ANSTEORRAN GAZETTE

AS XXXVI, March 2002 ILoI 2002-03; No.3, Vol. 2002

Contents

1 Letter from Star

1 CoH Calendar

1 Letter from Bordure

2 Letter from Obelisk

2 Letter from Asterisk

3 ILoI 2002-03

7 AICC 2001-12

9 LoAR November 2001 (LoI July 2001)

11 LoAR December 2001 (LoI August 2001)

Back Cover

Who Sends What To Whom

Back Cover

Submission Costs and Copies Information

7 Status of ILoIs

The Ansteorran Gazette is the official Monthly publication of the College of Heralds of the Kingdom of Ansteorra. It is not a publication of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. nor does it delineate corporate SCA policies. Subscriptions are available from the Asterisk Herald on a pro-rated basis of $1.00 per month with each subscription ending on 31 Dec of each year (12 issues per year). Please make all checks or money orders payable to: SCA Inc.—Kingdom of Ansteorra. Contents © 2001 Society for Creative Anachronism except those contributions where copyright expressly retained by the individual author. For information on reprinting articles and artwork from this publication, please contact the editor (Obelisk Herald) who will assist you in contacting the original creator of the piece. Please respect the legal rights of our contributors.

[C]ourt reports are due within two weeks

of an event.

Words from Star Principal Herald Unto the populace of Ansteorra doth Baron Borek Vitalievich Volkov send greetings.

Barring a lack of successor, this will be my last article as Star Principal Herald for the great Kingdom of Ansteorra.

Business first though. I am in need of applicants for Armillary herald (consultation table deputy), Sol-stice Herald (Coastal Regional), and Golden Staff Pursuivant (Vocal Education Herald - up in July). If you have any questions about any of these offices, please contact me or the appropriate current holder of these offices. Send applications to the current holder and myself along with a copy of your membership card.

The College of Heralds is putting on another 'Ansteorran Heraldic and Scribal Symposium' on July 6th in the Northern Region. The event is being hosted by the Shire of Mooneschadowe and I am sure it will be great fun!

The Pursuivant Extraordinaire Exam is almost complete and should be ready for taking by April if not sooner. The exam has undergone a major change in being broken into five sections. If you pass all five sec-tions, then you are a Pursuivant Extraordinaire. If you pass at least one section, then you are a Herald-at-Large. Everyone taking the exam and passing at least a portion of it will have their contact information taken by Tressure Herald so that members of the populace can use your expertise to help them learn her-aldry.

The Administrative Handbook Addendum revision has been completed and will be found on the An-steorran Heraldry website http://www.ansteorra.org/heraldry. All heralds are encouraged to read the new Addendum to be current on what your duties and responsibilities are.

I want to thank everyone who has helped me to perform my office. I am happy that there have been so many of you all and sad that I cannot give all of you the recognition you so richly deserve. I look forward to a little vacation from holding any sort of office. It has been a challenge and a learning experience to have been Ansteorra's Principal Herald, and not a little fun. I look forward to working with you all again.

Borek, Star

Calendar

EVERY MONTH

15th Deadline for Submis-sions to Asterisk

20th Comments on ILoI of Previous Month due to Retiarius

May 4th

Squires & Cadets - CoH meeting for ILoI 2002-03

Ansteorran Heraldry Website http://heraldry.ansteorra.org/

Letter from Bordure Herald Greetings to one and all,

I am happy to say that the Ansteorran submissions process is returning to its proper course with our new Asterisk Herald, Lady Cahira, in place and working diligently with help from many local heralds. I expect that by the March LoI we will have caught up from our lack of December and January LoIs. This will be just in time for the Gulf War submissions to hit my desk. Thankfully, I have enlisted the assistance of a deputy, Lady Gwen, from the Canton of Westgate. I am not training my replacement (yet), but giving a newcomer to heraldry a chance to get involved in the submissions process and teaching her some of the ba-sics. So if you see her out and about, give her a nice welcome to the College of Heralds. In service, Lord Alden Drake Bordure Herald

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2) Ailgenan mac Aeda meic Canann (Dragonsfire Tor) New name. New device.

Gules, a chevron dovetail countered dovetail between three dragons rampant argent. Documentation provided: Ailgenan Academy of Saint Gabriel Report 850 docu-ments this spelling and construc-tion for 9th to 12th century Irish Gaelic. mac Aeda See above. meic Canann See above.

Photocopies: All listed. Changes: Any. Desired gender is male. 3) Aleysia de Eastbourne (Adlersruhe) New name. New device.

Gules a chalice Or entwined with a serpent vert a bordure argent embattled. Documentation provided: Aleysia Academy of Saint Gabriel Report 1548 (dated 23 Feb. 1999) dates this spelling to the 13th cen-tury. Eastbourne Ekwall, 4th Ed, Pg 156, s.n. Eastbourne, states that the name was “later Eastbourne” to dif-

ferentiate from Westbourne (dated to 1305). Photocopies: All needed. Changes: Any. Desired gender is female.

1) Ælfhelm se read (Lindenwood) New alternate name: Suhayb ibn Husayn ibn Sa’id ibn Ja’far. New badge.

Vert, on a fess argent a pomme. Documentation provided: All documentation of given names is from The History of al-Tabari, Vol-ume XXXIX: Biographies of the Prophet’s Companions and Their Successors, by Abu Ja’far Muham-mad bin Jarir al-Tabari (lived 839-923 CE)

Suhayb Arabic given name. "Abu hudhayfa, Salamah b. Su-hayb", who lived in the 2nd half of the 7th Century CE (pg 311) also, "Abbad bin Suhayb al-Hulaybi", died around 827-828 CE (pg 324) ibn an Arabic term, meaning ‘son of; a standard name struc-ture. See Da’ud ibn Auda, Arabic Naming Practices amd Period Names List, http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/arabic-naming.html. Husayn "Ja’far b. Muhammad b. ‘Ali b. Husayn b. ‘Ali b. Abi Talib", p248. Sa’id "Sufyan b. Sa’id b. Masruq b. Habib b. Rafi' b. ‘Abdallah b. Mawhibah b. Ubayy b. ‘Abdallah b. Munquidh b. Nasr b. al-Harith b. Tha’labah b. ‘Amir b. Milkan b. Thawr b. ‘Abd Manah b. Udd b. Tabikha b. al-Yas b. Mudar", died 777-778 CE., p257. Ja’far "Ja’far b. Muhammad b. ‘Ali b. Husayn b. ‘Ali b. Abi Talib", p248 also, see author’s name. Photocopies: All listed. Changes: Any. 14th Century Arab (from Tangier) lan-guage/culture is most important. Desired gender is male.

LETTER FROM OBELISK HERALD Greetings!

We’re back to a full Gazette again, as you can no doubt tell from the size of this issue. In addition to the Internal Letter, com-mentary on the December ILoI, and results from the December Laurel letter, I received a very nice article on conflict checking from Magnus which I will be publishing next month.

As always, any questions, article or letter submissions, and the like should be sent to me. The best way to reach me is via email at obelisk@ansteorra.org.

In service, Emma de Fetherstan Obelisk Herald

Internal Letter Of Intent 2002-03

LETTER FROM ASTERISK HERALD Greetings all,

Here is the March 2002 Internal Letter of Intent. Commen-tary is due by April 20th. The decision meeting will most likely be May 3-5 at Squires and Cadets. There will be no decision meetings in March or April since we had no ILoIs for January or February. However, there will be another substantial ILoI in April.

Happy commenting, Cahira, Asterisk

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4) Cadhla uá Cellachán (Namron) Resubmitted device. Name submitted in ILOI 0109.

Vert, an orle of mushrooms argent. Previous Submission: This same device was returned for lack of a name in January 2001. Since her name is back in process, and we still have her forms in the file, we are re-activating the device at the submit-ter’s request.

5) Charles the Grey of Mooneschadowe (Mooneschadowe) Resubmitted name. Documentation provided: Charles Withycombe 3rd ed. pp 62-63, under “Charles” Grey Reany & Wilson. p 203, under “Gray” Mooneschadowe Group name. Photocopies: None needed. Changes: Any. Desired gender is male. Previous submission: “Charles le Grey” was returned by Laurel in LOAR 01/09 for conflict with Charles Grey, First Earl Grey. 6) Ciannait Caimbuel (Steppes) New name. Documentation provided: Ciannait Woulfe, Irish Names and Surnames, page 209 header Ciannait gives it as the female diminuative of Cian, corre-sponding to masculine Cianán. Also the name of an Irish virgin saint. ÓCorráin & Maguire, Irish Names, page 51 header Cian gives it from ancient times, 1014, and down to modern times. Caimbuel Black, Surnames of Scotland, page 129 header Campbell gives “Caimbeul” as the Gaelic form meaning “crooked mouth”. Photocopies: None needed. Changes: Minor only. Gaelic language/culture is most important. Desired gender is female. 7) Cunovinda ingen Choinnic (Northkeep) New device.

Azure, on a plate a dragon passant coward azure, within an orle argent.

8) Dafydd Whitacre (Brad Leah) Resubmitted device.

Argent and azure embattled. Two mooseheads sable respective (or what the picture looks like). Previous Submission: Per fess embattled argent and azure in chief two mooseheads issuant from the sides respectant sable was re-turned in kingdom May 1992 as “Not period style.”

9) Dáire de Haya (Elfsea) Resubmitted device.

Argent, a dragon sejant affronty wings displayed gules maintaining a mullet Or and a tierce azure. Previous Submission: Although we found no documentation of de-cisions for ILoI Oct./Nov. 2000, it appears that this device was re-turned for redraw because it was difficult to identify the dragon. Note to Submitter: The set you sent in July 2001 has been found.

Our apologies for the delay. 10) Dáire de Haya (Elfsea)

Resubmitted badge. Argent, mullety azure a dragon sejant affronty wings displayed gules maintaining a mullet Or. Previous Submission: Although we found no documentation of de-cisions for ILOI Oct./Nov. 2000, it appears that this device was re-turned for redraw because it was difficult to identify the dragon. Note to Submitter: The set you

sent in July 2001 has been found. Our apologies for the delay.

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11) David Ben Leon of Glaslyn (Branch) New name. Documentation provided: All documentation is from “Jewish Naming Practices in Angevin England” by Eleazar ha-Levi at http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/jewish.html Structure of the name is documented on page 1. David Documented in this spelling on p. 9. Ben Documented in this use on p. 1. Leon Documented in this spelling on p. 11. Photocopies: All listed. Changes: Any. 11th century English/Jewish/Hebrew lan-guage/culture is most important. Desired gender is male. Changes requested for authenticity to English Jewish merchant/alchemist language/culture 14th century time period. 12) Domhnall Dubh O’Ruairc (Loch Ruadh) New name. Documentation provided: Domhnall Academy of Saint Gabriel report 1267 docu-ments this as a period Irish masculine given name. Dubh Academy of Saint Gabriel report 1267 documents this as a period Irish masculine given name. O’Ruairc Academy of Saint Gabriel report 1510 documents this as an Irish clan name. Photocopies: All listed. Changes: Any. Irish language/culture is most important. Desired gender is male. Changes requested for authenticity to Irish language/culture 13th-14th century time period. 13) Faolan MacFarland (Northkeep) New name. New device.

Azure, a dragonfly and in chief in saltire a needle and a rapier in-verted argent. Documentation provided: Faolan ÓCorráin & Maguire, p. 92 MacFarland Black, Surnames, p. 492, variation of “MacFarlan.” Photocopies: None needed. Changes: Any. Desired gender is “don’t care.” Changes requested for authenticity to Scot-

tish/Irish language/culture 15th century time period.

14) Faolan MacFarland (Northkeep) New badge.

Azure, on a pile throughout between two fleurs-de-lys argent a dragonfly azure.

15) Gerita della Mera (Glaslyn) New name. Documentation provided: Gerita Italian (Venetian) feminine name. Academy of Saint Gabriel documents this as “a pet form either Margherita, Rug-gera, or some similar name” on http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/arval/venice14/venice14given.html della Mera “[Submitter] advised “della” is Italian for ‘of the’ and … ‘mera was …’sea.’” Photocopies: All listed. Changes: Any. 15th century Venice merchant wife lan-guage/culture is most important. Desired gender is female. Changes requested for authenticity to Venetian language/culture 15th century time period. 16) Iosbail inghean Ghilla Chriosd (Ravensfort) New name. Documentation provided: All documentation is from Academy of Saint Gabriel report #2354. Iosbail Saint Gabriel documents this name as a “best guess” for the spelling of “Issobell,” “Yssbell,” and “Isbell” in the 14th or 15th centuries. Ghilla Saint Gabriel documents this spelling and construction. Chriosd Saint Gabriel documents this spelling and construction. Photocopies: All listed. Changes: Minor only. 14th century Scottish Gaelic lan-guage/culture is most important. Desired gender is female. 17) Kusunoki Yoshikata (Blacklake) New name. New device.

Sable, an annulet, and in annulet a pagoda argent. Documentation provided: Kusunoki Clan or family name of loyalists group who opposed at-tempt to overthrow Go-Daigo in 1331 in Komakura, Japan. Yoshikata Surname of the uncle of Yoritomo who was the first shogun of Japan.

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20) Richard of Durnford (Steppes) New device.

Argent, on a fess within a bordure azure, a lion passant Or.

21) Siobhan inghean Donn Ui Neill (Elfsea) Resubmitted name. Resubmitted device.

Per fess wavy Or and vert, three natural seahorses two and one counterchanged. Documentation provided: All documentation is from ÓCor-ráin & Maguire. Siobhan p. 165 header Sibán post 1200 spelling. Donn p. 75 header Donn popu-lar in later medieval period. Neill p. 145 header Niall gives 919.

Photocopies: None needed. Changes: Any. Desired gender is female. Previous submission: “Siobhán inghean uí Niall” returned in September 1999 for conflict with Siobhan O’Neill. Device was returned with name. 22) Siobhan inghean uí Dhomnaill (Northkeep) New badge.

Sable, a tree eradicated argent, leaved Or.

Photocopies: All listed. Changes: Minor only. Desired gender is male. 18) Líadan Arundel (Mooneschadowe) Resubmitted name. Resubmitted device.

Argent, a chevron gules between three sparrows close proper. Documentation provided: Líadan Irish feminine name. ÓCorráin & Maguire p. 122 under “Líadan.” Arundel MacLysaght p. 8 under “Arundel.” Reaney & Wilson, 3rd ed. p. 15 under “Arundale.” Photocopies: None needed. Changes: Any. Name

“Líadan” is most important. Desired gender is female. Previous submission: “Líadan of Sparewehavene” was returned in September 2001 for “temporal problems” and “mixed English-Gaelic.” Original device “Azure, between three sparrows volant natural a chevron dovetailed argent” was returned in April 1999 for violating the rule of tincture: brownish-grey birds on a blue background. New device was pended when name was returned. 19) Patric de Long Cœur (Steppes) New name. Documentation provided: All documentation is from Dictionnaire étyologique de Noms de Famille, Marie-Terese Morlet Patric under Pacrice p. 761, n. de bapt. Et patronyme forme savante du n. latin Pratricius, (voir PARIS), forme populaire. Forme adaptée francaises: Patris, -ix, Patry, var. Irlandaise Pat-rick, form francisee Patric. Long p 635, avec le art. LeLong (Nord, N.E.), c.à.d. le grand, avec une idée de minceur; form latin: Longy, form corse et niçoise: Longo, Longhi, matron.: Longe, Longue. ….. [as a pre-fix] Longchambon…Lngchaux (voir CHAUX), Longuève (longue, ève, eau, étang); Longefay (longue, hêtraie)… Longval (longue vallée)… Longueserre (voier SERRE). 2. avec un sobri-quet: Longavoire surnom de producteur; …. Loncol (long cou); Lonjarret – jaret (long jarret) Cœur p. 230 var méridion., Cor, avait en anc. Fr. Le sens de courage et a désigne un home corageaux. Avec le art. Lecœur. DIMIN., Cœuret, Cœurechon (anc. Fr. Ceurchon, pet: cœur). Photocopies: None needed. Changes: Any. Meaning and language/culture are most important: French – Long Cœur was to refer to the large kind-ness (ie : Big Heart). Desired gender is male.

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23) Stella Silvana (Elfsea) Resubmitted badge.

Azure, two bendlets wavy within a bordure argent. Previous submission: Fieldless an estoile argent was returned in February 1999 for conflict with Hieronymus Demoma.

24) Taisha Markov (Bryn Gwlad) New name. Documentation provided: Taisha Wickenden, Dictionary of Period Russian Names, 3rd ed, p. 358; Taisha (m) – “secret,” S’t’pan Taishen, Second half of 14th century [Art VI 63; #366] Markov Wickenden, Dictionary of Period Russian Names, 3rd ed, p. 202 under Mark (m) – “hammer.” Jewish Name. Not common among ethnic Russians. Marko as a Baltic variant; pats: Ivan Zhyla Markov, c1498, [PKN V 46]; Sapron Photocopies: None needed. Changes: Minor only. Russian language/culture is most important. Desired gender is male. 25) Thora Olafsdottir (Dragonsfire Tor) New name. New device.

Azure, a stag’s head Or. Documentation provided: Thora Academy of Saint Gabriel Report #2368 documents this name construction with the spelling Thóra. Olafsdottir Academy of Saint Gabriel Report #2368 documents this name construction with the spelling Óláfsdóttir. Photocopies: All listed. Changes: Minor only.

Sound and language/culture are most important: looking to keep Viking name with Thora as first name and last name starting with O. Desired gender is female.

27) Tómas mac Amhalgaidh (Steppes) New name. New device.

Argent on a lion rampant queue forchee gules a thistle argent, in chief three hands gules. Documentation provided: Tómas ÓCorráin & Maguire, pp 171-2 “borrowing of Biblical Tho-mas…This name confined to cler-ics in the early middle ages…It was reintroduced by the Anglo-Normans…Diminutive forms Tomag & Toimicín occur in the 14th century.

mac Amhalgaidh ÓCorráin & Maguire, p. 22 sn Amalgaid: Amhalgaidh. A very old Irish name common especially in Mun-ster. In late medieval source, it is confused with Amlaib. Black, p. 455 sn MacCauley G. MacAmhalghaidh Iwor McAwla in 1326. Photocopies: All listed. Changes: None.

28) Toussaint Lamoure (Mooneschadowe) New name. New device.

Argent, a chevron engrailed between three wyvern heads erased azure. Documentation provided: All documentation is from Dauzat dictionnaire des noms de famille Toussaint p. 575 under Toussaint. Lamoure p. 362 under Lamoure. Photocopies: None needed. All listed. Changes: Any. Sound is

most important. Desired gender is male. 29) Victor duFresne (Shadowlands) New device.

Per bend sinister wavy, sable and purpure, a bordure embattled argent.

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30) Zacaria Inéz Balzan (Bryn Gwlad) Resubmitted device.

Gules, a peacock in its pride and a bordure Or inscribed “Crux Mihi Grata Quies” gules. Previous submission: Gules, a peacock displayed Or was re-turned in April 2000 AICC for “multiple conflicts.”

Unto the Ansteorran College of Heralds does Estrill Swet, Retiarius Pur-suivant, make greetings.

For information on commentary submission formats or to receive a copy

of the collated commentary, you can contact me at: Deborah Sweet 824 E 8th, Stillwater, OK 74074 405/624-9344 (before 10pm) dssweet@okstate.edu Commenters for this issue: Da'ud - Da'ud ibn Auda, al-Jamal Herald Gawain of Miskbridge - Green Anchor Herald Magnus von Lübeck - of Raven's Fort sends commentary on ILoI No-

vember 2001

Collated Commentary on IloI 0112

1. Anastasia Ciosa dell’Acqua (Bryn Gwlad) New name.

Magnus [Name] The Venetian Personal Name article also has some evidence for

double given names. De Felice, Cognomi italiani, page 43 header Acqua also gives dell'Acqua.

COLLEGE ACTION: Name: Forwarded to Laurel.

2. Ana María de Cerdanya (Northkeep) Resubmitted name. New device. Purpure, on a pile inverted between

two crosses of Cerdaña argent a tortoise proper. Da'ud [Device] There has only been one prior registration of the cross of Cer-

daña, to Rodrigo de Cerdaña, (Or, a cross of Cerdaña gules, a chief embattled arrondé azure) in 1980. As an SCA invention found no-where else, I do not believe it is an appropriate charge for registra-tion. RfS VII.7.b. requires that "Elements must be reconstructible in a recognizable form from a competent blazon." Unless one has a copy of the file for Rodrigo de Cerdaña or the Pictorial Dictionary, there is no way that one could know what a "cross of Cerdaña" is and repro-duce the emblazon, since the charge is found in no other heraldic art sources or references.

Gawain [Device] I know that tortoises' colors vary in nature; is there in fact a

heraldic proper tincture for them? Magnus [Device] Is there a proper color for a tortoise? Turtles range from black

to brown to shades of green. Starra Skraelingadottir registered one in August of 1989 (via Atlantia). The default in the SCA looks like ter-giant palewise.

COLLEGE ACTION: Name: Forwarded to Laurel. Device: Forwarded to Laurel. Reblazoned as “Purpure, on a pile in-

verted between two crosses of Cerdaña argent a tortoise vert.”

Status of ILoIs

ILoI 2001-05: LoI 2001-07. Results this Gazette. ILoI 2001-06: combined with ILoI 2001-07. LoI 2001-08 (all fast-tracks): Results this Gazette. ILoI 2001-07: Commentary 2001-09 Gazette. LoI 2001-09.

Laurel meeting 1/19/2002. ILoI 2001-08: Commentary 2001-10 Gazette. LoI 2001-10. Laurel meeting 2/9/2002. ILoI 2001-09: Commentary 2001-11 Gazette. LoI 2001-11. Laurel meeting scheduled 3/16 & 23/2002. ILoI 2001-10: combined with ILoI 2001-11. ILoI 2001-11: Commentary 2002-02 Gazette. LoI 2002-02 ILoI 2001-12: Commentary this Gazette. LoI 2002-03 ILoI 2002-01: will be combined with ILoI 2001-03. ILoI 2002-02: will be combined with ILoI 2001-03. ILoI 2002-03: Comments due Retiarius 4/20/2002.

ANSTEORRAN COLLEGE OF HERALDS Internal Collated Commentary on ILoI 0112

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Magnus [Name] Room, Dictionary of Irish Place-Names, page 72 header Kildare

gives it a traditional location of St. Brigid's cell. COLLEGE ACTION: Name: Forwarded to Laurel. Device: Forwarded to Laurel reblazoned as “Azure, a lion Or within a bordure Or semy-de-lys azure.” 7. Muirenn an Dalán-clé (Northkeep)

New name. Da'ud [Name] "Gaelic adjectival bynames do not take the definite article so we

have removed the article an." (Jaelle of Armida, LoAR January 1997, p. 12) "Submitted as Fearghus an Sl{‘a}naigher, use of the definite article is extremely rare in Gaelic names. Therefore, barring docu-mentation of its use with Sl{‘a}naigher we have dropped it." (Jaelle of Armida, LoAR September 1998, p. 1) All this, of course, does not address the propriety of "butterfly" as a period byname.

Gawain [Name] I find the leap from "the fox" and "the seal" to "the butterfly" a

bit too great for me. It's my impression that articles weren't used in Irish epithetical formations, but I can't quote chapter and verse to support this.

Magnus [Name] Looking for a period name in a modern foreign language dic-

tionary is like wandering in a minefield. You will find something but probably not what you bargained for. The given name looks OK but the byname has serious problems. MacBain is useful for telling you that Dalán-clé is modern Irish Gaelic for butterfly. It doesn't tell us the word is period or that it was used to name people in period. So this has to be returned for lack of documentation of the byname.

I will try to detail some of the problems with this name. First is the prob-lem with the byname structure. Most Gaelic names were patronymics. Descriptive bynames are rare and take very simple, literal forms. Mor 'big', Finn 'light', Dub 'dark', Dunn 'brown'. An article is also due out soon from St. Gabriel's Academy on descriptive Gaelic names that will really sink this submission.

The other issue is use of animal names in Gaelic. There are very rare and limited as given names. I can't recall seeing one as a descriptive by-name but it may have happened. Given names were used for such animals as raven, fox, hound, seal, and badger. The wolf and the bear were taboo animals. The wolf is called by various hound names. This is a limited pool of mammals and birds that had some trait the Gaels admired. There are no insects and I don't see these folks even notic-ing anything about a butterfly. Our view of the world has changed much in the last 1000 years. We also have the recent precedent from the return of mac Tarbh meaning son of the bull. This is a patronymic and the word is period. It was still returned for lack of documentation that it was used as a given name in period. I think we have plenty of evidence to return this name and that is an unfortunate case.

COLLEGE ACTION: Name: Returned for lack of documentation that insects were used as names in period. 8) Simon Piroska (Raven's Fort)

New name. Magnus [Name] This name is a fine historical 16th century name but it will need

some work to pass. This is a case where the SCA has ruled historical

3. Cara Mondragon (Steppes) New name.

{no commentary} COLLEGE ACTION: Name: Forwarded to Laurel. 4. Eoghan mac Cinatha (Dragonsfire Tor)

New device. Name submitted on Nov. 2001 ILOI. Quarterly Or and vert, in bend three anvils sable, in bend sinister two pairs of axes in saltire Or.

Gawain [Device] Is the middle anvil sufficient to escape the strictures against the

appearance of quartering? I'm doubtful. COLLEGE ACTION: Device: Forwarded to Laurel. 5. Gerard le Wise (Wastelands)

Resubmitted device. Name registered 6/99. Sable and gules, an in-verted chevron Or, an oak leaf and an owl displayed argent.

Da'ud [Device] The submitted blazon leaves out the fact that the field is, pre-

sumably, devided Per chevron inverted sable and gules. The usual grammar of blazon places the inversion after the chevron, and also note that the chevron is between the secondary charges. Blazon fu: Per chevron inverted sable and gules, a chevron inverted Or between an oak leaf and an owl displayed argent.

Gawain [Device] The blazon is missing the line of partition of the field: "Per

chevron inverted sable and gules, ..." I'd also be inclined to specify that the secondary charges are in pale.

Magnus [Device] Even after 2 and half years that chevron inverted is still thin to

the point of starving. This risks yet another return for this otherwise fine armory. The previous blazon is more accurate than the current one.

COLLEGE ACTION: Device: Forwarded to Laurel reblazoned as Reblazoned as "Per chevron

inverted sable and gules, an inverted chevron Or, an oak leaf and an owl displayed argent."

6. Gregory Kildare (Bryn Gwlad)

New name. New device. Azure, a lion rampant within a bordure Or seme-de-lys azure.

Da'ud [Device] He may not know it yet, but he's going to get really sick of

drawing that many fleurs-de-lys on the bordure. An equally accurate rendering of a bordure semy-de-lys can be made with anywhere from eight to ten fleurs-de-lis. As lions are rampant by default, we can safely drop the word "rampant" from the blazon. The blazon implies that the lion is also Or, semy-de-lys azure. We should probably add the word "Or" following the word "lion" (or "rampant", if such is retained) to avoid this.

Gawain [Device] Very nice design!

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practice to be unregisterable despite overwhelming evidence. Yes, the SCA does strange things like that. "The question was raised as to which is the appropriate form for Hungarian names, with the given name first or the byname first. Hungarian names may be registered with either the given name or byname as the first element, except when the byname is an unmarked patronym or metronym. In that case, the byname should follow the given name; this is consistent with Hungarian practice through the mid 16th century, and should help to avoid future confusion. [For a longer discussion of this ruling see the Cover Letter to the August 1998 Laurel letter.] (István Nyire-gyhazi, 8/98 p. 8)"

So what is to be done? First the lady needs to consent to change the de-sired gender to Don't Care. Now, back to Walraven articles. Hungar-ian Personal Names of the 16th Century documents Simon as a man's given name. Hungarian Feminine Names documents Piroska as a fe-male name. Hungarian Names 101 gives us usage of unmarked met-ronymic bynames. So by changing one box we can make this name registerable.

COLLEGE ACTION: Name: Forwarded to Laurel. 9. Vigge Jonsson (Northkeep)

New name. {no commentary} COLLEGE ACTION: Name: Forwarded to Laurel.

LAUREL ACCEPTANCES AND RETURNS FOR NOVEMBER 2001

These are the Ansteorran excerpts for the July 2001 LoI taken from

the November 2001 LoAR.

Agripina Argyra. Household name House of the Star and Compass. Listed on the LoI under the name Agrippina Argyra, her name was registered with one "p".

Alessandra de Vittorio. Name and device. Per pale vert and purpure, in pale a horse salient contourny and a lightning bolt bendwise sinister Or.

Submitted as Alessandra de Vittori, documented forms of this byname include de Vittorio and Vittori but not de Vittori. We have therefore changed the byname to a documented form.

Anéžka z Rožmitála. Name and device. Gules, in dexter chief a fret couped argent.

This does not conflict with Volodar Ivanovic, Per fess gules fretty argent and sable. There is one CD for the change to the field. The comparison between the fretty in chief and the fret couped in dexter chief is like the comparison between a mullet in chief and a mullet in dexter chief. This is an unforced move and thus worth a CD. This also does not conflict with Meredudd Brangwyn, Per saltire gules and pean, a fret argent. There is one CD for the change to the field and another for the unforced move of the primary charge to dexter chief. This also does not conflict with John Thorn, Gules, a chief embattled argent. The fret here is a primary charge in a non-central position on the field. John's armory has no

primary charge. Addition of a primary charge is sufficient difference by X.1.

Anneleyn Pferdehirt. Name and device. Per bend vert and Or, a horse's head erased argent and three quavers sable.

Submitted as Annelena Pferdehirt, the submitter requested authenticity for 15th C Burgundy and allowed any changes. The only documented form of this given name that was found was Enneleyn dated to 1358 in Talan Gwynek's article "Medieval German Given Names From Silesia" at http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/bahlow/. Gage found evidence in the same article for the En- to An- change in the initial letter of the name. So, Anneleyn is a plausible 14th C German form. Lacking any documentaton for the submitted Annelena, we are changing the given name to the theorized form Anneleyn. As both elements of this name are documented as German, it is not authentic for 15th C Burgundy.

Bersi ormstunga. Name. Submitted as Bersi Ormstunga, the documented form of the byname does not have the first letter capitalized. We have made this change.

Caterina Nadalini. Device. Purpure, on a lozenge ployé Or a bunch of grapes proper. Ciaran O Neill. Name.

Listed on the LoI as Ciaran O'Neill, the name was submitted as Ciaran ONeill. While the standard Gaelic form is Ciarán Ó Néill, forms without accents are seen in period annals. Therefore, we have registered a form without accents to more closely match the submitted spelling.

Corwin of Saxony. Name and device. Sable, a wyvern erect and on a base Or a horse rampant sable.

Corwin was ruled SCA-compatible in the cover letter for the December 1985 LoAR. There was some question about the registerability of this name. The use of an SCA compatible name carries a weirdness. As stated by Gage, “The byname of Saxony is only plausible as a Germanic name translated under the lingua anglica rule”. At this time, there is not a weirdness for using the Lingua Anglica allowance. Also, there is no clear precedent whether the Lingua Anglica byname of Saxony should be viewed as English or as German. Therefore, we are giving the submitter the benefit of the doubt at this time and registering the name. A call for comments regarding this issue is included in the cover letter of this LoAR.

Elene Kirchenknopf. Device change. Per bend urdy argent and azure, a bowl and a sinister hand counterchanged.

The submitter's previous device, Azure, on a sun argent, an oak tree eradicated vert, a chief potenty argent, is released.

Elisabeth Christianne de Calais. Name change from holding name Elisabeth of Northkeep. Emma Dandelion. Name and device. Vert, a dandelion slipped and leaved and a bordure argent.

This does not conflict with a badge of Rowan Perigrynne, Vert, a cinquefoil within a bordure

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Laurensa Fraser. Name and device. Per pall inverted vert azure and argent, on a chief Or three butterflies sable.

The submitter requested authenticity for “Scots-French”. In period, a name with mixed elements would have been rendered all in one language depending upon the language of the document where the name was recorded. In this case, if the record would have been written completely in Scots or completely in French. Therefore, this name is not authentic. It has one weirdness for mixing Scots and French.

Lowrie Leulyn. Device. Azure, a Hungerford knot Or between three trilliums argent.

The submitter resided in Æthelmearc when she submitted her name via a Pennsic consultation table. She moved to Ansteorra, then submitted her device. Both are registered in this LoAR.

Muirghein MacKiernan. Name.

The submitter requested authenticity for 16th C Irish, allowed minor changes, and noted that she wanted a female name. No examples have been found of the name Muirghein being used as a feminine given name for real women in period. As such, the submitted name is must be a masculine name. This name mixes the Irish Gaelic Muirghein with the Anglicized MacKiernan which is a weirdness. A person living in 16th C Ireland would have had their name recorded completely in Gaelic or completely in English depending upon the language that the record was written in. Therefore, such a lingual mix is not authentic. As changing the language of either element is a major change, which the submitter does not allow, we were unable to make this name authentic.

Sadhbh inghean Sheanáin. Name.

Submitted as Sabhbh inghean Seanáin, the submitter requested authenticity for "Irish" and allowed any changes. The given name was documented from Ó Corráin and Maguire (s.n. Sadb). However, there is a typo in the submitter's desired name in that header. It should read Sadhbh, not Sabhbh. We have made this correction. We have also lenited the patronym.

Tangwistel Telynores. Name.

Both elements in this name were documented from Academy of Saint Gabriel client letters. While such letters are acceptable as documentation for SCA name submissions, the relevent information must be summarized in the LoI so that the members of the College of Arms may review it. By Laurel precedent, the College is not required to look up documentation that is not adequately summarized on the LoI. In this case, multiple members of the College went out of their way to dig up this information. For the benefit of both the submitter and the members of the College who took on this extra work, we are registering this name as an exception to the requirement that all submitted documentation (including, but not limited to, Academy of Saint Gabriel letters) be properly and adequately summarized on the LoI. Kingdom submissions heralds should be aware that inadequate summarization of supporting documentation has been and will continue to be a reason for return.

Good name!

argent. There is substantial difference between a cinquefoil and a dandelion. The outline of any foil shows clearly separated countable petals, and a dandelion has a mass of small uncountable petals. The petals of a dandelion are thin and pointed rather than the rounder petals of a foil. Barring evidence that the change from a dandelion to a foil would have been a cadency change in period, and thus only a CD (per wording of RfS X.4, a “significant” change), it seems appropriate to give (per wording of RfS X.2) “substantial” difference between these charges.

Gerard du Quartier. Name (see RETURNS for device). Griffin ap Rhys. Badge. (Fieldless) A crescent azure.

This does not conflict with a badge of Tess of Ambergeen, Argent, a crescent voided azure. There is a CD for the field. The voiding of Tess' crescent is drawn distinctly and is equivalent to the addition of a tertiary charge. This badge is also clear of Francesca di Pavia, (Fieldless) An owl affronty argent perched within a crescent azure. There is one CD for fieldlessness, and another for the addition of the co-primary owl.

Gwenafwy Sinclaire. Badge. Argent, a seahorse and on a base rayonny azure an increscent argent. Gwenhevare Cordelia Maynard. Device. Or, a chevron gules between two horses combattant and a castle sable. Isa van Reinholte. Name.

All the elements in this name were documented from a letter from the Academy of Saint Gabriel. However, the letter was not adequately summarized in the LoI, which has been cause for return in the past. Koira accessed the letter in question and provided a good summary of the information in it:

Isa is found in Walraven van Nijmegen, Dutch Womens' Names before 1100, available on the Net at <URL:http://www.geocities.com/Athens/1336/name1100vr.html>.

The Academy of S. Gabriel, in their client report 2018 <URL:http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/showfinal.cgi?2018>, postulates a hypothetical Frisian place name Reinholt. This based on examples in Hans Bahlow, Deutsches Namenlexikon of names featuring Rein- and -holz; holt is the Frisian cognate of the High German Holz. The locative byname formed from this place name would be van Reinholte.

By Laurel precedent, the College is not required to look up documentation that is not adequately summarized on the LoI. In this case, multiple members of the College went out of their way to dig up this information. For the benefit of both the submitter and the members of the College who took on this extra work, we are registering this name as an exception to the requirement that all submitted documentation be properly and adequately summarized on the LoI. Kingdom submissions heralds should be aware that inadequate summarization of supporting documentation has been and will continue to be a reason for return.

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Valéry de Sothyrland. Name. William Lindsay. Name and device. Quarterly gules and vert, a swan rousant within a bordure argent.

Good name!

This device does not conflict with Karl von Süssen, Vert, a stork passant, wings elevated and addorsed, argent, grasping in its beak a fish Or, all within a bordure argent. There is one CD for the change to the field, and another for the change of type of bird between a swan and a stork. While both birds do have long necks, they appear to have been considered distinct types of bird in period. Moreover, the stork is visually distinct from the swan, both in general and in Karl's emblazon. The stork has much longer legs and a spearlike beak.

THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN RETURNED FOR FURTHER WORK

Gerard du Quartier. Device. Purpure, a cross of Cleves Or and on a chief azure fimbriated three fleurs-de-lys argent.

Chiefs may not be fimbriated. Voiding and fimbriation may only be used with simple geometric charges placed in the center of the design, by RfS VIII.3.

This was an appeal of a change made when the name was registered.

The name change provides a form of the byname Kouac that is closer to the originally requested form and that makes the two elements more temporally consistant.

The name Kowacz Myklos is released. Nicolette de Loria. Badge. (Fieldless) A dragonfly sable winged vert. Rachel Kirk. Name and device. Per bend gules and argent, two fleurs-de-lys counterchanged. Rumil Fletcher. Name change from Rumo Fletcher.

Rumil is a constructed Russian given name. "Rum(ianyi): 1)red, rosy; 2)beauty (example Rumianets)" is listed in the “Themes” section in the on-line version of Paul Wickenden of Thanet's A Dictionary of Period Russian Names. Regarding the construction of Rumil, Paul Wickenden stated, "Rumil might be better, using the Rum- theme [...] and just adding an -il ending." Mixing Russian and English is a weirdness.

His previous name, Rumo Fletcher, is released. Uriangqadai Èinoajin. Name change from Èinoajin Uriangqadai.

(The character before "inoajin" is a Latin capital letter C with caron, a capital C with a small v- or u-shaped mark above it.)

This was an appeal of a change made when the name was registered.

The submitter provided documentation that bynames indicating a person's tribe may appear before the given name in Mongolian names. Therefore, Mongolian names may be registered with either a tribal byname or given name as the first element. As Uriangqadai is a tribal byname, we are changing this name to the originally requested order.

His previous name, Èinoajin Uriangqadai, is released.

THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN RETURNED FOR FURTHER WORK

Eleanor Fairchild. Device. Per bend azure and argent, in chief a lily Or.

Conflict with Karol Johanna Gartenheit, (Fieldless) A jonquil blossom bell to chief Or. There is one CD for fieldlessness but nothing for the change in the type of flower. When a jonquil is in this posture, it is visually similar enough to a lily that we cannot give a CD for the change in type. There is also no difference given for placement on the field versus a fieldless badge.

James Hamilton. Name.

This name is being returned for conflict with James Hamilton (1606-1649), third Marquess and first Duke of Hamilton, who has his own entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica. His armory has been registered under the holding name James of Gate's Edge.

Malcolm MacLean. Name.

No forms were received for this submission.

LAUREL ACCEPTANCES AND RETURNS FOR DECEMBER 2001

These are the Ansteorran excerpts for the August 2001 LoI taken

from the December 2001 LoAR.

Aaron MacGregor. Device. Per bend bendy argent and gules and sable, a sinister hand argent.

He has a letter of permission to conflict from Kenric Manning, Lozengy azure and Or, a hand argent.

Brictiva of Ixworth. Name. Eleanor Fairchild. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Good name! Gunnora Hallakarva. Device. Per fess gules and azure, a catamount passant and a kestrel maintaining a garb Or.

Her previous device was returned because the garb was drawn too large to be a maintained charge, causing it to be co-primary with the catamount and the kestrel. It was thus returned for overcomplexity (using a charge group with three types of charge). She has followed Laurel's advice and drawn the garb small enough to be a maintained charge.

James of Gate's Edge. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Per saltire argent and vert, in pale two dragons rampant and in fess two roundels counterchanged.

Submitted with the name James Hamilton.

Joanna of the Plains. Device. Sable, four horseshoes openings to dexter two and two Or. Kateline de Lys. Name and device. Azure, a cat salient between two fleurs-de-lys in bend sinister Or. Kouac Myclos. Name change from Kowacz Myklos.

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