Nice badge!
Artist's note: Please include the details of the fox's face and tail to improve identifiability.
Artist's note: A sword proper would also have its quillons tinctured Or. We view the lack in this case a simple oversight.
This name was submitted as Rummey John but changed at Kingdom to Rummy John to match the submitter's preferred spelling. Commenters questioned the documentation presented from FamilySearch, but Memorantia Albion was able to find an example of Rummey in Journals of the House of Lords, Volume 10 (1647) found on Google Books at https://books.google.fi/books?id=5iQzAQAAMAAJ. There is a pattern in 16th century English names ending in ey also being written as simply ending in y; from Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources we find Audry/Audrey, Jeffry/Jeffrey, and Humphry/Humphrey. Given the precedent of 16th and early 17th century English surnames being used as given names, we are happy to register this given name with the submitter's preferred spelling of Rummy.
Nice device!
Artist's note: Please thicken the arms of the demi-escarbuncle to improve identifiability.
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This byname was submitted as Javorníková, intended to mean 'woman from Javornik'. As submitted, the construction is not quite right. An adjectival byname meaning 'woman from Javornik' would be Javornícka, and at the submitter's request we have made this change for submission. We wish to thank ffride Morelle and Anezka of Carolingia for their work on this submission, as our resources in the Czech language are limited.
The byname the Red is Lingua Societatas for Old Norse inn rauði.
The submitter's previous registration, Andrew the Red, is retained as an alternate name.
This device was pended for redraw on the June 2020 LoAR.
The crook and cats are considered co-primary as depicted.
This device does not conflict with the armory of Xene Erienikina, Gules, a lion and on a chief invected Or three suns gules. There is a DC for the change in the complex line of the chief, and another for the change in type of the tertiary charges.
There is a step from period practice for the use of the chief fleury.
This name was originally submitted as Nere'ügei Kitad'kö'ün, with the intended meaning "nameless son of China". As submitted, there were several issues with this name. First, the name elements are out of order. In Mongolian names, the family name would be written first. Secondly, the grammar for the element 'son of China' was not correct. Third, the transliteration of the elements was modernized. We have therefore, with the submitter's explicit permission, modified this name to Kitad-un Nere Ügei for registration.
The submitter is to be commended for his extremely thorough presentation of research into apotropaic names in the Mongolian culture. Apotropaic names are names which have a negative connotation, such as Terbish ("Not that one"), Enebish ("Not this one"), Muunokhoi ("Bad Dog"), or Nergui ("Nameless"). This is the defining instance of a Mongolian apotropaic given name. Given the pattern as presented, such names can be registered on a case-by-case basis.
Commenters raised a potential conflict with Broddr Refsson [August 2015, A-Æthelmearc]. These names are clear via PN3C3, as removing the initial consonant cluster creates enough aural and visual difference between the two given names.
The trian depiction of the skull used in this device may be found in the arms of Eufullmer (aka Awil-Marduk, son of Nebuchadnezzar II), in Abbot Ulrich Rösch's late-15th century Book of Heraldry, page 21, https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/csg/1084/21.
Other attributed arms, showing a more traditional, fully-affronty view and a different bordure are found for Eufullmer in the Ingeram Codex.
We consider this trian depiction to be equivalent to cabossed for purposes of conflict.
Nice device!
The submitter requested authenticity for 9th-10th century Norwegian. This request was not summarized on the LoI. Fortunately, Seraphina Ragged Staff identified this request in a timely fashion so this name need not be pended. Kingdoms are reminded that authenticity requests must be summarized on the LoI to allow commenters time to check them. Authenticity requests discovered too late in the commentary process could result in a name being pended for further research.
While the given name Ragnarr meets the submitter's authenticity request, we have no evidence of the byname rauðfótr being used in this time period. It is plausible given other examples of this type of descriptive byname, but we cannot say for sure if it is authentic.
This device was pended for redraw on the June 2020 LoAR. There is a step from period practice for the use of an abacus.
In Jul 2012 there was a bulk reblazon changing abacus to Oriental abacus, given opinion at the time regarding a hypothetical registration of a European variant of slightly different construction. However, in the time since there have been no such registrations. We now reverse that practice and restore the widely-understood (to date, exclusively used) variant as the default, and drop the use of the termOriental.
Further discussion on the use of the term Oriental to differentiate between European and East Asian variants of charges will appear in a future Cover Letter.
The siege tower is a period charge, found in the arms of De Branbano in Insignia Urbium Italiae Septentrionalis, 1550-1555 [BSB Cod.icon. 270] (https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/bsb00001430/images/index.html?seite=171). This badge's depiction matches that found in this source: a stone tower on a wheeled platform.
The submitter is a knight and entitled to display a closed loop of chain.
The submitter is also advised that use of this badge must be restricted to those household members who are also knights.
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Nice 11th century Arabic name!
We have period examples of hands apaumy with no wrist showing, sometimes alongside hands apaumy with bits of wrist. The presence or absence of wrist is purely artistic. For example, see the arms of Malacheti, in Insignia Veneta, Mantuana, Bononiensia, Anconitana, Urbinatia, Perugiensia, 1550-1555[ [BSB Cod.icon. 274] (https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/bsb00001421/images/index.html?seite=397)
Voided trefoils may be found in the 15th century Ingeram Codex (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Codex_Cotta:_18th_century_sorting#/media/File:Ingeram_Codex_188.jpg). As such, trefoils of that shape could be fimbriated. The petals of the quatrefoils depicted in this submission have the same shape, and thus may also be voided or fimbriated.
This byname was submitted as inghean ui Bhriain, but the submitter's form indicated a preferred spelling of inghean Uí Bhriain. Kingdoms are reminded that all changes to the form must be summarized in the Letter of Intent. Fortunately, the submitter's preferred spelling can be restored with only one change; as diacritical markings must be used consistently throughout a name, we have amended the byname to inghean Uí Bhríain for registration.
Commenters raised the issue of potential presumption against Brian Boru. While evocative of a relationship to the famous king, this name would not be confused for actually being his close relative as the byname Bhóroma inghean ui Bhriain refers to Elspeth and not her ancestor. Therefore, this name can be registered as amended.
Nice badge!
This cognomen was originally submitted as Maxillianus. During the proofreading process, it was noticed that the submitter's documentation was based on a post-period publication. We could find no period reference to anyone using the cognomen Maxillianus. The smallest change we could make to this cognomen to register it was the addition of mi to create the common cognomen Maximillianus. The cognomen that would be inferred by the submitter's original documentation is Maximianus. If the submitter wishes that form, he may make a request for reconsideration. We wish to thank Alisoun Metron Ariston for her extensive research on this item.
Nice device!
Nice 15th century French name!
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While pips are common on dice in period armory, physical specimens dating from the 6th century BCE and into the 5th century BCE have also shown them with depictions of beasts instead (as seen in some dice featured by the National Archeological Museum in Greece, https://web.archive.org/web/20160709162454/http://www.namuseum.gr/object-month/2011/dec/dec11-en.html) as well as letters (specimen dated 2nd century BCE to 4th century CE, seen at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/551072); but we have no evidence of mixed pips and beasts.
Nevertheless, we are granting benefit of the doubt and declare a step from period practice for mixing pips and beasts on dice. Being expected markings of a die, they do not constitute tertiary charges for purposes of conflict.
This badge is not in conflict with either of the badges of Timothy of Glastinbury, Azure, a billet argent and (Fieldless) A billet argent. In each case there are DCs for the field and the change in type from delf to dice:
Dice and delfs are period charges; we have no evidence that they were considered interchangeable in period. Under our current standards, there is a CD between the two. Therefore, there is a CD for the changes to the field and a CD for the change of type of primary charge. [Marietta da Firenze, October 2010]
It is a step from period practice for mixing pips and beasts on dice.
This name was originally submitted as Safiye bint Hasan. During commentary, a timely correction was issued indicating the submitter's preference for the spelling Safiyyah bint Hasan. We are happy to make this change.
The submitter requested authenticity for 15th-17th century Turkish. The submitter indicated a preference for a spelling of this name following Arabic Romanization conventions. The spelling Safiye bint Hasan is more appropriate for the Romanization conventions used in Turkey today. Either form is authentic for the 16th century Ottoman empire; if the submitter prefers the original spelling she may submit a request for reconsideration.
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Blazoned when registered in March 1983 as Azure, a siege tower Or, a chief embattled argent, we are specifying its form as wooden, as opposed to stone, the latter of which is attested in period armory.
Artist's note: Please include the detail of the fox's tail tip for identifiability.
Nice cant!
Nice 16th century German name!
Commenters raised the issue of the byname's construction, as locatives in Spanish are usually formed as simply de X. The byname de la Herrera can be found dated to 1404 in Venta de heredad [Colección diplomática de Santa Catalina del Monte Corbán], a notary document found in the CORDE database. Therefore, this name can be registered as submitted.
This byname was originally submitted as Beóceorle. However, there was no documentation supporting either the acute accent on the o or the terminal e in period documents. While the acute accent appears in Bosworth-Toller's An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, it is used there as a pronunciation guide and would not have been written that way in period documents. We have therefore dropped both to register this name.
Nice cant!
Originally submitted as House Reinhardt, this household name was not properly constructed. While the name Reinhardt was originally documented as German, it could also be an English given name. Precedent says, "The question was raised whether names of the form House + [place name] followed a pattern found in English names for groups of organized people. We have found no examples of this pattern. [Sythe Blackwolfe, December 2007, R-Calontir]" The submitter provided no new documentation to prove that such a pattern existed in our period, and therefore this precedent still applies. An English household name based on the given name Reinhardt might be Reinhardts House.
In the return of Haus Grimm, it was also noted that the pattern Haus + [surname] was not found in German names. [Faelan mac Flainn, June 2016, R-Lochac]. However, AElfwynn Leoflaede dohtor found numerous examples of Haus zum [name or names] in Die Hausnamen und Hauszeichen im mittelalterlichen Freiburg by Karl Schmidt. On the basis of these examples, the form Haus zum Reinhardt would be a plausible German household name.
Finally, the submitters allowed no changes. Upon conversation with the submitters, they explicitly allowed a change to Haus zum Reinhardt for registration. We are happy to make this change and register this household name.
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As submitted, this name combines an Okinawan family name, Gusukuma, with the Japanese given name Kame. The submitter is to be commended for their research proving significant contact between people who spoke each language. Therefore, this name can be registered as submitted.
This is the defining instance of a lingual mix between Okinawan and Japanese, as well as the defining instance of an Okinawan family name.
The structure depicted in these arms is intended to be a representation of Shuri Castle with its gatehouse. We are blazoning simply as a castle triple-towered, leaving the specific details to artistic license.
The submitter requested authenticity for late-13th to mid-15th century German. As submitted, this name is authentic for the late 15th century. Earlier forms of the patronymic byname for the late-13th and 14th centuries would be Reinhard or Reinhart. If the submitter prefers either of these spellings, he may make a request for reconsideration.
The submitter requested authenticity for Renaissance Italy. This request was not summarized on the LoI, but fortunately Lilie Dubh inghean ui Mordha identified it in commentary with enough time for it to be addressed. Kingdoms are again reminded to please summarize authenticity requests on the LoI so they can be addressed without the name needing to be pended for further research.
This name meets this request as both elements are found in Un Censimento della Città di Roma Sotto il Pontificato di Leone X, Tratto da un Codice Inedito dell'Archivio Vaticano, dating them to 16th century Rome. This name is also authentic for 16th century Florence.
Artist's note: Please include the line of the solar disc when marking the details of the solar face, to improve identifiability.
Nice 16th century French name!
Nice device!
The submitter requested authenticity for the Tang Dynasty in China. This request was not summarized on the LoI, but fortunately Lilie Dubh inghean ui Mordha identified it in commentary with enough time for it to be addressed. Kingdoms are again reminded to please summarize authenticity requests on the LoI so they can be addressed without the name needing to be pended for further research.
As submitted, this name only half meets the authenticity request. The family name can be documented to this dynasty in China, but we could find no evidence of the given name used in that period. Therefore, while this given name is constructed and is registerable, we cannot guarantee it is authentic.
There is a step from period practice for the use of a gusset with other charges directly on the field.
Artist's note: Please draw the lotus flower clearly in profile without lower petals or leaves that might detract from its appearance as a cup-shaped flower.
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This device was pended for redraw on the June 2020 LoAR.
Commenters questioned whether the Welsh language has a pattern of using literary names similar to English. Lillia Crampette found the following examples of literary names in the Welsh naming pool from "Snapshot of a Cantref: The Names and Naming Practices in a Mawddwy Court Roll of 1415-16" by Heather Rose Jones (http://www.heatherrosejones.com/names/welsh/mawddwy1415.html) and Welsh Surnames, by Morgan & Morgan: Wenhover and Gwenhyvar (forms of Gwenhwyfar), Gwalchmay, Aron (form of Arawn, King of the Underworld), Arthur, Gwion, Gwethir, and Mabon. Based on this evidence, the pattern of literary names in the Welsh language is accepted, and this name can be registered as submitted.
This device was pended for redraw on the June 2020 LoAR.
This device was pended for redraw on the June 2020 LoAR.
Artist's note: Please accent the facial details to show it as a single head.
This name combines a Russian given name and an Old Norse byname, a combination acceptable per SENA Appendix C.
Artist's note: Please nudge the body of the demi-wolf leftward, more toward the centerline, to improve the balance of the design. It is worth noting that demi-beasts frequently included the tail, which would serve to force the body toward the centerline. Also consider putting some space between the ravens and the edge of the field, again to improve balance.
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Blazoned when registered in November 1981 as Per pale wavy azure and gules, a pallet wavy between a tower argent, portalled to sinister, and a siege tower proper, we are clarifying that the siege tower is wooden. This not only specifies its proper coloration (i.e., brown), but also its form: a scaffolded artifact, not the "stone tower on wheels" that's since been documented to period armory.
Blazoned when registered in June 1982 as Gules, a siege tower proper within a bordure wavy argent, we are clarifying that the siege tower is wooden. This not only specifies its proper coloration (i.e., brown), but also its form: a scaffolded artifact, not the "stone tower on wheels" that's since been documented to period armory.
Nice name for 14th century Germany!
Last registered by this term in 2006, the hautboy is a musical instrument known also as the shawm, and found in Guillim as a charge in the arms of Bourden.
Nice device!
The ogress and goat are of sufficiently similar size to be considered co-primary.
Artist's note: The goat's hoof should lay behind the ogress or atop it, to sustain it.
Nice badge!
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There is a step from period practice for the use of a compass star.
Blazoned when registered in October 1998 as Gyronny sable and argent, a bird close contourny gules, we are clarifying that this bird is a raven. Close is the default posture for this type of bird, and may be omitted.
The submitter's previous name, Anastasia Elgiva Orpett, is released.
This byname was submitted as Marxbrüder without the article der. As submitted, the term Marxbrüder would indicate a plural form; the singular form removes the umlaut on the /u/. In addition, there needs to be a definite article before it. At the submitter's request, we have added the definite article der. As modified, der Marxbruder refers to a member of the fencing guild.
The submitter's previous name, Otto of Foxhall, is retained as an alternate.
This name combines an Old Norse given name with a pre-1100 Middle English byname, an acceptable lingual mix per SENA Appendix C.
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This is the defining instance of the cucumber fruit. The cucumber leaf was first registered in Feb 2008.
Depictions of the cucumber may be found in Tractatus de Herbis, de Avibus et Piscibus, Southern Italy, 1330-1340. Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris), ms. lat. 6823, folio 42v; Tractatus de Herbis, Northern Italy, around 1440. British Library ms. Sloane 4016, folio 32v; Carrara Herbal, Northern Italy, 1390-1404. British Library ms. Egerton 2020, folio 162v; Livre des Simples Médecines, Eastern France, 1458. Biblioteca Estense ms. 993, folio 43r.
Meri is the submitter's legal second given name.
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The submitter indicated that a given name sounding like "Celine" was most important. While this name is registerable as submitted, the submitter might be interested to know that commenters found the given name Celine documented to the 16th century. If the submitter prefers that given name, she may make a request for reconsideration.
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The submitter requested authenticity for 12th to 13th century English. This name does not meet this request, as the given name is dated at least 50 years earlier than the other elements. The given name is Latinized; a form with a Latinized given name and vernacular bynames is linguistically consistent for this time period.
There is a step from period practice for the use of an overall charge surmounting a fimbriated ordinary.
Nice 9th-11th century Old Norse name from Iceland!
The motif of a seated lion holding a weapon is found in period arms. For example, the attributed arms of Hector of Troy found in Jerome de Bara's Le blason des armoiries (1579), p164, depicts a seated lion holding a halberd. Other arms attributed to Hector depict the seated lion holding a sword, as seen in BSB Cod.icon. 308n (https://daten.digitalesammlungen.de/bsb00043104/image_19) and 392d (https://daten.digitalesammlungen.de/bsb00018706/image_91). Similarly, the attributed arms of Alexander the Great, depicting a seated lion holding a halberd, are found in Livro do Armeiro-Mor, 1509 (https://digitarq.arquivos.pt/details?id=4162406, image 20) and in Fac Simile of an Ancient Heraldic Manuscript Emblazoned by Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount, Lyon King of Armes 1542 (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fac_Simile_of_an_Ancient_Heraldic_Manusc/IuZBAQAAMAAJ, plate 9). These are also instances of trian aspect being found in period armory.
Nice badge!
Nice 9th-11th century Old Norse name from Iceland!
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Nice badge!
This badge relies on the blanket permission to conflict for Illuminada Eugenia de Guadalupe y Godoy's badge, (Fieldless) A mullet voided and interlaced within and conjoined to an annulet Or, which grants fielded armory permission to conflict.
This badge relies on the blanket permission to conflict for Brianna Je Nell Aislynn of Blue Shadows's badge, Azure, a mullet voided and interlaced within and conjoined to an annulet Or, which grants permission to conflict with one distinct change.
The submitter grants permission to conflict to any armory at least one countable step from this badge.
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Nice 15th century Florentine name!
The submitter has permission to conflict with the device of Olifer Einarsson, Per pale argent and sable, two cranes respectant each with one leg raised counterchanged
The fist and the swallow are not comparable for the purpose of Unity of Orientation.
The submitter's previous device, Per pale gules and Or, in dexter in pale two hawk's bells argent, is retained as a badge.
Nice device!
The submitter requested authenticity for the Middle Irish language. Both Lann and Brian are Middle Irish name elements. However, while it is consistent with other attested Middle Irish descriptive bynames, we could not document scréchóc, 'screech-owl, jay', as having been used in a person's name in Middle Irish. Therefore, we cannot say for sure whether this name is authentic.
Nice 9th-11th century Old Norse name from Iceland!
Nice cant!
There is no visual conflict with the armory of Helena Janowska z Bedzina, Per pale gules and argent, a fleur-de-lys counterchanged.
Nice cant!
The designator for this household name is the post-pended -hol which is a suitable construction for such names in Norwegian.
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Nice 14th century English name!
This given name was submitted as Fine. The submitter indicated a preference for the given name to sound like "Finn"; however, the name Fine sounds like "Fee-na". As the submitter indicated no preference for gender and allows all changes, we have changed the given name to Fionn for registration to meet the sound request.
The submitter requested authenticity for 9th century Norse/Irish. While the combination of name elements is registerable, this name does not meet this request. The elements are from different regional naming pools and date nearly a century after the ninth century.
This name combines a Middle Irish Gaelic given name and an Old Norse byname from Iceland, an acceptable lingual mix per SENA Appendix C.
The submitter's previous name, Lochlainn Ó Cléirigh, is retained as an alternate.
This household name was originally submitted as Haus zum Schnecke_. The submitter requested authenticity for a German household name based on the heraldic charge schnecke. Ælfwynn Leoflæde dohtor was able to find a 15th century German spelling of the heraldic charge. At the request of the submitter, we have changed the substantive element to Snecken.
As modified, this name meets the authenticity request.
Nice badge!
Nice 16th century English name!
The submitter's previous name, Kazimir Petrovich Pomeshanov, is retained as an alternate.
Submitter's previous badge, (Fieldless) A gunrest sable surmounted by a coiled match argent, is released.
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Nice 9th-11th Old Norse name for Iceland!
Nice late 12th century English name!
This device was pended for redraw on the June 2020 LoAR.
Nice late 16th century English name!
Nice device!
This name was pended in July 2020 to discuss a potential relationship conflict with the registered Decimus Furius Maximus via SENA PN3D. As submitted, the name Furia Maxima could refer to the daughter of anyone with the name [praenomen] Furius Maximus. In Roman documents, the daughter of Decimus Furius Maximus would be written explicitly as Furia Decimi filia Maxima using a construction called filiation. As there is a way to both make this claim unmistakable and also register it as such, this name does not presume against the registered Decimus Furius Maximus and may be registered as submitted.
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Calin is the submitter's legal given name.
Artist's note: Please include internal details with better contrast with the underlying azure to keep the ear of wheat identifiable.
The submitter requested authenticity for the time of the Landnamabok. This name meets that request.
The submitter's previous name, Thorhalla Bjarnadóttir, is retained as an alternate.
There is a step from period practice for the use of a New World raccoon.
Kevin Nollaig is the submitter's entire legal given name. By precedent,
Submitted as James Muirhead _, this name was composed solely of the submitter's legal middle name and surname. The combination of middle name and surname is considered ordinary use names and cannot be registered per the Section III.A.10 of the Administrative Handbook, which states: "No name will be registered to a submitter if it is identical to a name used by the submitter for purposes of identification outside of a Society context. This includes legal names, common use names, trademarks, and other items registered with mundane authorities that serve to identify an individual or group."
Although the question of whether this policy should continue is currently being discussed in a pending matter, the submitter opted not to wait for the outcome of that discussion to register his name. He agreed to add the phrase of the Outlands to distinguish this name from his legal name. Outlands is the registered name of an SCA branch.
We have changed the name to James Muirhead of the Outlands for registration. [A-Outlands, December 2018]
St. Golias is the registered name of an SCA branch. Adding this element distinguishes the submitted name enough from the submitter's legal name enough to be registered.
Nice device!
The submitter's previous device, Per saltire azure and argent, in fess an ogress between two bears rampant addorsed sable, is released.
Nice device!
Drygestan is the registered name of an SCA branch.
This name was originally submitted as Makoto Yoshimura. However, Makoto is a given name and Yoshimura is a family name. Japanese names are written with the family name first. Though the submitter allowed no major changes and changing the order of the elements is considered such, she explicitly agreed to this change. Therefore, we have changed the order of the elements to Yoshimura Makoto for registration.
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This name was submitted as Eira Vidarsdottir. As submitted, there were two separate issues with this name.
First, the given name Eira was documented as a dithemic name composed of the elements Eir- and -a. There is no evidence that Old Norse names were constructed in this manner. When presented options, the submitter chose the given name Eirný.
Second, since the submitter opted for a given name that included accents, we must add them consistently throughout. Adding the accents back to the byname, and using the attested Old Norse ð instead of d in her father's name, results in the form Viðarsdóttir.
This given name was submitted as Eowine. However, this form is masculine, and the submitter desired a feminine name. Precedent has disallowed the feminine name Eowyn in the past:
Submitted as Eowyn Rindill, the given name Eowyn was documented as an Old English feminine name constructed from the prototheme Eo- and the deuterotheme -wyn. However, no examples were provided, and none could be found, for Eo- being used as a prototheme in feminine names. Lacking such evidence, it cannot be combined with the feminine deuterotheme -wyn. The closest feminine name that the commenters found is Eawyn, which is found in the Latin oblique form Eawynne in Anglo-Saxon Charter S 517b, dated to 946. The Latin nominative form of Eawynne would be Eawynna, which most likely represents the Old English vernacular Eawyn or Eawynn. [Eawyn rindill, October 2008, A-An Tir]
Research in Anglo-Saxon names has improved dramatically since this submission given the advent of the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) database. In PASE we find at least four individuals with names recorded with both an initial Ea and an initial Eo: Eafa/Eofa, Eaba/Eoba, Eawa/Eowa and Eadbald/Eodbald. The PASE database also records a woman with the name Eawynn.
Given this new evidence, we hereby overturn previous precedent. At the submitter's request, we have changed this given name to Eowynn for registration.
The spelling Pagham is Lingua Societatis for the place known during the SCA period as Pageham.
Nice device!
There is a step from period practice for use of a monster created using a New World raccoon.
The submitter's previous device, Azure, in pale an increscent argent and a lotus blossom in profile Or, is retained as a badge.
Nice badge!
This device was pended for redraw on the June 2020 LoAR.
The submitter's previous name, Khalil ibn Abd'l-Wahid al-Katib is retained as an alternate.
Nice allusion!
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- Explicit littera accipiendorum -
None.
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This device is returned administratively for the line drawing having a grey-scale ibex. On resubmission, note that only sable portions of the armory may be filled in on the line drawing.
Commenters questioned the identification of this beast, based on the horns. Wikipedia shows images of female Siberian ibexes consistent with this depiction. Siberian ibexes may be found throughout central and northern Asia including, notably, Mongolia.
There is a step from period practice for the use of non-European fauna, per SENA A2B4b.
This badge is returned for conflict with the badge of Edward IV of England, (Fieldless) A rose gules en soleil Or. There is a DC for the field, but there is no difference granted between a compass star and a sun.
There is a step from period practice for the use of a compass star.
This device is returned for conflict with that of Ragnachar Radagaist, Vert, a serpent in annulo argent. There is one DC for the field, but none for the serpent posture:
The June 2015 return of the device of Keistutus Prus Andrzejewski, Gules, a serpent involved Or, devouring a sun Or eclipsed sable stated in part, "although involved versus involved in annulo is a blazonable difference, it does not provide a second DC".
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This item was pended on the May 2020 LoAR to discuss whether the combination of a white dragon and a black othala rune is problematic enough to merit a return for offense.
This device is returned for using an overall design found to be offensive. SENA A7B4 says "Some designs are offensive because of individual charges: a swastika is inherently offensive because of its association with the Nazis. Others are offensive only in the overall design. The s-rune is not offensive as a charge, but is offensive in a design which closely resembles that used by the SS."
The July 2018 Cover Letter discusses the issues around offense in armorial design and states, in part, "We advise submitters and consultants alike that, while a single use of an [sic] a symbol or motif may be considered inoffensive, the use of more than one potentially offensive symbol in any piece of armory runs the risk of crossing the line into offense. This risk increases exponentially as a design becomes more complex."
In this submission, we have a combination of design choices which, while not specifically copying any specific armory, are evocative in charge types (dragon, othala rune) and tinctures (argent, sable) of motifs used by both Nazi Germany's SS and modern Neo-Nazi organizations. Taken in combination, the overall design is seen as overly evocative of those groups and thus returnable under SENA A7.
As discussed in SENA A7A, the question of offense is by its nature one of predominant impression on the part of the modern observer. It is not a question of historical fact or sensibility. Nor is it a question of the intent of the submitter, and we do not presume any when we consider such questions.
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This item was pended as registering it would considerably extend the scope of names we allow temporally, back to the fourth millennium (3000-3400) BCE. Precedent permits the registration of Egyptian names dated to the 7th century BCE or later. [Sneferu sa Djedi mewetif Merit. Alternate name Aa-ef-en-moet of Artemisia, 3/2018 LoAR, A-Artemisia]
The submitter argued that this precedent should be overturned based on the revisions to the Society's Organizational Handbook (the Governing Documents) adopted by the Board of Directors in 2019. However, those revisions remain incomplete. To this date those revisions do not clearly support an intent to expand the scope of the Society in the way the submitter believes they should. Until the Board of Directors completes their revisions to the Organizational Handbook and offers guidance on their intent, we are unable to extend the temporal range for registrations within the Society as far as this submission requires. Thus, this name cannot be registered because the elements are dated to well before the 7th century BCE.
(to Artemisia acceptances) (to Artemisia returns)
This device is returned administratively for the line drawing having a sable thorn bush. On resubmission, note that only sable portions of the armory may be filled in on the line drawing. Further, since the last thornbush was registered 23 years ago, documentation of the depiction of the plant should be provided, per SENA Appendix F, which states that "Charges which have not been registered in over a decade should be redocumented."
(to Atenveldt acceptances) (to Atenveldt returns)
None.
(to Atlantia acceptances) (to Atlantia returns)
None.
(to Avacal acceptances) (to Avacal returns)
None.
(to Caid acceptances) (to Caid returns)
None.
(to Calontir acceptances) (to Calontir returns)
None.
(to Drachenwald acceptances) (to Drachenwald returns)
None.
(to Ealdormere acceptances) (to Ealdormere returns)
None.
(to East acceptances) (to East returns)
None.
(to Gleann Abhann acceptances) (to Gleann Abhann returns) (to Gleann Abhann pends)
None.
(to Lochac acceptances) (to Lochac returns)
This name is returned for obtrusive modernity. PN2E of SENA sets a high standard for obtrusive modernity:
Something is said to be obtrusively modern when it makes a modern joke or reference that destroys medieval ambience and drags the average person mentally back to the present day. Obtrusiveness can be either in the written form or when spoken. A period name that has a modern referent will not generally be considered obtrusively modern. Only extreme examples will be returned.
Longstanding precedent defines the test for obtrusive modernity as whether the name "grab[s] the listener by the scruff of the neck and haul[s] him, will he or nill he, back into the [21st] Century." [Porsche Audi, 08/1992 LoAR, Caid-R] Even applying the fairly liberal standard for obtrusive modernity, this name grabbed too many listeners by the scruff of the neck and dragged them into the 21st century. Commenters in OSCAR and non-heralds alike almost uniformly found this name to be a disruptive modern reference.
(to Meridies acceptances) (to Meridies returns)
This device is returned for having multiple tertiary groups.
When this arrangement of staples and arrow were previously registered to Jois Corbet in September 2009, as part of Azure, two staples in chevron inverted, points to chief, argent braced and entwined around an arrow inverted Or, it was determined that the arrow was the primary charge group and the staples the secondary. Placed directly on the field, this arrangement of two charge groups is registerable. However, placed in this instance on a pale they constitute two different tertiary groups on the primary charge, the pale. SENA Appendix I section C, discussing tertiary charge groups, says in part "A single charge group may only have one tertiary charge group on it."
(to Northshield acceptances) (to Northshield returns) (to Northshield pends)
This device is returned for the pelican being barely overall. Properly overall, the pelican would substantially cover the entire set of dragonflies. In doing so, care would be required to maintain identifiability of the dragonflies.
On resubmission, please ensure the pelican's gouttes of blood are visible.
The submitter is a member of the Order of the Pelican, and entitled to display a pelican vulning itself.
This badge is returned for conflict with the device of Margarethe Louise vom Schwarzwald, Or, a hurst of three pine trees sable. A DC exists for adding the secondary crescent, but no DCs exist for the difference in style of these pine trees.
(to Outlands acceptances) (to Outlands returns)
None.
(to West acceptances) (to West returns)
- Explicit littera renuntiationum -
After these submissions were received and had begun the process of registration, the submitter was sanctioned with Temporary Removal from Participation in the SCA. This item is pended to allow the Board to clarify whether proceeding with registration of submitted items violates that sanction. Submitting items while under that sanction, or accepting new submissions from someone under that sanction, is a clear violation of policy. However, we have traditionally continued processing submissions from individuals who are no longer eligible to make new submissions and are loathe to simply return items when the sanction process is ongoing.
This was item 2 on the An Tir letter of July 11, 2020.
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This device is pended for redraw to improve the identifiability of the lilies.
This was item 1 on the Gleann Abhann letter of July 21, 2020.
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This device is pended to correct the depiction of rayonnant and to move the point of the chevron up.
This was item 1 on the Northshield letter of July 31, 2020.
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- Explicit -
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