ANSTEORRAN GAZETTE ILoI 2006-09 No. 9, Vol. 2006 AS XLI, September 2006 Letter from Principal ontributions

Greetings good all! ble from the Asterisk Herald respect the legal rights of our The fall tourney season is in full swing with the beginning of this month at Gothic and as her- alds we have a great opportunity to show our many talents.

If you do list , make yourself a green baldric with our beloved crossed trumpets on them to identify yourself. If you are the herald in at an event, remember to thank your list heralds appropriately. Small tokens go a long way in making volunteers feel appreciated. If nothing else, make sure that they get watered, a lot.

If you are in a warranted office at any level, think of sponsoring some banner contests at events teaching a class on heraldic basics for the children at the event. Many children’s activities coordinators are in need of people to come out and teach the kids something for an hour or so. Construction paper and glue sticks and some pre-cut ordinaries are all you need to teach the basics of tinctures and that color on color, metal on metal rule. Banner contests and heraldic display contests also work well to promote heraldry in the kingdom.

I hope to see many of you this fall as I travel around the Kingdom with my family. We have a fairly busy fall ahead of us. all checks or money orders to: SCA, Inc.--Kingdom of Ansteorra. Contents @ 2006 Society for Creative Anachronism except those c ublication of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. nor does it delineate corporate SCA policies. Subscriptions are availa cation, please contact the editor (Obelisk Herald) who will assist you in contacting original creator of piece. Please Reporting Reminder: All of my direct reports need to have their reports in by Elfsea Defender so that I can tender my report to and the next weekend.

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1. Catherine Barbary. (Raven’s Per ermined Or and , between the Rhine, the Mosel (French: Fort) a counterchanged. Moselle), and the Luxembourg and Belgian New Name. New Device. frontiers…” Bahlow-Gentry, p. 108: s.n. Submission History: Previous sub- Eif(f)ler, “…immigrated from the Eifel.” mission “Per pale argent and azure, 1406. a rompù within a bordure 1456. 1135. counterchanged” was returned by Bechenmacher, p. 398, s.n. Eifelmann, “einer kingdom in 2/2006 for conflict. Previ- aus der Eifel ‘one from the Eifel’”, ous submission “Per bend azure 1135. and argent, in a lily Or” was returned by Laurel in 12/2001. Asterisk Note: Encyclopedia Bri- tannica article cited is from the Encyclopaedia Britannica Premium 3. Wolfgang von Eifel. (Bjornsborg) Service accessed 19 July 2006 at New Name. New Device. http://www.britannica.com/eb/ print?articleid=32121&fullArticle=true &tocId= 9032121. Printouts were in- cluded.

Per pale and , a mullet of 4. Zoe Alexandrina. (Elfsea) seven points Or. Name Change from Siobhán inghean Duinn Uí Néill, registered 9/2002.. Major Changes: No. Minor Changes: Yes. Gender: Female. Major Changes: No. Minor Changes: Yes. Change for: Sound: English/Tudor, c1520 Gender: Don’t care. AD. Change for: Sound: none specified. Authenticity: No request Authenticity: No request Documentation Provided: - Documentation Provided: - Chavez, Withycombe, 3rd ed., p. 186, s.n. Katharine, Berret. “Personal Names of the Aristocracy notes that the spelling with “th” comes in the Roman Empire During the Later Byz- about in the 16th century. antine Empire” (http://www.sca.org/her- - R&W, p. 26, shows Barbary Per argent and azure, a demi- aldry/laurel/names/byzantine/introduc dating to 1581. displayed issuant from the of divi- tion.html). Section IV.A.2: Feminine Given sion and three crosses formy two and Names lists dating to 1066. 2. Eleanor Fairchild. (Stargate) one counterchanged. - Feminized masculine name. Name registered 12/2001. Resubmitted Same source as above, Section IV.A.1: Device. Major Changes: Yes. Minor Changes: Yes. Masculine Given Names lists Gender: Male. dating to 1322. Section Change for: None specified. III.B.1: Feminizing Family Names shows Authenticity: No request changing –os to –ina. Documentation Provided: - German, masculine given name. Brechen- Asterisk Note: Previous registered macher, p. 830, ‘Heinr. Called Wolfgang of Plugfelden’ 1330. Bahlow-Gentry, p. 621, - explicit - 1491. “Not common in the Middle Ages; …it became popular in the south, spreading from Bavaria, as saint name (bishop W. of Regenburg, died 994); Correction to roster: later popular all over through Mozart and Goethe.” Rosenfeld Herald - German article meaning “from”. Charles Ó Floinn - Encyclopedia Britannica, “Eifel [email protected] plateau region of western Germany, lying Page 2 ANSTEORRAN G AZETTE S EPTEMBER 2006 ANSTEORRAN COLLEGE OF Status of ILoIs Asterisk/Bordure Letter HERALDS Annotated Internal Collated ILoI 2005-10: Commentary 2006-01. LoI Greetings from Emma de Fetherstan, Commentary on ILoI 0606 2005-12. Laurel meetings 04/ outgoing Asterisk and incoming Bordure! 08, 04/15 & 04/30. Unto the Ansteorran College of Heralds does First of all, I must extend my thanks to Maria Cabeca de Vaca send Greetings! I hope all of the heralds that have helped me everyone is having a wonderful summer! Please ILoI 2005-11: Commentary 2006-02. [no don’t forget to drink lots of water. Please send LoI] during my tenure as Asterisk, from com- all commentary to [email protected]. menters to locals to the other heralds in the publications and submissions For information on commentary submission for- ILoI 2005-12: Commentary 2006-03. [no mats or to receive a copy of the collated com- LoI] branches. The entire submissions pro- mentary, you can contact me at: cess is a fairly substantial amount of Christine Huse 6031 Sunnyside Dr. ILoI 2006-01: Commentary 2006-04. LoI work, and it’s only through a team effort Fort Worth, Texas 76119 2006-03. Laurel meetings 07/ such as we have going that it becomes 682-557-1183 (before 10 pm please) 16 & 23. much easier to handle. I definitely wish [email protected] Maria Asterisk well in her new office, ILoI 2006-02: Commentary 2006-05. LoI and hope you local heralds will make it Commenters for this issue: 2006-04. Laurel meetings 08/ easy on her and make sure the sub- NE Calontir commenting group - Gawain of 19 & Pennsic. mission forms are filled out properly! Miskbridge – Lord Einarr Grimsson, Red Hawk Herald, Lady Brigida von München, Heralds Hill , Lady Jacqueline de Meux, ILoI 2006-03: Commentary 2006-06. LoI Secondly, I wish to thank Alden Drake Rohese de Dinan, and special guest com- 2006-05. Laurel meetings 09/ for stepping up to handle Bordure on menter, Lady Illuminada Eugenia de Guadalupe 17 & 24. such little notice. I, rather I should say y Godoy Canute we, have planned to not have any break Barony of Bryn Gwlad commenting group - ILoI 2006-04: Commentary 2006-07. LoI in the submissions process while both Laszlo Nemanzelsky, Daniel de Lincoln, 2006-06. Laurel meetings 10/ Asterisk and Bordure are transitioning. Elwyn, Aed Vilhaelmson Barony of Elfsea commenting group - Luciana 7 & 15. Caterina di Boniface (Nautilus Pursuivant), As Bordure, I will be doing something Master Caelin on Andrede, and Lady Ker ILoI 2006-05: Commentary 2006-08. Megan of Taransay slightly new for us, and will continue al-Sayyid Amr ibn Majid al-Bakri al-Amra handling the internal decision meetings. Magnus von Lübeck, Orle Herald ILoI 2006-06: Comments this Gazette. This should not present any issues ex- cept possibly with fast-tracked items; Collated Commentary on IloI 0606 ILoI 2006-07: Comments due next Ga- Asterisk and I will work closely together zette. to handle those. (If you have a submis- sion you believe should be fast-tracked, 1. Arias Yanes. (Elfsea) ILoI 2006-08: Comments due Retiarius Name forwarded to Laurel 5/06 LoI. New just send the paperwork on to Asterisk Device. Argent, within a bordure , a 9/20/06. Decision meeting as usual and include a note or email so wolf rampant surrounded by three escallops. Oct 14. she’ll be sure to look at it earlier in the NE Calontir month.) [Device] No is given for the wolf or the ILoI 2006-09: Comments due Retiarius shells. We recommend the wolf be drawn larger 10/20/06. Decision meeting and the bordure thicker in the future. As of now, all submission paperwork Nov tba. should be sent to Maria’s address, Canute found in the back of the Black Star. Don’t [Device] Argent, a wolf rampant ??? between three escallops ??? within a bordure gules. worry if you’ve already sent something The bordure is too narrow. The wolf should off to me — I’ll make sure it gets to her be slightly larger. Clear for any tinctures. in time for the next ILoI. Barony of Bryn Gwlad Court reports [Device] Grow the bordure. Reblazon, Argent, a As usual, I can be reached at wolf rampant between three escallops and a bordure gules. [email protected] if you have any are due questions. Barony of Elfsea [Device] We believe that the submitter wanted to move the gules to the end of the to In service, include the escallops. We recommend chang- Emma Bordure ing the blazon to read: “Argent, a wolf ram- within two pant between three escallops gules”. No con- flicts found. LAUREL ACCEPTANCES al-Amra weeks of an [Device] “Feed the border”, please. Bordurelets AND RETURNS have not been registerable in some time, and For May 2006 this example is particularly anemic. Suggested blazon: Argent, a wolf between three escal- lops, a bordure gules. event. NONE Continued on page 4 ANSTEORRAN GAZETTE S EPTEMBER 2006 Page 3 Letter from Orle

On the Use and Summary of St. Gabriel Reports in Name Submissions

Laurel is becoming more strict on the requirement of a summary of any St. Gabriel reports used for documentation. A printout of the report is required to be included with the name form. [St Gabriel’s reports are NOT on the no photocopy needed list.]

In addition a summary of the report must be placed in the documentation section of the Name form. This has to state the dated information on the name from the report and the footnote reference for it at the bottom of the St. Gabriel report.

How to do this you ask?

Example from an actual report:

Your submitter wants the given name Tessa for an Italian name. This would be a St. Gabriel report summary dating the name and including the footnote reference that goes under documentation on the name form.

ACADEMY OF SAINT GABRIEL REPORT 3104 http://www.s-gabriel.org/3104 “ is a fine choice for your name; we found 5 examples of it in Florence in 1427.” [1] [1] Arval Benicoeur, “Feminine Given Names from the Online Catasto of Florence of 1427” (WWW: Academy of Saint Gabriel, 1998). http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/arval/catasto/

This is a small amount of work to keep a name from getting returned and, on top of that, you learn how to do summaries of documents. If you happen to make a mistake in the summary, worry not, the commenters will make sure it is fixed.

From the office of Orle Herald Magnus von Lübeck

Magnus moved even further downward. Magnus [Device] Blazon as “Argent, a wolf rampant be- [Device] Name registered March 2006. tween three escallops, a bordure gules.” The College Action: bordure is narrow enough to return this. Device: Forwarded to Laurel as Argent, a pheon College Action inverted between gules. Device: Forwarded to Laurel. Bordure, please College Action note the date of name registration. Device: Returned for redraw of the border. It needs to be at least twice as thick as it is 3. Clara von Ulm. (Loch Soilleir) currently. (And yes, the blazon should have New Device. Gules, on a inverted 4. Debora of Durham (Bjornsborg) been Argent, a wolf rampant between three throughout argent between in chief two plates, New Name. New Device. Argent, a dun cow escallops and a bordure gules.) an eagle gules. statant proper and on a chief sable three Or. Submission History: Previous submis- 2. Charles Mayer (Elfsea) sion, Argent chapé gules, an eagle gules Asterisk Note: The colored emblazons Resubmitted Device. Argent, a broadhead and in chief two plates, was returned by have shrunk when the pages were photo- inverted sable between flaunches gules. kingdom in 12/05 for charging the upper copied, making the too small. portions of a chapé . Also, the original appears to have been Submission History: Previous submis- colored in crayon, not marker. Unless new sion was returned by kingdom in 2/06 for NE Calontir colored forms are gotten into my hands redraw of the entire escutcheon. [Device] A properly thin pile wouldn’t have room before the decision meeting in early Au- for that eagle. This looks more like “Per chev- gust, this device will definitely be returned. Canute ron throughout gules and argent, two roun- [Device] Argent, a broad arrow inverted sable dels and an eagle counterchanged.” Asterisk Note: Attached is a page citing between flaunches gules. Clear. Mari Elspeth nic Bryan, “Given Names in Canute Chesham, 1538-1600/1” (http://www.s- Barony of Elfsea [Device] Gules, on a pile inverted throughout gabriel.org/names/mari/chesham/), and [Device] Possible conflicts: Elizabeth Unwyn, argent between two plates, an eagle gules. giving the fuller R&W Citation for Argent, a sejant affronty sable between Clear. , which lists a in 1236-7. This brief, but bet- wingless sea sable between two Barony of Elfsea ter, summary should have been written on flaunches gules. Una Scheib, Argent, a [Device] We feel that the inverted pile forces the form itself. couchant sable between flaunches gules. the eagle to be rather small. No conflicts found. NE Calontir al-Amra [Device] The group was not able to agree whether [Device] This is not a pheon? Also, the flaunches al-Amra “dun” needs to be considered a shade of brown could probably use their lower terminators [Device] Mucho nice-o. (usable here), or a shade of Or (metal on Page 4 ANSTEORRAN G AZETTE S EPTEMBER 2006 metal). which is the default posture for birds other Submission History: Previous submis- than eagles. Blazon fu: Purpure, a peacock sion was returned in 2/06 for redraw of Canute argent.” If you haven’t seen a copy of his the entire escutcheon. [Device] Clear. The Camel Expectorant: Ruminations of an S.C.A. Herald, I strongly recommend it. NE Calontir Barony of Bryn Gwlad Bought a copy at KWHS and am finding so [Device] The tertiary charge is better known in [Device] Reblazon Argent a brown cow statant much good stuff like this. the SCA as a cross of Calatrava. Being from proper and on a chief sable three bees Or. Calontir, we should know. Its PicDic entry Canute does give “cross of Aviz” as a synonym. The Barony of Elfsea [Device] Argent semy-de-lys purpure, a peacock tincture of the cross is blazoned as the same [Name] No conflicts found with name. pavonated to sinister vert. This peacock isn’t as the amphora and no tincture is given for [Device] What is ‘proper’ for a cow? RFS 8.4.c very identifiable. Clear. Redraw. the roses. Perhaps it’s intended to be “Gules, states that proper is only allowed where it is on an amphora between three roses Or a cross widely understood. Also, in A cinokete Fuide Barony of Bryn Gwlad of Calatrava gules”? The text of the February to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, ed [Device] Reblazon. Argent, semy-de-lys purpure return suggests that. 1993, p 204-207, it states about cows and a peacock to sinister vert. We wonder if there bulls: “They are amongst the few animals should not be less fleurs de lys or if they should Canute which can never be represented proper, inas- be drawn smaller. [Device] Gules, on a amphora Or between three much as inits natural state the bull is of vari- roses ??? a cross of Calatrava ??? Clear. ous colors”. We recommend returning the Barony of Elfsea device to the submitter for reblazoning. [Device] A minor point - in the past, this might Barony of Bryn Gwlad have been returned to have at least one of the [Device] Blazon bad: we think Gules, on an al-Amra semi-de-lys partially obscured by the peacock. amphoroi between three roses Or a cross of [Name] Withycombe notes “Deborah” as No conflicts found. Calatrava gules. “adopted by the Puritans in the 17thC”; youngest daughter of John Milton. The name al-Amra Barony of Elfsea documentation absolutely needs to be better [Device] The peacock was practically unidenti- [Device] This is a cross calatrava, as drawn, and summarized (I have direct reason to believe fiable in the mini-emblazon as it printed on is the symbol of Calontir. We believe the sub- that Margaret Pelican *will* appreciate the my machine. It should be noted that the head/ mittor wanted to move the Or to the end of effort). neck for “pavonated” is most often more the blazon to include the roses. We recom- [Device] The bees would be more recognizable if vertically rendered. Fewer, and more uni- mend changing the blazon to read: “Gules, a drawn larger; in the mini-emblazon, they are formly sized, de-lys might also be suggested cross calatrava gules on an amphora between almost indistinguishable from flies. Another (and could make the rendering easier). three roses Or”. No conflicts found. herald commented on the depiction of the cow as bordering upon trian aspect (at least as Magnus al-Amra far as the head position goes). [Device] The correct registered name is Domin- [Device] from the mini-emblazon, there was a ique Michelle le Vasseur. question as to whether this was AZIZ or Magnus CALATRAVA. [Name] Given Names in Chesham, 1538-1600/1 College Action by Mari Elspeth nic Bryan www.s-gabriel.org/ Device: Forwarded to Laurel reblazoned as Ar- Magnus names/mari/chesham Debora dates to 1582 gent semy-de-lys purpure, a peacock to sinis- [Device] Eithne ingen mhic Chionaoit was the England. ter vert. Bordure, please correct the spelling form submitted on the LoI. This looks like a Reaney & Wilson s.n. Durham lists William de of her name on the LoI. cross of Calatrava. We have no example of a Durham in 1236. cross aziz. Blazon as: “Gules, on a amphora [Device] There is one registration of a dun cow between three roses Or a cross of Calatrava proper: Seamus Donn January 1992: “Per pale 6. Dyryke Stanley. (Elfsea) gules.” argent and azure, a dun cow statant contourny New Name. New Device. Argent, an anchor proper.” The cow is brown and I would rec- sable and a chief gules. College Action ommend using watercolor marker brown to Device: Forwarded to Laurel as Gules, on an color it. Seamus Donn was registered because NE Calontir amphora between three roses Or a cross of it was mentioned in commentary that Henry [Device]. All present agreed that this is a very Calatrava gules. Bordure, please note the VII had a badge with a dun cow on it but no nice, simple device. name spelling on the LoI. source was given. A possible source is http:// tudorhistory.org/secondary/henry7/c3.html. Canute [Device] Clear. 8. Finnvaldr inn Grimmi (Bjornsborg) College Action New Name. Name: Forwarded to Laurel. Barony of Elfsea Device: Forwarded to Laurel. [Name] Note - The submitter’s mundane name is Asterisk Note: Printout of Saint Gabriel . Since the first name is a varia- report was included. tion, is this too close to his modern name? 5. Dominique Michelle le Vesseur No other conflicts found with the name. Barony of Bryn Gwlad (Wiesenfeuer) [Device] No conflicts found. [Name] we believe that descriptive bynames are New Device. Argent semi-de-lys purpure, a usually all lower case in Norse as it is in the peacock pavonated head to sinister vert. al-Amra documentation. [Name] Page numbers would be greatly appreci- Submission History: Previous submis- ated even for Withycombe citations (nicely Barony of Elfsea sion, Argent semi-de-lys purpure, a pea- summarized; verified in the cited form for [Name] We are not experts on Norse naming cock pavonated vert, was returned by king- both elements of the name). practices. St Gabriel reports are only consid- dom in 7/05 for conflict with Tannis of [Device] Nice! Simple! One minor twitch – this ered ‘golden naming documentation’ when Tir-y-Don, Argent, a peacock passant reminds me strongly of either a modern ship- applied to the entire name. We have no reguardant pavonated to base proper. ping line or *possibly* a military shoulder grounds to argue with Gierr Bassi and will leave patch. If commercial in the modern age, this that to more experienced persons. No con- Asterisk Note: Her current device is to may be perilously close to potential trade- flicts found. be released if the change is registered. mark infringement… al-Amra NE Calontir College Action [Name] without direct access to Geirr Bassi, my [Device]. “...a peacock pavonated contourny...” Name: Forwarded to Laurel. memory is that the final element in this spell- Quoting Da’ud al-Jamal, commenting on the Device: Forwarded to Laurel. ing might not be capitalized (“weak-form”, 8/98 Ansteorran ILoI, “Contrary to the bla- especially with the “inn” preferred by the zon in the ILoI, and past SCA practice, the submitter); as Grimr, capitalization would peacock here is not ‘pavonated to base’; the 7. Eithne inghean Mac Coinaoit. (Elfsea) probably be expected. However, I am *well* term ‘pavonated’ means ‘colored like a Name forwarded to Laurel on the 5/06 LoI. aware that my brain is similar to Emmenthaler peacock’s tail’. See, e.g., The Oxford English Resubmitted Device. Gules, a cross aziz on a cheese for a lot of memory matters… Dictionary. The peacock here is simply close, amphora Or between three roses. ANSTEORRAN GAZETTE S EPTEMBER 2006 Page 5 Magnus ence to a period source placing the surname and not the blazon (words), I hesitate to [Name] SAINT GABRIEL REPORT 2400 “We in the same time as the given name would be change the blazon of the field from azure to also found several other bynames that mean preferable. The references below might be sable without hearing from the submitter first. “ruthless”. Some possibilities are: or from There is a documented 1376. http:// 11. Gilyan Alienora of Clonmacnoise masculine instance of the byname is [2]; is the femi- cilia%20la%20corte-legacy/5236.htm (Mooneschadowe) nine form of the byname.” , ripudiata nel 1321 http:// Badge. (Fieldless) On a horse rampant gules, fra*n Medeltiden (Uppsala: 1920-21); s.vv. messenia.com.omnint15.omnibit.it/comuni/ a mullet Or. , , . Lind’s comune/Storia.asp?com=362. source for is <{TH}i{dh}riks saga No conflicts found with name. Canute af Bern>, a medieval quasi-historical saga [Device] The border in ILI looks dancetty. Hope- [Badge] Clear. which is thought to have been compiled per- fully, the border is more rayone. Also, the haps as late as 1250-1251, although possibly complexity count is 7, which is rather high. Barony of Elfsea as early as the late 12th century. There are We suggest changing the mullet to gules to [Badge] No conflicts found. three main manuscripts surviving: one from reduce complexity. No conflicts found. Norway ca. late 13th century, and two 17th al-Amra century paper MSS from Iceland. There’s also al-Amra [Badge] Nice. Should the location of the mullet a Swedish translation, , [Name] With the printouts, looks good to go. be specified more completely, perhaps? made ca. mid-15th century. Finch, R.G., [Device] The mini-emblazon shows a possible “{TH}i{dh}riks saga af Bern,” Medieval INDENTED bordure, not rayonny (visually, College Action Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia. Garland Ref- the majority of the “teeth” appear straight- Badge: Forwarded to Laurel. erence Library of the Humanities 934. sided; rayonny consists of “teeth” visually Pulsiano, Phillip et al., eds. New York: Gar- much more similar to the rays depicted upon land. 1993. pp. 662-663. a sun-in-splendor. 12. Gunthar Waldmann (Loch Soilleir) Name forwarded to Laurel on the 5/06 LoI. College Action Magnus Resubmitted Device. Per bend sinister vert Name: Forwarded to Laurel as using additional documentation from tion da. and langues gules within an orle argent. Magnus. [Device] Blazon as “Or, a tiger rampant gules and a mullet sable within a bordure rayonny Submission History: Previous submis- gules.” sion, Per bend sinister vert and sable, a 9. Genna di Chiaramonte. (Elfsea) bear’s head caboshed argent, was returned New Name. New Device. Or, a tiger rampant College Action by kingdom in 5/06 for conflict with gules over a mullet sable, within a bordure Name: Forwarded to Laurel as using the better dates from the cabossed argent. same source supplied by Bryn Gwlad. Loca- Asterisk Note: Printouts of the cited tives require , not . Asterisk Note: The bear’s head is argent. webpages are included. Device: Returned for redraw. The bordure needs to be drawn with fewer indents (or a correctly NE Calontir NE Calontir drawn rayonny). [Name] The blazon would make the bear’s head [Name] Chiaramonte is in Fucilla, Chapter 9, gules, which is definitely not registerable. Based p.114, undated. Italian names generally use on his previous submission, we assume that “di” to indicate a patronymic and “da” to 10. Gerhardt Pfister. (Eldern Hills) it’s intended to be argent. It’s not CoA prac- indicate a toponymic. Name forwarded to Laurel on the 3/06 LoI. tice to blazon details like orbing and langueing. [Device] The bordure is drawn indented, not Resubmitted Device. Azure, two chevronels rayonny. The monster is spelled “” to Or between three bear’s heads erased ar- Canute distinguish it from the natural beast; see the gent. [Device] Per bend sinister vert and sable, a bear’s PicDic entry for “tyger”. Blazon fu: “Or, a head cabossed argent orbed and langued tyger rampant gules and in base a mullet sable Submission History: Previous submis- gules within an orle argent. Clear. a bordure indented gules.” sion, Azure, two artist’s paint brushes in pile and in chief a bear’s head erased ar- Barony of Bryn Gwlad Canute gent, overall a chevron Or, was returned [Device] We don’t blazon orbed and langues. Orle [Device] Or, a tyger rampant gules and in base a by kingdom in 1/06 for redraw of the chev- might be moved inward a bit and thinned. mullet sable within a bordure indented gules ron. There are too many indents. Clear. Redraw. Barony of Elfsea Canute [Device] No conflicts found. Barony of Bryn Gwlad [Device] Azure, a chevron azure fimbriated Or [Name] Surname di Chiaramonte: We checked between three bear’s heads erased argent. al-Amra the documentation, not being too thrilled with Azure, on a chevron Or between three bear’s [Device] Nice. the use a tourism site, and the claim that the heads erased argent a chevron azure. Clear. site dates to the 6th century. The site pro- Magnus vides better documentation than the submit- Barony of Elfsea [Device] Blazon as: “Per bend sinister vert and ter cited for Chiaramonte. In 1299, it was [Device] Good period style. No conflicts found. sable, a bear’s head cabossed within an orle ravaged by the French Anjou’s army, most of argent.” its inhabitants being massacred. At the behest al-Amra of Manfredi Chiaramonte, Count of Modica, [Device] A note for future artists – the bear’s College Action the town was rebuilt on a higher and safer site tongue will make the charge far more identi- Device: Withdrawn at request of submitter. and surrounded with walls. Manfredi had a fiable if it is given the (default) gules colora- Castle built there and named the town after tion OR the swirl of fur nearest to the bear’s his own dynasty, Chiaramonte. In 1693 the muzzle is rendered to look less like a lower 13. Hanna von Dahl (Elfsea) city was highly damaged by an earthquake jaw. New Name. New Device. Azure, on a loz- which destroyed all of the Eastern Sicily. The enge argent a fret azure. use of di Chiaramonte, however, may require Magnus documentation of the age of the town. The [Device] Gerhard Phister was the form submitted NE Calontir addition of “Gulfi” to the towns name oc- on the LoI. [Device] Versus the device of Jervaise de Guienne, curred in 1881 according to the website cited. registered in August of 1979 (via the East): [Device] Tyger is misspelled if it is heraldically College Action “Azure, on a throughout Or, a mascle represented. Device: Returned for redraw. While the artwork azure”, we see only one CD, for mascle vs. is beautiful, the colored forms were done with fret. It was suggested that using something Barony of Elfsea a color photocopier, and the azure field has like “Azure, fretty argent” would clear this [Name] A tourism website is usually not consid- darkened to look like a sable field instead. particular conflict. ered a reliable source. We feel that a refer- While Laurel registers the emblazon (picture) Page 6 ANSTEORRAN G AZETTE S EPTEMBER 2006 Canute “proper” tincture definable. Clear. Canute [Device] Werenher von Ingolstadt - January of [Device] This chevron is too shallow. Clear. Re- 1995 (via Atlantia): Azure, on a lozenge ar- Barony of Bryn Gwlad draw. gent, a bear statant erect sable. [Name] Name can be documented in Geirr Bassi Reichardt von Tyrol - June of 1998 (via as: Barony of Bryn Gwlad Atenveldt): Argent vetu ployé azure, in cross i. Karl p. 12 [Name] English and Gaelic are a weirdness. Gaelic four hearts gules. Azure, on a lozenge ployé ii. {Th}horgeirr p. 16 names do not use multiple surnames or mul- throughout argent in cross four hearts gules. iii. P. 17 last rr is replaced with rs tiple given names. That spelling Kavanagh is Tzipporah Deborah - January of 1985 (via yielding an anglicized version of Caomhánach (Wolfe, Caid): Argent, vêtu azure, a sea-coney erect {Th}horgeirsson pp234-235). Etain is a middle Irish given maintaining an anchor bendwise sinister [Device] Color of drums needs to be blazoned. If name 900-1200 in the annals at http://www.s- sable. Azure, on a lozenge throughout argent they are wooden drums, then brown is proper. gabriel.org/names/mari/Annals Index/Femi- a sea-coney erect maintaining an anchor Is this depiction of a drum (a bongo) docu- nine/Etain.shtml. Do we count this as three bendwise sinister sable. mentably period? weirdnesses. English/Gaelic, English/Angli- Single CDs for multiple changes to the tertiaries. cized Irish, Anglicized Irish/Gaelic each of Garin de Gramercy - March of 1983 (via the Barony of Elfsea which is a weirdness on the table. We think West): Argent, vêtu ployé, a fret azure. Azure, [Name] We are not knowledgeable in this lan- the name is returnable for cultural weirdnesses on a lozenge ployé throughout argent a fret guage, but the name appears to be properly as well as three names in a presumably Gaelic azure. constructed to us. No conflicts found with name. Dropping the first or middle name would Direct conflict. Return for multiple conflicts. this name. achieve registerablity and the submitter has [Device] RFS 8.4.c - What is ‘proper’ for a drum? accepted major changes. Barony of Bryn Gwlad We recommend a tincture, possibly sable. No [Device] Conflicts with Werenher von Ingolstadt: conflicts with device. Barony of Elfsea Azure, on a lozenge argent, a bear statant [Name] The url is listed incorrectly. http://www. erect sable. al-Amra sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/eng13/ [Name] Nice Icelandic. eng13f.html is the correct url. Barony of Elfsea [Device] The size and depiction of the drums is listed as occuring 1x in the 13th century. [Name] Good name. No conflicts found on name. could have been a little larger; re-blazon of- The references to OC&M and to MacLysaght [Device] Good armory. No conflicts found on fered: Argent, two drums proper and on a might require additional information, like dates device. bend sable four pawprints or. (“Drums and page numbers. No conflicts were found proper”? *twitch*) with the name. al-Amra [Device] We recommend reblazoning the device [Name] Nicely combined. Magnus to read: ‘Azure, a chevron between three roses [Device] beyond the crayon issue, I would also [Name] It sounds very close to Karl Thorirsson and a butterfly Or’. No conflicts found. advise that increasing the width of the indi- registered February 1988. vidual elements interlaced to form the fret by al-Amra 30 – 50% might improve recognizability. College Action [Name] Beyond the crayon issue, I would also Name: Forwarded to Laurel using additional docu- advise that increasing the width of the indi- Magnus mentation from Bryn Gwlad. vidual elements interlaced to form the fret by [Name] Hanna: We can document it as German Device: Forwarded to Laurel as “Argent, on a 30 – 50% might improve recognizability. to avoid French. Germans like to avoid the bend sable between two wooden drums proper, [Device] The chevron is obtuse instead of nicely French when possible. Bahlow, Dictionary of four pawprints Or.” Asterisk isn’t particu- acute (oh, how I struggled to suppress the German Names, Edda Gentry translation s.n. larly enthused about the drum depiction, but pun); the flowers are not in a standard set of Hannen has “metronymic (mother’s name) = will let Laurel sort that out. positions – I’d expect straight across or 1- son of Hanna: Gereke Hannen 1343.” and-2 or “in chevron”; the butterfly may [Device] Conflict with Werenher von Ingolstadt need to be reduced in size or shifted downward January 1995: “Azure, on a lozenge argent, a 15. Katharine Etaín Kavanagh (Bonwicke) when re-drawing the chevron. bear statant erect sable.” New Name. New Device. Azure, a chevron between three roses and a butterfly Or. Magnus College Action [Name] Katharine: The actual source: Women’s Name: Forwarded to Laurel, using additional docu- Asterisk Note: Yes, this is the entire Given Names from Early 13th Century En- mentation from Magnus. documentation written on the form. This gland by Talan Gwynek www.sca.org/heraldry/ Device: Returned for conflict with Werenher is another plea for “but what does it SAY”! laurel/names/eng13/eng13f.html dates Katha- von Ingolstadt, “Azure, on a lozenge argent, rine from the 13th century. a bear statant erect sable.” There is only one NE Calontir Etaín: OCM under Étaín gives Étaín as the pre- CD for changes to the tertiary. [Name] The given name is English, the second 1200 spelling with a leading accented E for a name Irish, and the last is Anglicized Irish. Gaelic lady’s given name. Withycombe’s entry for “Katharine” says Kavanagh: SAINT GABRIEL REPORT 1683 14. Karl Thorgeirsson (Northkeep) that Queen Matilda established a church and “ is a modern English spelling New Name. New Device. Argent, on a bend hospital of St. Katharine in 1148, though she of the Gaelic surname . Once branch of the MacMurrough sept was known sable, between two drums proper, four goes on to say that “...the spelling with th [4] th by this name .” pawprints Or. came in about the 16 C...” O’C&M list [4] “Étaín” as a pre-Modern spelling of the Irish MacLysaght, Edward, More Irish Families Asterisk Note: Printouts of two pages name. MacLysaght’s entry for “Kavanagh” (Blackrock, Co. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, from the Landnámabók were included, gives “Caomhánach” as a Late Modern Irish 1982), s.nn. MacMurrough, Kavanagh. http://www.northvegr.org/lore/landnama spelling. Mari Elspeth nic Bryan presented a MacLysaght uses modern forms unless he dates bok/021.php and http://www.northvegr. paper at this year’s symposium on “Construct- them to period so this one should be modern. org/lore/landnamabok/002.php. ing SCA Household Names Using Irish Gaelic This also has the problem of using a double Family and Clan Name Models”. In the sec- given name with Gaelic which will get it re- NE Calontir tion of the handout, “Bynames indicating turned. [Device] ] The PicDic entry for “drum” says the Fosterage”, she cites “Caomhanach” as re- [Aislinn Fiona of Rumm August 2001 R-An Tir] default is a cylindrical type, and gives no ferring to the Ó Caomhain family, saying that “... in the name Aislinn Fiona of Rumm, Fiona proper tincture. These look most like conga this adjectival form would be used by some- can only be interpreted as a second given drums to me, but no one had a clue as to what one who was fostered by them. This still name or as an unmarked matronymic. Use of tincture(s) are intended. Quoting al-Jamal leaves the issue of whether using two given double given names and unmarked matro- again, from an LoC dated 6/03, “It would be a names is appropriate with a mixed-language nymics in Gaelic have both been cause for service to the scribes to blazon the type of name like this when it wouldn’t be if the name return in the past.” pawprint. (Of course, maybe he wants to have were purely Irish. [Honor Catlin MacCurtain March 2001 LoAR, one scribe draw a bear’s pawprint, another a [Device] Some of the group felt that if the chev- A-ATENVELDT] “Submitted as Honor cat’s pawprint, and so on.)” ron were drawn with a bit more acute angle, Caitlin MacCurtain, this name was a resub- the roses could be more clearly either in fess mission. The earlier submission, Honor Caitlin Canute or one and two. At present they seem to be nic Curtin, was returned for the two weird- [Device] There is a weirdness for the non-period between the two arrangements. nesses of using a double given name in an SCA compatible paw prints. Drums are made Irish name and mixing Gaelic and Anglicized out of a variety of materials. There is no spellings. Unfortunately, the submitter mis- ANSTEORRAN GAZETTE S EPTEMBER 2006 Page 7 read the return. Instead of dropping the Gaelic size of the pheonix. If the chevron is issuent cussion. second given name, as suggested by Laurel, from base, or the point of division, that might Device: Returned for lack of a name. The chev- she changed the patronymic, which was al- work. Also, “in fess” is not needed. We rec- ron does need to be drawn slightly steeper and ready in an Anglicized form. We have changed ommend rewording the emblazon to read: lower on the field. the second given name to a Middle English “Per chevron sable and gules, a chevron ar- form found in Withycombe’s The Oxford Dic- gent between two crosses crosslet fitchy and a tionary of English Christian Names.” Or”. 17. Lucia Piazetta (Bjornsborg) New Name. College Action al-Amra Name: Returned for multiple problems. Please [Name] Summarization *must* be improved be- Asterisk Note: (I apologize to Mari- read the full commentary! Double-given fore leaving Kingdom! donna for not typing in the entire De names are not allowable in Gaelic, so either [Device] While better than Katharine Kavanagh’s Felice entry, in Italian…) Attached are Katharine or Étaín needs to be dropped; since offering in this ILOI, this chevron is still in printouts of a biography of the sculptor the submitter allowed all changes, I would have need of a more acute angle – the upper point http://www.artnet.com/library/06/0672/ done this, except that Kavanagh is a modern is O.K. for position, just move the points T067286.asp) and of his son (http://www. spelling of a Gaelic surname. Changing the defining the lower edge down somewhat. This nga.gov/cgi-bin/pbio?24700). Submitter surname back to a Gaelic form and dropping will require reducing the size of the phoenix prefers the spelling if possible. Katharine seemed like too big of a change to slightly, or a minor redraw (bring the wingtips make at kingdom level. closer together, above the head. Suggested Barony of Bryn Gwlad Device: Returned for redraw. The chevron needs Re-blazon: Per chevron sable and gules, a [Name] The site that the submitter has cited uses to be drawn significantly steeper. chevron argent between in base a phoenix two “z”s in the name Piazzetta. Her named and in chief two cross-crosslets fitchy Or. source Giacomo was born in 1646 well into the ‘gray area’. Daniel believes that the gray 16. Kiianin the Impaler (Bonwicke) Magnus area is justified in the case of sources where a New Name. New Device. Per chevron sable [Name] Kiianin: Paul Goldschmidt’s Dictionary birthdate is unknown (i.e. the person may and gules, a chevron argent between two of Period Russian Names - Section KA Kiianin have been born in our period, and lived be- crosses crosslet fitchy in fess and a phoenix (byn) – “Kievan?” Nikifor Kiianin, Kievan yond it), but should not apply to a source Or. boiar. 11th Century. This is a byname, possi- documentably born post-period. The COA bly a locative for Kiev, but not a given name. glossary is not so specific as this, but we have Asterisk Note: This was the entire docu- Return for lack of given name. not searched the actual precedents. mentation. What do those references say, Impaler: Rfs.III.2.a.v. is “A byname may be a exactly? descriptive nickname: Osbert le Gentil, Skalla- Barony of Elfsea Björn ‘bald’, Conrad Klein ‘small’, Klein [Name] There should be some documentation to NE Calontir Conrad, Robertus cum Barba ‘with the beard’, indicate that the name was in use at [Name] The url provided for the given name is a Ludolf metter langher nese ‘with the long the same time that was in use. We section of “Paul Goldschmidt’s Dictionary of nose’, Henry Beard, Rudolfus der Esel ‘the suggest including the following: is Period Russian Names” where it’s marked as Ass’, Gilbert le Sour, John Skamful, Thorvaldr included in a list of Italian feminine names a byname with the possible meaning of inn kyrri ‘the quiet’, Iain Camshròn ‘hook- from Florence in the 14th and 15th centu- “Kievan” and cited “Nikifor Kiianin, Kievan nose’.” ries. Rhian Lyth of Blackmoor Vale “Italian boiar. 11th Century”. He needs to show that Doesn’t look like that documents the byname Renaissance Women’s Names” (WWW Self- it was used as a given name. We found that “impaler”. Published 1995-2006). No conflict found with the OED dates “impaler” from 1671, and The impaler as a byname comes from Vlad Tepes, the name. “impale” from 1678. Impaling the losers was the man behind the Dracula legend, who is certainly a popular practice of eastern Euro- considered one of the most evil rulers in the al-Amra pean victors in period, so he might wish to history of Eastern Europe. His idea of enter- [Name] (Dates of access for the websites noted find a period (Russian?) equivalent. tainment for feasts was to have captured would be good…) LUCIA: This looks like an Moslems impaled on stakes for the amuse- examplar for summarization from de Felice; Canute ment of his guests. With the current political Piazetta – does this spelling actually appear [Device] Per chevron sable and gules, a chevron situation between the West and Islam we want in the noted webpages, or does the double-z argent between two crosses crosslet fitchy and nothing to do with this. to single-z shift need additional documenta- a phoenix Or. The flames should be a bit [December 1987 LoAR, R-Caid] “Dmitri Yaro- tion? bolder. A phoenix’s flames are co-primary, slavich Tsepesh. It was the consensus of the not maintained. Clear. commentary in the College that the byname College Action Tsepesh, which means Impaler and is associ- Name: Return for lack of documentation of the Barony of Bryn Gwlad ated with Vlad the Impaler, prototype for the surname. 1640 is within the “grey period”, [Name] Kiianin is a byname meaning Kievan Dracula legend, is offensive in itself, offen- but a birth record that late is probably not according to the source cited. RFS III.2.a: A sive in its association with Vlad/Dracula and good enough for Laurel. personal name must contain a given name… should not be registered.” The only “the Impaler” that we are familiar It was grossly offensive then and it still is today. with is Vlad the Impaler. We believe that this Rfs.IV. “Offensive names may not be regis- tered, as is required by General Principle 2 of 18. Pukhta Lovvek (Wiesenfeuer) is a unique byname and is therefore presump- New Name. tuous. If documentation could be found sug- these rules. Names may be innately offensive gesting that another person was ever known from their content, like John Witchburner. A name element can also be offensive because Asterisk Note: Printouts of website pro- by this byname, or if an office or job of vided, although not needed. (Pages on ‘Impaler’ could be documented we would with- of its usual associations or the context in which it is placed. Names may be considered www.sca.org do not photocopies.) How- draw this objection. ever, this is an inadequate summary – what [Device] Chevron could be drawn a bit lower. offensive even if the submitter did not intend them to be.” do the entries actually say? Rfs.IV.4. “Offensive Political Terminology. Ter- Barony of Elfsea NE Calontir [Name] We feel that could be cov- minology specifically associated with social or political movements, or events that may [Name] “Pukhta” is shown as a masculine given ered more by occupation bynames rather than name meaning “puff”. It’s undated, but the a descriptive byname. This would actually be offensive to a particular race, religion, or ethnic group will not be registered.” variant spelling “Puchta” is dated from 1479. appear to fall more under the section for of- “Lovvek” is said to be an undated variant fensive names, RFS 4.1. Otherwise, there was The byname “impaler” is very likely to be uniquely associated with Vlad the Impaler and spelling of “Lovek”, a masculine given name no conflict found with this name. meaning “hunter” and dated from 1039. What The link indicates that the name is a unregistrable for that reason also. Rfs.VI.3. “Names Claiming Specific Relationships. is left to do is to find out how to make the byname used in the 11th century. It also seems second name a surname. to indicate that the bearer of this name might Names that unmistakably imply identity with or close relationship to a protected person or be ‘Kievan’, or a citizen of Kiev. Barony of Bryn Gwlad Paul Goldschmidt “Paul Goldschmidt’s Dictio- literary character will generally not be regis- tered.” [Name] Wickenden 3rd ed. p.286 documents nary of Period Russian Names - Section KA” Pukhta as a male given name. The spelling is (WWW Self-Published, 1996) http://www.sca. not dated, the closest spelling dated is Puchta org/heraldry/paul/ka.html . College Action Name: Returned for lack of a given name and 1479. Lovvek. Var. of Lovek dated to 1301 [Device] “Per chevron sable and gules” needs to in the submitters spelling as a male given be displayed lower, which will decrease the for violating RfS IV. Please see Magnus’s dis- Page 8 ANSTEORRAN G AZETTE S EPTEMBER 2006 name. RFS III.2.a: …and a byname. Submit- Irish form. “Caichear” is marked as the ModI Canute ter specifies no changes. Russian does not spelling of “Caicher”. “Inghean” covers both [Badge] Clear. have unmarked patronymics. Probably would eras. We don’t know what the genitive form be Lovekov or Lovvekov if byname is a pat- of the father’s name is, nor how it should be Barony of Elfsea ronymic. Name means puff hunter…ahem. lenited here. [Badge] Good Armory. No conflicts found. [Device] The head is couped. It wouldn’t hurt to Barony of Elfsea draw the bend a bit wider. al-Amra [Name] is a male name, documented [Badge] Nice. as having been used in 1479. is a Canute varient of , and has been documented [Device] The bend should be wider. Hermann Otto Magnus as having been used in 1031. There is more Koehlermann - January of 1973: Sable, a [Badge] The registered name is spelled Sigen than 400 years difference between the use of bend sinister Or. Single CD for the secondar- Fridreksdottir. these names, based on the documentation ies. Return for conflict. provided. We agree with Asterisk on the docu- College Action mentation and we would be more comfort- Barony of Bryn Gwlad Badge: Forwarded to Laurel. (The name goof able with documentation to indicate that the [Name] The Annals have Middle Irish Gaelic (900- was Asterisk’s typo…) given name was in use at the same time as the 1200) with the submitters spelling. surname. No conflicts found with the name. [Device] Is the dragon riding the slide? The bend needs to grow substantially. 22. Tereysa de Serrano (Elfsea) al-Amra Name forwarded to Laurel on the 5/06 LoI. [Name] General note expanding upon the lack of Barony of Elfsea New Device. Purpure, a wolf rampant and summarization – particularly for non-English [Name] No conflicts found with name. on a chief nebuly argent three hawk bells language names, submitting with *both* ma- [Device] This is a bendlette. The bend sinister purpure. jor and minor changes disallowed greatly in- needs to be a lot more butch. When this is creases the probability of return if there are made more butch, there may be a problem Canute ANY difficulties, and lack of proper summary with the dragon. No other conflicts found. [Device] The nebuly should be bolder. Clear. for either element is a difficulty. al-Amra Barony of Elfsea Magnus [Name] Dates, please? “The documentation pro- [Device] We recommend rewording the embla- [Name] Wickenden 2nd edition has: vided is insufficiently detailed to support the zon to read “Purpure, a wolf rampant and on Pukhta (m) – “puff.” Vars: Puchta. 1479. combination presented without better infor- a chief nebuly argent three hawk’s bells Lovek (m) – “hunter.” Lovek. 1031. Vars: mation as to the dates associated with the purpure”. No conflicts found. Lovich. 1107. Lovvek. 1031. elements.” (This name documentation sum- Lovchii (byn) hunter. Vars: Lovhai (Il’ia mary *is* nicer than several other example al-Amra Oleksandrov syn Lovhago, landowner). 1477. in the current letter, and at least does provide [Device] Minor emblazon notes: fewer and larger The 3rd edition adds Kurilo Lovchich, boiar, the page numbers.) on the nebuly loops would improve recogni- 1609. [Device] All together now, “Feed the bend”. Ahem, tion; the size of the wolf should probably be Occupational Bynames in Medieval Russia by “Submitter should be advised that the bend increased in future renderings. Paul Wickenden of Thanet www.goldschp.net/ needs to be drawn wider.” For future drawing, archive/jobnames.html has: Hunter - also consider either rotating the horse’s head College Action Lovtsevich (1555) Based on this data Lovvek “forward”, or at least make the ears more Device: Forwarded to Laurel. would be a masculine given name not a byname. vertical. Russian doesn’t use unmarked patronymics. Un- til evidence is provided that Lovvek was used Magnus as a byname, there is no byname and it isn’t [Name] OCM under Sáerlaith gives Sáerlaith as 23. Tiarnán of Bryn Gwlad (Bryn Gwlad) registerable. pre-1200 spelling. Drop the “noble princess” New Name. New Device. Per pale azure and Normally we would just correct the grammar to stuff unless you are trying to get it returned vert, a couchant, on a chief argent three make it a byname. The submitter checked for presumption. OCM under Caicher gives equalarmed Celtic crosses vert. the [no changes please return my name] box Caichear as the post-1200 spelling of the so this gets returned. name. Mixing Middle Gaelic (pre-1200) and Asterisk Note: Printouts of the two Early Modern Gaelic (post-1200) is a weird- Saint Gabriel reports are included. College Action ness [Tigernach Ó Catháin, November 2001]. Name: Returned for lack of a surname. As [Device] Blazon as: “Sable, a bend sinister be- NE Calontir Magnus points out, we could have changed it tween in bend a dragon sejant and a horse’s [Name] Although he says he’s looking for a Scot- to , but the submitter head couped Or.” The bend sinister is too tish Gaelic name, the cited St. Gabriel report allowed for no changes. narrow to be registered and will have to be #591 says that “Tiernan” (no fada) is the redrawn. Conflict with Hermann Otto Koeh- most common Scots spelling and goes on to lermann January 1973: “Sable, a bend sinis- say, “The most common Gaelic spelling of ter Or.” deceased. your first name is ‘Tigernán’ (where the ‘á’ 19. de Harwell. (Loch Ruadh) indicates an accented ‘a’).” He hasn’t used New Name. College Action either of these spellings here. Name: Forwarded to Laurel. Bordure, please note [Device] These are perfectly drawn equal-armed Barony of Bryn Gwlad Celtic crosses. What the CoA has defined as [Name] Salud. that we recognize the weirdness for missing pre- and post-1200 name forms. an equal-armed Celtic cross is something dif- Device: Returned for conflict with Hermann ferent, a cross potenty surmounting an annu- Barony of Elfsea let. (See the PicDic) This incongruity has [Name] Good Name, no conflicts found. Otto Koehlermann,”Sable, a bend sinister Or” with only one CD for addition of the second- come up repeatedly in recent months, and I aries. (And yes, the bend needs to be a fair hope that a clarification will soon be coming al-Amra from Laurel. [Name] Yay! Good summaries, good temporal amount wider.) consistency (nine or ten years: 1316 vs. 1325- Canute 6) [Device] The arms of the crosses need to be 21. Sigen Fridreksodittir (Northkeep) longer. These blur the distinction between a College Action Name registered by Laurel in 1/96. Resub- Celtic cross and a Norse sun cross. Clear. Re- Name: Forwarded to Laurel. mitted Badge. Per pale azure and gules, a turn for violating RfS VII.7. gryphon passant and a chief embattled Or. Barony of Bryn Gwlad 20. Sáerlaith inghean Caichear (Loch Submission History: Previous submis- [Name] Documentation strongly implies that the sion, Gules, a passant contourny name should be spelled Tiernan in Scots. Sub- Soilleir) Or, grasping a mullet of five greater and New Name. New Device. Sable, a bend sin- mitter prefers the spelling submitted. If the five lesser points sable, was returned by name is Scottish Gaelic as indicated in the ister between a dragon sejant and a horse’s kingdom in 12/00 for conflict with Nerissa head Or. corrections line it should be Tygernan. Re- Meraud de la Fontaine, Gules, a griffin turn for violating RfS VII.7. passant to sinister bearing in its sinister NE Calontir talon a goblet Or. [Name] O’C&M mark “Sáerlaith” as a Middle ANSTEORRAN GAZETTE S EPTEMBER 2006 Page 9 Barony of Elfsea nulets interlaced within a bordure dovetailed per chevron it conflicts with Duncan Alastair [Name] The documentation that he has provided purpure. McRae: Per chevron argent and vert, three places his name as a modern form and as non- thistles one and two proper and a broadarrow period. Different documentation is needed for Asterisk Note: Photocopies from the inverted argent. Blazon should presumably the name. Nordic Database are included for documen- by per chevron argent and vert three thistles [Device] The complexity count of this device is tation of the stones’ locations and dates, one and two proper and a Celtic cross ar- 7, which is somewhat high. No conflicts as well as printouts of the Nordiskt gent. If redrawn as a point pointed, the con- found. runnamnlexikon entries and English-lan- flict will be cleared. guage translation of same. al-Amra Barony of Elfsea [Name] The submitter appears to have opted for NE Calontir [Device] Per chevron should evice the shield in a post-period form of the given name, as I [Name] Current CoA practice is not to capitalize half, which will increase the size of the cross. interpret the summaries given here. Old Norse epithets. Does he say what the The complexity count is 5, maybe 6, depend- [Device] The lion’s size could be increased. intended meaning is? The closest thing in Geirr ing on how you count it. No conflicts found. Bassi is “veðr” which is given as “ram, male Magnus sheep”. al-Amra [Name] Barony of Bryn Gwlad was registered [Device] The cross in particular needs to be ren- March 1980. The Saint Gabriel reports have Canute dered larger. There was some concern that nothing useful about this name. Report 591 [Device] Clear. the per chevron line of division has been ren- has a warning on it and no references to where dered so far down the escutcheon that the Tiarnan was found. Report 1147 states the Barony of Bryn Gwlad blazon might instead be: Argent, three thistles form Tiarnan is modern so it wouldn’t be [Name] URL for documentation is Lena.Peterson in chevron proper and on a base vert a Celtic registrable. A change to Tiernan fixes the prob- @nordiska.uu.se Byname will probably have cross argent. Also to note: “in chief three lem. to be lower case. thistles” would typically be depicted in a hori- [April 2003 LoAR A-ATENVELDT] “Tiernan zontal line; the depiction here is most likely Dugrais. Listed on the LoI as Tighearnán Barony of Elfsea either “in chevron” or “1 and 2” – the depth Dugrais, the LoI noted that the submitter’s [Name] We are not competent to judge the con- of the vertical offset for the central thistle is first choice for a given name was Tiernan. struction, but the documentation looks ap- sufficient to be notable… Being unable to find documentation for propriate. No conflicts found on the name. Tiernan in period, they noted recent regis- [Device] No conflicts found on the device. Magnus trations of Tiernan as a given name and asked [Device] Blazon as: “Per chevron argent and that if anyone had access to the documenta- al-Amra vert, three thistles one and two proper and a tion for these submissions, the submitter would [Name] Very nicely summarized; English trans- Celtic cross argent.” Conflict with Duncan appreciate it. By coincidence, the registera- lations, too? Wonderful! Looks good to me. Alastair MacRae April 2001: “Per chevron bility of Tiernan was addressed recently (so [Device] Nice. (the dovetails are obvious / the argent and vert, three thistles one and two recently, in fact, that the LoAR with that border is nicely thick / the annulets are easily proper and a broadarrow inverted argent.” discussion was not available during the com- recognized). mentary period for this submission): College Action There was some question regarding the register- Magnus Device: Returned for conflict with Duncan ability of Tiernan. Tiernan is an Anglicized [Name] The byname Vetr means ‘winter’. The Alastair, ”Per chevron argent and vert, three Irish form of the Gaelic masculine given name submitter checked the [no changes please re- thistles one and two proper and a broadarrow Tighearnán. The question is whether or not turn my name] box and the byname is upper inverted argent.” The field also needs to be Tiernan is a period Anglicized form of this case. [October 2002 Cover Letter] “There- either drawn as a true “per chevron” (point name. fore, we are upholding the current policy of much higher on the field) or as a point pointed The given name Tighearnán was in use in late requiring descriptive bynames in Old Norse (a touch lower on the field, and the thistles period as can be seen in the Annals of the to be registered in lowercase.” We cannot made more prominent). Four Masters, vol. 6, (www.ucc.ie/celt/pub- change the byname to lowercase to correct lished/G100005F/), entry M1590.3, which the name so this gets returned. mentions Tighearnan Bán mac Briain mic [Device] Blazon as: “Argent, three annulets in- Eoghain Uí Ruairc. Because this name was terlaced two and one within a bordure dove- used in late period, it is logical that there was tailed purpure.” Return for lack of name. an Anglicized form of this name existed. Since no Anglicized forms of this given name have College Action yet been found in period Anglicized records Name: Forwarded to Laurel as , (probably due mainly to the scarcity of such since the submitter has agreed to allowing records), we have only period Anglicized minor changes. Bordure, please make sure the forms of bynames formed from Tighearnán form is corrected. to examine. Woulfe (p. 410 s.n. Mac Device: Forwarded to Laurel. Tighearnáin) dates M’Tiernane and M’Ternane to temp. Elizabeth I-James I. Woulfe (p. 652 s.n. Ó Tighearnáin) also dates 25. Vivian McKinnon (Loch Ruadh) O Ternane and O Tiernan to the same time Name registered by Laurel in 8/04. Resub- period. Given these examples, Tiernan is rea- mitted Device. Per chevron argent and vert, sonable as a period Anglicized form of in chief three thistles proper and in base a Tighearnán. [Tiernan Moor, LoAR February Celtic cross argent. 2003, A-An Tir] We have changed the given name in this submission to Tiernan, which Submission History: Previous submis- was the submitter’s first choice as a given sion was returned by kingdom in 2/06 for name, since it is a plausible as an Anglicized redraw of the entire escutcheon. Irish name in period, and so is registerable.” NE Calontir College Action [Device] The charges, especially the cross, could Name: Returned. is a purely modern profitably be enlarged. The thistles should be form, and while the change to may specified as one and two. seem like a simple spelling change, changing the language of an element is considered a Canute Major Change. Since the form did not allow [Device] This isn’t per chevron because the divi- for major changes, this name is returned. sion doesn’t go above the fess line. It isn’t a Device: Pended for one month only. If new name point pointed because the line reaches the forms do not make it to me by then, the fess point. This blurs the distinction between device will also be returned for lack of a name. them. Return for violating RfS VII.7. Barony of Bryn Gwlad 24. Vilhiálmr Vetr (Bryn Gwlad) [Device] Per chevron is too low to be per chev- New Name. New Device. Argent, three an- ron, but too high to be a point pointed. If it is Page 10 ANSTEORRAN G AZETTE S EPTEMBER 2006 ANSTEORRAN GAZETTE September 2006 Deborah Sweet, Obelisk Herald 824 E 8th Stillwater, OK 74074 FIRST CLASS MAIL ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED

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