Teceangl Bach
lions-blood@antir.sca.org
tierna@agora.rdrop.com
April 29, 2002
Send thy comments here:
Brenda Klein
5235 SE Lambert St #A-5
Portland, OR 97206-9068

Unto the An Tir College of Heralds, greetings from Áedán mac Suibne.

Commentary on this Letter will be due June 1st, 2002.
(Apologies for the tardiness of this letter! )
(Send comments to Lions Blood Herald, information at top of this letter)

The June Lions Blood Meeting will be Sunday, June 2nd, 1pm, at the home of Æstel Herald, Eglentyne Merryweather in River's Bend:  406 Quail Ln., Longview WA. 
Directions will be on the May Internal Letter.

The May Lions Blood meeting will be held on Sunday, May 5th, 1pm, at the home of Angharat ver' Reynulf in Blatha an Oir: 4105 South Yakima Avenue, Tacoma, WA, (253) 472-2869 
From I-5:  North or South I-5 take Exit 132 for 38th Street EAST.  At the 5th stoplight you should be at South Yakima Avenue-turn right and go to the 4100 block. There is parallel parking on both sides of the street and 4105 is the big red box with a green roof--second house on the left. There's a Safeway within 3-4 blocks as well as a Red Apple for easy extra drink/food runs.

FROM LIONS BLOOD HERALD

NEW!  There should be wide enough margins on the printed IL to facilitate punching for filing in binders.

This month's magic number is three.  Per the Administrative Handbook, section IV. C. Completed Paperwork - No submission, including any resubmission, appeal, change or release of a protected item, etc., shall be considered to have occurred until a complete set of paperwork is provided to the appropriate heraldic officer. The numbers of sets of paperwork and the detailed format of the forms are governed by kingdom policy. However, completed paperwork must include all of the following materials which are relevant to the submission in question.
Lions Blood has been so nice about such things in the past that she has a too-large stack of pending files.  Therefore, beginning with the July IL, if a submission packet is incomplete it will be returned.  Period.  Please work with your clients to assure that there is three of everything (forms, docs, petitions, notes, everything but the envelope and check) in every submission.

LINE DRAWINGS:
The other major problem is line drawings, lack thereof.  Right beneath "AN TIR COLLEGE OF HERALDS" on every armory form are the instructions to "send three colored and three uncolored line drawing copies to Lions Blood Herald".  Get a lurid highlighter and go over that information, preferably in some shade that leaves a nice after-image when viewed.

DO NOT ALTER THE FORMS!
Every checkbox, all the received/action/forwarded info sections at the bottom of the form, every entry field, and a big blank space for the final blazon are required on the submission forms.  Please supply forms to your clients and branch members to fill out.  I know it's easy to just download them and fill them out, but more and more forms are coming in with bits missing.  Again, I'll have to return things for this problem, so if local heralds can help prevent people from reformatting the forms, there'll be fewer hard feelings.

For the most part, none of the above are any particular herald's problem (most stem from submitters who haven't really worked with any herald), but the more people we tell, the greater the chance someone might listen and perhaps even tell others.

THANK YOU!
Lions Blood would like to specifically thank the Seagirt commenters for checking name registration dates and catching plenty of Lions Blood errors in the April IL.  Care for details makes An Tir look very good to the CoA.

DRAFT PRECEDENTS LINKED TO MAIN PRECEDENTS PAGE:
Elsbeth's and Francois' draft precedents are now linked to the www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/precedents.html page.  Rumor has it also that downloadable versions of Bruce's precedents are to be made available soon.  More news when it's there to tell.

There's a chart to help track lingual mix weirdness in names registrations.  It' in the cover letter for the January 2002 LoAR and should be available with the webbed draft names precedents for the current Laurel tenure quite soon.

I cannot stress enough the importance of reading LoARs and cover letters if you are a consulting herald on names or armory.  The LoARs for January and February are chock-full of more good information.  If you're neither internet connected nor able to subscribe to the paper LoAR ($25, so many of us aren't), contact me.  I might be able to help get you copies of the cover letters.

Two LoARs came in this month.  I've only received commentary from two people on how they'd like to see An Tir LoAR information listed here.  Does anyone else have any opinions?

An Tir results from the LoAR dated January 2002 (see the LoAR for full text):
(typos might exist - only the LoAR itself is definitive; other than name, action and blazon, listings are paraphrased or abridged)

REGISTERED:
An Tir, Kingdom of.  Heraldic title Ounce Herald
Caliste de Cholet. Name change from Ysabell of Snowshill
Catrina Makrie of Berwick. Name and device. Per fess gules and sable, a demi-sun issuant from the line of division Or and two needles in saltire argent.
Charis Percehay. Name and device. Or, a unicorn couchant sable and in chief a vine of roses fesswise proper.
Charis Percehay. Badge. (Fieldless) A unicorn's head erased sable sustaining in its mouth a rose slipped and leaved proper.
Daniel Tremayne. Name and device. Or, a lymphad reversed sails unfurled sable and in chief three decrescents azure all within a bordure sable.
Laurel said, "Good name!"
Elonda Blue Haven. Device reblazon. Azure semé of lightning flashes bendwise sinister Or, a sinister hand cupped in profile fesswise argent maintaining in its palm a flame gules fimbriated Or.
Elonda Blue Haven. Badge. (Fieldless) A sinister hand cupped in profile fesswise sustaining in its palm a tree Or.
By current precedent, "The cupped hand is neither a documented nor a recognizable position." (LoAR April 2000, p. 18) However, it is grandfathered to the submitter, who has the same sort of design in her registered device..."
Gemma Meen. Name.
Griffin Ó Fáeláin. Device. Vert, a griffin passant argent charged on the shoulder with a fleur-de-lys vert, a chief engrailed argent semy of quatrefoils vert.
Gwenevere McAy. name.
Gyory Sandor. Name and device. Per pale gules and vert, on a patriarchal cross between two doves respectant argent an arrow sable.
Khulan Shizir. Name.
Leif McBride. Device change. Argent, a unicorn and on a chief engrailed sable three suns argent.
Lóegaire Mac Lochlainn. Name and device. Sable, on a bend argent three arrows palewise gules and in sinister chief a mullet argent.
Mariette Devienne. Device. Per chevron fleury counter-fleury vert and Or, two fleurs-de-lys Or and a rapier sable.
Myles of Connacht. Name.
Thorin Njalsson. Release of badge. (Fieldless) A puffin's head erased proper (Fratercula arctica)
Vincent of Hawksheye. Name and device. Sable, in pale a wolf's head cabossed and two swords in saltire within an orle argent overall a label Or.

RETURNED:
Davin Steingrimsson. Name and device. Or, a ram's head couped contourny sable armed argent and on a chief sable three coronets Or.
Davin is Anglicized Irish, Steingrimsson is Old Norse.  As Scots and Old Norse has been ruled unregisterable due to excessive temporal disparity, Anglicized Irish and Old Norse have the same problem.  The ram's head, particularly the horns which were formed of disconnected segments, was unidentifiable as drawn.
Davin Steingrimsson. Badge. Or, a ram's head couped contourny sable armed argent and a bordure sable bezanty.
Same problem with the ram's head as with the device.
Gemma Meen. Device. Purpure, on a tower argent masoned a dog rampant sable.
Conflict with Aelfric se Droflic, (Fieldless) On a tower argent an acorn sable.  One CD for adding a field.  Towers are complex charges and not eligible for X.4.j.ii.a.  Masoning on a charge normally made of stone or brick (such as a bridge or tower) is an artistic detail not worth difference.  Lions Blood argued (unsuccessfully) that the dog was at the tower's base and should get a CD from the more centrally-positioned acorn, but a visual comparison showed that both tertiary charges are large enough to overlap the space they take up in the middle of the tower, so no CD for changes to tertiary charges under X.4.j.i. exists.
Susanna Craven. Badge. (Fieldless) A dragon's head cabossed argent.
The dragon's head was drawn with a frill more reminiscent of a frilled lizard than a dragon, rendering it unrecognizable.  No period examples of dragons' heads drawn in this manner were found.
Yolanda de Guelph. Name.
Guelph (Middle High German Welf) is a name associated exclusively with the princely family who were the primary opponents of the Hohenstaufens for control of the Holy Roman Empire and were the ancestors of inter alia the current British royal family.  Thus the name was returned for presumption per RfS VI.I

An Tir results from the LoAR dated February 2002 (see the LoAR for full text):
(typos might exist - only the LoAR itself is definitive; other than name, action and blazon, listings are paraphrased or abridged)

REGISTERED:
Ælfric of False Isle. Holding name and device. Per pale argent and azure, two swords inverted in saltire between four roses counterchanged.
Aster Peyton. Device. Or, a castle sable and in chief three pearled coronets purpure all within a bordure pean.
Cecille de Beumund. Name change from Arianwen ferch Ieuan.
Çinara Suberria. Badge. (Fieldless) a cherry blossom within and conjoined to an annulet argent.
Danescombe, Shire of. Branch name.
Laurel said, "Good name!"
Ealasaid of Madrone. Holding name and device. Azure, a unicorn couchant and on a chief embattled argent a pine cone stem to base between two crescents sable.
Edric of Hamsteleie. Badge. (Fieldless) A dolmen gules.
Esugenas maqqas Moridaci avvi Cremutanni. Badge. (Fieldless) A bulb of garlic Or.
Helevisa de Horsmonden. Devince change. Per bend gules and azure, three fleurs-de-lys in bend Or.
Iago ab Adam. Name change from Jacobus filius Catomagli.
Laurel said, "Good name!"
Jón Eiriksson. Device. Argent, a roundel and a bordure embattled sable.
Juliana de Saint Denys. Device. Quarterly argent and purpure, four frets couped counterchanged.
Juliana de Saint Denys. Badge. (Fieldless) A triquetra purpure.

RETURNED:
Ælfric the Lost. Name.
While the English byname the Lost has been ruled SCA compatible, use of an SCA compatible but undocumentable name element is a weirdness.  AElfric is Old English.  Modern English and Old English are different languages; mixing the two in the same name has been ruled registerable, though a weirdness.  Therefore, mixing Old English with English and using an SCA compatible byname is two weirdnesses and two weirdnesses is not registerable.
An Tir, Kingdom of. Badge for Thrown Weapons Deputy. Per pale Or and argent, an axe and a knife and on a chief sable a spear reversed Or.
As the Deputy for Thrown weapons is a position beneath an officer with a badge at corporate level (the Marshalate), the office may not have an independent badge.  Additionally, since the use of a marshal's badge on the field is immediate recognition, all marshals throughout the Society need to be identical.  Therefore, such may only be registered at the corporate level.
Ealasaid inghean uí Domhnaill. Name.
Returned for conflict with Elzasaif O'Donnell.  Elzasif is said to be a Norse variant of Elizabeth; Ealasaid is a modern Scottish Gaelic variant of Elizabeth.  inghean uí means and sounds the same as O'.  Therefore these names are the same.

Results from the Letter of Correction dated 15 April 2002
(a Letter of Correction fixes mistakes in LoARs, the Armorial and the Ordinary):

Úna inghen uí Gairbhíne. Name correction from Úna inghen uá Gairbháne.  The byname was misspelled on the LoAR dated May 1998.
Ellen Lettice Fraser. Name correction from Ellen Lettice Frasier.  The name was misspelled on the LoAR dated October 2001.

(You see why I'm such a proponent of a long but thorough proofreading process for the LoARs?  Úna waited three years for this correction .)


RESULTS OF THE MARCH LIONS BLOOD MEETING-

The following people were present at the March Lions Blood meeting or sent commentary: Iago ab Adam, Seagirt; Morel Laurence, Black Stag; Rhiannon Boyle, Ciar inghean ui Fhothaidh, book deputy Madrone; Richard Dragun, Golden Dragon; Murakami Tsuruko; Elisabeth de Rossignol; David of Moffat, Electrum; Kateryn of Falconkeep, Be Wayre; Natasha Orionova Zateeva, Vox Leonis; Christopher Thomas, Red Tree, Gwenlian Catharne, Eglentyne Merryweather, AEstel, Fionn Ban McAy, Black Lion staff; Sebastian Sterne; Teceangl Bach, Lions Blood; Juliana de Saint Denys, Wyewood;  Meradudd Cethin, Redewolf;  Meadhbha inghean Bhrain an Muilleóir; Ercc McFitheal; Francesca Testarossa de' Martini, Dragon's Mist; Li Ban ingen Eachthiarna MacNessa, Northern; Tadgg h-úa Faelan of Clan MacNessa; Brighid an Morra, Cold Keep; and the Wastekeep Commenting Squad.

The following names and armory have been sent to Laurel (March LoI)--

Desiree of Colecestra
Name, New

Emma Randall
Name, Change
Change from Emma in draumspaka.

Gwenlian Catharne
Name, New

Laurin of Rosewood
Device, New
Sable, on a rose argent barbed vert a cat sejant affronty sable a bordure argent.

Randal the Redowtable
Badge, New
(Fieldless) A cross formy checky argent and gules
The submitter's name was registered November 1992. 

Rhonwen of Rhyl
Name and Device, New
Sable, on a chief argent a swan naiant wings elevated and addorsed issuant from the line of division gules.

Roland le Brun
Name and Device, New
Per pale Or and gules, a griffon segreant contourny argent maintaining an acorn proper and a sword argent on a chief sable two crescents argent.

Wolfryð of Leeds
Name and Device, New
Per pale argent and gules, a wolf rampant counterchanged.
Resubmission to kingdom.  Previous name, Wulffryð of York, had been returned for conflict with the important historical personage St. Wilfri\th of York.  The change of byname fixes that.

The following have been returned:

An Tir, Kingdom of, Calendar Deputy
Badge, New
Gules, a dolman argent.
Conflicts with:
 Peregrine de Porticu - Gules, a falcon close to sinister within a dolmen argent, 1 CD for removal of co-primary falcon, and Cadwalladyr Stone of Stonecroft - Vert, a dolmen of three uprights capped by two lintels argent (1 CD for change of field.
[a dolmen vs a dolmen of three uprights capped by two lintels] This conflicts with ... a dolmen of three uprights capped by  two lintels argent. [i.e. the difference is insignificant]. (David O Kellahan, 11/97 p. 15)
In addition, an office which has a superior that has a badge at the corporate level may not have a badge registered to it.  The calendar is a deputy of the Seneschal, which has a badge registered at the corporate level.

Gwenlian Catharne
Name and Device, New
Azure, a pale argent fretty azure between six dogwood blossoms argent seeded Or.
Conflicts with:
Laurence of Elon - Azure, on a pale between in pale six roses barbed and seeded argent, three roses barbed and seeded gules.
Roses are not sufficiently different from dogwood blossoms to get a CD, therefore the only difference comes from changes to the tertiary charges.

Sweet Tamlin
Name, New
Withdrawn by the submitter, who has learned a valuable lesson about signing a form that has not yet been filled in.

the North, Crown Principality of
Branch Name and Device, New
Azure, on a saltire between four mullets of eight points argent a laurel wreath azure.
Conflicts with:
North, the, which has its own entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica and is defined as the part of the United States of America which opposed the Confederacy in the American Civil war.  Without a name, the device had to be returned as well.

The following submission was pended:

Ærne Clover
Device, Resubmission to Kingdom
Or, a four-leaved clover saltirewise vert
Conflict was called versus a quatrefoil, but further research turned up a Laurel precedent declaring that quatrefoils and roses were not considered the same charge in period.  This submission will be on the April 2002 Letter of Intent.


NEW SUBMISSIONS:

1.  Adrianna the Fierce
(Madrone)
Badge, Resubmission to Kingdom
(Fieldless) An Ermine statant reguardant contourney ermine.
Her name was registered September 1993.  The submitter's previous badge, (Fieldless) An ermine statant ermine, was returned from kingdom in May of 2001 for conflict with Michael de Biggleswade - Per bend sinister gules and vert, an ermine statant ermine.  Turning this ermine around clears that conflict.

2.  Aelana Cordovera
(Lions Gate)
Name and Device, New
Vert, a mullet six pointed; in chief a roundel between an increscent and a decrescent, argent.
The submitter will accept changes to the name.  If the name must be changed, she cares more about the language/culture of the name.  The submitter desires a pre-1492 Spanish feminine name, and she will allow the creation of a holding name
The submitter documents the name using Jewish Family Names and Their Origins by Heinrich W. Guggenheimer and Eva H. Guggenheimer, Ktav Publishing House, Inc. 1992. 
Aelana appears to be a constructed variant spelling of Elan or llan found on p. 216 and Aelion found on p. 11.  Aelion is a masculine Sephardic name found in Italy, and Elan is a Hebrew word meaning "tree".  No dates are included in the reference, and the construction of the given name is not documented.
Cordovera appears to be a variation on Cordovero , found on p. 170.  Cordovero is a locative meaning "from Cordova".  A Rabbi Moshe Cordovero is dated to the 16th C.  No documentation is provided for this spelling.

3.  Aelfric MacRancan
(Seagirt)
Device, New
Vert, a decrescent and in chief three mullets of eight points Or.
The submitter's name was registered in November, 2000.

4.  An Tir, Kingdom of, Pomegranate Herald 
(c/o Brenda Klein)
Herald's Title, New
The submitter will allow changes to the title, and specifies no time period, language and/or culture for which the title need to be accurate.  The submission form is signed by Wilam Tjorkilson (King, An Tir), and Siobhan (Queen, An Tir).  It is intended to be a Black Lion staff title.
The submission indicates that "period heraldic titles were often derived from heraldic charges and badges:  Lyon from the main charge of the arms of Scotland, Garter from the badge and Order (created in 1415), Portcullis and Unicorn in the English College and Lord Lyon's staff."
The pomegranate is claimed as a period heraldic charge, most notably seen in the arms of Granada.

5.  Aric McBride
(Glymm Mere)
Device, Change
Argent, a griffon sable rampant to sinister within a bordure embattled gules.
The submitter's name was registered in November 1989.

6.  Brénainn mac Pádraig
(Harrows Cross)
Name and Device, New
Azure, a lymphad and on a chief wavy argent a saltire vert.
The submitter will only accept minor changes to the name.  If the name must be changed, the submitter cares more about the language/culture of the name.  He desires an authentic Irish masculine name, and he will allow the creation of a holding name.
Brénainn is documented using the Academy of St. Gabriel Report 1730.  This report indicates Brénainn is a byname in use with this spelling from the 10th to the 12th centuries.  The report cites both Ó Corráin and Maguire's Irish Names sub. Brénain and Ó Brien's Corpus Genealogiarum Hiberniae
Pádraig is documented using the Academy of St. Gabriel Report 1850.  This report indicates "MacPháidein is a surname derived from Páitín, a pet form of PádraigPádraig was found in Ireland as early as the 13th century…"  The report cites Ó Corráin and Maguire's Irish Names and Annals of Ulster found online at http://www.ucc.ei/celt/online/G100001 access December 3, 1999.

7.  Eogan mac Áeda
(Seagirt)
Name and Device, New
Per fess sable and gules, a dance Or and in chief two mullets argent.
The submitter will accept changes to the name.  The submitter indicates no preference for meaning, sound, or language/culture if the name must be changed.  The submitter desires a masculine name, and he will allow the creation of a holding name.
Eogan is documented using the Academy of St. Gabriel Report 2158.  This report indicates that the name Eogan was fairly popular in early medieval Ireland and dates this spelling to 12th century Gaelic.  The reference cited is Heather Rose Jones' "100 Most Popular Men's Names in Early Medieval Ireland" found online at http://www.panix.com/~mittle/names/tangwystyl/irish100 .
mac Áeda is also documented using the Academy of St. Gabriel Report 2158.  The name is a genitive patronymic based on the masculine name Áed (no specific reference cited for this paragraph).  The report indicates "Eogan son of Áed mac Conall would have been known as Eogan mac Áeda.  Áeda is the genitive (possessive) form of Áed."

8.  Eulalia deRavenfeld
(Dragon's Mist)
Name and Device, New
Argent, a dragon sejant within six increscents in orle azure.
The submitter will only accept minor changes to the name.  If the name must be changed, the submitter cares more about the meaning of the name.  She believes the name Eulalia comes "from the Greek for 'Sweetly Spoken'".  The submitter desires a feminine name authentic for 13th-14th century England, and she will allow the creation of a holding name.
Eulalia is cited from Withycombe's The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names,3rd Ed., p. 110 which indicates Eulalia was the patron saint of Barcelona Spain (4th C., martyr).
Ravenfeld is cited from Ekwall's The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Placenames, p. 38 under "Ravenfield" with the submitted spelling dated to 1246.

9.  John de Montainville
(Three Mountains)
Name and Device, New
Argent, two bars azure and overall a winged lion rampant guardant gules.
The submitter will accept changes to the name.  If the name must be changed, the submitter cares equally about the meaning and sound of the name, and he goes on to explain "I live in the Montevilla area of Portland, Oregon."  The submitter desires a masculine name with a "Norman structure (name pattern)", and he will allow the creation of a holding name.
John is cited from Withycombe's The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names 3rd Ed., p. 178, "John was a fairly common English name in the 12th-15th C."
de Montainville is cited from Dauzat's Dictionnaire Etymologique des Noms de Lieux de la France p. 476 under "Montainville".  No date was given for the header spelling, but another spelling (uncited) was dated to 1130.

10.  John de Montainville
(Three Mountains)
Badge, New
(Fieldless) A winged lion rampant guardant gules.
The submitter's name appears above.

11.  Juliana van Aardenburg
(Terra Pomaria)
Device, Resubmission to Kingdom
Or, on a fess vert a castle Or.
The submitter's name appears on the December LoI.  The submitter's previous device, Vert, a castle and a chief Or, was returned from Kingdom in December 2001 for conflict with Brigitte von Eisenburg, January 1985 (East), Vert, a castle triple-towered within an orle flory counter-flory Or, with only one CD for changes to the secondary charge group.

12.  Meg Gwyneth Llewellyn
(Seagirt)
Name and Device, New
Purpure, on a bend sinister wavy Or a triquetra sable.
The submitter will only allow minor changes to the name.  If the name must be changed, the submitter cares more about the sound of the name.  The submitter desires a feminine name (no specific time period, language, and/or culture stated), and she will allow the creation of a holding name.
Meg is cited from Reaney and Wilson's A Dictionary of English Surnames, 3rd Ed., p. 305 sub "Meggs" with the spelling "Megge" dated to 1254.  The submitter would prefer the submitted spelling if possible.
Gwyneth is cited from Morgan and Morgan's Welsh Surnames p. 118 sub. "Gwynedd" with the spelling "Gwineth" dated to 1577.  The submitter would prefer the spelling "Gwyneth" if possible.
Llewellyn is also cited from Morgan and Morgan's Welsh Surnames p. 147 sub. "Llywelyn" with the spellings "Llewelline" dated to 1591 and "Llewellen" dated to 1597.  The submitter would prefer the spelling "Llewellyn" if possible.

13.  Muireann O'Reddan
(Glymm Mere)
Name and Device, New
Crossed arrows and eagle rising, wings addorsed and elevated on a green background with yellow sash.
(The field is vert, all the charges are Or.)
The submitter will accept changes to the name.  If the name must be changed, the submitter cares more about the language/culture of the name.  The submitter desires and Irish feminine name, and she will allow the creation of a holding name.
Muireann is cited from Ó Corraín and Maguire's Irish Names p. 140 (sub Muirenn) and is dated to 831 in the spelling "Muirenn".
O'Reddan is cited from MacLysaght's Surnames of Ireland p. 256 (sub Ó Reddan).

14.  Muriel qui porte les chaperons
(Seagirt)
Name and Device, New
Gules, three fleurs-de-lis argent.
The submitter will only accept minor changes to the name.  The submitter indicates no preference for the meaning, sound, or language/culture of the name.  She desires a feminine name, and she will allow the creation of a holding name.
Muriel is cited from Withycombe's The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, 3rd edition sub. "Muriel".  This spelling is dated to 1198, 1200, 1205, and 1273.
qui porte les chaperons is documented using "An Index to the Given Names in the 1292 Census of Paris" by Lord Colm Dubh found online at http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/paris.html which contains the name "cress in qui porte les chaperons".  No printed copy is included with the name submission form.

15.  Olcán Mac Meanma
(Glymm Mere)
Name and Device, New
Battle-axe and wolf rampant on red background with black sash.
(The field is gules, the bend is sable, the fimbriation and other charges are argent.)
The submitter will accept changes to the name.  If the name must be changed, the submitter cares more about the language/culture of the name.  The submitter desires an Irish masculine name, and he will allow the creation of a holding name.
Olcán is cited from Ó Corraín and Maguire's Irish Names, p. 149.  The reference indicates this is a "rare early form."
Mac Meanma is cited from MacLysaght's Surnames of Ireland p. 214 sub. 'MacMenamy'.

16.  Rhiannon Boyle
(Madrone)
Name and Device, New
Or semy of decresents azure, an oak tree sable leaved vert.
The submitter will accept changes to the name.  None of the preference boxes are checked.  The submitter will allow the creation of a holding name.
Rhiannon is listed as being "SCA Compatible per LoARs of 7/01, 2/00, 10/99, 9/99, and 8/99."
Boyle is cited from Reaney and Wilson's A Dictionary of English Surnames p. 58 under Boyle.  It is also cited from Woulfe's Irish Names and Surnames p. 433-4 as O'baorgill.  The submitter also indicates the name is "mentioned in the Annals of the Four Masters and the Fiants of Elizabeth."

17.  Richard Touchet de Cathédrele Ste.            Croix
(Lionsdale)
Name and Device, New
Sable, in chief gules 5 stars Or, in base pointed flouretty Or, Pegasus coupe dexter argent.
(The field is sable, the head argent, the chief gules, and the mullets and base all Or.)
The submitter will only allow minor changes to the name.  If the name must be changed, he cares more about the language/culture of the name.  The submitter desires an authentic French masculine name, and he will allow the creation of a holding name.
Documentation provided is sparse and unclear.  The submitter indicates:  "Richard Touchet (was the) 2nd son of Margaret Dayrell and James Touchet 7th Lord Audley 1465-97 http://genroy.free.fr/stl2.html ".

18.  Rikko no Kenteí
(Rivers Bend)
Name, New
The submitter will accept changes to the name.  If the name must be changed, the submitter cares more about the sound of the name.  The submitter desires an authentic Mongolian name, but does not care about the gender.
Rikku is documented using "O'Neill - p. 289 'Riku' is listed as a diminuative of Rikashū."  No photocopies of the reference are included.
The submitter requests, "If you can fix grammar to fit the Mongolian language style – please do.  I would like the name to mean Rikku- who lives in the Kentei mountain range in Mongolia."

19.  Rioghnach of Ruantallan
(Seagirt)
Device, New
Per pall argent, gules, and vert two griffins rampant combatant argent, in chief a quatrefoil gules seeded and barbed vert.
The submitter's name was registered in June 1993.

20.  Robert of Hawthorne
(Three Mountains)
Device, Resubmission to Laurel
Gules, an arm grasping a bow fesswise string to base and a bordure argent.
The submitter's name was registered in December 2000.  The submitter's previous device, Gules, a cubit arm sustaining a bow fesswise argent, was returned at the same time because "By Laurel precedent (see the November 1994 LoAR, Cyril Bowman, pg. 12), the cubit arm/bow combination is disallowed by rule RfS VII.7.a "Identification Requirement" as it not sufficiently distinguishable from a crossbow. It is thus also in conflict with Triaria de la Rivière - Gules, a crossbow between four thistles in cross argent, with only a CD for the addition of secondary charges."

21.  Sveinn Harðfari
(Veraquilon)
Device, Resubmission to Laurel
Per bend Or and bendy gules and Or, a demon's head gules wearing an arming cap sable, orbs, fangs, and tongue Or.
The submitter's name was registered October 1999.  The submitter's first device, Or, a mouthless demon's head affronty gules, orbs and coronet Or, was returned from kingdom in May 1999 for use of a reserved charge, the coronet.  The submitter's second device, Argent, a mouthless demon's head affronty, orbs Or wearing an arming cap sable was returned from kingdom in May 2000 for conflict with John of Woodwose Hall, Argent, a man's head couped affronty, crowned with leaves and antlers all vert.  The submitter's third device, Per bend Or and bendy gules and Or, a mouthless demon's head affronty gules wearing an arming cap sable was returned at Laurel in May 2001 for too many steps from period practice:  the arming cap having holes for the horns, the neck treatment being neither couped nor erased, and the head having no mouth.

22.  Tamlin MacGrim na Westrae
(Glymm Mere)
Name Resubmission and Device, New
Argent, a mullet of six points voided and interlaced within and conjoined to a serpent involved head to sinister sable, chief rayonny sable two roundels argent.
Previously submitted name, Sweet Tamlin, was withdrawn by the submitter in March. 
The submitter will accept changes to the name.  If the name must be changed, he cares more about the meaning of the "last name" and the sound of the "first name".  He believes the name means "son of Grim from Westrae".  The submitter wants a masculine name authentic for 16th century Orkney, and he will allow the creation of a holding name.
Tamlin is cited from Reaney and Wilson's A Dictionary of English Surnames, 3rdedition, p. 439 (sub "Tamlin") with the name Peter Tamelyn dated to 1327.  The "surname is derived as a 'double diminutive of Tam (Tom).'"
MacGrim is a patronymic constructed from multiple sources.  "Grim" is cited from Geirr Bassi's The Old Norse Name p. 10.  The submitter indicates that for a "Scots patronymic formed of Mac + <old Norse derived given name> see Macsagill (cited from Black's The Surnames of Scotland p. 454)".  This reference contains the names Mac Askill and Mac Caskell as header spellings, and Mac Askill is dated to the 16th Century.  The Norse name Askell is also found in Geirr Bassi, ibid, p. 8.  Other examples cited include Mac Iver (Black, ibid, p. 520) as a derivative of Ivar, MacBirnie (Black, ibid, p. 458) as a derivative of Byorn, and Mac Harold (Black, ibid, p. 509) as a derivative of Haraldr, dated to 1502.
No specific documentation is provided for na Westrae.

23.  Tamlin MacGrim na Westrae
(Glymm Mere)
Badge, New
(Fieldless) A mullet of six points voided and interlaced within and conjoined to a serpent involved head to sinister sable.
The submitter's name appears above.

24.  Tressach mac Domnaill
(Blatha An Oír)
Device, Resubmission to Kingdom
Per bend gules and sable, a bend wavy or and in sinister chief a dogwood blossom argent.
The submitter's name appears on the February 2002 LoI.  The submitter's previous device, Per bend gules and sable a bend wavy Or and in sinister chief a dogwood blossom argent, was returned in Kingdom in February 2002 for artistic problems.  According to Lion's blood "First off, the miniature and line drawing emblazons did not match the full-sized color emblazons.  Lions Blood insists that there be no variations between the renditions because the College of Heralds and the College of Arms only see the line drawing miniature, the Lions Blood meeting attendees may see all three, but Laurel meetings only see the full-color full size, so it is imperative that they all match down to the smallest detail.  Secondly, the bend was too narrow and the dogwood blossom appeared to some as four hearts in cross rather than a single charge.  Because a complex field division line cannot be covered by a charge, this is per bend rather than per bend wavy, and therefore the bend needed to be wide enough to totally cover the division line.  It wasn't, particularly in the deeper waves."  All artistic problems have been resolved with this submission.  No conflicts were discovered on the previous submission.

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