Submission Returns by Name
The Tenure of Jaelle of Armida
Aarnimetsä, Barony of. Order name for Aarnimetsän akatemia.
This is being returned for not following our patterns for order name. The name means, in Finnish, Academy of Aarnimetsä, Aarnimetsä being the name of the barony. However as it says in RfS 2.b.ii "Some examples are: the Order of Saint Michael, the Order of Saint Maurice and Saint Lazarus, the Brethren of the Sword, the Order of the Garter, La Toison d'Or (the Order of the Golden Fleece), the Order of the Golden Rose, the Order of the Star, the Order of the Swan, La Orden de la Jara (the Knights of the Tankard), the Order of Lilies." Academy of Aarnimetsä does not follow any of the exemplars. Furthermore, they would not take changes, and all order and awards must contain a designator. RfS 2.b states "Branch names, names of orders and awards, heraldic titles, and household names must consist of a designator that identifies the type of entity and at least one descriptive element. Common designators are Shire, Barony, Guild, House, Order of the, and Herald."
Finally, we feel that it is probably too generic to register. (06/22/1999)
Aarnimetsä, Barony of. Order name for Aarnimetsän kaarti.
This is being returned for not following our patterns for order name. The name means, in Finnish, Guard of Aarnimetsä, Aarnimetsä being the name of the barony. However as it says in RfS 2.b.ii "Some examples are: the Order of Saint Michael, the Order of Saint Maurice and Saint Lazarus, the Brethren of the Sword, the Order of the Garter, La Toison d'Or (the Order of the Golden Fleece), the Order of the Golden Rose, the Order of the Star, the Order of the Swan, La Orden de la Jara (the Knights of the Tankard), the Order of Lilies." Academy of Aarnimetsä does not follow any of the exemplars. Furthermore, they would not take changes, and all order and awards must contain a designator. RfS 2.b states "Branch names, names of orders and awards, heraldic titles, and household names must consist of a designator that identifies the type of entity and at least one descriptive element. Common designators are Shire, Barony, Guild, House, Order of the, and Herald. "
Finally, we feel that it is probably too generic to register. (06/22/1999)
Aaron Whyteshade. Device. Vert, a panther's head cabossed argent incensed between two roundels echancré Or.
These aren't roundels echancré, which are roundels with three semi-circular `bites' taken out of them at equal intervals around the circumference, but rather something that no-one was able to blazon. If they had been drawn properly, we would have registered them, for while we have banned roundels enchancré, the ban doesn't take effect until July 1997. However, since these were not correctly drawn, this will have to be returned, and any resubmission which contains roundels enchancré will have to be returned since it will be after the ban takes place. (05/1997)
Abaddon Barbarossa. Name and device. Chevronnelly gules and ermine on a cross formy sable a Maltese cross Or.
The name was originally returned at Kingdom level 9/93. An appeal was made to Laurel at that time. That appeal was returned 3/94. The submitter is now appealing this return to the Board of Directors. We are also returning the name, but we will be forwarding his appeal along with the original return and commentary, and this set of information. The original return said:
No evidence was presented either in the appeal or in the commentary that the given was ever used by humans, in or out of period. As a consequence, we are unable to register it here.
The submitter said in his appeal:
First, the submitter is addressing the RfS, Name Rules, Part II.3, Invented Names, which would allow a name from a literary source (in this case, the Bible). Secondly, the Laurel return was based on the RfS Name Rules IV.2, Offensive Names (the return claiming that Abaddon is the name of a demon). The submitter argued that point that Abaddon is in fact Satan's jailer (citing the Book of Revelation), and therefore an angel such as Gabriel or Michael.
Unfortunately the submitter still has failed to provide documentation that Abaddon was a name used by human beings in period. While is it true that both Gabriel and Michael are names of angels they are also names that were used by human beings in period. While we do allow names from literature, (see next month's cover letter for a discussion on using names from period fiction), the names must be names of human beings.
Note: while the appeal addresses a return for violating our clause on offensive names, in fact the 3/94 Laurel return did not address that issue at all, and only addressed the issue of names used by human beings.
The armory is being returned for using two different types of cross in the same armory, a cross formy and a Maltese cross, therefore running afoul of the "sword and dagger" rule.
"If two charges are artistically distinct, but heraldically identical, they should not be used in the same armory. The reason for this is the raison d’etre of heraldry; instant identification. When the eye first sees a design such as , say, Sable, two lions and a Bengal tiger Or, it will be fooled for a moment into seeing three lions, or three tigers. There’ll be a moment of confusion until the eye sorts out the almost-but-not-quite-identical charges .and that confusion is exactly what we try to avoid. The charges, be it noted, need not be in a single group for confusion to arise. Sable, a sword between three primary and daggers being secondary. Nor need the charges necessarily be ‘artistic variants’ of one another, although that is the most common application of the rule: any two charges that are visually indistinct may run afoul of this policy (for instance, Sable, in pale a horseshoe and a torc Or). In general, if there’s a CD of difference between the charges, the ‘sword-dagger’ ruling won't apply: less than that, and one takes one’s chances. (Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme, Cover Letter with September 1994 LoAR, p.5)." (01/1999)
Acrisius Sospes. Name.
This is being returned for several reasons. First, for lack of documentation. While the LoI cited documentation, it did not include any, and the sources were not from the list of sources for which Laurel does not require photocopies.
Second, even if documentation had been provided, it is not clear that Acrisius is an acceptable name for use in the Society. While it is found in Greek and Roman mythology, it appears to be the name of a mythological king, and not a real person. Barring documentation that it was used by a real person, it must be returned.
Finally, while the LoI glossed Sospes as meaning lucky, the primary use of the adjective, according to Lewis and Short's Latin Dictionary, is savior, in the religious sense of the word, and therefore not appropriate for SCA usage.
The armory was registered under the holding name James of Wintermist. (09/1998)
Adam of Erin. Badge. (Fieldless) A Celtic cross argent.
This conflicts with Gormflait Suiban ni Cuallachta (SCA) Gyronny Or and azure, a Celtic cross argent, fimbriated sable., with just one CD for the field. (01/1998)
Adamastor, Shire of. Name.
Submitted as Adamastor, Shire of, from the name of the titan Adamastor. Unfortunately, no evidence was presented to show that place name were constructed from names of titans in period. It should be noted that this would - with the change of only one letter - make a fine English place name: Adamestor. Adam is one of the commonest given names in period, both in England and Scotland (Black, Surnames of Scotland, p. 7). It is well documented from the thirteenth century in the older genitive possessive form in "e" from surnames like Adamesson (Reaney, Dictionary, p. 2) and place names like Adamesplat (Smith, English Place-Name Elements, Vol. II, p. 67). Similarly, tor from the Old English torr for a "rocky peak" or "crag" is relatively common early on in the southwest and occurs elsewhere as well (Smith, op. cit., p.p. 184-185). Adam is a strong masculine noun whose Old English genitive form would be Adames (Mitchell and Robinson, A Guide to Old English, pp. 19 and 176). Thus Adamestorr or Adamestor (the latter form also appears in some Old English manuscripts with a single "r") would also have the meaning "Adam's tower". However, since the group would not allow changes, this had to be returned. Even if the group would allow changes, this would have to be returned for lack of a petition. (09/1997)
Adelaide Ehrhardt. Device. Per chevron inverted nebuly argent and sable, a demi-pegasus volant affronty, wings displayed sable and three double roses argent and sable.
The posture volant affronty has been ruled unsuitable for use in heraldry on at least two occasions (Sept. 1992 LOAR, p.48; Oct. 1992 LOAR p.23) on the grounds that it is "inherently unidentifiable". While in those case the returns involved birds, we feel that the case is just as strong for monsters. (02/1998)
Adina von der Heide. Device change. Per bend azure and paly bendy purpure and argent, in sinister chief a salamander Or enflamed proper.
This is being returned for conflict with Ardis Bluemantle (SCA) (Fieldless) A lizard tergiant Or. There is one CD for the difference in fields. Since Ardis' badge is fieldless there is nothing for position. Therefore, the only possible difference could come from the flames. The submitter has drawn the salamander properly with small goutes of flame coming off it. Unfortunately, of the eight goutes of flame, five were solid gules, and three were solid Or. Therefore, if the goutes are significant enough to count for difference, this would have to be returned for breaking tincture. If the submitter resubmits with argent flames, we would consider granting a difference. (09/1996)
Adriana Menteith. Device. Per chevron wavy purpure mullety argent and vert, in base a unicorn passant argent.
This is being returned for a redraw. The wavy line of division is almost invisible. Furthermore, the line of division needs to divide the field more evenly. (09/1997)
Adriana O'Connor of Castlereagh. Device. Argent, on a bend gules between a harp vert and a rose slipped and leaved bendwise proper, a lightning bolt argent.
This conflicts with Ceridwen of Esterfen "Argent, on a bend gules a cat sejant affronty palewise argent. There is a CD for adding the secondaries, but Adriana's device is not a simple case, since she has two dissimilar secondaries so there is nothing for changing the type only of the tertiary. (09/1998)
Adriana of Hawkwood. Badge. Ermine, a rainbow proper clouded azure.
This is in conflict with badge of Barony of Sundragon, Per fess argent and azure, a rainbow gules argent azure Or and purpure, clouded argent." , with one CD for change of field, and nothing for change of color of the clouds, or for adding an additional band on the rainbow. (03/1997)
Aelesia Emelyne Couchur. Device. Azure a chevron embattled Or.
This conflicts with Aleksandr Morekhodov Azure, a chevron embattled Or between two compass stars elongated to base argent and a sea-dragon erect contourny Or., There is only one CD for adding the secondaries. (07/1998)
AElfgifu Haraldsdottir. Badge. (Fieldless) A dolphin haurient head to chief azure, maintaining in it's mouth an acorn proper.
This conflicts with the arms of Dauphin, Prince of France Or, a dolphin haurient azure finned gules., with the only CD for fieldlessness. (12/1997)
Ælfstan Fæstenwulfe. Household name. Hælendgeard
This is being returned for lack of documentation on the household name. Additionally, the LoI glossed it as meaning sacred or healing enclosure. No documentation was presented to show that follows our exemplars for household names. (04/1999)
Ælfstan Fæstenwulfe. Name.
This is being returned for lack of documentation on the byname. The armory was registered under the holding name Ælfstan of Calontir. (04/1999)
Aelfthryth of Saxony. Badge. (Fieldless) An ear of wheat and a straight trumpet in saltire argent.
This is being returned for a redraw. The ear of wheat is not identifiable as an ear of wheat, or any other charge. (10/1998)
Aelric of Battle. Device. Per bend sinister sable and gules, a wyvern erect, wings addorsed, argent.
This is being returned for conflict with Brychan Tammas (SCA) Gyronny Or and azure, a dragon segreant argent. There is one CD for the field, but nothing for the difference between a wyvern erect and a dragon segreant. (07/1996)
Ælric of Coventree Grove. Household Name for House Realmsedge and badge.
These are both being returned for lack of paperwork. The forms were never received by the Laurel office. Additionally, if the forms had been received we would have to return the name for non-period style. No documentation was provided, and no one in the College could provide any for any of the exemplars that we model our household names after, for household names formed using Realm as an element. (03/1998)
Aeneas Oakhammer. Device. Vert, on a bend argent a sheaf of arrows inverted sable, in sinister chief a sprig of oak leaves fructed argent.
While the field was blazoned on the LoI as vert, it was actually halfway between azure and vert. Since we register the emblazon, not the blazon, this must be returned for not being clearly one color or another. (11/1997)
Áengus ó Fearghail. Device. Argent, a saltire sable between four thistles proper.
This is in conflict with Duncan Bog Cameron (SCA) Argent, between four piles conjoined in saltire azure, as many thistles proper. As the piles, as drawn, formed a saltire thar was only barely formy. Thus there was no difference given between the piles and the saltire, making the only difference between the two submissions the tincture of the saltire. (11/1996)
Aeruin ní ó Chonemara. Badge. [Fieldless] On a feather palewise argent, a rose surmounted by a crown sable.
This is being returned for exceeding our registration limit of four. She already has four pieces of armory registered to her: Per chevron inverted sable and vert, a Grey Heron displayed argent, beaked and membered Or, and in chief a compass star gules, fimbriated argent., Per chevron inverted sable and vert, in chief a compass star gules, fimbriated, and in base two heron's heads, couped at the shoulders, respectant argent, beaked and crested Or., Per pale ermine and counter-ermine, an eagle displayed maintaining in its talons a sword bendwise and a coin, all within a bordure counterchanged sable and argent., and (Fieldless) A popinjay contourny proper, perched atop a trumpet fesswise reversed Or. To register another piece of armory, she will have to release one of the above. (12/1996)
Aeschine nic Leoid na Ceann Loch na Dallach. Name change from Kateryn of Blackwater.
There are several problems with this name. First this name mixes Gaelic and non-Gaelic names the same name, which is against our rules. The forename, Aeschine, is somewhat obscure, but it apparently isn't Gaelic, and therefore cannot be used in a Gaelic name. Furthermore, the place-name is neither grammatical nor normal period Gaelic locative formation. We have no late period examples of place names formed in this manner, and the grammar of this kind of genitive construction seems to have changed in the modern language, so it is difficult to know how to form any but a simple, early byname of this type. It is certain, however, that na Ceann Loch na Dallach is ungrammatical: the first na makes no sense at all. There is also a question about dallach. It doesn't appear to be correct modern or early Gaelic; our best guess is that it should be dalach, the genitive of dail `field, haugh, land in a bend of a river', but we can't be sure. We evidently have available an Anglicized form of the locative (Kean Loch na Dallach); we have yet to see any evidence that Gaelic even formed locatives from complex place names such as this; why don't we try this in an English context. Now nic Leoid just might pass as Anglicized, given that Black mentions a Torquil M'Leoid de Leohus in 1338, which certainly isn't a Gaelic context. It's hard to say whether nic would stay precisely -- we've got Nyk showing up in the 16th century, but nothing really to go by any earlier. We can work further on the place name from several angles in Black. There's Kinloch, identical to the first two elements -- the medieval forms have an unnerving tendency to insert an epenthetic -de- between the two elements (e.g. Kindelough 1202) but we think this is partly an artifact of the stress pattern, for we don't see it in the following Kinlochie (e.g. Kenlochy 1438). Now, under various Loch-X names, we see that the Anglicized forms tend to run the whole together as a single word, e.g. Lochmalony (1391). We see the same tendency in place names in Johnston (PNS) such as Kenlochrannoch (1532). Taking the na Dallach part in the original as being Anglicized, which is certainly plausible, we can come up with something like Kenlochnadallach for a whole along the lines of Aeschine nic Leoid of/de Kenlochnadallach, for a fully Anglicized form of the name. (04/1997)
AEthelmearc, Kingdom of. Acceptance of transfer of badge from Connor M'Eleam. (Fieldless) A millrind argent.
This is being returned for violating the procedures set forth in the Administrative Handbook. The Administrative Handbook, IV.C.6, states: Any submission involving the transfer of a registered item from one individual or branch to another must include both a statement from the owner authorizing the transfer and a statement from the recipient accepting the transferred material. There was no transfer on the LoI, there was no letter of acceptance from AEthelmearc, and no letter of transfer from Connor. (06/1998)
AEthelmearc, Kingdom of. Badge for Equestrian Guild. Gules, a single-headed chess knight reversed argent.
This conflicts with Keriane St John of Shaddoncarraig Purpure, a horse's head erased to sinister argent., with one CD for the difference in the fields. The single-headed chess knight is not a period charge. Therefore difference is based on a visual comparison. The details of the chess knight’s base are the only difference, and are too trivial to be significant. (05/1999)
AEthelmearc, Kingdom of. Order name for Order of the Sylvan Nightingale and badge. (Fieldless) A rose leaf inverted Or distilling a goutte de sang.
The order name is being returned for not following the requirements of the rules for order names. The moreso since the definition for "sylvan" being relied upon as being period appears to make the word a noun rather than an adjective. RfS III.2.b.ii. requires that "Names of orders and awards must follow the patterns of the names of period orders and awards. These are often the names of saints; others are similar to sign names (see RfS III.2.a.iii). Some examples are: the Order of Saint Michael, the Order of Saint Maurice and Saint Lazarus, the Brethren of the Sword, the Order of the Garter, La Toison d'Or (the Order of the Golden Fleece), the Order of the Golden Rose, the Order of the Star, the Order of the Swan, La Orden de la Jara (the Knights of the Tankard), the Order of Lilies." None of the exemplars use two nouns in a row without a conjunction.
The badge is being returned for nonreproducibility. No blazon could be constructed that would adequately reproduce the emblazon. (05/1999)
Agnarr Skulason. Device. Quarterly sable and gules, in fess a sword inverted and a drinking horn argent.
This is being returned for breaking RfS XI.3., which states that "Armory that appears to marshall independent arms is considered presumptuous." The rule goes on to note that such marshalled fields "may be used with identical charges over the entire field, or with complex lines of partition or charges overall that were not used for marshalling in period heraldry." Additionally, "Charged sections must all contain charges of the same type to avoid the appearance of being different from each other." Since two different charges are used on the two sides of the palar line, this looks like the marshalled arms of Per fess sable and gules a sword inverted argent, impaled with Per fess gules and sable a drinking horn argent.
A similar return was made 6/96 in the case of Yves le Chat Blanc when Master Da'ud as Laurel returned Per pale sable and ermine, in canton a domestic cat's face argent, a bordure counterchanged argent and sable., and said
"This falls afoul of RfS XI.3., which states that "Armory that appears to marshall independent arms is considered presumptuous." The rule goes on to note that such marshalled fields "may be used with identical charges over the entire field, or with complex lines of partition or charges overall that were not used for marshalling in period heraldry." The use of a counterchanged bordure here is not used in the usual way of an overall charge (indeed, bordures were, and are, used in a number of countries for cadencing), and serves in no way to lessen the appearance of marshalling. Indeed, the fact that the bordure is not counterchanged of the field only serves to accent the appearance of the dimidiation of two independent coats, Sable, in chief two cat's faces, a bordure argent and Ermine, a bordure sable.". (08/1998)
`Afra' bint Tamir alSahrahwayyiah. Device. Vert, a fess sable fimbriated, overall a mosque, in canton a decrescent Or.
This is being returned for lack of documentation. We can find no indication that a mosque has ever been registered before in the SCA. As a consequence, this would be the defining instance of the charge. Previous Laurel Sovereigns of Arms have returned items for lack of documentation, c.f. a winch (Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme, LoAR 9/92, p. 42), a Mongol helm (Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme, LoAR 12/92, p. 15), a zalktis (Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme, LoAR 1/93, p. 28) and a Viking tent arch (Da'ud ibn Auda, LoAR 5/94, p17). Therefore, we need evidence that this depiction of a mosque is a period depiction before we can decide if it is a registerable charge. (09/1997)
Agravaine Rhiwallon. Device. Azure, two wolves rampant addorsed each brandishing a flamberge argent between in pale a sun argent eclipsed sable and a chevron rayonny on the upper edge argent.
This submission is being returned for style. There are many non-period elements to this submission, the combination of them push it over the edge. These include: using the chevron abased as a secondary charge, using a complex line of division other than embattled on just the upper edge, and the SCA style of eclipsing of the sun. (07/1996)
Ahbel of Regnesfolc. Name and device. Azure, two spears in saltire, in chief three bells two and one, all Or.
The name is being returned for lack of documentation for Regnesfolc. According to the LoI it is a registered household name. However, that does not mean that the submitter can use it. Household names, unlike official SCA group names, are not automatically acceptable for SCA name usage. Please inform the submitter that barring documentation that Ahbel is a period form of Abel it is not registerable.
The armory is being returned for a redraw. The primary charges are not recognizable as spears; they are too short, too round, with too large a cross-piece too close behind. They are not in fact recognizably anything that we could reblazon. (08/1998)
Aidan MacEgan. Device. Argent semy of millrinds fesswise sable, an axe azure and a dragon's tongue gules in saltire.
This is being returned for the use of a dragon's tongue, which is not an acceptable charge. In the return of Aaron Clearwater, August, 1992. Bruce, as Laurel said:
"The one registration of a `dragon's tongue' in the SCA, back in 1973, does not make it an identifiable charge. Nor does it seem in keeping with period armory: tongues were not used as charges, so far as I know."
Barring evidence that this charge was used in period it must be returned. (06/1998)
Ailig a'mire. Name and device. Per chevron sable and Or, a lymphad, oars in action, sail furled, sable, a beacon atop the mast enflamed and pennons gules.
The name has several problems. No documentation was provided, and none could be found for Ailig as a period given name, although it is used today to translate Alex. Period forms of Alexander include Alusdar and Alastar. As for the byname, it does not mean flirt and in fact is not personal word at all, but is an abstract word. Depending on the context, it can mean "sport", "sporting", "levity", "fury", "rage", frenzy", etc. The proper form of the adjective, which would not suffer lenition, the name would then be Mear. If the noun form is used, the article would not be used, so it would become Mire. However, we feel that this is to great a change to make without consulting with the submitter and we are returning this.
The device conflicts with Otto the Confused Per fess wavy argent and barry wavy azure and argent, a galleon proper sails set sable., with one CD for change to the field. (10/1997)
Ailith of Sarum. Name.
Unfortunately, Sarum is not the OE name for Salisbury, but rather is a ghost name. In manuscripts the Latin Saresberia was abbreviated to something that looks rather like Sa4. This was 'merely an early manifestation of the medieval scribe's habit of abbreviating such letters as ended in a horizontal stroke by means of a vertical stroke through this', but because the resulting symbol (represented here by 4) 'frequently stands for rum', the abbreviation has been improperly extended to Sarum (Johnson & Jenkinson, 67). The contemporary form of the name can be seen in William de Salesberie (1115) and Robert de Salisbyr' (1273). Clearly Old Sarum must then have been called something like Old Salisbury; Old Sarum seems to be an antiquary's name for the older ruins, based on a misreading of the medieval records. Since the submitter does not allow changes, we are forced to return this name. (11/1997)
Ailred Mac Pìoba An Thòrra Dhuibh. Household name for Cinneadh Pìoba and badge. Ermine, a wyvern volant wings elevated vert, bellied and winged gules, breathing flames proper, playing a set of bagpipes sable.
This is being returned for lack of paperwork. Additionally the household names shares some of the construction problems with the submitted name. (01/1998)
Ailred Mac Pìoba An Thòrra Dhuibh. Name and device. Ermine, a wyvern volant wings elevated vert, bellied and winged gules, breathing flames proper, playing a set of bagpipes and a tower issuant from base sable.
This is being returned for mixing English and Gaelic orthography in the same name. Ailred is the name of an abbot of Rievaulx, but it is an English name. The closest Gaelic form would be Ailearán. The byname needs some work. As the letter of intent indicates, the first element means "son of a bagpipe", not "son of a piper". To get "piper", you have to use pìobair, which is a masculine noun indeclinable in the singular (Calder, A Gaelic Grammar, p. 85). As the occupationals normally use an article which will cause lenition in the following masculine genitive, the phrase should be mac a’ phìobair (ibid., pp. 29 and 101). The initial consonant in torr does not lenite (ibid., p. 29). Genitive singular adjectives do lenite (ibid., p. 30). If the byname he actually wants is "son of the piper of the Black Tower", he is looking at something like mac a’ phìobair as an Tòrra Dhuibh. Or for an all English form he could be Ailred Piper of Blacktower. Since either form would be a major change, we are returning the name to let the submitter choose the form he wishes.
The armory is being returned for conflict. As emblazoned, the wyvern is more than 50% gules, which brings it into conflict with the Shire of Drachensheim Or, a dragon passant gules, atop and its tail entwined about a tower sable., and Reinald FitzAlbert de la Tour Phenix (SCA) Ermine, issuant from a ruined tower sable a phoenix gules enflamed of flames proper. In the first case there is one CD for the field, but nothing for tincture of the wyvern or for position. In the second case there is a CD for type of one of two primary charges , but again nothing for type or position. (01/1998)
Aíne inghean Cillín. Badge. (Fieldless) A heart Or.
This conflicts with Karl von Schattenburg (Fieldless) A seeblatt Or. We give no difference between a heart and a seeblatt, leaving the only difference the one for fieldlessness.
Additionally, the heart shape was used to display armory, making this the equivalent of Or, and we do not register plain tinctured fields. (06/22/1999)
Aislinn the Faeire. Name and device. Purpure, a dragonfly argent and a gore argent estencely purpure.
The name combines Gaelic and English orthography in the same name. The Anglicized forms of Aislinn would be Alice or Elsha. Normally we would make the name all Gaelic or all English, but in this case we are not sure which element is more important to the submitter, so we are returning the name so the submitter can decide. The device is being returned for breaking our ban on charged gores which were banned effective March 1992. Estencely is a semy of sparks, and we consider semy of anything as a group of charges, and not a field treatment. (09/1997)
Aislinne of Alainmor. Household name for Cinneadh Tallai Beinn.
The household name was supposed to be Gaelic for "Clan of the Mountain Hall", though it was incorrectly constructed. More importantly, this follows none of the period models for household names. Possible models include Scottish clans (Clan Stewart), ruling dynasties (House of Anjou), professional guilds (Baker's Guild of Augsburg, Worshipful Company of Coopers), military units (The White Company), and inns (House of the White Hart). (01/1997)
Alameda de los Leones Marcela Viscamo Hidalgo Marques y Torres. Name.
In discussing the return of this name, I can do no better than to quote Fause Losenge:
I'll deal first with the individual elements, then with the construction. The common noun alameda actually refers to a grove of poplar trees, though it now implies a mall or public walk. As should be evident from its derivation, the name Alameda is a place-name (and therefore also a surname), not a given name. The phrase de los Leones `of the lions' cannot possibly be a confirmation name: such a name would certainly have Christian significance and would normally be an attribute of the Virgin. The name de la Luz mentioned in the LoI is a good example, since in Spanish Mary is sometimes known as Nuestra Señora de la Luz `Our Sister of the Light' (Tibón s.n. Luz). To the best of my knowledge she has never been referred to as `of the Lions'. Marcela is probably a legitimate feminine given name, though Tibón has nothing closer than Marsella among modern names. He makes this a variant of Marselia, which is from Latin Marcilia, a gentilicium derived from Marcus; given the pronunciation of Spanish ll as (approximately) ly, this is a reasonable derivation. However, Marcella was the feminine form of common Latin cognomen, and it is in record in the vicinity of Marseille c.800 (Morlet, I:74a). In Spanish the Latin ll was normally palatalized to modern Spanish ll, so its appearance didn't change, but in Portuguese it became simple l. Thus, in Old Spanish the name Marcella would most likely have become Marçella (pronounced roughly `mar-TSEL-ya'), but in some dialects it could have become simple Marçela (`mar-TSEH-la'), of which Marcela would be a possible late-period spelling.
I suspect that Viscamo is an error for Vizcaíno `Biscayan; one from the area around the Bay of Biscay'. According to the EB, the Spanish merchant Sebastián Vizcaíno sailed along the California coast in 1602 and named several places, including San Diego, and it seems likely that he is the `Spanish explorer in 1603' mentioned in the LoI. Hidalgo was a term referring to social standing; its precise significance is argued, but the general sense was (and is) `noble, of noble descent'. It appears as a byname quite early, e.g., (in the Portuguese rather than the Spanish form) Johannes Fidalgo 1220 (Kremer, VI:141). (The Spanish spelling for the common noun is attested at least by 1484 (ibid., 124).) It's not on the Alternate Titles List, it doesn't imply more than basic noble standing, and it's attested as a byname, so there shouldn't be any problem registering it. Marques is an old patronymic from Latin Marcus; Díez Melcón (153) cites Goncalo Marques 1281. Torres appears to be a plural variant of (de la) Torre `(of the) Tower'; the singular form is noted by Díez Melcón (281) in the name Pedro Torre 1185, and WGD notes that the Torres Strait was discovered in 1606 by a Spanish navigator surnamed Torres.
The construction of the name is highly suspect. I've already pointed out that it lacks a given name and that the so-called confirmation name has the wrong form. The term confirmation name is probably wrong in any case: so far no one has presented any evidence for this practice in period. According to Tibón, names like Dolores and Concepción, originally attributes of the Virgin, were used in place of María, which for several centuries was considered too holy for general use; they were used as ordinary given names, not as special confirmation names. The use of four surnames is almost certainly post-period. There are a few period examples of the X y Y type of double surname, though as I recall all of them involve royalty or the very highest nobility; apparently the form was originally adopted in order to display two territorial inheritances, though it later acquired a more specifically genealogical significance. All of the available evidence indicates that use of all four grandparental surnames is a post-period phenomenon. If memory serves, the longest period Spanish name that anyone in the College has so far found has only five elements, three forenames and two surnames, and it's the only one of that length. Most documented period Spanish and Portuguese names have no more than three elements, often <forename> <patronymic> de <place-name>, though of course other patterns are also found. RfS III.2.a (Personal Names) sets four elements as a rule-of-thumb limit on the number of name elements in a period name (except in Arabic, where documented exceptions are rather easy to find), and current Laurel precedent makes this a strict limit for English, French, German, and Italian names.
The only element here that could serve as given name is Marcela, which should be acceptable. Alameda is a fine topographical byname; if people already call her Alameda, I recommend that she make the name Marcela Alameda. The element de los Leones is questionable even as a byname: the (relatively rare) names of this form refer either to hunters (Salvador de las Corzas 1172 `of the roe-deer') or to animal handlers (Rodrigo de los Mulos, probably 13th c.) (Kremer, III:149,151). Lions were not, I suspect, normal articles of commerce, and in Spain it seems unlikely that they were normal objects of the hunt, either. Any of Vizcaíno, Hidalgo, Marques, and Torres could reasonably make another surname, but now we have a problem. In the examples of double surnames that I have seen (apart from the largely post-period X y Y construction), the first surname is always patronymic. If she wants to keep Alameda, she'll probably have to push it further back in the name: Marcela Marques Alameda, for instance, would be fine. A triple surname, being so far unattested so far as I know, would probably require documentation.
The armory was registered under the holding name Julie of Tirnewydd. (04/1997)
Alan Fairfax Aluricson. Augmentation of Arms. Bendy sinister gules and Or, on a canton sable an annulet Or.
Since the unaugmented device was returned, we must return the augmented version as well. Note that this does not match the submitter’s current device. (02/1999)
Alan Fairfax Aluricson. Device change. Bendy sinister gules and Or, a canton sable.
No paperwork was received for this submission. (02/1999)
Alan Fairfax Aluricson. Device change. Bendy sinister Or and gules, for augmentation on a canton sable an annulet Or.
Per the precedent of Bruce as Laurel King of Arms:
Augmentations in Society armory should always be blazoned as such; the bearer has the option of displaying the armory with or without the augmentation, and conflict should be checked against both versions. (Rondallyn of Golgotha, September, 1992, pg. 26)
The base coats conflicts with Eustace FitzJames Bendy sinister embattled Or and gules., with one CD for the embattling. (04/1998)
Alana Cleary. Name
On the June 1996 LoAR cover letter, Alanna was ruled non-acceptable for SCA usage barring period evidence of its use.
The armory was registered under the holding name Lauren Cleary. (12/1998)
Alane of Ellerslie. Badge. (Fieldless) A lacy knot Or.
This conflicts with the badge of the Lacy family, (Tinctureless) A Lacy knot., protected on this LoAR. There is one CD for tincturelessness. (01/1998)
Alane of Ellerslie. Device. Sable, a lacy knot Or.
This conflicts with the badge of the Lacy family, (Tinctureless) A Lacy knot., protected on this LoAR. There is one CD for tincturelessness. (01/1998)
Alaric the Amazed. Name.
As was noted in the 4/94 return of Deirdre the Distracted (Ansteorra), no evidence has been presented to show that fairly abstract past participles like this were used as nicknames in period. Lacking such evidence, we must return the name. (05/1997)
Alaric von Königsburg. Household name for Brotherhood of the Lions of the Cross.
No documentation was provided, and noone could come up with any, for period confraternities, guilds or knightly orders with names of this styles. Barring such evidence, we are forced to return this name. (07/1997)
Alaric von Thurn. Device. Per chevron throughout invected Or estoilly and sable, in base a hawk displayed wings inverted, head to sinister, argent.
This is being returned for two reasons. First the bird, as colored is not truly white, but rather white marked sable, with so much sable it looks medium grey, not black. The contrast problem is heighten because the field is not colored black, but rather dark grey. The invects on the chevron need to be drawn bigger and bolder. (04/1997)
al-Azar Lucero. Device. Or, on a sun sable a decrescent Or, a bordure sable.
This is being returned for conflict with the Ensign of the Kingdom of Ansteorra Or, a mullet of five greater and five lesser points within a bordure sable. However, even if there hadn't been a conflict, this would be returned for violating RfS VII.7.b., "Reconstruction Requirement - Elements must be reconstructible in a recognizable form from a competent blazon." The blazon in the LoI does not adequately reproduce the emblazon, and we cannot devise a blazon that we believe would adequately reproduce it. The moon must be very carefully placed at a slight angle and along the curve of the sun's disk to recreate the emblazon. "Armorial designs requiring such careful placement or specific charge sizes to 'work' or to avoid contrast problems have been returned in the past as not being period style." (Da'ud ibn Auda, LoAR December 1994.) (08/1998)
al-Barran, Barony of. Order name for Order of the Watch and Ward.
This is being returned for lack of documentation for the Order name. Watch and Ward is a conceptual term, denoting a particular type of feudal service. It cannot be considered in any way as a synonym for a sentinel. Naming patterns for medieval orders used physical objects, not abstractions. (02/1999)
Albrecht von Salzburg. Device. Azure a chevron between three vols argent.
This conflicts with Beorn Collenferth (SCA) Azure, a chevron between a harp, an axe reversed and a sabre-toothed tiger statant argent., and Angela of the Stoney Oak Forest (SCA) Azure, a chevron between two acorns and an oak leaf argent. In each case there is just one CD for changing the type of all of the single group of secondary charges. (01/1998)
Albreda of the Broken Wire. Name
No documentation was presented and none could be found by the College for of the Broken Wire as a byname. Please inform the submitter that if she wants a name that implies she is a harper, Reaney and Wilson's A Dictionary of English Surnames., p. 218, lists a Robert le Harper in 1186, a Reginald le Harper" in 1275, and (under Harp), a Ralf Harpe in 1241. (12/1998)
Albyn Buckthorne. Badge. (Fieldless) A pale within and conjoined to an annulet embattled on the inner edge sable.
This is being returned for unidentifiability. Members of the College had severe problems in trying to decipher what the charge was. (01/1998)
al-durr al-jabal al-mukhfi. Name change from Dur of Hidden Mountain.
This is being returned for lack of documentation for the submitted name. The submitter has been trying to submit variations of this name for a number of years. The most recent incarnation of this name (Dur al Jabal abu Neefa min al-Machfi Jabal Bey al-Ferrangi) was returned in the LoAR of December 1995, p. 17, for multiple reasons, some of which apply to the submission at hand. That return, in relevant part, states:
"here are several problems with the name. ... (3) Durr is `pearls', not `pearl'; the singular is durra. More important, it isn't an ism, though it may occur as part of a laqab (cognomen or epithet). ... (5) No one was able to support machfi, apparently intended to mean `hidden', though Laurel found mikhbaye and mah'ba glossed as `hiding place'. Moreover, we have no documentation for the construction of the phrase al-Machfi Jabal, which does not appear to match that of attested locative bynames....
In short, the name is incorrectly constructed, inadequately documented, and presumptuous (as presumption is defined in the Rules for Submissions); since he permits no changes, each of these problems would by itself be sufficient grounds for return. (LoAR December 1995, p. 17)"
Finally, and of vital importance to this submission, the LoAR stated that "Any future submission along these lines should be accompanied by adequate documentation for all of the elements and for the grammatical constructions used...." (Ibid.) Based on the information in the LoI, this has not been done.
al-Jamal says in his commentary:
"Annemarie Schimmel, Islamic Names, p. 46, cites Shajarat ad-Durr (d. 1250) as a feminine name. (She was the first Sultana of the Bahri Mamluks, who overthrew the last of the Ayyubid rulers in Egypt and established the Mamluk dynasty.)
Jaschke’s English-Arabic Conversational Dictionary
p. 321 — durr = pearls, durra = a pearl
p. 333 — jabal = mountain (jibal = mountains)
no citation for mukhfi
p. 214 — hide = khabba, hiding place = mikhbayi
Elias English-Arabic Dictionary Romanized (which documents a different dialect of Arabic than Jaschke)
p. 152 — pearl = luli’ya
p. 93 — hide = hab’bi (hab’ba); hiding place = mah’ba, mahabi (all with a stressed "h")
Finally, the overall construction does not match Arabic practices in forming geographical bynames (what he apparently is trying for is the Arabic form of "Dur of Hidden Mountain"). The name as constructed, were the individual elements correct (which they are not), would be translated as "hidden mountain pearl", not "pearl of hidden mountain".
The bottom line? The submitter does not have a given name in the submitted form (as noted in the LoI), has not shown the use of durra (pearl; or durr, pearls) as a name element for men, and still has not documented either the name as a whole or the individual elements. This last affects his "alternative forms" as well. Nor has he followed the explicit instructions given by Pelican in the last return regarding "adequate documentation for all of the elements and for the grammatical constructions used". Nor can I find support for the name as a whole or for the individual elements (besides jabal, mountain) in any of my books.
Based on al-Jamal's commentary we are returning this name for lack of documentation. (05/1999)
Aleksina Dominova Bystrycha. Device. Gyronny argent and azure, four annulets interlaced in cross, all within an annulet Or.
This is being returned for violating the long-standing precedent of using two different sizes of the same charge on the field. (03/1998)
Aleksina Dominova Bystrycha. Device. Gyronny azure and argent, four annulets interlaced in cross Or.
This conflicts with Eilis ni Roibeard O'Boirne, (Tinctureless) A quatrefoil knot. There is one CD for the field, but nothing for tincture against tinctureless armory and nothing for the difference in the knots. (12/1996)
Aléna Széllvár. Name.
Hungarian practice is to put the given name after the surname, which practice was not followed here. Without evidence of Hungarian's using the standard practice of given name surname, and since the client will not take changes, the submission will have to be returned.
Furthermore, the documentation on Széllvár comes from Hanks and Hodges, which is not a reliable source. If the submitter wishes to use that surname, better documentation will need to be provided. (08/1996)
Alesia Gillefalyn. Badge. (Fieldless) A lion courant guardant Or holding in its mouth a rose purpure slipped and leaved vert.
This conflicts with Conrad von Hammerbourg, Per chevron rayonny sable and gules, in base a catamount herissony proper., with one CD for fieldlessness, but nothing for position against a fieldless badge, and nothing for the minor change in position. (05/1998)
Alessandra Raffaela di Luciano. Alternate name of Zahara min Shammar.
This is being returned because the byname is improperly constructed. This same construction was returned 8/93 (Numira al Nasifa Bint Abdullah min Dimashq, Atenveldt); at the time Laurel noted that while min Dimashq 'out of Damascus' may be grammatically correct, the normal Arabic idiom would be al-Dimashqi 'the Damascene'; this error was a contributing factor in the return. Assuming that Shammar is a legitimate place-name or tribal name, the masculine byname should be al-Shammari and the feminine, wanted here, al-Shammariyya. The name is probably fine as Zahra al-Shammariyya and may be all right as Zahara al-Shammariyya. However, the prepositional construction with min has no example in the available corpus of Arabic names. Since this change is greater than we feel comfortable making, we are returning the name. (09/1997)
Aletheia Isidora of Philae. Device. Azure, on a pale endorsed argent a lotus affronteé azure.
This conflicts with Muireann á Dùn na Tráighe Céiene Azure, on a pale endorsed argent, three lozenges azure., with one CD for the changes to the tertiaries. (04/1998)
Alexander de Seton of Altavia. Badge. (Fieldless) On a seahorse erect maintaining a lochaber axe azure, a heart gules fimbriated argent.
This is being returned for the fimbriation of the heart. RfS VIII.3. notes that "Voiding and fimbriation may only be used with simple geometric charges placed in the center of the design." While a heart is simple enough to fimbriate as a sole primary charge, as a tertiary it is so small as to lose identifiability when fimbriated. (04/1999)
Alexander Kallikanzaros. Name.
This is being returned for violating RfS VI.2. Names Claiming Powers.
"Names containing elements that allude to powers that the submitter does not possess are considered presumptuous.
Society names may not claim divine descent, superhuman abilities, or other powers that the submitter does not actually possess. Such claims include divine patronymics, like Vulcanson; epithets peculiarly associated with divinities or superhuman beings, such as of the Valkyrie; given names that were never used by humans, like the names of some Giants or Dwarves in Norse mythology; or descriptive epithets like Worldblaster."
According to the submitter's own documentation, "the Callicantzari were originally not demons but menmen who either voluntarily or under the compulsion of a kind of madness chose or were forced to assume the shape and the character of beasts." A functional equivalent to this would be Alexander the Werewolf. Assuming the shape or character of a beast is not a power (we hope) that the submitter possesses. The armory was registered under the name of Alexander of Darach. (06/1997)
Alexandra de la Pomerai. Device. Or, an apple tree eradicated fructed proper, a bordure azure.
This conflicts with Katerine of Willowmere Or, a willow proper and a base wavy azure.," with a CD for changing the peripheral, but nothing for changing the type of tree (02/1998)
Alexis the Dragonslayer. Name.
This is being returned for non-period construction; no one could demonstration the formation --slayer. Reaney (Origin, 280) has 11th c. English citations for Stichehert "kill hart", Stikestac "kill stag", and Stikehare "kill hare". On p. 283 he adds Prykkelove "prick, kill wolf" 1296 and Hachewolf "hack wolf" 1297. And on p. 288 he has Prikehurt "prick, kill hart" 1208 and Quelhoxe "kill ox" 1288 (from ME quelle "kill"). A late OE Stikewyrm or a 13th c. Prykkeworm, Hacheworm, or Quelworm would follow period models. (11/1996)
Alfred of Greyvale. Device. Sable, on a chevron argent between in chief a sword fesswise grasped at either end by a gauntlet and in base a triple-towered castle Or, three flames gules.
This is being returned for violation our rules on slot machine, with three different types of charges (glove, sword and castle) in the same group. Furthermore, this needs a redraw. The castle as drawn is not a single unit, but a number of discreet parts. (09/1997)
Alfredo Gabriel Halcón. Badge. (Fieldless) A sword Or perched on its quillons two falcons rising respectant wings elevated and addorsed gules.
This conflicts with Dmitrii Volkovich A sword Or. The only CD is the one for fieldlessness. (04/1998)
Alfric von Hallenburg. Device. Per bend sinister vairy gules and Or and sable, an antelope rampant argent.
This is in conflict with Athena Catarina of Windcrest (SCA) Azure, an antelope rampant argent., with only one CD for changes to the field. (07/1997)
Aliena Goodeve. Device. Azure mullety Or, a unicorn rampant argent charged on the shoulder with an increscent gules, a demi-sun issuant from base Or.
This is being returned for a redraw. This needs to have far fewer mullets, and they need to be a lot larger. Additionally, though not cause for return, there should be fewer rays on the sun. (01/1997)
All Saints, College of. Device. Azure, a robed man arms outstretched argent, haloed Or, maintaining in his sinister hand a laurel wreath Or.
This conflicts with Gilrae of Moorburn Azure, a fox-headed woman affronty statant, hands crossed at the waist, vested argent. with no countable differences. (04/1999)
Alric Morgan. Name.
This name is being returned for conflict with Alaric Morgan, the main character in Katherine Kurtz's first Deryni trilogy (Deryni Rising, High Deryni, Deryni Checkmate), and an important, but not main character in the Kelson triology. The armory was register under the name Alric of Flaming Gryphon. (06/1997)
Altavia, Barony of. Name for Orden de la Estrella de Vida.
The order name means "Order of the Star of Life", which does not fit any known period exemplars of order names. (07/1996)
Altavia, Barony of. Name for The Order of the Argent Pearl.
Since September 1994 we have been returned the use of argent as an adjective referring to color. It was last returned in September 1997. Barring period evidence of its use in English as an adjective we must return this as well. (01/1998)
Alycie MacAulay. Device. Sable, on a bend cotised argent, three turtles vert.
This conflicts with Cain Saethydd Sable, on a bend cotised argent, three arrows inverted sable. There is but the one CD for the changes to the tertiaries. (04/1999)
Amanda Murray. Device. Azure, on an open scroll argent a quill pen azure.
This conflicts with Kristoff McLain Cameron (Fieldless) An open scroll argent charged with a paw print azure. There is a CD for the field, but a scroll is not eligible for the application of RFS X.4.j.ii, so there is nothing for the change of type only of the tertiary. (03/1998)
Amicia the Prepared. Name.
No evidence has been presented to show that fairly abstract past participles like this were used as nicknames in period. Lacking such evidence, we must return the name. Jonsjo has Ayredy (always-ready) from 1379, and Reany & Wilson (p.374) supply le Redye (1260) and Rady (1327) with exactly the meaning of the submitted form. (03/1998)
An Tir, Kingdom of. Name for Honor of the Lion's Sword.
RfS III.2.b. requires that "Branch names, names of orders and awards, heraldic titles, and household names must consist of a designator that identifies the type of entity and at least one descriptive element." This name does not meets that requirement, since it has no designator. RfS III.2.b.ii. requires that "Names of orders and awards must follow the patterns of the names of period orders and awards.". No evidence was presented in the letter of intent to show that this name follows the patterns of period orders and awards, and none was presented in commentary. (11/1997)
An Tir, Kingdom of. Title for Caldera Herald.
This is being returned for an aural conflict with the Province of Calderium. (05/1997)
An Tir, Kingdom of. Title for Émail Herald.
This is being returned for two reasons. First for lack of documentation for the form of the name. According to the LoI, the word émail:
"In the 10th edition of the Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue française by Dauzat, on page 271 are found derivatives of ‘émail’ as ‘émailler’ dated to the 12th century, and ‘émailleur, -ure’ to the 13th. This is the spelling submitted. Woodward’s A Treatise of Heraldry British and Foreign gives in its glossary the heading "émail", under which it says, "Was used for the small enameled escutcheons [sic] of their master’s arms, worn upon the breast by the ancient heralds."There is also a reference to what sounds like the item in question in the contents of a letter from the 14th or early 15th century, " a pursuivant takes no oath but his lord gives him a name according to his fancy, and a shield of his arms, in gold or silver to wear on his breast"; the letter is quoted in Wagner’s Heraldry and the Heralds, p. 42. And finally, there is precedence in the SCA for naming a herald after an item or regalia, as Blue Mantle Pursuivant in Great Britain, and Black Rod (heraldic title), both registered in 1987. "
However, Blue Mantle does not come from heraldic regalia, but rather from the blue cloak of the Order of the Garter; the office was reputedly created by Henry V to serve the Order. As for Black Rod, it is not a herald's title at all; the full title is Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod and his office is essentially that of doorkeeper to the chapter of the Order of the Garter (and since about 1520 to the House of Lords as well).
Even if émail was an appropriate term for a heraldic title, this would be returned for obtrusive modernity. Everyone who commented on this title from outside of An Tir found it obtrusively modern. Everyone thought of e-mail when reading or hearing the title. (02/1999)
Ana Braganza la Viajera. Device. Azure, a selander argent and on a point pointed ermine in cross four lotus blossoms in profile purpure.
This is being returned for two reasons. First, for documentation on the type of ship no documentation was provided to show that this was a period ship. Second, this drawing was returned November 1996 for a redraw. There were several reasons for the redraw given in the letter of return, including the depiction of the point pointed. The point pointed has not yet redrawn correctly as required in the 11/96 return. (10/1997)
Ana Briganza la Viajera. Name and device. Azure, a selander argent and on a base triangulated ermine four lotus blossoms in profile in cross purpure.
The Portuguese Bragança would have been a fine locative byname, and there is some reason to think that Braganza might be an acceptable and quite possibly period variant. Briganza according to The New Enclclopaedia Britannica, is from Brigantia, the Latin form of the name of a Celtic city. This is evidently closely related to Brigantium, the old Latin name of Bregenz in Austria (WGD) and of Briançon in France (Dauzat & Rostaing, Dictionnaire étymologique des Noms de Lieux de la France), like which it is undoubtedly derived from a Gaulish word related to Old Irish brig `power, force, strength, authority'. Williams, From Latin to Portuguese: Histroical Phonology and Morphology of the Portuguese Language says that the normal Portuguese development of Brigantia (Brigantium) would have been Bregança (Breganço); the first a in the actual form is probably the result of assimilation to the tonic (stressed) vowel, i.e., the second a; the phenomenon is not uncommon. We have no comparable source for the historical development of Spanish, so we can't say whether Briganza is a plausible Spanish reflex of Brigantia, though it might be. If so, Briganza is a reasonable hypothetical Spanish place-name and hence also surname. However, without such a source, since the client will not accept any changes to Briganza, we are forced to return the name.
The device is being returned for a redraw. As drawn it is not on a per chevron field, nor is the charge in base a point pointed. Furthermore, the Lotus's are not arranged in cross, but somewhere between in cross and scattered. Please instruct the submitter not to color in pencil charges that are supposed to be argent. (11/1996)
Anastasia Elgiva Orpett. Device. Purpure, in pale a mullet of four points Or and two lily blossoms crossed in saltire argent.;
This is being returned for a redraw. The flowers are not identifiable as any type of flower. Furthermore, they are not truly in saltire or in pile, or in any other blazonable position. (04/1999)
Anastasia Elizabeth Courteney. Device. Purpure, a winged sea-horse argent.
This conflicts Jocelyn Douglas of Fairfax Purpure, a winged sea unicorn erect, wings addorsed argent, within a bordure Or., and Andrew MacBain the Purple Purpure, a winged sea-unicorn between in fess two rapiers argent., with just one CD in each case for removing the secondary group. While a horse is a CD from a unicorn, the addition of wings and fish tail to each creates an overwhelming similarity with which the remaining details of the horn and beard cannot compete. (02/1998)
Anastasia Ivanova. Name.
This conflicts with Anastasia Ivanova, registered 7/88. (10/1997)
Ancelin Tighearnan de Briquessart. Name and device. Per chevron gules and azure, a chevron between two swords inverted and a wolf's head erased contourny Or.
The name is being returned for mixing Gaelic and nonGaelic in the same name. Moreover, it's very hard to imagine any period context in which any forms of the three elements would have coexisted. Any two of the three elements could probably be combined, though some pairs work better than others. Woulfe gives for Ó Tighearnáin the late 16th or early 17th Englishings O Ternane and O Tiernan (Woulfe s.n. Ó Tighearnáin), and Ewen (129) has examples showing the style of Anglications in 1295. Given Ewen's examples, Ancelin OTernane or the like would be possible in 13th c. Ireland, but in that setting the French locative seems out of place. A lateperiod Ansell Tiernan is also possible: there are a few examples of Irish surnames losing the Ó when being Anglicized, and Bardsley s.n. Ancell cites Ansell Bonyam 1545. But an Ansell Tiernan wouldn't be de Briquessart. Finally, we can imagine a de Briquessart in Ireland `going native' and giving his son the Irish name Tighearnán. It's not clear just how the resulting combination would have appeared in any contemporary scribal tradition, but we might register Tiernan de Briquessart. The armory is being returned for a redraw. Before seeing the blazon of the device, a number members of the CoA and the majority of the people at the Laurel meeting thought it was some kind of bird. (06/1997)
Andelcrag, Barony of. Badge for Order of the Salient Hart. (Fieldless) On a hart salient Or, two lightning bolts in cross sable.
This is being returned for conflict and a redraw. This conflicts with Montvale, Shire of, (Fieldless) A stag springing Or charged with an ermine spot sable. There is one difference for fieldlessness, but nothing for change of type only; the cross of lightning bolts is considered one charge.
Even if there had not been a conflict, this would have been returned for a redraw. The stag is not salient, but forcené, a position that we do not allow in SCA heraldry, and the cross of lightning bolts is not truly a cross, but somewhere between a cross and a saltire. (02/1999)
Andelcrag, Barony of. Badge for Order of the Salient Hart. Per chevron sable and argent a hart salient proper.
This is being returned for unidentifiability, with a dark brown deer on black. If the hart were in an heraldic tincture this might technically have acceptable contrast. Brown, however, is not a true heraldic tincture, and we are not inclined to give it any leeway. (02/1997)
Andelcrag, Barony of. Name for Order of the Defenders of Andelcrag.
This conflicts with Defenders of Mons Tonitrus. RfS V.2 deals with conflict of non- personal names. Clause V.2.a clearly says that branch names are not descriptive elements. The remaining clauses clearly imply that names must differ in their descriptive elements in order not to conflict. This therefore conflicts with Defenders of Mons Tonitrus: in terms of descriptive elements, they are identical. (02/1997)
Anders Schwarzdorn. Device. Argent goutty de larmes, a wolf's tooth issuant from chief sable, a chief vert.
This is being returned for a redraw. The wolf's tooth needs to be a lot bigger - at least twice as big. (10/1997)
André Davignon. Name.
This is being returned for an aural conflict with Ambré d'Avignon, as cited on the LoI. The change from André to Ambré is too slight to grant difference. (08/1998)
André de la Mer. Device. Quarterly vert and azure, a seahorse, a bordure Or.
This is being returned for a redraw. The seahorse as drawn is not in a blazonable position. The upper (horse) part of the body appears to be the default erect, but the lower (fish) part of the body is essentially naiant. It needs be in a standard heraldic position. (08/1998)
André the Rorqual. Name.
While the LoI documented Rorqual as the French word for whale, no documentation was presented for it being used as a byname. Furthermore according to Dauzat's Dictionnaire Étymologique et Historique du Français, rorqual is first found in 1808 and derives from old Norwegian raudh-hwalr, "red whale." Barring documentation of its period use as a name this must be returned. (08/1998)
Andrés Miguel Rodriguez de la Rosa. Device. Per pale purpure and vert, a winged rabbit rampant maintaining in its sinister paw a rapier argent.
This conflicts with Bartholomew Knowles Vert, a winged coney salient reguardant argent., with the only CD the one for change to the field. (11/1998)
Andries du Fay. Device. Vert, a tree issuant from base and in chief three mullets of six points argent.
This conflicts with Ioseph of Locksley Vert, a tree eradicated argent., with one DC for the addition of the mullets, and nothing for throughoutness of a non-ordinary. (04/1999)
Andro Bruce. Device. Per chevron sable and Or, three crosses bottony fitchy counterchanged.
This is being returned for conflict with Ekaterina Adrianovna Sinilnikovna (SCA), Per chevron sable and Or, two Maltese crosses and a griffin counterchanged. There is a CD for changing the type of each of the three charges, but the change of cross to cross is not substantial enough to invoke X.2, and the charges in each case are part of a single group, so we do not count separate differences for the charges in chief and those in base. (10/1996)
Aneala, Barony of. Order name for Order of the Valiant Swans of Aneala.
This was an appeal of a return by Laurel in November 1996. The original return was because the order name was in the plural and a group name was attached, neither of which had period documentation.
They have provided documentation for the use of a group name in an order name, and for plural usage, but these both come from translations of order names from modern sources. This is not evidence that it was done in period. This is especially relevant in the case of the plural, since every exemplar used knights and no other word in the plural. (04/1999)
Aneala, Barony of. Order name. Order of the Valiant Swans of Aneala.
This is being returned for non-period style. The name has two problems. First, the use of swans versus swan; no one could come up with a period order-name in the plural. Second, the addition of a place name to the order name, which again no could some up with a period example. If one or both of these problems were corrected, the name should be registerable. (11/1996)
Angelica Loreé of Seaforth. Name and device. Per bend sinister azure and sable, a stag's head cabossed Or and a unicorn's couchant reguardant contourny argent, armed and collared Or.
The name is being returned for two reasons. First, no evidence was presented, and none could be found for the use of Angelica as a personal name in period. While the name does appear in Withycombe, Withycombe says that Angelica has been occasionally used in England, France and Germany since the 18th century. That is not evidence that is was used prior to 1600. Loreé again was not documented, although the name Lore is documentable. The form Lore Angelica of Seaforth, which uses Angelica as a Latin epithet, should be registerable, however we felt that was too big of a change to make. The armory is being returned for a redraw. The unicorn as draw is unidentifiable from even a short distance. If the unicorn was not reguardant it would be easier to identify. (07/1997)
Angelique de Beauvais. Device. Per pale sable and azure, a lion rampant shackled and on one rear paw maintaining an arrow Or atop a rock argent.
This conflicts with Bulgaria Gules, a lion rampant crowned Or., Belgium Sable, a lion rampant Or, and the Palatinate of the Rhine Sable, a lion rampant Or crowned gules. In each case there is a CD for the field but nothing for the chain and arrow. Whether or not the rock counts for difference appears to come down to the same distinction we look for between "maintaining" and "sustaining"; whether or not the "maintained" charge, were it separated from the charge maintaining it, be considered a co-primary. ("Either sustaining or supporting will be used when a "held' charge is of comparable size to the beast holding it; maintaining will continue to be used when the held charge is of negligible heraldic difference." [Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme, LoAR July 1992, p. 6]). The rock in this case is not large enough to be considered sustained and thereby a co-primary, so we are returning this for conflict. (01/1998)
Angelique de la Seine. Name.
This is being returned for lack of documentation. While it is true, as the LoI states, that Angelique is found Withycombe, it is not dated to our period. Without such documentation the name must be returned. Furthermore, no documentation was presented for the form of the last name. The armory was registered under the holding name Joyce of Crystal Crags. (03/1999)
Angharad ferch Morfran. Device. Argent, in pale three catamounts passant gules.
Unfortunately, this conflicts with the arms used during most of our period of the Principality of North Wales Argent, three lions passant guardant in pale gules. See under Acceptances, Society for Creative Anachronism about this registration. (03/1999)
Angharad Melys. Device. Per bend azure and vert, on a bend argent an acorn per bend vert and azure.
This conflicts with Jenovefa z Jablonne v Podjestedi (SCA) Per bend azure and vert, on a bend argent three apples palewise gules., with one CD for changes to the tertiaries. (07/1997)
Anja Metsälainen. Name.
According to Koira, who is a native Finnish speaker, Anja as a Finnish name is post-period. The normal Finnish form of the name is Anna. The byname does not mean of the forest as the LoI claimed. If the submitter wants help in construction a period Finnish name, Master Pietari, former Principal Herald of Drachenwald, and now Koira Herald, who is a native Finn would be glad to assist her. His e-mail address is huu@iki.fi (12/1998)
Anna de Byxe. Device. Azure, an owl displayed argent and on a chief indented Or three roundels gules.
This is being returned for use of a non-heraldic tincture. While the roundels were blazoned as gules, they are really orange, which we don't use. (07/1998)
Anna Graham. Name.
This conflicts with the already registered Hannah Graham. (03/1999)
Anna Stitcher. Badge. [Fieldless] A sheep statant argent mullety of various tinctures.
This is at least a two-fold extension of known period practice. The panther's variegated spots weren't an arbitrary armorial invention; he appears with them in medieval bestiaries. In this submission not only have they been changed to stars, but also they've been applied to a beast with which they were never associated. Therefore we are returning this for non-period style. (07/1996)
Anna von dem Turm. Badge. (Fieldless) Atop the sinister chief corner of a tower a crow sable.
This conflicts with Freehold Turris Nimborum Barry wavy argent and azure, a tower issuant from base sable., Elaine Ladd Per fess wavy argent and barry wavy azure and argent, in chief a tower sable enflamed proper., and Harold Breakstone Or, a castle triple-towered sable, pennants flotant to sinister vert. In each case there is one CD for fieldlessness, but nothing for the crow. (05/1999)
Anna von dem Turm. Device. Argent, in pall a tower between three crows sable.
This conflicts with the arms of Marco Polo Argent, three roosters sable, beaked and armed gules. If this was drawn with the tower clearly as a primary, it would clear that conflict. (05/1999)
Annabel Kincaid. Device. Per pale purpure and gules, a weaver's knot argent.
This conflicts with Bourchier (Tinctureless) A Bourchier knot. There is not enough visual distinction between having the lower ends crossed (weaver’s) and having them knotted (Bourchier) to be worth a CD. Since the weaver’s knot was not used in mundane heraldry, there is also no period heraldic distinction on which to base a CD. (01/1998)
Anne Aliz de Bâle. Badge. (fieldless) On a cinquefoil conjoined between the petals to five demi fleurs-de-lys vert, five fleurs-de-lys in annulo Or.
This is being returned for unidentifability and non period style. The cinquefoil is not identifiable as one. The outline is confounded by the fleurs-de-lys issuing in the interstices of the foil, and this visual confusion is compounded by placing a fleur-de-lys on each petal. While this is a lovely piece of art, it is not period style. (09/1998)
Anne Aliz de Bâle. Device. Sable, a swan naiant argent and a bordure engrailed, fleury at the points Or.
The bordure uses two different complex lines of division: engrailed and fleury. Such has been disallowed in the past:
[A chief triangular embattled] "With _very_ rare exceptions (e.g. in combination with enarched lines), the use of two or more complex lines on the same charge is confusing, and unattested in period armory. (Wavy raguly? Embattled rayonny? I think not.) In this case, the chief could be either embattled or triangular --- but not both." (Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme, LoAR December 1992, p. 20);
We see no reason, barring period evidence to overturn this precedent. (12/1997)
Anne of Framlingham. Device. Lozengy gules and argent, each argent section charged with a key inverted, a chief sable.
Unfortunately, this striking device must be returned for breaking tincture. As emblazoned the sable chief is directly on top of the gules portion of the field, making this color on color. (08/1997)
Anne Renaud. Device. Azure, in pall a moon in her plentitude between three mullets Or.
While blazoned on the LoI as Azure, a moon in her plentitude between three mullets Or., the blazon above better reflects the emblazon, since all of the charges are the same size. Therefore, this conflicts with Finnvarr de Taahe Azure, a mullet of six points environed by six mullets of six points, all Or., reblazoned on this LoAR to better reflect the emblazon as Azure, a mullet of six points within an orle of mullets of six points Or. This is a single group with a single CD for number, nothing for five vs. six points and nothing for changing the type of less than half the group.
As for the cited conflict with Palau, Azure, a bezant., Laurel precedent states that there is no difference between a roundel and a moon. However, RfS X.4.e states that "Types of charges considered to be separate in period, for example a lion and an heraldic tiger, will be considered different. While this matter is not relevant in this case, we are directing Palimpsest to issue a rules letter to discuss our application and possible modification of this rule. (02/1998)
Ansteorra, Kingdom of. Name for Equitatus Ansteorrae.
Unfortunately, in Latin, Equitatus is not merely an equestrian order, but the equestrian order. This is frequently translated into English simply as "the knights". Since this guild is not restricted to members of the chivalry only, it must be returned for presumption. (06/1997)
Ansteorra, Kingdom of. Title for Runicus Herald.
This is being returned for non-period style. We have found five mundane heraldic titles that might be adjectival. Besides the better known 14th century Vaillant or Volant King of Arms, A. Wagner (Heralds of England, pp. 55-7) mentions pursuivants temp. Henry V named Joyeulx and temp. Henry VI named Secret (or Segret), Diligent, and Desirous. However, they do not appear to support the indiscriminate use of adjectives as heraldic titles. First, it appears likely that Vaillant or Volant was an epithet of the man himself; both words were so used (Reaney & Wilson, s.n. Valiant, Volant), and he is called William Vaillant. The titles Diligent and Secret probably refer to traditional virtues of heralds and therefore prefigure the motto of the English College of Arms, Diligent and Secret, which can be traced at least to the time of Henry VIII (Wagner, p. 133). Desirous as a heraldic title probably means `full of eagerness or spirit; eager, ardent, esp. in deeds of arms'; this meaning, though now obsolete, was current in the 14th and 15th centuries. This leaves only Joyeulx, which, even if it have no direct reference to arms, armory, and heralds, is none the less like Vaillant, Diligent, Secret, and Desirous in naming a quality of character or spirit. And like them, it could be a motto and so belong to a known class of heraldic titles.
This is a similiar case to the return of the title Jessant-de-lys Pursuivant (Middle). The adjective runicus appears to have the same problem. Perhaps the kingdom would consider Rune Pursuivant. (07/1996)
Ansteorra, Kingdom of. Title for Syntaxis Pursuivant.
This is being returned for non-period style. Latham’s Revised Medieval Latin Word-List gives syntaxis under "syn/tagma" as meaning a grammar book. It would not surprise me if the meaning given in the LoI referring to the work of the astronomer Ptolemy is also correct. While a book is a fine heraldic charge, we know of no example of a specific book being so used. This plus the fact that Latin heraldic titles are an undocumented practice places this two steps from period practice. (07/1996)
Ansteorra, Kingdom of. Title for Twilight Herald.
This is being returned for non-period style. This name is not in keeping with period practice of naming heralds after heraldic objects, places or surnames. (07/1996)
Antek Ignatovich. Device. Azure, a post with a head crossbeam, a middle crossbeam, and a back foot crossbeam, all within a bordure embattled argent.
This submission does not fit the documented examples of hausmarken, because of the embattled bordure. Nor could anyone in the College come up with an acceptable way to blazon this submission. We are not sure if hausmarken should be registered in the SCA, therefore we are calling for commentary on this issue. See the cover letter for more information. (07/1996)
Antoinette du Vallon. Device. Per pale wavy Or and argent, a cat sejant regardant sable within an orle of cat's pawprints purpure.
The field consists of a complex line of partition (wavy) between two low contrast tinctures (Or and argent) which is largely obscured by the overlying charge of the cat sejant regardant. Per rule VIII.3., this is considered to be unidentifiable, and therefore is returned. (04/1998)
Antonio Bouchard. Device. Per pale sable and argent, a castle within an annulet counterchanged.
This conflicts with Michel d'Avignon Per pale sable and argent, a two-towered castle counterchanged., with one CD for the addition of the annulet. (04/1998)
Antonio Cellini. Device. Per pale purpure and argent, two ferrets rampant addorsed each maintaining a sword, on a chief two Maltese crosses counterchanged.
This is being returned for a redraw. The animals as drawn look halfway between a ferret and a squirrel. Since we register the emblazon, not the blazon, this must be returned for not being clearly one type of animal. (11/1997)
Antonio Miguel Santos de Borja. Device. Azure, a chevron erminois between three owls Or, a bordure erminois.
This is being returned for a redraw. The color of the field is not clearly blue or purple but halfway between. (04/1998)
Aodhagán Mac Mathghamhain. Name.
The patronymic needed to be put into the genitive form which is Mac Mathghamhna. However, since the submitter would take no changes we are forced to return this. (12/1998)
Aodhnait inghean mhic Chárthaigh. Device. Per pale, paly azure and argent, and sable a griffin Or.
This is in conflict with the device of Degary Golafry of Pembroke (SCA), Quarterly sable and gules, a griffin segreant coward bearing in her dexter talon a Celtic cross and in her sinister talon a sword inverted Or. There is only one CD, for the field. Tail position and the carried charges do not count for difference. (12/1996)
Aodhnait inghean mhic Chárthaigh. Device. Sable, a griffin segreant argent.
This conflicts with Brandon d'Arindel (SCA) Sable, a male griffin rampant argent., with one CD for the difference between a standard and a male griffin. (11/1997)
Aoibheall inghean Dhaghain. Device. Vert, a dragon rampant within a bordure embattled Or.
This conflicts with Tristan of Longford, Azure scaly argent, a dragon segreant a bordure embattled Or., with only one CD for the field. (10/1997)
Arabella da Siena. Device. Gules, on a pale between two hippogriffs combattant, each maintaining a glaive argent, three cinquefoils sable.
This conflicts with Katherine Linnet Holford, Gules, on a pale argent, a domestic cat statant regardant back arched between two cinquefoils in pale sable. There is one CD for the addition of the hippogriffs, but there is nothing for changing one third of the type of the tertiary charges on the pale. (01/1997)
Arabella MacLeod. Device. Argent, vetu, a cross of Santiago purpure.
This conflicts with Maelen of Catcott, (SCA) Purpure, on a lozenge argent a forget-me-not proper., since Arabella's could also be also be blazoned as "Purpure, on a lozenge throughout argent a cross of Santiago purpure.", leaving only one CD for change of type of tertiary. (05/1997)
Aramis de Loire. Name.
This is an appeal of a kingdom return of the name for lack of documentation. The submitter explains Aramis as a constructed name from the Hebrew Aram and the French ending -is. This is, in fact, not a period form of name construction, and barring documentation of Aramis as a period name, it must be returned. The armory was registered under the holding name Brandon de Loire. (01/1998)
Ard Ruadh, Shire of. Device. Sable lozengy, on a pile argent a sun gules overall a laurel wreath Or.
While the picture is as above, the blazon on the LoI which matched the blazon on the petition was Argent semy of fusils sable, on a pile sable a sun Or, overall a laurel wreath gules. Since the petition does not match the submitted armory, it must be returned. (06/1998)
Ari Wilhelmsen. Device. Azure, a pall between a rose and two sea-horses combatant a bordure argent.
This conflicts with Justinian Rakovec (SCA), Azure, a pall between three chipmunks rampant all within a bordure argent., with one CD for change of type of the secondaries. (04/1997)
Ariadne Danebod. Name.
This is being returned for using a unique name. Danebod is a late form of an epithet applied to Þyri, wife of the 10th c. king Gorm the Old. The earliest form is Danmarkar bót, with a runic version tanmarkaR but. In younger sources the epithet becomes Danabot, Danebot, etc. In the entire body of literature surveyed in DGP, the byname is applied uniquely to this one person. The literal meaning of the phrase is `Denmark's bettering', `Denmark's cure'; it seems very unlikely that such a byname would have been used of anyone but a very prominent national hero(ine) therefore, its use in the SCA can be viewed as presumptuous and in violation of RfS VI, 4., Other Presumptuous Names. (08/1997)
Ariadne la Noire. Device. Sable, three swans displayed, wings inverted, a bordure Or.
This is being returned for a redraw. The swans are not clearly rousant or displayed nor in any other heraldic posture. (04/1999)
Arianrod of Isles. Name.
Arianrhod ferch Don, the personage named in the cited documentation, is mythological; no one has been able to present any evidence that the name has been found in use by actual human beings in period. Without such evidence, the name may not be used in an SCA name. (01/1997)
Arianwen Teague. Name and device. Checky vert and Or, on a chief sable a lion passant regardant contourney between two hearts Or.
This is neither field-primary armory or a simple case (for X.4.j.ii). Therefore it conflicts with Elspeth Turnbull, Argent ermined gules, on a chief sable three cinquefoils Or., Marc Beaucoeur Lozengy bendwise gules and Or, on a chief sable three oak slips fructed Or., and Graham, Duke of Montrose (real-world armory) Or, on a chief sable three escallops Or. In each case there is a CD for the field, but nothing for changing the type only of the tertiaries. (02/1998)
Arik Alton. Household name for Hawk's Haven.
This conflicts with the registered name Shire of Hawk's Haven. (05/1997)
Arinbjorn Ragnarsson. Device. Per fess urdy sable and argent.
This conflicts with the registered badge of Kane Greymane (SCA) Per fess embattled sable, and Or masoned sable. There is a CD for change of 1/2 the tincture, but nothing for line of division. (01/1997)
Arlen O'Connell. Name.
This is being returned for lack of documentation. The only documentation presented was for variant spellings of the given name as a surname, and no one in the college presented any documentation for this spelling being used as a given name in our period. Without documentation that Arlen was used as a given name by a human being in our period we are forced to return the name. (08/1997)
Armand de la Croix. Device. Gyronny sable and Or a fret counterchanged overall an orle azure.
This is being returned for excessive counterchanging. The fret counterchanged over the gyronny field is virtually unidentifiable. (11/1997)
Armando de la Rama de Mil Ojos. Change of holding name from Armando of One Thousand Eyes.
In 10/95 his submission of Armando de la Rama Caida was returned by the then Laurel, who said "Most of those who commented on the byname, which means `of the fallen branch', found it implausible, and in fact it departs from available models of period Spanish bynames in both form and meaning. . . ." This submission of Armando de la Rama de Mil Ojos, does nothing to correct the problems of the 10/95 return, and in fact introduces another problem, since it translates the name of his group into Spanish. Names of registered extant SCA groups are only automatically registerable in the language in which they are actually registered. (07/1997)
Arminta Ragon. Name.
No evidence was presented to show that Arminta was a period name. The armory was registered under the holding name Sheron Regan. (02/1997)
Arnbiørn Bassi Dansson. Device. Per fess azure and vert, a bear statant erect affronty, sinister paw upraised Or.
While the LoI stated that he has received permission to conflict with the Barony of Adiantum's badge for the Collar and Chain Gules, a two-headed bear statant erect affronty, forelegs raised, heads addorsed Or collared and chained sable., it was not in writing and therefore is not acceptable. Please remember the motto of the CoA, Non scripta non est. If you do not have the permission, in writing, do not send out the conflicting submission. (07/1998)
Aron Nied wied . Device. Argent, four scarpes gules, overall a bear rampant sable.
This is being returned for two reasons. First, for violating the rule of tincture as drawn. As drawn significantly more than 1/2 of the sable (color) bear is on the gules (color) scarpes instead of the argent (metal) field. Second, after much thought we have decided that with that many scarpes on the field, that there is no effective difference between that and a bendy sinister field. It was not unusual for barry or paly fields in period to be drawn with an odd number of traits (which we'd blazon as bars or palets); see, for example, the arms of Mouton (Multon, Moleton) found both as Barry argent and gules. and Argent, three bars gules. (Dictionary of British Arms, Volume 1, pp 59, 88; Foster, p.145) and the arms of von Rosenberg, whose Per fess field has in base either three bends or bendy depending upon the artist's whim (Siebmacher, p. 8; Neubecker and Rentzmann, p. 290). Even when the distinction is worth blazoning, it's worth no difference. Therefore, this conflict with City of Berlin Argent, a bear rampant sable., and Morven of Carrick (SCA) Checky gules and Or, a bear statant erect sable., in each case there is just a single CD for changing the field. (12/1997)
Artemisia, Kingdom of. Device change for Consort's device. Sable, on a pile between two griffins combatant each maintaining an arrow Or, an ancient crown sable within a wreath of roses proper.
This is being returned for not providing enough support for the change. The Administrative Handbook says:
Evidence of Support – Submissions involving the name or arms of an active branch must include evidence of support for the action on the part of a majority of the active members of the branch. In the case of branches with no ruling noble, this support may be demonstrated by a petition of a majority of the populace and officers or by a petition of the seneschal and at least three-quarters of the other local officers. In the case of branches with ruling nobles, such petitions must also include a statement of support from the ruling noble. If a submission would result in the registration or modification of the Branch Name or Branch Arms of a kingdom, principality or equivalent branch, support must be demonstrated by the results of a poll conducted in the relevant official newsletter and certified by the seneschal of the appropriate branch. Branch badge(s), order or award names, and other Branch names (such as names for guilds, Herald's Titles in the case of Kingdom, etc.) do not require support at the Laurel level. Kingdom may require it if they so desire, for their internal procedures.
It has been ruled by Laurel that the polling in the newsletter is required for changes to consort's arms as well. We received no such certification. (12/1998)
Artemisia, Kingdom of. Name for Order of the Griffin.
This conflicts with Griffin Freehold and with Griffin Pursuivant, since the only difference is the addition of a group name, which the rules specifically exclude as a differencing descriptive element. (12/1998)
Artemisia, Kingdom of. Title for Vox Grypis Herald.
This is being returned for non period style. In a similar case, Master Da'ud as Laurel said:
[returning Vox Draconis Pursuivant] The previous version, Dragon's Voice Pursuivant, was returned 3/95 for failure to emulate period models as required by RfS III.2.b.iii; translation into Latin doesn't bring it any closer. It was suggested that it might derive from a motto Vox draconis sum `I am the voice of the dragon', but the period examples noted all comprise the entire motto, and no evidence was presented that Vox draconis sum is a reasonable imitation of a period motto. (Caid, Kingdom of, 10/95 p. 18)
Barring documentation that this follows period exemplar of heraldic titles, it must be returned. (06/1998)
Artemisia, Kingdom of. Title for Wormwood Pursuivant.
This is being returned for non-period style. Period heraldic titles were formed from surnames, place-names, names of heraldic charges orders of chivalry and mottos. Barring evidence that Wormwood is one of the above it must be returned. (06/1998)
Arthur of Anchoridge
We could come up with no sound justification for this form. With the meaning "the cell or retreat of an anchorite", the forms Arthur atte ancre huse, or the like. The OE ancorsetl "hermitage" could possible result in Ankersettle. And, a modern Anchorhouse from the earlier Ankerhouse would also be reasonable. Furthermore, since there exists the river Ander, and an early Anker hrycg could certainly have become a late-period Ankeridge. (09/1996)
Arwen of Caer Baeddan. Device. Argent, an oak tree eradicated and fructed proper between two cats sejant affronty gules.
This conflicts with O'Connor Don (important mundane armory), Argent a tree eradicated vert., with one CD for the addition of the secondaries. (03/1997)
Aryanhwy Prytydes merch Catmael Caermyrdin. Badge. (Fieldless) A stoat passant purpure.
Withdrawn by submitter. (11/1997)
Aryanhwy Prytydes merch Catmael Caermyrdin. Device. Argent estencely sable, in pale three stoats passant, counterpassant, passant purpure.
Withdrawn by submitter. (11/1997)
Asad ibn Zayyan alBaghdadi. Device. Purpure, a cat couchant guardant within an Arab arch Or.
This is being returned for lack of documentation of the "Arab arch". We know of no such charge as "an Arab arch", nor is the item as emblazoned of a typical or standard middle eastern, Indian, or Arabic style. Indeed, what it most closely resembles is the extremely late period and postperiod "onion dome" (à la Taj Mahal), though badly "squashed", over a rounded archway. Therefore, this falls afoul of RfS VII.7.b. ("Elements must be reconstructible in a recognizable form from a competent blazon."), because we can think of no blazon which would adequately reproduce it. This also runs afoul of RfS VII.7.a since it cannot be readily identified from its appearance alone. (08/1997)
Ashford-on-Avon, Canton of. Name and device. Per bend sinister wavy argent and azure, in chief an ash leaf within a laurel wreath vert, in base a swan naiant argent.
The name is being returned for lack of paperwork. We received no forms or petition. Since we do not form holding names for groups, the armory must be returned as well.
Even if the name had been registerable the armory would have had to be returned for lack of petition and because it violates our rule on slot machine by having three different charges in the same group. Furthermore, the laurel wreath needs a redraw, to look more like a laurel wreath, which should be circular in shape. (12/1998)
Ásta Leontesdóttir. Name.
This is being returned for lack of documentation of the patronymic. (07/1996)
Ástrídr Oddsdóttir. Device. Lozengy ermine and vert, two birds close respectant sable.
Blazoned on the LoI as corbies, as drawn these were not identifiability corbies, or any other type of specific bird. Therefore, they have been reblazoned as birds, which puts this in conflict with the Shire of Vakkerfjell Per pale argent and Or, two swans statant close respectant sable maintaining in their beaks a laurel wreath vert. There is one CD for the field, nothing for the small maintained laurel wreath, and nothing for the difference between the swan and a generic bird. (09/1997)
Ataias Eleutherios. Name and device. Argent, atop a stag lodged proper, a wolf statant ravessant sable.
This is being returned for lack of documentation. Ataias is asserted to be a Greek form of the Scythian name Ateas. However, the documentation for Ataias comes from a Greek coin which bears the name Ataias. However, Greek coinage and coins from lands using the Greeks as models (i.e., using Greek styles and Greek for its inscriptions) generally used the genitive case to denote the ruler or other entity issuing the coinage. The form of the given name on the coin as noted would be a standard genitive form for a first declension Greek noun. This could be a woman’s name or, more likely, a geographic locative (and city states like Athens or Gela did use the name of the city rather than of a ruler on their coinage. Without documentation showing this to be an actual period name we must return it. The armory is being returned for non-reproduciblity. As drawn the wolf is significantly smaller than the deer. But, in every case we could find, the animal preying upon, ravissant or vorant of something was at least the same size as the creature is was attacking, if not significantly larger. (01/1998)
Atalaya la Sanadora. Badge. (Fieldless) A pheon inverted and a pheon conjoined in pale sable surmounted by a rose proper.
The rose in the mini-emblazon is clearly drawn, not between the broadarrows, but debruising them. This sort of "barely overall" emblazon has been grounds for return many times previously. (04/1997)
Atalaya la Sanadora. Household name for Bear Clan.
This is returned for non-period style and violation of RfS III.2.b.iv. RfS III.2.b.iv. requires that "Household names must follow the patterns of period names of organized groups of people. Possible models include Scottish clans Clan Stewart), ruling dynasties (House of Anjou), professional guilds (Baker's Guild of Augsburg, Worshipful Company of Coopers), military units (The White Company), and inns (House of the White Hart). (04/1997)
Atalaya la Sanodora. Badge transfer to Cedric Steinhauser. Sable, a bear salient to sinister Or.
While there was a letter in the packet signed by Atalaya la Sanodora transferring the badge to Cedric Steinhauser, there was nothing showing acceptance by of the badge by Cedric. Barring such documentation, we are forced to return the transfer. (02/1998)
Atlantia, Kingdom of. Heraldic title. Alpen Pursuivant.
According to the LoI, Alpen is the German plural of Alp. Since, however, the Alps have their own entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica, and we protect any place that has its own entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica, this must be returned for conflict. (04/1998)
Atli Hvítúlfr. Device. Gules, a tricorporate wolf argent.
This is being returned for conflict against Roger FitzLyon (SCA) Tierced in point azure, vert and sable, a tricorporate lion argent. After comparing the two emblazons, we came to the reluctant decision that we could not grant a CD between the two monsters, since Atli's was drawn so lionlike. If he resubmitted with a more wolf like wolf, we would consider granting a CD. (09/1996)
Attemark, Shire of. Device. Per bend sinister vert and checky vert and Or, a laurel wreath Or.
This conflicts with the Shire of Wyndhame Per pale embattled gules and Or, in dexter chief a laurel wreath Or., and with the SCA (Order of the Laurel) (Tinctureless) A laurel wreath. In both cases there is just one CD for the field.
Some members of the college have suggested that this is clear of Wyndhame under the provisions of RfS X.3. ("Two pieces of official Society armory that share required charges may consider their Difference of Primary Charges as if the required charges were not there., and that with no charges to be considered, the two pieces of armory should be judged under the field primary rules. However, RfS X.3 deals with complexity, and not with conflict. Furthermore, on the November 1990 LoAR, Master Da'ud as Laurel said:
Dubh-Thrian, Canton of. Name and device. Per chevron argent and sable, a laurel wreath vert.
"Regarding possible conflict with the arms of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc., Or, a laurel wreath vert, X.3 indicates that required charges (such as the laurel wreath for groups) are "invisible" only for the purposes of applying X.2 (Difference of Primary Charge). Since the laurel wreath is the primary charge here, no difference can be counted for making it "invisible" for purposes of counting difference."
So, with severe regrets, we are returning this device. (01/1998)
Attila Györi Sandor. Name.
According to the LoI, the name was Hungarian and was intended to mean "Sandor, the little father (possibly young?), from Györ."
According to Nebuly:
According to Hajd, the given name Sandor is the Hungarian form of Alexander. There are dozens of examples of its use in late period, and it is recorded in the submitted spelling in an unmarked patronym as early as 1394. The element Gyri is the modern form of a locative byname meaning "from Gyr". Note that the modern spelling for both the city and the byname differ from the submitted form by not using the Hungarian doubly-accented letter O, which is a post-period innovation. Also, neither the modern nor submitted spelling appears in period (Kzmr). I do find the spelling Gyry recorded in 1592 and into the 17th century, and I note that this is the client's preferred spelling. Certain locative bynames in Hungary are traditionally spelled with -y rather than -i.
The name Gyry Sandor by itself would make a fine 16th century Hungarian name. Unfortunately, the submitter has tacked on an additional byname. Since there is no evidence for double bynames in period Hungary, and since the submitter allows no changes, the name must be returned.
Out of curiosity and a sense of completeness, I researched the element Attila anyway. As a given name, it is not uncommon in Hungary today, but I could find no evidence of its use by Hungarians between 1250 and 1720, the range of dates covered by KzmFr. I have scanned the thousands of names in Kzmr several times now for various projects, and cannot recall seeing it used as a given name; neither is it recorded as a patronym or any other form of byname. In fact, the only instance I have in any period Hungarian source is in the Chronica Hungarorum (Hess) and similar documents, sometimes called the "Gesta". The Chronica is a history of the Hungarians from the creation of Adam through the medieval period, and like other such "histories", it mixes historical fact, myth, and fiction. The name Atila appears there in reference to the man known in English as Attila the Hun. It is clearly used there as his given name, but as I said, I have no evidence that any Hungarian used this name in period. The evidence provided by the client that titles meaning "little father" were used in Russian is irrelevant, since (a) we do not register titles, and more importantly (b) Russian is a Slavic language, with very different naming practices from Hungarian.
Based on this we have no option but to return the name for incorrect construction and lack of documentation.
The submitter would take no changes. Therefore, we cannot create a holding name, and we are forced to return the armory as well, for not having an SCA name to register it to. (11/1998)
Aubrey Murray. Device. Or, a turtle passant vert maintaining in its mouth an arrow inverted proper.
This conflicts with Iason Vorax Or, a turtle rampant vert., and Frederic of Feolildwyn Or, a tortoise passant vert, charged upon the shell with a fret Or. The first gets only one CD for the posture of the turtle and the second gets only one CD for the tertiary; the maintained arrow counts nothing in either case. (03/1998)
Aurelius the Arronious of Bikeleswade. Name change from Irenaeus of Bikeleswade and device. Sable, a legless wyvern embowed Or maintaining with its tail a quill argent.
The name is being returned because of the first nickname, the Arronious. Period nicknames tend to be straightforward and to use common words: Thynnewyt "thin [of] wit, stupid", le Wis "the wise", Badinteheved "bad in the head", le Wilfulle, le Proude "the proud", le Hardy "the courageous", le Sour, le Cursede, le Deuyle "the devil", Blaksoule "black-soul". The learned erroneous simply doesn't belong in this company. Although the adjective in question is not a past participle, we do not consider this case to be significantly different from those of Adam the Unexpected (East, returned 2/96) and Deirdre the Distracted (Ansteorra, returned 4/94), whose bynames were returned partly for being too abstract. Similarly, erroneous is too far from the common tongue to be at all believable as a period byname. The submitter did not permit any changes that would drop the Arronious part, so we have had to return the name.
Submitted as a pithon, it was the consensus of the people attending the Laurel meeting as well as being the opinion of some of the commenters that the monster was closer in fact to a legless wyvern than a python. Therefore, this is being for conflict with Caryl de Trecesson (SCA), Sable, a dragon dormant Or, with one CD for position.
The feather is not a sustained charge, but a maintained charge and therefore does not count for difference. See the cover letter for further discussion of this issue. (10/1996)
Aurich Greim. Name and device. Sable, on a chevron argent, three vols gules.
While Aurich is found in Bahlow's Deutsches Nameslexikon, it is as a place name, not a given name, leaving the submitter with no given name. Since a given name is required, we are returning it for lack of a given name.
The device conflicts with Rafaella d’Allemtego Sable, on a chevron throughout argent an escallop vert. There is only one CD for the cumulative total changes to the tertiaries. (06/22/1999)
Aurore des Flandres. Name change from Aurore de Flandres.
This was an appeal of a change by Laurel from des Flandres to de Flandres. The submitter stated in the appeal:
"Did not know, and am unhappy that, review correction resulted in a name which by current practices seems to combine a singular article with a plural noun."
She presented information from Morlet which she felt supported her case. Unfortunately, the information in Morlet was misunderstood. The submitter states that: "review correction resulted in a name...which seems to combine a singular article with a plural noun." In fact, the registered name Aurore de Flandres contains no article at all, since de is a preposition. Also, Flandres is not plural in the context of the name, but is the proper name of a County. Further documentation from Morlet is mistranslated. It should read: "afterwards evangelist of the Flemish [people]", and is a phrase explaining who was evangelized. While this construction may be grammatically correct in French, it is inappropriate in a personal name without supporting documentation. (03/1998)
Avelyn Mac Uilliam. Device. Vert, on a pale between in chief two increscents Or a willow tree proper.
This conflicts with Morina Magrath Vert, on a pale endorsed Or, a redwood tree proper. There is nothing for the difference between the trees, leaving the only a CD one for type of secondaries, but nothing for the increscents being in chief, since in chief is a meaningless concept for endorses. (06/22/1999)
Avram Ibn Gabirol. Household name for House of the Wandering Dragon.
The Rules for Submission (III.2.b.iv.) require that "Household names must follow the patterns of period names of organized groups of people. Possible models include Scottish clans (Clan Stewart), ruling dynasties (House of Anjou), professional guilds (Baker's Guild of Augsburg, Worshipful Company of Coopers), military units (The White Company), and inns (House of the White Hart)." Despite what was stated on the LoI, Wandering Dragon, does not follow the pattern of inns such as House of the White Hart. A white hart could be painted on an inn sign and be identifiable as such, a "wandering dragon" could not. Barring documentation of participles of this sort being used for inn names, this must be returned. (03/1998)
Axel the Executioner. Device. Purpure, a sheaf of three double-bitted axes argent.
This conflicts with Sven Gunther Alcan (SCA) Purpure a rose slipped argent overall two double bitted axes in saltire Or. While Sven's blazon uses the term overall", the three charges are in the exact same sort of sheaf" as Axel's axes; they are one primary charge group, not a primary charge group with an overall charge group. There is one CD for changing the tincture of two thirds of the charges in the sheaf to Or, but nothing for changing the type of one third of the charges from an axe to a rose. (09/1997)
Axemoor, Barony of. Order name for Order of the Citizen of Axemoor.
This name does not follow any known pattern of period order names. While there is period precedent for citizens and non-citizens being of different social orders, this is not the sense of "order" which applies to the SCA. We use the word in the sense of chivalric orders. Absent any examples of such orders with names analogous to this, it must be returned.
We also have some concern about this use of "citizen" as a bestowed honor. There is an implication that the members of this order are enfranchised in baronial matters, and those members of the populace not members of this order therefore being disenfranchised. While we don't believe that this is the barony's intent, it would do well to further consider this. (03/1998)
Aylwin Thoraldson. Device. Per chevron azure and sable, in chief a Latinate Celtic cross and in base an increscent and a decrescent argent.
Since no miniature was included on the LoI, this must be returned for violating V.B.2.e of the Administrative Handbook. (05/1998)
Aylwin Thoraldson. Device. Per chevron azure and sable, in chief a Celtic cross and in base in fess a decrescent and increscent argent.
This conflicts with Wilhelm von Schlussel (for Unserheim) Azure, a key fesswise a decrescent and an increscent, one and two argent. There is one CD for the field, but not one for changing one of three charges in a non-standard arrangement. (02/1999)
Azure Mere, Shire of. Name and device. Argent, a hippocampus within a laurel wreath sable, a chief invected purpure.
This was an appeal of a November 1996 return for nonperiod construction. Places were named from common, everyday words which azure was not. The appeal stated:
The elements of the name are documented from the (complete) OED which cites a reference to 'aserre' in 1450 and 'mere' to 1573 or 'meere' to 1450. We add to this the town of Azerlay cited in 1277 in Ekwall's CODEP (20). However, Ekwall notes the first element may be the OScand personal name Atzer or Azer. Vlad also notes the entry describing the final element under the OE 'leah' as a very common place name element, corresponding to OHG 'loh' "grove". Ergo, this derivation would not preserve the meaning: "Azer's Grove" instead of "Blue Grove". Further, from Ekwall's entry for OE mere: "'lake, mere' is a common place name element OE mere is found in several names of lakes, as BUTTER-, GRAS-, WINDERMERE, but many original names of lakes were transferred to places on the lake. [The second element] -mere has been replaced rarely by -mire, as in ELDMIRE, REDMIRE. This last example specifically supports Laurel's recommendation of Blamere. Finally, one might potentially interpret Azure Mere as a plausable scribal error for Azer Mere. The documented placename of Azerlay combines this OScand element with a similar OE element ("Azer's Wood" vs. "Azer's Lake"), which leaves the construction at least of Azermere perfectly reasonable to us. The extension, by errors in scribal transcription, to Azure Mere or Azuremere also seems reasonable.
Unfortunately, even the most extreme interpretation that a late-period intellectual might reanalyze Azerlay as Azure Leah does not mean that azure would be available in the pool of place name elements. As a counter-example, the significant number of northern place names that reinterpret eggles (church) as eagles does not suggest that "eagles" became available to generate new place names. Regarding the second argument, unless you have evidence of Azerlay appearing in a spelling variant closely resembling Azurelay, it is unconvincing to argue that a hypothetical Azermere -- however plausible -- can justify Azuremere. Therefore, barring evidence that azure was used in English place names, we are forced to return this submission. Since we do not form holding names for groups, we must return the armory as well. (10/1997)
Azure Mere, Shire of. Name.
This is being returned for non-period construction. Places were named using common, everyday words, which azure certainly was not. (The OED doesn't even have a citation for this meaning until the late 15th c.) Moreover, we can find no evidence for French azur in period English place-names, and OE mere "pool" would in any case normally be combined with an OE descriptive element. The closest that anyone could come is Blamere; this would be from ON blár "blue, dark" + marr "marsh, fen", the second element later being replaced - as was not uncommon (Smith, s.v. marr1) - by the native mere. (11/1996)
Baldric of Blackwater. Device. Ermine, a horse passant contourny reguardant sable enflamed proper.
This is being returned for a redraw. The flames are not issuant from the horse, as they should be with a correct enflaming, but rather outlining the horse, hanging in midair. (06/22/1999)
Balian of Boxgrove Hall. Device. Quarterly gules and azure, a cross flory argent.
This conflicts with Stephen de Huyn (Fieldless) A cross of Santiago argent., with the only CD for fieldlessness. (12/1997)
Banbha O'Cearbhail. Name.
This is being returned for lack of a given name. SCA given names must be documented to having been used as the name of a human being in period. According to ó Corráin & Maguire, the name Banba (now Banbha) was originally applied to the plain of Meath and later became another name for Ireland. They note that it was also used as a feminine name in mythology, Banba having been the wife of one of the gods of the Tuatha Dé Danann. The surname given by Woulfe is ó Cearbhaill, not O'Cearbhail, and this is its masculine form, which is inappropriate with the feminine forename. The name, if combined with an appropriate given name would be ní Chearbhaill. (11/1996)
Bastian de la Salle. Device. Per pale embattled argent and vert, a rapier inverted sable.
This conflicts with Thaddeus the Brown, (SCA) Gyronny Or and vert, a dagger inverted sable., with one CD for the field and nothing for type of blade. (09/1997)
Bearrach Aelwyn the Wolfhead. Device change. Per bend sinister bendy sinister argent and vert and argent, in sinister base a brown wolf's head, erased and affronty, proper, gorged of a coronet Or, maintaining in its mouth a garden rose gules, slipped and leaved vert.
Unfortunately, the wolf's head is not drawn as in the original submission, but rather in trian aspect. If it is resubmitted with a correctly drawn wolf's head, we see no reason not to register this. (03/1998)
Beatrice Sforza. Name.
The surname Sforza is one of those names such as Hohenstaufen which are so closely associated with a single sovereign royal family as to be presumptuous in their use. Indeed, in times past it was one of those that were used as an exemplar for that category of restricted names. (The name of the dynasty was derived from the nickname of its founder and in period was associated closely with the immediate family of the sovereign Dukes of Milan.) The use of the Sforza surname is tantamount to a claim to being from the immediate family of the sovereign Dukes of Milan and is not allowed under RFS VI.1 The armory was registered under the holding name Beatrice of Tir Ysgithr. (02/1998)
Beaune de la Sorse. Device change. Barry indented and paly sable and Or.
This is being returned for non-reproducibility. The design only works due to the alignment of the indentations with the traits of the paly. This requires the heraldic artist to know that a tesselated design is intended. While there are examples of such fields in modern English heraldry, this is not such a productive pattern in period heraldry that it should be emulated in the SCA, and indeed designs dependant upon an exact and unblazonable alignment of elements has often been cause for return. (02/1997)
Bebinn ingen Brain. Device. Purpure, a moon in its complement a bordure Or.
This conflicts with Ciaran of Beresruth, Barry indented of eight argent and vert, a bezant within a bordure Or. There is only one CD for the change of field. (07/1998)
Bedwyr Bannog. Device. Paly gules and argent, on a bend argent three mullets sable.
The bend has no contrast with half of the field, with an argent bend on a paly gules and argent field. (02/1997)
Béfind Fholtchaem. Device. Argent, a natural tiger bendwise passant contourny azure.
This is being returned for a redraw. As drawn the tiger is not clearly bendwise or palewise inverted, but something in between. If it is palewise inverted, it would be returned for non period style, but we would register it bendwise. (08/1998)
Beircheart de Duglass. Name and device. Azure, on a bend argent three hearts palewise gules.
This name is being returned for mixing Gaelic and non- Gaelic spellings . This needs to have either an Anglicized form of the forename or a Gaelic form of the surname. Whatever the actual origin of the saint's name, Berihart is a reasonable Anglicized of the submitted form, and Berihart de Duglass should be registerable. Ignoring a modern accent, Dubhghlas is the form given by Dwelly for the surname; Beircheart Dubhghlas might be the modern Scots Gaelic form of his name. Berihart de Duglass is closer to what he submitted in both sound and appearance. Given the different possibilities, we are returning this to allow him to choose. The armory is being returned for conflict with Andrea de Champs de Batailles, (SCA) Azure, on a bend argent a unicorn's head palewise couped sable between two cinquefoils purpure, and Pasgen ap Rhys (SCA) , Azure on a bend argent a dragon passant azure armed and scaled Or, and in canton an emerald proper. Although it is not immediately obvious from the convoluted blazon of Pasgen's device, all of his charges are on the bend. (12/1996)
Ben Riec, Shire of. Name.
The group wants their name to mean smoking mountain, and were more concerned about the meaning of the name than anything else. The name as submitted did not mean that, nor was it properly constructed, so it is being returned for further work. For a Gaelic name the most obvious possibility is that suggested by Maclennan's gloss beinn-theine for English volcano; the literal sense of the compound is `fire-mountain'. For another, CDIL s.v. teine gives an early compound teineshliab glossed `fiery mountain'; teineshliabh would be the modern spelling. Probably Beinntheine and Teineshliabh would both work. (01/1997)
Bengta Rolfsdotter. Device. Azure, on a mullet of four points within an orle of Wake knots argent a Viking longship sable.
This is being return for a redraw. As drawn the knots are not Wake knots, but rather Celtic interlace, which we do not do. The tails of the knots need to come out fesswise, not palewise, and the knots should not be solid, but rather the field should show through. (12/1996)
Bennett Weissenstein. Device. Per fess sable and checky argent and sable, in chief three towers argent.
This conflicts with David of Catlewhyte (SCA) Per chevron gules and sable, three castles argent. Bennett's towers cannot be two and one due to the field, so there is nothing for arrangement. This leaves only the one CD for the field. (11/1997)
Beorn of the Northern Sea. Household name and badge for House Argent Lyre. (Fieldless) On an acorn sable a lyre argent.
The household name for Jonathan Thorne's House of the Argent Horse was returned September 94 for the following