LoAR

of the College of Arms
of the
Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc.

December 1996



THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN REGISTERED: AN TIR Ælfgifu verch Morgan. Name and device. Plumetty vert and Or, a dunghill cock's head erased and on a chief purpure three bezants.
Using the form merch Morcant would make the name more temporally consistent.

Delia Rose of Thorncastel. Name.
Submitted as Delia the Rose of Thorncastel we have dropped the out of place "the" in order to register the name.

Duncan Douglas. Name and device. Ermine, on a pile vert a dragon's head couped affronty Or.

Isabeau du Lis Noir. Badge. [Fieldless] A fleur- de-lis per pale sable and Or.

June of Morgans Hall. Name and device. Azure, a day lily plant with three blossoms Or.

Lescelyn of Kailzie. Name and device. Vert, a pall sable fimbriated between three crescents argent.
Submitted as Mary Lesslyn of Kailzie. Note that in the case of a fimbriated ordinary, the fimbriation is ignored for purposes of conflict, and the tincture is the tincture of the ordinary, not of the fimbriation.

Morgan Comyn. Name and device. Sable estencely, three flames Or.

Peter Byron Fletcher. Name and device. Gyronny azure and argent scaly sable.

Wilhelm von Pfeffers. Name and device. Sable, a bend Or, overall a tower between two arrows inverted argent.

ANSTEORRA

Ashlin of Blackthorn Keep. Name.
Submitted as Aislinn of Blackthorn Keep we have replaced the Irish spelling of Aislinn with the English spelling.

Alasdair MacFhearghuis. Device. Per pale purpure and argent, two natural seahorses respectant a bordure engrailed counterchanged.

Anna Caitlin MacFergus. Device. Per fess purpure and Or, an eagle rising wings elevated and addorsed Or and three chevronels braced purpure.

Arenvald Kief av Kiersted. Badge. [Fieldless] On a temple Or a Thor's hammer gules.

Arenvald Kief av Kiersted. Badge. Sable, a Thor's hammer pendent from the lintel of a dolmen Or.

Arianwen de Treguier. Name and device. Azure, a seahorse contourny and in chief two estoiles argent.

Benedict de Benet. Name.

Bice di Pietro. Name.
Submitted as Bice Di Pietro, we have corrected the incorrect capitalization of "Di".

Brendan McEwen. Device. Per fess argent and gules, a griffin segreant azure.

Catherine de Calais. Name and device. Ermine, on a chief embattled azure two griffins combattant Or.

Celestine de Benet. Name.

Egill köttr Einarsson. Name and device. Sable, a bend between a roundel and a domestic cat sejant contourny argent.
Submitted as Egill Kottr Einarrson, we have corrected the patronymic and put the nickname into the usual form.

Elizabeth de Benet. Name.

Eric Lee. Name and device. Azure, seven double-bitted axes in annulo a bordure argent.

Falconridge, Stronghold of. Device. Purpure, a falcon rising wings displayed argent hooded belled and jessed Or atop a dexter gauntlet fesswise argent, all between three laurel wreaths Or.

Gustav Hastings. Name and device. Vert, on a hide Or a Thor's hammer inverted sable.

Gwenllian ferch Maredudd. Device change. Argent, a bend cotised sable between six crescents azure.
Her previous device Per chevron indented argent and sable, two compass stars azure and an open book argent leathered azure., is to be retained as a badge.

Gwyddno of Tempio. Holding name and device (See RETURNS for name). Azure, a boar's head couped and an orle of mullets Or.
Submitted as Gwyddno ap Gruffudd Myrddin.

Hethum of Phasis. Name.

Marion of Mooneschadowe. Name.
Mooneshadowe is the name of a group in Ansteorra.

Murdoc MacKinnon. Name and device. Vert, on a bend embattled counter-embattled between two golf clubs inverted in saltire and an Irish harp Or, a greatsword sable.
Submitted as Murdock MacKinnon, the spelling of Murdock could not be documented to our period. We have substituted a more likely form.

Otto Vustmann. Name and device. Or, a pale sable, overall an eagle gules.

Pepin Moroni. Device. Per pale Or and purpure, ten lozenges conjoined four, four and two counterchanged vert and argent, overall a Jester's Bauble facing dexter gules, faced argent.

Rolf Sewardson. Name.
While the form Rolf Sewardson is registerable, Rolf Seward is the proper form.

Rykert Vercruysse. Name (see RETURNS for device).
Submitted as Rykurt atte Cross, no acceptable documentation was presented for Rykurt, and no one could present any. We have therefore changed it to a possible form, and restored the surname which was changed in kingdom, to the original form, for which documentation was presented.

Stefan von Drachenfels. Device. Per bend sinister sable semy-de-lys Or and bendy gules and argent, in chief a dragon rampant maintaining a sheaf of arrows Or.
This was pended from the July 1996 meeting.

Tori torfengr Bjornsdottir. Name and device. Ermine, in pale two brown bears heads cabossed proper, a bordure azure.
Submitted as Tori Bjarnardottir Torfengr, it was submitted in kingdom as Tori Torfenger Bjornsdottir, and we have restored it to the submitter's form, which is also a correct form. Tori is the submitter's mundane name, please inform her that Lind notes the feminine ON names Þora and Þórey.

William Killian. Name.

Wolfker der Jäger. Name.

Zabel of Phasis. Name

ATENVELDT

Abubakar of Ile-Ife. Name.

Adela Baxter. Name and device. Sable semy of trefoils, a garb Or.
Submitted as Adela Mac An Bhacstair it combines Gaelic and English in the same language. Therefore, we have made the entire name Gaelic.

Adrienne de la Montagne. Device change. Argent, a winged natural panther segreant sable and on a chief enarched azure three fleurs-de-lys argent.
Her former device, Or, a winged natural panther rampant, wings elevated and addorsed sable, and on a chief enarched vert, three fleurs-de-lys argent., is hereby released.

Aleksina Dominova Bystrycha. Name (see RETURNS for device).
Submitted as Aleksina Dominova Bystrych, we have feminized the last element.

Alyssa Rose MacGregor. Badge. Argent, an ermine spot and a dexter tierce embattled gules.

Angharad Caprioll Amante. Name and device. Per chevron sable and gules, three seeblatter argent.
A possible conflict was called with Wilhelm von Schwartzwald (SCA), Sable, three hearts argent enflamed proper. Wilhelm's hearts are more properly blazoned as "on a flame", and have been reblazoned as such.

Athena nic Raghnaill Sgitheanaich. Name and device. Vert, a bend ermine between two domestic cats sejant erect guardant Or.
Submitted as Athena nic Raghnall mi as an Eileen Sgitheonach, we have put the Gaelic into the proper genitive and adjectival forms and kept as much as the name as was possible. Note: Athena is her mundane name. Please thank the submitter for properly drawing the spots on the bend properly, eg. bendwise.

Bleddyn Hawk. Device. Per bend sinister gules and azure, an opinicus statant contourny a bordure Or.

Brianna of Kilkenny. Name and device. Gyronny argent and sable, a fret vert.

Brianna Fey Whitewolfe. Name.
Submitted as Brianna Fey of Whitewolfe, no documentation was provided for the "of Whitewolfe" except to say that it was a nickname that has been previously registered. "Of Whitewolfe" is inappropriate because Whitewolfe is an epithet. Reaney and Wilson p. 486 show many combinations of White+animal under Whitebuck on p. 486. Most or all are domesticated animals, but extending this pattern to wild animals does not seem unlikely. Therefore, we have dropped the of in order to register the rest of the name.

Brunhilde Katarine Brand. Name and device. Per bend sinister azure and purpure, a pegasus salient contourny and in chief three roundels argent.

Conrad von Zuberbuehler. Name and device. Sable, a cockatrice displayed Or a bordure compony argent and gules.

Ealasaid nan Oighean. Name (see RETURNS for badge).
Submitted as Ealasaid nan 'Oighean, we have corrected the Gaelic.

Erich von Grauwald. Name and device. Ermine, on a sun azure a heart argent, on a chief azure three hearts argent.

Fearghas an Cu. Name (see DEVICE for returns). Submitted as Fearghas Alan A Cu, we have dropped the non-Gaelic "Alan" and have corrected the grammar of the Gaelic.

Gene the Black. Name and device. Bendy of eight Or and sable, a pair of tongs gules.
Aten raised the question of blazoning the number of pieces in the partition of the field. It has been our custom not to do, on the grounds that the precise number makes no difference. Certainly the number of pieces makes no difference under our rules. And there is ample evidence that during much of our period, at least, it made no heraldic difference. However, since Fause Losenge has been able to provide evidence that in period it was a distinction that was not infrequently blazoned in period. Therefore, since it appears to be important to the submitter, we will go on the side of period evidence, and blazon it.

Granite Mountain, Shire of. Name.

Gwylym ab Owain Tatershal. Badge. Argent, two rapiers in saltire sable, overall a griffin passant gules.

Gwyn O Glan-y-Môr. Name and device. Checky gules and argent, on a pale sable a trident, in chief three mullets one and two argent.

Ivory le Gant. Name.
Submitted as Ivory de le Gant, we have corrected the grammar.

James Thorn de Lyon. Device. Per chevron inverted Or and sable, in chief a lion's jambe erased gules.

Jean Clare. Name and device. Azure, a bezant between two dances argent.

Julienne Dubarry. Badge. Per saltire sable and vert, four Bowen knots crosswise Or.

Julienne Thorne. Name and device. Vert, a chevron between three apples in chevron and a lion sejant, queue-forchy argent.

Justin du Roc. Augmentation of Arms. Per bend sinister azure and counter-ermine, in dexter chief an Arabian roc volent to sinister, wings addorsed argent grasping in its talons an elephant statant proper, in augmentation on an escutcheon per pale argent and azure a sun in splendor Or.

Katlin von Kappel. Name and device. Or, a bend sinister embattled purpure between two dragons segreant breathing flames gules.
Submitted as Katlinn von Kappel, no documentation has been provided for Katlinn. We have changed it to a more likely form.

Kelwin Ratslayer. Device. Azure, a pall inverted argent between two panthers rampant addorsed Or, marked sable, and a rat couchant argent.
Against Robare Matray, Azure a pall inverted argent between three lit candles Or., there is only one CD for change of type of secondaries, and a second CD for the change of tincture of the bottommost of a group of three.

Magdalena Asmarit di Venezia. Badge. Per bend sinister Or and azure, two dolphins haurient embowed contourny counterchanged.

Malcolm the Archer. Device. Sable, a thistle Or an orle of crosses crosslet fitchy argent.

Marius Conor. Name.

Mikael de Schelton. Name and device. Per bend sinister gules and sable, a bend sinister Or, overall an armored leg contourny argent.

Patricia Whale. Device. Azure, a narwhale argent between a demi-sun issuant from chief and another issuant from base.

Peregrine the Seeker. Badge. Per bend sinister azure and argent, a pegasus courant between in pale two acorns, all counterchanged.

Robert Edward Henry Dethewright. Name. A more period form would be Detheridge.

Robert the Incorrigible. Device. Or, an orca urinant proper flaunches azure.

Rondinella dal Tirolo. Name and device. Vert, a bend sinister cotised between a garb and a fleur-de-lys Or.
Submitted as Rondinella de Tyrolia, no evidence was presented that de Tyrolia was a proper form for someone "from Tyrol". We have put it into the form closest to what she submitted that also makes sense.

Rowan O Curry. Device change. Azure, an elephant rampant contourny proper maintaining in its trunk a cluster of Rowan flowers argent, slipped and leaved vert.
Her previous device Azure, two knots of four loops and four tassles Or and a cluster of Rowan flowers argent slipped and leaved vert., is to be retained as a badge.

Selina Trastamara de Luna. Name and device. Per pale vert and azure, a decrescent argent between three musical notes inverted Or.

Selina Trastamara de Luna. Badge. Per bend sinister vert and azure, a musical note inverted Or within a decrescent argent.

Shishido Tora. Name.

Sterling Schawn Leopard. Badge (see RETURNS for household name). [Fieldless] A rose Or issuant from the battlements of a castle sable.

Theoland Grimulf. Name and device. Per saltire sable and gules, an armored angel maintaining overhead a sword Or.
Submitted as the constructed name Theolan Grimulf, it was incorrectly constructed. We have changed it to the closest possible form.

Thomas Towlewardie. Name.
Submitted as Thomas Towlewardie the Woodsman, the OED dates woodsman from 1688. Therefore, we have dropped the post-period element.

Walrick of Canterbury. Name and device. Per pale sable and argent, a tower and an orle of mullets of four points counterchanged.

Walter Raymond Sutton. Name and device. Vert, a coney sejant erect contourny maintaining a sword a base embattled Or.

William the Bashful. Name.

Wulfric of Santlache. Device change. Sable, a wolf's head erased Or and a chief Or goutty-de-sang.
His previous device Sable, a griffin's head erased Or and a chief Or goutty-de-sang., is hereby released.

ATLANTIA

Angharad of Morfa Caer. Badge. [Fieldless] A caltrop per pale gules and argent.

Christoff Eldridge. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Dionisia Ashworthe. Name.

Donald MacGregor. Name and device. Sable, an eagle displayed and on a chief invected argent, a mastless drakkar sable.

Efenwealt Wystle. Device. Vert, on a bend sinister between two lions rampant Or, a dragon's head palewise contourny erased sable.

Erika Rothals. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Fíona inghean Dháibhid. Device.
Argent, two snakes nowed in a weaver's knot azure.

Gee Makbrair. Name.

Grimarr Steinfirzki Dagsson. Device. Per bend azure and vert, on a bend sinister wavy Or an arrow inverted sable.

Ian McChattan. Device. Vert, a mermaid affronty hands raised and in chief a thistle, a bordure fleury Or.

James Beckett of Westmorland. Name and device. Per pale gules and azure, a griffin segreant between three lozenges Or.

Julian Goodwyn. Name and device. Azure, on a chief indented argent, three hearts gules.

Magnus mac Cinnfáelad. Name and device. Per pale argent and azure, three chevronels counterchanged and on a chief sable, three roses Or.
Submitted as Magnus MacCinfaolaidh, we have corrected the spelling.

Margerite von Buchholtz. Badge. [Fieldless] A tree couped proper sustained by a unicorn sejant erect argent.

Martyn Ashton. Device. Per bend sinister argent and sable, an otter rampant contourny purpure maintaining a compass star Or.

Michael Oldcastle of Ravenspur. Name and device. Azure, a castle triple-towered Or environed of an annulet issuant of eight arrows argent, in chief a label Or.
Note: this is his father's arms with a label. His father registered a heraldic will with the college a number of years ago, leaving his arms to his son.

Michael Oldcastle of Ravenspur. Badge. [Fieldless] A fool's cap per pale gules and sable.
Nice armory!

Michelina della Rosa d'Oro. Name and device. Sable, a moon in her plenitude issuant from clouds argent and in chief three roses Or.

Philip de Rose of Strathclyde. Name Change from Philip the Bashful.
His former name, Philip the Bashful, is to be retained as an alternate persona name.

Wynifred Wudeleage. Name and device. Purpure, a dumbek a bordure rayonny Or.

CAID

Alexandra de Santiago. Name.

Brianna Je Nell Aislynn of Blue Shadows. Badge. Per pale azure and Or, two eagle-winged wyverns combattant, a bordure counterchanged.

Brianna Je Nell Aislynn of Blue Shadows. Badge. Per pale Or and azure, two eagle-winged wyverns combattant, a bordure counterchanged.

Ceara nic Fhaoláin. Name.
Submitted as Ceara nic Foalán, it must be aspirated after nic, which we have done.

Collegium Sancti Geronimi. Name.
Lovely name!

Collette Vitraria. Name and device. Per pale azure and Or, a vol inverted counterchanged, dependent therefrom a hawk's lure argent.

Elizabeth Scott of Berwick. Reblazon of device. Argent, a rose bendwise sable, slipped and leaved vert, between two bendlets gules.
This removes the word garden from the previously registered blazon.

Giulietta Cifala. Device. Purpure, a fan between three hummingbirds rising, wings elevated and addorsed Or.

Giulietta Cifala. Badge. [Fieldless] On a fan Or a hummingbird rising, wings elevated and addorsed purpure.

Randwulf de la Terre d'été. Badge. Per pale gules and argent, two wolves combattant a bordure counterchanged.

Roderick Stannard. Name and device. Argent, three panthers rampant guardant sable spotted argent incensed proper, a gore gules.

Sabina Melisenda vom Katzenschloss. Name and device. Per chevron purpure and vert, a chevron between two mullets and a garb Or.
Submitted as Sabina Melisenda von Katzenschloss, it seems much likelier that we're dealing here with a particular castle, the Katzenschloss, or in German der Katzenschloss. The locative would then be topographic, vom Katzenschloss, rather than toponymic, just as in the case of the simplex surname (vom) Schloss.

Taran MacAngus. Name.

Ulfrikr Bjornssen. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Vivian of Silverlake. Name.
Please inform the submitter that Vivian was a male name in period.

William de Rouen. Name.

William Tinker. Badge. [Fieldless] A bull rampant guardant contourny argent.

CALONTIR

Katrei Grünnenberg. Badge. [Fieldless] A pantheon rampant argent, mullety purpure
This was pended from the July meeting.

DRACHENWALD

Aodhnait inghean mhic Chárthaigh. Name (See RETURNS for device).
Submitted as ednat inghean mhic Chárthaigh, we have restored the name to what the submitter originally submitted.

Drachenwald, Kingdom of. Heraldic title of Vesilehti Pursuivant.

Infimus Mons Aureus, Stronghold of. Device. Or, a double-headed eagle displayed sable, on a chief vert three laurel wreaths Or.

Juhana Maununpoika Kivisuo. Alternate persona name of Blanka Månsdotter.
His previously registered badge, Sable a crane in its vigilance atop a trimount and in chief two seeblätter inverted Or, is to be attached to this name.

Juhana Maununpoika Kivisuo. Household name of Vargbyhus.

EAST

Abel Parnell le Guide. Name and device. Per bend pean and erminois.

Ailith of Shrewsbury. Name.

Brigit ingen Fhaíltigirn. Name and device. Sable, a winged wolf segreant, on a chief argent a crescent purpure.
Submitted as Brigit nic Faoiltiarn, we have corrected the byname to the proper form.

Catelin the Patient. Name and device. Per bend sinister engrailed purpure and plummety bendwise argent and vert, a swan naiant to sinister argent.

Conall MacGwynn. Name and device. Sable, on a bend between an increscent and a decrescent argent, three wolves heads erased contourny sable.
Submitted as Conall Gwynn we have restored it to the form originally submitted.

Connor of Sunderoak. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Vert, three shamrocks one and two Or flaunches ermine.
Submitted as Connor MacLiam

Giovanni di Giacomettino. Badge. [Fieldless] A demi-hedgehog rampant gules issuant from a tower proper.

Gwilenhin ap Fflewddwr. Name and device. Paly argent and sable, in pale a crescent inverted and a goutte gules.
Both names are only found in The Story of Culwc and Olwen. However, in both cases, they are the names of human beings.

Karl von Elfstein der Schmuckmacher. Device. Purpure estencely, a winged stag springing breathing flames Or.

Katerina Affodil. Device. Or, on a bend sinister gules between two unicorns rampant sable, three daffodils slipped and leaved Or.

Muirgen Sithean. Name and device. Azure, three crescents conjoined in pall inverted horns outwards argent, a chief ermine.
Submitted as Muirgen Sithean, the submitter was more concerned about the meaning. We have changed it to a form closer to her desired meaning.

Scott ó Caoindealbháin. Name.
Submitted as Scott Caoindealbháin, an incorrect form of the Gaelic patronymic was used. We have corrected that. Scott is his mundane name.

Tat'iana Epistima. Name.

William Bray Slayforth. Name and device. Or, a fess sable semy of compass stars, between three brown hawks rising, wings displayed and inverted proper.

MERIDIES

Alexander Ravenscroft. Device. Sable, a millrind and on a chief argent two ravens rising wings elevated and addorsed sable.

Alexandre de Vouvray. Badge. Per chevron inverted sable and gules, a leopard's face argent within passion nails in annulo points outwards Or.

Barbara Sterling. Device. Argent, on a dunghill cock gules a cross bottony Or a bordure azure mullety Or.

Caoilfionn of Kintyre. Name and device. Per pall inverted gules vert and Or, three wolves rampant each maintaining an arrow counterchanged Or and sable.
Cáelfind Chenntirech or Cáelfind Cheinntire would be closer to a 9th century form.

Eochar de Alano. Name and device. Purpure, a blonde mermaid in her vanity proper, on a chief argent three bats sable.
Submitted as Eochar D'Alain, it was incorrectly constructed. We have changed it to a more likely form.

Meridies, Kingdom of. Badge for Companionate of the Meridian Kings Champion. Sable, two swords in saltire proper, in chief three mullets in chevron argent.

Meridies, Kingdom of. Badge for Companionate of the Meridian Queens Champion. Argent, two swords in saltire sable, overall a rose gules.

Meridies, Kingdom of. Badge for Order of the Argent Shield. [Fieldless] An escutcheon within and conjoined to an annulet argent.

Meridies, Kingdom of. Name and badge for Order of the Athanor. [Fieldless] A retort atop an athanor argent.

Meridies, Kingdom of. Badge for Order of the Bough of Meridies. Sable, in pale the Lombardic uppercase letter M argent and a tree branch couped fesswise reversed to sinister Or.

Meridies, Kingdom of. Badge for Order of the Cygnet. Per bend sable and argent two swans naiant and a bordure counterchanged.

Meridies, Kingdom of. Badge for the Companionate of the Queens Yeoman. [Fieldless] A sheaf of three arrows inverted, overall a rose argent.

Meridies, Kingdom of. Badge for Order of the Rising Swan. [Fieldless] A swan roussant within and conjoined to an annulet argent.

Meridies, Kingdom of. Badge for Order of the Scarlet Star. Sable, a mullet gules fimbriated between two pallets argent.

Qara Moridai. Name and device. Argent, a sea- dragon rampant vert between three roses gules, slipped and leaved proper.

SOCIETY FOR CREATIVE ANACHRONISM

Society for Creative Anachronism. Transfer of Heraldic Title of Harpy Herald from West, Kingdom of the.

TRIMARIS

Ceridwen ferch Thomas Vaughan. Name.

Emma de Brionne. Name.

Erika Bjornsdottir. Device. Gules, a chevron inverted between a mullet and a bear passant Or.
Her former device Per bend azure, mullety Or, and azure a bend invected and in base a bear passant bendwise Or,, is hereby released. Note: the spelling in the armorial of Erika Bjarnsdottir is incorrect. The correct spelling Erika Bjornsdottir.

Gwendolen Kirkcaldy of Fawdonside. Name and device. Gules, a bear dormant argent holding an arrow Or a bordure embattled argent.
Submitted as Gwendolyn Kirkcaldy of Fawdonside, Gwendolyn is a modern form that has been ruled unacceptable. We have substituted the spelling which has been ruled SCA-compatible.

Thyra Jadvardsdottir. Purpure, semy of unicorns rampant Or.
Submitted as Thyra Eadwardsdottir, we have changed it to a possible Scandinavian form per the request of the submissions herald.

Trimaris, Kingdom of. Badge for the Order of the Argent Estoille of Trimaris. Quarterly azure and vert, an estoille a bordure embattled argent.

WEST

Adalberon Blackwood. Transfer of badge to Neil Greenstone. Sable, a double-bitted axe and a bordure Or.

Angus Wemyss of Fife. Change of name from Ine na Coille Glaise.
His previous name is hereby released.

Antonio Giordano da Sicilia. Name and device. Argent, a chevron purpure between three crosses formy gules.

Caitriona ni Shuileabhain Mhor. Name. Submitted as Caitriona ni Shuileabhain Mor, the adjective mór is lenited when it modifies a masculine noun in the genitive singular.

Cathleen de Barre. Device. Gules, three crosses crosslet fitchy Or.

Elizabeth Anthony. Name and device. Or, a fleur-de-lys gules, on a chief azure three mullets argent.

Geoffrey the Quiet. Name.

Gregory of Loch Swan. Change of device. Argent, a swan displayed and facing sinister sable gorged of a chain Or, overall a fess counter-compony azure and Or.

Islas de las Velas Latinas, Fortaleza de. Name and device. Per pale azure and argent, a ship contourny and in chief two laurel wreaths counterchanged.
Submitted as Stronghold as the group designator, we have translated the group designator into Spanish to match the rest of the group name, as the group wished. The question of the ship being an outrigger was raised. Documentation has been provided showing that ships of this form were in fact known by Europeans in period.

Lukas von Adlersh. Name.

Mairghread nighean Eanruig. Name.

Malcolm McFarlane. Name.
Submitted as Malcolm MacFarlane, he requested an early 15th century form of the name. This spelling was closer to what he wanted and was a minor change. The closest dated citation we have is from Black, Mcpharlane, c. 1385.

Milborough Aldaway. Name.

Morwenna Ælflæd o'r Glyn. Name and device. Sable, a hedgehog statant argent and a sinister gore ermine.

Muirghein ni Ghrainne. Change of device. Per pale or and azure, a demi unicorn rampant to sinister argent, gorged of a coronet or, issuant from a base engrailed argent.
Her previous device Per pale or and azure, a demi unicorn rampant to sinister argent issuant from a base engrailed argent. is hereby released.

Neil Greenstone. Acceptance of Transfer of Badge from Adalberon Blackwood. Sable, a double-bitted axe and a bordure Or.

Reinar Jorgensen. Name and device. Argent, a drakkar sable, overall a double-bitted axe and a bordure gules.

West, Kingdom of of the. Badge. [Fieldless] Three arrowheads conjoined in pall inverted, points to center, within and conjoined to an annulet Or.

West, Kingdom of the. Transfer of Heraldic Title of Harpy Herald to Society for Creative Anachronism.

Wilhelm von Schwartzwald. Reblazon. Azure, three flames gules fimbriated Or, each charged with a heart argent.
This blazon better reflects the emblazon than the orignal one which had the hearts emflammant proper.

Yedaya Magdiel. Name.

THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN RETURNED FOR FURTHER WORK:

AN TIR

None!

ANSTEORRA

Gwendolene Melver. Device. Per bend sinister azure and argent, three pallets issuant from the line of division Or and a crocus purpure slipped and leaved vert.
This is being returned for unidentifability of the crocus. There were many guesses at the Laurel meeting as to what the charge was, none of them being a crocus. The overall design would be improved by making the first half paly instead of having pallets issuing from the line of division.

Gwyddno ap Gruffudd Myrddin. Name.
The submitter asked for a review on the use of the name Myrddin, which had been previously ruled unacceptable for SCA usage, and provided information that was hoped would result in the overturn of this ruling. I can do no better than to quote some of Harpy's (copious) commentary on the name.
"As with just about everything with Arthurian associations, you can find books out there that will claim just about anything. Frankly, I'm very skeptical about any book with John (or Caitlin) Matthews as an author -- their work is highly speculative. Geoffrey Ashe is considerably more respected, but his actual reference in the cited work is to Geoffrey of Monmouth's knowledge of "traditions of a more or less historical bard named Myrddin". This is a considerable step away from Ashe claiming that there actually was a historic bard by that name, as opposed to a story about a supposedly historic bard by that name. I have not found evidence of any period use of the name for any individual other than the highly suspicious poet/prophet. In short, the submitter's evidence, while presented in perfectly good faith, is nothing new and does not affect the conclusion that Myrddin was not an actual Welsh given name in ordinary use in period."
The armory was registered under the name Gwyddno of Tempio.

Rhiain nic Muirgheal. Name.
While Rhiain is found in Gruffudd's Welsh Personal Names, no one was able to provide evidence that it is a period Welsh name.

Rykert Vercruysse. Device. Argent, on a pile gules a cross crosslet fitchy argent.
This is being returned for conflict with Gustav Athanasius von Hausenstadt (for House Hausenstadt) (SCA), Argent, on a pile gules a hippogriff passant argent between three Latin crosses Or, and the West Kingdom s 2/75 badge for the Order of the Silver Molet, Argent, on a pile gules an antique crown voided Or. In both cases there is only one CD for changes to the tertiary groups.

Thorgard inn Svarti. Badge. Argent, in cross four Norse ravens displayed sable.
This is being returned for several, related reasons. To being with the birds as drawn were not sable, but argent with sable details (on argent field). This violated the rule of tincture. Furthermore, as drawn they are not identifiable as Ravens. They have been drawn in a too stylized manner. Finally this submission is in conflict with Prussia, Argent, an eagle displayed sable crowned Or: there is a CD for the number of birds, but there is nothing for the difference between displayed eagles and displayed ravens, and there is nothing for the crown.

ATENVELDT

Aleksina Dominova Bystrycha. Device. Gyronny azure and argent, four annulets interlaced in cross Or.
This conflicts with Eilis ni Roibeard O'Boirne, (Tinctureless) A quatrefoil knot. There is one CD for the field, but nothing for tincture against tinctureless armory and nothing for the difference in the knots.

Bengta Rolfsdotter. Device. Azure, on a mullet of four points within an orle of Wake knots argent a Viking longship sable.
This is being return for a redraw. As drawn the knots are not Wake knots, but rather Celtic interlace, which we do not do. The tails of the knots need to come out fesswise, not palewise, and the knots should not be solid, but rather the field should show through.

Ealasaid nan Oighean. Badge. Azure, a wing wielding a sword fesswise argent.
This is being returned for conflict with Ealdormere (fieldless) A wing terminating in a hand argent maintaining a sword fesswise reversed Or. The only difference is the tincture of the sword, which is much less than half of the visual mass of the object, and with Dante Aligheri (important non-SCA arms) Azure, a sinister wing argent.

Fearghas an Cu. Device. Vert, a wolfhound's head erased contourny Or.
This is being returned for conflict with Wulfgar der Krieger (SCA) Gyronny of six palewise sable and argent, a wolf's head erased contourny Or. There is one CD for the difference in the fields.

Granite Mountain, Shire of. Name.
This is being returned for lack of a petition of support. Submissions for a group name or device must include evidence of support.

Isabel d'Anjou Detruie-Noms. Name.
This name was supposed to mean Isabel d'Anjou, mangler or destroyer of names. However, no evidence was supplied that such an epithet was period, and her own documentation states
The lady in question seeks to establish a name that will express the notion of mangler of names and to have the name expressed in terms of the French language. It is a matter of certainty that no such name can be historically documented, and we therefore do not seek such documentation.
Barring evidence that such an epithet is period, we are forced to return the name. We could not drop the epithet, and register the name as Isabel d'Anjou, because that would then conflict with Isabelle of Anjou, who was Queen of Jerusalem.

Ivar Snaebjorn. Name.
Old Norse does not use unmarked patronymics, so the proper ON name formed from these elements would be varr SnÆbjarnarson. The Old Norse nickname for ice bear (polar bear) is hvítabjörn, not snaebjorn. Since the submitter refuses to take changes, we have no choice but to return the name.

Owain Norgard of Greenbriar. Device. Per fess indented azure and Or, two harps addorsed Or and a dragon passant contourny vert maintaining in its dexter forepaw a sheaf of arrows sable all within an orle of leaves conjoined counterchanged.
This is being returned for unidentifability. The leaves were not clearly leaves, or any other distinct charge.

Owen Blakshepe. Name change.
This is being returned for the second time for lack of paperwork. Changes must include new name forms!

Roger fitzRolf Le Normand. Household name for House Enduring.
This is being returned for non period style of the household name. RfS III.2.b.iv. requires that "Household names must follow the patterns of period names of organized groups of people." and notes that "Possible models include Scottish clans (Clan Stewart), ruling dynasties (House of Anjou), professional guilds (Baker's Guild of Augsburg, Worshipful Company of Coopers), military units (The White Company), and inns (House of the White Hart)." Enduring does not fit any of these models.

Rurik Zhenyanovich Tikhon. Name.
Rurik is usually spelled Ryurik (assuming you are using Revised Standard transliteration, as the spelling of the second element would seem to indicate). The second element is incorrectly formed. The son of Zhenya would be Zheninovich but the form is very odd and Zhenya is probably out of period. The form Ryurik Evgenovich Tikhon would be a period form. Since the second element is incorrectly formed, and the client will not accept changes, this must be returned.

Sterling Schawn Leopard. Household name for Manor of the Silent Rose.
This is being returned for two reasons. It conflicts with the Order of the Rose. While in most cases, addition of an adjective clears conflict (eg. Order of the Golden Aardvark is clear of House Aardvark) the names of the SCA peerage orders and important mundane orders are given additional protection per RfS VI.4. Additionally, this is being returned for non-period style. By and large, manor names are ordinary English place-names, often modified to include the name or station of an early holder of the manor. Ekwall has many examples of this type, including: Melton Mowbray (Melton Moubray 1284) was held by Roger de Moubray c.1125; Melton Constable (sic 1320) was held by the constable of the bishop of Norwich; Dowlish Wake (Duueliz Wak 1243) was held by Ralph Wac in 1189; Felton Butler (Felton Butiler 1205-30) was held by Hamo fitz Buteler c.1165 and by Hamo Pincernator `butler' 1242; and Miserden (Musardera 1187) was held in 1086 by Huscoit Musard. In this last example Musard is a nickname from Old French musard `dreamer', and Ekwall glosses Musardere as `Musard's manor'. In a few cases the manor name is derived directly from that of a holder. For example, on p.195 of The Origin of English Place Names Reaney notes the example of Garnons (La Gernunere 1231 `the manor of the Gernons'), which in 1086 was held by Robert Gernun. Finally, many manor names are just ordinary English place-names; for example, McKinley mentions onomastic data from 1305 from the manor of Broadwell (modern spelling).

Tarimaat Ankhseniset the Exile. Name and device. Argent, a lotus affronty azure, seeded Or.
Pharaonic Egyptian names were ruled out of the scope of the SCA on the 3/95 LoAR. This submission does not provide us with any reason to overturn that policy. In fact, even without that ruling, this name would have had to have been returned since no information was provided to indicate that the two elements of the name are correctly combined. The device is being returned for conflict with the mon of the Emperor of Japan [tinctureless] A chrysanthemum.

Tarimaat Ankhseniset the Exile. Badge [Fieldless] A lotus affronty azure, seeded Or.
This is being returned for conflict with the mon of the Emperor of Japan [tinctureless] A chrysanthemum.

ATLANTIA

Christoff Eldridge. Device. Per saltire Or and vert, a fox passant contourny maintaining a sword argent and a bordure counterchanged.
This is being returned for a redraw. The fox as drawn was not clearly black or white; the opinion of the meeting was just about divided half and half. Also, while not a cause for return, it would be better if the sword were in a standard heraldic position, eg, held straight up.

Erika Rothals. Device. Gules, on a beer mug Or, two Roman letters "X" in fess sable and a bordure Or.
This is being returned for conflict with Daniel de Tankard (SCA), Gules a tankard of beer Or, headed argent. It was the consensus of everyone at the meeting that the X were not enough to count for difference; that they appeared to be merely internal detailing.

Highland Foorde, Shire of. Badge. Azure, a compass star within a bordure wavy argent.
This is being returned for conflict with Elgil Mirdil of Dor-Mallos (SCA) , Gules, a mullet of seven points within a bordure nebuly argent., Elsbeth Caerwent (SCA), Azure, a compass star elongated to base argent, a bordure wavy argent semy of forget-me- nots azure, slipped and leaved vert., and the trademark of the Maersk trucking company: Bleu- celeste a mullet of seven points argent.

CAID

Ulfrikr Bjornssen. Device. Vert, on a plate a wolf's head erased sable.
This is being returned for conflict with Anne of the Golden Mantle (SCA) Vert, on a plate a swan naiant couped on the fess line sable.

DRACHENWALD

Aodhnait inghean mhic Chárthaigh. Device. Per pale, paly azure and argent, and sable a griffin Or.
This is in conflict with the device of Degary Golafry of Pembroke (SCA), Quarterly sable and gules, a griffin segreant coward bearing in her dexter talon a Celtic cross and in her sinister talon a sword inverted Or. There is only one CD, for the field. Tail position and the carried charges do not count for difference.

EAST

Connor MacLiam. Name.
This is being returned for not being a period form. There is no real evidence for Liam as a period name. He might consider an English form of Mac Uilliam (e.g., M'Eleam, M'Quillim), Mag Uillic (e.g., M'Gilleg), Mac Uilcín (e.g., M'Cwlkine), Mac Uileagóid (e.g., M'Killegode), Mac Uilliméid (e.g., M'Ullemet, M'Collimet), or Mag Uilcín (e.g., M'Gillkine); the first is from William, the next seems to be from an Irish diminutive Uillecc, and the rest are from the English diminutives Wilkin, Wilecot, Willemet, and Wilkin again. (All are from Woulfe, and the forms are late 16th or early 17th c.). The device was registered under the holding name Connor of Sunderoak.

MERIDIES

Aeruin ní ó Chonemara. Badge. [Fieldless] On a feather palewise argent, a rose surmounted by a crown sable.
This is being returned for exceeding our registration limit of four. She already has four pieces of armory registered to her: Per chevron inverted sable and vert, a Grey Heron displayed argent, beaked and membered Or, and in chief a compass star gules, fimbriated argent., Per chevron inverted sable and vert, in chief a compass star gules, fimbriated, and in base two heron's heads, couped at the shoulders, respectant argent, beaked and crested Or., Per pale ermine and counter-ermine, an eagle displayed maintaining in its talons a sword bendwise and a coin, all within a bordure counterchanged sable and argent., and (Fieldless) A popinjay contourny proper, perched atop a trumpet fesswise reversed Or. To register another piece of armory, she will have to release one of the above.

Beircheart de Duglass. Name and device. Azure, on a bend argent three hearts palewise gules.
This name is being returned for mixing Gaelic and non- Gaelic spellings . This needs to have either an Anglicized form of the forename or a Gaelic form of the surname. Whatever the actual origin of the saint's name, Berihart is a reasonable Anglicized of the submitted form, and Berihart de Duglass should be registerable. Ignoring a modern accent, Dubhghlas is the form given by Dwelly for the surname; Beircheart Dubhghlas might be the modern Scots Gaelic form of his name. Berihart de Duglass is closer to what he submitted in both sound and appearance. Given the different possibilities, we are returning this to allow him to choose. The armory is being returned for conflict with Andrea de Champs de Batailles, (SCA) Azure, on a bend argent a unicorn's head palewise couped sable between two cinquefoils purpure, and Pasgen ap Rhys (SCA) , Azure on a bend argent a dragon passant azure armed and scaled Or, and in canton an emerald proper. Although it is not immediately obvious from the convoluted blazon of Pasgen's device, all of his charges are on the bend.

Eleri of Caerleon. Device. Argent, a winged mermaid proper crined sable, winged and tailed azure, head to dexter, maintaining in dexter hand a bow sable and in sinister hand an arrow argent.
This is being returned for insufficient contrast. I quote the return in a similar case from the LoAR of 9/92.
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.) 9/92

Loric Silvestris. Badge. Gules fretty Or, a unicorn rampant sable.
This is being returned for violating RfS VIII.2.b.i., "The field must have good contrast with every charge placed directly on it and with charges placed overall." Therefore the sable unicorn cannot be put on a gules field

Meridies, Kingdom of. Badge for Order of the Argent Lily. Sable, a lily slipped and leaved within a bordure embattled argent.
This is being returned for conflict with Keridwen of Montrose, Sable, an iris within an annulet argent. As drawn it appears closer to an iris than a lily, thereby leaving only on CD for the change from a bordure to an annulet.

Meridies, Kingdom of. Badge for Order of the Sable Sword. [Fieldless] An escutcheon argent, overall a sword sable.
There are two problems with this badge. It violates the partial ban on overall charges in fieldless armory, and the sword is just barely overall, which is in any case cause for return.

Meridies, Kingdom of. Name for Order of St. James de Compostella.
This conflicts with both the order and the city of Santiago de Compostela. In most cases this would be clear, as we don t count conflict by translation and the standard name references consistantly refer to the order and thecity in the Spanish form. Santiago de Compstela, however, is both in period and today one of the greatest Catholic pilgrimage destinations in Europe, second only to Rome. This submission is unmistakably evocative of the shrine. Therefore we are returning it under RfS VI.4., which grants extra protection to certain "widely known and revered protected items".

Qara Moridai. Device. Argent, a sea-dragon rampant vert between three roses gules, slipped and leaved proper.
This is being returned for conflict with Minimoto Akataro (SCA) Argent, a dragon rampant vert holding in the dexter forepaw a Latin cross trefly Or., and with Erik of Flamewood, Argent a wyvern erect vert maintaining an oak leaf and a fireball gules. We give no difference between a dragon, a sea-dragon and a wyvern, leaving only one CD for the addition of the secondaries.

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