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Aleksandra Ekaterina Romanova. Name. 
Submitted as Aleksandra Ekaterina Romanovna, the submitter requested authenticity for Russian language/culture.  Nebuly best summarizes the authenticity issues with this name:
The name has two serious oddities that prevent it from being an authentic Russian name, as the client wishes.  First, as Paul Wickenden has said many times, period Russian restricted use of the -ovna ending to royalty; the standard ending would be -ova.  Secondly, the submission has a double given name.  Wickenden (p. xvii-xviii) notes that there are records with apparent double given names, but the pattern is to have a Christian given name followed by a native Russian given name, and consensus is that the native Russian name was probably the commonly used name.  We would thus need to drop one of the given names to meet her desire for an authentic name.
As the submitter does not allow major changes, we cannot drop one of the given names to make this name authentic as she has requested.  We have changed the submitted Romanovna to the standard, non-royal, Romanova to partially comply with her request for authenticity.
Having two given Christian names in a Russian name was ruled a weirdness in the June 1997 LoAR.  As both Aleksandra and Ekaterina are Christian names, this submission has one weirdness and is registerable.
Andreiana Ekaterina Romanova. Name. 
Submitted as Andreiana Ekaterina Romanovna, the submitter requested authenticity for Russian language/culture.  Nebuly best summarizes the authenticity issues with this name:
The name has two serious oddities that prevent it from being an authentic Russian name, as the client wishes.  First, as Paul Wickenden has said many times, period Russian restricted use of the -ovna ending to royalty; the standard ending would be -ova.  Secondly, the submission has a double given name.  Wickenden (p. xvii-xviii) notes that there are records with apparent double given names, but the pattern is to have a Christian given name followed by a native Russian given name, and consensus is that the native Russian name was probably the commonly used name.  We would thus need to drop one of the given names to meet her desire for an authentic name.
As the submitter does not allow major changes, we cannot drop one of the given names to make this name authentic as she has requested.  We have changed the submitted Romanovna to the standard, non-royal, Romanova to partially comply with her request for authenticity.
Having two given Christian names in a Russian name was ruled a weirdness in the June 1997 LoAR.  As both Andreiana and Ekaterina are Christian names, this submission has one weirdness and is registerable.
Arthur Greene of Deerhurst. Device. Vert, a deer rampant contourny Or within a bordure per saltire sable and Or. 
This device was submitted under the name Arthur of Deerhurst Greene.  His name was registered as Arthur Greene of Deerhurst in April 2001.
Please advise the submitter to draw the bordure wider.
Çinara beguy urdina. Name and device. Per bend gules and sable, a bend Or between two roses argent. 
Diarmaid de Rossa. Device. Per pale sable and azure, a harp argent its forepillar entwined of a rose vine proper and an orle argent. 
An issue was raised in commentary about the identifiablity of the harp, since the mini-emblazon appeared to have no strings.  The harp in the full sized emblazon does have strings.  The rose vine is prominent enough to blazon, although not enough to be worth difference. 
Dun an Chalaidh, Shire of. Branch name. 
Good name!
Fiona of Lions Gate. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Azure, on a chevron cotised argent three butterflies azure. 
This armory was submitted under the name Aislinn Fiona of Rumm.
Lí Ban ingen Echtigeirn. Badge. (Fieldless) Two horses' heads addorsed couped conjoined Or. 
There were a number of comments from the College about the artwork of this submission.  To address each in turn: The line of couping on the heads is slightly curved, but so shallowly as to be almost  imperceptible.  This line is a reasonable artistic variation of couped.  The amount of neck showing is standard for a period horse's head, and thus these heads do not need to be blazoned as couped at the shoulders.  The manes dangling down past the couping point seem to be a valid unblazonable artist's choice, given the various degree of mane flourishes shown by equines, unicorns, lions, et cetera, in the heraldic art of our period.
Lyonsmarche, College of. Branch name change from Lions March, College of. 
Tadgg h-úa Faelan. Device. Vairy sable and argent, a boar passant gules. 
Tadgg h-úa Faelan. Badge. (Fieldless) A boar passant gules. 
Elegant badge!
Titus Valerius Romanus. Name. 
Uilliam Mac Támhais. Name and device. Sable, two chevronels and in base a spider inverted argent. 
ANSTEORRA
Aedh Finn mac Cormaic. Name. 
Aleksandra Drachenklaue. Name. 
The name was submitted as Aleksandra von Drachenklaue.  Two of the items included as documentation in the LoI need to be addressed.
The first issue is documentation of a location named Drachenklaue found on a Web site: “[I]t would appear that there is a place in Germany (or possibly Denmark) called Drachenklaue (see, e.g., http://www.drachental.de/ijamarcar/im_map.htm, #44), so-called because of a triangular natural feature which looks like a claw.”
Metron Ariston examined the site and explains that it “appears to be a home page based on a German fantasy role-playing scenario.  The page features joint writing projects, fantasy stories based in this joint world and fantasy role-playing scenarios.”  As such, it is not support for the use of Drachenklaue as a placename in period.
The second issue is previous registrations of von Drachenklaue mentioned on the LoI.  These are not relevant since documentation requirements have changed since the first registration of the byname von Drachenklaue in 1986.
However, the epithet byname Drackenhand is dated to 1367 in Brechenmacher (s.n. Drachenhand).  The logic that a parallel epithet Drachenklaue could have existed allowed the registration of Katerina Drachenklaue in November 1997.
As this submitter allows minor changes, we are dropping the particle von in order to register this name using the same logic that was used for Katerina's registration in 1997.
Anton Cwith. Name. 
The submitter requested authenticity for 16th C German-Welsh.  No documentation has been provided of substantial contact between German and Welsh cultures.  Therefore, a name combining German and Welsh elements is not registerable.
Withycombe (s. n. Anthony) says that “[the name] appears as Anton in Middle Scots”.  Withycombe's strength lies in English.  In most cases, when she is referring to names that are not in English, she is referring to modern forms.  As such, any undated references in Withycombe to forms of names in other languages ought to have additional support.  In this case, Black (pp. 25-26, s. n. Anton) gives it as a shortened form of the Latin Antonius and dates Anton as a given name to 1623.  The combination of Scots and Welsh is registerable, though it is considered a weirdness.  As such, Anton Cwith is registerable as a mix of Scots and Welsh.
Note: this ruling does not alter previous rulings prohibiting mixed Gaelic/Welsh names, as Scots is a different language than Scottish Gaelic.
Avery Shaw. Name and device. Pean, a pall inverted azure fimbriated Or. 
Bjorn inn kvensami. Name and device. Sable, on a bend azure fimbriated between two swords bendwise a sword Or. 
Submitted as Bjorn inn Kvensami, we have changed the capitalization of the byname to match the documentation.
Brian du Val. Name and device. Bendy and per bend sinister azure and argent, a goblet within an orle Or. 
Briony Moondragon. Name and device. Gules, an eagle and on a chief Or three roses gules. 
Briony is the submitter's legal given name.  Moondragon is registerable to her via the Grandfather Clause as her father is Tivar Moondragon (reg. May 1980).
Attractive arms!
Claire la Combe. Name. 
Elinora inghean ui Ruairc. Name. 
Evet Drachenklaue. Name and device. Argent, a dragon segreant azure within a bordure sable. 
The name was submitted as Evet von Drachenklaue.  Two of the items included as documentation in the LoI need to be addressed.
The first issue is documentation of a location named Drachenklaue found on a Web site: “[I]t would appear that there is a place in Germany (or possibly Denmark) called Drachenklaue (see, e.g., http://www.drachental.de/ijamarcar/im_map.htm, #44), so-called because of a triangular natural feature which looks like a claw.”
Metron Ariston examined the site and explains that it “appears to be a home page based on a German fantasy role-playing scenario.  The page features joint writing projects, fantasy stories based in this joint world and fantasy role-playing scenarios.”  As such, it is not support for the use of Drachenklaue as a placename in period.
The second issue is previous registrations of von Drachenklaue mentioned on the LoI.  These are not relevant since documentation requirements have changed since the first registration of the byname von Drachenklaue in 1986.
However, the epithet byname Drackenhand is dated to 1367 in Brechenmacher (s.n.  Drachenhand).  The logic that a parallel epithet Drachenklaue could have existed allowed the registration of Katerina Drachenklaue in November 1997.
As this submitter allows minor changes, we are dropping the particle von in order to register this name using the same logic that was used for Katerina's registration in 1997.
This is clear of the arms of Melyssande Dunn, Argent, a wyvern erect sable, winged and bellied azure within a bordure per saltire counter-ermine and azure. In Melyssande's arms, the wyvern is half sable.  Thus, there is a CD for the tincture of the primary charge and another for the tincture of the peripheral bordure.
Fridhur Haralds. Device change. Per chevron Or and azure, two pomegranates gules slipped and leaved vert and issuant from base a demi-sun Or. 
Her previous device, Per chevron Or and azure, in chief a dolphin and issuant from base a demi-sun counterchanged, is released.
Geneviève del Gamba. Device. Azure, an increscent within an orle of fleurs-de-lys argent. 
Godwin Alfricson. Badge. (Fieldless) A dragon's head erased gules maintaining in its mouth a blacksmith's hammer reversed Or. 
Since the July 1992 LoAR, the term maintaining has been used for grasped or held items which are too small to be worth difference. Sustaining and supporting have been used for a grasped or held item which is of comparable visual weight to the item holding it, and thus worth difference.  In cases where other blazon words are used for the act of holding an item, the blazon is ambiguous about whether the held item is significant or not.  It is true that the term maintaining literally derives from a Latin phrase for holding in a hand, and thus is not ideal for blazoning an item which is held in the mouth, or by the tail, of an animal. However, it seems preferable to remove the blazon ambiguity and use the word maintaining in these cases.
Gwenlliana de Verdun. Name. 
The submitter requested changes for authenticity to 12th-14th C Wales / England.  The locative byname de Verdun was documented as French.  Since Reaney & Wilson (s. n. Verden) date Iue de Verdun to 1101-7, the submitted form matches her requested time and location.
Herbert von Kalden. Name. 
Isobel Grace Hadleigh. Badge. (Fieldless) A salamander tergiant inverted and another tergiant conjoined in annulo sable enflamed proper. 
Jane Templeman. Name and device. Per bend sinister gules and Or, a pheasant contourny and a pheasant counterchanged. 
Joseph MacClennan. Name. 
Originally listed on the LoI as Joseph MacClennon, this name was corrected to Joseph MacClennan on a Letter of Correction.
Martin Fletcher. Device. Per saltire argent and gules, an eagle displayed and in chief two compass stars sable. 
Muriella de Clare. Name and device. Argent, six wolves rampant and on a chief azure three escarbuncles argent. 
Submitted as Muriella de Claire, no support for the spelling de Claire was found.  Therefore we have substituted the documented form de Clare.
Robert Michael McPharlan. Name and device. Or, on a bend sinister between two eagles displayed sable three roses Or. 
An examination of the development of the various heraldic eagles shows that the direction of the wingtips of a displayed eagle is entirely a matter of artistic license.  To avoid incorrectly limiting the submitter's ability to display the arms in reasonable period variants, we will no longer specify “elevated” and “inverted” when blazoning displayed birds.  A nice set of examples of eagles over time is found in Walter Leonhard's Das Grosse Buch der Wappenkunst.
Seanán mac Tighearnáin. Name and device. Sable, on a pile Or between two swords in pile argent an anvil sable. 
Submitted as Seanán mac Tighearnán with a request for authenticity to the 11th C, a Letter of Correction removed the request for authenticity and corrected the surname to Tighearnáin, putting it in the genitive case as required by Gaelic grammar.  As such, we have left the name in the late period orthography.
Seburga de Aldebourne. Name and device. Per chevron purpure and sable, two fleurs-de-lys and a sword Or. 
Submitted as Sibri de Aldebourne, the given name Sibri is documented as a Latin genitive form of Seburga.  In the given name position, the name must appear in the nominative case.  All examples that we could find of this name in the nominative case contained a “g”.  As the submitter allows any changes, we have changed the given name to the form Seburga dated to 1222 in Reaney & Wilson (p. 397, s. n. Seaber).
Sigerith d'Aiencort. Device. Per chevron purpure and ermine, a dragon dormant contourny argent and a rose purpure, barbed vert, charged with another argent, seeded Or. 
As drawn, the dragon's head is entirely obscured by the body.  Please instruct the submitter to draw this with the head having some outline against the field, which would help its recognizability.
William Worm. Device. Gules, a monk's hood Or. 
Possible conflicts were called against  Catherine the Merry, Azure, a fool's cap Or, and Amata Quentin Motzhart, Gules, a jester's cap lozengy argent and sable.  In both cases, a necessary CD must come from the type of the hat.  There is a CD between a monk's hood, and either a jester's/fool's hat or a jester's hood.  Both these latter charges, according to the Pictorial Dictionary, have tall padded pointed horns ending with bells and cannot be visually confused with the monk's hood.
Xenos the Butcher. Name. 
The byname the Butcher is registerable in this instance via the lingua Anglica allowance.  The Greek form of this name (transliterated) would be Xenos Mageiros.
ATENVELDT
Aron the Falcon. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
Submitted as Arion the Falcon, the given name Arion was documented as the name of a “semi-legendary Greek poet of the 7th C BC, reputedly the first poet to use dithyramb”.  The suggestion was made that Arion could be viwed as one of the names revived in the Renaissance.  Metron Ariston found a reference to this Arion in the poetry of John Gower (circa 1325-1408).  However, this is the only reference to Arion that the College found in English works from the Middle Ages.  Barring evidence that the Greek poet Arion was more broadly known in England than a single reference in poetry, it is not likely that the name Arion was revived.  As such, the documentation stands with only the reference to the 7th C BC Greek poet, which is more than 1000 years before an appropriate date for the byname, and therefore it would be returnable.
Bardsley (p. 60, s. n. Aron) dates documents Aron as a variant of Aaron in Middle English.  Since the submitter allows any changes and notes that sound is most important, we have registered this name as Aron the Falcon.
Birna Valthjófsdóttir. Name and device. Checky vert and Or, a bear rampant contourny ermine. 
Christina of Cork. Name. 
Submitted as Christina of County Cork, no documentation was provided for the use of County in a personal byname, nor did the College find any.  As such, County has been dropped to register this name.
Edward of Atenveldt. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Argent, a drawn wooden bow and arrow proper fletched and headed sable on a chief azure four mountains couped argent. 
This armory was submitted under the name Edward of Cornwall.
Finn hua Cellaig. Name and device. Vert, a lion rampant contourny and a chief Or. 
Good name!
Helena Seren de Luna. Name and device. Azure, a crescent Or surmounted by a nude red-headed woman arms upraised proper winged Or. 
Submitted as Helena Serén de Luna, the byname Serén was documented from De Felice's Dizionario dei cognomi Italiani.  The accents in this source are there as pronunciation guides, and are not part of the spelling.
Mixing Spanish and Italian in a name is registerable, though it is a weirdness.
Ianuk Raventhorne. Name. 
Submitted as Ianuk Raventhourne, no documentation was provided and none was found for the “u” in Raventhourne.  We have therefore removed it.
Isabel du Lac d'Azur. Badge. (Fieldless) Three thistles conjoined in pall inverted bases to center proper within and conjoined to an annulet Or. 
The thistles were blazoned in the LoI as proper.  The Glossary of Terms notes some ambiguity in the SCA as to the proper for thistles.  The Glossary allows a thistle proper to have either a red or purple flower.  The flower is much less than half the charge so its tincture is not heraldically significant, and as a result there is no armorial conflict ambiguity because of this policy.  In this submission, the flowers (including the globular part, usually drawn as vert) are purpure.  We have preserved the submitted blazon but caution the submitter that if the purple color is important to her, she should submit a request for reblazon.
The thistle flowers are correctly conjoined to the annulet. The annulet is drawn at the edge of the circle of the form, so that at first glance it appears to be a bordure.  This sort of depiction should be avoided, as it causes confusion.
Kathryn of Atenveldt. Holding name and device. Per fess wavy vert and sable, in pale a dolmen and two unicorns combattant argent. 
In June 2001, her submitted name, Ciara inghaen uí Bheithir, was returned.
Sorcha inghean Dhara mhic Seachnasaigh. Device. Per fess azure and vert, a lozenge ployé within and conjoined to the horns of an increscent a bordure argent. 
ATLANTIA
Aramon de Cantigny. Name. 
There was some question as to whether Aramon was a  period French masculine given name.
Morlet's Dictionnaire Étymologique de Noms de Famille (which is a revised edition of Dauzat's Noms et Prenoms), p. 50 s. n. Arramond, gives this as a Gascon variant of Ramon(d) but gives no dates for this name.  Since Remon, Haimmon, and Simon (all derived from Germanic names that normally end in -mund) appear in the 1292 Paris census, Aramon would seem to be plausible.
The submitter requested an authentic name for 16th C French.  We have no evidence that this name is authentic for the 16th C, but it is registerable.
Caer Gelynniog, College of. Name. 
This name does not conflict with the Shire of Caer Galen (reg. May 1980 via Atenveldt) due to the addition of the syllable -iog.
Catlin McRay. Badge. (Fieldless) A spiderweb couped sable charged with an increscent argent. 
Cunradt Scholl von Franken. Device. Quarterly gules and Or, in bend sinister a catamount rampant and another contourny sable. 
Dubhghall Bàn. Name and device. Argent, a thistle proper on a chief vert three Celtic crosses Or. 
Submitted as Dùghall Bàn, the form Dùghall was cited from Black (p. 217 s. n. Dougal).  While Black cites this as a Gaelic form, he gives no date for it.  The standard pre-1200 form of this name is Dubgall, and the standard post-1200 form is Dubhghall.  The submitted form seems to be a modern form.  We have therefore changed this to a period form.
Ellen Miller. Name and device. Argent, on a bend sinister cotised azure a quatrefoil palewise argent. 
Good name!
Gemma Stone. Name and device. Argent, a dragon passant and on a chief sable three crescents argent. 
The question came up as to whether this name should be returned as a “joke name”.  The following precedent applies:
The fact that this is a “joke name” is not, in and of itself, a problem.  The College has registered a number of names, perfectly period in formation, that embodied humor: Drew Steele, Miles Long, and John of Somme Whyre spring to mind as examples.  (Porsche Audi, August, 1992, pg. 28)
Gemma Stone seems to be no more obtrusively modern than Drew Steele, Miles Long, and John of Somme Whyre cited above.  As such, we are registering the name.
Giles Warinot. Name. 
Good name!
Hrosvitha von Celle. Name. 
Jacquetta Edington of Yorkshire. Device. Purpure, a goblet and in chief three roses Or. 
Jacquette Beamonte. Name. 
Katarina Kittmann. Name and device. Purpure, a unicorn rampant and on a chief embattled argent three roses purpure. 
Listed on the LoI as Katarina Kitter, the name was submitted as Katarina Kittmann and changed at kingdom as no documentation could be found for Kittmann.  Metron Ariston found support for Kittmann, so we are returning the name to that form.
The device is clear of conflict with Iana of Whiteclif, Purpure, a unicorn rampant and on a chief argent three fleurs-de-lis purpure. There is a CD for the embattling of the chief by X.4.e.  There is also a CD for the change of the type of tertiaries between roses and fleurs-de-lys by X.4.j.ii.c.  Roses and fleurs-de-lys are substantially different.  They are two of the more common charges in real-world heraldry.  When used as primary charges, the change from a fleur-de-lys to a rose (or vice versa) would not have been considered a standard cadency change, thus meeting the definition of “substantial” as per rule X.2.  They are visually dissimilar as well, having very different outlines.
The unicorn is in an acceptable rampant posture.  The bendwise posture of the body is quite common in later period armory especially when, as here, the tail balances the body and fills the remaining space to sinister.  Staff says that it is an “excellently goaty unicorn with a lovely tuft at the end of its tail”.
In a correctly drawn embattled line, the embattlements are square.  Please advise the submitter to draw a deeper embattling.
Kolfinna Ragnarsdottir. Name. 
Magnus balli Thorvaldsson. Name. 
Meadhbh inghean Thaidhg uí Domhnaill. Name. 
Listed on the LoI as Méabh inghean Thaidg ua Domnaill, the submitter requested authenticity for 14th to 15th C Irish.
The submitter documented Méabh from Ó Corráin & Maguire (p. 135 s. n. Medb).  When multiple forms are listed after the colon in headers in OCM, the first form after the colon is usually a period form and the latter forms are usually modern.  In this case, Méabh is almost certainly modern as it does not follow period spelling conventions.
The form we are registering here, Meadhbh inghean Thaidhg uí Domhnaill, is the appropriate form of this name for the submitter's desired time period.
Nice name!
Merewen Albern. Name and device. Azure, a trident between two fleurs-de-lys a bordure Or. 
Submitted as Merecwen Albeorn, both elements of this name were constructed by choosing a protheme and a deuterotheme from Searle and putting them together.  In Anglo-Saxon, not all prothemes and deuterothemes can be combined.  In this case, -cwen only appears as a deuterotheme once, and the case appears to be a variant of a name that normally appears in the form Cwenburh.  Thus it is not sufficient evidence that -cwen can be used as a deuterotheme with another protheme.  As such, we have changed the given name to Merewen which is documented as a given name in Reaney and Wilson (s.n. Marvin).
Something similar to the byname Albeorn is more plausible since Searle documents Albernus.
The submitter has requested authenticity for Anglo-Saxon language/culture and allows any changes.  As such, we are changing this name to Merewen Albern to follow documented examples.
Please advise the submitter to draw the bordure wider.
Metylda the Cunning. Name and device. Argent, a fox's mask gules between three quivers vert each containing two arrows sable. 
The submitter requested authenticity for Scots language/culture.  We have no evidence the Cunning was used as a byname in Scots, so we were unable to make the name authentic.  However, it is registerable.
Nottinghill Coill, Barony of. Badge. (Fieldless) Two Wake knots conjoined in pale argent. 
A Wake knot, as per the PicDic, is fesswise by default.  Two Wake knots in pale would be arranged like these.  However there is no guarantee that the loose ends would tie up as neatly as in this badge.  It is as likely that the loose ends would stick out and the round parts would be conjoined.
The fact that the loose ends do connect up with each other in an unbroken interlace could imply that this is “knotwork.” On the other hand, the knots maintain their identifiability as Wake knots, which are themselves a standard heraldic knot.  The conjunction may not be the only way to conjoin the knots, but it is an acceptable way to do so.
A pertinent precedent on the topic is in the LoAR of November 1994, for the Middle Kingdom's Order of the Cavendish Knot, [Fieldless] Four Cavendish knots conjoined in cross vert:
There was much commentary on the issue of whether the charge runs afoul of our long-standing ban on knotwork; the consensus here seems to be similar to that of several years ago when we were considering three Wake knots conjoined in pall: “The question is whether the conjunction of the knots diminishes their identifiability to the point where they should not be allowed.  In this case, the answer seems to be 'no'.  Note, however, that this would not be the case were the knots not of themselves clearly defined period heraldic charges, were the knot itself complex or requiring modification in shape to produce the conjunction (as would be the case with a Lacy knot) or were the numbers so increased ... as to diminish the size seriously.”  (Alisoun MacCoul of Elphane, LoAR of 26 November 1989, p. 9)
It should be noted, however, that this badge is probably pushing right to the limits of the allowance; an increase of number would probably begin to reduce the identifiability of the separate knots.
This conjunction of knots is a weirdness, but as there is only one such weirdness, it is registerable.
Richard de Montbrai. Badge. (Fieldless) A griffin passant azure. 
Classic badge!
Rivers Point, Canton of. Branch name and device. Or, a pall wavy purpure in chief a tower sable overall a laurel wreath vert. 
Listed on the LoI as River Point, Canton of, the name was originally submitted as Canton of Rivers' Point.  The LoI notes that “the submitters say that they are most concerned about the meaning, which they interpret as 'land at the confluence of two rivers.'”
No one was able to find documentation for Point with the meaning desired by the submitters.  However, documentation was found that a promontory that took its name from a person's surname could be named [surname] Point.  As Rivers is a reasonable surname, Rivers Point is a reasonable placename.
Tarvin, Shire of. Branch name (see RETURNS for device). 
Tessa of Crossgate. Name and device. Azure, on a bend sinister between two hearts argent a cross barby palewise sable. 
Wulf de Langhemerc. Name and device. Argent, a cross barby sable and a chief checky sable and argent. 
Good name!
CAID
Aidan Macpherson. Name and device. Per saltire azure and sable, an escarbuncle within an orle of ermine spots argent. 
The name was submitted as Aidan and changed at kingdom to Aedan due to lack of documentation for the form Aidan.  Precedent from the September 2000 LoAR supports registration of Aidan, as an Anglicized form of the Irish given name Áedán.
The ermine spots are identifiable here as charges in orle rather than an ermined field.  Having a bit more field showing between the escarbuncle and the spots would help avoid the possible confusion between these designs.  Because this is an orle of ermine spots, rather than an unusual field, this is clear of conflict with the badge of Cerelia de Lacy of Sherborne, Purpure, an escarbuncle argent.  There is one CD for the field and another for adding the orle of ermine spots.
Andreu Fayrfax. Name. 
Good name!
Basil Euphonios. Name. 
Submitted as Euphonius, the byname was changed to Euphonikos at kingdom.  Metron Ariston has found support for Euphonios as follows:
Actually, with the slight modification of changing the final vowel to an “o” from the Latinate “u”, the submitter's original byname of Euphonius would be far better than [one built] from a modern Greek dictionary.  The adjective ευφώνιος is used not only by poetical writers such as Pindar and Aeschylus but also by Aristotle and prose authors to describe individuals with a “good” or “sweet” voice.  The name Βασιλιος Ευφώνιος, which would be regularly anglicized in standard historical transliteration as Basil Euphonios, would be a fine classical, imperial or Byzantine name for an actor, singer or herald.  (Aristophanes uses the adjective ευφώνιος to describe a herald with a particularly loud voice, loudness in a herald being a Good Thing.)
Given this support, we have changed the byname to the suggested form Euphonios, which is only one character different from the originally submitted form.
Beathog nic Dhonnchaidh. Device. Gules chapé embattled, a talbot dormant Or between in pale the halves of a sword fracted proper. 
Beatrice Lillian Miller of Caithness. Name. 
Christiaen de Groote. Device. Or, on an eagle sable a cross formy fitchy Or a bordure embattled sable. 
This was pended from the March 2001 LoAR pending a ruling about whether we should extend the protection of the arms of the Holy Roman Empire, Or, a double-headed eagle displayed sable, to forms where the eagle is charged.  The July 2001 LoAR ruled against such extension of protection.  Therefore, this is clear of the Holy Roman Empire, with one CD for adding the bordure and another for adding the tertiary charge on the eagle.
Clarastella Dolfi. Name. 
Domhnall mac Pharlain. Name correction and device. Sable, a plate between three bull's heads cabossed Or. 
The submitter's given name was mistakenly registered as Domhall in January 2000.  We are hereby correcting that typo.
Domhnall mac Pharlain. Badge. (Fieldless) In pale a sprig of cranberry proper issuant from a bull's massacre Or. 
 Please advise the submitter to draw the issuant correctly. A properly drawn “issuant” would have the cranberry sprig coming right out of the top of the massacre rather than overlapping the scalp.
Eanswyth de Burthoswald. Name change from Lura Maureen of Burthoswald and device change. Per fess embattled azure and argent, two crosses bottony argent and a raven sable. 
Her previously registered name, Lura Maureen of Burthoswald, and device, Argent, a war hammer sable and on a chief nebuly gules three plates, are released.
Eilidh Swann Stralachlan. Badge. (Fieldless) On a sinister wing sable a crescent Or. 
Submitted under the name Eilidh Swann of Strathlachlan, the name was registed in March 1994 as Eilidh Swann Stralachlan.
Elena de Beaumont. Name change from Alix de Beaumont. 
Her previously registered name, Alix de Beaumont, is released.
Fáelán mac Cathail. Name. 
Good name!
Gertraud von Wuerzburg. Badge. Argent, a bend sinister vert overall a cross bottony gules. 
Goetz Ransom von Ravensburg. Name. 
Gregory Morgan. Device. Or, two natural panthers combattant sable and a bordure vert. 
Ian MacClennan. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
Ian has been ruled SCA-compatible.
This name is clear of Ian MacClen (reg. November 1991 via Calontir).  MacClen is a variant of MacClean which is a patronymic derived from the Gaelic given name Giolla Eoin. MacLennan is a patronymic derived from the Gaelic given name Lennán.  As neither Giolla Eoin nor Lennán is a diminutive of the other, they can only conflict if they do not differ significantly in sound or appearance.  The additional syllable in MacLennan brings it clear in both sound and appearance from MacClen.
Ian Ramsay. Name. 
Ian has been ruled SCA-compatible.  The question was raised whether this submission conflicts with either Sir John Ramsey or Bishop Ian Ramsey.  As neither has their own entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica, neither are protected and this submission is not in conflict with them.
Ilia Aleksandrovich. Name change from Guillaume Lenfant. 
His previously registered name, Guillaume Lenfant, is released.
Ingilborg Sigmundardóttir. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
Submitted as Ingilborg Sigmundsdóttir, the patronymic construction information on p. 17 of Geirr Bassi indicates the correct patronymic form of the byname is Sigmundardóttir.  We have made this correction.
Inigo Missaglia. Name and device. Purpure, a chevron between three grape leaves inverted within an orle Or. 
The submitter requested authenticity for 12th-14th C Italian.  As we were unable to find evidence that the given name Inigo was used in Italy during this period, we were unable to make this name authentic.
It is standard SCA practice for an ordinary within an orle or double tressure to stop at the inside of the surrounding charge, as per the reblazon of Rouland Carre's arms in January 1991:
Rouland Carre.  Device.  Argent, on a bend cotised azure within an orle gules, in chief a Latin cross argent.
The LoAR blazoned this as “cotised couped”, which would not have the bend throughout within the orle.
In the real world, both the “throughout” and the “within and conjoined to” combinations of ordinaries and orles/double tressures may be found, without a clear default.  David Lindsay of the Mount's 1542 roll of arms gives five examples of ordinaries combined with double tressures flory counterflory.  There is support for both designs in this book: with the ordinary throughout, and with the ordinary within and conjoined to the double tressure flory counterflory.  Both designs are specifically found with chevrons.
Innocenzio da Gagliano. Name and device. Azure, a lion and in chief three mullets Or. 
A simple, classic heraldic design using some of the most common charges in period and only two tinctures.  Wonderful!
Katheryn Bedford. Name and device. Vert, a chevron between three roses argent barbed and seeded Or, a chief embattled argent. 
Good name!
Liuete Liana da Luna. Name and device. Per pale azure and purpure, a cross of Calatrava and on a chief argent a decrescent azure between two mullets purpure. 
It may interest the College to know that examples of a chief charged with a group of charges of dissimilar tincture and type are known from the Tudor period in England.  Thomas (Cardinal) Wolsey's arms were Sable on a cross engrailed argent a lion passant guardant gules between three (lion's) faces (azure or sable?) on a chief Or a rose gules between two cocks sable (per p. 80 of Gwynn-Jones and Bedingfield's Heraldry).  Another example of a chief using a tertiary group with mixed types and tinctures is on p. 96 of the same book, from Wriothesley's tenure as Garter Principal King of Arms.  Designs where a chief or other ordinary was charged with two different types of tertiary (an A between two Bs all in the same tincture) are rather common in Wriothesley's designs.
Lonán ua Conaill. Name and device. Per pale argent and azure, three triquetras counterchanged. 
Máenach mac Conáin. Name. 
Marina Jensdatter. Name change from Muireann inghean Eoghain uí Maoilmheana (see RETURNS for device). 
Her previously registered name, Muireann inghean Eoghain uí Maoilmheana, is released.
Martuccio Cavalcanti. Name. 
Though the byname was listed as Calvacanti on the LoI, the forms listed Cavalcanti.  We have corrected this typo.
Morgan Fellwalker. Name and badge. (Fieldless) A heart argent pierced by two arrows inverted in saltire sable. 
Submitted as Morgan the Fell_walker, the LoI justified the byname as meaning “the shrewd walker”.  However, no evidence was presented that this was a reasonable construction for a period byname.  Adjectives shown to modify walker in period include good, slow, fair.  The adjective “shrewd” does not seem to fall into this category.  Therefore, barring documentation that “the shrewd walker” is a reasonable period byname, we would have to drop the adjective Fell in order to register this name.  However, the submitter's legal last name is Fellwalker (as documented by a photocopy of her driver's license that accompanied her initial name submission).  Therefore, we can register Morgan Fellwalker, as that is closer to her submitted name than Morgan the walker.  Note: Morgan was used as a masculine, not a feminine, given name in our period.
Morgana Isolde of Ander Hall. Badge. (Fieldless) On an oak leaf inverted sable in pale three crescents argent. 
Muirenn inghean mhic Criomhthainn. Name and device. Azure, three foxes sejant guardant contourny and a bordure wavy argent. 
Submitted as Muirenn nic Criomhthainn, the submitter requested authenticity for Elizabethan-era Irish Gaelic.  As we have no evidence of use of the name Muirenn later than the 10th C, this name cannot be made authentic for the time period desired by the submitter.
In our period, the particle nic was not used in Gaelic.  The period Gaelic equivalent was inghean mhic.  RfS III.1.a requires that all elements in a name phrase be in one language.  We have made the change in the particle to comply with this rule.
Note: As the patronym (Criomhthainn) begins with a “C” and the preceeding particle (mhic) ends with a “c”, the patronym does not lenite.
Nastasiia MacNeill. Device. Quarterly purpure and gules, a unicorn's head couped contourny argent crined and armed on a chief enarched Or two fleurs-de-lys sable. 
Philippe de Nuits-Saint-Georges. Name. 
Submitted as Philippe de Nuits-Saint-George, all documentation found shows an “s” on the end of Nuits-Saint-Georges.  We have made this change.
Rowena le Sarjent. Badge. Purpure, a fleur-de-lys bendwise sustained by an eagle's jambe erased a la quise argent armed Or. 
Found on the LoI under Rowena Le Sarjent, her registered name has the “l” in “le” lowercased.
Please commend the submitter on the quality of the artwork.
Saint Artemas, College of. Badge. Vert, two swords in saltire between in fess two goblets within a bordure Or. 
Given on the LoI as St. Artemas, College of, the registered name for this group is Saint Artemas, College of.
Theodric FitzRichard. Name change from Theodric Richardson of Dover and device. Per pale sable and azure, a cross formy within an orle argent. 
His previously registered name, Theodric Richardson of Dover, is hereby released.
Tomás mac Caoil. Name. 
Submitted as Tomás mac Cáel, the submitter requested authenticity for 1450.  As Cáel is a pre-1200 spelling, we have changed it to the post-1200 spelling (Caol) and put it into the genitive case (Caoil) as required in a patronymic byname.
Tycho Julsø. Name and device. Azure estencelly Or, in pale a smith's hammer bendwise sinister inverted and a single-horned anvil argent. 
The commenters questioned whether the hammer was conjoined to the anvil. In the large sized emblazon,the hammer is not conjoined to the anvil.
Vivien de Maingny. Name and device. Sable, a chevron gules fimbriated between three fleurs-de-lys a chief argent. 
Good name!
DRACHENWALD
Alejandra de Miera. Name change from Alejandra Mercedes de Rosanegra and device change. Argent, a yale rampant sable platy a bordure embattled sable. 
The submitter's previously registered name, Alejandra Mercedes de Rosanegra, and device, Per saltire azure and sable, in chief upon a lozenge argent, a garden rose, slipped and leaved, sable, all within a bordure ermine, are released.
Isengau, Shire of. Name. 
Magdalena Leonardi. Device. Or, on a bend sinister purpure between a ram's head cabossed sable and a cinquefoil purpure seeded three fleurs-de-lys palewise Or. 
An interesting conflict question arose this month, reminding us of the following precedent (still pertinent) from the cover letter of the March 1993 LoAR:
Beginning immediately, therefore, if two submissions at the same meeting are deemed to conflict, we will give preference to the submission from the paid member.  If both submitters are (or aren't) paid members, then the first received takes priority, as before.
The possible conflict is with the arms of Malin Faierwood, also submitted this month from the Midrealm: Or, on a bend sinister purpure, three suns Or.  If Malin's arms were considered to take priority, then Magdalena's arms are in conflict with Malin.  RfS X.4.j.ii will give difference for type only of a group of charges on charges in simple armory, and it only considers the simplicity of the new item under submission.  Magdalena's arms are not X.4.j.ii-simple, because of the dissimilar types of charges around the bend.  Thus, there is one CD for adding charges around the bend, but no CD (by X.4.j) for change of type only of the charge group on the bend.  However, if Magdalena's arms took priority, there would be no conflict with Malin.  Malin's (newer) arms are X.4.j.ii-simple.  There is still one CD for the charges around the bend, but now there is a second CD for changing the type only of charge on the bend by X.4.j.ii.
According to the registry, both submitters were members in August 2001, and thus priority is determined by the date on the LoI.  The Drachenwald precedes the Midrealm LoI by two days, and therefore Magdalena takes priority.
Muriel von Henneberg. Name. 
The submitter requested authenticity for 12th-14th C Germany.  No documentation could be found for the name Muriel in Germany.  As such, this name cannot be made authentic.  It is registerable, though, as Withycombe states Muriel is found in Brittany and Normandy in the 11th C.
Oswald von Ebersberg. Name and device. Per bend sinister engrailed Or and vert, a boar's head erased sable and a fir tree eradicated argent. 
In SCA heraldry, a field division engrailed has the little “cups” pointing towards the more honorable portion of the field.  Thus, per fess engrailed, or per bend engrailed, has the tops of the “cups” (the points between the “cups”) pointing to chief, and the bottom of the “cups” pointing towards base.  This is the opposite of at least some real world practice, but has consistently been the case in the SCA.  Therefore, as the cups in this engrailed field division point towards dexter chief, this blazon is consistent with SCA practice.
Peregrine Mackay. Device. Sable, a man armed cap-a-pie mounted on a horse statant in chief two birds volant argent. 
Severinus Erinaceus. Name and device. Per pale Or and vert, a square weaving tablet counterchanged. 
Torcall mac Grigair. Name. 
Submitted as Torcall mac Grioghair, the submitter requested authenticity for 10th-13th C Gaelic.  The Gaelic form Mac Grioghair listed in Black is undated and seems to use orthography in use after 1200.  We have changed the byname to Mac Grigair based on examples found in the Annals of the Four Masters and the Annals of Connacht to comply with his request.
LOCHAC
Alethea of Shrewsbury. Device change. Purpure, on a lozenge argent a fleur-de-lys gules all within an orle argent. 
As per the rules change in the cover letter to the June 2001 LoAR, the fact that the charged shape is not an escutcheon means that this is not an inescutcheon of pretense.  An inescutcheon charged with a single charge also avoids the appearance of an inescutcheon of pretense.  While this armory is evocative of the city of Florence, whose arms are Argent, a fleur-de-lys gules, it is acceptable.
Regarding the arms of  Maelen of Catcott, Purpure, on a lozenge argent a forget-me-not blossom proper [Myosotis scorpioides], a forget-me-not proper is effectively a cinquefoil azure, so there is one CD for addition of the orle and another by X.4.j for change of type and tincture of tertiary charge (or by X.4.j.ii for change of type of tertiary charge only in simple armory).
The submitter's previous device, Sable, on a pall inverted between three frets couped argent four lozenges gules, is released.
Draksfjord, Canton of. Branch name and device. Gules, a drakkar Or, its sail charged with a laurel wreath vert, a ford proper. 
MERIDIES
Aaron Christoferson of the Osprey. Name. 
Listed on the LoI as Aaron Christoferson (of Osprey), the LoI requested that if the submitted form, Aaron Christoferson, was found to be in conflict with the registered name Aaron Christopher (reg. August 1991), that of Osprey be added to the submitted name to clear the conflict.
RfS V.1.a.ii.a says, “Two bynames of relationship are significantly different if the natures of the relationships or the objects of the relationships are significantly different.”  As the bynames Christoferson and Christopher both mean “son of Christopher”, these names are in conflict.  The submitter's group name was actually registered as the Osprey, not Osprey.  We have modified the byname appropriately.
Admiranda le Daye. Name. 
Good name!
Ælfgar Greggor of Vulpine Reach. Name and device. Azure, in chief three cups inverted in chevron Or and in base three plates in chevron. 
The arrangement of the charges does not match any period pattern.  However, this is only one weirdness and is thus registerable.
Ælfgar Greggor of Vulpine Reach. Badge. (Fieldless) On a cup inverted azure a plate. 
Ælfgifu Haraldsdottir. Badge. (Fieldless) Two dolphins haurient respectant azure gorged of comital coronets and maintaining between them a rose Or. 
The submitter is a Countess, and thus entitled to the comital coronets.
Alessandra di Fiore. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
Submitted as Alessandra di Fióre, the byname Fióre was documented from De Felice's Dizionario dei cognomi Italiani.  The accents in this source are there as pronunciation guides, and are not part of the spelling.
Good name!
Alessandra di Fióre. Badge. Azure, eight pheons in annulo shafts to center argent. 
A question was raised in commentary about whether this was overly reminiscent of the “Chaos shield” insignia, which is a major item of insignia in Michael Moorcock's Melniboné books.  The Moorcock insignia is described with the arrows conjoined in the center, as if they compose an eight-armed cross.  The separation of the pheons here should be sufficient to avoid an overwhelming reference to that insignia.
Barbara Sterling. Badge. (Fieldless) On a dunghill cock gules a cross bottony Or. 
Some members of the College asked why the bird was termed a “dunghill cock.” According to J. P. Brooke-Little's An Heraldic Alphabet, a “dunghill cock” is “the common farmyard cock.” This is also a term used in her registered arms.
Brianna Baptista. Device. Gules, a sun in splendor Or within a bordure Or semy of decrescents sable. 
Camilla Fante da Ferrara. Name. 
Submitted as Camilla Fonte di Ferrara, there were a couple of problems with this name.
The first is that da is used with a placename in Italian, not di.  We have made this change.
The second problem is with the byname Fonte which the LoI documents from Fucilla (p. 101).  However, that page actually lists della Fonte.  The word della is at the end of one line and Fonte is at the beginning of the next line, so the misreading is easy to understand.
The CoA was unable to find support for the byname Fonte on its own in period, though we did find the similar sounding Fante (listed in De Felice's Dizionario dei cognomi Italiani).  A herald who has worked with the submitter happened to be present at the decision meeting and believed that the submitter would prefer Fante to della Fonte as it is closer in sound to the submitted Fonte.  Accordingly, we have made this change.
Christoff von Rotenburg. Name. 
Submitted as Christoff von Rothenburg, the submitter requested authenticity for 14th C German.  Spellings for that time period that we were able to find all lacked the “h” in Rothenburg.  We have changed the spelling of the byname accordingly.
Ciar de Burgo. Name and device. Or, a trefoil vert a chief flory-counterflory gules. 
Cristofre Fortescu of Castel Risinge. Name and device. Azure, in pale a castle argent and a sun in splendor a bordure embattled Or. 
Submitted as Christoforus Fortescu of Castel Risinge, the submitter requested authenticity for 14th C English.  As such, we have changed the Latin Christoforus to an English form for that time period.
Date Kiyomori. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
Emelyn Carreth. Name and device. Per chevron Or and argent, two caducei vert and a thistle proper. 
Galiena of Lindisfarne. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
Genevieve d'Anjou. Name. 
Gwenddolynn ni hAilleachaín. Device. Vert, three mice dormant argent within a bordure argent semy of caltrops vert. 
Please advise the submitter to draw the mice somewhat larger to help with identifiability.  This is a good example of identifiable dormant, since the mouse heads with their identifying ears are largely against the high contrast field, rather than the low contrast mouse bodies.
Gwyn ap Gwyn. Name and device. Per bend sinister azure and argent, a bend sinister between a kestrel Or and a rose proper. 
Good name!
Hildegund von Bieber. Name (see PENDS for device). 
Hrólfr inn digri Jóhansson. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
Listed on the LoI as Hrolf inn digri Jóhansson, the given name was typoed.  The forms had the correct Old Norse form, Hrólfr.  We have returned it to that form.
Jóhann brotamaðr. Name. 
Submitted as Jóhann Brotamaðr, the submitter allowed major changes but not minor ones, and requested authenticity for Norse.  To be authentic, the byname needed to be changed to lowercase; however the submitter had disallowed that sort of minor change.  A herald who has worked with the submitter happened to be present at the decision meeting and believed that a simple capitalization change in the byname would be acceptable to the submitter, so we have made this change.
John the Pursuwer. Household name House Gold Eagle. 
Katarina Tesmer. Badge. (Fieldless) A bone fesswise sable. 
Kolr refskegg. Name and device. Azure estencely, a caltrop argent. 
Submitted as Kol Refskegg, the submitter requested authenticity for 11th C Scandinavian.  We have therefore changed the modern Anglicized form Kol to the Old Norse form Kolr.  We have also changed the capitalization of the byname to match documented forms.
Konrad the Hunter. Name and device. Argent, two stags springing addorsed gules and in chief a mullet sable. 
Lillias Collingbourne. Name and device. Per chevron argent and purpure, two hummingbirds rising respectant wings addorsed and a lotus in profile counterchanged. 
Lucia filia Fausti. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
Mary Rowe of Abercromby. Name. 
Matheus de Bera. Name and device. Vert, a bear statant contourny and issuant from base a demi-sun argent. 
Since all four of the bear's feet are down, this is technically a statant posture, even though this posture is part of a natural quadruped's walking process.
Michael of Lough Gur. Name. 
Listed on the LoI as Micheál of Loch Gair, the name was originally submitted as Miceal of Lough Gur, which used the Anglicized form of the placename.  The submitter requested authenticity for the language/culture of Lough Gur, Ireland.
In period, documents in Ireland were sometimes written in English, sometimes in Irish Gaelic, and sometimes in Latin.  The name of someone from Lough Gur would be rendered somewhat differently in each of these languages and all three are options for this name.  Given the rarity of locative bynames in Gaelic, a byname meaning “of Lough Gur” is more likely to occur in an English record than in a Gaelic one.  As such we have registered this name as Michael of Lough Gur.  An additional factor in choosing English for an authentic form of this name was that the name Michael was among the names considered too holy to use as a given name in period among the Irish Gaels.  A child would have been named Giolla Mícheál (“servant [of St.] Michael”) or Maol Mícheál (“devotee [of St.] Michael”) instead of simply Mícheál.  The same person would likely be listed in English language records as Michael, which is closer in sound to the submitted name than either Giolla Mícheál or Maol Mícheál.
Michael Sinclair. Name. 
Submitted as Michael Ian Sinclair, this name has two problems.  The name Ian has not been documented to period but has been declared SCA-compatible.  Use of an SCA-compatible name is a weirdness.  Additionally, double given names in Scots have also been ruled a weirdness.  Therefore, this name had two weirdnesses and would need to be returned.  Since the submitter allows any changes and requested authenticity for Scotland (“any period”), we have dropped the element Ian.  This removes the non-period element Ian and leaves the name with only one given name, making it a fine Scots name.
Muirenn inghean Chiaráin. Name and device. Gules, on a pile engrailed Or a thistle proper. 
This is clear of Fiona ingen Donnchada: Vert, on a pile engrailed Or a rose slipped and leaved proper.  There is one CD for the field.  There is a second by X.4.j.ii for the change in type of tertiary charge in simple armory.  Thistles and shamrocks were ruled to be substantially different in October 1999; these should be just as distinct visually.  No evidence has been produced that a change from a rose to a trefoil as a primary charge was used for period cadency, which also shows that they are substantially different as per rule X.2.
Murdoch McArthur. Name and device. Per fess sable and argent, a crescent argent and three wolves statant contourny sable. 
Myfanwy Gwynedd. Name and device. Purpure, a salamander statant within an orle of triquetras Or. 
There is a Laurel precedent:
The evidence indicates that the usage “given name + kingdom name” is regularly used in Welsh to indicate a member of the ruling family of that kingdom (e.g., Owain Gwynedd).  (LoAR 14 Jun 87, p. 6)
However, more recent research (particularly Morgan & Morgan, p. 118 s. n. Gwynedd) has provided evidence of use of this byname by non-royals.  As such, we are overturning that precedent and registering this name.
Roscelin of Hawkhaven. Device. Per bend argent and gules, a hawk trussing a duck gules and in bend three roses Or seeded vert. 
Sándor Dósa. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
Sándor Dósa. Badge. (Fieldless) A mullet of eight points quarterly sable and argent. 
Semus Westoun. Name. 
Submitted as Shamus Westoun, the submitter requested authenticity for 1200s in Norman Ireland.  Shamus is a phonetic rendering of the Gaelic Séamus and may be post-period.  The Gaelic Séamus is itself a phonetic rendering of the Anglo-Norman name James.  The spelling Séamus is not found in period annals.  Instead, the spellings Semus and Semas appear.  We were unable to find evidence of any form of the name Westoun in Ireland in the 1200s.  We did find the Irish Gaelic form Uasdun in the year 1484 in the Annals of the Four Masters.
A man with this name living in 15th C Ireland would have been recorded in English documents as James Weston and in Irish Gaelic documents as Semas Uasdun or Semus Uasdun.
As the submitter only allows minor changes, we are unable to change this name to any of these forms.  We have changed the given name to Semus to partially comply with the submitter's request.
Serafino Benettini. Name. 
Thomas MacBriar. Name. 
Tiura Katzensteiger. Name. 
Ulrich von Brandenburg. Name and device. Per pale sable and Or, two talbots combatant and a point pointed, all counterchanged. 
One commenter asked for a visual comparison with the badge of Robert of Sacred Stone: Per pale sable and Or, two lions combattant counterchanged.  All the charges in that, and this, armory are clearly drawn.
William of the Osprey. Holding name and device. Per fess argent and azure, in chief the Arabic phrase "al-batal yejama kithir suhum" sable. 
Submitted as Wajdi al-Gharbi, the name was returned in the February 2001 LoAR.  The device was pended for a missing tincture and for clarification of the written phrase, which means “A hero collects many arrows”.
Yseult de Montagu. Name. 
Zehle Dübel. Name and device. Per pale sable and gules, a bear rampant within a bordure Or. 
MIDDLE
Áedán of Windhaven. Name and device. Pily vert and argent, a boar statant contourny proper. 
A proper boar is brown by default according to the Glossary of Terms, so this needn't be blazoned as a brown boar.
There was discussion in the commentary about whether these arms conflict with the badge of Godfrey of Inwood, (Fieldless) A boar statant contourny sable.  Since there is a CD for the field, the question becomes one of whether this brown boar should be given a tincture CD from Godfrey's black boar.  The boar as drawn here is a clear brown and is far from being black, or from closely resembling any other heraldic tincture.  Current policy appears to be a tacit assumption that a brown animal or object proper is given tincture difference from any standard heraldic tincture, as long as the particular shade of brown is drawn so that it is not too close to a standard heraldic tincture.
A number of commenters appear to believe that we need to revisit our current policies, and thus I am calling for research on this issue in the cover letter.  However, the College of Arms has, for some time, given the benefit of the doubt for submissions which may inspire a change in policy, as per the registration of Ting-nye-'dzin-gyi-seng-ge McPhee, in the LoAR of 9/28/84, p. 4.  Therefore, this submission is being registered.
Ailleann ingen Fhlainn. Name. 
Good name!
Angelique Michiele du Hérisson. Device. Per saltire purpure and Or all semy-de-lys counterchanged, a hedgehog statant proper. 
This was pended from the March 2001 LoAR.  The original blazon reversed the tinctures of the field.
Druscilla Galbraith. Name. 
Dyderich Wolfhart. Name. 
Elspeth Clerk. Device. Per pale argent and azure, a cross crosslet between four towers counterchanged. 
Friedrich von Augsburg. Device. Purpure, a lion rampant and on a chief Or three crosses formy gules. 
Galiena Aubrey. Name and device. Azure, three horse's heads erased argent. 
Good name!
Nice armory!
Garrett Aubrey. Name. 
Gillian Kateryn Taylor. Name. 
The submitter requested an authentic 13th-14th century name.  Since double given names in England were vanishingly rare in the 16th century and virtually nonexistent earlier, we would have dropped one of the given names to make this name authentic.  Since the submitter does not allow major changes, we were unable to make this change.
Gwenllian Talbot. Device. Per pale argent and purpure, a maunch and in chief three roses counterchanged. 
Please advise the submitter to use a more purplish and less pinkish tincture for purpure.
Iamys Gillies. Name. 
Submitted as Iamys Gillies of Watership Down, no evidence was presented nor could any be found that the location Watership Down was known by this name in period.  Since the submitter allows major changes, we have dropped the locative byname (of Watership Down) in order to register the name.
Ingeram de Boynton. Name. 
Good name!
Malin Faierwood. Name and device. Or, on a bend sinister purpure three suns Or. 
The submitter requested an authentic English name for 1584.  We were unable to find documentation for a form of Malin dated later than 1379.  Though we were unable to comply with the submitter's request for authenticity, the name is registerable in its current form.
Robert von Murrhardt. Name. 
Thorvald Kristoffersson. Name and device. Or, on a bend wavy purpure three natural dolphins naiant fesswise contourny argent. 
Listed on the LoI as Thorvald Kristófórusson, the name was  submitted as Thorvald Kristofferson.  The byname was changed in kingdom to Kristófórusson when no documentation was found for Kristofferson.  Metron Ariston found Knudsen and Kristensen (Danmarks Gamle Personnavne, cols.  802 ff.) cite Kristoffer van Haffn from 1489.  As such, the byname Kristoffersson would be a likely construction.  Since it is only one letter different from his originally submitted name, we have changed it to that form.
Wolfgang Schwarzhabicht. Name. 
Listed on the LoI as Wolfgang Amsel, the name was submitted as Wolfgang von Schwarzhabicht.  When no documentation could be found for the byname von Schwarzhabicht, it was changed at kingdom to Amsel, which was the submitter's second choice. He also requested an authentic 10th C German name.  No documentation for either byname was found in the 10th C.  Bahlow (Edda Gentry trans.; p. 200 s. n. Häbich) dates P. Häbich to 1482.  As such, Wolfgang Schwarzhabicht would seem to be a reasonable construction.  As it is closer to the submitter's originally desired form, we have made this change.
OUTLANDS
Margaret of the Outlands. Holding name and device. Or, a peacock in its pride proper on a chief gules a natural leopard passant Or spotted sable. 
The name Margaret Singh was returned in the February 2001 LoAR.  The accompanying device was pended for a blazon correction (the tincture of the leopard was missing from the LoI).
TRIMARIS
Astrith Alexandra. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
Submitted as Astrith Alexandra æt Brandywine, no documentation was found for the word Brandywine in period, so we have dropped æt Brandywine from this name.  Unmarked matronymics are found in English, so this name may be viewed as a given name + matronymic.
Énnae Catha an Dúna. Name change from Innis McCothas and device. Sable, a sword between two lion's heads erased respectant Or. 
The client's previous name, Innis McCothas, is hereby released.
Ginevra Visconti. Name and device. Vert, a greyhound rampant to sinister regardant argent collared purpure and a chief erminois. 
Jacquetta Grimaldi. Name and device. Purpure, a pale Or overall on a chevron counterchanged two compass stars purpure. 
There was some question as to whether the byname Grimaldi was used exclusively by the royal family of Monaco.  Maridonna Benvenuti found examples of the byname Grimaldi used by people who do not seem to be of the royal family in Gerhard Rohlfs' Dizionario dei Cognomi e Soprannomi.
Given these examples, the byname Grimaldi is registerable.
Lorn Mac Ewen. Badge. (Fieldless) The trunk of a tree couped sprouting three slips proper. 
This follows the blazon of his registered device.
Maeve of Trimaris. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Vair, a hare passant gules breathing flames proper. 
Listed on the LoI as Mave Firehair, this was a typo for the submitted name Maeve Firehair.
One commenter asked if the flames were drawn correctly for flames proper.  The flames are drawn as correct proper, with alternating tongues of yellow and red flame.  Breathing fire is (to put it mildly) an unusual attribute for a hare, and may be considered a weirdness.
Randwulf aet Blacwulveslea. Device change. Checky argent and vert, a wolf rampant and a chief sable. 
His previous device, Argent, a rose slipped bendwise sinister sable, a bordure sable semy of wolves' heads erased argent, is released.
Tatiana Heinemann. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
The LoI said that the submitter has requested authenticity for “16th Century Prussia/Germany”.  The forms actually list “16th century Russian/German”.
Tatiana was documented from Dunkling & Gosling.  Regarding this source, APPENDIX F - Names Sources to Be Avoided in Documentation, of the Admin Handbook says:
Dunkling, Leslie and William Gosling, The New American Dictionary of First Names.  “The focus of the book is on recent English and American usage, which reduces its usefulness to us....” (Cover Letter 29 Sep 85, p. 3)
Wickenden (3rd ed., s. n. Tat'iana) dates Tatiana to 1500, so we have evidence that this name was used in period.
Heinemann was documented from ancestry.com.  The April 2001 LoAR stated the following in regards to the submitted name Sueva the Short:
The given name was documented from Roberts, Notable Kin: An Anthology of Columns First Published in the NEHGS NEXUS, 1986-1995.  While we have no reason to doubt the quality of the genealogical research, the goals of genealogists are different from ours and their data is not necessarily applicable to SCA use.
The same issue applies to documentation from genealogy Web sites including ancestry.com.  They cannot be relied on for documentation for spelling variants.
Since Bahlow lists Heinemann as a header form and dates Heyman (Heynman) v. Woycechsdorf to 1318, Heinemann is a registerable byname.
As Heinemann is a standard modern form not dated to period, and the combination of a Russian given name and a German byname is not documented, this name cannot be made authentic, although it is registerable.
Trimaris, Kingdom of. Heraldic title Dhow Pursuivant. 
Trimaris, Kingdom of. Heraldic title Jack Pursuivant. 
The LoI documented this name only with “In this case the term 'Jack' refers to the small flag flown from the bow of ships.”  There was no accompanying documentation submitted with this title.
The CoA only found evidence of “Jack” as a period reference to a naval flag from the 17th C.
However, this title is supportable as either (1) a reference to a drinking vessal, since the OED dates “jack” to 1573 as a vessel for liquor, or (2) a title based on the period surname Jack.
Given these alternate meanings, this title is registerable.
WEST
Anna Giordano da Firenze. Name and device. Gules, three roses and on a chief argent three crosses formy gules. 
Antonio Giordano da Firenze. Name (see PENDS for device). 
Antonio Giordano da Sicilia. Badge. (Fieldless) A heart per saltire purpure and gules transfixed by a sword inverted sable. 
Bryne McClellan. Device. Argent, a rose gules within an annulet of thorns sable a bordure vert. 
The submitter has received permission to conflict from Adelaide de Beaumont, Argent, a pimpernel gules, slipped and leaved, within a bordure vert.
Cáemgen mac Olcain. Name and device. Gules, a sinister gusset ermine and a chief checky sable and argent. 
Submitted as Cáemgen Mac Olcain, the submitter intended the particle to mean “son [of]”.  As such, we have changed its capitalization to mac to follow standard conventions.  The submitter requested authenticity for 1300s Scottish.  All the elements for this name are documented from Ireland; the College did not find evidence that they were used in Scottish Gaelic.  However, given the lack of sources for Scottish Gaelic in the 1300s, we do not know if the submitted combination is authentic.
Please advise the submitter that a correctly drawn gusset (as per the PicDic) issues from the top corner of the shield (just under the chief).  A properly drawn gusset also does not extend all the way to the bottom of the field.  It should be possible to have a dexter and a sinister gusset on one shield and see some field between them.
Cáemgen mac Olcain. Badge. (Fieldless) An hedgehog rampant ermine. 
Edith of Swanesdale. Name and device. Or, a squirrel sejant erect to sinister and a bordure gules. 
Submitted as Swanesdæl, this element violates RfS III.1.a since it combines the Middle English Swanes- with the Old English -dæl, combining two incompatible elements in the same placename.  We have changed the spelling to Swanesdale (using the Middle English -dale) to make this element internally consistant.
Evaine MacGreger. Device. Ermine, on a chief embattled purpure three frets conjoined Or. 
Giovanni Giordano da Firenze. Name and device. Purpure, a lion passant guardant and on a chief argent three crosses formy gules. 
Kaaren Håkonsdotter. Name. 
Submitted as Kaaren  Håkonsdóttir.  Kaaren is the submitter's legal name.  Gage found the spelling Håkon in SMP (Sveriges medeltida personnamn) dated to 1451.  At that time, the patronymic form is more likely to be Håkonsdotter based on examples in SMP.  As the submitted form combined Old Norse and 15th C Swedish, it violated RfS III.1.a by mixing languages.  To clear this problem, we have changed the patronymic to the 15th C Swedish form Håkonsdotter as that is closer to the submitted byname than the Old Norse form Hákonardóttir.
Muriel NicCord. Device. Azure, an owl on a chief embattled argent three increscents azure. 
This was pended from the March 2001 LoAR due to a misblazoned tincture.
Rilint Neufang. Name. 
Robert le Dragon. Name and device. Or, a dragon segreant to sinister vert within a bordure vert semy of escallops inverted argent. 
Valdis Gylðir. Device. Argent, a wolf statant ululant contourny and on a chief engrailed gules two eyes argent irised gules and pupilled sable. 

THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN RETURNED FOR FURTHER WORK
AN TIR
Aislinn Fiona of Rumm. Name. 
Aislinn was ruled SCA-compatible in the August 2000 LoAR.  The given name Fiona has been ruled SCA-compatible.  As Fiona is the submitter's legal given name, it is only automatically registerable in the corresponding part of a Society name.  The Legal Name allowance would permit this submitter to register Fiona as her given name.  However, regardless of whether Fiona is viewed as registerable via the Legal Name Allowance or as an SCA-compatible name, it still counts as a weirdness since the name Fiona was not used in period.  Names which were not used in period, but are registerable via the Legal Name Allowance, were ruled to be a weirdness in January 1996:
[W]e see no reason to distinguish between “SCA-compatible” names and other non-period names permitted under the provisions of RfS II.4 (Legal Names): both are allowed as concessions to modern sensibilities despite their inauthentic nature.
Beginning with the 5/96 meeting, therefore, use of two individually permissible non-period elements in a single name will be considered two weirdnesses and will be grounds for return.  Such elements include non-period names allowed under the Legal Name Allowance as well as those names, apparently not used by human beings in period, that have been declared “SCA-compatible”...  (Talan Gwynek, Cover Letter to the January 1996 LoAR, pp. 3-4)
Additionally, in the name Aislinn Fiona of Rumm, Fiona can only be interpreted as a second given name or as an unmarked matronymic.  Use of double given names and unmarked matronymics in Gaelic have both been cause for return in the past.  As the submitter does not allow changes, this submission must be returned.
The device was registered under the holding name Fiona of Lions Gate.
Dun an Chalaidh, Shire of. Device. Per chevron argent and azure, two laurel wreaths vert and a lighthouse argent enflamed proper. 
Conflict with the badge of the Barony of Dreiburgen, Argent, on a pile inverted throughout azure, a tower argent.  There is no difference between a tower and a lighthouse given the varying depictions of towers and similar architecture in period, so there is only one CD for adding the laurel wreaths.  When comparing per chevron armory with pile inverted armory, the two items must be compared as if they both used a per chevron field, and also as if they both used the charge of a pile inverted.  Under the former interpretation, there is only one CD, for adding charges to the primary charge group by X.4.b.  Under the latter, there is only one CD, for adding a secondary charge group on the field around the pile inverted by the same rule.
Some questions were asked during commentary about the depiction of the lighthouse.  The flame is indeed drawn with alternating red and yellow tongues of flame, so it is appropriately blazoned as proper.  A lighthouse, like a beacon, is correctly enflamed at the top only, according to the Pictorial Dictionary.
Lí Ban ingen Echtigeirn. Badge. (Fieldless) Two horses' heads addorsed couped conjoined sable. 
Conflict with Eoin MacGriogair, Argent, a chess knight sable crined gules.  There is one CD for fieldlessness, but these two conjoined heads look overwhelmingly like Eoin's double-headed chess knight.
Mora of Lincolnshire and Robert of Caithness. Joint badge. Sable, a sea-tyger erect Or. 
The question of difference between a sea-lion and a sea-tyger is a difficult one.  In the case of this submission, one CD is needed to clear conflict with any of the armory cited by the College.  Rule X.4.e states in part that
Types of charges considered to be separate in period, for example a lion and an heraldic tyger, will be considered different.  A charge not used in period armory will be considered different in type if its shape in normal depiction is significantly different.
Neither the commentary nor any research by the armory sovereign's staff provided a real-world example of a sea-tyger, so it is difficult to discuss period difference between these charges.
Without evidence that the sea-tyger existed in period, and was given difference from a sea-lion in period, it does not appear appropriate to grant difference between these charges on purely visual grounds.  Thus, this is being returned for conflict with Arianwen Cyffaith of Caerleon, Sable, a sea-lion erect maintaining a goblet Or, a chief ermine, Emma the Lost, Per fess wavy ermine and azure a sea lion Or maintaining a trident sable, and the Shire of Adamestor: (Fieldless) A sea lion Or maned sable.
Some questions were raised by the commenters about the artwork on this submission.  Sea monsters erect may be drawn correctly with their tails embowed like the bottom half of a fish haurient, as here.  Some questions were also raised about whether the tyger portions of this monster were correctly drawn.  This seems to be a reasonable depiction, given the 1531 drawing of a tyger in Dennys' The Heraldic Imagination.
Tvorimir Danilov. Device. Bendy sinister vert and Or, a hawk striking contourny argent a bordure counterchanged. 
The commentary from the College of Arms overwhelmingly indicated that the combination of bendy sinister and bordure is excessive counterchanging.  In general, we would like to see documentation for any charge counterchanged over a multiply divided field, such as barry or gyronny.
In addition, the emblazon was drawn with colored pencil.  A “silver shade” can be an acceptable variant of argent.  However, a particular shade of grey can only be an acceptable “metal” if it is lighter than the “color” tinctures on the field.  Here the grey is as dark as the vert, making it appear to be sable rather than argent.  If the submitter must use this sort of grey for argent, it's necessary to use some other medium for the other colors, such as a dark marker or paint.
ANSTEORRA
Ariella Christine d'Ailles. Badge. (Fieldless) A lion's head argent jessant-de-lys Or. 
Unfortunately, the visual comparison with Faoiltighearna inghean mhic Ghuaire, Quarterly azure and vert, a wolf's head argent jessant-de-lys Or, shows an unmistakeable visual similarity.  Faoiltighearna's wolf is drawn with a very shaggy face for a wolf (though an acceptable one).  Ariella's lion is drawn with an un-leonine wedge shaped face-surrounded by a shaggy mane.
Catriona Heather MacLochlainn. Device change. Argent, in pale a catamount passant regardant sable and three shamrocks two and one all within a bordure embattled vert. 
There has been some administrative confusion concerning these arms, which led to some puzzled commentary.  Her original arms submission had an erroneous blazon on the Letter of Intent: the catamount was actually sable, not vert.  Because Laurel did not notice the error, her arms were registered in 1994 as Argent, a catamount passant regardant and in base three shamrocks all within a bordure embattled vert.
The Administrative Handbook requires LoI errors to be corrected on an LoI, so that the College of Arms can re-research the proposal.  There was an inquiry about a blazon correction on an LoI in 2000, but it was not clearly stated to be a blazon error correction.  Laurel put the corrected blazon in an LoAR as a pended item for CoA re-research, and it was registered in May 2001 as Argent, a catamount passant reguardant sable and in base three shamrocks, a bordure embattled vert.
However, this new form was also submitted during that correction process.  While this new submission did have the same basic construction as the old submission, its proportions were different enough to require reblazon.  In the 1994 emblazon, the catamount was clearly the primary charge with three much smaller shamrocks in base.  In this submission, the catamount and shamrocks were co-primary.
The submitter has since written that she did not realize that the new depiction was different, and that she still wanted the catamount to be the sole primary charge.  She therefore withdrew this action, so the May 2001 reblazon stands.
Damasca Gisele de Bier. Name. 
The given name Damasca was documented as a feminine form of Damasco from De Felice, Dizionario dei nomi Italiani (p. 121, s.n. Damasco).  However, De Felice says that the masculine given name Damasco was derived from Damascus, the name of the Syrian capital, and probably came into use in the late 19th century.  Therefore, barring further documentation neither Damasco nor Damasca is registerable.
This name would be registerable as Gisele de Bier, but as the submitter does not allow us to make major changes, we cannot drop the problematic element.
Since Bier is a valid English form (Reaney and Wilson s.n. Byars), an alternative would have been to chage the given name to either the French Damizella (dated to the 12th C, Bourin and Chareille) or the English Damisona (dated to 1290, Withycombe p. xli), but we felt that the change from Damasca to Damizella or Damisona was too great of a change to be considered a minor change.  As such, this name must be returned.
ATENVELDT
Aron the Falcon. Device. Argent, a bend sinister vert between an eagle displayed and a arrowhead inverted azure. 
This is in conflict with Ismenia O'Mulryan, Argent, a bend sinister vert between a hawk's head contourny erased azure, armed vert, and a skeletal hand fesswise azure.  There is only one CD for changing the type of charges around the bend sinister by RfS X.4.e.
Caisséne ingen Scandlach. Name change from Máire inghean uí Dhonnabháin. 
No forms were received for this submission.  As such, it must be returned.
Edward of Cornwall. Name. 
This name is being returned for conflict with Edward the Black Prince, son of Edward III who was created Earl of Chester in 1333, Duke of Cornwall in 1337, and Prince of Wales in 1343 (Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia s. n. Edward the Black Prince).
RfS V.1.c reads,
Protected historical personal names are protected in all of the forms in which they commonly appear.  Charlemagne, which becomes Carolus Magnus in Latin and Karl der Grosse in German, is protected in all three forms.
Longstanding precedent says that Edward Duke of Cornwall would conflict with Edward of Cornwall.  Thus the question that has to be answered is whether the prince was known as Edward Duke of Cornwall.  If so, this submission is in conflict with him.  If not, this submission is not in conflict with him.
In the Acts of David II (of Scotland), Edward is referred to as “prince de Gales ducs de Cornewaill' et conte de Cestr'” (p. 177, document dated 3 October 1357) and “prince de Gales ducs de Cornewaill' et counte de Cestre” (p. 190, document dated 6 November 1357).  Neither of these references seem to list his name, but do list his titles in descending order of precedence.  Speed's The Counties of Britain includes a emblazon of his device on p. 55 as part of a map of Cornwall (drawn 1610).  The emblazon is captioned “Edward P. of Wales D. of Cornwall and E. of Chest”.  Again, his name followed by his titles in descending order of precedence.  This gives evidence that he was known by his given name followed by his titles in period.
As he was created Duke of Cornwall in 1337 and Prince of Wales in 1343, there is a six year period where his primary title was Duke of Cornwall.  During this time, it is reasonable to assume that he was commonly known as Edward, Duke of Cornwall. As such, this submission is in conflict with him and must be returned.
As the name of this submitter's group does not seem to be registered, we are registering his armory under the holding name Edward of Atenveldt, which uses his Kingdom's name.
Muirgheal inghean Raghailligh mhic Seachnasaigh. Device. Argent, a fret gules surmounted by a badger statant sable a chief indented gules. 
An overall charge should lie mostly on the field.  Here the badger lies almost entirely on the fret.  This is not stylistically acceptable by long-standing precedent.  The type of the beast was not identifiable due to the low contrast in combination with the small size and could have been one of a number of compact animals.
ATLANTIA
Sibán ingen Dhomnaill. Name. 
Conflict with Siobhan MacDonald, reg. March 1985 via the West.  The precedent that is applicable here is:
... one of the considerations that went into the present version of RfS V (Name Conflict) was that names that were interchangeable in period probably ought to conflict.  (For an example see RfS 1.a.ii(b) (Locative Bynames).) Since Bridget Killeen and Brighid Ní Chillín could indeed have signified the same person very late in our period, it is at least consistent with other parts of the rules to say that they conflict (Talan Gwynek, LoAR March 1996, p.  10)
As Sibán ingen Dhomnaill could have been referred to in Anglicized documents with the byname MacDonald, these two names conflict.
Tarvin, Shire of. Device. Or, a bend sinister sable, overall on a delf ployé counterchanged a laurel wreath sable. 
Current precedent indicates:
The only time we permit a charge to be counterchanged over another is when they are both ordinaries.  (Shire of Crystal Crags, 12/98 p. 13)
While a delf is simple, it is not an ordinary.  Moreover, a delf ploye is not a simple delf.  As far as we can tell it is only used as a period charge in Mameluk heraldry, and is thus somewhat of a weirdness in general Western style.  The cumulative problems with the style of this submission are  sufficient to require its return.
CAID
Asbjørn Pedersen Marsvin. Name. 
No documentation was provided that Marsvin was used in a name in Danish in period, and the College of Arms was unable to find any.  Without such documentation, this element must be dropped.  As the submitter does not allow major changes, we are unable to drop this element and so must return this name.
Ian MacClennan. Device. Per bend argent and azure, a lion gules collared and chained maintaining a sun between its forepaws Or. 
Unfortunately, this must be returned for the conflicts cited in the LoI: Leon, Argent, a lion rampant gules, and Luxembourg, Barry argent and azure, a lion rampant, queue-forchy gules, crowned Or.  This sun is not large enough to be considered co-primary with the lion.
Maintained charges are small and do not count for difference.  Sustained charges are large - large enough in fact that if they were not being held that they would be considered a co-primary, and do count for difference.  (Cover Letter 10/96)
We admired the artwork on this submission.
Ingilborg Sigmundardóttir. Device. Azure, in pale two wolves courant Or. 
This conflicts with Katherine Goodpasture: Per fess and per pale embattled erminois and gules, in bend sinister two talbots passant Or. There is a CD for the field.  There is not a CD for the placement on the field, since the arrangement on the field is forced because the Or wolves in Katherine's arms may not lie on the erminois parts of the field.  Per the cover letter for the June 2001 LoAR, there is no difference between talbots and wolves.  This means any additional difference must be derived from the posture of the beasts.
The question of the difference between passant and courant has had mixed answers over the history of the College of Arms.  Unfortunately (because these are lovely arms) it appears that there should not be a CD between passant and courant, and thus these arms are in conflict.
There is a significant amount of evidence implying that courant and passant were used interchangeably in English armory.  There are multiple cases with the same or very similar coats of arms belonging to people of the same surname, using variously passant and courant postures.  Looking in the Dictionary of British Arms (containing only English period armory, and assembled by the current English heraldic establishment), we find examples of Maleverer (greyhounds), Mauchell (hounds/greyhounds), Skipwith (hounds/greyhounds), Crowan (wolves), and Penpons (wolves).  There is also a coat which is variously either attributed to Nanfan, or which is noted as being of unknown name but which is quartered with a Sir Richard Nanfan (dogs/wolves).  We also find pre-1660 examples in Papworth: Green (bucks), and Trollope (harts/bucks).  The passant versions of these last coats are also in DBA.  It seems unlikely that many, if any, of these changes between passant and courant are due to cadency, given the infrequency of posture changes due to cadency.  Of the families mentioned above, only one of them had a version of the coat of arms where the beasts took a posture outside of the passant/statant or courant groups: Both DBA and Papworth give a salient version of the Trollope coat.
We could not make a determination of Continental practices, although we did determine that the courant posture was used on the Continent.  There are a number of instances of the courant posture in Siebmacher's 1605 Wappenbuch.  Rietstap's Armorial General provides blazons for some, but not all, items which are in Siebmacher.  We checked a sample of the courant emblazons in Siebmacher, and the arms for which we found a Rietstap entry were all blazoned as courant.  However, Rietstap is not designed for the historical heraldic researcher (unlike the DBA), so one never knows if its blazons reflect the arms used during the Middle Ages, or if the blazon reflects a later version of the arms.  Still, it is likely in most cases, if the animal is emblazoned as courant in Siebmacher and blazoned in Rietstap as courant, that it is meant to be courant.  Of those items found in both Siebmacher and Rietstap featuring courant beasts, only a single entry for that family was found in Rietstap, and the armory sovereign's staff was unable to compare multiple blazons from multiple sources as was done with the English materials.
While required to hold that courant and passant conflict at this time, we encourage the College of Arms to pursue further research on this issue.
Marina Jensdatter. Device. Azure, a fish haurient embowed within a bordure Or. 
Conflict with Robert the Pilgrim, Azure, a fish haurient vorant of a Latin cross, both Or.  The cross is not large enough for difference, and we have not for some time given difference between a fish and a fish embowed in the same posture.
Quin Phelan. Name. 
The LoI documented Quin from Dauzat's Noms et Prenoms, p. 504.  Dauzat gives no indication whether this is a given name or a surname.
Morlet's Dictionnaire Étymologique de Noms de Famille (which is a revised edition of Dauzat's Noms et Prenoms) indicates that Quin is derived from the given name Jaquin, which is in turn derived from Jacques.  However, Morlet does not indicate whether Quin was used as a given name or a surname.
It was noted that the byname Mac Quyn is documented to 1403.  As this is an Anglicized form of the Gaelic Mac Cuinn (a patronymic formed from the Gaelic masculine given name Conn), it was suggested that Quin could be an Anglicized form of this given name.  However, Qui- reflects the pronunciation of the genitive form Cuinn and would not reflect the pronunciation of the nominative form Conn.  As such, it would not be a logical Anglicization of the given name Conn.  Since all other documentation gives evidence of Quin only as a surname, we must assume Dauzat is also referring to a surname.  Barring evidence of the use of Quin as a given name in period, it is not registerable as a given name.
Either Conn Phelan or Phelan Quin (or Phelan Quinn) would be registerable.  However, since the submitter only allows minor changes, we must return this name.
Shereen al-Maghrebiyya. Device. Argent chaussé sable, a goblet sable. 
Conflict with the Midrealm's Award of the Chalice, (Fieldless) A chalice sable.  There is only one CD, for the change to the field.
DRACHENWALD
None.
LOCHAC
Cristoval Gitano. Device change. Per saltire sable and gules, a cross fleury argent. 
This conflicts with Stephen de Huyn: (Fieldless) A cross of Santiago argent.  As of the March 2001 LoAR, “A cross patonce and a cross of Santiago are both considered artistic variants of a cross flory; therefore, there is no CD for a cross patonce versus a cross of Santiago.” A cross fleury is even closer in depiction to a cross of Santiago than a cross patonce.
MERIDIES
Alessandra di Fióre. Device. Azure, a woman's bust facing to dexter within a cartouche voided all between eight pheons in annulo shafts to center argent. 
The cartouche voided, as drawn, is too thin.  The pheons are not quite in annulo as they follow the shape of the oval.  The art style of the head, in context with the cartouche on which it lies, gave a strong impression to the College of Arms of the post-period art of Josiah Wedgwood (most commonly known from his china designs).  This has too many cumulative weirdnesses to be period style armory.
Date Kiyomori. Device. Vert, on a plate argent a dragonfly tergiant sable. 
Conflict with Anne of the Golden Mantle, Vert, on a plate a swan naiant, couped on the fess line, sable..  There is only one CD for the change of type of tertiary charge under RfS X.4.j.ii.
Galiena of Lindisfarne. Device. Per bend azure and vert, an increscent moon argent. 
Conflict with the arms of Sean Macarailt of Sandyhume: Sable, an increscent argent. There is one CD for the field but no difference between an increscent and an increscent moon.
Hrólfr inn digri Jóhansson. Device. Per chevron gules and Or, two Saxon helms affronty and an arm embowed vambraced counterchanged a bordure sable. 
We compared this with the defining instance of the Saxon Helm in the submission of Halfdan Ivarsson (July 1991, Caid).  That submission showed something much like the “Sutton Hoo” helmet, which has a large faceplate almost covering the whole face.  These helmets have no faceplate.  We were unable to find a helmet which matched these, and the only comment received from the College of Arms asked what kind of helmet these were.  Absent examples that this is a period style helm, we must return this.
Lucia filia Fausti. Device. Or, a fess azure between three cinquefoils gules. 
Conflict with Raedwald of Boarhunt, Or, on a fess azure between three roses gules a boar's head erased Or, orbed and langued gules.  There is one CD for removal of the tertiary charge, but as Trans-Pontine notes:“by longstanding precedent (set in November 1990) reaffirmed as recently as September 2000, there is no difference between a rose and a cinquefoil.”
Sándor Dósa. Device. Quarterly sable and argent, on a cross throughout between four unicorns rampant five mullets of eight points all counterchanged. 
This is excessively counterchanged.  The identifiability of the small mullets is hampered by the counterchanging on this emblazon.  The cumulative effect of the counterchanging of the primary, secondary, and tertiary groups, on a field divided of more than two parts, is overwhelming.
MIDDLE
Ashby Turley. Device. Per bend sinister wavy purpure and vert, two wolves statant Or. 
This was pended from the February 2001 LoAR because of a possible conflict with Katherine Goodpasture, Per fess and per pale embattled erminois and gules, in bend sinister two talbots passant Or.  It was agreed that there is a CD for the field, but nothing for the difference between passant and statant, and, as the arrangement of Katherine's talbots is forced, nothing for arrangement.  This was pended to wait for the determination of the status of difference between talbots and wolves.  As per the cover letter for the June 2001 LoAR, no difference is given.
Catteden, Branch of. Branch name. 
Listed on the LoI as Catteden, Branch of, it should have been listed as Catteden, Canton of since only group designators found in “Appendix B - Standard Designations for Society Branches” of the Admin Handbook may be used as designators when registering a branch name.
However, there is a bigger problem here.  This group has “proto-incipient” status.  As the Middle's webpage on the “Process of Becoming a Full Status Group” (http://www.midrealm.org/seneschallorum/fullstatgroup.doc) specifically states that for such groups, “at this point you have no official standing in the SCA”, we are not able to register this group's submission at this time.
We would like to take this opportunity to provide feedback for this group and congratulate them on moving through the submission process so quickly that their submission beat their group's achieving incipient status.  The name they have chosen is an excellent name and would have been registered at this point if they had a group status that gave them “official standing” as an SCA group.  We look forward to seeing this submission again soon.
OUTLANDS
None.
TRIMARIS
Astrith Alexandra. Device. Sable, in bend a sun Or eclipsed sable and a bat-winged wolf rampant Or. 
Conflict with Kourost Bernard of the East Woods, Sable, a sun Or eclipsed sable. There is one CD for adding the second primary charge.
Maeve Firehair. Name. 
Listed on the LoI as Mave Firehair, this was a typo for the submitted name Maeve Firehair.
No documentation was provided and none could be found by the College of Arms that Firehair is a reasonable period byname.  As such, barring presentation of such documentation, it is not a registerable byname.  This is in keeping with the following precedent from 1992:
Fire-lock does not appear to be an epithetical name constructed on Period patterns of naming.  Most descriptive epithets are much more literal, such as Dustiberd.  (May 1992 LoAR, p. 21).
Since the submitter did not list her group name, we have created her holding name as Maeve of Trimaris.
Sebastian Blacke. Badge. (Fieldless) An Eye of Horus argent. 
The Eye of Horus is an abstract symbol or combination of symbols whose meaning was not understood by Europeans in the SCA period.  Unlike the Eye of Horus, the occasional word or letter found in medieval and Renaissance heraldry were part of the languages and symbolic iconography of Europe.  Nor is this symbol a reasonable heraldic depiction of an eye; a heraldic eye is a solid charge where the Eye of Horus is depicted as a thin line.  As such, this belongs to the category of artistic designs which are not compatible with heraldry.
It was not clear to us whether the Eye of Horus was considered a single abstract symbol (such as a letter) or a combination of symbols (such as a word).  If this is a single abstract symbol, it may not be registered as the only charge in a piece of armory.  “Current precedent disallows the registration of solitary abstract symbols (July 2000 LoAR).”
Tatiana Heinemann. Device. Sable, on a bird close Or a bird close gules. 
Conflict with John of Ravenwolf: Sable, a raven speaking Or beaked and membered argent; and Anne Gaverel d'Avesor, Sable, a peregrine falcon close belled and jessed or, orbed gules maintaining in dexter foot a fountain.  In both cases there is one CD for addition of the tertiary bird, but there is no difference in the type of bird from a generic bird as submitted here.
Tatiana Heinemann. Badge. (Fieldless) A bird close gules. 
This conflicts with Karena del Falco, Argent, a falcon close gules.  There is one CD for fieldlessness but nothing for the difference between a generic bird and another sort of bird.
Trimaris, Kingdom of. Heraldic title Compass Rose Herald. 
This is being returned for conflict with Compass Rose of Ansteorra, Award of the (reg. 12/90).
Herald is the designator, and therefore does not contribute towards difference; neither does the removal of of Ansteorra, because group references are transparent.
Trimaris, Kingdom of. Heraldic title Lanyard Pursuivant. 
This submission is being returned for aural conflict with Lanner Herald (reg. May 1984 via Calontir).  The following precedent is applicable here:
[Caldera Herald] This is being returned for an aural conflict with the Province of Calderium.  (Jaelle of Armida, LoAR May 1997, p. 8)
Caldera and Calderium are aurally more different than Lanyard and Lanner.  As such, this submission must be returned.
Trimaris, Kingdom of. Heraldic title Turtle Ship Herald. 
The LoI stated that “The 'Turtle ship' is a period iron-clad warship used by the Korean Admiral Yi Sun Shin to defeat various Japanese Armadas in a series of naval battles between 1592-1598.”
However, no accompanying documentation was submitted with this title, and the College did not find any evidence that Turtle Ship was the period name for this type of ship.  Presumably, the name would have been in Japanese or Korean.
Metron Arison found the following references to 'Turtle Ship': “Turtle Ship Dock at Seoul in Korea (a replica turtle ship) and [in] a couple of arcade or role-playing game books”.
However, none of these sources give dated evidence of the name turtle ship in period.
Without such documentation, this submission must be returned.
Trimaris, Kingdom of. Heraldic title Vox Viverra Sum Herald. 
This is returned for lack of documentation of Vox [animal reference] Sum as following examples of period heraldic titles.  I can do no better than to quote my predecessor, Master Pietari Pentinpoika Uv, Pelican King of Arms, quoting Mistress Jaelle of Armida, Laurel Queen of Arms, quoting Master Da'ud ibn Auda, Laurel King of Arms:
Grammatically the title should be Vox Maris.  However, the title has style problems as well as grammatical ones.  To quote Mistress Jaelle of Armida, Laurel Queen of Arms, quoting Master Da'ud ibn Auda, Laurel King of Arms: 
[Artemisia, Kingdom of.  Title for Vox Grypis Herald] This is being returned for non period style.  In a similar case, Master Da'ud as Laurel said:
“[returning Vox Draconis Pursuivant] The previous version, Dragon's Voice Pursuivant, was returned 3/95 for failure to emulate period models as required by RfS III.2.b.iii; translation into Latin doesn't bring it any closer.  It was suggested that it might derive from a motto Vox draconis sum 'I am the voice of the dragon', but the period examples noted all comprise the entire motto, and no evidence was presented that Vox draconis sum is a reasonable imitation of a period motto.  (Caid, Kingdom of, 10/95 p. 18)”
Barring documentation that this follows period exemplar of heraldic titles, it must be returned.  (Jaelle of Armida, LoAR, June 1998)
No such documentation was provided this time, either.  [Trimaris, Kingdom of, 06/00, R-Trimaris]
No such documentation was provided this time, either.
WEST
None.

THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN PENDED UNTIL THE FEBRUARY 2002 LAUREL MEETING
ANSTEORRA
Muirenn ingen Senáin uí Dúnlaing. Name. 
This name originally appeared on the LoI as Senáin uí Dúnlaing and was corrected to Muirenn ingen Senáin uí Dúnlaing in a Letter of Correction two months later.  However, given the significant difference in the name before and after the correction, and the delay in the letter of correction, we are pending this submission in order to give the College of Arms time to properly comment on this submission.
MERIDIES
Elizabeth Rea. Device. Per saltire argent and vert, a mortar and pestle sable. 
A question was raised about possible conflict with Caitlin Ó hAodha, Quarterly gules and argent, a tankard sable. There is a CD for the field.  The Pictorial Dictionary notes that the mortar and pestle is a period charge dating to 1404, but no date is given in that source for the tankard.  There seemed to be a notable visual resemblance between these charges.  Therefore, we are pending this so that the College may provide research on whether there should be a CD between these charges.
Hildegund von Bieber. Device. Or, two beavers sejant erect respectant a ford proper all within a bordure sable. 
The device has a sable bordure which was not mentioned in the Letter of Intent.  Most commenters assumed this was a “cut and paste” artifact of the LoI rather than an actual bordure.  Nor was a letter of correction received.  Thus, this must be pended for further conflict research.  To clarify the tinctures of the charges, the beavers are brown, and the ford is blue and white.
TRIMARIS
Meadhbha ingean Riain. Name change from Siobhan inghean Meadhbha. 
This name was listed on the LoI as Siobhan ingean RiaÝn and corrected to Meadhbha ingean Riain on the June 28th LoI.  The forms actually list Meadhbha ingean Ríain as the submitted form.   Given the dramatic difference in the name listed on the LoI and the corrected form, and the fact that the correction was two months after the LoI, we are pending this submission.
Additionally, the Laurel files show that her original name Siobhan inghean Meadhbha (reg. 08/96) was changed to Meadhbha ní Ríain, which was registered in 11/98.
WEST
Antonio Giordano da Firenze. Device. Vert, a dragon segreant and on a chief argent three crosses formy gules. 
The blazon on the LoI said that there were three dragons, not one.  It appears that most commenters merely noted the discrepancy and checked for conflict on the blazoned version, rather than researching the emblazoned version.  This is pended to ensure that research is done on the correct emblazon.