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

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)--

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.

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:

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.

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