Author: Administrator

ATENVELDT COLLEGE OF HERALDS 1 February 2018, A.S. LII

LETTER OF PRESENTATION Kingdom of Atenveldt

Unto Their Royal Majesties Marek and Golda; Baron Seamus MacDade, Aten Principal Herald; Heralds in the Atenveldt College of Heralds; and to All Whom These Presents Come,

Greetings from Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy, Brickbat Herald and Parhelium Herald for the Kingdom of Atenveldt!

This is the February 2018 Atenveldt Letter of Presentation. Please have commentary to me by 25 February 2018.

Heraldry Hut: Because of the Estrella War, there will not be a Heraldry Hut in February (the War doesn’t conflict with the third Friday, but I doubt if we’ll see anyone attending). If there is one, it’s likely to be preparing for the War.

Please consider the following submissions for the February 2017 Atenveldt Letter of Intent:

Áine inghean Uí Ó Raghallaigh (Mons Tonitrus): NEW NAME
The name is Irish Gaelic. Áine is a Middle Irish Gaelic and Early Modern Irish Gaelic female given name, dated 1169 through 1468 (“Index of Names in Irish Annals: Áine,” Mari Elspeth nic Bryan,http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Feminine/Aine.shtml. Raghallaigh is found in “16th & 17th Century Anglicized Irish Surnames from Woulfe,” Mari ingen Briain meic Donnchada, p. 628 with the Gaelic header Ó Raghailligh, and Ó Raghallaigh, http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/Woulfe/SortedByAnglicizedRoot_P.shtml. inghean Uí is the standard way to form a name using an Irish clan affiliation byname for women (“Quick and Easy Gaelic Names” 3rd Edition, Sharon L. Krossa, http://medievalscotland.org/scotnames/quickgaelicbynames/#simplepatronymicbyname.
The client desires a female name and is most interest in the spalling and language/culture of the name (Irish, Gaelic). She will not accept Major Changes to the name.

Lucius James (BoA): NEW NAME and DEVICE

Or, a fist and a bordure rayonny Or. 
Lucius is found as an English male given name as Lucius Deringe, with a marriage date 22 Sep 1578 in Wolborough and Newgon Abbor, Devon, England (Batch M05188-1, https://www.familysearch.org/search/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3ALucius~%20%2Bsurname%3ADeringe~%20%2Bbirth_place%3AEngland~). The surname James can be found with Gwilliam James’ christening date of 02 Sep 1554 at St. Thomas’, Newport, Hampshire, England, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N2RW-LZZ.

The client desires a male name and is most interested in the language/culture of the name (English). He would like it authentic for 16^th C. England.

Nichelle of Whitewolfe (BoA): NEW BADGE
Sable, a demi-panther argent spotted sable and incensed gules, maintaining a cross formy argent.

The name was registered June 1973.

Nudd McPherson (BoA): NEW NAME CHANGE from Ian Nudd MacPherson

The current name was registered December 1989, before the College of Arms allowed English surnames permitted as given names in late period. The client registered the given name Ian at the time to comply with the rules, but his preference has always been to be known at Nudd. 
George Nudd is shown with a marriage date of 1582 to Margaret Feild at Yelverton, Norfolk, England, Batch M09677-1 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N2PF-SP2). Dowgall McPherson is shown with a 16 Sep 1649 marriage date at Kenmore, Perth, Scotland, Batch M11360-2(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XY3C-WXY). The client desires a male name; he will not accept any Major or Minor changes to the name.

Tir Ysgithr, Barony of: NEW ORDER NAME, Order of the Ffrind of Ysgithr

The name is Welsh. Ffrind is Welsh for “friend”; it is found in English Elements in Welsh, T. H. Parry-Williams, p. 125. The name for the Barony of Tir Ysgithr was registered in January 1973. If this is registered, it should be associated with the badge (Fieldless) A maunch Or charged with a boar’s head couped contourny sable., registered to the Barony in August 2017.

The following submissions appears in the January 2018 Letter of Intent:

Commentary was provided by ffride wlffsdotter, Magnus von Lübeck, Michael Gerard Curtememoire.

Arsenda of Calais (Windale): NEW DEVICE: Per chevron sable and azure, two estoiles argent and a bee proper.

The name was registered September 2004.

The client already has a device, registered December 2005: Per chevron vert and azure, two estoiles and a winged scarab displayed, maintaining between its wingtips a roundel argent. If the new submission is registered, please release the current device.

Elisabetta vedova di Malipiero (Granite Mountain): NEW NAME CHANGE from Elisabetta Malipiero and NEW DEVICE CHANGE: Per pale indented lozengy sable and Or, and gules, a rod of Asclepius Or.

The current name was registered April 2002. The change adds the term vedova, “widow,” to the name. Per “Academy of Saint Gabriel Report 3052” by Ursula Whitcher, women could incorporate their husband’s given name into their surname. vedova di [husband’s name], meaning “widow of” is one example, found in 15th century Florentine records: Lorenza vedova di Bartolomeo = Lorenza, widow of Bartolomeo (http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/showfinal.cgi/3052.txt). Documentation for this comes from the submission of Lisabetta vedova di Alessandro, registered December 2014.
The client desires a female name and is most interested in the meaning of the name. She would like it to be authentic for language/culture and time period, ideally 12th-15^th C. Venetian. If registered, the current name is to be released. 
If the new device is registered, the currently-registered one, Gules, two winged lions statant respectant Or., is to be released.

Evelyn of Windale (Windale): NEW DEVICE: Per pale sable and azure, two narwhals hauriant respectant horns in saltire and issuant from chief a demi-sun argent.

The name was registered June 2017.

The position of the narwhals is taken from the armory of Jocoff Alfanng: Azure, two narwhals haurient respectant horns in saltire argent, a chief wavy Or., among others.
With a few less twists in the horns (or a thinner line used for the twists), they would likely look lighter in color and be more identifiable as narwhal horns.

Freya Steinson (Granholme): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Argent, the astrological symbol for Aries purpure within and annulet azure.

Unfortunately, no commenters were able to find Freya as a period given name for a human. On the other hand, ffride wlffsdotter came to the rescue again:
“Fraye Hayman, female, married 1624, Germany. Batch no. M99290-1
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J4PG-C5P)
Fraye Lucknor, male, christened 1617, England. Batch no. C07002-1
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J736-JH7)
I think it can be claimed that by the 16th century, names were inherited instead of literal patronymics, hence:
Isabell Steinson, married 1582, England. Batch no. M00302-1
And this is the case: as per the February 2015 LoAR cover letter, 16th and early 17^th C. German given names can be combined with an English surname (http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2015/02/15-02cl.html#2)
Hence, it is possible for a woman to be called “Fraye Steinson.””

As for the device, “The use of astrological glyphs heraldically in period can be seen on the crest of Bull, watchmaker to Queen Elizabeth I: On a wreath argent and gules, a cloud proper, thereon a celestial sphere azure, with the circles or; on the zodiac the signs of Aries, Taurus, Gemini, and Cancer (Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, p. 547). It has long been the College’s policy to allow the use of elements from crests and supporters, if period usage is documented, as charges for SCA armory although there is no documentation of their use as charges in period armory (cf. Yales),” [September 1993 LoAR, A-East] Cadell ap Hubert. The zodiac signs in a 16th-century woodcut demonstrate all the astrological glyphs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac#/media/File:Zodiac_woodcut.png

Jorunn Vakr (Twin Moons): NEW NAME

The name is Norwegian. While the given name is documented in behindthename.com (not a good source), Jórunnrcan be found in Geirr Bassi Haraldsson, “The Old Norse Name,” p. 12, as a female Old Norse name. Additionally, Diplomatarium Norvegicum (http://www.dokpro.uio.no/dipl_norv/diplom_field_eng.html) vol. II no. 285 (dated to 1347) mentions “Arne Þrondar son ok Jorunn moder hans” (Arne Þrond’s son and Jorunn his mother) as a Norwegian name (this was provided by Aryanhwy merch Catmael). 
Vakr is found in https://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Vakr. Vakr is a male given name in Geirr Bassi, p. 15, as an Old Norse name. This name appears in Hrana saga hrings and is also used as one of the by-names of the god Óðinn in Gylfaginning, where it means “the watchful; the vigilant.” (http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ONMensNames.shtml). It is used here as a descriptive rather than a patronymic. 
The client’s maiden name is Wake, which was changed by the British from the original Vakr, meaning “watchful, wakeful”; she notes that Vakr dates back to her Norse family ancestry in 1052. ffride wlffsdotter comments: “Assuming Jorunn’s information about her surname comes from Reaney & Wilson or similar, R&W sn. Wake has: ‘Clearly a nickname, translated by Lat vigil `watchful, alert’. The most common early form is Wac, found chiefly in Statfs, Lincs, Leics and Yorks, where a Scandinavian origin is possible, probably ON vakr `watchful’.”

Lia Winterbourne (Granite Mountain): DEVICE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, December 2014: Per bend sinister azure and vert, on a bend sinister between two semiminims argent a rod gules entwined by a flowering woodbine vert flowered Or.

The name was registered September 2015.

The client’s previous device submission, Per bend sinister azure and vert, on a bend sinister between two semiminims argent a heart palewise gules entwined by a flowering woodbine vert flowered Or., was returned by Laurel December 2014 for “not being reliably blazonable, which is a violation of SENA A1C which requires an emblazon to be describable in heraldic terms. There is no accurate way to blazon the position of the woodbine as it partially overlaps but also extends from the heart.”

I would hope that the small portions of the vine overlapping the rod would not be considered a prohibited quaternary charge.

There is a step from period practice for the use of New World woodbine.

Loðinn Feilan (Twin Moons): NEW NAME, DEVICE and BADGE

(device) Per bend sinister argent and azure, two wolf’s head erased addorsed counterchanged gules and argent.

(badge) Per pale argent and azure, a wolf’s head cabossed per pale gules and argent.

The name is Old Norse. Loðinn is a male given name found in Geirr Bassi, p. 12, and in the Viking Answer Lady (http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ONMensNames.shtml#l). Feilan is found in Geirr Bassi, p. 20, “wolf-cub.” The client desires a male name.

The wolf heads will have to be modified to show that the cut line is actually erased, and “ragged”-looking.

Iago ab Adam comments: “The jags on these are not prominent enough to meet our standards for erased. From the November 2001 Cover letter: Therefore, for purposes of recreating period armorial style for erasing, the erasing should (1) have between three and eight jags; (2) have jags that are approximately one-sixth to one-third the total height of the charge being erased; and (3) have jags that are not straight but rather are wavy or curved.” and “They also don’t meet our standard for couped, as they are not smooth: For purposes of recreating period armorial style for couping, the couping should be a smooth line which is either straight, slightly convex, a shallow concave, or a recognizable extreme concave.”

Michael Gerard Curtememoire suggests an alternate blazon for the badge: Per pale argent and azure, a wolf’s head cabossed counterchanged gules and argent.

Magdalena Waclawowa (Tir Ysgithr): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Azure, on a bend sinister between two dragonflies argent, the needles palewise azure.

The name is Polish. Magdalena is a female given name found in “Polish Given Names in Nazwiska Polaków,”Walraven van Nijmegen and Arval Benicoeur, https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/walraven/polish/. Her husband’s registered name is Václav z Rokycan (Bohemian); the Polish form of his given name is Walclaw (ibid., Walraven and Arvel). In “A Preliminary Survey of Names from the Historical Dictionary of Personal Names in Białystok,” Lillia de Vaux, http://st-walburga.aspiringluddite.com/docs/Bialystok.pdf, “women are most frequently identified by their given name and a byname indicating their father’s or husband’s given name, with a suffix added to show the relationship and/or to feminize the byname(s), such as

-owa for married names…”. The client desires a female name and is most interested in the language/culture of the name (Poland, 15th-16^th C.); it can be changed to make it more authentic for 15th-16^th C. Poland.

Olrun rauðfeldr (Mons Tonitrus): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Per chevron vert and gules, a chevron between two swans rousant repectant argent and a rapier Or.

The name is Old Norse. Olrún is a female given name from the Viking Answer Lady,http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ONWomensNames.shtml#o, via Cleasby, Richard and Guðbrandr Vigfusson. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2^nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon. 1957, pp. 504, 763. 
After consultation, the client has chosen the byname rauðfeldr, “red-cloak” (found in “Viking Bynames found in theLandnámabók,” Aryanhwy merch Catmael, http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/vikbynames.html) to avoid any possible presumption with the literary characters Olrun (this is also the name of a Valkyrie) and her father Kjar. The client desires a female name and is most interested in the meaning of the name, “Olrun Red-cloak”.

Sibyl Brethnagh (Barony of Atenveldt): DEVICE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, July 2017: Gules, a corgi dog rampant countourny Or maintaining a dagger inverted argent, a bordure embattled Or.

The name was registerd July 2017.
The original submission, Gules, a corgi dog rampant countourny Or maintaining a dagger inverted argent, a bordure embattled Or., was returned by Laurel “for redraw. The depiction of the primary charge does not match the provided documentation for the corgi, with the ears, tail, and muzzle noticeably differently from the gray-period image. No commenters were able to recognize the charge as a corgi.” 
The visual example of this dog was provided in a badge for a corgi submitted and registered by Estienne Le Mons d’Anjou: “Corgi is found in Wyllam Salesbury’s A Dictionary in Englyshe and Welshe (London 1574), where there is a reference to the Korgi ne gostoc, meaning “Corgi or curre dogge,” https://www.welshcorgi-news.ch/Leseecke/InfoCorgi/Meaning_eng.html. This source also gives a gray period illustration of the breed. It is worth noting that the breed in period was taller than the modern breed and had a tail.”

The following submission were registered by the SCA College of Arms, November 2017:

Donndubán mac Eógain. Device. Argent, a wolf rampant gules ermined Or, a bordure pean. 
Artist’s note: Please draw the ermine spots on the wolf larger.
Eugene Haraldson. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
Submitted as Eugene Haraldsson, the name was documented as a combination of English and Old Norse. However, SENA allows English to be combined with Old Norse only if both name elements are dated before 1100, which is not the case here. We do not have evidence of Eugene or its Latin form Eugenius in English until the 14th century.
Fortunately, both Harald and Eugene are found as given names in Middle English. Under Appendix A, Middle English patronymics can be created by adding -son to the father’s name. Accordingly, we have changed the name to Eugene Haraldson for registration.
Geraint de Grey. Device. Azure, a chevron cotised Or between two mullets argent and a demi-sun issuant from base Or. 
Marcus Octavius Valerius. Name and device. Per pale gules and sable, an eagle Or and in chief three billets argent. 
The submitter requested authenticity for “1st-2nd C. Roman.” This name meets that request.
Nikolaus Gerhart. Badge. (Fieldless) An armored arm fesswise embowed argent sustaining a broken lance bendwise sinister Or. 
Viktoria of York. Device. Argent, on a Latin cross throughout purpure a dragonfly argent. 
Artist’s note: Please make both charges wider to aid in identification.

The following submissions were returned for further work, November 2017:

Eugene Haraldson. Device. Per pale sable and argent, a sun eclipsed between in bend two broad-arrows, that in base inverted, counterchanged. 
This device is returned for violation of SENA A3D2c, which requires that charges in the same group be in a unified orientation. The two broad-arrows in this submission are placed in bend, with one upright and the other inverted. These orientations must be blazoned individually, rather than being in an identical orientation (either upright or inverted) or a complementary orientation (points to center/outward). If evidence could be found of such a design in period, it could of course be registered.

Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy

c/o Linda Miku

2527 East 3^rd Street

Tucson AZ 85716

brickbat@nexiliscom.com

atensubmissions.nexiliscom.com

ATENVELDT COLLEGE OF HERALDS 10 January 2018, A.S. LII

LETTER OF PRESENTATION Kingdom of Atenveldt

Unto Their Royal Majesties Marek and Golda; Baron Seamus MacDade, Aten Principal Herald; Heralds in the Atenveldt College of Heralds; and to All Whom These Presents Come,

Greetings from Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy, Brickbat Herald and Parhelium Herald for the Kingdom of Atenveldt!

This is the January 2018 Atenveldt Letter of Presentation. Please have commentary to me by 20 January 2018. It looks like some folks want to get submissions in now and have fun at Estrella, rather than standing in line at the Consultation Table…

Heraldry Hut: The next meeting is scheduled for Friday, 19 January, beginning at 7:30 PM. Please email me for directions to my house if needed.

Please consider the following submissions for the January 2018 Letter of Intent:

Arsenda of Calais (Windale): NEW DEVICE
Per chevron sable and azure, two estoiles argent and a bee proper.

The name was registered September 2004.

The client already has a device, registered December 2005: Per chevron vert and azure, two estoiles and a winged scarab displayed, maintaining between its wingtips a roundel argent. I will contact her and ask what she would like to do with the current armory.

Evelyn of Windale (Windale): NEW DEVICE

Per pale sable and azure, two narwhals hauriant respectant horns in saltire and issuant from chief a demi-sun argent.

The name was registered June 2017.

The position of the narwhals is taken from the armory of Jocoff Alfanng: Azure, two narwhals haurient respectant horns in saltire argent, a chief wavy Or., among others.

Freya Steinson (Granholme): NEW NAME and DEVICE

Argent, the astrological symbol for Aries purpure within and annulet azure.

Freyja is an Old Norse goddess name, although the spelling Freya is said to be the German spelling, according to BehindTheName.com (not a reputable source). Any help in finding this as a period name would be wonderful.

Steinson is a nod to her husband’s legal surname, Stinson, and was registered to him as Mathias Steinson in March 2017. ffride wlffsdotter comments that Diplomatarium Norvegicum has: Jfuer Steinson, 1394 (http://www.dokpro.uio.no/perl/middelalder/diplom_vise_tekst_2016.prl?b=4103&s=n&str=Steinson), and Gudbrander Steinson, 1422 (http://www.dokpro.uio.no/perl/middelalder/diplom_vise_tekst_2016.prl?b=681&s=n&str=Steinson). “I think they’re both in the nominative case, but they’re certainly in Middle Norwegian (i.e., still Norse).”

Appendix C in SENA allow the mixing of German and Scandanavian name elements.
The client desires a female name and is most interested in the language/culture of the name.

Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy

c/o Linda Miku

2527 East 3^rd Street

Tucson AZ 85716

brickbat@nexiliscom.com

atensubmissions.nexiliscom.com

ATENVELDT COLLEGE OF HERALDS 1 January 2018, A.S. LII

LETTER OF PRESENTATION Kingdom of Atenveldt

Unto Their Royal Majesties Marek and Golda; Baron Seamus MacDade, Aten Principal Herald; Heralds in the Atenveldt College of Heralds; and to All Whom These Presents Come,

Greetings from Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy, Brickbat Herald and Parhelium Herald for the Kingdom of Atenveldt!

This is the January 2018 Atenveldt Letter of Presentation. Please have commentary to me by 20 January 2018.

Heraldry Hut: The next meeting is scheduled for Friday, 19 January, beginning at 7:30 PM. Please email me for directions to my house if needed.

The following submissions appears in the December 2017 Letter of Intent:

Cirina Elči (Twin Moons): NAME CHANGE RESUBMISSION, from Serena the Lavendere, from Laurel January 2017

The old name was registered January 2003 via Calontir. Serena the Lavendere is to be retained as an alternate name.

The previous submission, Cirina Badartai, was returned by Laurel for the following reasons: “This name must be returned because Badartai is not a properly constructed Mongol name element (or even a properly constructed Mongol word). The Letter of Intent argues that Badartai is a constructed byname intended to mean “monk,” based on the Mongol verb badarcila. However, in Mongolian, the suffix -tai cannot be added to a verb to create a noun or a byname. The submitter allows no changes so we could not correct this name to a registerable form. When considering her options for resubmission, the submitter may be interested to know that, in commentary, Ursula Green Staff documented the following Mongol words and titles usable as bynames: ubasi or ubasanc (monk, often used for a woman); toyin or doyin (perhaps the most common Mongol term for a monk); qo{sv}ang (for a Buddhist monk); gab{sv}es (title for a Buddhist monk who has completed advanced study); gejuni (Tibetan monk in charge of novices); and simnanc, {sv}amnanc or {sv}imnanc (monk/nun). As the submitter requested a feminine name, the terms ubasanc, toyin or simnanc would be most appropriate.”

Cirina is a Mongolian woman’s name found in Dawson’s “The Mongol Mission: Narravie and Letters of the Franciscan Missionaries in the 13th and 14th Centuries,” cited in “Mongolian Naming Practices,” Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy ( http://heraldry.sca.org/names/mongolian_names_marta.html ).

Elči is a descriptive byname found in Igor de Rachwitlz “Secret History of the Mongols,” cited in “Middle Mongol Grammar for SCA Names,” Ursula Georges (http://heraldry.sca.org/names/mongolgrammar.html). 
The client desires a female name and is more interested in the language/culture of the name (Mongolian).

Mathurin Annarson (Tir Ysgithr): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Gules, on a fess cotised argent two trident heads conjoined at the neck fesswise sable.

The byname was changed from Anarr to the ON male name Arnórr. It is clearly a name associated with humans, and is found fourteen times in the Landnámabók (via Viking Names found in Landnámabók, Aryanhwy merch Catmael, http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/landnamabok.html). The patronymic formed is Arnórsson (the diacritical is dropped).

Robbert Broekhuijsen (Mons Tonitrus): DEVICE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, October 2017: Per bend sinister gules and argent, an Oriental dragon in annulo azure, in base a baroque folded trumpet reversed vert surmounted by two arrows inverted in saltire sable. 
The name was registered October 2017.
The original submission was returned for the following reasons: “This device is returned administratively. The form in the packet depicts a baroque folded trumpet, while the mini emblazon on OSCAR depicts a 19th century cavalry bugle. While the submissions herald noted the change in a correction to the Letter of Intent, the mini emblazon was neither corrected nor supplied in comments. This is grounds for return.
“This device has charges surmounting a secondary charge. Discussion of whether this practice is allowable, or a violation of SENA Appendix I.D, which requires overall charges to cross the center line of the device and surmount the primary charge group, is currently underway in OSCAR and will be decided at the December Wreath meeting. Upon resubmission, the outcome of that discussion should be addressed by the submitter.”
The horn has been corrected, and we’re hoping for the best concerning the discussion of surmounting secondary charges.

Please consider the following submissions for the January 2018 Letter of Intent:

Jorunn Vakr (Twin Moons): NEW NAME

The name is Norwegian. While the given name is documented in behindthename.com (not a good source), Jórunnr can be found in Geirr Bassi Haraldsson, “The Old Norse Name,” p. 12, as a female Old Norse name. However, Diplomatarium Norvegicum(http://www.dokpro.uio.no/dipl_norv/diplom_field_eng.html) vol. II no. 285 (dated to 1347) mentions “Arne Þrondar son ok Jorunn moder hans” (Arne Þrond’s son and Jorunn his mother) as a Norwegian name (this was provided by Aryanhwy merch Catmael). 
Vakr is found in https://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Vakr. Vakr is a male given name in Geirr Bassi, p. 15, as an Old Norse name. This name appears in Hrana saga hrings and is also used as one of the by-names of the god Óðinn in Gylfaginning, where it means “the watchful; the vigilant.” (http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ONMensNames.shtml). It is used here as a descriptive rather than a patronymic. 
The client’s maiden name is Wake, which was changed by the British from the original Vakr, meaning “watchful, wakeful”; she notes that Vakr date back to her Norse family ancestry in 1052.

Loðinn Feilan (Twin Moons): NEW NAME, DEVICE and BADGE

(device) Per bend sinister argent and azure, two wolf’s head erased addorsed counterchanged gules and argent.

(badge) Per pale argent and azure, a wolf’s head cabossed per pale gules and argent.

The name is Old Norse. Loðinn is a male given name found in Geirr Bassi, p. 12, and in the Viking Answer Lady (http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ONMensNames.shtml#l). Feilan is found in Geirr Bassi, p. 20, “wolf-cub.” The client desires a male name.

The wolf heads will have to be modified to show that the cut line is actually erased, and “ragged”-looking.

Olrun Kjarsdottir (Mons Tonitrus): NEW NAME and DEVICE

Per chevron vert and gules, a chevron between two swans rousant repectant argent and a rapier Or.

The name is Old Norse. Olrún is a female given name from the Viking Answer Lady, http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ONWomensNames.shtml#o, via Cleasby, Richard and Guðbrandr Vigfusson. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2^nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon. 1957, pp. 504, 763. Several Kjar- male names are found with the Viking Answer Lady, http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ONMensNames.shtml#k, via Geirr Bassi Haraldsson. The Old Norse Name. I don’t know if this protheme stands as an independent name, but if it does, the terminal -r should be dropped and the patronymic for a woman would seem to be Kjasdottir. The client desires a female name and is most interested in the meaning of the name, Olrun daughter of Kjar.
Is the placement of the chevron may have to be acceptable? I suspect the orientation of the swans might also be simply combatant.

Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy

c/o Linda Miku

2527 East 3^rd Street

Tucson AZ 85716

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ATENVELDT COLLEGE OF HERALDS 1 December 2017, A.S. LII

LETTER OF PRESENTATION Kingdom of Atenveldt

Unto Their Royal Majesties Marek and Golda; Baron Seamus MacDade, Aten Principal Herald; Heralds in the Atenveldt College of Heralds; and to All Whom These Presents Come,

Greetings from Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy, Brickbat Herald and Parhelium Herald for the Kingdom of Atenveldt!

This is the December 2017 Atenveldt Letter of Presentation. Please have commentary to me by 20 December 2017.

Heraldry Hut: There will be no meeting in December.

Please consider the following submissions for the December 2017 Letter of Intent:

Mathurin Annarson (Tir Ysgithr): NEW NAME and DEVICE

Gules, on a fess cotised argent two trident heads conjoined at the neck fesswise sable.

Saint Mathurin was a French missionary (d. 300). He is first mentioned at Maturinus in the Martyrology of Usuard, writien in 875. His relics were kept at Saint-Mathurin, Larchant, as well as in the church of Saint-Mathurin in Paris. Saint-Mathurin de Larchang, a porperty of the chapter of Notre-Dame de Paris since 1005, was rebuilt beginning in 1153, and it became a popular pilgrimage site. (https://orthodoxwiki.org/Mathurin_of_Larchant) The name has been registered a few times with the SCA College of Arms.

Annar is an Old Norse masculine name, a variant of Ánarr (https://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Anarr). I couldn’t find it either with the Viking Answer Lady website or in Geirr Bassi (I hope it’s just uncommon, rather than only a supernatural/mythical name. In Norse mythology, Anarr is the name of a dwarf in the literary Vǫluspá). Given the spelling Anarr, the patronymic would change as -rr > -rs, hence Anarson. (He might need the spelling of the name adjusted, if this is the case.)
The client desires a male name and is most interested in the meaning and language/culture of the name, Viking Normandy 820-1020, “second son.”
This clears the arms of Austria, Gules, a fess argent., with 1 DC for cotising the fess and 1 DC for the addition of the tertiary charge.

The following submissions appear in the November 2017 Letter of Intent:

Anna Ó Néill (MT): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Argent, a rose purpure barbed vert and seeded Or and a mount issuant from base vert, on a chief invected azure two escallops inverted argent.

Anna is a female given name found in “Feminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames: Ann,” Talan Gwynek,https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/reaney/reaney.cgi?Ann); it is dated at 1199, 1501, 1511, 1512, 1515, 1524.

Ó Néill is a clan affiliation type of byname; it is formed from the genitive form of the Middle Irish Gaelic and Early Modern Irish masculine given name Niall, found with dates of 1201-1611 (“Index of Names in Irish Annals: Niall,” Mari Elspeth nic Bryan,

http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/Niall.shtml). Appendix C of SENA permits the combination of English and Irish Gaelic name elements.
The client desires a female name.

Caiterína MacCraith of Granite Mountain (GM): NEW DEVICE: Argent, a dragon passant purpure winged azure and an orle azure.
The name was registered January 2016.

Azure may only need to be blazoned once, but it was included here to avoid confusion.

Dominic de Grae (BoA): DEVICE RESUMISSION from Laurel, June 2017: Vert, an owl striking argent, on a chief wavy Or a moon in her plenitude azure between two mullets vert.

The name was registered June 2017. 
The original device submission, Vert, an owl striking argent, on a chief wavy Or a moon in her plenitude azure between two mullets vert., was returned “for use of two tertiary charge groups on the same charge. In this design, the mullets on either side of the moon are substantially smaller, making them appear to be subordinate to the moon in size and importance. If the tertiary charges were equivalent in size, they would be part of a single tertiary charge group and this device would be registerable. Upon resubmission, we encourage the submitter to make the mullets the same size as the moon, ideally by modifying the frequency of the waves that form the chief so that each charge has its own undulation in which to appear.” 
The client has followed the College’s suggestions.

Flóki the Ginger (MT): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Per chevron gules and vert, a chevron rompu Or between two fleshpots and a sword argent.

Flóki is a male Old Norse name found in “Viking Names found in Landnámabók,” Aryanhwy merch Catmael (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/landnamabok.html). The byname is a physical descriptive (yes, he is a redhead), and he is also amenable to using Flóki Ginger (Roger Ginger is dated to c. 1280, describing a ginger dealer or possibly a hot-tempered or reddish-haired man; Reaney and Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames, revised edition, p. 192 s.n. Ginger). He would also consider a byname using the ON form of ginger (not the descriptive for red).

The client desires a male name.
The fleshpot, or posnet, is a period three-footed, two-handled vessel for holding food; it is found in Bruce Miller’s Pictorial Dictionary of Heraldry, http://mistholme.com/?s=fleshpot.

Johannes de l’Ours (MT): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Per chevron sable and gules, on a chevron argent between two pairs of arrows in saltire Or and a mullet of four greater and four lesser points Or, a bear’s head affronty erased gules.

Johannes is a German male given name; Johannes Keck has a christening date of 16 June 1601 in Malmscheim, Wüttemburger, Germany (“Deutschland Geburten und Taufen, 1558-1898,” database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NC9Y-GSQ : 28 November 2014, Batch C91665-1 ).
de l’Ours is the client’s preferred byname (his second choice is just L’ours/l’Ours, his third Lours). It is French “of the bear.” While this exact spelling hasn’t been found, Tristane De Lours (a woman) is given a marriage date of 20 May 1639 in Châtillon-sur-Loing, Loiret, France (“France, registres protestants, 1536-1894”, database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HJ6-QTQ : 8 August 2015; https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=75&query=%2Bsurname%3A%22De%20Lours%22~%20%2Bbirth_place%3AFrance~%20%2Bbirth_year%3A1300-1650~). In addition, “John the Bear,” or Jan de l’Ours in Occitan, is a legendary character in several regions; he is usually described as half-bear and half-human, and he has many adventures and overcomes many trials, to eventually win the hand of a fair princess (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_l%27Ours). I believe the client chose the byname from this ursine hero. Appendix C of SENA permits the combination of German and French name elements.

The client desires a male name.
Because the bear’s head doesn’t have a “clean cut,” but is rather shaggy around the neck, it’s been blazoned as “affronty erased” rather than “cabossed.”

Matheus Veðr-þǫx (BoA): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Per fess vert and sable, in pale a badger rampant maintaining a spear and a sun argent.

The name is Old Norse. Matheus is found in The Viking Answer Lady’s website (http://vikinganswerlady.com/ONMensNames.shtml#m), a form of the Christian given name Matteus, Matthew; it is found in Geirr Bassi, p. 13, s.n. Matheus. 
The byname means “storm badger.” Elements are found in the English-Old Norse Dictionary, compiled by Ross G. Arthur (In parentheses Publications, Linguistics Series, Cambridge, Ontario 2002), with veðr, “storm,” and English Old Norse Dictionary online with þǫx, “badger” (https://glosbe.com/en/non/badger).

The client desires a male name and is most interested in the meaning and language/culture of the name (Viking/ON). He will not accept Major changes to the name.

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ATENVELDT COLLEGE OF HERALDS 1 November 2017, A.S. LII

LETTER OF PRESENTATION Kingdom of Atenveldt

Unto Their Royal Majesties Áilgheanán and Amber; Baroness Genevieve de Lironcourt, Aten Principal Herald; Heralds in the Atenveldt College of Heralds; and to All Whom These Presents Come,

Greetings from Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy, Brickbat Herald and Parhelium Herald for the Kingdom of Atenveldt!

This is the November 2017 Atenveldt Letter of Presentation. Please have commentary to me by 20 November 2017.

Heraldry Hut: The October 2017 Heraldry Hut was held 20 October. The November meeting may be canceled because of Kingdom Arts and Sciences.

The following submissions appear in the October 2017 Atenveldt Letter of Intent:

Marcus de Shirewude (Granite Mountain): NEW DEVICE CHANGE

Argent, an Oriental dragon in annulo purpure maintaining a roundel sable, a base nebuly purpure.
The name was registered July 2012. If registered, the client will maintain her currently-registered device, Per fess vert and argent, three demi-swords inverted issuant from the line of division and a dragon dormant wings elevated and addorsed counterchanged., as a badge.

This is clear of the armory for Ailis de la Marche: Argent, a dragon in annulo vorant of its tail purpure maintaining in its feet a cauldron, an orle sable., with 1 DC for the orle vs. base, and 1 DC for the tincture change of those secondary charges.

Riane Goch (Tir Ysgithr): DEVICE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, January 2017

Argent, in cross four hearts points to center sable and in saltire four daggers points to center gules.

The name was registered December 2014.

The previous device change submission, Gules, on a plate a sword gules surmounted by a dragon’s head erased sable., was returned January 2017 for multiple reasons; this is a complete redesign. There is a step from period practice for the use of charges in annulo not in their default palewise orientation. I am unsure whether this would apply to all the charges in this submission, as they are co-primaries (I have a bad feeling that there may be two SFPPs, a reason for return). Nonetheless, thank you! to the Heraldic Consultation table at Great Western War for assisting an Atenveldt client.
If registered, the client will maintain her currently-registered device, Per saltire argent and gules, in chief two chevronels couped and in base a pair of scissors sable., as a badge.

Theodora Akropolitissa (BoA): NEW DEVICE

Argent, a bull’s head cabossed and in chief a double-bitted axe, a bordure embattled azure.

The name was registered June 2015.
This submission seem to have slipped between the floorboards, having been taken at the Estella War; very sorry for the delay!

Varinn inn Spaki (Tir Ysgithr): EXCHANGE OF DEVICE WITH BADGE

Per pale sable and gules, a sword between two wolf’s heads erased respectant Or. 
The name was registered January 2013. This badge was registered January 2014. When exchanged, the client’s currently-held device, Per pale sable and gules, a dragon’s head cabossed and in base a Thor’s hammer Or., is to be released.

Varinn inn Spaki (TY): NEW BADGE
Argent, within the horns of a decrescent gules in pale a wolf’s head cabossed and two roses sable, slipped and leaved vert, stems crossed in saltire.

The name was registered January 2013.

The following submission will appear in the November 2017 Letter of Intent:

Matheus Veðr-þǫx (Barony of Atenveldt): NEW NAME and DEVICE

Per fess vert and sable, in pale a badger rampant maintaining a spear and a sun argent.

The name is Old Norse. Matheus is found in The Viking Answer Lady’s website (http://vikinganswerlady.com/ONMensNames.shtml#m), a form of the Christian given name Matteus, Matthew; it is found in Geirr Bassi, p. 13, s.n. Matheus. The byname means “storm badger.” Elements are found in the English-Old Norse Dictionary, compiled by Ross G. Arthur (In parentheses Publications, Linguistics Series, Cambridge, Ontario 2002), with veðr, “storm,” and English Old Norse Dictionary online with þǫx, “badger” (https://glosbe.com/en/non/badger).

The client desires a male name and is most interested in the meaning and language/culture of the name (Viking/ON). He will not accept Major changes to the name.

The following submissions appear in the September 2017 Atenveldt Letter of Intent:

Commentary was provided by Basil Dragonstrike, Christian Jorgensen af Hilsonger, Coblaith Muimnech, Etienne Le Mons, ffride wlffsdotter,Iago ab Adam, Kolosvari Arpadne Julia, Kryss Kostarev, Magnus von Lübeck, Maridonna Benvenuti, and Michael Gerard Curtememoire.

Abigail de Westminster and Lachlann Dougal Graeme (Mons Tonitrus): NEW BADGE: (Fieldless) Three chevronels couped and braced counterermine.

The names were registered January 2006 and February 2009, respectively.

Cu Cathan Ultaig (BoA): NEW DEVICE: Gules, a bend sinister bevilled between a wolf’s head couped contourny and an axe reversed maintained by a hand couped argent.

The name is registered as Cathán Ultaig; it was registered October 2009.

Iago ab Adam commented that more info about the hand is needed in the blazon: Gules, a bend sinister bevilled between a wolf’s head couped contourny and an axe reversed maintained by a sinister hand fesswise reversed argent., and added “ I’m a bit concerned that this might be slot machine, with three types of charge (wolf’s head, axe, hand) in the secondary charge group. I couldn’t find a relevant precedent (post the Aug 2015 maintained/sustained rule change) about whether held charges count as a different secondary charge group from the secondary charge holding them.” 
Magnus von Lübeck found a recent acceptance example with a primary charge and a maintained charge for Rosa Linda degli Uccelli, Gules, on an owl affronty maintaining in its talons a rose slipped and leaved argent, a heart gules and in chief a cross bottony and a fleur-de-lys Or. [January 2016 LoAR, A-East]., so that “This device does not violate SENA A3D2a, “slot machine” armory, which means a design having more than two types of charge in a single group.”

There is now a question as to a primary charge’s maintained charge counting as a secondary charge group vs. a secondary charge itself maintaining a charge.

Finola Elizabeth Sutherland (Mons Tonitrus): NEW DEVICE CHANGE: Purpure, on a pile inverted between two natural dolphins haurientrepectant argent a fleur-de-lys sable.

The name was registered November 2011.
If registered, the client’s current device, Purpure, on a pile inverted between two natural dolphins haurient repectant argent a mullet sable., is to be retained as a badge.

Jeffroie Laurence Du Bosc (Barony of Atenveldt): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Quarterly gules and purpure, a cross counter-compony sable and argent, in chief two lions couchant addorsed regardant Or.

I cannot find this spelling of the given name. However, it appears in a number of variant spellings (Geffray 1444, Jeffray 1444, Geffry 1416, Jeffrey 1463, Goscelinus 1269, Joscelinus 1162-3, all taken from the Middle English Dictionary). The MED also demonstrates Geffrei 1475. While none of these show an -o- in the name, ffride wlffsdotter notes that Google cites multiple instances of the statement “Jeffroie DuBois, a Norman Knight who accompanied William the Conqueror (Duke of Normandy),” which may explain why the submitter has requested authenticity for “11th C. Norman.”
Maria de Venetia (Tir Ysgithr): NEW DEVICE CHANGE: Argent, a butterfly azure, a bordure azure semy of heart argent.

Mark the Just (Twin Moons): NEW ALTERNATE NAME, Just Mark, and NEW BADGE: Sable, a hanging balance and a chief embattled argent.

ffride wlffsdotter demonstrates the name elements:
Just Benny, male, christened 1544, St Just in Roseland, Cornwall, England. Batch no. C05318-1
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J7S2-KQX)
Just Pollard, male, christened 1546, St Just in Roseland, Cornwall, England. Batch no. C05318-1
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5Z8-NFM)
Nicholas Mark, male, married 1586, Saint Minver, Cornwall, England. Batch no. M00235-1
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V52N-GZN)

The client desires a male name and will not accept Major or Minor name changes.

Rebeka Orosz (Twin Moons): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Quarterly vert and azure, a cross nebuly argent surmounted by a camal rampant Or.

Rebeka is a female given name This spelling was documented by Kolosvari Arpadne Julia in Hungary (in Latin) in 1272 (Fehértói, Árpád-kori személynévtár, s.n. Rebeka), seen in the LoAR for Rebeka Sidó, March 2014. This cams from Női neveink az Árpád-korban Az Árpád-kori személynévtár (1000-1301) alapján by Jurkó Edina (http://mnytud.arts.unideb.hu/szakdolgozat/1667/jurko_e_1667.pdf) has p. 29 of the PDF
Rebeka, 1272.

Theresia Orocz was the wife of Stephanus Pritz and the mother of Catharina Pritz, who was baptized 11 Nov 1556 in Dunafoöldvár, Tolna, Hungary (Hungary, Catholic Church Records, 1636-1895,” database, FamilySearch,https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X6DW-T54 : 21 July 2017), https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3ATheresia~%20%2Bsurname%3AOrosz~%20%2Bbirth_place%3AHungary~%20%2Bbirth_year%3A1200-1650~. The client desires a female name and it most interested in the language/culture of the name; she would like it authentic for language/culture (Hungarian).

However, Kolosvari Arpadne Julia: “Dunaföldvár does not have church records going back to 1556. (The Ottomans used the stones of the ruined abbey to build themselves a tower there in the mid-1500s.) The date was mis-indexed; it’s actually 1856(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9398-VNTJ-C?i=475). 
“Orosz ‘Russian, Ruthenian’ is a very common surname in Hungary. Kázmér dates the header spelling Orosz to 1514, 1522, and 1588, and the most common period spelling Oroz as early as 1332.
“There’s my ethnic bynames article (https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/julia/EthnicBynames.html), which mentions Oroz as the most common spelling and the earliest date of 1332 for the name; that plus a construction argument based on other mentioned most-common-in-period spellings, such as Cherkesz and Szerb, should be enough to get Orosz (especially given that I can then confirm its period-ness in commentary).”
ffride wlffsdotter: Szamota István, 1906. Magyar oklevél-szótár
(https://archive.org/details/magyaroklevlsz00szamuoft)
col. 714 sn. Orosz
Blasius Oroz 1426
Jacobi dicti Oroz 1449
Ladislai Oroz 1453
Petro Oroz 1470
Orosz András, Orosz Miklós 1602
Julia addtionally says: “I just noticed that the submitter requests authenticity. Given the 1272 date for Rebeka, even 1332 for Oroz is a bit of a stretch (fifty years: two generations), but it would unquestionably be better than the late-period Orosz. I do wonder whether Rebeka shows up in the Anjou-age name list by Mariann Slíz — she has been adding her material to the DMNES, but as far as I can tell she’s only gotten up to M. I would not be totally surprised by a post-Reformation (but pre-17c.) Rebeka, but I have not found such a citation. If I did, then Orosz would be a good spelling to go with it.”
Rhys Makhdoom (BoA): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Sable, a horned and fange death’s head, on a chief argent,three horned and fanged death’s heads gules. 
There was a great deal of discussion on this name Makhdoom. It was used by the descendants of Pirs, Quraysh Tribe, politicians and landlords in the in Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Sindh (http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Makhdoom). There is the likelihood that Makhdoom was a title given to, and not a name personally associated with an individual. There are some instances of Makhdoom associated with people (including a man in the petroleum business, a physician from Illinois, and a Pakistani model), but they are all 20^th C./post-period persons. If this element in period was used as a title alone, it violates SENA PN.4. B. 1. Use of Elements that Appear to Be Titles: Names may not contain an element or group of elements that create the appearance of a claim to have a specific protected rank or title that the submitter does not possess within the Society, even if that name element or elements are attested. A number of bynames based on documented Middle English ones were suggested by ffride wlffsdotter, in the event that this submission is returned. 
There was somewhat less commentary on the device, other than how to accurately describe the charges. Whether the combination of it and the literal pronunciation of the name, or the perceived excessive religious reference and religious offense have to be decided by Wreath. 
Sean Gleny (TM): NEW NAME CHANGE, from Seán an Gleanna
The original name submission was registered with this commentary: “Submitted as Seán Glenny, the name conflicts with one of the submitter’s legal use names, [redacted]. There is insufficient difference in the sound of these two names for the submission to be registerable.
“However, the name can be made registerable by addressing his request for a name authentic for 13th C Ireland. While we cannot make this name authentic for the 13th century (because we do not have any examples of the name Seán before the early 14th century), we can change the name to fully Irish Gaelic form, which will change the sound sufficiently to provide enough difference from the legal use name to make the name registerable.
The byname Glenny was documented as the submitter’s legal surname. The Gaelic form of Glenny is an Gleanna, which is dated to 1592 in Mari Elspeth nic Brian “Index of Names in Irish Annals”. The same article also has 16th C examples of Seán. We have changed the name to Seán an Gleanna, an authentic 16th C Irish Gaelic name, in order to register it and to partially fulfill the submitter’s authenticity request.”
The Administrative Handbook.III.A.10. Name Used by the Submitter Outside the Society – “No name will be registered to a submitter if it is identical to a name used by the submitter for purposes of identification outside of a Society context. This includes legal names, common use names, trademarks, and other items registered with mundane authorities that serve to identify an individual or group. This restriction applies to Society branches as well as individuals. Thus, a branch cannot use the name of a significant location (a town or county, for example) within its borders. This restriction is intended to help preserve a distinction between a submitter’s identity within the Society and the submitter’s identity outside of the Society.”
Under SENA, Sean doesn’t conflict with John, with differences in initial consonant and vowel (the initial commentary and ruling in 2008 wasn’t made under SENA).
Solveig frá Rauðá (Ered Sul): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Per fess gules and argent semy of shears, a fess wavy sable and in chief a fish Or.
The name is Old Norse. Sólveig is a feminine name found in “Viking Names found in Landnámabók,” Aryanhwy merch Catmael,http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/landnamabok.html. Rauðá is a river in Southern Iceland, in Árnessýsla Co. It is referenced in the Landnámabók. The word frá is the preposition, “from,” associated with place-names such as used for period locales like rivers and farms. Prepositions like this are moderately common in locative bynames, but to indicate place of origin rather than place of resedence: both it and ór can be translated “from” in this context; frá is a cognate with the English from.

The following submissions were registered by the SCA College of Arms, July 2017:

Dennis of Tir Ysgithr. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Sable, on a pile azure fimbriated a scimitar inverted, a bordure argent. 
Submitted under the name Valeas Proietto di Venezia.

Fiórleif eldr {o,}rn. Device. Argent, a phoenix gules, a bordure sable semy of pheons argent.

Galen Peter Gilmore. Device. Per bend purpure and argent, a wyvern argent and three domestic cats herissony contourny guardant sable.

Godfrey Jordain. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
The submitter requested authenticity for an unspecified time, place or language. This name as documented is authentic for 16th century England.

Hannah Milligan. Device. Per bend vert and purpure, on a bend Or a rose sable, overall two natural dolphins in annulo argent. 
Having charges in annulo not in their usual upright orientation is a step from period practice.

Jaku’an Kakujo. Device change (see RETURNS for name change). Azure, on a hexagon within a hexagon voided argent a hemp leaf vert. 
This depiction of a hemp leaf is registered to the submitter. There is a step from period practice for the use of hexagons.
The submitter’s previous device, Per pale sable and vert, within a torii a lion dormant argent, is released.

Johnathan Crusadene Whitewolf the Younger. Alternate name Eber Hauer and badge. Per bend Or and argent, a bend raguly gules between adouble-headed eagle sable and an elephant’s tusk gules. The submitter requested authenticity for an unspecified time, place or language. This name appears to be authentic for Prussia (Germany) circa 1600.

Leo frun of Tir Ysgithr. Name and badge. Gules, a chimera statant within a bordure Or. 
Tir Ysgithr is the registered name of an SCA branch.

Leolin Blackwell. Name and device. Sable, a chevron gules ermined and fimbriated between two natural leopards combattant Or spotted sable and a demi-sun issuant from base Or. 
Artist’s note: Please draw the ermine spots larger and the fimbriation thicker.

Lilias Mar. Name.
Nice 16th century Scottish name!

Muiredach mac Robartaig. Name and device. Chevronelly inverted azure and Or, on a chief-pale sable between two doves respectant gules, a double-headed axe Or. 
Nice Gaelic name for the 8th-12th centuries!

Olive of Granholme. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Quarterly purpure and sable, on a cross rayonnant Or between in chief two owls respectant argent, an increscent moon azure. Submitted under the name Olive Long Anne Prosper.

Orabilis Douw. Name and device. Per pale dovetailed argent and purpure, a wolf rampant contourny sable and a winged unicorn segreant argent, on a chief rayonny vert three thistles argent, blossomed purpure.

Orabilis Douw. Badge. Argent, a wolf’s head erased contourny sable and a unicorn’s head erased purpure armed gules, a point pointed counter-ermine.

Sibyl Brethnagh. Name (see RETURNS for device). 
Submitted as Sibyl Breathnach, the submitter preferred the 13th century Anglicized form of the byname, mentioned in commentary by Coblaith Muimnech. Therefore, we have changed the name to Sibyl Brethnagh to match the submitter’s preference.

Þórbjorn Siggeirsson. Name. 
Submitted as Þórbjørn Siggeirson, two minor changes were required for registration of this name. First, although there are many transliterations of the given name, none of them include ø. With the submitter’s permission, we have changed the given name to Þórbjorn to use one of the standard transliterations. Second, the byname does not use the correct genitive (possessive) form of the father’s name. We have corrected by the byname to Siggeirssson for registration.

Vincent Blackwell. Name and device. Sable, on a pale gules fimbriated between in chief two wolves rampant addorsed a sword inverted argent. 
Nice 16th century English name!

The following submissions were returned by the College of Arms for further work, July 2017:

Áilgheanán mac Síthigh. Device. Or, a “hound” passant regardant vert and a chief sable. 
This device is returned for redraw. The hound is depicted in a highly stylized Celtic manner, in violation of SENA A2C1, which requires that elements of armory be drawn “in a period armorial style.”
The depiction of the hound is also in violation of SENA A2C2, which requires that “Elements must be drawn to be identifiable.” Commenters had difficulty identifying the charge as a hound, with some identifying it instead as a cat.

Amber Bikkadóttir. Device. Per chevron inverted vert semy of cat’s pawprints argent and sable, a domestic cat couchant contourny paly sable and Or and a tree eradicated argent. 
This device is returned for redraw. The field division is too high for per chevron inverted, and the paly division makes the domestic cat difficult to identify. There is a step from period practice for use of pawprints.

Ceallach Colquhoun. Household name Red Dragon Keep of Sundragon. 
This household name must be returned because the pattern Place Name/Heraldic Charge + Keep + of Place Name was not documented and does not follow any attested pattern for names used for groups of people. We cannot drop the phrase of Sundragon, as the name Red Dragon Keepconflicts with the registered household names Company of the Red Dragon and House of the Red Dragons.
The submitter has two options for resubmission. First, although a change in designator does not clear a conflict between non-personal names, it does make it possible to register a name with permission to conflict. If the submitter obtains permission to conflict from the owners of Company of the Red Dragon and House of the Red Dragons, then Red Dragon Keep would be registerable.
Second, in the following forms, the name would fit attested patterns for household names: Red Dragon House of [place name] or Red Dragon Tavern/Inn of [place name].
If the submitter wishes to use of Sundragon as part of a resubmission, he should be prepared to address concerns raised by commenters that this construction was an improper claim to be an official arm of the Barony.

Godfrey Jordain. Device. Vert, a chevron throughout gules fimbriated and charged with two chevronels Or. 
This device is returned for conflict with Eiríkr skreyja, Vert, a chevron gules fimbriated argent. There’s one DC, for adding the tertiary charges to the chevron, but nothing for changing the tincture of the fimbriation.

Olive Long Anne Prosper. Name. 
PN2E of SENA states: No name will be registered that either in whole or in part is obtrusively modern. Something is said to be obtrusively modern when it makes a modern joke or reference that destroys medieval ambience and drags the average person mentally back to the present day. Obtrusiveness can be either in the written form or when spoken. A period name that has a modern referent will not generally be considered obtrusively modern. Only extreme examples will be returned.
This name must be returned because commentary uniformly identified it as an obtrusively modern Star Trek reference, clearly evoking the phrase “live long and prosper” and dragging listeners back to the modern (or future) era. The fact that this name uses an unusual English construction (double given names and double surnames) to accomplish its joke takes it beyond a mere modern referent to the sort of extreme example that requires return.
Her device is registered under the holding name Olive of Granholme.

Roland of Blaye. Name. 
This name must be returned because it presumes on the significant historical figure Count Roland, nephew of Charlemagne and eponymous hero of the 12th century Chanson de Roland, one of the most famous pieces of medieval literature.
Roland was called seigneur de Blaye (overlord of Blaye) in period sources. For example, Annales & croniques de France: depuis la destruction de Troye iusques au temps du roy Louis onzieme, published in 1553 (https://books.google.com/books?id=iy9hAAAAcAAJ), refers to Roland several times as “Comte du Mans” (Count of Mans) and “Seigneur de Blaye.” Blaye continues to be the modern name of the place. Thus, Roland of Blayeis a form of the famous Roland’s name and the present submission must be returned as presumptuous.

Sibyl Brethnagh. Device. Gules, a corgi dog rampant contourny Or maintaining a dagger inverted argent, a bordure embattled Or. 
This device is returned for redraw. The depiction of the primary charge does not match the provided documentation for the corgi, with the ears, tail, and muzzle noticeably differently from the gray-period image. No commenters were able to recognize the charge as a corgi.

Valeas Proietto di Venezia. Name. 
This name must be returned due to lack of evidence for Valeas as a name element. The documents cited in the Letter of Intent show the name as Valens, not Valeas. All of the instances of valeas found by commenters were for a Latin verb form, not a name (or even a noun). Heralds at the Pelican decision meeting were able to document both Valens and Valerius as given names compatible with the remainder of the name. However, the submitter allows no changes. Therefore, the name must be returned.
His device is registered under the holding name Dennis of Tir Ysgithr.

Yagi Tenji Yoshitatsu Kakujo. Name change from Jaku’an Kakujo. 
Unfortunately, this name must be returned because it is not correctly constructed and the submitter does not allow any changes. The submitter appears to be intending to use the attested Japanese pattern of Family Name + Yobina + Nanori + Imina. However, Solveig Keystone advises Tenjicannot be used as a yobina because it is an “era name” referring to a time period; “era names” did not come into use as yobinas until after the SCA’s period.
The submitter may be interested to know that Tenji can be documented as an imina or a “name in religion.” Thus, Yagi + yobina + Yoshitatsu Tenjiwould be registerable. Kakujo is also an imina. Thus, Yagi + yobina + Yoshitatsu Kakujo is also registerable. However, there is no evidence of Japanese names using two iminas.

Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy

c/o Linda Miku

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Tucson AZ 85716

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ATENVELDT COLLEGE OF HERALDS 1 October 2017, A.S. LII

LETTER OF PRESENTATION Kingdom of Atenveldt

Unto Their Royal Majesties Áilgheanán and Amber; Baroness Genevieve de Lironcourt, Aten Principal Herald; Heralds in the Atenveldt College of Heralds; and to All Whom These Presents Come,

Greetings from Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy, Brickbat Herald and Parhelium Herald for the Kingdom of Atenveldt!

This is the October 2017 Atenveldt Letter of Presentation. Please have commentary to me by 20 October 2017.

Heraldry Hut: The October 2017 Heraldry Hut is tentatively scheduled for Friday, 20 October, 7:30 PM.

The following are returned by the Atenveldt CoH for further work, Ocotber 2017:

Saoirse Kyara Fae Ultaig (BoA): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Or, a fess sable, overall two candles argent, enflamed gules.

The submission forms REALLY need to be filled out in pen, and made complete as possible. Date submitted and consulting herald information are very valuable. Documentation is a given.

Although it is claimed that the client’s legal name is Saoirse Kyara Fae Mullan, no documentation was provided for the name.

Charges must have good contrast with the field. Although there is fine contrast with the sable fess on the Or field, because the candles are overall, they need good contrast as well, and argent candles on an Or field do not. 
RETURNED for name documentation and contrast issues on the device.

Sitareh (BoA): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Argent, a mermaid purpure maintaining a sun Or and a decrescent azure, a double tressure sable.

No documentation was provided for the name, other than it is meant to mean “star” (no language given).

This also violates PN.2.B. Name Phrase Requirements: A registerable personal name must be made up of at least two name phrases: a given name and at least one byname (which may appear to be a second given name). While it is easy to document individuals who are identified only with a single given name, we do not allow the registration of single element personal names. Individuals may use those names, but may not register them.

The device seems to be free of conflict; however, it must be accompanied by a name submission.

RETURNED for name.

The following submissions appear in the September 2017 Atenveldt Letter of Intent:

Commentary was provided by Basil Dragonstrike, Christian Jorgensen af Hilsonger, Coblaith Muimnech, Etienne Le Mons, ffride wlffsdotter,Iago ab Adam, Kolosvari Arpadne Julia, Kryss Kostarev, Magnus von Lübeck, Maridonna Benvenuti, and Michael Gerard Curtememoire.

Abigail de Westminster and Lachlann Dougal Graeme (Mons Tonitrus): NEW BADGE: (Fieldless) Three chevronels couped and braced counterermine.

The names were registered January 2006 and February 2009, respectively.

Cu Cathan Ultaig (BoA): NEW DEVICE: Gules, a bend sinister bevilled between a wolf’s head couped contourny and an axe reversed maintained by a hand couped argent.

The name is registered as Cathán Ultaig; it was registered October 2009.

Iago ab Adam commented that more info about the hand is needed in the blazon: Gules, a bend sinister bevilled between a wolf’s head couped contourny and an axe reversed maintained by a sinister hand fesswise reversed argent., and added “ I’m a bit concerned that this might be slot machine, with three types of charge (wolf’s head, axe, hand) in the secondary charge group. I couldn’t find a relevant precedent (post the Aug 2015 maintained/sustained rule change) about whether held charges count as a different secondary charge group from the secondary charge holding them.” 
Magnus von Lübeck found a recent acceptance example with a primary charge and a maintained charge for Rosa Linda degli Uccelli, Gules, on an owl affronty maintaining in its talons a rose slipped and leaved argent, a heart gules and in chief a cross bottony and a fleur-de-lys Or. [January 2016 LoAR, A-East]., so that “This device does not violate SENA A3D2a, “slot machine” armory, which means a design having more than two types of charge in a single group.”

There is now a question as to a primary charge’s maintained charge counting as a secondary charge group vs. a secondary charge itself maintaining a charge.

Finola Elizabeth Sutherland (Mons Tonitrus): NEW DEVICE CHANGE: Purpure, on a pile inverted between two natural dolphins haurientrepectant argent a fleur-de-lys sable.

The name was registered November 2011.
If registered, the client’s current device, Purpure, on a pile inverted between two natural dolphins haurient repectant argent a mullet sable., is to be retained as a badge.

Jeffroie Laurence Du Bosc (Barony of Atenveldt): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Quarterly gules and purpure, a cross counter-compony sable and argent, in chief two lions couchant addorsed regardant Or.

I cannot find this spelling of the given name. However, it appears in a number of variant spellings (Geffray 1444, Jeffray 1444, Geffry 1416, Jeffrey 1463, Goscelinus 1269, Joscelinus 1162-3, all taken from the Middle English Dictionary). The MED also demonstrates Geffrei 1475. While none of these show an -o- in the name, ffride wlffsdotter notes that Google cites multiple instances of the statement “Jeffroie DuBois, a Norman Knight who accompanied William the Conqueror (Duke of Normandy),” which may explain why the submitter has requested authenticity for “11th C. Norman.”
Maria de Venetia (Tir Ysgithr): NEW DEVICE CHANGE: Argent, a butterfly azure, a bordure azure semy of heart argent.

Mark the Just (Twin Moons): NEW ALTERNATE NAME, Just Mark, and NEW BADGE: Sable, a hanging balance and a chief embattled argent.

ffride wlffsdotter demonstrates the name elements:
Just Benny, male, christened 1544, St Just in Roseland, Cornwall, England. Batch no. C05318-1
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J7S2-KQX)
Just Pollard, male, christened 1546, St Just in Roseland, Cornwall, England. Batch no. C05318-1
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5Z8-NFM)
Nicholas Mark, male, married 1586, Saint Minver, Cornwall, England. Batch no. M00235-1
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V52N-GZN)

The client desires a male name and will not accept Major or Minor name changes.

Rebeka Orosz (Twin Moons): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Quarterly vert and azure, a cross nebuly argent surmounted by a camal rampant Or.

Rebeka is a female given name This spelling was documented by Kolosvari Arpadne Julia in Hungary (in Latin) in 1272 (Fehértói, Árpád-kori személynévtár, s.n. Rebeka), seen in the LoAR for Rebeka Sidó, March 2014. This cams from Női neveink az Árpád-korban Az Árpád-kori személynévtár (1000-1301) alapján by Jurkó Edina (http://mnytud.arts.unideb.hu/szakdolgozat/1667/jurko_e_1667.pdf) has p. 29 of the PDF
Rebeka, 1272.

Theresia Orocz was the wife of Stephanus Pritz and the mother of Catharina Pritz, who was baptized 11 Nov 1556 in Dunafoöldvár, Tolna, Hungary (Hungary, Catholic Church Records, 1636-1895,” database, FamilySearch,https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X6DW-T54 : 21 July 2017), https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3ATheresia~%20%2Bsurname%3AOrosz~%20%2Bbirth_place%3AHungary~%20%2Bbirth_year%3A1200-1650~. The client desires a female name and it most interested in the language/culture of the name; she would like it authentic for language/culture (Hungarian).

However, Kolosvari Arpadne Julia: “Dunaföldvár does not have church records going back to 1556. (The Ottomans used the stones of the ruined abbey to build themselves a tower there in the mid-1500s.) The date was mis-indexed; it’s actually 1856 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9398-VNTJ-C?i=475). 
“Orosz ‘Russian, Ruthenian’ is a very common surname in Hungary. Kázmér dates the header spelling Orosz to 1514, 1522, and 1588, and the most common period spelling Oroz as early as 1332.
“There’s my ethnic bynames article (https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/julia/EthnicBynames.html), which mentions Oroz as the most common spelling and the earliest date of 1332 for the name; that plus a construction argument based on other mentioned most-common-in-period spellings, such as Cherkesz and Szerb, should be enough to get Orosz (especially given that I can then confirm its period-ness in commentary).”
ffride wlffsdotter: Szamota István, 1906. Magyar oklevél-szótár
(https://archive.org/details/magyaroklevlsz00szamuoft)
col. 714 sn. Orosz
Blasius Oroz 1426
Jacobi dicti Oroz 1449
Ladislai Oroz 1453
Petro Oroz 1470
Orosz András, Orosz Miklós 1602
Julia addtionally says: “I just noticed that the submitter requests authenticity. Given the 1272 date for Rebeka, even 1332 for Oroz is a bit of a stretch (fifty years: two generations), but it would unquestionably be better than the late-period Orosz. I do wonder whether Rebeka shows up in the Anjou-age name list by Mariann Slíz — she has been adding her material to the DMNES, but as far as I can tell she’s only gotten up to M. I would not be totally surprised by a post-Reformation (but pre-17c.) Rebeka, but I have not found such a citation. If I did, then Orosz would be a good spelling to go with it.”
Rhys Makhdoom (BoA): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Sable, a horned and fange death’s head, on a chief argent,three horned and fanged death’s heads gules. 
There was a great deal of discussion on this name Makhdoom. It was used by the descendants of Pirs, Quraysh Tribe, politicians and landlords in the in Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Sindh (http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Makhdoom). There is the likelihood that Makhdoom was a title given to, and not a name personally associated with an individual. There are some instances of Makhdoom associated with people (including a man in the petroleum business, a physician from Illinois, and a Pakistani model), but they are all 20^th C./post-period persons. If this element in period was used as a title alone, it violates SENA PN.4. B. 1. Use of Elements that Appear to Be Titles: Names may not contain an element or group of elements that create the appearance of a claim to have a specific protected rank or title that the submitter does not possess within the Society, even if that name element or elements are attested. A number of bynames based on documented Middle English ones were suggested by ffride wlffsdotter, in the event that this submission is returned. 
There was somewhat less commentary on the device, other than how to accurately describe the charges. Whether the combination of it and the literal pronunciation of the name, or the perceived excessive religious reference and religious offense have to be decided by Wreath. 
Sean Gleny (TM): NEW NAME CHANGE, from Seán an Gleanna
The original name submission was registered with this commentary: “Submitted as Seán Glenny, the name conflicts with one of the submitter’s legal use names, [redacted]. There is insufficient difference in the sound of these two names for the submission to be registerable.
“However, the name can be made registerable by addressing his request for a name authentic for 13th C Ireland. While we cannot make this name authentic for the 13th century (because we do not have any examples of the name Seán before the early 14th century), we can change the name to fully Irish Gaelic form, which will change the sound sufficiently to provide enough difference from the legal use name to make the name registerable.
The byname Glenny was documented as the submitter’s legal surname. The Gaelic form of Glenny is an Gleanna, which is dated to 1592 in Mari Elspeth nic Brian “Index of Names in Irish Annals”. The same article also has 16th C examples of Seán. We have changed the name to Seán an Gleanna, an authentic 16th C Irish Gaelic name, in order to register it and to partially fulfill the submitter’s authenticity request.”
The Administrative Handbook.III.A.10. Name Used by the Submitter Outside the Society – “No name will be registered to a submitter if it is identical to a name used by the submitter for purposes of identification outside of a Society context. This includes legal names, common use names, trademarks, and other items registered with mundane authorities that serve to identify an individual or group. This restriction applies to Society branches as well as individuals. Thus, a branch cannot use the name of a significant location (a town or county, for example) within its borders. This restriction is intended to help preserve a distinction between a submitter’s identity within the Society and the submitter’s identity outside of the Society.”
Under SENA, Sean doesn’t conflict with John, with differences in initial consonant and vowel (the initial commentary and ruling in 2008 wasn’t made under SENA).
Solveig frá Rauðá (Ered Sul): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Per fess gules and argent semy of shears, a fess wavy sable and in chief a fish Or.
The name is Old Norse. Sólveig is a feminine name found in “Viking Names found in Landnámabók,” Aryanhwy merch Catmael,http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/landnamabok.html. Rauðá is a river in Southern Iceland, in Árnessýsla Co. It is referenced in the Landnámabók. The word frá is the preposition, “from,” associated with place-names such as used for period locales like rivers and farms. Prepositions like this are moderately common in locative bynames, but to indicate place of origin rather than place of resedence: both it and ór can be translated “from” in this context; frá is a cognate with the English from.

Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy

c/o Linda Miku

2527 East 3^rd Street

Tucson AZ 85716

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