Two coneys rampant guardant respectant argent, crowned and sustaining between them a goblet Or.

Katherine Constancia da Feltre. Badge. (fieldless) On a handbasket Or, a letter "K" vert.

Kathrine de Laine. Name and badge. Vert, a furison within a bordure urdy argent.

This variant of furison, though not the type used by the Order of the Golden Fleece, is nonetheless acceptable (v. Franklyn & Tanner, fig.322).

Keara Ryan. Name.

Kendra Kenmare. Name and device. Per bend sinister sable and gules, a lion's jambe bendwise erased and a chief Or.

Kenndra Belle. Name.

Kenndra is the submitter's mundane given name.

Kevin Burnett. Device. Sable, a schimäre rampant contourny argent, a base rayonny ermine.

Schimäre is the German word for "chimera". The chimera of German heraldry has the forequarters of a lion, the hindquarters of a goat, a dragon's tail (often ending in a dragon's head), and often the head and breasts of a woman. (It's illustrated in von Volborth's Heraldry: Customs, Rules and Styles, p.47.) It looks very little like the chimera of English heraldry, which has a lion's head, a goat's head and a dragon's head all issuant from the shoulders of a goat's body (illustrated in Dennys' Heraldic Imagination, p.154, which in turn is from Bossewell's Armorie of 1572); and neither of these is much like the classic "Homeric" chimaera from ancient Greek drawings.
Were the German form and the English form not intended to be the same mythological monster, we wouldn't hesitate to grant at least a CD between them. The two forms are intended to be the same monster, though; and we don't normally grant a CD for drawing style (e.g. no difference between the Italian-style fleur-de-lys and the French-style fleur-de-lys), nor even distinguish style in blazon.
In this case, the two monsters share nothing in common but the name; it seemed safest to define them, for our purposes, as different charges. As was done for the schnecke, I've taken the German name for the German charge, to distinguish it from the English chimera.

Lars Oleson. Name.

The byname was submitted as Oleson, and amended to Ólason on the LOI. The original form turns out to be an acceptable late-period spelling, so we've restored it.

The upper portion of the device was blazoned on the LOI as four pallets argent on an azure background. Visually, however, this is a striped field partition; and that impression is reinforced by the fact that it occupies only one portion of a Per fess field. There is certainly no heraldic difference between the two blazons; and multiply-divided fields were occasionally drawn with an odd number of traits for aesthetic reasons.(St.John-Hope, Heraldry for Craftsmen and Designers, p.49).

Leutpold Kampmann. Name and device. Per bend argent and gules, a phoenix counterchanged, rising from flames Or.

Loch Raeburn, Shire of. Device. Azure chapé Or, two sea-horses respectant argent tailed Or, in chief a laurel wreath argent.

Lucas Williamson. Name.

Lucian de Lyon. Name.

Lynnette Devereux. Name.

Magdalena Francisca de Goya. Name.

Magnús Strongaxe. Name.

Mairin ferch Howell. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Malcolm MacDhomhnuill. Name.

Malcolm of Loch Greymist. Name.

Mara of Rede. Device. Or, a bend sinister sable between two pithons erect contourny gules, within a bordure sable.

Marcus il Volpe. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Mary Marguerite Wentworth. Name and device. Azure, a screw press and on a chief embattled argent, three clusters of grapes azure.

The screw press, in essentially this form, was described by Hero in the 1st Century AD; it was used for pressing oil from olives or seeds. (Singer et al, A History of Technology, vol.2, p.117) It was defined for SCA heraldic use in the badge of the Royal Press Corps of the West.

Melisende de Westemere. Name change (from Arianwen Lasair Oileana) and device. Argent ermined and on a chief urdy azure, three crosses clechy Or.

Mendersham, Shire of. Name.

Considering this with the submitted meaning of "Mender's home", the name contains incompatible elements: the OE hám "home" had ceased to be used well before the Normans introduced menders into the language. However, the OED also cites ham as meaning "meadow, pasture", and surviving with that meaning well through the end of our period; as "Mender's field", the name is temporally consistent.

Michael McKenzie. Name.

Miguel Tamut de Aldea. Name.

The given name was submitted as Michael. An English/Arabic/Spanish name seemed a bit excessive; we have translated the given name to Spanish.

The byname was submitted as Drachentöter; for the intended meaning of "dragon killer", Drachenschläger seems to be closer to German idiom.

Muireall de Bretagne. Name.

Muireann á Dùn na Tràighe Cèine. Name.

The byname was submitted as O Dhun an Taoibh Cein Mara; the intended meaning seems to be "from the Fort of the Distant Shore", though neither the LOI nor the forms explicitly said so. We have followed Lord Palimpsest's suggestion for correcting the grammar. (Palimpsest also made some suggestions for improving the construction: Muireann an Dún Cháin is probably the most plausible form. You might pass that on to the submitter.)

Nanette Rochelle. Device. Purpure, in pale a heart and a unicorn's head couped, a bordure argent.

Natalia Woulfe Blackthorn. Name and device. Per chevron sable and argent, two swords inverted argent and a talbot's head erased gules.

The LOI spelled the byname Blackthorne with an E, but the name form spelled it Blackthorn. Since the latter spelling is documented, that's the form we've registered.
The charge in base was blazoned a wolf's head, but drawn as a talbot's head. We sympathize with the submitter's desire for a cant, but we must also assume that she intends to use the emblazon as sent to the Laurel office -- which clearly doesn't show a wolf's head. If she sends us a corrected emblazon, we'll be pleased to restore the cant to the blazon.

Nicole Antoinette Rougeaux. Name.

Patrick Ross McLaren. Name.

Philip Rufus Kinnard. Badge. Or, a quintain gules, a bordure vert.

Phillip of Elfsea. Holding name and device. Per chevron azure and gules, a bottle-nosed dolphin naiant argent and a Hungerford knot Or.

This was submitted under the name Culhwch ap Corwin, which was returned June 92.

The byname was submitted as MacFhionnlaoich; we have substituted the feminine form of the patronymic, pending evidence that women could use male-style constructions in medieval Ireland.

Regenwulf Osbern of Nympsfield. Name.

Regina Gunnvor Morningstar. Household badge for House Longtooth. (fieldless) A staple gules.

Great badge!

Ricardo de Montague. Name.

Ricardo Urdiales del Bosque. Name.

Richard Edward Quartermain. Name.

Richard Fairbourne. Device. Per pale azure and vert, two hawk's heads erased respectant Or.

Richard of the Silverdawn. Badge (see RETURNS for name change). (fieldless) A clarion reversed gules.

Robin Redgrove. Name.

Rohais de Marcy. Name and device. Or, three ermine spots and a chief invected sable.

Rohais de Marcy. Badge. (fieldless) A retort Or, charged with an ermine spot sable.

Rosalie Automne. Name.

The byname was submitted as de Automne, but the cited evidence did not support that form. We've substituted the documented surname.

Sara O'Raghailligh. Device. Vert, a slipper reversed between two ferrets sejant erect respectant argent.

The full-sized emblazon shows the ferrets not supporting the slipper.

Sebastian Eisenfaust. Badge. Per fess nebuly Or and azure, a sinister clenched gauntlet sable and a swan naiant argent.

Sebastian Eton Frobishire. Badge. (fieldless) A rapier inverted argent, blade surmounted by a hippocampus vert.

Selwyn Mortimer. Name.

Sena of Swansea. Name and device. Vert, on a chevron argent three swans naiant sable, in base on a cauldron argent a swan naiant sable.

Seumas MacAonghuis MhicDhubhshith. Name.

The second byname was submitted as MacDhubhshith. However, a "second generation" Gaelic patronymic goes entirely into the genitive, changing Mac to Mhic or Vc. We have corrected the grammar here; he could also use the fully anglicized MacAngus MacFee.

Sileas Killie. Name and device. Azure, an oak tree eradicated between two harps addorsed argent.

Simon Rodbeorhting. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Siobhán níg Fhloinn uí Donnabháin. Name.

The name was submitted as Siobhán Glynne O'Donnobháin. The anglicized particle O' (with an apostrophe) should not be used with the mutated Irish patronymic. Since the submitter's forms suggest she wants a fully Irish name, we have made the appropriate grammatical corrections; Siobhán ne Glynne O'Donovan would also be acceptable.

Stevyn Gaoler. Name change (from Stefan le Gaoler) (see RETURNS for device change).

While this was on the LoI as Stevyn le Gaoler, the forms showed Stevyn Gaoler, and allowed no changes. Since the desired form is entirely acceptable, we have returned the name to that form.

Suzanna the Herbalist. Badge. Sable, in pale a serpent nowed fesswise and a gout argent.

This is clear of the arms of Dane (Papworth 1043), Sable, a serpent entwined and erect argent, with a CD for the gout and a CD for the erect posture of the serpent.

The byname was submitted as Schirenhofen, which doesn't seem to be the correct German for "resident of Schirenhof". We have substituted the -er suffix, suitably feminized; she could also be aus Schirenhof.

The byname was submitted as o Matchka, intended to be Romany (Gypsy) for "the cat". However, we have questions as to whether o is the correct definite article here, or whether a or un would be preferable; it depends on number, gender and case of the noun, about which we have insufficient data. Since, in most languages, such epithets routinely dropped the article altogether, we've done so here as well.

Thorfinn Eriksson. Name.

Thorvald Darkbow Mac an Ghabhann. Name (see RETURNS for device).

The byname was spelled Mac an Ghabann on the LOI, but the forms showed the above spelling.

Torsten von den Schwartzenbullen. Device. Argent crusilly formy Latin, a bull's head cabossed and a bordure embattled sable.

Tósti Leifsson. Name and device. Vert, two pine trees and a double-bitted axe inverted Or.

Ulfrik Haraldsson. Name and device. Argent, a longship sable, on a chief vert, in pale two axes fesswise, the lower inverted and reversed, argent.

Ulric Wolfel. Name.

Uther Blackthorne. Badge. Argent, a tower gules between in annulo five pine trees couped, all within a bordure vert.

Valdis O'Davoren. Name and device. Sable, a standing balance and on a chief enarched Or two rapiers, tips crossed in saltire, purpure.

The name was submitted as Lann Valdis O'Davoren, with Yonge's History of Christian Names cited as the documentation for Lann. Unfortunately, Yonge doesn't directly mention the name in the text; and her glossary section alone is untrustworthy, to say the least. No reliable source could document lann as anything but a common noun (it's Irish for "sword"); as such, it's unacceptable as a given name. We have therefore deleted it.

Vladimir Thorvaldsson. Name.

Wilhelm von Bierbergen. Name.

The byname was submitted as vom Bierbergen, "of the Bierbergen". However, Bierbergen is an actual town, and does not seem to use the definite article in its name. We have corrected the grammar.

William Everard. Name and device. Per bend sinister gules and azure, a bend sinister between three roundels, one and two, and a horse's head couped Or.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the bend larger.

There is at least a CD between a horse and a correctly drawn (i.e. medieval) unicorn. This is therefore clear of the badge of Esmerelda of Kimaden (SCA): Vert, a unicorn trippant to sinister within a bordure Or.

Wynfrith of Mooneschadowe. Name.

Yvette de Morlaix. Name and device. Azure, on a pale wavy Or, a quill pen bendwise sinister sable between two hippocampi vert.

AN TIR

An Tir, Kingdom of. Heraldic title for Black Stag Herald.

Ariel de Courtenay. Name change (from Ariel Stuart) (see RETURNS for device).

Aurora Amorie. Name.

Beatrix Annora de Perci. Name and device. Per chevron Or and azure, three escallops sable and a sun Or eclipsed sable.

Cian Ó Cathail. Name and device. Vert, a unicorn dormant and on a chief argent, three arrows bendwise sable.

The byname was submitted as O'Cathal. Since the Irish form of the patronymic name was used, the correct preposition is Ó, which causes mutation. We've corrected the grammar; the submitter could also use the anglicized O'Cahill.

Ealdred Galt Mac an Toisich. Name and device. Sable, an abacus bendwise Or within a bordure argent.

Eglentyne Merryweather. Name.

Eric de Dragonslaire. Name.

Etain Eame. Household name for Taigh Eame.

The name was submitted as Taigh de Eame. The normal usage in this context seems to drop the preposition altogether; the few examples of de suggest it to be a Norman borrowing. We've altered the name accordingly.

His previous device (Per pale gules and sable, a tower argent and on a chief Or two arrows inverted in saltire gules, armed and flighted sable between two mullets of eight points vert) is retained as a badge.

Jeffry of Dragon's Mist. Holding name (see RETURNS) and device. Gules, a wolf's head erased ululant to sinister argent within an orle of lozenges Or.

This was submitted under the name Lyulf MacFlandry.

Justine de Beauvais. Name.

Katherine FitzAlan. Badge. (fieldless) A dragon sejant affronty argent, wings displayed azure.

Manfred Kriegstreiber. Device change. Per saltire sable and argent, a falcon displayed counterchanged, in chief a ducal coronet argent, all within a bordure gules, charged in chief with a rose argent.

His previous device (Per saltire sable and argent, a falcon displayed counterchanged, beaked and taloned within a bordure gules) is retained as a badge.

Though the name is acceptable, there were a number of Russian bynames that meant "Travelling Trader": e.g. Raznoschikova. Perhaps she'd consider using one of them?

Rhonda the Bee-Taymer. Name and device. Per bend argent and azure, two honeybees azure and two honeybees Or.

Rhonda is the submitter's mundane given name. The OED cites tamer as "one who domesticates [animals]", so it could conceivably apply to bees. Still, Beeward is the more authentic epithet for the occupation.

ATENVELDT

Alexandra du Sommet. Name and device. Sable, four piles inverted in point and on a chief Or, three broadarrows inverted sable.

Anjelina Isabella De Marisco. Name.

Blodwen Trevaldwyn of Montgomery. Name.

Cassia Mortivaux. Name and device. Vert, on a bend between a mask of comedy and a mask of tragedy Or, a hummingbird volant to sinister sable.

For the purposes of Rule X.4.j.ii, a mask of comedy and a mask of tragedy are considered identical charges. This is therefore clear of Pearce (Papworth 262), Vert, on a bend between two cotises Or, an annulet sable, with a CD for type of secondaries and a CD for type of tertiary.

Craig of the White Cliffs. Name and device. Or, two arrows in saltire, points to sinister, surmounted by another fesswise, point to dexter sable flighted azure, a chief embattled sable.

Craig is the submitter's mundane given name. While the LOI gave the byname as of White Cliffs, the submitter's forms gave it as of the White Cliffs, and we've registered the name in that form.

Morlet (vol.II, p.64) cites Dago as an early French given name. Given examples of such names adding the suffix -on (Talo/Talon, Hugo/Hugon, Malo/Malon, etc.), Dagon is at least plausible.

Gavin Morgan. Name.

Gunnar Redhammer. Name.

Ian Galloway. Name and device. Per pale embattled argent and sable, two wyverns respectant counterchanged.

Isabel du Lac d'Azur. Name.

The byname was submitted as du lac D'Azure. We've corrected the capitalization and spelling of the French.

Jean Paul de Pont. Name.

Levia Rhys Llaw Wen. Name change (from Beth of Atenveldt).

The name, in a slightly different form, was returned on the LoAR of Sept 91 with the comment: "The only place that the name Levia appeared at all (besides the line marked 'Society name' on the client's form) was a single place on the conversion letter in Hebrew. We need documentation for Levia." The submitter has appealed the return, arguing that Levia is her mundane Hebrew name, and per Rule II.4 needs no documentation.
The argument misses the point of the previous return. Laurel didn't say that the mundane Hebrew name wasn't a "legal name" within the meaning of II.4; he was saying Levia hadn't been shown to be the submitter's mundane name, Hebrew or otherwise. Documentation solely in a foreign alphabet (be it Hebrew, hiragana, or hieroglyphics) is of little use unless interpreted.
In this case, Laurel could piece together the individual characters of the name on the conversion letter (a cursive lamed, vav, yodh, and heh); they support the claim that Leviah is the submitter's name within "the fellowship of the Jewish people and faith."
There remains the question of whether a Hebrew name is in fact a "legal name" within the meaning of II.4. Not all religious names are necessarily legal names; I once had the dubious pleasure of meeting someone from a New Age commune known as Brother Sunshine. In this case, however, the Hebrew name is used in legal documents, including marriage contracts, divorce records, and the like (Michael Asheri, Living Jewish: the Lore and Law of Being a Practicing Jew, p.31). I think it qualifies as a "legal name".
On a final note, Lady Triton commented that Levia is a valid given name. I agree it's used as a modern given name: Smadar Shir Sidi's Complete Book of Hebrew Baby Names, p.134, cites Levia as "the feminine form of Levi", a name from Genesis. I could only wish that, if evidence existed showing Levia as a period given name, it had been presented during this appeal; it would have rendered the entire argument moot.

Mairi Broder. Name and device. Per chevron inverted gules and sable, a pair of shears Or.

While the surname Broder is acceptable, it doesn't mean what the submitter believes: it's a German surname meaning "brother". If the submitter wants a byname meaning "embroiderer", she might consider Broderer, Brouderer, or Broudster.

Rupert von Holstein. Name.

Sigeferd Bjørnen. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Tirlach Kinsella. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Tirlach seems a reasonable anglicization of the Irish given name Toirdhealbhach.

Ælfgar Greyseas. Name and device. Quarterly per pale embattled argent semy of pheons sable, and sable, two wings in bend sinister argent.

Agnese Canigiano. Name change (from Elaine Kerr).

Aislinn ferch Llywelyn. Name and device. Ermine, on a bend gules between two horses rampant sable, a hawk's head couped argent, a bordure gules.

Alanna of Volchevo Lesa. Badge. Azure, a wolf statant ululant to sinister argent within an oak chaplet Or.

Alaric Gruenwolf. Name and device. Vert, two arms in armor embowed and interlaced argent, each maintaining a goblet Or, a bordure embattled argent.

The byname was submitted as Gruenwulf (Grünwulf), "green wolf"; but the standard German for "wolf" is Wolf. We have substituted the standard spelling; he could also have the North German form Groenwulf (Grönwolf).

Anastasia dello Scudo Rosso. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Andrew MacGregor. Alternate persona name and badge for Niccolo Bartolomeo Aldobrandini. Per saltire sable and gules, four dice two and two argent marked sable.

Anne of Carthew. Name.

Annest Walays. Name only (see PENDING for device).

Aodhán Doilfín. Name and device. Per fess rayonny azure and Or, in base a dolphin naiant embowed proper.

The byname was submitted on the LOI as Dolfin, but the submitter's forms had the Irish form Doilfín. Since that surname is also documented (Woulfe 282), we have restored the submitter's spelling.
An heraldic dolphin proper is vert with gules details. This is clear of Symonds (Papworth 836), Sable, a dolphin naiant embowed proper, with a CD for the field and a CD for the non-forced change of placement of the dolphin.

Atlantia, Kingdom of. Change of designation for badge of War Leader. Azure, a sea-lion Or, a bordure embattled Or semy-de-lys azure.

This badge was registered May 92 as a generic Kingdom badge. It is now being designated as the badge for the War Leader of Atlantia; and the War Leader's previous badge, registered 15 Jan 84 (Two tridents in saltire surmounted by a unicornate natural sea-horse erect argent) is now a generic Kingdom badge.

This form of sea-urchin (= "fish-tailed demi-hedgehog") has been registered before, in the armory of Rufus the Short of Burgundy. In Society armory, "the sea-urchin should be assumed to be a heraldic sea-urchin unless otherwise specified." [AmCoE, 25 Jan 87]

Brianne Pendeulwyn. Device. Purpure, on a bend between a cat passant reguardant contourney and a dog passant reguardant argent, three harps purpure, a bordure Or.

Caer Mear, Barony of. Name for the Order of La Brise de Mer.

Cailean McArdle. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Catherine de Mares. Device. Quarterly azure and papelonny azure and argent, three annulets interlaced one and two Or, a bordure counterchanged papelonny azure and argent, and argent.

Cennydd the Wanderer. Device. Or, three bendlets wavy between two harps azure.

Christina of Carlisle. Name and device. Purpure, a bend sinister masculy Or between a unicorn's head erased contourny and a unicorn's head erased argent.

David of Woodbridge. Name.

Deirdre ni Aodhfionn. Name change and device. Per bend sinister sable and argent, a flame and a raven counterchanged.

Though submitted on the LOI as a new name, this had already been registered (as Deirdre ni Aodhfinn) on the LoAR of April 92. The new spelling is the better documented form.
Please instruct the submitter to draw her raven with hairy feathers.

The lion needs to be drawn larger. Please instruct the submitter.

Against Sheridan of the Mists (Azure, two fish counter-embowed in annulo Or), we grant a CD between a dolphin and a generic fish. A check of Sheridan's emblazon showed very generic fish.

Dulcinea of Egypt. Device. Per chevron vert mullety of four points Or, and argent, in base a raven contourny sable.

Please instruct the submitter to draw her raven with hairy feathers.

The device is at the verge of over-complexity, with charges counterchanged across a complex line of partition. However, a visual check showed that the roundels were simple enough to remain identifiable, even counterchanged.

The byname was originally submitted as Sgòrrlàmh, and was intended to mean "scar-hand" in Scots Gaelic. Sgòrr means "scar" in the sense of "scar on the land; peak, cliff, notch". The word for the mark of a wound is eàrradh, so we've followed Lord Habicht's suggestion and changed the byname accordingly.

Fiona O'Keeffe. Name and device. Purpure, a moon in her plenitude and on a chief dovetailed argent, three mullets purpure.

Fjarska Holt, Canton of. Device. Per fess sable and argent, an orm erect gules within a laurel wreath counterchanged.

The orm is a charge unique to the Society, more complex than a simple serpent, not as complex as the Norse serpent nowed. It has been registered recently (Elina Grimmsdottir, June 91); without stronger evidence than has yet been presented, I hesitate to disallow a charge that was so recently accepted.

Several commenters suggested that the use of -bane with inanimate objects was post-period. However, the OED does give instances of the verb bane used with inanimate objects such as bones (in 1568) and voyages (in 1639, within our 50-year "grey zone" for documentation). The construction, I concede, owes more to historical novels than to historical evidence -- Breakshield would be a more plausible construction in this case -- but I don't believe the usage is sufficient grounds for returning a name.

Gaufrid Kelson Blacksword. Name and device. Per pale bendy Or and gules, and sable, an amphisbaena statant per pale sable and Or.

The examples of weaponry epithets in Jönsjö generally lack the definite article; we have deleted it here.

Godfrey van Haarlem. Name.

Griffith ap Morgan ap Griffith. Device. Sable, a griffin segreant and on a base Or, three chevronels braced gules.

Hannah Graham. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Hreodbeorht MacBeath. Device. Per chevron sable and azure, two dogs combattant and a unicorn dormant argent.

Isolde Sparrowhawk. Name and device. Vairy en pointe azure and Or, a sea-goat argent tailed vert.

Jenny Lynn of Carlisle. Name (see PENDED for device).

Ketsu Tochi. Name.

Kökejin of the Iron Horde. Name.

The Mongol hordes were evidently named for colors, not materials; the Golden Horde wasn't so named because of an abundance of the precious metal. The White Horde and the Blue Horde, cited by Lord Clarion, reinforce this naming pattern. The OED cites the adjective iron "having the appearance of iron; of the colour of iron" from 1613, within our 50-year "grey zone" on documentation; Iron Horde is acceptable only as a very late-period translation of a Mongol term. The more period term for "iron-colored" would be irony.

The owl was submitted as a Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) -- which, as the Latin implies, is a North American species. With no evidence that it was known to period Europeans, we have substituted the eagle owl (Bubo bubo), known through most of Western Europe; it has the same tufts of feathers on the head, and much the same brown coloration. (Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe, pp.165, 194)

The ladybug is a charge difficult enough to identify, even when properly drawn; when drawn without legs, and not in its proper tinctures, it becomes that much more unidentifiable. We have reblazoned this a scarab, as found in Egyptian art; the submitter may resubmit with a ladybug with legs, if she wishes.

Lodovico della Còsta. Name and device. Per saltire purpure and sable, in fess two griffins passant addorsed argent.

Magnus Nauta. Badge. Paly vert and erminois, a stag's head erased and in chief an estoile of eight rays argent.

Meghan Pengwyn of Wynterwood. Alternate persona name for Ilaria Francesca Aldobrandini (see RETURNS for badge).

Meliora of Snowshill. Name and device. Azure estencely, on a chevron argent two roses azure.

Estencely is the Norman French term for what is also blazoned "semy of sparks". Either term is correct.

The submitter's documentation showed an umlaut in the name, which we have inserted. Please instruct the submitter to draw the ram's head larger.

Mochi of the Iron Horde. Name and device. Argent, a dunghill cock contourny sable, combed and jelloped gules, a bordure gules semy of water-bougets Or.

Though blazoned as water-bougets, to several commenters the charges on the bordure seemed closer to torii or the Chinese character ch'ien. They are also within the variation seen for period water-bougets, though.
The Mongol hordes were evidently named for colors, not materials; the Golden Horde wasn't so named because of an abundance of the precious metal. The White Horde and the Blue Horde, cited by Lord Clarion, reinforce this naming pattern. The OED cites the adjective iron "having the appearance of iron; of the colour of iron" from 1613, within our 50-year "grey zone" on documentation; Iron Horde is acceptable only as a very late-period translation of a Mongol term. The more period term for "iron-colored" would be irony.

When registered back in Sept 73 (!), this was blazoned A ladybug climbing a chicory flower proper. This didn't seem to give the correct visual weights for the charges, nor were the slip and leaves blazoned. The above reblazon is a more accurate description of the badge.

Muireann ní Riordáin. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Muirgel Lyon. Badge. Sable, issuant from base a nude winged demi-maiden, arms elevated argent, crined gules, wings displayed Or, in chief a compass star argent.

Neassa ni Fhathaigh. Name and device. Per saltire purpure and sable, in pale two leopard's faces jessant-de-lys and in fess two caltrops argent.

Owen Grindal of South Forest. Name. Pádraig ó hÁinle. Name and device. Vert, an armored cubit arm maintaining a sheaf of arrows fesswise, on a base Or three boar's heads erased vert.

Philip the Gravedigger. Name.

Priscilla Vicarius. Name.

Rhiannon ui Neill. Badge. Azure, a decrescent and a gore sinister argent.

Rhys ap Trahaearn. Name.

Robert Grey of Aelfstan's Hall. Name change (from Robert of Border Vale Keep).

Roland de Mounteney. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Seonaid of Nairn. Badge (see RETURNS for household name). Argent, a cross doubly parted and fretted vert interlaced with an annulet purpure, within and conjoined to an annulet vert.

Please instruct the submitter to draw all the charges wider.

The roses need to be drawn much larger. Please instruct the submitter.

Elevated and addorsed is the default wing posture for winged monsters statant, passant or couchant. It need not be blazoned here.

Tahir the Mighty. Name.

Talya Palaeologina. Name.

Tancred Bras-de-Fer. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Tangwystl ferch Dafydd. Badge. Azure, three crosses of ermine spots one and two argent.

Theodora Delamore. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Thomas Mac Finn. Name change (from Thomas Ó Finn) and badge. (fieldless) A fox's head cabossed per pale sable and gules.

Tirloch of Tallaght. Name.

Turstin Fingin. Device. Sable honeycombed Or, a drinking horn argent, a bordure Or.

Willem of Bruges. Name.

Ysabell of Snowshill. Name (see RETURNS for device).

CAID

Aethelthryth of Acleah. Badge. (fieldless) A dragon's head couped Or.

Classic badge! This is clear of Alsarin (Papworth 913), Azure, a water lizard's head erased Or, with a CD for fieldlessness and a CD for type of head.

Ander Vargskinn. Name (see RETURNS for device).

The byname means "wolfskin", and as a straightforward epithet is quite acceptable. If the submitter prefers the term that implies berserker fury, that would be úlfédhinn.

Brihtric Aidan Ackerley. Name.

Caitlyn Iseult ny Kinedy. Name.

The byname was submitted as O'Cinnéide, combining the Irish patronym with the anglicized particle. Since the grammar must be corrected anyway, we've substituted the feminine anglicized form suggested by Lord Palimpsest.

Catríona of Black Isle. Name and device. Vert, in saltire two lilies slipped and leaved between four quill pens in annulo Or.

Catríona of Black Isle. Badge. (fieldless) A feather vert surmounted by a lily Or.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the lily larger.

Egill von Stahl. Badge. (fieldless) A brown eagle's head erased proper.

This was submitted as a household badge for Egil's Nest, which name was returned for conflict Aug 92. This has been registered as a personal badge. Against Ironhawk Hawkcrest (SCA), Per pale vert and Or, a hawk's head erased argent, there's a CD for fieldlessness and a CD for the tincture of the head.

Garrick of Shadowdale. Name.

Shadowdale is an SCA branch in Calontir.

Grace of Fairhaven. Name.

Kira od Jizního Vodopádu. Badge. (fieldless) On a winged roundel argent, a golpe.

Margaret Lynn. Name and device. Gules, three horses rampant and on a chief argent, three horses rampant gules.

Martha Rosewood. Name and device. Vert, a lion's head erased and on a chief Or, two paw-prints vert.

Martin aus Brandenburg. Name and device. Per chevron ermine and azure, two crosses formy azure and a chalice argent, a chief embattled azure.

Olafr Melrakki. Name and device. Azure, in bend sinister three fish naiant to sinister base, a bordure Or.

Peter of Dun Calma. Badge. Sable, a chevron and in chief a mullet of four points, a bordure argent.

Richard Longbow of Westlake. Name.

Robert Redlion. Name.

Rowena le Sarjent. Badge. Per pale gules and sable, a sword inverted, the blade interlaced with two annulets linked in pale argent.

Saint Isidore, College of. Name and device. Gules, a beehive within a laurel wreath, on a chief Or a quill pen sable.

Sarah of Dun Or. Device. Per pale wavy azure and argent, two goblets counterchanged, a chief wavy Or ermined azure.

Please tell the submitter to draw the chief larger.

The use of the cross botonny removes the appearance of marshalling here. (A plain cross, or a cross formy throughout, would not have done so; there are too many examples of such crosses used with quartered armory.)

The charges were blazoned as winged hammers on the LOI, but the emblazon showed the wings separated from the hammers. Even allowing for a slight "disjoining" due to artistic delineation, these are not winged hammers.
There was some discussion about the complex line on the chaussé, but if we'd permit a pile raguly or Per chevron inverted raguly, we should permit this.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the bordure wider.

Alis Marie Delaney. Name.

Conchúr McClawrane Vc Leoid. Name and device. Argent, an arrow bendwise gules, overall a bagpipe azure.

The bynames were submitted on the LOI as MacClawrane Mac Leoid. His submission forms, however, spelled the first element as McClawrane; and the second part needs to be in the genitive case, which in the anglicized form uses the particle Vc. We've corrected the name accordingly.

Gisele Adelais Geirlaug Ulfsdottir. Device. Argent, a winged wolf rampant contourny between three roses sable.

Gwenhevare Dominique Nazaire d'Avignon. Name and device. Gules, a dragon segreant Or, winged argent, belly pierced by an arrow, and on a chief Or three arrows bendwise, each surmounted by a bow bendwise sinister inverted sable.

Ivan Grimbearn. Device. Purpure, a sun argent eclipsed sable, a chief embattled argent.

John Trevor of Chinon. Name and device. Per chevron vert and argent, two pincers argent and a sea lion sable.

Melisenda Brigitte Nazaire d'Avignon. Name and device. Per chevron sable, and gules ermined, a cross crosslet fitchy and a chief invected Or.

The given name was submitted as Melisaundre, which was justified as a hybrid of Melisande and Alisaundre. Unfortunately, French names aren't thematic (as, e.g., Old Norse names are); melding the first half of one French name with the last half of another doesn't usually yield a valid given name. (In this case, the two names aren't even derived from the same source: Melisande is ultimately German in origin, and Alisaundre derives from the Greek.) While it might be plausible that one name would change due to the other's influence, we'd like to see some evidence of this; pending such evidence, we've substituted the documented name Melisenda.

The design is analogous to that of Ortlieb (Rietstap), Tranché-ondé de gueules sur argent, à deux feuilles de tilleul adossées et mouvant du tranché, celle sur l'argent de gueules, et celle sur le gueules d'argent. (Per bend wavy gules and argent, two linden leaves addorsed and issuant from the line of division counterchanged.)

Robin Telfer. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Tedrick von Wolfschatten. Badge. Gules, a sword between two wolves rampant addorsed Or.

Anent the badge of Astrach yo Zhar-Ptitsa, reblazoned elsewhere on this LoAR (Gules, a sword issuant from a flame voided Or), the flame is large enough to be a significant secondary charge; thus there's a CD for type and a CD for number of secondaries.

EAST

Albrecht von Swabia, the Clumsy. Device reblazon. Or, a pair of angles palewise interlaced in fess sable.

The previous blazon (Or, a pail of angles interlaced fesswise sable) was taken from examples in Parker; however, I suspect the term "fesswise" here was being confused with "in fess". (This was not uncommon in 19th Century blazons.) I believe the new blazon will be clearer.

When registered back in July 80, the sword and the flame were both blazoned Or voided gules. In fact, the sword is solid, and the flame is voided.

This was pended from the June meeting.

Alexander Godfrey. Badge. (fieldless) A hand within and conjoined to an annulet argent.

Anne Osgerby. Name.

Edward of Yarborough. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Etheldred NicEoghainn. Name (see RETURNS for device).

The byname was submitted as MacEoghainn, which is a masculine form. Pending a full discussion on Gaelic patronymics, we have substituted the feminine form.

The name was spelled Fionn O'Cennéide of Dun na Gall on the LOI.However, the forms showed the patronymic as Ó Cinnéide, which matched the documentation; and the correct Irish for Donegal includes a definite article. We've corrected the spelling accordingly.

The field, though visually complex, is the same as that used on his previous return (LoAR of Aug 90), and no objection was raised at that time. Moreover, there are a few period examples of multiply-parted fields of three tinctures: e.g. the arms of von Hohenegk (Siebmacher, plate 35), Checky sable, argent, sable and gules, a canton Or. So, for a design this simple, this field is not unreasonable.

Checking the badge of Deporodh of Rannoch (Or, in cross a lozenge between four fleurs-de-lys crosswise azure), the fleurs are of equal visual weight (at least) with the lozenge, and are not conjoined to it. This is well clear.

James Toxophilus. Name.

The byname was submitted as the Toxophilite, with the suggestion that the word dated to 1545. In fact, the OED's earliest citation of the word is from the 18th Century. We have substituted Toxophilus "one who loves archery", which does date to period.

Leo Darkhorse. Name and device. Per bend sinister argent and sable, a horse salient and three daggers counterchanged.

Lijsbeth Tijsz van Brugge. Name.

Linnet MacLeod. Device. Or, a chevron rompu gules, in base a bull's head caboshed sable.

Meridies, Kingdom of. Heraldic title for Lambent Herald.

The title is already on the list of heraldic titles protected by Mistress Alisoun, in her LoAR cover letter of 31 July 90. We've no objection to listing it again, explicitly.

Meridies, Kingdom of. Badge (see RETURNS for guild name). Per fess indented gules and purpure, a dance between two gouts Or.

This was submitted as the badge for the Kingdom dance guild.

The given name was spelled Muighean on the LOI, but Muirghein on the forms. Since the latter is the documented spelling, we've restored it. The forms also requested the Gaelic for "of Dun Aengus"; we've corrected the grammar accordingly, following Lord Palimpsest's suggestion.

The given name was spelled Nagenda on the LOI, but Nagendra on the forms and documentation. We've restored the original spelling.

Nikolai Falassievich Ostetrov. Device. Quarterly azure and sable, a sturgeon bendwise and a bordure wavy argent.

Owain ap Hugh of Merioneth. Name.

Owl's Nest, Canton of. Name change (from Owl's Nest, College of) and device. Per pale sable and gules, an owl displayed within a laurel wreath Or, on a chief dovetailed argent three crosses formy sable.

Pycard Dunstable Major. Name change (from Pycard Dunstable).

Randulf von Gelnhausen. Badge (see RETURNS for device). (fieldless) A sea-moose contourny azure maintaining two daggers proper.

The moose of North America is the same beast as the elk of Europe (Alces malchis). The OED dates the term moose to 1613, within our 50-year "grey area" for documentation; so either term is acceptable in SCA blazonry.

Rondallyn of Golgotha. Augmentation of arms. Vert, three holly leaves conjoined in pall between three skulls argent, on the point of conjunction a bezant, and for augmentation three mullets in chief one and two argent.

Augmentations in Society armory should always be blazoned as such; the bearer has the option of displaying the armory with or without the augmentation, and conflict should be checked against both versions.

The submitter has redrawn the maiden to greatly reduce the fanstasy style that was part of his previous return; and the addition of the bordure removes the conflict that was the other part. The device may still be seen as the portrait of a female spellcaster, but the anomalies are now reduced to a registerable level.

Stephen Augustin of the South Downs. Name and device. Per fess indented Or and sable, a fess dancetty between a decrescent and a cross of Jerusalem counterchanged.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the dance larger henceforth.

The given name was spelled Talon on the LOI, and Talan on the submitter's forms. Both spellings are valid, so we restored the submitter's variation.

The byname is the translation of the Old Norse hausakljúlfr (Geirr Bassi, p.22); and having recently accepted the epithet Fence Splitter, we feel we must accept the lingua franca translation of a period byname. You might enquire, however, whether the submitter would consider using the more authentic term.

Alexander of Hawkwood. Device. Argent, a sea-horse gules grasping with its tail an arrow bendwise sinister inverted sable, a chief invected vert.

Alinor of Braeford. Device. Argent, a brown squirrel statant erect affronty proper between three clusters of acorns gules, within a bordure vert.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the acorns much larger.

Dark Horde. Household name for Irgen Running Horse (see RETURNS for badge).

The submitter was listed on the LOI as Fiona MacGregor. However, the submission forms stated that "If there really is a file for the Dark Horde, this should be registered to them." There is indeed such a file: the Dark Horde was recognized as an autonomous group when its name and device were registered Jan 81.
According to Lady Brickbat, the Mongolian for "Irgen Running Horse" would be Irgen Gujlt Mori. You might pass that on to the submitters.

This was pended from the June meeting.

Elspet NicDhubhghlaise bean Iain MhicThomaidh. Name.

Eva MacCarthy. Name.

Geoffrey de Leon. Name and device. Azure, a cross erminois and overall a lion rampant argent.

Iain Clìth-lamhach MacThomaidh. Name and device. Or, a fess gules and overall a wildcat rampant contourny gardant sable marked argent within a bordure gules. Ironhawk Hawkcrest. Device reblazon. Per pale vert and Or, a hawk's head erased argent.

When registered back in Aug 79, the charge was blazoned as an iron hawk's head ... proper, presumably for the sake of a cant. The head was colored as a silvery grey; however, iron (or steel) proper is usually colored as black. To facilitate future researchers, we've reblazoned the head in a standard heraldic tincture.

Jean Pierre Quintin d'Armagnac. Device. Purpure semy-de-lys, two chevronels within a bordure invected argent.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the chevronels wider.

Katherine Margaret von Schönberg. Device. Checky azure and argent, an owl Or and on a chief azure a plate between two mullets argent.

The mullets should be drawn larger. Please instruct the submitter.

Melchior Stoneteeth. Name.

Morgan Branwen. Name.

Nadirah bint Sayf of the Hashid. Name and device. Per pale sable and argent, a cross crosslet fitchy square-pierced within a bordure all counterchanged.

The epithet would be better in the Arabic: al-Hashidi. You might pass that on to the submitter.

Rosamund Beauvisage. Name and device. Argent, on a bend sinister vert between two roses sable, a quill pen argent.

Sebastian Sturm. Name and device. Purpure, a sword bendwise sinister Or between two unicorns rampant argent.

Yseult de Cherbourg. Household name and badge for Château Entre Lacs. (fieldless) Two swords in saltire per pale sable and Or surmounted by a fleur-de-lys per pale Or and sable.

Yseult de Cherbourg. Household badge for Château Entre Lacs. (fieldless) A fleur-de-lys per pale Or and sable, between and supported by two frogs rampant respectant reguardant, the dexter sable, the sinister Or.

While the current Rules and Administrative Guidelines do not explicitly permit a household to have multiple badges, neither do they explicitly prohibit it. After some thought, I've decided there's no reason a household shouldn't have as many badges as the Rules allow. Certainly, houses in period could have more than one badge -- a Scots clan, for instance, could have a crest-badge and a plant-badge. Our only restriction is that one person be the primary owner for all the household's badges -- which effectively limits the number of badges per household.

OUTLANDS

Aneirin Arkwright. Name and device. Gyronny gules and Or, on a cross formy nowy quadrate counterchanged a tower argent.

The given name was submitted as Aneurin, which Hanks & Hodges [DFN, p.18] cites as a modern form. We have substituted the period spelling.

The name Aurora "occurs as a Christian name in inscriptions of the Roman Empire." (Dunkling & Gosling, p.36)

Cyrred of Ashwood. Name and device. Per chevron sable semy of ash sprigs Or, and gules, a chevron ermine and in base a pheon Or.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the chevron wider.

Isolde da Talamone. Name correction (from Isolde de Talamone) and device. Per bend sinister vert and argent, an estoile of eight rays argent and a mermaid proper, crined gules, brandishing a sword sable.

When registered May 92, the preposition in the name was misspelled de, which is French. We are correcting it to the Italian da, as spelled on the forms, the LOI and all the commentary.

Marguerite d'Isère. Name.

The byname was submitted as Valdisère, which appears to be a post-period construction. We have substituted the client's second choice, as stated on her submission form.

The toponymic was submitted as of Aran Isles. There is a group of islands known as the Aran Isles, off the coast of Galway, Ireland. The documentation suggested that the submitter wished to be from those isles -- in which case we would have changed the toponymic to of the Aran Isles. Lady Trefoil has informed us that the submitter's intended home was Aran Island, off the coast of Donegal (Columbia Lippincott Gazettteer, p.88), and we have substituted that.
The style of this device has been registered before (Dairine Mor Ó hUigin, April 89). Similar designs are found in late-period German armory, as in the arms of Burgkmair, 1516 (Per bend sinister Or and sable, the line in the form of two bear's heads interlocked, the one in base inverted); see von Volborth's Art of Heraldry, p.55. So long as there are no other complexities (e.g. other charges), the motif is acceptable for Society use.

The above blazon was chosen to reflect the equal visual weights of the charges; visually, this is a group of five primary charges, one of which happens to differ in type from the others.

The toponymic was inadvertently spelled Willmark when the name was registered Oct 91.

Simona Zon d'Asolo. Name (see RETURNS for device and badge).

WEST

Alaric Foxley. Name and device. Per chevron inverted azure and gules, an eagle displayed and three crescents Or.

Please have the submitter move the line of division closer to the center.

Aliotte Collesson. Name and device. Per bend vert and sable, two standing balances Or.

Allison of Basarabia. Name and device. Or, a penguin statant affronty facing dexter sable, bellied argent, on a chief vert three mullets of six points Or.

Amata Rothe. Name change (from Aine Redman).

Angela ferch Llwyd. Name.

Anne of Shaftesbury. Name and device. Vairy azure and Or, a chevron rompu gules.

Nice armory!

The badge was submitted under the name Tandre Catspaw, which was returned in the LoAR of July 92.

Arianwen de Nevers. Name.

Asher Truefriend. Name and device. Argent, a demon affronty, wings displayed purpure maintaining a string of flowers argent, on a chief purpure, three open scrolls argent.

The demon is a period heraldic charge, as found in the arms of the city of Brussels (Gules, the archangel Michael Or vanquishing a demon underfoot sable). That doesn't mean it goes well with a byname like Truefriend....

Baldwin the Wanderer. Device. Erminois, on a chevron sable three mullets Or, in base a cross floretty gules.

Please tell the submitter to draw all the charges larger henceforth.

Berhtolf von Bremen. Name.

Bianca Drago. Name and device. Purpure, a dragon in annulo, head to chief and on a chief argent, three roses purpure.

Branwen of Werchesvorde. Name and device. Per pale gules and azure, a bend and a bend sinister both humetty argent fretted with a mascle, a bordure Or.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the mascle and the border wider.

Caitlin of Rosecommon. Name and device. Azure, a bell and on a chief invected argent, three roses azure.

Name and device approved. (Please warn the submitter that her name is going to be routinely mispronounced, and misspelt, as the well-known Irish toponymic Roscommon.)

Cameron is the submitter's mundane given name. The byname was submitted as d'Halbey, which is fundamentally a sound period construction; but by the time such a placename would spell its suffix as -bey, it wouldn't have formed a contraction with de. We've altered the spelling to make it consistent with other English place names of similar construction.

The given name was submitted as Kara, documented as a Russian diminutive of Karina. However, no evidence was presented for the period Russian/Scots interaction such a name would require. We have substituted Cara, the feminine of the Latin Carus, the name of a Roman emperor who died in 283. (Lempriere 128)

Carolyn of Roddingholme. Name and device. Argent, a bouquet of lavender blossoms slipped, tied with a ribbon purpure, on a chief azure, three daisies argent, seeded Or.

Catherine Lorraine of Stonegate Manor. Name and device. Per pale argent and azure, a pale gules between six arrows fesswise counterchanged.

Connor Mac Loghan. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Cormac Lenihan. Name.

Cornelius von Becke. Name and device. Azure, a candle argent lit proper, on a chief argent two hurts.

Custódia de Montemor. Name and device. Argent, a bend wavy purpure cotised plain sable.

Cotises follow the line of their central ordinary by default; thus a bend wavy cotised will have wavy cotises, parallel to the wavy bend. This is therefore clear of Neffrile (Papworth 204): Argent, a bend wavy between two cotises sable. There is a CD for tincture of the bend, and a CD for straightening the cotises.

Damian Bladesbane. Name and device. Per chevron Or and gules, three pine trees vert and a sword reversed, fracted in chevron, argent.

Several commenters suggested that the use of -bane with inanimate objects was post-period. However, the OED does give instances of the verb bane used with inanimate objects such as bones (in 1568) and voyages (in 1639, within our 50-year "grey zone" for documentation). The construction, I concede, owes more to historical novels than to historical evidence -- Breaksword would be a more plausible construction in this case -- but I don't believe the usage is sufficient grounds for returning a name.

The byname was submitted as Pyromallia, supposed to be Greek for a redhead (literally "fire-hair"). However, mallia refers to a fleece, a lock of wool from a sheep, rather than human hair. Rather to our surprise, the Classic Greek for "fire hair" really is the idiom for a redhead, so we've substituted the documented term.

Deirdre the Difficult. Name and device. Purpure, a winged cat passant Or maintaining a sword proper, a chief Or fretty purpure.

Dimitrii Sveestunov. Name.

Donal Artur of the Silver Band. Device. Argent, on a chevron inverted azure between three ermine spots one and two sable, three suns Or.

On an undivided field, there is a visible difference between Ermine (a field) and Argent, three ermine spots sable (a field with charges). This is therefore clear of Reynolds (Papworth 489), Ermine, on a chevron inverted azure three mullets argent, with a CD for inverting the chevron and a CD for the field.

Douglas of Blackstone. Name change (from Malakas Blackstone) and badge. Per pale azure and vert, on a bezant a wolf sejant ululant to sinister sable.

The full-sized emblazon showed the badge more like a bezant on a field, as blazoned, and less like a bordure.

In counting conflict, we don't consider eclipsing to be a change in tincture, but equivalent to the addition of a tertiary charge. (I.e., a sun vert eclipsed Or and a sun vert charged with a bezant are equivalent blazons.) This is therefore clear of the arms of Delahaye (Papworth 1100), Argent, the sun in splendour gules.

On an undivided field, there is a visible difference between ermined (a fur) and three ermine spots (charges). This is therefore clear of FitzHugh (Papworth 549), Azure, three chevrons braced Or, with a CD for the field and a CD for the charges in chief.

Elsbeth Caerwent. Name.

Erik of Saint Katherine's College. Holding name (see RETURNS) and device. Argent, three arrows in pall, points outwards sable, on a chief azure a label couped argent.

This was submitted under the name Erik the Tall. Please instruct the submitter to draw the arrows larger, to fill the available space.

Her previous device (Per bend sinister argent and purpure, a bend sinister fusilly sable between a mulberry leaf bendwise sinister inverted vert and a sewing needle, eye to chief, argent) is released. This is a great improvement.

The middle name was submitted as Farrell, which is a 19th Century anglicization of Fergal. We have substituted a more period anglicization.

Francesca von Hesse. Name and device. Gules, a stag trippant to sinister within a orle dancetty Or.

Francisco Antonio de Castejón. Name.

Garin Stewart of Gleann Faoil. Name and device. Per saltire vert and azure, a wolf's head couped affronty within a bordure embattled argent.

The toponymic was submitted as Glen Faól, supposed to be Scots Gaelic for "wolf glen". We have corrected the grammar, using the Scots spelling of gleann and putting "wolf" into the genitive.

Gilian of Harcourt. Name.

Gregory of Loch Swan. Device. Argent, a swan displayed and facing sinister sable debruised by a fess counter-compony azure and Or.

Under our current defintion of primary charges, Rule X.1 brings this clear of Stenynge (Papworth 700), Argent, a fess counter-compony Or and azure.

This was submitted under the name Gregory the Disgusting.

Gunnar Ormsson of Normandy. Name and device. Per bend sinister argent and sable, two serpents glissant palewise counterchanged.

Gustava av Dalarna. Name and device. Purpure, a bend sinister vert fimbriated, between two garden roses slipped and leaved Or.

Gustavus is the Latin form of the given name Gustav; Gustava would be the feminine of that.

Although the byname Shieldwrecker is marginally registerable, it doesn't mean what the submitter thinks: it might mean "one who takes revenge on a shield", or "one who casts a shield ashore". Please advise the submitter that there are period epithets for one who damages his shield: Crakesheld (from 1327) or Breakshield would be an improvement.

Hobart Wendell Eldridge. Name.

Hrólfr Hreggvidharson. Name and device. Azure, on a bend sinister between two wolves passant Or, a lightning bolt azure.

Ian of Loch Naver. Device change. Argent chapé sable, a fireball gules enflamed proper.

His previous device (Paly and per saltire gules and ermine, on a chief Or two wings conoined azure) is released.

Iestyn ap Cadfael ap Ianto ap Danno ap Richard ap Owen ap Rhys o'r Cwm. Name and device. Gyronny of ten argent and sable, on each gyron a dagger, blade to center, counterchanged.

Lord Hund has noted the use on a Welsh gravestone of a similarly lengthy name (John ap Robert ap Porth ap Daffyd ap Gruffydd ap Daffyd Vaughan ap Blethyn ap Gruffydd ap Meredith ap Jerworth ap Llewellyn ap Jerom ap Heilin ap Cowryd ap Cadwan ap Alawgwa ap Cadell of Powys, born 1547). The gravestone is as much a legal "document" as a birth record.
Gyronny of ten is symmetric around the horizontal line, not the vertical line. Please instruct the submitter on the correct depiction of this field.

Isabella de Bordeaux. Name.

Iver of the Black Bow. Device reblazon. Azure, two estoiles and a unicorn's head cabossed, within a bordure argent.

When this was registered in 1986, the charges were blazoned two estoiles and in base a unicorn's head, suggesting the unicorn's head was shoved into base as a secondary charge. The corrected blazon makes all the charges primaries, more accurately reflecting their relative visual weights.

This puts the lie to those who claim that simple armory can't be registered. Kudos!

John Paul Blacklore. Device change. Gyronny of ten sable and Or, a lion rampant to sinister regardant within an orle argent.

His previous device (Per pale argent and Or, a cup sable between in cross four roses gules, all within an orle sable) is retained as a badge.

In the full-sized emblazon, the motif was clearly drawn using a cross nowy, not a recherché bordure.

The byname was submitted as von Tyrol, with a note in the LOI suggesting that the definite article should be used. In this case, it needn't, but the German form Tirol does need to be used -- declined to the dative case. We have corrected the spelling.

Versus Elrhond Windrider (Azure, a chevronel interlaced with another inverted argent), there are CDs for tincture and type of "chevronel" -- just as there's a CD between a cross (throughout) and a cross annuletted.

Konrad MacGriffin. Name and device. Quarterly Or and azure, a bend pean between two Stars of David Or.

Lawnslot of the Black Lance. Name and device. Argent, a lance between flaunches sable.

Lawrence the Rampant of Ram's Isle. Name and device. Barry wavy argent and azure, a ram rampant within a bordure sable.

Luke Breen of Lough Finne. Device. Ermine, on a pale sable between in chief two caltrops gules, a Celtic cross Or.

Mari Greensleaves. Name change (from Marie Greensleaves).

Marion of Sherebrooke. Name.

None of Laurel's staff had any difficulty distinguishing this name from Marian of Sherwood.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the decrescents larger.

Miana ní Chonnagáin. Name and device. Per fess vert and azure, a fess wavy argent and in chief a crescent Or.

The byname was submitted as Ó Connagáin, which is the male form of the patronymic. Pending evidence that this form was used by women in period Ireland, we have substituted the feminine form.
Please tell the submitter to draw the fess larger, with larger waves.

Michael of Stormhold. Holding name (see RETURNS) and device. Per chevron Or and azure, five bezants in annulo, on a chief embattled azure a sword reversed argent.

This was submitted under the name Jarek Blackthorne.

Moira Ramsay. Name.

Morgan ap Styphan ap Owain. Name.

Morgan Lyonel. Badge. (fieldless) A lion-dragon erect sable maintaining a drinking horn Or.

The monster was blazoned on the LOI as a sea-lion, but the submitter's forms specified that it must have a dragon's tail. That makes the monster a lion-dragon, a period monster.

As above, the submitter specified a dragon's tail; the form also noted this was a joint badge.

Morwenna of Tintagel. Name and device. Per pale gules and sable, a chevron between two escallops and a heron statant argent.

Nigel of Ravenglass. Device. Argent, a raven contourny gules, in chief four daggers sable.

Paul of Cheshire. Name and device. Per pale vert and Or, a chevron between three falcons stooping counterchanged.

Rachel von Ostland. Name.

Richard of Dunheved. Badge. (fieldless) A trident inverted, haft entwined with a chain argent.

Rorik Gunn Gormsson. Name.

Ruric the Grey. Name and device. Argent, a rabbit sejant affronty azure holding in its mouth a rose slipped and leaved proper, a bordure azure.

Please tell the submitter to draw the bordure wider.

Sebastian of Ventbarré. Name and device. Gules, on a bend sinister Or, three wings palewise, each terminating in a hand brandishing a sword sable.

There was some question as to whether the released name of a disbanded group could be used in a new personal name. Such new names must start from scratch, but the original documentation of the dead SCA branch might still be consulted. It turns out that Ventbarré was justified as "a place typified by a 'stopped wind', i.e. a location where wind is diverted or blocked by geographic features." [AmCoE, LoAR of June 87] Without counterevidence, I will assume that the argument is still valid -- and the submitter may be of Ventbarré.

The byname was spelled Lions's Paw on the LOI; the forms used the correct possessive. (Believe me, at this point I sympathize with the tpyistt....)

Steven of Mountain's Gate. Holding name (see RETURNS) and device. Quarterly Or and gules, four compass stars within a bordure counterchanged.

This was submitted under the name Styphan ap Owain.
Possible conflicts were cited by commenters, all hinging on the difference granted between a mullet and a compass star. Prior rulings on this point were a bit ambiguous, but in general, when there's a small change (5 vs. 6) in the number of points, we grant no difference for type of mullet -- and we do grant difference when there's a large change (5 vs. 8 or more). In this case, we have a specific precedent (LoAR of Dec 89, p.30) granting a CD between mullet and compass star, which matches the general policy.
I'm always eager to read new evidence on how difference between mullets was counted in period. Pending such evidence, I will continue the current policy. This is clear of Comberford (Quarterly Or and gules, four mullets counterchanged) and of Vere (Quarterly gules and Or, four mullets within a bordure counterchanged).

Talon Graymane. Name.

Táriq ibn Jelal ibn Ziyadatallah al-Naysábúrí. Name.

Tegan Ó Riordáin. Device. Vert semy of crescents, a wolf couchant and on a chief argent, three Celtic crosses vert.

Thorbrand the Red. Name and device. Gyronny wavy azure and argent, a jester's head affronty proper, bearded gules, vested quarterly Or and vert, belled erminois.

This device is as busy as we care to see.

The byname was submitted as af Dyflinn, "of Dublin". However, af requires the following noun to be in the dative case, which appears to be Dyflinni. We have made the appropriate corrections.

Thyrnni of Wolfskrag. Name change (from Catherine de Hawkhead) and device. Ermine, a wolf sejant sable, on a chief indented gules three bezants.

The given name was submitted as Thyrin, which the LOI attempted to justify as a variant of Thorin. However, the Y/O shift appears implausible for the period in which Thorin was a name. We have substituted Thyrnni, a documented Old Norse name, which the submitter's forms allow.

The name would be more temporally consistent if mac Aedh were used with this spelling of Tírechán. You might suggest it to the submitter.

William de Ness. Name.

Wolfric Hammerfestning. Name.

The byname was submitted as Hammerfest, a toponymic surname. However, the city of Hammerfest was founded in 1789, so it can't be used as an SCA placename. We have substituted a constructed placename, using the Norwegian festning, "fortress".

Please instruct the submitter to draw the vol larger henceforth.

THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS HAVE BEEN RETURNED:

ANSTEORRA

Alaric Liutpold von Steinman. Device change resubmission. Gules, an antelope rampant between three crosses formy argent.

This conflicts with the arms of Buxtorf (Rietstap): De gueules au bouquetin rampant d'argent (Gules, an ibex rampant argent). According to Franklyn & Tanner (Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Heraldry, p.179), "the heraldic ibex is indistinguishable from the heraldic antelope and may even be merely an alternative term." There is thus a single CD, for adding the secondary charges.
I would grant a CD between a correctly drawn antelope and a deer; the two charges were distinct in period armory (unlike, say, the heraldic dolphin and the bottlenosed dolphin, between which we grant no difference). This would thus be clear of Geoffrey de Bradelei, cited in the LOI (Gules, a stag springing and in chief three crosses paty argent), though there's a strong visual echo.
If the client should resubmit with an antelope, please instruct him on the correct depiction of the horns: swept back, not forward. See Dennys' Heraldic Imagination, p.148.

There is no evidence that fountains were ever borne in other than their default orientation. I consider the "rotation" of a fountain to be a change in its partition, from barry to (in this case) paly. By definition, it then ceases to be a fountain -- just as it would if the tinctures were changed, say, to gules and Or. This submission must therefore be considered a display, on a roundel, of Paly wavy argent and azure; and it thus conflicts with the arms of Amesley (Papworth 1017), Paly of six argent and azure, as cited in the LOI.

This was blazoned on the LOI as Per fess azure, and argent maily sable, in chief on an open scroll fesswise argent two quill pens fesswise sable. However, the full emblazon didn't quite show a Per fess division, but rather a charged chief. The quill pens are therefore quaternary charges, which are disallowed per Rule VIII.1.c.ii.
The distinction between, say, Argent, a chief gules and Per fess gules and argent was not often observed in early heraldry; indeed, the first examples of Per-fess emblazons were blazoned a chief. (See Wagner's Historic Heraldry of Britain, plate II, for such an example.) However, the distinction was observed by the mid-15th Century, and is observed in the SCA. This may make it easier for us to avoid conflict, but it also requires us to insist on correct emblazons. If this is resubmitted with an undoubted Per fess field, there should be no stylistic problems.

The device is excessivly imbalanced, which is not period heraldic style. A similar device (Penelope of the Quill, Vert, a quill pen bendwise and three bendlets enhanced Or) was returned Jan 92 for the same reason. He might try putting another set of bendlets in sinister base to balance the design.

This conflicts with the arms of White (Papworth 307): Sable, a dove argent and on a chief of the second, three crosses paty gules. There's a CD for the changes to the tertiaries, but prior Laurel precedent (LoAR of Nov 90, p.16) has granted no difference for bird type, when the birds are in identical postures. In this case, when the eagle isn't displayed, it loses most of the traits that let it be identified as an eagle. Almost the only such trait visible on an eagle close is its head crest -- and the heraldic dove has one, too.

This conflicts with Sebastian Alexander Stormmane (SCA): Sable, an owl displayed argent holding on its breast a rose gules. The owl and the eagle are both raptors, and the main difference between them -- the head posture -- is specifically worth no CDs per Rule X.4.h. Tincture alone of tertiary charge is likewise worth no CDs. The only countable difference is for fieldlessness.

If Tower is considered the household designator (and therefore transparent with respect to conflict), this conflicts with the Order of the Tempest, registered to the Barony of Windmaster's Hill. Were we to add a designator (e.g. House Tempest Tower), so that Tower became the substantive element of the name, this would conflict with the Order of the Towers of Dreiburgen, of the Barony of Dreiburgen. The designator is transparent; the addition of the branch name is worth no difference, per the ruling on the Golden Swan of Calontir; the only countable difference, under the current Rules, is the addition of the adjective Tempest -- which is insufficient, per Rule V.2. Either way, this must be returned.

The wavy line was drawn too small to be considered a period rendition. Medieval wavy lines were drawn big, bold (so much that they were sometimes misblazoned nebuly by Victorian armorists). This must be returned for redrawing.

While the conflicts of the previous returns have now been resolved, the resubmission was drawn with small, "pinking-shear" engrailing on the bend. Medievally, complex lines of division were drawn boldly: a medieval bend engrailed would have about one-half or one-third the number of engrails as the bend drawn here, and the engrails would be correspondingly larger. This must be returned for non-period emblazonry; if he resubmits with a medieval engrailed line, it should be acceptable.

The name conflicts with Erik II Magnusson, King of Norway c.1280. (Louda & Maclagan, Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, plate 24; Webster's New Biographical Dictionary, p.327)

This was blazoned on the LOI as An estoile ... and overall a phoenix. However, an examination of the full-sized emblazon showed this to be incorrect: the "overlap" of the phoenix over the estoile's edge was so small as to be negligible. This in itself is reason for return: the Laurel office has long insisted that overall charges be truly overall, not barely overlapping the edge of their underlying charge. (LoAR of 17 June 83)
Visually, the phoenix is a tertiary charge here. Therefore, this conflicts with Erik von Kampfe (SCA), Sable, on an estoile Or a death's head gules; and with Bruce of Brandy Hall (SCA), Purpure, on a sun Or a dagger gules. In each case there's a CD for fieldlessness, but change of tertiary type alone does not garner a second CD; against Bruce, there's no difference between a sun and a multi-rayed estoile.

This conflicts with the badge of Fia Naheed (SCA): (fieldless) On an escallop inverted argent, a compass star azure. The escallop is not a simple geometric charge, so the change of type alone of tertiary is worth no difference per Rule X.4.j.ii; the only CD is for fieldlessness.

This conflicts with Iver of the Black Bow (reblazoned elsewhere in this LoAR): Azure, two estoiles and a unicorn's head cabossed, all within a bordure argent. Even granting difference between mullets and estoiles, I don't believe there is Substantial Difference as required by Rule X.2. There is thus a single CD, for type of primary charge group; we cannot grant a CD for type of half the group, and another CD for type of the other half of the same group.

The household name was first returned Nov 91: "No evidence was presented that the household name is formed in a period manner or follows period naming practice." The submitter's appeal was based on a quote from Bardsley's English Surnames, describing "names of simple relationship or occupation or office, or even, we may add, of patronymic character, having been compounded with adjectives expressive of the feeling of those with whom the nominee had to deal..." The submitter then cited the OE nouns blaed "blade" and sang "song", and argued that, given such documented names as Blaedwine, Blaedsang -- and hence Bladesong -- should be acceptable.
The argument based on Bardsley has two serious flaws. First, the compound names described in English Surnames are of the form [adjective] + [noun]: Littlejohn, Goodknave, Beauclerk, Longfellow, Fairchild. Neither blade nor song is an adjective, according to the OED; so Bardsley's examples do not support this name.
Second, Bladesong does not seem to qualify as any of the categories mentioned by Bardsley; it is neither a name of relationship, occupation, office, nor a patronymic. On that basis alone, the Bardsley quote is irrelevant.
The example of the Saxon given name Blaedwine (and others, such as Blaedbeorth, Blaedswith, and Blaedhild) is likewise flawed. Anglo-Saxon names weren't formed from randomly chosen words, but from a smaller group of name elements called themes. If the submitter had documented -sang (-song) as such a theme, then Blaedsang would be a valid Anglo-Saxon given name -- and by our guidelines on household names (outlined in the LoAR cover letter of 2 July 92), acceptable as a household name. But the compound of two unrelated nouns is not a name, nor even necessarily a valid Anglo-Saxon construction.
Our rule-of-thumb for SCA household names is that, if John X is acceptable, then House X should be acceptable. We would not accept John Bladesong as a personal name; the epithet would be too fantasy-oriented. We cannot accept House Bladesong, for the same reason. At the very least, we need evidence that a bladesong is a valid period concept -- for instance, some mention of "singing swords" in period literature (as opposed to modern fantasy literature). Without any real evidence in support of the name, it must again be returned.

According to Lord Pale (now Lord Dragon), this motif -- essentially a triskelion gammadion within an annulet -- is the logo of the Afrikaaner Weerstandsbeweging, a pro-apartheid white supremacist group in South Africa. The triskelion gammadion has been used by white supremacists before this: it was the ensign of the Nazi SS's "volunteer" division in Belgium, during WWII. ("Hateful Heraldry", Vuong Manh, in the Caerthan Symposium Proceedings) While the Nazis' use of the symbol doesn't necessarily poison it for our use, the fact that modern racists still use it as their logo suggests it has acquired a permanent symbolism, one that's offensive to many people. The triskelion gammadion, and its variants (such as the triskelion gammadion in annulo, or the current submission's triskelion of scythes) must therefore be disallowed, per Rule IX.4.

This conflicts with Pearche (Papworth 745): Gules, a fess between three crosses botonny argent. There's a CD for the addition of the tertiaries on the fess, but no difference for fitching the crosses, and no difference for crosslet vs. botonny.

This conflicts with the arms of Gorges (Papworth 6): Azure, five annulets one within the other argent. As seen from the examples in Parker (p.299), Woodward (p.193), and Papworth (p.1122), a set of concentric annulets is simply an alternate method of drawing a gurges or whirlpool; so the arms of Gorges can equally (and with better cant) be blazoned Azure, a gurges argent. There is a single CD, for field.

When obscured by the cross, the pomegranate becomes unidentifiable -- the moreso since the seeding, a principal trait of the heraldic pomegranate, is entirely overlaid. This must be returned, per Rule VIII.3.

Gwenda appears to be a modern construction. We need evidence of its use in period before we can register it. Unfortunately, the submitter has disallowed any but the most minor changes to her name.

This conflicts with Winterbottom (Papworth 898), as cited in the LOI: Azure, goutty de eau. This conflict call engendered much discussion in the commentary, centering on whether the cloud was a peripheral secondary charge (thereby making this a conflict with Winterbottom) or a primary charge (thereby clearing the conflict per Rule X.1). One might argue either way: Had this been, e.g., Azure, in chief a cloud argent, the cloud would probably be the primary; had this been, e.g., Argent goutty d'eau, a chief nebuly argent, it would definitely be a conflict.
In this case, the gouts are the primary charge group, and the cloud a secondary charge. Approach it by approximations: Comparing Azure, a gout argent vs. Azure, a gout and in chief a cloud argent, there would certainly be a conflict; likewise Azure, three gouts argent vs. Azure, three gouts and in chief a cloud argent, and Azure, six gouts argent vs. Azure, six gouts and in chief a cloud argent. In none of these hypothetical cases could Rule X.1 be invoked for adding the cloud in chief; the gouts are the primary charges. Increasing the number of gouts even further (to goutty, the present submission) does not change this. This is a conflict with Winterbottom, with a single CD for adding the secondary charge in chief.

Device submission withdrawn by Asterisk Herald.

The consensus of the College was that a coiled match is visually too similar to an annulet to grant a CD between the two. This therefore conflicts with the arms of Gyra (Rietstap), De sinople à une annelet d'argent (Vert, an annulet argent); and with the Mon of Obuchi (Hawley 85), Dark, a ring light. In each case there's a single CD, for fieldlessness.

This directly conflicts with the Shire of An Dun Theine.

In precedents dating back to June 86, it has been ruled that, in a fieldless badge, a charge commonly used for armorial display (e.g. an escutcheon, a delf, a lozenge, etc.) should not itself be charged. That includes roundles, and most particularly targes (a shield by any other name).
Moreover, considering this as a display, on a round shield, of Or, an equal-armed Celtic cross purpure, this would conflict with Uilliam Uaine (SCA): Or, a Celtic cross purpure, overall a frog salient to sinister vert. There would be a single CD, for deleting the overall charge.

Conflicts with the US 63rd Division (Military Ordinary, #647): Khaki, a flame of fire throughout gules, thereon a sword palewise Or charged on the upper blade with a goutte de sang palewise. There are no CDs for the type of tertiary charge in this case.

The earliest use of the compound Bearcat was the Stutz Bearcat automobile, an intrusively modern construction. Were it not for the automobile, the name might well be acceptable, though not with the submitters' intended meaning: taking bear as a verb, Bearcat "carry the cat" fits the pattern [verb] + [noun] found in such bynames as Crakeshield and Shakespeare.
The submitters permitted the name to be changed to House of the Bear and Cat, which might make a plausible inn name. However, this was too great a change for us to make without the College's commentary. The name should be resubmitted in the usual manner, and our onomasticists can thrash it out then.

This conflicts with the device of Cassandra Boll von Bayer (SCA): Argent, a sprig of three bluebells azure slipped and leaved vert, within a bordure embattled azure. There's a CD for the tincture of the bordure, but not for type of sprig -- and the visual resemblance is overwhelming.
There were also a number of other conflicts, all based on granting no difference for type of sprig: e.g., Brobrough (Papworth 1112), Argent, a slip of three leaves vert, or the badge of Rosemary Petsley (SCA), Argent, a sprig of parsley vert.

The submitter documented the last three bynames as Italian nouns ("Mark John Dragon White Wind"), which doesn't appear to be a valid style for Italian names. Even with evidence that Drago, Bianco and Vento are surnames, the use of five name elements is excessive. The longest Italian name documented in the commentary was a 16th Century name with four elements (Giovan Francesco Palladio della Olivi, cited by Lady Ensign). Pending evidence that five-element names are acceptable, I must return this.

This conflicts with the badge of HMSubmarine Seawolf, cited by Master Hrolf Herjolfssen via Lord Hund: Azure, a sea-wolf argent. (The badges of British ships are registered with the English College of Arms, so this is "real" armory, deserving protection under our current standards.) There's no heraldic difference for sea-fox vs. sea-wolf.

The bow was blazoned sable on the LOI, but the full emblazon showed it to be brown wood. As such, the device contains four tinctures and four types of charge, which is right at the edge of acceptable complexity as defined in Rule VIII.1.a. Added to the fact that there are three types of charge in the primary charge group (also disallowed per VIII.1.a), and the whole becomes unacceptable.

This conflicts with Ball (Papworth 418), as cited in the LOI: Argent, a chevron sable between three fireballs of the last fired proper. There's a CD for making the chevron rompu, but not another for type of secondary charge.

This conflicts with the badge of HMSubmarine Seawolf, cited by Master Hrolf Herjolfssen via Lord Hund: Azure, a sea-wolf argent. (The badges of British ships are registered with the English College of Arms, so this is "real" armory, deserving protection under our current standards.) There's a CD for field, but nothing for the maintained charge.

Silverdawn does not appear to be a validly constructed placename, and should not be used as though it were. The Grandfather Clause does not apply to this case.
The submitter's forms stated that "Laurel ruled in the LoAR of April 1984 that 'Silverdawn' was an acceptable made-up place name." No such statement is found in the LoAR of 14 April 84, when the current name was registered; the name was simply approved, in its entirety. Of the Silverdawn might be considered an epithet, or (as Lord Obelisk suggests) refer to the name of a ship. Dropping the article, however, makes Silverdawn a placename -- but no evidence has been presented that such a placename is plausible. The Grandfather Clause permits the submitter to use of the Silverdawn, as currently registered; to change that name requires documentation of the new meaning's acceptability. He might consider submitting Richard Silverdawn.

As drawn here, this "caltrop" more strongly resembles a mullet of four points shortened from base. (The latter phrase, I suppose, is the opposite of elongated to base.) This therefore conflicts with the badge of Eleanor Leonard (SCA): (tinctureless) A mullet of four points distilling a gout. The deletion of the gout is worth no difference. There's a CD for fieldlessness, but per Rule X.4.d, against a tinctureless badge the second needed CD must come from a category that doesn't involve tincture. The per-pale division of the "caltrop" is counted as part of its tincture, per X.4.d. See the cover letter for a more detailed discussion of this issue.

This conflicts with the arms of Bassingford (Papworth 1046): Azure, a bezant. We see no heraldic difference between a roundel and an egg.
The egg was not drawn in a bold heraldic manner, to fill the available space. Had it been, the complex line of the two-color field would have been obscured, in violation of Rule VIII.3. Either way, this is unacceptable.

Conflicts with the device of Alisande of Fenny Drayton (SCA): Per bend sinister argent and azure, an iris and a dove close to sinister counterchanged. There is a CD for type of primary charges, but because both armories contain a cup-shaped flower in dexter chief, we cannot grant Sufficient Difference of Charge per Rule X.2.

This is the Baronial arms with the laurel wreath removed. While it's true that the unusual mullet, and the towers overlying the pile's edge, are permitted to Stargate under the Grandfather Clause, there are still possible conflicts due to the wreath's removal. Specifically, this conflicts with Traidenis Vilkas of Winter Oak (SCA): Argent, on a pile sable a wolf's head cabossed argent. There's a CD for adding the overall charges, but Rule X.4.j.ii doesn't apply when overall charges are present; so change of tertiary type is not enough for a second CD.

This conflicts with Iain Dughall Cameron, registered Nov 91: Gules, an otter couchant to sinsister guardant within a bordure embattled argent. There's a CD for the posture of the beast, but nothing for its type.

The winch is drawn in trian aspect, which is not period heraldic style. Additionally, since this seems to be the defining instance of a winch in SCA armory, we need some documentation of this form as a period charge or artifact. ["Just a winch at heart", indeed!]

The arrows are drawn in a non-period style, with invisible points and fletching. When he resubmits, please also have him draw the sword so that it lies entirely on the griffin, for better contrast.

The billet is one of the charges used for armorial display, and thus (per Rule XI.4) may not be charged with more than one tertiary. This is especially true for fieldless badges, where such charged billets look like displays of independent armory. (See also the LoAR of 8 June 86, p.7.)

The byname, del Basque, does not mean "of the woods" as the submitter thinks. In French, Le Pays Basque is the region on the Spanish/French border; the Spanish equivalent is los Provincias Vascongadas. The French term should not be used with the Spanish preposition; and in any event, "of the [adjective]" is not a usual epithet. We would have corrected the spelling, but the submitter forbade any changes whatsoever to her name.

Ariel de Courtenay. Device. Per pall argent, gules, and paly argent and sable, in chief a thistle proper.

This conflicts with the Royal badge of James III of Scotland (Fox-Davies' Heraldic Badges, p.117): A thistle proper. There is a single CD, for fieldlessness; placement on the field cannot be counted against a fieldless badge.

This conflicts with the badge of Manfried von Falkenmond (SCA): Gules, perched atop a tower a hooded falcon, within a bordure argent. There's a CD for the tertiary charge, but comparing the emblazons shows Manfried's falcon to be worth no more than a "maintained" charge. It isn't prominent enough for a second CD.

The surname does not appear to be correctly constructed. The LOI attempted to justify MacFlandry as meaning "son of the man from Flanders". There are examples in Black of MacX surnames, where X is an ethnic name: e.g., MacBrabner, "son of the Brabanter", and MacBretny, "son of the Breton". Based on those names, we could accept "son of the man from Flanders" -- but unfortunately, the term for "man from Flanders" is Fleming, which sounds nothing like Flanders (or Flandry). The surname de Flandre, also cited in the documentation, means "of Flanders"; Mac (de) Flandre would mean "son of Flanders", which (except in a metaphoric sense) is impossible. Either Lyulf de Flandry or Lyulf MacFleming would be a valid construction; MacFlandry is not.
The submitter, on his submission forms, tried to justify MacFlandry as "a made-up Scots-sounding name", and noted the registered names of Robert MacFlandry of Dundee and Duncan MacFlandry. However, those names were registered back in 1981; both our naming standards and the quality of our name resources have increased since then. The name cannot be considered "made-up" when it's documented from period elements; it's the incorrect grammar, not the choice of elements, that mandates the return. The submitter is blood kin to neither Baron Robert nor Baron Duncan, so the Grandfather Clause doesn't apply here; the registration of their names a decade ago does not oblige us to register the current submission.
The name must be returned. The submitter's armory is registered under the holding name Jeffry of Dragon's Mist.

Arianna Gunnarsdottir. Name.

The Italian given name does not seem compatible with the Old Norse patronymic. Per Rule III.2, we need evidence of period Old Norse/Italian interaction before we can register this name.

Stormsinger doesn't appear to be a valid period byname; it smacks too much of fantasy, rather than history. We need some documentation for the name, or at least for similar names.

Her previous submission used a fess wreathed of a single metal, which was returned for insufficient contrast (among other reasons). The resubmission uses a fess wreathed of two metals -- which still has insufficient contrast, per Rule VIII.2.b.iv. A wreathed ordinary must be of two tinctures with good contrast. Making the Or parts gules would do the trick, assuming no conflicts.

The embattling on the fess is far too small; complex lines were in period drawn boldly, so they could be seen. This is being returned for redrawing in a proper heraldic style. (The mullets, while acceptably drawn, would nonetheless benefit from redrawing, as well -- making the points pointier.)

This conflicts with Amade (Papworth 1112): Argent, an oak branch acorned (or fructed) proper. There's a CD for the field, but none for the movement of the mostly-vert charge to chief (since that's required by making the field half-vert), and in this case, none for orientation (since the visual difference between a branch and a branch inverted is well-nigh invisible).

This conflicts with Marie of Erin (SCA): Purpure, a mink rampant argent, orbed gules, armed Or. There's a CD for the addition of the bezants, but nothing for the mink's posture or the maintained charge.

The urdy line of division is drawn far too small, which would be reason for return even if the portions of the field had good contrast with one another. When the field is of two colors, the line of division is even more unidentifiable; when the line has a charge overall, more unidentifiable still. This must be returned, per Rule VIII.3.

As drawn, the compass star is almost completely obscured by the lion's head, rendering it unidentifiable. Charges must be drawn so as to be recognizable, per Rule VIII.3. Visually, the star's rays blend with the lion's mane, making it almost a sun in splendour Or; as such, it's very close to the device of Bruce of Brandy Hall (SCA), Purpure, on a sun Or a dagger gules.
Some of the commentary mentioned possible conflict between this "irradiated lion's face" and a lion's face jessant-de-lys -- e.g. Bruagh (Papworth 911), Gules, a leopard's head Or jessant a fleur-de-lys argent. I believe there's a visible difference between the straight rays shown here and a fleur-de-lys' curved petals; the submission should be clear of Bruagh, if nothing else.

This conflicts with Badye (Papworth 191): Or, a bend azure. There's a single CD for adding the overall leaf, per X.4.c.

Anastasia dello Scudo Rosso. Device. Gules, on a bend sinister between a sun and a winged lion couchant guardant, wings addorsed, maintaining an open book Or, three roses gules.

This conflicts with Anastasia Ivanovna (SCA): Gules, on a bend sinister between two candles enflamed Or, three mullets of six points gules. There's a CD for type of secondary; but because the secondaries are not identical, X.4.j.ii doesn't apply to the tertiaries. The single tertiary change (of type), is not enough for the second needed CD.
The lion of St. Mark is characterized by a halo, as well as wings; it is usually, but not invariably, also shown with a book. (Vinycombe, Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art, with special reference to their use in British heraldry, 1906, pp.53-55.) The monster in this submission is simply a winged lion, more literate than most.

As drawn, the charge on the chief is most definitely not a humpback whale; it doesn't have the characteristic dorsal fin of the humpback. Moreover, it hasn't yet been established that the humpback whale (as a distinct species) was known in period; the OED's first citation of humpback whale dates to 1725. We can't simply blazon this a whale, because the heraldic whale is a fabulous monster looking nothing like the charge drawn here; see Woodcock & Robinson's Oxford Guide to Heraldry, pp.64-65. And I hesitate to blazon it as anything else, since the submitters were adamant that their fish be a humpback whale.
This must be returned for redrawing, and (if they intend to use a humpback whale) documentation of the charge. When they resubmit, please ask them to draw the indented chief with bold indents, as on their current device.

The indentations on the pile are too small to be considered good medieval style. For an example of a medieval pile indented, see the arms of Sire John de Forneus, 1322 (Foster, p.91).

Though each element in the name is reasonable in itself, the combination is too evocative of the title Vicar of Christ (Christis Vicarius), one of the titles of the Pope.

This conflicts with the arms of Venables (Papworth 983): Argent, a wyvern passant gules. The only difference between a wyvern and a sea-dragon is the exact shape of the tail's flukes, not enough for a CD.

Under our current standards, the name conflicts with the Hawk Herald, of Calontir; the designator House/Herald being transparent, there is only the addition of an adjective, which is insufficient per Rule V.2. The badge conflicts with Penny (Papworth 302): Per pale argent and sable, an eagle displayed counterchanged. There's a single CD, for adding the secondary charges; neither the "held" charge nor the change from hawk to eagle is worth difference.

The grammar of the name is incorrect; particularly for the old Irish form used here, Mag is a masculine particle, and cannot be used with the feminine name Eórann. The submitter had disallowed any grammatical corrections to her name.
The device conflicts with the arms of von Lauterbach (Siebmacher, plate 142): Gules, a bend wavy argent. There is a single CD, for adding the secondaries.

This is returned for visual conflict with the arms of Morley (Papworth 911): Sable, a leopard's head argent jessant-de-lys Or. The jester's cap is split in three points, looking much like a fleur-de-lys. 's also visually close to the arms of Amat le bel Josteur (Fabulous Heraldry, #421): Sable, a woman's head couped proper crined Or.
Achbar ibn Ali has written a letter of permission to conflict against his badge (A skull argent, within the dexter eye socket a rose gules), so that problem at least does not arise.

As drawn, the needle is completely unidentifiable. It is far too small for the available space; while this normally requires only an admonition to "Draw the charge larger", the flaw is fatal on this field. (Even a correctly-sized needle would be hard pressed to be identified on a field pall inverted arrondi; curved lines of the field and thread, and the thinness of the needle, combine to cause confusion rather than clarity.)
If the needle were drawn larger, this might be acceptable; but the submitter would be better advised to choose another field as well.

The name infringes on that of Juan Sanchez Villalobos Ramirez, the immortal played by Sean Connery in the film Highlander and its sequel. (The name is unlikely to soon fade into obscurity, for two reasons. First, the Highlander films have spawned a TV series, keeping the name in the public eye for some time to come. Second, the character is played by Sean Connery, which evidently makes the character ipso facto memorable; there are people [like some of my female friends] who would drive a hundred miles to hear Sean Connery read the telephone directory.)
It also infringes on Sancho I Ramirez, King of Aragon in 1063 and of Navarre in 1066 (Louda & Maclagan, Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, table 45). Sanchez is the patronymic form of Sancho (being the genitive case; it means literally "of Sancho"), so the name is a claim of descent, prohibited under Rule V.5.
The bend sinister in the device is not correctly drawn: it does not issue from the sinister chief, as the ordinary should, nor is it correctly bevilled (see the LoAR cover letter of 18 Sept 92 for a complete discussion on bevilling). Combined with the inversion of the lower skull, the whole device is unacceptably poor style.

This conflicts with the arms of Fresh (Papworth 98): Per pale sable and azure, a wolf salient argent. There is a single CD, for adding the sunburst.

The charges are angels, not cupids, as they aren't carrying a cupid's traditional bow and quiver of arrows. The angels' posture is not particularly heraldic, as evidenced by the number of suggestions for reblazoning them; neither volant nor rising is appropriate to humanoids. The above blazon was the closest we could devise, and it isn't all that accurate. The angels need to be in a blazonable posture.

As in the case of the Company of the Checquered Shield of Western Seas (LoAR of 19 Jan 91), the use of the SCA branch name implies this is an official group of the Barony of Cathanar. As the submitter doesn't represent Cathanar, he may not style his household in a way that suggests official sanction. (If he has official sanction from Cathanar, the name should be registered to Cathanar.)
Normally, we'd delete the problematic part of the name, and register this as simply the Iron Horde, but that would then introduce conflicts. Specifically, it would conflict with the Iron Guard, a Rumanian fascist organization founded in 1924. Paramilitary and strongly anti-Semite, it played a major role in Rumanian history prior to and during World War II (including the assassination of one Premier and the installation of another). Since it's cited in several general references (New Century Cyclopedia of Names, vol.II, p.2135; 1991 Encyclopedia Britannica, vol.7, p.388), the Iron Guard is important enough to protect. (And in any case, I doubt the submitter would like a household name so close to a group whose atrocities offended even the Nazi Gestapo.)
As for the form of the name itself, it should be noted that the Mongol hordes were evidently named for colors, not materials; the Golden Horde wasn't so named because of an abundance of the precious metal. The White Horde and the Blue Horde, cited by Lord Clarion, reinforce this naming pattern. The OED cites the adjective iron "having the appearance of iron; of the colour of iron" from 1613, within our 50-year "grey zone" on documentation; Iron Horde is acceptable only as a very late-period translation of a Mongol term. The more period term for "iron-colored" would be irony.

This conflicts with the device of Serena of Bagulay (SCA): Vert, a bend sinister azure fimbriated argent between in dexter chief three lozenges conjoined in fess and in sinister base a bell Or. Serena's device could equally well be blazoned Vert, on a bend sinister argent between a bar couped and lozenged and a bell Or, a scarpe azure; and by that blazon, this is a definite conflict under the Rules. There is a CD for type of secondary charges; but because this is not a "simple case" as defined by Rule X.4.j.ii, change of type alone of tertiary is not worth the second CD needed.

This conflicts with Mairi Rhianna nam Beanntan (SCA): Per fess argent and vert, a catamount (Felis concolor) couchant sinister proper. The catamount proper is effectively Or, and the tiger's marking is worth no heraldic difference. There is a CD for the field; but making the field partly Or requires the Or cat to be moved, so there is no CD for the forced change of placement.

The sennachie, or seanchaidhe, were more than simply historians; they studied and told the old tales and legends, and were the keepers of genealogy and tradition in Ireland and the Scottish highlands. The sennachie became a semi-hereditary class, similar to bards; and it's worth noting that the office of the High Sennachie was the precursor to the Lyon King of Arms. As such, seanchaidhe is a title and rank, not merely the Irish for "historian"; it may not be registered as a household name.

The thread of the drop-spindles takes up most of the charge, so these are effectively black-on-green, in violation of the Rule of Contrast. We also note that, as drawn, the owl is in trian aspect; when the device is resubmitted, please instruct the submitter to draw the bird correctly.

This conflicts with the arms of Dalling (Papworth 242): Ermine, on a bend Or three acorns proper. There is a CD for tincture of the field. The tertiaries' tincture has been changed, from brown to black, but tertiary tincture alone is not worth a CD even under Rule X.4.j.ii. The change of type of 1/3 of the charges, and the inversion of the other 2/3, don't contribute difference; only changes that "affect the whole group of charges" count towards a CD.
Against the arms of Brabazon (Papworth 253), Gules, on a bend Or three mullets sable, there is again a CD for field tincture. A prior case (Gavin Malcoeur de Logres, LoAR of Jan 92, p.16) suggests that, when the tertiary group has two types of charge, the device is too complex for X.4.j.ii to be applied. However, Gavin's submission also had a multiply-parted field; I suspect it was the total complexity of the device that prevented the use of X.4.j.ii -- not the use of two types of tertiary per se. I would have no compunction in calling the current submission clear of Brabazon. (Of course, the conflict with Dalling makes it moot for the nonce.)

As noted in the LoAR cover letter of 18 Sept 92, this is not a correctly drawn Per bend bevilled; it follows neither the example of Per bend bevilled found in period heraldic tracts, nor is it a valid extrapolation from the documented bend bevilled. Added to the fact that such bevilled fields were never used with charges, the whole becomes unacceptable.

This conflicts with Joanna Melissa Roncivalle (SCA): Or, in pale two bottlenosed dolphins naiant, that in chief contourny, sable. There's a CD for the posture of half the group, but nothing for type; and the markings are artistic details, worth no difference.

This conflicts with Misterton (Papworth 985): Gules, a unicorn passant argent armed Or goutty of the first, a chief argent. There is a CD for the wings on the monster; but Papworth's blazon suggests that the unicorn's horn, not the entire unicorn, is goutty. (This might simply mean that the unicorn's horn is embrued with blood.) Whatever, we cannot grant a second CD for the gouts without some indication that they were significant charges.

Ander Vargskinn. Device. Argent, two herons statant counter-statant in saltire, and a bordure flory azure.

This is not really drawn in a period style. The ripples around the (couped) legs of the herons, and the Art Deco bordure that doesn't follow the line of the shield, combine to warrant a return for redrawing.

The submitter's last submission, in this form, was returned Oct 90 for combining Portuguese and Spanish in a single phrase, in violation of Rule III.2.a. He has appealed this return, asserting that Portuguese and Spanish were essentially dialects of the same language until 1495; that Vega was a common surname in Galicia, not found elsewhere; and that a Spanish element in a Portuguese phrase retains its Spanish form.
Unfortunately, the submitter has provided no evidence whatsoever to support these assertions. I would not be surprised to learn that his statements were correct; but we need something more than bald statements if we're to override the Rules. Pending documentation, this must again be returned.

Baatour is a Mongolian title analogous to "knight"; in the variant spelling Bahadur, it has been reserved as a Society title, for use by Mongol-persona Knights, on the LoAR cover letter of 13 Sept 89. As such, it may not be registered in a name. The submitter forbade any changes to his name.

Big Bear of Haven. Name and device. Azure, a drawn bow fesswise, nocked of a double-bitted axe, and sustained by two bears combattant Or.

By the submitter's own documentation, neither Big nor Bere (Bear) is a period given name: big is an epithet that happens to be used at the start of a name, and bere- is documented only as a name theme, not a name in itself. If the submitter wishes an "Icelandic Viking" name, as his forms suggest, he might consider Björn Mikill af Höfn.
The device has a single group of charges, of three different types, in violation of Rule VIII.1.a. This must be returned for simplification.

This conflicts with the name of Gavin MacDhomhnuill, registered June 91.

With the best will in the world, we couldn't identify the primary charge as a column; guesses at the Laurel meeting ranged from "barrel" to "Grecian urn". If the submitter redraws this as a true heraldic column (such as found in Woodward, plate XXXII), there should be no further stylistic problem.

The gulls were blazoned displayed on the LOI, but were drawn as volant affronty. This is an inherently unidentifiable posture, and so unsuitable for heraldry. The submitter might try putting the gulls in an honest displayed posture.

This conflicts with the badge of Thaddeus the Brown (SCA): Gyronny Or and vert, a dagger inverted sable. There's a single CD, for fieldlessness.

Alexander Godfrey. Badge. Sable, a cross formy sable fimbriated, within and conjoined to an annulet, all within a bordure embattled Or charged with crosses formy sable.

The badge suffers from serious problems of identifiability. The central cross was blazoned on the LOI as on a cross formy ... Or, a cross formy sable; but the emblazon showed the corners of the Or 'cross' merging. A more accurate blazon would be a cross form sable fimbriated Or, which is at best a borderline practice. Conjoined to the annulet, it loses what little identifiability it still had.
The effect of the crosses on the embattled bordure depends on exact placement of each cross on a crenellation. As a test, we gave the blazon to an experienced heraldic artist, asking her to reproduce the emblazon; and we gave the emblazon to an experienced herald, asking him for the blazon. Neither one could reproduce the submitted form.
This is being returned for violation of Rule VIII.3, Armorial Identifiability, and VIII.4.d, Modern Style.

While adding the complex line to the bordure has removed the conflict of the previous return, the embattled line is not drawn in a period style: the embattlements are too small to be easily seen. Since the embattled line brings the device clear of conflict, it's important that it be seen. When the gentle resubmits, please have him draw a much thicker bordure, with more prominent embattlements.

The household name is Latin for "warrior beaver". This doesn't follow our current guidelines for household names: we wouldn't register John the Warrior Beaver, so we shouldn't register this. It is barely possible that House of the Warrior Beaver might be a late-period English inn name -- but such a name wouldn't be in Latin. Pending documentation that this style of Latin house name was used in period, this must be returned.
The badge conflicts with the arms of Hübschmann von Biberbach (Siebmacher, plate 196): Gules, a beaver rampant argent. There's a CD for fieldlessness, but nothing for the held charges, and nothing for the posture. (The similarity between rampant and sejant erect would be more obvious if the submitter's beaver were drawn in a true heraldic style [cf. von Volborth's Heraldry: Customs, Rules and Styles, p.31], and not in the naturalistic style used here.)

The sphinx overlies the complex division between low-contrast colors, making it even harder to identify. This must be returned, per Rule VIII.3.

This conflicts with the arms of William Brown of Horton Place (Lyon Orindary #1): Azure, a chevron chequey argent and sable between three fleurs-de-lys argent. There's a single CD, for type of secondary charges.

The name is intrusively modern, strongly evoking the film Animal House (of which the name is an exact translation). Translation into another tongue can bring a name clear, per Rule V.4.b -- but only if the pronunciation is significantly altered. The difference between Animal and Animaux is too small to be considered significant; and the household designator (House, Maison) is transparent, and counts for no difference. As for the "fame" of the conflict, if a sizable fraction of the populace (of which the College of Arms may be considered a representative sample) recognizes Animal House as a movie title, it's probably necessary to protect it from conflict -- not so much for its own sake, as to keep the modern movie reference from intruding on our medieval re-creation.

There are three problems with the device as submitted. First, the embattled line is drawn far too small to be considered period style. Second, the cross overlies the complex division between low-contrast colors, making it even harder to identify. Finally, the cross is not truly a cross formy; the submitter is wrong in thinking it a Maltese cross, and we could not document this form in any of our sources. This must be returned, per VIII.3 for the field, and for documentation of the cross.

This was submitted as the name for the Kingdom dance guild. Unfortunately, the infinitive verb "to dance" (in English or in Latin) doesn't seem to be a valid group name. Similar guild names in period seem to have been straightforward descriptions of their craft: Company of Coopers, Baker's Guild, etc. We could see a bit more fanciful name, such as the Guild of St. Vitus or the Terpsichorean Guild. We could even see using the Latin saltare, properly conjugated, as part of a Latinized guild name. But the simple "to dance", with no noun or designator, cannot be accepted without more evidence than we've been given.

The charges in chief were blazoned in the LOI as on a chief [wavy] barry wavy argent and azure, two escallops gules. However, the use of the field as one of the tinctures of the chief renders this as barrulets in chief rather than a chief barry. That this was the submitter's intent is shown by the emblazon, which had the escallops overlying the edge of the "chief". (The surgery on the full-sized emblazon didn't quite remove the overlapping.) The correct blazon is with a primary castle, and a single group of charges in chief; and therefore, this conflicts with the arms of Castellani (Rietstap), Argent, a castle gules.

No documentation was presented to support Gunter as a period German placename; the existence of a street named Gunter in 20th Century London cannot be considered persuasive. Without evidence, Gunter may not be used as a placename, by its use with von. The submitter forbade any corrections to his name.

The embattled line on the bordure was drawn too small to be identified from any distance. Indeed, all the charges were drawn too small in this submission. In the case of the tiger and mullets, it's more a question of drawing style; we'd simply instruct the submitter to "Draw the charges larger, to fill the available space". But in the case of the bordure, the charge's very identifiability is questionable.
If he resubmits with the charges correctly drawn, there should be no stylistic problems with the device.

This conflicts with FitzGerard (Papworth 911): Gules, a leopard's head argent crowned Or. A leopard's head, by definition, is cabossed, so there's no change in posture; the type of cat's head, the markings, and the crown, are all worth no difference here. The only CD is for the bordure.
Additionally, the embattled bordure suffers from the same lack of identifiability as that of his device. You might show the submitter the emblazon of Leona Serwa, on this same LOI, as an example of how embattled bordures should be drawn.

Dark Horde. Badge. Per bend embowed counter-embowed sable and gules, a horse courant contourny argent.

This conflicts with Ileana del Mar (SCA): Quarterly azure and vert, a horse passant to sinister argent. There is a single CD, for the field. Moreover, per Rule VIII.3, a two-color field with a complex line of partition should not have the partition obscured by charges. The horse does obscure the line (unlike the Horde's device, which uses a skinny lightning flash), and is therefore not permitted.

Conflicts with Audley (Papworth 883): Gules fretty Or. See the cover letter for a full discussion of the status of fretty. After much consideration, I must rule that fretty is a charge, not a semy, not a field treatment, but a charge in its own right. There is thus a single CD, per Rule X.4.c, for the addition of the overall charges.

This conflicts with the Canton of Ponte Alto (SCA): Per pale sable and Or, in pale a single-arched bridge and a laurel wreath counterchanged. There's a CD for the type of charge in base, but none for castle vs. single-arched bridge.

This conflicts with the Mon of Yamaguchi (Hawley 16): Dark, a carnation light. Since the Mon is treated as a tinctureless badge, we get one CD for fieldlessness. There is no heraldic difference between a gillyflower and a carnation.
Against the badge of Moira Maureen ua Seamus of the Green Hills, reblazoned elsewhere on this LoAR (A chicory flower azure slipped and leaved vert, the stem surmounted by a ladybug proper), there's a CD for fieldlessness and a CD for the overall charge. Against most of the other conflicts cited by commenters, there's a CD between a gillyflower and the types of flowers involved.

The charges on the chief were blazoned as rapiers, but drawn as modern fencing foils. While the LOI noted that the submitter would be told how to draw the charges henceforth, this doesn't make the device, as submitted, acceptable. We can wink at minor emblazonry problems, but not blatantly non-period artifacts. Nor could we document these as period swords: of the examples we found, the swords with cup-hilts did not have a fencing-foil handgrip; the one example of a sword with this grip (a 14th Century estoc) did not have a cup-hilt.
Either this form of rapier must be documented, or the device redrawn with period rapiers.

The previous submission for House Redhair (A pheon purpure) was returned Feb 92 for conflict with the English Royal badge: A broadarrow. This resubmission, with the pheon divided per pale, was supported by a Laurel ruling that granted a CD for lines of division on tinctureless badges: "The assumption (until proven otherwise) is that mundane [tinctureless] badges were displayed only in solid tinctures (including the furs)." (LoAR of Feb 92, p.10)
Evidence disproving that assumption has now been found. The badge of the Lords de la Warre was a crampet -- that is, the metal ferrule at the end of a scabbard. This badge was displayed both in solid tinctures (Or) and in party tinctures (Per pale azure and argent). Thus tinctureless badges were not displayed only in solid tinctures. See the cover letter for a more complete discussion of this issue.
This must again be returned for conflict with the tinctureless Royal badge. There's no difference for broadarrow vs. pheon. There's a CD for fieldlessness (tincturelessness), but per Rule X.4.d, the second CD must come from some category of difference that does not involve tincture -- which means lines of division or partition do not count.

As above, this conflicts with the English Royal badge: A broadarrow. The Royal badge is tinctureless, so there's a CD for fieldlessness; but there is no difference for the line of partition here, and no difference for broadarrow vs. pheon.

Simona Zon d'Asolo. Device. Argent, a melusine proper, crined gules, tails supported by two arms issuant from the flanks proper, the melusine maintaining in her upraised hands two crescents, in base a crescent gules.

The arms have insufficient contrast on the argent field. Human flesh "proper" was sometimes emblazoned as argent in period tomes; and in any case, carnation (pink) cannot be seen against white. (Technically, a melusine proper is considered neutral, and acceptable on argent; in practice, its contrast with an argent field is borderline. But the arms definitely violate Rule VIII.2.b.i.)
The device is also too close to Ellis (Papworth 983): Argent, a mermaid proper. There's no difference granted for melusine vs. mermaid. There's a CD for adding the arms. The "held" crescents are worth no heraldic difference. That leaves the crescent in base, which is the same size as the held crescents; either it's worth the same amount of difference (i.e. none), or it's part of the group of secondary charges that includes the arms. Either way, its presence does not contribute the second CD needed to bring this clear.

Visually the three charges have equal weight, making this a single group of three different charges. This must be returned for violating Rule VIII.1.a.

Brian di Caffa. Device. Or, a slip eradicated joined to a snake's head vert, on a base rayonny gules an increscent Or.

The monster doesn't appear to have been formed in a period style; the only comparable example in period (non-armorial) art was the vegetable lamb, a tree that bore sheep as its "fruit". It was described by Sir John Mandeville, c.1371, and was evidently an attempt to describe cotton, not a mythical beast. The example of the vegetable lamb does not support the monster shown here.
The College of Arms was nearly unanimous in declaring this monster to be obtrusively modern: the references to triffids (from Day of the Triffid) and Audrey (from Little Shop of Horrors) were very strong. Laurel hasn't seen any of the productions of either, but is willing to accept the opinions of those who have.

This is a visual conflict with Roewynne Langley (SCA): Per pale azure and argent, a rowan tree eradicated and sundered in pale counterchanged argent and vert. There's a CD for tincture to half the tree, but the sundering of Roewynne's tree is very slight; and the tree is drawn with so few leaves as to be indistinguishable from blasted.

Sejant tergiant is not an heraldic posture, previous registrations notwithstanding. It renders the cat unrecognizable, where the whole purpose of heraldry is identification.

The name conflicts with that of Chusan, largest island of the Chusan (or Chou-shan) archipelago, in the East China Sea. The name appears in several general references ('91 Encyclopedia Britannica, vol.3, pp.310, 270; New Century Cyclopedia of Names, vol.I, p.963), so it's important enough to protect.
There was some discussion as to whether this conflicts with Chuzan, the old name of central Okinawa (where the canton is located). The 1986 edition of the Rules for Submission permitted branch names to "use an old in-period name for the territory actually encompassed in the mundane world by that branch", so long as the old name wasn't in modern use (NR18.c). Thus, for instance, a Society branch along the Atlantic Canadian coast could call itself Vinland under the old Rules.
The current Rules do not contain that provision for obsolete placenames to be used by Society branches. I asked Mistress Alisoun, former Laurel Queen of Arms, and she told me the omission was deliberate. The 1986 Rules protected all mundane placenames, no matter how unimportant or obscure; a special dispensation for SCA branches was sometimes needed. The current Rules protect only famous or important placenames. Thus, if the obsolete name for a territory currently occupied by a Society branch is important or famous, it's protected against conflict by anyone (including the SCA branch); if the obsolete name is unimportant, there's no conflict in the first place, and any branch could use the name.
I could not find the Kingdom of Chuzan mentioned in any of several general references; by our standards, it's not considered important enough to protect. And according to Lord El-Munadi, Okinawa was a Japanese pirate haven before and during Japan's contact with Europeans; so it's possible that Europeans could have known about Chuzan. But the conflict with the Chusan islands renders the point moot.
The device looks acceptable, but must be returned for lack of a name; branches aren't assigned holding names. The phoenix in the submission was blazoned rising, but phoenices are generally so blazoned, even when in their default displayed posture; we have reblazoned this one to remove the ambiguity.

Bagpipes in period had at most two drones. Specifically, Scots bagpipes did not add the third, longer drone until the 18th Century. The set shown here is no more period than a saxophone. It's probable that the submitter didn't realize that bagpipes had changed since medieval times; if he resubmits with correctly drawn pipes, there should be no problems.

The use of Azure, semy-de-lys Or has been reason for return for the last ten years; it was reaffirmed on the LoAR of July 92. This must be returned for use of a prohibited treatment.
There was some concern about the Celtic rendering of the hound. I hold identifiability to be the criterion for judging a submission, not necessarily the school of its style. So long as the hound is recognizably a hound, it may be drawn with suggestions of "Book of Kells" style; too many such suggestions, however, can make the hound unidentifiable, and be reason for return. The submitter should know this, when he resubmits.

This conflicts with Mete (Papworth 250): Azure, on a bend Or, three mascles gules. There's a CD for the addition of the secondaries. Rule X.4.j.ii requires substantial difference of tertiaries to earn a CD; we would not grant substantial difference between mascles and rustres. The only differences to these tertiaries are tincture and the exact type of voiding -- which may be considered the change of quaternary charges. These aren't enough to be granted a second CD.

This directly conflicts with the name of Erik the Tall, registered Sept 90. The armory was registered under the holding name Erik of Saint Katherine's College.

The charge in base was completely unidentifiable as a bear. This may have been due to the wings, the lack of internal detailing, the misshapen proportions (it looked more like a hedgehog to most of my staff), the small size (not drawn to fill the available space), or a combination of these. Please have the submitter redraw this so that the bear can be identified as a bear ... and also draw the bordure and dance wider.

This conflicts with the badge of John de Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk: A lion rampant argent. (Fox-Davies' Heraldic Badges, p.128) There's a CD, for fieldlessness; but one can't grant difference for placement on the field against a fieldless badge.

Disgusting doesn't appear to be a period term; the OED first cites the use of the present participle in 1754. He might consider one of the examples offered by Lord Green Anchor: Skamful, Nutemuch, Geake, or le Spewere. The device has been registered under the holding name Gregory of Parvus Portus.

The given name does not seem to be a valid medieval name. While Searle does cite examples of names using the protheme Iar- (Gear-), he cites no similar examples using -ec (-ecg). Jarek may be a Czech given name, but if so, it shouldn't be used with an English surname (as opposed to, say, a lingua franca translation of a Czech byname). We need some evidence of usage before we can register this name. The device was registered under the holding name Michael of Stormhold.

Kairenn (Cairenn) appears to be a unique name, that of the mother of Njall of the Nine Hostages of Irish legend. It has been returned before now (Cairenn of CuaRuadh Keep, Aug 91).

The device is excessively imbalanced, which is not period heraldic style. A similar device (Penelope of the Quill, Vert, a quill pen bendwise and three bendlets enhanced Or) was returned Jan 92 for the same reason. She might try putting another set of bendlets in sinister base to balance the design.

This conflicts with Edgar the Unready (SCA): Gules, a mouse rampant argent. There is a CD for the posture of the mouse. The submitter argues there should be a second CD for the mouse's placement on the field; and if the mouse were truly in base (i.e. drawn as though occupying the bottom portion of a field Per fess), I might agree. As drawn, however, the mouse is mostly centered, and of a size that wouldn't even merit an admonition to "draw the charge larger". It cannot be considered to be abased enough to receive a CD.
Note that, should the submitter decide to redraw this with the mouse shoved into the base point, she risks a return for another reason: if drawn too small, the mouse will lose its identifiability. She would do better to submit a truly medieval-style device.

This infringes on the name of Morgan ap Styphan ap Owain, registered earlier on this LoAR. Rule V.5 forbids any name that claims a close relationship to a specific individual; this name claims such a relationship (as Morgan's father). The fact that the submitter undoubtedly is Morgan's father does not permit him to make the claim without permission -- any more than Paul of Bellatrix's son could register his arms, even differenced, without permission. We need a letter of permission from Morgan before we can register this name.

ANSTEORRA

Camilla de Hurland. Device. Per bend azure goutty d'Or and gules goutty d'Or, a fleur-de-lys argent.

This was submitted on the LOI as Per bend sinister gules goutty d'Or and azure goutty d'Or, a fleur-de-lys argent. This is pended to the January meeting to allow for research under the correct blazon.

This was submitted on the LOI with both the dragon's head and chief Or. This is pended to the January meeting to allow for research under the correct blazon.

Nial Cinnsealach. Device. Sable, a sword inverted Or, blade surmounted by a sun argent eclipsed sable, a bordure ermine.

The tincture of the sword was omitted in the LOI, making it argent by default. This is pended to the January meeting to allow for research under the correct blazon.

Annest Walays. Device. Vert, in pale a dagger inverted argent and a crescent Or, within an orle of gouts d'eau.

The blazon on the LOI omitted the tincture of the dagger, making it Or like the crescent. This is pended until the January meeting to allow for further commentary based on the correct blazon.

The blazon on the LOI omitted the tincture of the roses, making them Or like the scarpes. This is pended until the January meeting to allow for further commentary based on the correct blazon.

Abigail Elizabeth Mihell. Device. Pean, a unicorn rampant to sinister argent, on a chief invected Or two roses gules.

The tincture of the unicorn was omitted from the LOI, making it Or by default. This is pended to the January meeting to allow for research under the correct blazon.

Leona Serwa. Name resubmission and device. Per bend sinister gules and azure, a lion sejant between three drums, a bordure embattled argent.

At the request of Lady Lambent, we've pended this submission to the January meeting. The resubmitted name suffers from the same problem as her previous submissions: lack of documentation for regular period contact between the Yoruba (in what is now Nigeria) and a country where Leona was used as a given name (e.g. Italy). Lady Lambent has told me she has further documentation that was not on the LOI, and would like the chance to present it to the College. As this is an exceptional case, I am giving her that chance.

This is pended to the January meeting, along with the device, to give the Meridien College of Heralds an opportunity to document the name.
This posture of sea-lion is found in German armory -- e.g. the arms of Imhof (Siebmacher, plate 206).

Stormvale, Shire of. Device. Argent, two chevronels gemel, braced and fretted vert, between three quatrefoils azure, in chief a laurel wreath vert.

No evidence of popular support was included with the submission. This is being pended until the January meeting to give the Midrealm College of Heralds a chance to forward the petition.

Eternal Winds, Stronghold of. Name and device. Per chevron dovetailed gules and argent, two wings conjoined in lure argent and a laurel wreath vert.

No petition of popular support was included with the submission. This is being pended until the January meeting, to give the West College of Heralds a chance to forward the petition. The name and device seem acceptable, though the submitters should be told to draw the dovetailing much larger.
It was interesting to note that nowhere on this submission -- the forms, the LOI, nowhere -- was the actual location of the Stronghold named. Such information should be included with every new branch submission. In this case, the group is located in Misawa, Japan, though I had to search through back-issues of The Page to discover that tidbit....