Arms of the Kingdom of An Tir
The Heralds' Page
 Newsletter of the College of Heralds of An Tir
 

Volume 2, Number 1 ~ June 27, 2003

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!
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One Year of the Heralds' Page!!!!!


Table of Contents:
Arms of HL Morael Black Stag Greetings Unto the An Tir College of Heralds from Moræl Black Stag:

Part of my job as Black Stag is to help branches that are far from the center of things with all things heraldic.  I am mostly interested in seeing that the branch heralds have access to resources and the knowledge that those resources are available.  There is, of course, a strong need in some of these branches to be visited personally by experienced heralds to help educate local heralds and/or aid in heraldic design and conflict and style checks.
Fortunately, some of you have expressed that you are willing and able to travel to the aid of some of these people.  I’d really like to see this happen soon, as at least two branches have waited for quite a while for heraldic first-aid. 
If you are aware of branches that need help, please do let me know.  But, I need more than just “Hey, the Shire of Hidden Hollow needs help.”  I need contact information!  I am very accessible by email, and can be reached by more old-fashioned means as well. 

Annie Zupanic
71 Surfside Drive
Campbell River, BC
V9H 1H7
250-923-9102
bearpaws@island.net

Yours In Service,
Morel Black Stag
Argent, a bear's jambe and in chief three blackberries sable hulled vert 
Arms of Natasha Vox Leonis Greetings to the court junkies in the crowd from Natasha, Vox Leonis.

July Coronation will surely be another event blessed (or cursed...) with long courts.  I am once again asking for those voice heralds with experience doing Royal Court contact me if they are willing to lend their talents to making everyone's moment in the sun a bright one.  Please send email to me at orionova@hotmail.com if you are able to volunteer some time.

For heralds with less experience and a desire to learn more, this is also an opportunity to offer to help out behind the scenes.  This is a vital service to the herald who is doing court, for the things that they need are often not obvious (or recognized) by the retinue members and assorted other folks behind the thrones.  It's not a difficult job, but you get a real eye-opener of what actually makes court work.

I travel as much as I am able in our beautiful land, but with the new Royalty being on the opposite side of the Kingdom from me, I expect they will need the help of court heralds on the east side of the mountains a number of times during Their reign.  Please consider offering your services to them if you will be available at events that I am unable to attend.  
Once Their Progress is available, planning for such events will be possible.

I'd also like to take a moment to think about the future of court heraldry in An Tir.  We are recently blessed with another Principality, with their own unique awards, ceremonies, and traditions.  I'd like to begin a project to collect the basic texts of all three Principalities' ceremonies into a resource for us all to use.  What think you, my friends?  Is this a
worthwhile idea?

On the subject of ceremonies, please make certain that you get a copy of the new Kingdom ceremonial to use for Royal courts.  I have usually got a spare copy or two with me at crown events to hand out, and I try to keep a couple of CDs with the whole works available as well.  It is available from the web page at www.antir-heralds.org/awards/ceremonial

Eventually HL Rafaella hopes to have them made pretty, but for the moment they are available as Word files.  I would suggest if you are unable to print off the whole works, you simply print those ceremonies you are most likely to use.  Each ceremony is an individual file.

Thanks to all who make this job a joy,
Natasha
Arms of Thegn Uilleam Lowenmahne, OP Greetings from Uilleam Lowenmahne!

OYEZ! OYEZ! OYEZ!

My lords and ladies, pray attend!
The time draws nigh when we will gather, as is our custom, to witness the passing of the Crown of An Tir. We will need many volunteers for many things.

If you want:
a) to know what's going on
b) to have a good view of the tournaments
c) to wear a spiffy-looking green baldric
         then we can use you as a herald!

You do NOT need:
a) to have lungs like a Marine drill sergeant
b) to be a member of the Secret Heraldic Clique

You DO need:
a) to be interested in doing voice heraldry
b) to let me know that you're interested in doing some at Coronation

We can lay on the baldrics, the lemon drops and some tips on how to make effective use of your voice if you've never done this before. Don't be shy! Come and volunteer and hang out with the heralds! Who knows, you might like it so much that one day *you* (yeah, you, in the corner, reading this) may even become Lowenmahne Herald of An Tir! Stranger things have happened - I'm living proof :-D

Seriously, if you can do even just one town crier run or take one round of combat on one eric, it will help. I would dearly love to have enough gentlefolks volunteer that "just one of" is all anyone is asked to do on the day. If you really, really, REALLY like being a voice herald and want to do more than that - more power to you, and I'll be glad to let you do just as much as you want to (without injuring yourself - momentary Chirurgeon attack).

Please contact me by email and let me know:
a) your Society name
b) your branch
c) when you expect to arrive
d) when you must depart
e) your preference for tournament heraldry or town crier work (if you have one)
f) any restrictions I should know about (i.e., nothing in the morning, not until I'm killed in the lists, whatever it may be)

Please also tell me, if you wish:
a) Your mundane name
b) your phone number
c) what previous experience you have as a voice herald, if any (and "NONE" does not disqualify you, believe me!)
c) any particular requests you have (i.e., want to do wake-up in the morning, want to herald the quarter/semi/finals, etc.)

Thanks in advance to all those who volunteer - you make my life as Lowenmahne a lot easier.

Yours aye,
Uilliam Lowenmahne

Badge of the Order of the Pelican
HUZZAH!

I would like to heartily congratulate Uilliam Lowenmahne upon his elevation to the Order of the Pelican!  A well-deserved promotion for a very giving man, who I’m proud to call my friend.



Muirgheal inghean Labhrain (Morel Black Stag)		 Arms of Thegn Uilleam Lowenmahne, OP


   


Help Wanted:



An Tir/West War: Town Crier volunteers needed
(Or, "Is it possible for Finngall to run Herald's Point at the War and still have fun anyway?")


Yes, An Tir/West War is happening, for those who haven't gotten the word.  It'll be July 3-6 at the same site as two years ago in Adiantum.

When HL Grainne, our baronial seneschal, was asked by the Kingdom Seneschal to put together arrangements for the war, she asked me, as incoming Summits Principality Herald, if I would run town crying for the event.  Out of a sense of duty as an officer and a peer, I accepted, but I let her know in no uncertain terms that I did so with no small sense of trepidation.  I have done this job twice previously, in 1997 and 1999, and those events were the worst, most frustrating Nightmares From Hell that I have had in my entire SCA career.  These were the only two events I've attended where I had to work so hard that I stopped having fun.
Why?  Lack of volunteers.
I need your help.

If you plan on attending the War, and wish to volunteer, either as a crier, or to man the Point, please let me know ASAP.  In the meantime, I'll be working with event staff to devise a reasonable announcement schedule so that nobody gets burned out.  This site is large enough that it'll require three heralds per round to cover the site in a reasonable amount of time.
Thank you for your time.

In service,
--Master Finngall McKetterick (OP), Summits Herald-To-Be
mehli@efn.org
Or, a trskelion of armored human legs vert.
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Long and Short of It
August 8 - 10
Terra Pomaria

Terra Pomaria is graciously hosting a consult table, heraldic classes, and the Lions Blood meeting on Sunday.  Field heralds will be very welcome, and HL Ciaran Cluana Ferta will be teaching a class on field heraldry.  Other classes will be offered, as well.  Join us in making Long and Short of It a heraldic pleasure.

Event Autocrat: Arcil macRobert,( Rob Harrison). Phone: 503-668-7277 or 503-849-9390. arcil2001@yahoo.com
Co - Autocrat: Lady Daire inghean ui Chearbhaill (Linda Carroll). Phone: 503-769-7077 or 503-851-0230.  
snow_owl1@hotmail.com
Herald in Charge: Jean-Jacques Lavigne.  jean-jacques_lavigne@attbi.com


Help Wanted:
Required immediately, articles sharing morsels and platefuls of heraldic knowledge; tidbits of information on lenition and grammar; line drawings of a heraldic nature; comics and other heraldic humor; questions needing to be matched with answers; information that needs to be shared.

If you have any of these requirements, we may have a place for you in our next edition of the Heralds’ Page!

Please send your contributions to myself or Teceangl Lion’s Blood as an email attachment or to Teceangl’s address.  If you pass your contribution on as an email attachment, please write “HP article” or something similar in the subject line so that we can feel comfortable that we are opening a safe attachment.

I’m looking forward to hearing from you.

Yours In Service,

Morel Black Stag
THE AN TIR INTERNAL LETTER OF INTENT
 
Teceangl Bach
lions-blood@antir.sca.org
tierna@agora.rdrop.com		 June 27, 2003
Send thy comments here:		 Brenda Klein
5235 SE Lambert St #A-5
Portland, OR 97206-9068


Commentary on this Letter will be due August 7th, 2003.
(Send comments to Lions Blood Herald, information at top of this page)

The July Lions Blood meeting will be held on Sunday, July 13th, 1pm, at the home of Signora Francesca Testarossa dei Martini: 7425 SW Danielle Ave, Beaverton, OR; 503-654-3971 <cessa_dm@hotmail.com>  It's a good idea to bring chairs.  
Directions from the North: Take I-5 to Portland and follow the signs to I-405 and Highway 26 "Ocean Beaches".  Take the Highway 217 exit and continue to Denney Rd.  The rest of the directions are below.
From the South: Take I-5 to the Highway 217 exit and head toward Beaverton.  Take the Denney Road exit.
From Hwy 217: Take the Denney Rd. exit.  Go west on Denney until you can't go any further, roughly a mile, there's a light and a Silver Dollar Pizza. Turn left at the light onto Hall Blvd.  2 blocks to the next light, turn right on Hart.  Go through 2 stop signs.  Turn right onto the street after the second stop, which is Danielle.  3rd house on the left with a white Toyota pickup in the driveway and Francesca's banner out front - Sable, a horse's head couped and a point pointed Or.

The August Lions Blood Meeting will be held on Sunday, August 10th, 1pm, at the site of Long & Short of It in Terra Pomaria..



 Arms of Teceangl Lions Blood

Greetings from Teceangl Lions Blood!

Crayon on submission forms?  No no no no no no no!

Last week it reached 90 degrees in my mailbox.  Outside, too.  And someone mailed me a submission packet colored with crayon.  I know not whether it was wax or oil pastel, but the results of three forms colored with this thing, plus the heat, plus the mail truck and the steel mailbox, well it was not pretty.  That crayon melted.  It glued all three colored forms together as well as the name form against which the top device form was backed.  Then it melted even more and the wax/oil/goo penetrated all nine (three name, six colored device, six line) submission forms and the six pages of documentation.  And the check.  There was an oily stain on the outside of the envelope I pulled out of my mailbox.  The stamp fell off in my hand when I grabbed the envelope because the paper was too waxy for it to continue to stick.  All device forms and two of three name forms are totaled.  My mailbox, the submission forms, and now my den smells like a candle burned out in there.
When I receive submissions I take two of everything and re-send them to Laurel.  Who is in Texas.  If you think it gets warm in An Tir, you've never been in Ansteorra in summer.  Even if crayon survives into my hands, it probably won't when mailed to Laurel.  And if it melts in the Laurel packet, it endangers every other kingdom submission in that envelope.  At least one kingdom has totally banned the use of crayon on submission forms.  I'm not going there just yet, but the second a device form melts and destroys someone else's submission, I will.  For now, I'm just going to tell everyone to not use crayon.  At all.  Ever. 
Markers are cheap.  Crayola Classics go on sale for $2 US for the 10-pack quite regularly.  Prang, Rose Art and Color Gear are also inexpensive and widely available.  Marker can survive an amazing amount of disastrous situations.  Heat doesn't affect it.  Ambient damp won't wreck the color, and direct application of liquid still leaves enough color that Laurel can tell what the armory looked like when colored.  Extensive handling doesn't phase marker, but takes colored pencil and many printer inks right off the page.  Friction of pages filed together has yet to affect marker-colored forms that I've seen, and I've handled stuff 20 years old and older.
Save the pretty metallics for display.  They rub off of submission forms, or melt, or flake, or just catch the light wrong and look muddy or black instead of shining silver and gold.  Use nothing that can be felt once it's applied to the form; no paint, gel ink, pastel, etc.  About a dozen pairs of hands will be all over your forms between you submitting them and them being registered,.  Go for durability.  Nothing that can melt or get sticky belongs on a submission form.
And remember that a hot mail truck can cause actual chemical changes in the ink you use.  Printer ink is notorious for changing color when it gets too hot.  Markers, markers, markers.  If you don't own a set, ask around.  Many traveling heralds carry markers with them and are eager to share.
Do everything you can to assure that submissions you send in will survive the process and give the submitter the very best chance of a registration first time up.  I'll help you all I can.  Together we'll avoid the stupid problems that bring perfectly good submissions into the cycle of return for non-Rules circumstances.

And remember - NO CRAYONS!

Hello, my name is downpour windowpane
(or: a name is more than a random word)

A dictionary is a wonderful reference manual of words.  A modern dictionary is a lovely way to discover the meaning of words.  But dictionaries are not the best resources for documenting names, and certainly a modern dictionary is a lousy reference for period names.  Certainly in modern America we almost expect to know someone with an off-the-wall name like Rocket or Sunset, but names in most cultures covered by the SCA were not just random words selected on a parent's whim.
When attempting to document a name, first go to actual period sources.  There are a lot available online linked to www.sca.org/heraldry.  Many branch heralds and the kingdom and a great mane pursuivants-at-large keep libraries of good resources for name research.  And not only is it no failing to ask for specialized help, it is a virtue to know when you need a professional.  Heralds are specialists, like cordwainers or blacksmiths or leatherworkers.  The biggest difference is that we don't sell our skills, we give of them freely to any who asks.  So ask, and get your clients to ask.  A specialist herald can save everyone time and trouble, and they're doing it because they enjoy it.
Back to dictionaries.  Words evolve.  The word "pandemonium" was invented after the 18th century, as were "floppy" and "schizophrenic".  These words are readily found in modern dictionaries, but would be totally unregisterable in an SCA name.  Unfortunately, even more common words might have never found their way into period descriptive bynames.  But there is a rich and varied pool of descriptors that actually were used.  Old Norse was full of them, as was Middle English.  I have two books in my possession covering these languages with nicknames with meanings as diverse as 'with the hairy tuft on the end of his nose' to 'smooth-talker'.  One need not resort to speculation when one wishes a good descriptive; it might already exist in a slightly different term that we expect, or than would be used now.  Litefote is a marvelous word, dating to the 13th century as a descriptive byname.  Malait or Maleit means 'cursed'.  Swythered is a 14th century English byname meaning 'very good advice'.  Fierbrace is from the v12th century and means 'bold, fierce, proud' -arm.  (All bynames cited come from A Dictionary of English Surnames by reaney, P.H. & R.M. Wilson.)

So turn to name resources, not dictionaries, and help your clients come up with a really good descriptive that' s documented and period and not likely to be returned for lack of documentation.
An Tir results from the LoAR dated December 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:
Aíbinn ingen Shenáin hui Néill
 Name.
Brighid of Garnsey
 Name and device. Azure, five crescents in pale argent between two pallets Or.
Catríona nic Theàrlaigh
 Badge. (Fieldless) A bee statant proper.
Davin Steingrimsson
 Name.
Ealasaid inghean uí Dhomhnaill
 Name change from holding name Ealasaid of Madrone.
Geoffrey Fitz Henrie
 Name and device. Per chevron throughout sable and gules, a kraken and in chief two broad arrows inverted argent.
Gregorio Cristovalez de la Vega
 Name.
Jannet Fletcher
 Name and device. Sable, in pale a moon in her plenitude and two arrows inverted in saltire all between two pallets argent.
Nadezhda Toranova
 Badge. (Fieldless) A feather per pale Or and sable.
Wenyeva atte grene
 Name.
William Fletcher
 Name and device. Argent, in pale a sun in his splendor gules and two arrows inverted in saltire sable flighted all between two pallets vert.

RETURNED (text paraphrased, see the LoAR for definitive information):
Hans Dürrmast von der Wanderlust
 		Badge. (Fieldless) A mullet of five greater and five lesser points within and conjoined to an annulet argent.
Conflict with Alexandre sur la Mer, Azure, a compass rose argent. There's one CD for fieldlessness. Precedent holds that a compass star within an annulet has no difference from a compass rose: "There is no difference given between a compass rose and a compass star within an annulet" (LoAR June 2000). No difference is given between mullets of six or more points, so this submission's mullet of five greater and five lesser points within an annulet is heraldically equivalent to a compass star within an annulet.
RESULTS OF THE FEBRUARY LIONS BLOOD MEETING:

The following people were present at the January Lions Blood meeting or sent commentary: Marya Stepanova Kargashina, Meadhbha Dragon's Mist, Ciaran Goutte de Sang, Eglentyne Æstel, Teceangl Lions Blood, Beatrice Domenici della Campana, Earc Mountain Edge, David Electrum, Rhonwen of Wynterborne, Gwenllian Catharne, Juliana Siren, Francesca Dragon's Mist, Brighid Cold Keep, Elisabeth de Rossignol, Iago ab Adam, Rogez du Pont, Knute, Li Ban Tir Righ, Tadgg h-úa Faelan of Clan MacNessa, Emma Randall, John Kane of Kent, and Aranhwy merch Catmael.

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

Cordelia Talbot - change from
Elianor Talbot of Wynchestre

Name Change, New

Elaine Madeline de Parfondeval
Device, New
Argent, an ivy vine in orle gules.

Gawain Ivarsson
Name and Device, New
Per pale sable and Or, two pegasi combatant counterchanged.
Issues of marshalling were raised, but this device specifically avoids the appearance of marshalling via RfS XI.3.a. by using identical charges over the entire field.  Orientation is not a bar to two charges being identical, and in fact two charges on a shield often respected one another.

Jessimond of Greencrosse
Name, New

Katla in Rauðhára - change from
Reginleif  in Rauðhára
Name Change, New

Laurin of Rosewood
Badge, New
(Fieldless) On a rose argent barbed vert a cat sejant affronty sable.

Megge Gwyneth
Name and Device, New
Purpure, on a bend sinister wavy Or a triquetra palewise inverted sable.
The submitter does not accept minor changes, cares most about sound, and desires a female name. She will allow a holding name.  Although changes are restricted, the submitter specifically allows the forename to be changed to the dated form Megge if necessary.  Since the An Tir College could not find documentation for Meg, this change was made at kingdom.
Charges on a bend follow the line of the bend as though it were a pale tipped over.  Therefore, as the triquetra was not aligned with the bend but actually pointed at the base of the shield, it needed to be blazoned as palewise and inverted.

Olcan MacMeanma
Device, New
Gules, on a bend sable fimbriated between two wolves rampant an axe argent.

Treasa of Rosewood
Name, New

Violante de Myranda
Name and Device, New
Per pale argent and purpure three crescents counterchanged.
The following have been RETURNED for further work:

Aldith Gyffin

Badge, Resubmission to Kingdom
Argent, a berry plant eradicated purpure within a bordure wavy sable semy of mullets argent.
The berry plant was not identifiable as rendered.  Barring period evidence of a berry plant blasted, eradicated and fructed, it cannot be considered an acceptable charge due to its inherent unidentifiability.

Emily Mulvany
Name and Device, New
Per pale sable and gules two chalices and bordure Or.
The spelling Emily was not documentable to period; the closest documentable spelling was Emelye. As the submitter only allowed minor changes, this name had to be returned for further work.   No problems were found with the armory.

Jessimond of Greencrosse
Device, New
Or on a cross vert, a hawks leg belled and jessed Or
The cross was too large.  The device was returned for redrawing.

Magdelena Kress
Name and Device, New
Counter-ermine, a sun Or eclipsed counter-ermine and on a chief Or three fleurs-de-lis sable.
All documentation from the submitter and that the College could find supported the spelling Magdalena, while no documentation could be found for the submitted spelling.  As the submitter allowed no changes, the name had to be returned.  No problems were found with the armory.

NEW SUBMISSIONS:  

1. Ambergard, Shire of
Badge, New
 
Gules within a bordure or, a stalk of wheat.

The branch name was registered in September of 1995. This is intended as a populace badge; a note from the seneschal is included. The wheat is Or.

2. Bagsecg of Aquaterra
    for Baseke von Basel
 		Aquaterra
 Name, Resubmission to Laurel
The submitter accepts any changes, and desires a German name. The original name submission of Basecg von Basel was returned from Laurel in September of 2002 for lack of documentation for the forename as the submitter used Anne Savage's The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, which is a modern translation that does not preserve the period name spellings.
The entire name is cited from Lion's Blood's letter of return dated Dec 20, 2002, which is a direct quote from the LoAR of September 2002 quoting Hund Herald: "Bahlow under Bäsecke has Beseke (=Basilius) von der gartow from 1342 another 14th century citation of which is Baseke, Brechenmacher also has "von Basel" as submitted from 1360, thus a fully documented German 14th century name would be Baseke von Basel."  Laurel stated that the form suggested by Hund would be registerable.

3. Bronwen Elgars
 		Ambergard
 Device, New
 
Ermine, on a pile inverted cotised sable, a goutte d'or.

The submitter 's name was registered in October of 1996.

4. Ceridwen Maelwedd for
     Mything Lynx

 		Cold Keep
 Household Name, New
Badge, Resubmission to Kingdom
 
Gules, a winged lynx rampant winged and maintaining a chain or and in chief a padlock argent.

The submitter cares most about meaning and desires a household name. The submitter's primary name was registered in January of 1995.
No documentation is submitted for the household name.
The previous badge submission, Gules a lynx rampant guardant argent winged Or and in chief a heart argent within an annulet of chain fracted to base Or, was returned from kingdom in July 2002 because the heart was too black to be argent and the chain was too close to the closed loop of chain reserved for members of the Chivalry. 

5. Cerridwen yr Iachawr
 Lionsdale
 Name and Device, New
 
Per Chevron, azure and or incresent moons or a raven sable.

The submitter accepts changes, cares most about meaning, inferred to be 'Cerridwen the healer', and language/culture, and desires a feminine name authentic for 850 Welsh.  Submitter will accept a holding name.
Cerridwen was affirmed SCA compatible in this spelling on the LoAR of November 2000.
yr is cited from H.Meurig Evans, Welsh-English/English-Welsh Dictionary, as 'the'.  Copies included.
Iachawr is cited from http://www.cs.brown.edu/fun/welsh/LexiconEW.html ; 'healer-(n.) iachawr (iachawyr, m.)  No photocopies of the webpage are included.
Occupational bynames in the general sense are attested in Tangwystl verch Morgant Glasvryn, The First Thousand Years of British Names, http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystl/british1000/part2.html . Photocopies are included.
The increscent moons are Or, the raven is sable.  A posture is needed.

6. Esclarmonde de Porcairages
 Wyewood
 Badge, New
 
Purpure, a snail Or

The submitter's name was registered in June of 2001.  Lions Blood believes this to be a cant.

 7. Gabriele Silverhand
 Krakafjord
 Name and Device, New
 
Per Pale gules and vert, a hand argent and a chief argent.

The submitter accepts minor changes, cares most about sound, and desires a female name.  Submitter will accept a holding name.
Gabriele is cited from Academy of Saint Gabriel report number 2491,with photocopies provided, online at
http://panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/showfinal.cgi?2491+0, "In Italy and France, the first evidence of that we see of <Gabrielle> and other forms is in the 16th century."  The report further states that the feminine forms of Gabriel are a rather late development.  Academy of Saint Gabriel report number 448,
http://panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/showfinal.cgi?448+0, states that the use of masculine names by females was not uncommon in England in the 14th and 16th centuries.
Submitter says she has "added an "E" to feminize the masculine version of Gabriel".
Silverhand is not directly documented, however the Academy report number 448 shows the documented period byname Silverlok 'silver top'.  Reference for the byname is from Bardsley.  Copies of this report are included.

8. Hánefr Ragnarrsson
 Wealdsmere
 Name and Device, New
 
Quarterly, Pean and Or, a wolf rampant, Gules, a border quarterly Or and Pean.

The submitter accepts changes, cares most about language/culture, and desires a male name authentic to Norse/Viking. Submitter will accept a holding name.
Hánefr is cited from Geirr Bassi Haraldson, The Old Norse Name, pg. 11.
Ragnarrsson is cited from Geirr Bassi Haraldson, The Old Norse Name, pg. 14.
No further information is given from the source.

9. Isrið in glaða
 Stromgard
 Badge, New
 
(Fieldless) A fox sable mullety or, courant bend sinisterwise.

The submitter's name was registered in September of 2002.

10. Kára Bjornsdottir
 Wealdsmere
 Name and Device, New
 
Per pale sable + purpure centered a swan displayed argent + beaked between three roses proper argent, two and one.

The submitter accepts changes, cares most about language/culture, and desires a female name authentic for Norse/Viking.  Submitter will accept a holding name.
Kára is cited from Geirr Bassi Haraldson, The Old Norse Name,  pg. 12.
Bjornsdottir is cited from Geirr Bassi Haraldson, The Old Norse Name,  pg. 8.
No further information is given from the source.
The roses are argent barbed vert.

11. Lasairiona inghean Uilliam na Seoltadh
 Lions Gate
 Name and Device,
Resubmission to Kingdom
 
Per bend sinister argent and azure, two lizards in annulo counterchanged vert and Or within a bordure per bend sinister azure and argent.

The submitter accepts changes, cares most about language/culture, and desires a female name authentic to 1600's Irish.  The submitter will accept a holding name. The previous name, Lasairiona van den Ecke, was returned from Kingdom in July of 2002 for language incompatibility, being half Gaelic and half Dutch or Flemish.
The previous device, Per pale vert and purpure, a rapier between a lizard tergiant embowed and inverted argent and another tergiant embowed Or, was returned from Kingdom in July of 2002 for identifiability and arrangement issues, which this redraw addresses.
Lasairfhíona is cited from http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/mari/Annalsindex/Feminine/1201-1600.shtml ;  placing its use between 1201-1300 and 1351-1550.
Additionally, Academy of Saint Gabriel report #2594, written for the submitter, is included.  It says, "<Lasairiona> is a modern spelling of a name more commonly spelled <Lasairfhi/ona> in your period."  The letter indicates that her requested period was 1550 and 1650.
Her previous submission documented the forename from Saint Gabriel Report 1176 which says Lasairíona, also spelled Lasairfhíona, is a later-period spelling of the Irish name Lassar Fhína.  The name was "quite popular in the later Middle Ages", where the Academy cites Ó Corraín & Maguire for this information.  The report states that the spelling Lasairíona is used in modern times, but they do not know if it was used before 1600.  The report then suggests a patronymic byname in order to make the name authentic for typical Irish in the Middle Ages.  Also included is a copy of Mari Elspeth nic Bryan's article "Index of Names in Irish Annals" from the Academy of Saint Gabriel website at http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/mari/AnnalsIndex/, which shows eight women with the name Lasairíona in the Annals dating from 1239 to 1527.  The entry contains a caveat that the Annals were written from 1632 to 1636 and did not preserve the original spellings of the names contained therein.
Uilliam is cited from Academy of St. Gabriel Report # 2594, written for the submitter, which says, "<Lasairfhi/ona inghean Uilliam na Seoltadh>, "Lasairfhi/ona daughter of Uilliam of the sails," is a fine name for your period."
na Seoltadh is additionally cited from "Index of Names in Irish Annals: Masculine Descriptive Bynames" by Mari Elspeth nic Bryan, at http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/mari/AnnalsIndex/DescriptiveBynames/naSoeltadh.shtml, which says it means "(of the) Sails", and is found in 1568.
Copies of all articles and Academy correspondence have been included.  The / in a name in Academy letters indicates an accent over the preceding letter.  This indicates that Lasairfhíona is the recommended spelling.

12. Maírghréad inghean Fhaoláin
 		Blatha an Oir
 Badge, Appeal to Laurel
 
(Fieldless) A compass star per pale azure and argent.

Submitter's name was registered in November of 2002.  At that time this badge was returned by Laurel erroneously.  The submitter has allowed Lions Blood to appeal the return; the text of the return letter follows.
Unto François Laurel, Zenobia Wreath, and the members of the College of Arms, greetings from Lady Teceangl Bach, Lions Blood Herald.

This letter is to appeal the return of the submitted badge of Máirghréad inghean Fhaoláin, blazoned (Fieldless) A compass star per pale azure and argent, which was returned for conflict on the LoAR dated November 2002. 

The text of the badge return reads thusly:
Conflict with Eric Blaxton, Quarterly argent, scaly sable, and azure, a mullet of four points counterchanged azure and argent. There is a CD for changes to the field but there is no type difference between a compass star and a mullet of four points: "As neither a compass star nor a mullet of four points are period charges, and they differ only by the addition of the lesser points, there is not a CD between a mullet of four points and a compass star" (LoAR January 2001).
This return was in error because there is one CD between Eric's and Máirghréad's armory by RfS X.4.a.iii. for fieldlessness and another by X.4.d. which states, "Changing the tinctures or division of any group of charges placed directly on the field, including strewn charges or charges overall, is one clear difference."

Respectfully submitted on behalf of my client Máirghréad inghean Fhaoláin,
Lady Teceangl Bach
Lions Blood Herald in the kingdom of An Tir
On matters of appeal, the An Tir College is requested to comment on whether they support or do not support the appeal and for what reasons, which information will then be forwarded on to Laurel to aid in his decision.

13. Marguerite de Moseleia
 		Three Mountains
 Device, Resubmission to Kingdom
 
Or, a rampant lion gules, 3 sable arrows dexter, on sable chief 3 or crosses.

The submitter's name registered May 2002.  Previously submitted device, Azure, a natural dolphin haurient argent, was returned from Kingdom in February 2002 for conflict.  This is a total redesign
The field is Or, the lion gules, the arrows and chief sable, and the crosses Or.  Reblazons are appreciated.  The shield on the submission form is, indeed, distorted, but not beyond Administrative Handbook guidelines for shield size on submission forms.  Lions Blood reminds heralds to be careful when copying forms so as to not distort the shield nor cut off any of the text or checkboxes.  Missing information on forms is grounds for return.

14. Marya Kargashina
 		Three Mountains
 Device, Resubmission to Kingdom
 
Argent, goutty purpure a raven's head erased sable.

The submitter's name appears on the March 2002 An Tir LoI (Stepanova having been dropped at the submitter's request). The submitter's device was returned from Kingdom in March 2002 for improper erasing, which this redraw corrects.

15. Merouda Tremayne
 Madrone
 Badge, New
 
(Fieldless) A quatrefoil Or.

The submitter's name was registered in November of 2002.

16. Ruaidhri Lamgel
 Krakafjord
 Device, New
 
Per pale gules and vert, a gauntlet argent and a chief argent.

The submitter's name appears on the December 2002 An Tir LoI.

17. Sigismund Schmidt
 		Midhaven
 Name and Device, New
 
Lozengy argent and azure, a hound passant regardant and a chief sable.

The submitter accepts minor changes, cares most about language/culture, and desires a male name.
Sigismund is cited from Talan Gwynek, "Medieval German Given Names from Silesia", found online at http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/bahlow_v.htm , with this spelling dated c. 1400, 1412, and 1451.
Schmidt is cited from Bahlow, Hans, Deutsches Namenlexicon, pg. 451, sub. Schmidt.  The translation by Edda Gentry reads, "...the esteem in which the smith's craft has been held from the earliest timesit was regarded as being of divine originis attested, for example, by the Wieland legend. It is reported of Geiserich, King of the Vandals, that he elevated a skilled smith to the rank of count. The many subdivisions of the smiths' guild in the Middle Ages are, reflected in the FNs compounded with -schmidt."  FN being an abbreviation of forename.    The same source (Gentry trans.) s.n. Helmschmied, dates Helmsmid to 1338.  s.n. Schellschmidt dates schellensmid to 1386.  Smith appears as an independent byname in England as early as 975.

In service to An Tir,
Written by:
Marya Stepanova Kargashina

 Arms of HL Anthony Hawke HTML by:
HL Anthony Hawke, GdS
c/o Michael Dowd


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