ACCEPTANCES
MARCH 1995
THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN REGISTERED:
AN TIR
Alexander Ivor. Name.
Alexandre d'Artagnan. Name.
Christopher Delamaison. Name change from Christopher the Mason and device change. Purpure, three columns in fess within a bordure argent.
His currently registered device, Purpure, three columns in fess argent, a bordure Or, is released.
Please ask him to draw the bordure a little thicker.
Corvaria, Shire of. Name.
Curragh Mor, Port of. Name.
[Irreverent comment from the Laurel meeting, regarding whether the group can re-register and keep the old name: "They're a nuclear aircraft carrier; they can keep anything they want!" ]
Elsa Haakonsdotter. Name and device. Per chevron Or semy of flames gules and sable, a goat clymant contourny counterchanged sable and Or.
Submitted as Elsa Hakonsdotter on the LoI, Palimpsest and Harpy both noted that the submitter's originally submitted spelling can be supported, so we have restored it here.
Fjorleif in Haga. Device. Azure, a horse courant reguardant between three mullets argent.
Versus British 26th Engineer Group (Military Ordinary #121), Azure, a horse statant in adumbration argent, there are CDs here for the addition of the secondaries and for the change in posture from statant to courant, which dramatically changes the position of all the legs. (It should be noted that the prior return of this device had the legs drawn in a position which was neglibly different from passant, which is not a CD from statant.)
Gwynnin ap Rhys. Name and device. Argent, a harp vert within a bordure embattled azure.
James o' Gordon. Badge. Or, a goose volant to sinister sable and a bordure azure charged with eight oak leaves argent in annulo.
Melisenda d'Argent. Name and device. Per fess wavy purpure and vert, in chief three estoiles and in base a mermaid in her vanity argent.
Versus Vivian (Papworth, p. 698), Azure, five estoiles two two and one argent, there is a CD for the changes to the field and another per RfS X.4.g. for the unforced change of arrangement (from two two and one to three and one).
Natasha Orionova Zateeva. Device. Azure, a sagittary passant contourny argent and on a chief Or three braziers sable enflamed gules.
Otto Wallhausen von Wallenstein. Name and device. Per bend sinister sable and vert, on a bend sinister between two griffins segreant Or a flamberge sable.
Seumas Camshronach an Lochabair. Device. Per bend sinister Or and bendy sinister gules and Or, in chief a wyvern contourny wings displayed sable.
Versus Gavin Brangane (SCA), Chevronelly argent and gules, a wyvers segreant to sinister sable and Esther of Darkhaven (SCA), Argent, a wyvern volant to sinister demi-displayed sable taloned, orbed and langued gules, there are CDs for the change to the field and for the unforced move from the center of the field to dexter chief.
ANSTEORRA
Abigail of Exeter. Name.
Andrew Eldrich. Name.
Submitted as Andrew Eldritch, no one could document a period spelling of the surname with a "t". We have substituted the closest documentable period form.
Angus Ian Urry. Name.
Arianwen of Dunvegan. Name and device. Per pale embattled azure and gules, a tower and a Canterbury cross argent.
Brendan McEwen. Name.
Caitlin Blakstok. Name.
This would be much more likely as Catlin Blakstok (a fully anglicized version).
Darrius Arrianus. Name and device. Per bend sinister sable and purpure, a bend sinister between two fleurs-de-lys Or.
Marguerite Dinard. Name.
Nastassja Virievna iz Kieva. Name.
The name would be more likely as Nastassja Virievna Kievskaja.
Pamela Hewitt the Harper. Device. Or, a brunette mermaid contourny playing a harp proper, a bordure gules.
As almost every one of the commenters accurately deduced, the mermaid is proper. A harp proper, like all wooden charges, is brown.
Sara of Gotham. Name.
Sean Fitzpatrick. Device. Azure, an axe reversed, on a chief dovetailed argent three lozenges azure.
Stephan Blakstok. Name.
Submitted as Stiabhan Blakstok, such "Scots Gaelic" forms of given names appear to be mostly modern back-formations (created for reasons of linguistic politics). No evidence was presented that Stiabhan is a period Gaelic given name (which would in any event be out of place with the English surname). We have substituted the closest documented version.
Tatiana de Calais. Device. Purpure, a leopard's head erased argent spotted sable within a bordure argent.
Though the mini-emblazon did not show it, the large emblazon did have the blazoned bordure.
Vicki of Bryn Gwlad. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Or, on a bend between two apples gules an apple Or, a bordure gules.
Submitted as Zahra Xena Theano.
Wystan of Blackwood Keep. Name and device. Or, a tower gules between three trees and a bordure sable.
ATENVELDT
Aelfwyn Huntingdon. Name and device. Argent, a tricorporate seawolf gules, tailed purpure, a bordure gules.
Submitted as Aelfwyn Boudigca Huntingdon, no documentation was presented or could be found for the "spelling variant" of the middle name. We have therefore dropped the problematic element in order to register the name.
Alaric the Dreamer. Name.
Ambrosius Caliensis. Name and device. Per fess gules and argent, an open book argent and a domestic cat statant sable.
Antonio Saviolo. Name.
Asne Whitewolf. Device. Vert, two wolves sejant addorsed, in chief a wolf's head cabossed argent, a bordure dovetailed Or.
Brigit Kathleen Sollis. Name only (see RETURNS for device).
Submitted as Brighid Kathleen Sollis, as a careful reading of the submitter's own documentation demonstrated, the Irish name was not used in that spelling even in Ireland until "the 17th or 18th C." (Withycombe, p. 51.) We have substituted the closest English equivalent, which better matches the English forms of the remainder of the name in any case.
Catriona Katla. Name and device. Argent, on a cross azure between in bend two cats sejant contourny sable, a goblet argent.
The name would be far better as Katrina Katla, which would be all Norse.
Christobella of Tideswell. Name and device. Vert, a fess between three roundels one and two Or, a bordure invected erminois.
Submitted as Cristobella of Tidi's Stream, no one was able to document dropping the "h" in the given before 1789. While Tideswell may mean "Tidi's stream", that is no more support for registering "Tidi's Stream" than, for example, the fact that the name "David" means "beloved" is support for registering "Beloved" as a given name. We have therefore substituted the documented form of the placename.
Crystal Crags, Shire of. Name.
Damaris of Sikyon. Name and device. Vert, a rat couchant, on a chief argent three roses proper.
The name could be made entirely Greek as Damaris hê Sikyônia.
Ekaterina Marten. Device. Argent, a bow reversed between two arrows, a bordure embattled azure.
Eric Stroud. Name only (see RETURNS for device).
Submitted as Eric von Stroud, the German article is out of place with an English placename (see RfS III.1.a.). We have therefore dropped the locative particle to register the name.
Joseph Grünewald of York. Name only (see RETURNS for device).
The name is improbable: if he's truly "of York", the surname would be much more likely as Greenwood; if he's of German origin but now living in York, there is every likelihood that at the very least the umlaut would have been dropped.
Katerina of Otford. Name and device. Per bend sinister azure and Or, six fleams Or and a billet azure.
Margery of Kent. Device. Azure, a bee argent and a chief rayonny Or.
Megan de Guillaume. Name only (see RETURNS for device).
Harpy noted that, based on her research, this is a quite reasonable name for a Welsh woman named Megan ferch Gwilym who has settled in France.
Olaf the Skraeling. Name and device. Or, a chevron couched from sinister azure and in sinister flank a single-bitted axe reversed sable.
The name could be made entirely Norse as Olaf inn skrælingi.
Wilhelm Siegfried. Device. Per bend sinister gules and azure, a bear rampant and a double-bitted axe argent.
ATLANTIA
Agnes Daunce. Device. Or, on a dance sable between three roses azure, three mullets pierced Or.
Nice cant!
Agnes Daunce. Badge. [Fieldless] On a mullet Or two roses in fess azure.
Aire Faucon, Canton of. Name and device. Gules, a falcon contourny sinister wing expanded and inverted perched on a falconer's glove reversed in chief three laurel wreaths Or.
Submitted as Aire de Faucon, Canton of, the particle could not be supported by any of the commenters. Sufficient support was presented for registration of the name without the particle that we have done so here.
Carlos Juan Ramiro. Name.
Connor Levingestoune. Name.
Elizaveta Aleksandrovna. Name.
Submitted as Elizaveta Aleksadrovna on the LoI, the missing "n" in the patronym was a typo.
Gwendolyn Fitch. Name change from Gwendolyn Palmer Fitch.
Lochmere, Barony of. Badge. [Fieldless] A crab within and conjoined to an annulet azure.
Matsudaira Kentarou Toshiyori. Badge. [Fieldless] A fan conjoined in pale with another inverted, each charged with a Japanese pine tree that in base inverted purpure.
Roxbury Mill, Shire of. Name.
Sine ní Dheaghaidh. Name.
Wulfbrand Weigand. Name and device. Per pale Or and sable a double headed eagle displayed, a bordure semy of lozenges counterchanged.
The name would be much better as a 15th Century Wulbrand Weigand or an Old High German Wulfbrant Wigant.
CAID
`Afra' bint Tamir al-Sahrahwayyiah. Name.
Submitted as Afra' bint Tameer Al-Sahrah, there were a number of minor problems with the name. In the given, if we are going to transliterate one of the gutteral consonants, we should do both. Tameer is not a reasonable transliteration for the name Tamir, which is pronounced TAH-mer. al-Sahrah is simply "the desert", not "from the desert" as the submitter states. We have substituted the appropriate feminine for "woman of/from the desert". (And for those of you out there wondering: yes, Sahara Desert is in the same category as Mississippi River and Rio Grande River; it means "the desert desert".)
Antonio el Oso. Name change from Antonio el Oso de la Tierra Lejana.
Arthur of Carreg Wen. Name and device. Per pall inverted sable, azure and Or, a sword inverted throughout argent between in chief a plate and a bezant.
Please let him know that the line of division of the Or portion of the field should be just a little higher on the shield.
Brigit Tóibín. Name.
Bronwen O'Shea. Name.
Submitted as Branwen O'Shea on the LoI, Harpy and Palimpsest both noted that the submitter's originally desired Bronwen was equally as justifiable. We have therefore registered that.
Catherine Ainsdale of Lancashire. Name and device. Lozengy gules and argent, a dragon sejant affronty head facing sinister wings displayed vert.
Catherine of the Angels. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Per chevron purpure and argent, two spiders argent and a scorpion fesswise gules.
Submitted as Gwenhwyfar Eachthighearn of Clan Scolaighe.
Catriona Isabel MacFarlane. Device. Per bend Or and purpure, a thistle proper and a stag's attire bendwise Or.
Ceolwulf the Hunter. Name.
Submitted as Ceowulf the Hunter, in none of the citations in Searle is there an instance of Ceo- for Ceol-. (Searle does have four examples of loss of the final l (Cyred, Cered, Kyred, and Cerred, all for Ceolred), but in each of these the l has, by a normal phonetic process, assimilated to the r of -red. None of these support this submission). We have substituted the full form here. A likelier though slightly later form would be Ceolf, and the name could be made entirely Old English as Ceolf se Hunta.
Christina of Riesling. Device. Quarterly sable and azure, a quill pen, a bordure wavy argent.
Christina Stonehard. Name.
Submitted as Christina Stoneheart, the surname was stated to be a "modern rendering" of the OE Stanheard. (Indeed, the forms said only "English epithet".) None of the documentation supported this spelling. We have substituted the closest documentable form.
Christopher Everard. Name only (see RETURNS for device).
Submitted as Christopher Everard Scolaighe, the Irish scolaighe (`scholar, student') is completely out of place in an otherwise entirely English name, and no documentation has yet been presented that the English ever used Irish bynames.
Conrad Hildebrand von Bremen. Name and device. Purpure, a seahorse and in chief three compass stars argent.
Submitted as Conrad Hildebrand Von Bremen, the article is not capitalized in German.
Clear of Kiera Lann Haden (SCA), Purpure, a sea-horse erect regardant argent and in chief two crosses pointed voided and interlaced Or. There is one CD for the change to type of the secondary charges, another for changing their number from two (interlaced) to three, and third for changing their tincture.
Créd Mongfind Örnardóttir. Device. Per pale gules and azure, a frog salient argent.
Please inform the submitter that the frog should be showing all four legs.
Edith of Warwick. Device change. Per pale gules and sable, a lion passant contourny on a chief argent three ogresses.
Her currently registered device, Per pall argent, Or and gules, three natural panthers couchant sable, gules and Or, is retained as a badge.
Elizabeth Annora Dernelof. Device. Azure, on a bend sinister between two compass roses argent three estoiles azure.
Étienne de la Fleur. Device. Azure, two sea-lions respectant Or on a point pointed argent a fleur-de-lys azure.
Francesco Schiavone. Badge. [Fieldless] An Arabic oil lamp reversed Or.
Gunnar Jørgensen. Name and device. Per bend gules and sable, a wyvern displayed argent maintaining a sword fesswise proper between in chief two roses argent barbed and seeded Or.
Submitted as Gunnar Jörgensen in the LoI, Harpy and Palimpsest each presented support for the submitter's originally desired spelling, which we have restored here.
Gunnarr Keppr. Device. Per saltire sable and Or, on a saltire vert two arrows inverted in saltire argent.
John of the Angels. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Or, on a pall inverted purpure between three boar's head couped sable, three trefoils Or.
Submitted as Colvert Everard Scolaighe en Taeppsetre, the given and last byname were typoed in the LoI, and should have been Colbert Everard Scolaighe en Tæppestre.
Please ask him to draw the pall a little wider so the trefoils can also be larger.
John of the Angels. Badge. Argent, a triquetra gules between three skulls in pall sable.
Submitted as Colvert Everard Scolaighe en Taeppestre, which name was returned above.
Joshua the Pilgrim. Device. Per fess azure and argent, a fess fusilly counterchanged.
Kathryn Bearward of Wolfenden. Name and device. Per pale embattled gules and vert, a sea-wolf argent and two arrows in saltire Or.
Though the device gives every appearance of being marshalled arms, it is legal by our Rules.
Kimokuniya Hayato. Name.
Maximilian von Königsburg. Name.
Submitted as Maximilian Von Königsberg, the article is not capitalized in German. The submitter's originally desired -burg is as justifiable as the submitted -berg, so we have restored it here.
Milan Ivanovich. Device. Per pale sable and purpure, a Latin cross bottony between in dexter two increscents and in sinister two decrescents Or.
Richard James MacCausland. Name and device. Gules, a lion rampant contourny argent, a bordure compony azure and argent on each argent pane a tower gules.
Richard Oaks of Green Mountain. Name change from Richard de Montcornet.
The locative would be better (and even documentable) as of Greenmount.
Shemus McTaggart of Moyle. Name and device. Argent, on an ogress an equal-armed Celtic cross formy Or, a bordure engrailed gules bezanty.
Submitted as Séamus McTaggart of the moyle, this mixes pure Gaelic and (in this case fairly drastically anglicized) Gaelic in a way for which we have as yet been given no evidence. (It is likelier that given would have been translated as James or Jamys, but sufficient argument can be made for the phonetic spelling Shemus that we have substituted it here.) The use of the English definite article with moyle, a phonetic Englishing of Irish maol, would make sense only if moyle had actually been in use as a common noun in English. This seems not to have been the case. There is, however, the common placename Moyle, an English form of modern Irish Moel which we have substituted here.
Talon the Black. Name change from Ifor ap Morgiana o Gwynedd and/or Ifor Kyddy.
Submitted as Talan the Black, the submitter's originally desired Talon was supported by documentation from Palimpsest. We have therefore restored it here.
Tino the Terrible. Name and device. Sable, on a pale argent two increscents gules, overall a Bengal tiger dormant guardant Or striped sable.
Torgan Mongke. Name.
William Hurstmonceux. Name and device. Argent, an ogress and a mountain azure.
Submitted as William Hurstmonceaux, the "a" in the surname was not documented -- even the submitter's own sources give the spelling registered.
William Tinker. Device. Azure, a bull rampant contourny guardant and a base argent.
Versus Chrystofer Kensor (SCA), reblazoned in the accompanying Errata Letter as Azure, a wolf rampant to sinister argent sustaining a halberd argent hafted Or, a base argent, there are CDs for the type of beast and for the very large halberd, which (it was pointed out quite graphically by Palimpsest at the meeting) does meet former Green Crown's rule of thumb which we have been using regarding maintained/sustained charges.
Wolfgang von Voss. Name.
Wynne Snowmane of Ravens Keep. Name change from holding name Wynn of Naevehjem.
Palimpsest found additional support (Winne) for Wynne as a given. The documentation from the OED for -mane is "iffy" since we still have no documentation that it was ever used in a byname, prior SCA registrations notwithstanding, but is sufficient that we are giving it the benefit of the doubt.
DRACHENWALD
Alrik Eriksson Mård. Name.
Anna Persdotter. Name and device. Purpure, a squirrel rampant between three mullets of four points argent.
Please ask her to draw the mullets a little larger.
Aonghas Mac Aonghuis Mhic Ghriogair. Name and device. Per bend sinister Or and gules, a rose and a hanging balance counterchanged.
Submitted as Aonghas Mac Aonghas mhic Griogar, both patronyms must be placed in the genitive and the second must aspirate following mhic. We have so corrected them here.
Arnolw Rabenhertz. Name and badge. [Fieldless] A raven's foot couped sable, armed and banded gules.
Versus Prime (Papworth, p. 962), Argent, an eagle's leg couped a la cuise sable armed Or, and several other similar potential conflicts, there are CDs for fieldlessness and for the difference between an eagle's foot and an eagle's leg, which has a prominent thigh attached to it.
Björn Röde från Lidet. Name.
Didrik van Eckell. Name only (see RETURNS for device).
Drei Eichen, Barony of. Order name and badge for Ordo Gladiorum Aureorum. Azure, two swords in saltire and in chief an acorn Or.
Drei Eichen, Barony of. Badge. Vert, a rapier bendwise between two acorns Or.
Drei Eichen, Barony of. Badge. Vert, a bow between two acorns Or.
Erik Leifsson Halvdöve. Device. Per pale sable and gules, a goat rampant between three Thor's hammers argent.
Guischard de Morlaix. Name.
Hartmann Rogge. Name change from Harabanar Hugilaikir and device. Barry of six gules and Or, the sinister half of a fleur-de-lys sable.
He wishes to retain his currently registered name as an alternate persona name. His currently registered device, Gyronny gules and sable, a bezant between in pale two swords fesswise reversed and in fess two ravens statant close, all Or, is released.
The sinister half of a fleur-de-lys is not, either in the current submission or in the period examples, either bendwise or palewise, but is drawn with the chiefmost point in the dexter chief corner and the basemost point in base, to best fill the available space. Since it is neither palewise nor bendwise, but is in what is apparently its default posture, we thought it best to not specify a specific orientation here.
Helena Råtta. Name only (see RETURNS for device).
Hukka, Canton of. Name and device. Per fess wavy azure and argent, a wolf passant Or and a laurel wreath azure.
Nice group armory!
Jaques de Morgny. Name.
Johan Knutsson. Name.
Johanna von Schmalenbach. Name only (see RETURNS for device).
Ljótunn Norn. Name.
Though Norn was documented only from the three Norns of the Eddas, Palimpsest was able to supply documentation for its use as an acceptable (though uncomplimentary; in this context, it means "the hag") byname.
Melusine de Voivres. Name.
Nordmark, Barony of. Order name for Gyllene bandets orden.
The name means "Order of the Golden Ribbon".
Nordmark, Barony of. Order name for Ljusorden.
The name means "Order of the Light".
Oddbjörn Sigurdsson Rese. Name.
Otto von Gratz. Name and device. Sable, a bend bretessed between two crosses crosslet fitchy Or.
Submitted as Otto von Graz, Graz is the modern name of the town, not used until the 19th Century. We have substituted a period form.
Please ask him to draw the bend thicker.
Peter Schneck. Name only (see RETURNS for device).
Submitted as Peter van Schneck, the locative particle is out of place with a non-locative surname.
Sihtric Sihtricessone. Name.
Submitted as Sithric Sithricsson, the name seems to be based on a misreading of the source documentation, which shows Sihtricus as a Domesday Book spelling of the name. As an English rather than a Scandinavian name, the patronymic needs to be constructed accordingly. The closest to the submitted form is sone, which is preceded by the OE genitive of the patronym. We have so corrected it here.
Simon Sigvardsson. Name.
Solveig Gargan Skjaldvarardóttir. Name and device. Vert, a stag with straight antlers at gaze maintaining between its antlers a decrescent and in chief three water bougets all within a bordure invected argent.
Sten Birgersson Elg. Name and device. Per fess counter-ermine and gules, a cross argent, overall an enfield passant Or.
You might let him know that this would be better if the enfield were drawn a little larger.
Sven Jakobsson Grip. Name.
Ulfr Raude. Name.
This was stated to be a name change from Björn Ulfsson, but Laurel can find no record of that name even having been submitted. We are registering this as a new name.
Ulfrun Hjörleifsdotter. Name.
Veronica of Holmrike. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Azure, a sinister wing between three escallops all within a bordure argent.
Submitted as Ingrid Nielsdotter.
Wilhelm Nielsen. Name and device. Azure, a sinister wing and in chief a label couped all within a bordure argent.
Wolfram Flammenherz. Household name and badge for House Flammenherz. [Fieldless] On a flame Or a heart azure.
Submitted as House Flammenhertz on the LoI, neither the submitter's previously registered name nor the household name submission form has the "t".
EAST
Aethelred of Ambrevale. Device. Checky argent and gules, on a chief triangular sable a cross of Jerusalem argent.
Anysia of Carpasia. Device. Per bend sinister sable and azure, a bend sinister Or between a sea-unicorn contourny reguardant and a dove migrant argent.
Buckland Cross, Shire of. Name.
Dorigen of the Grey Gate. Device. Sable, an acorn and a chief embattled Or.
Edouard Chartier. Name.
Erich Forester. Device. Vert, an owl displayed argent, on a chief embattled Or a massacre gules.
Please let him know that the massacre should not be touching the line of division of the chief.
Isabeau d'Orleans. Name and device. Purpure, on a pile wavy argent a lark rising wings elevated and addorsed azure.
Margaret ny Connor. Device. Per pale sable and gules, a sinister gauntlet maintaining three calla lilies argent slipped vert within a bordure embattled argent.
Marguerite Chartier. Name.
Submitted as Marguerite de Chartier, chartier is an occupational byname rather than a placename; as such, the particle de is quite out of place. We have therefore dropped it.
Morgan MacDougal. Name.
Submitted as Morgan MacDoughal, none of the documentation supported a spelling of the surname with an "h". We have therefore registered the documented form.
Robert the Doubtfull. Device. Gules, on a pale engrailed Or between two tankards argent two arrows in fess vert.
MIDDLE
Alexandra de Louvain. Name.
Chen Yung Ho. Device. Per pale embowed counter-embowed vert and Or, a crane volant palewise contourny and a crane volant palewise inverted, counterchanged.
Grainne MacAvery. Name.
The name would be much better as a fully anglicized Grania MacAvery, as no evidence has yet been presented that fully-Gaelic names were mixed with English names in this way.
Gunvor Torstensdottir. Device change. Azure, three flames Or, on a chief rayonny argent two escallops inverted azure.
His currently registered device, Azure, three gouts Or, on a chief rayonny argent two escallops inverted azure, is released.
Kenric Bjarnarson. Name.
Submitted as Kenric Veifinder Bjarnarson, the byname, meaning "way-finder", was constructed from combining vei and finder into a single word. We need documentation that compounds like this can be constructed this way in Norse. We have dropped the problematic element to register the name.
Klaus Meyer. Badge. Or, an oak leaf fructed vert, overall a longbow fesswise sable, a bordure vert semy of pheons inverted argent.
Please inform him that the acorns and the bow should be "beefed up" somewhat. [To all of the commenters, the large emblazon was much more clearly drawn and the pheons quite recognizable as such.]
Olaf the Strong. Name and device. Per bend sable and gules, a bend between an ax and an ax inverted reversed argent.
Pont y Saeth, Canton of. Device. Sable, a pheon Or within a laurel wreath argent.
Very nice armory!
Three Towers, March of. Name.
This name had been returned in the February 1995 LoAR for lack of a petition of populace support. A petition of support by the populace has now been received, and since that had been the sole bar to registration, we are now able to register the name.
OUTLANDS
Alejandra Isabel Marin. Device. Gules, on a cross cotised Or, five hazel nuts vert nutted argent.
Hazel nuts may be found illustrated in Elvin, pl. 44, fig. 55, and in Friar and Ferguson's Basic Heraldry, p. 25.
Alexandria Morgan. Name only (see RETURNS for device).
Mavrikii Andronikov. Name change from holding name William of the Outlands.
Outlands, Kingdom of. Title and badge for the Archer General of the Outlands. Vert, a stag's head cabossed, between its antlers two arrows inverted in saltire argent, a bordure embattled Or.
Both the arrows and the bordure should be "beefed up" a little.
Outlands, Kingdom of. Name for the Royal Archer of the Outlands.
Rhiannon ny Rory. Name only (see PENDS for device).
Robert Spenser of Bristol. Badge. [Fieldless] Perched on a harp Or an eagle rising contourny wings displayed and inverted Or.
The harp should be drawn less three-dimensionally.
Thora Redhair. Device. Per fess gules and argent, three plates one and two and a butterfly gules.
WEST
Aele Dekne. Name.
`A'isha bint Khalil al-Herati. Device. Argent, a fess engrailed between two lilies azure.
Connar O'Morris Greywolf. Badge. Vert, a skull between three shamrocks one and two argent.
Gabriel Delacroix. Name and device. Azure, two torches in saltire Or and on a chief triangular argent a natural sea turtle vert.
Josué Ezequiel Xavier de Navarra. Name and device. Azure, a thunderbolt and a bordure Or.
Savaric de Miraval. Name and device. Per chevron Or and azure, three crescents pendant counterchanged.
Suzanne de Veleson. Name and device. Per bend sinister sable and Or, two fleurs-de-lys counterchanged.
Wolfgang Rotkopf. Badge. [Fieldless] An abacus sable.
RETURNS
MARCH 1995
THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN RETURNED FOR FURTHER WORK:
AN TIR
Algar de Devonshire. Device. Per bend vair en point and Or two crosses crosslet fitchy counterchanged.
The fact that the dexter cross is vair en point cannot be determined even in the full-size emblazon. (See RfS VII.7.a. "Identification Requirement - Elements must be recognizable solely from their appearance." and RfS VIII.3. "Armorial Identifiability - Elements must be used in a design so as to preserve their individual identifiability.") The most frequent suggestion in the commnetary was to make the dexter cross azure.
Knut Skytja Thorgundobald. Badge. Vert, conjoined in pale three pairs of arrows inverted and conjoined in chevron and a longship under sail argent.
Conflict with MacKinder (Papworth, p. 1089), Vert, a lymphad oars in action sails furled argent flags gules. There is one CD for the addition of the arrows, but nothing for the type of ship.
The sheer convolutedness of the blazon is indicative of the less than ideal style of this proposal. Indeed, we are not certain that the emblazon will be adequately reproducible from the blazon even as modified here.
Meri of the Bears. Device. Argent maily gules, a bear's head cabossed sable mounted on a pole issuant from base azure.
Conflict with Bjorn Sigurdsson (SCA), Paly gules and argent, a bear's head cabossed sable. There is one CD for the changes to the field, but nothing for the pole, which is visually nothing more than a maintained charge.
ANSTEORRA
Alix Tiberga of Aachen. Device. Per bend engrailed azure and argent, a dragon dormant argent and three needles azure.
The name for this submitter had been pended in kingdom in March 1993 and has never been forwarded to Laurel. Without an accompanying name submission, we are unable to register this.
Wystan of Blackwood Keep. Badge. Gules masoned argent, a maple leaf Or.
Conflict with the badge for Canada, A maple leaf. As the Canada badge is tinctureless, there is only one CD, for the addition of the field and its treatment.
Zahra Xena Theano. Name.
The documentation for Xena is very weak, coming as it did from a book called A Treasure of Names; Xena does not appear in such very general modern works as Hanks and Hodges. Additionally, the overall structure of the name is neither Arabic nor Greek, as required by the Rules (see RfS III. and III.1). (Since the submitter noted on the forms that the sound of the name was the most important element to her, she might consider Sarracina or Sarrazina, feminizations of Sarracino found in Talan Gwynek's A Glossary of the Personal Names in Diéz Melcón's Apellidos Castellano-Leoneses published in the Proceedings of the 1993 Known World Heraldic Symposium.)
The accompanying armory was registered under the holding name Vicki of Bryn Gwlad.
ATENVELDT
Aelfwyn Huntingdon. Badge. [Fieldless] A tricorporate killer whale proper.
Because the orcas do not really have a discrete "head", the tricorporation of the beast does not work very well, making as it does identification a bit problematical. (See, e.g., RfS VII.7.a. "Identification Requirement - Elements must be recognizable solely from their appearance." and RfS VIII.3. "Armorial Identifiability - Elements must be used in a design so as to preserve their individual identifiability.")
Brigit Kathleen Sollis. Device. Sable, a snake nowed in an inverted heneage knot, on a chief argent three strawberries proper.
Conflict with Lothar the Wanderer (SCA), Sable, a serpent nowed with a head at either end, on a chief argent three caltrops sable. There is a CD for the changes to the tertiary charges, but nothing for removing the tail-end head or for the exact form of the nowing.
Eric Stroud. Device. Argent, a chevron engrailed gules, in chief two crosses formy, in base a scorpion inverted sable.
Conflict with Cardinis (Papworth, p. 373), Argent, a chevron engrailed gules, with only one CD for the addition of the secondary charges.
Isabel du Lac d'Azur. Device. Azure, a bend sinister embattled Or between a thistle slipped and leaved argent and a pomegranate slipped and leaved Or.
Conflict with Ronchivecchi (Woodward, cited in Combo II, p. 50), Azure, a bend sinister embattled Or, with only one CD for the addition of the secondary charges. (Though the mini-emblazon in the LoI appeared to have the bend sinister raguly, it was clearly embattled on the full-size emblazon.)
Joseph Grünewald of York. Device. Sable, three chevronels braced, on a chief Or a compass star gules.
Conflict with Ewband (Papworth, p. 551), Sable, three chevrons braced Or, on a chief of the last as many annulets sable. There is only one CD, for the changes to the tertiary charges.
Megan de Guillaume. Name and device. Per saltire purpure and argent, in pale two snowflakes and in fess two fleurs-de-lis, a bordure counterchanged.
Snowflakes have been disallowed for some little time now. If the submitter would be interested, the escarbuncle is a similar charge which would be quite acceptable.
William Griffin Blackthorne. Device. Gules, a griffin's head couped contourny, on a chief argent a staff entwined with a leafless vine.
As noted by all of the commenters, the tincture of the staff and vine are missing from the blazon. Normally, Laurel would supply the missing tincture and pend the device for research under the corrected blazon, but as the staff and vine are colored in as "gray", which is neither an heraldic tincture nor "proper" for staffs and/or vines, we are returning this so that the submitter may choose another tincture for these charges.
ATLANTIA
Giovanna Donnina. Device change. Sable, on a sun Or a rose gules barbed vert an orle Or.
Though blazoned as a rose on a sun, in fact the rose completely eclipses the sun's disk, making this a rose en soleil, a badge of the late Plantagenets whose use has been disallowed in the SCA (see The SCA College of Arms Glossary of Heraldic Terms, Table 1, "Prohibited Charges").
CAID
Caid, Kingdom of. Title of Dragon's Voice Pursuivant.
This title does not follow any documented period model, as required by RfS III.2.b.iii. It was suggested that it emulated the model of titles based on mottoes, but no examples of similar titles were noted by anyone.
Christopher Everard. Device. Or, a gurges azure charged with a dragon rampant argent.
A properly drawn gurges has no room for a tertiary dragon, in any posture. Despite the assertion in the LoI, a gurges is not, and is not comparable to, an ordinary, which is a large, broad, centrally located charge which has sufficient breadth to have other charges placed upon it without significant loss of identifiability of either ordinary or tertiary. That is not the case with a gurges, a narrow spiral or set of concentric circles which has insufficient space on it for tertiary charges.
Colbert Everard Scolaighe en Tæppestre. Name.
Submitted as Colvert Everard Scolaighe en Taeppsetre, the given and last byname were typoed in the LoI.
The Irish scolaighe (`scholar, student') is completely out of place in an otherwise entirely English name, and no documentation has yet been presented that the English ever used Irish bynames. (The Irish byname is even less compatible with the second byname, which is Old English.) Tæppestre is an Old English term for a woman who sells ale, a hostess. Unlike many originally feminine OE occupational terms in -estre, this one retained its strictly feminine sense quite late; a man would have used the masculine tæppere. It is assumed that en is intended to be some sort of article, but it appears to be incorrect here. The OE forms are se tæppere and seo tæppestre; the usual documentary ME forms with article would be le tapper(e) and la tappestre, with the written French articles most usually representing the English the. We could have registered Colbert Everard the (or le) Tapper(e) (or, at a small stretch, Colbert Everard se Tæppere) or a later form as Colbert Everard Tapster, but as any of these appeared to be more of a change than those granted by the submitter, we are returning this so that he can decide which he wants.
The accompanying armory was registered under the holding name John of the Angels.
Grace of Fairhaven. Device. Checky gules and argent, a wolf passant within a bordure sable.
Conflict with Fourneys (Papworth, p. 114), Argent, a hound passant within a bordure sable. There is only one CD, for the changes to the field.
Gwenhwyfar Eachthighearn of Clan Scolaighe. Name.
The name follows no recognizable practice of period names. If she's Welsh, she will be Gwenhwyfar ferch E., and Eachthighearn will be respelled according to Welsh conventions. If she's Irish, she'll be G. ní Eachthigheirn or G. ní Eachthighearna, and Gwenhwyfar will be respelled according to Irish conventions. Clan Scolaighe mixes English clan and Irish Scolaighe. The examples of clan names in Woulfe show that Clann is followed by the aspirated genitive case of a forename, the (sometimes legendary) progenitor of the clan. While the Rules for Submission allow languages to be mixed in a name if the two cultures had sufficient contact, RfS III.1. also states that they must follow documented patterns. No documentation for this pattern of mixed Irish, Welsh, and English has been presented, either in the submitter's supporting documentation or by any of the commentary.
The accompanying armory was registered under the holding name Catherine of the Angels.
Merit-ankht-Seker of Sakkara. Name.
It is very difficult to tell from the documentation whether the "given" is constructed properly by the rules of ancient Egyptian, but there is sufficient support for the general form of the name and for the use of god's names in the position here among pharaonic names that we are giving it the benefit of the doubt. The locative "of Sakkara", however, is problematical; Sakkara appears to be a modern name. Additionally, the site itself was a necropolis (literally, a "city of the dead", a burial ground) at the time of the pharaohs, and is not a place living people would be "from". (The Encyclopedia Brittanica notes specifically that the Arab village Saqqarah near the site is "modern".) The ancient city nearby, where people actually lived, was the one which we now call Memphis.
Another, and more basic, question regarding this submission, is whether and how well pharaonic Egyptian names fit into the scope of the SCA. Rules for Submission I.1. notes that "The Society for Creative Anachronism studies pre-Seventeenth Century Western Culture. The period of the Society has been defined to extend until 1600 A.D. Its domain includes Europe and areas that had contact with Europe during this period." (emphasis added) The Introduction in the Preface of the 1995 Organizational Handbook defines the scope of the SCA even more narrowly: "The Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. is a non-profit educational organziation devoted to the study of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Most of its activities take place in the context of a social structure adapted from the forms of the European Middle Ages...." (emphasis added) And the submitter herself admits that this persona is outside the scope of the Society. In her own words, she is "a traveller, both through space and time, to the period and place of the Society".
On the other hand, the College more or less routinely allows Roman and Greek names to be registered. Is this name significantly different from those? If I may quote Harpy: "The cultures of classical Greece and Rome were accessible to medieval Europeans (at least, cultured and literate ones) from written records -- records that were deliberately and consciously preserved. But the language of the hieroglyphs was dead; knowledge of the writing system lost completely. Recall that it was only with the late 18th century discovery of the Rosetta Stone, with its trilingual inscription including Greek, that "modern" people were again able to try to decipher the writings of ancient Egypt. A classical Roman name, or a Biblical Hebrew name would in some way be accessible to a medieval European (highly educated scholar), but an ancient Egyptian name would not be something that he could have any knowledge of or familiarity with. There is simply no connection available." In other words, yes, there is a difference. Ancient Greece and Rome "had contact" with Europe during "the Middle Ages and Renaissance" through their writings; pharaonic Egypt did not. Ancient Egyptian names thus appear to be outside the scope and domain of the SCA, much as Australian flora and fauna or Australian aboriginal names are.
DRACHENWALD
Arnolw Rabenhertz. Badge. [Fieldless] A sword inverted proper embrued gules entwined by a sprig of thorns sable and overall a wolf's head erased argent.
There are a number of problems with the submission, none of which by itself may have been sufficient cause for return, but the combination of all of them is. There was some feeling among the commenters that this probably violates our strictures regarding overall charges in fieldless badges, in that the overlap of the charges is not small. There was additional commentary that this could be considered to be three different types of charge in a single charge group (sword, sprig, and head). Several commenters found identifiability to be a problem, with the argent wolf's head overlying the argent sword blade (see, e.g., RfS VIII.2., "Armorial Contrast - All armory must have sufficient contrast to allow each element of the design to be clearly identifiable at a distance."). There was some feeling expressed that a complexity "rule of thumb count" of eight (argent, Or, sable, gules; sword, blood, sprig and head) is too complex in a fieldless design. In any instance, it is right at the limits of the rule of thumb for complexity, which rule would normally also take a field into account. Further, the "feel" of the badge is of modern and not period design. (See, e.g., RfS VIII.4.d. "Modern Style - Generally modern style in the depiction of individual elements or the total design may not be registered. Artistic techniques and styles developed after 1600 should not be used in Society armory. Charges may not be ... patterned after ... fantasy art, ... etc."
Didrik van Eckell. Device. Per pale azure and sable, a wolf rampant within a bordure argent.
The LoI accidentally changed the argent of the wolf and bordure to sable. This would normally be cause for pending the submission for research under the corrected blazon, but Brachet found a conflict with Stephen de la Lande Sauvage (SCA), Quarterly gules and sable, a wolf rampant reguardant within a bordure argent. There is only one CD for the changes to the field.
Drei Eichen, Barony of. Order name for Ordo Artium et Literatum.
The name does not appear to be constructed properly. Literatus is `man of letters', from the adjective literatus `literate' (Riddle & Arnold, 438 at Letters); literatum would be a nominative singular neuter form of the same adjective. The closest that anyone could suggest to the submitted form is Ordo Artium et Literarum `Order of Arts and Letters'. There was also a strong feeling among many of the commenters that such an order name is too generic to register.
Drei Eichen, Barony of. Order name and badge for Ordo Auxiliatorum. Azure, an open book and in chief an acorn Or.
The commentary was nearly unanimous in feeling that this order name (order of helping ones) is too generic to register.
The badge conflicts with Conroy (Papworth, p. 340), Azure, an ancient book open indexed edged Or a chief embattled of the last. There is only one CD, for changing the chief to an acorn.
Drei Eichen, Barony of. Order name and badge for Ordo Custodis Quercus. Or, a boar's head proper between three acorns azure.
The name does not appear to be correctly constructed. Since custos means "guard" in the sense of an individual person, not in the sense of a group of people, the college is correct that custodum, the genitive plural, would be more appropriate. Does the group want "Order of the Guardians of the Oak (singular)", "Order of the Guardians of the Oaks (given that the barony is named after three of them)", or "Order of the Oaken Guardians"? These would be respectively: Ordo Custodum Quercus (long "u" in quercus), Ordo Custodum Quercuum, and Ordo Custodum Querceorum.
There does not seem to be a defined heraldic "proper" for boar's heads, and the beasts in nature run from a light mottled brown through reddish/auburn to almost black.
Drei Eichen, Barony of. Order name and badge for Ordo Honestus. Azure, a penannular brooch and in chief an acorn Or.
The commentary was nearly unanimous that this order name (honorable order) is too generic to register. Nor does such a name follow the guidelines of RfS III.2.b.ii. ("Names of orders and awards must follow the patterns of the names of period orders and awards.").
Drei Eichen, Barony of. Badge. Vert, two acorns and a lyre Or.
Conflict with Harding (Papworth, p. 888), Vert, three acorns Or, with only one CD for the change in type of the bottommost charge. (If drawn as Vert, a lyre and in chief two acorns Or, as it was blazoned in the LoI, this would conflict with Ireland, Vert, a harp Or.
Drei Eichen, Barony of. Badge. Vert, a flame proper and in chief two acorns Or.
The flame is not drawn as a flame proper, with some gules gouts in the Or portion and vice versa, but rather is a flame gules fimbriated Or. This is being returned for redrawing as a "proper" flame proper.
Drei Eichen, Barony of. Badge. Vert, two acorns and a great helm Or.
Conflict with Harding (Papworth, p. 888), Vert, three acorns Or, with only one CD for the change in type of the bottommost charge.
Falconis Turris, Shire of. Name.
Commentary was unanimous that the word order of the name was reversed here; it should be Turris Falconis. We would have simply corrected the name and registered it, but as no petition of populace support was included, we are having to return it.
Helena Råtta. Device. Argent, a rat in annulo vert.
The rat is really not in a blazonable position (the closest that anyone could suggest was tergiant in annulo head to base, and even that does not adequately describe the posture of the head), and thus falls afoul of RfS VII.7.b. ("Elements must be reconstructible in a recognizable form from a competent blazon."). As no "competent blazon" could be made for the emblazon, it must be returned.
Ingrid Nielsdotter. Name.
Conflict with the already-registered Ingrid Nialsdotter. The difference in pronunciation between Nielsdotter and Nialsdotter is insufficient.
The accompanying armory was registered under the holding name Veronica of Holmrike.
Johanna von Schmalenbach. Device. Azure, a bend sinister wavy between in chief an increscent and a decrescent conjoined and in base a mullet of eight points argent.
Visual conflict with Geoffrey le Gentil (SCA), Azure, a bend sinister wavy between a moon increscent and a fish naiant argent. While there is a clear CD for the change in type of the charge in base, the visual similarity between the increscent and decrescent conjoined and increscent moon is so strong that we cannot in good conscience grant the necessary second.
John Elliot. Name and device. Per chevron azure and argent, two Maltese crosses argent and an elephant's head erased proper.
Conflict with John Eliot, English parliamentarian and knight, b. 1592, and with John Elliot, "New England's apostle to the Indians", both of whom have their own entries in the Encyclopedia Brittanica.
An elephant's head proper is gray, tusked argent. However, in the SCA, gray is considered the equivalent of argent for contrast. "A stone tower proper [is] grey but [is] treated as if it were argent for purposes of contrast." (Wilhelm von Schlüssel, LoAR 21 April 1983, p. 3) "A bottle-nosed dolphin proper is grey and thus counts as light." (1984 RfS, IX.5.) As a consequence, the elephant's head here is metal on metal.
Melchior av Härö Sund. Badge. [Fieldless] Three fishing hooks conjoined sable.
We need some documentation for this form of the fishing hook as a period charge before we can register it, as this would be the first instance of such a charge registered in the SCA.
Morgan ni Lochlainn. Badge. Argent semy-de-lys, a bordure gules.
Conflict with Mountjoy (Papworth, p. 857 and Woodward, 112), Argent, the field replenished with fleurs-de-lys gules. There is only one CD, for the addition of the bordure.
Nordmark, Barony of. Order name and badge for Vita portens väktare. [Fieldless] A step-gabled portal ensigned with a Celtic cross intended on the outer edge all argent.
"Guardians of the White Gate" seems to be more than one step from period practice (the example given in the LoI was the Knights of the Hospital of St. John). We need an exemplar rather closer to this form for adequate support for this proposal.
Conflict with Kirchener (Combo II citing Woodward), Gules, a church argent, and Radouin le Perisuen (Combo II, citing Fabulous), Sable, a chapel argent lit sable. In each case there is only the fieldless CD, as the specific forms of the various types of architecture here are too similar to grant the necessary second CD.
Pål Abjörnsson Lo. Device. Ermine, a lynx passant guardant and a chief gules.
Conflict with Rhiwallon (Papworth, p. 75), Ermine, a lion passant guardant coward gules. There is only one CD, for the addition of the chief.
Peter Schneck. Device. Gules, a schnecke issuant from dexter chief and a falcon's head issuant from sinister base argent.
Conflict with Frederick Tinamou the Untames (SCA), Gules, a bald eagle's head and shoulders issuant from base argent holding in its beak the sword inverted bendwise sable. The addition of the schneck is a CD, but the visual similarities between the bird's heads are overwhelming.
Santiago Llaurenç Steván Montalifero de Tortosa. Name.
Santiago is not the Catalan equivalent of James, as stated on the submitter's forms, but rather is Saint James. Acceptable forms would appear to be Iago and perhaps Jago, but as the submitter allowed no changes whatsoever, we are having to return this.
EAST
Creiddylad Wyllt ferch Bronwen. Name.
As noted in the return of Creirdyddlydd of Rhuddlan (LoAR May 1993), There is "no evidence that Creiddylad ever passed into common usage, nor is it constructible from common Welsh themes." Before modern times, it appears only as a unique literary name. Without better support for it's use in period, we are unable to register the name.
Hendricke Lambert Bloetgoet. Device. Azure, a knorr reversed and on a chief Or three gouttes de sang.
Conflict with Davie (Papworth, p. 1090), Azure, a ship with two masts Or, the sails trussed up and hoisted to the yards argent, adorned with flags adorned with the cross of England, on a chief of the second, three cinquefoils pierced gules. There is a CD for the substantial change to type of the tertiary charges, but nothing for the details of the ships nor for reversing the ship.
MIDDLE
Arnthora Eyulfsdottir. Device. Per saltire sable and gules, on a double-headed eagle displayed Or, a Thor's hammer gules.
Conflict with Fevronia Murometsa (SCA), Azure, on the breast of an owl displayed Or a Russian Orthodox cross gules, with a CD for the field, but nothing for type of raptor in identical postures nor for type only of tertiary. Conflict also with Pesche (Papwroth, p. 319), Azure, on an eagle displayed Or crowned gules, a maunch of the third and with Archbishop of Caesarea (Combo II, p. 58, citing Fabulous), Azure, on an eagle displayed Or a chrismon gules. In each case there is a CD for the field, but nothing for the change to type only of the tertiary.
Mark FitzRoy. Device. Or, two bendlets wavy azure between a bear's head erased contourny and an anchor gules.
Conflict with Longecombe (Combo II, citing Dictionnaire Heraldique), Or, two bendlets wavy azure. There is only one CD, for the addition of the secondaries.
Martyn Map. Device. Vert, a cross parted and fretted between in bend two open books argent.
Conflict with Plowman (Papworth, p. 621), Vert, a cross voided argent. As we grant no heraldic difference between a cross parted and fretted and one voided, there is only one CD, for the addition of the secondary charges.
OUTLANDS
Alexandria Morgan. Device. Purpure, on a pale argent an iris purpure, slipped and leaved vert.
Conflict with Giovanna Maria Hunyadi di Ghiberti (SCA), Lozengy azure and Or, on a pale argent a purple iris (iris pallida) slipped and leaved proper. There is only one CD, for the changes to the field.
André de Chasseron. Device. Or, three piles in point gules, on a chief enarched azure, a sword reversed Or.
Conflict with Grome (Papworth, p. 1029), Or, three piles gules, on a chief azure two helmets close Or. There is only one CD, for change in number and type of the tertiary on the chief.
Dragonsspine, Barony of. Badge. Or, three arrows inverted in pile and a wingless dragon dormant purpure.
No forms were included in the Laurel packet for this submission. As a consequence, we are unable to process it.
Mark de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte. Device. Azure, three chevronels braced between in chief four fleurs-de-lys and in base a mullet argent.
Conflict with Wyville (Foster's The Dictionary of Heraldry, p. 211), Azure, three chevronels braced argent. There is only one CD, for the addition of the secondary charges.
WEST
None!
PENDED
MARCH 1995
THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN PENDED UNTIL THE LAUREL MEETING OF JUNE 1995:
DRACHENWALD
Drei Eichen, Barony of. Badge. Or, a step-cut gem between three acorns azure.
The blazon in the LoI had the charges as well as the field Or. This is being pended for research under the corrected blazon.
OUTLANDS
Rhiannon ny Rory. Device. Argent, a brazier sable flamed proper, a bordure embattled per saltire gules and sable.
The tinctures of the bordure were accidentally dropped from the LoI. This is pended for research under the corrected blazon.