Letters of Presentation (LoP) – Page 2 – Kingdom of Atenveldt Heraldic Submissions

LOP – 1 October 2017, A.S. LII

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

brickbat@nexiliscom.com

atensubmissions.nexiliscom.com

LOP – 1 September 2017, A.S. LII

ATENVELDT COLLEGE OF HERALDS 1 September 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 September 2017 Atenveldt Letter of Presentation. Please have commentary to me by 20 September 2017.

Heraldry Hut: The September 2017 Heraldry Hut is tentatively scheduled for Friday, 15 September, 7:30 PM.

Please consider the following for the September 2017 Atenveldt Letter of Intent:

Cu Cathan Ultaig (BoA): NEW DEVICE

Gules, a bend sinister bevilled between a wolf’s head couped contourny and an axe reversed maintain by a hand couped argent.

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

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.

The submission forms REALLY need to be filled out in pen, and made complete as possible. Current email address, branch name and consulting herald are very valuable. There needs to be a sincere attempt at making the armorial forms neat and well-colored.

I cannot find this spelling of the given name. However, Geoffrei has been registered multiple times by the CoA in what seems to be a French and/or a Norman name.

Friar Laurence occurs in Romeo & Juliet, by William Shakespeare 1591. Aryanhwy cites it in “Index of Names in the 1292 Subsidy Roll of London” – Aryanhwy merch Catmael (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/english/london1292.html); it is also the client’s legal given name.

The surname DuBosc is recorded around 1500 in Bordeaux, citing Friedemann and Scott’s “Names Found in Commercial Documents from Bordeaux, 1470-1520” where the name of Vincent Dubosc appears (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/french/bordeaux.html). The surname in the spelling Dubosc also appears in a Norman context in Elliot’s “Sixteenth Century Norman Names” at http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/cateline/norman16.html. This spelling is used by other members of his family, Lie du Bosc and Ann du Bosc; those names do not have the article capitalized.

The client desires a male name and it most interested in the language/culture of the name; he would like it authentic for time period (11^th C. Norman).

Maria de Venetia (Tir Ysgithr): NEW DEVICE CHANGE

Argent, a butterfly azure, a bordure azure semy of heart argent.

The name was registered March 2017.

If registered, the client’s current device, Per bend argent and gules, a swan sable and a sword inverted Or. (registered November 2016 under the name Natasiia Novgorodova; neither that name or that armory appears in the A&O) is to be retained as a badge.

Mark the Just (Twin Moons): NEW ALTERNATE NAME, Just Mark, and NEW BADGE

Sable, a hand balance and a chief embattled argent.

The primary name was registered July 2015.

The name elements appear in his registered name. Just, in that what is done is morally right, righteous, is dated to 1382; just, upright and upright in one’s moral dealings, is dated to 1382, both in the COED. The client desires a male name and will not accept Major or Minor name changes.

The badge uses elements from his registered device, Sable, a hanging balance and on a chief embattled argent a rod per pale gules and sable.

Rebeka Orosz (Twin Moons): NEW NAME and DEVICE

Quarterly vert and azure, a cross nebuly argent surmounted by a camal rampant Or.

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).

Rhys Makhdoom (BoA): NEW NAME and DEVICE

Sable, a horned death’s head, on a chief argent, three horned death’s heads gules.
The submission forms REALLY need to be filled out in pen, and made complete as possible. Branch name, date submitted, and consulting herald are very valuable.

Rhys is the client’s legal name. Makhdoom was found in Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhdoom). It is an Arabic term for a teacher of theSunnah (teachings, sayings and attributions) of the Prophet Mohammad. The Makhdoom families were respected in Pakistan mainly due to the role of their ancestors in spreading Islam in the subcontinent. A Makhdoom was a respected person who dedicated his life to Islam, the Quran and the Sunnah.
The client desires a male name and is most interested in the sound of the name.

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.

For Ultaig, the byname Ultac (“Ulster[-ian]/Ulster[-ish]/Ulidian”) begins as a descriptive byname but became an inherited surname, according to “Index of Names in Irish Annals: Descriptive Bynames: Ultac/Ultach,” Mari Elspeth nic Bryan (http://www.medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/DescriptiveBynames/Ultac.shtml ). The Middle Irish Gaelic form of the name, which corresponds to the date of the given name, is Ultac/Ultaig and dates from 860 to 1078 (it also appears as a Modern Early Irish Gaelic name element). Given the examples in the citation, the correct form appears to be Ultaig. It is registered to the client’s father. The client desires a female name and is most interested in the sound of the name (“seer-shuh”). She will accept no Major or Minor changes to the name.

Sean Gleny (TM): NEW NAME CHANGE, from Seán an Gleanna

Sean is a masculine given name from the Gaelic “Seán”, a version of “John”. One instance, dated 1601, “Names Found in Anglicized Irish Documents: Men’s Names,” Mari ingen Briain meic Donnchada, http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnglicizedIrish/Masculine.shtml.

Eupham Gleny, daughter of Archibald Gleny was christened aa march 1649 in Alyth, Perth, Scotland (Batch C11328-2,https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3AEupham~%20%2Bsurname%3AGleny~%20%2Bbirth_year%3A1649-1649~%20%2Bgender%3AF&collection_id=1771030). The currently-registered name should be retained as an alternate name.

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

The submission forms REALLY need to be filled out in pen, and made complete as possible. Current e-mail address, date submitted and consulting herald are very valuable. There needs to be a sincere attempt at making the armorial forms neat and well-colored.

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

The client desires a female name and is most interested in the meaning of the name (“star”). She will accept no Major or Minor changes to the name.

Solveig Sundafyllir (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. Sundafyllir, “sound-filler, ablt to fill a bay with fish by magic,” is found in “Viking Bynames found in the Landnámabók,” Aryanhwy merch Catmael, http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/vikbynames.html.

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

Commentary was provided by Adelaide de Beaumont, Michael Gerard Curtmemoire, Maridonna Benvenuti.

Donndubán mac Eógain (Ered Sul): DEVICE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, June 2013: Argent, a wolf rampant gules ermined Or, a bordure pean.
The name was registered June 2013.
The original submission, Per chevron sable and vert, a chevron between two compass starts and a sword inverted argent., was returned for conflict. This is a complete redesign.

Eugene Haraldsson (Burning Sands):NEW NAME and DEVICE: Per pale sable and argent, a sun eclipsed between in bend an arrowhead and anther inverted, all counterchanged.

Adelaide de Beaumont commented that Eugene is anglicized, and the pope was born Eugenio Savelli (in 780), becoming Pope Eugenius in 824. SENA allows English with Norse only before 1100, and neither Latin nor Italian combine at all. However, Maridonna Benvenuti suggested thatEugene is found in Ireland as Early Modern English in 1539-1540 (source Fiants-1 99), in DMNES, http://dmnes.org/name/Eugene. In Reaney and Wilson, one finds Philip Harald 1327 s.n. Herald et al. pp. 217-218. Henryson shows Richard Henrison 1343, Nicholas Henryson 1381, ‘Son of Henry,’ p. 217; and in Bardsley, Higg, Higgs, Higson show Elizabeth Higson of Brereton Will’ at Chester. There are all within 300 years of each other, if Eugene Haraldson is considered a plausible spelling. It seems that the simple addition of -son for an English byname would only use a single –s-.
Michael Gerard Curtememoire suspected the Unity rules forbid a charge and another inverted in the same charge group, unless a period exemplar can be found. I am sending this on, with the hope that UOP doesn’t go to such lengths.

Geraint de Grey: DEVICE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, June 2017: Azure, a chevron cotised Or between two mullets of five points argent and a demi-sun issuant from base Or.

The name was registered October 2000.

The previous submission, Azure, a chevron Or between two mullets of eight points argent and a demi-sun issuant from base Or., was returned for conflict with Godric Linch, Azure, a chevron Or between two quatrefoils argent and a lion dormant Or. There is one DC for changing the type of all of the secondary charges. Additionally, this device is returned for violation of SENA A3D1, the “sword and dagger” rule, which disallows the use of visually similar but blazonably different charges. Mullets of eight points and suns do not have a DC between them, and cannot be used on the same device; the use of demi-suns and mullets of eight points is just as visually confusing. Changing the eight-pointed mullets to mullets of five points eliminates the “sword and dagger” violation, and adding the cotises clears the conflict with Godric (hopefully without encountering new conflicts).

Marcus Octavius Valerius (BS): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Per pale gules and sable, an eagle Or and in chief three billets argent.

The name is Latin. Marcus and Octavius are listed as praenomen and nomen, respectively, in Ursula George’s naming guide, http://yarntheory.net/ursulageorges/names/roman.html. In “A Study of the Cognomina of Soldiers in the Roman Legions,” Lindley Richard Dean, under the heading for Valerianus (p. 56), it says, “Before speaking of Valerianus there are several examples of Valerius as a cognomen which must be noticed.” Marcus Octavius Valerius is therefore fine, https://books.google.com/books?id=MF0KAAAAIAAJ&q=valerius#v=onepage&q=valerius&f=false. He desires a male name and is most interested in the language/culture of the name (Roman 1-2^nd C.); he would like it made authentic for a 1st-2^nd C. Roman. The client will not allow the creation of a holding name.

The original submission, Per pale embattled gules and sable, an eagle Or., conflicts with David Evan McKuenn, Per fess rayonny sable and gules, an eagle displayed Or breathing flames proper., and with the Emperor of Constantinople, Gules, a double-headed eagle Or. There was also an issue of a complex line of division on a low-contrast divided field, coupled with that line mostly obscured by the primary charge. However, Michael Gerard Curtmemoire suggested the use of a plain line of division, and using three billets in chief, suggesting an allusion to the client’s knight and request for some referent to the knight’s armory. (A rendition of Sir Oslaf’s arms is at http://www.atenveldt.org/Heraldry/OrderofPrecedence/memid/2645.) This redesign was suggested to the client and he finds it very appealing, so this is how the submission will proceed.

Nikolaus Gerhart (Tir Ysgithr): NEW BADGE: (Fieldless) An armored arm embowed argent sustaining a broken lance bendwise sinister Or.

The name was registered November 2014.

Viktoria of York: DEVICE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, April 2017: Argent, on a Latin cross throughout purpure a dragonfly argent.

The name was registered July 2012.

The previous submission, Per saltire argent and purpure, in pale two crosses and in fess two dragonflies counterchanged., was returned for running afoul of SENA A3D2b. which states “Mixing Ordinaries and Other Charges: While charge groups may have different types of charges, charge groups consist of either identical ordinaries or complex charges. Thus, a single charge group may not mix ordinaries with non-ordinaries or mix two types of ordinaries.” Here we have a primary charge group with the crosses throughout (which are considered ordinaries) and the dragonflies. This is a redesign.

Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy

c/o Linda Miku

2527 East 3^rd Street

Tucson AZ 85716

brickbat@nexiliscom.com

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LOP – 15 August 2017, A.S. LII

ATENVELDT COLLEGE OF HERALDS 15 August 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 July 2017 Atenveldt Letter of Presentation. Please have commentary to me by 30 August 2017.

Heraldry Hut: The July Heraldry Hut is tentatively scheduled for Friday, 18 August, 7:30 PM.

Please consider the following for theAugust 2017 Atenveldt Letter of Intent:

Eugene Haraldsson (Burning Sands):NEW NAME and DEVICE

Per pale sable and argent, a sun eclipsed between in bend an arrowhead and anther inverted, all counterchanged.

Eugene II (d. 827 AD) ascended to the papacy in 824 (Horace Mann, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 5 (http://www.newadvent.com/cathen/05598b.htm). Haraldr is an Old Norse masculine name, Geirr Bassi Haraldsson, The Old Norse Name, p. 10. The client desires a male name.

Donndubán mac Eógain (Ered Sul): DEVICE RESUBMISSION, Laurel 2013

Argent, a wolf rampant gules ermined Or, a bordure pean.

The name was register June 2013.

The original submission, Per chevron sable and vert, a chevron between two compass starts and a sword inverted argent., was returned for conflict. This is a complete redesign.

Marcus Octavius “Eirickr” Valerius (Burning Sands): NEW NAME and DEVICE

Per pale embattled gules and sable, an eagle Or.

The name is Latin. Marcus is one of the handful of praenominae, Octavius a popular nomen and Valerius another nomen ; I don’t know if a nomen might serve as a cognomen in the three-part Classical name (Roma Nova website,http://www.novaroma.org/nr/Main_Page). However, Ursula Georges cites a soldier’s cognomen as Valerianus(http://yarntheory.net/ursulageorges/names/roman.html#cognomen). It is unlikely that the Old Norse Eirickr would be included in the name. The client will not allow the creation of a holding name. He desires a male name and is most interested in the language/culture of the name (Roman 1-2^nd C.); he would like it made suthentic for a 1st-2^nd C. Roman.
The device is likely have conflicts, and the client wouldn’t mind incorporating an element of his knight’s armory (Sable, in chief three pallets couped argent., from Oslaf of Northumbria). However, I’ll admit to be stymied how this could work.

Nikolaus Gerhart (Tir Ysgithr): NEW BADGE

(Fieldless) An armored arms embowed argent sustaining a broken lance bendwise sinister Or.

The name was registered November 2014.

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

Commentary was provided by Adelaide de Beaumont, Beatrice Domenici della Campana, Daniel the Broc, ffride wlffsdotter, Gunnvor silfraharr, Herveus d’Ormond, Maridonna Benvenuti, Michael Gerard Curtememoire, Seamus mac Riain and Taran The Wayward.

Eirný Þrúðadóttir (Twin Moons): NEW NAME

The byname appeared misspelled in the IloI, and should be Þrúðardóttir; this was caught by a number of commenters.

Emeludt von Zerssen (Twin Moons): DEVICE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, October 2016

Argent, a chevron rompu azure between two peacocks respectant proper and a seeblatt azure.

The name was registered October 2016.

The original submission, Argent, a chevron rompu azure between two peacocks respectant proper and a seeblatt azure., was

returned for a redraw, for violating the guidelines set forth on the May 2011 Cover Letter for a properly drawn chevron; the chevron rompu here is too low. Please see that Cover Letter for further discussion and details of how to properly draw a chevron. This has been redrawn.

Jebe Gan (Tir Ysgithr): NEW NAME and DEVICE

Or, a fess azure surmounted by a Bactrian camel statant regardant proper maintaining in its mouth a stalk of bamboo vert.

The name is Mongolian, with elements taken from “Mongolian Naming Practices,” Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy (http://heraldry.sca.org/names/mongolian_names_marta.html). Jebe, “arrowpoint, weapon,” and Gan, “steel”. (Coincidentally, or not, this is similar in appearance to the client’s legal name, Jeff Gnann.) The client desires a male name.
A Bactrian camel, blazoned as such, was registered June 2016 to Arnulf of Ad Flumen Caerulum.

Liam Warr (Tir Ysgithr): DEVICE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, March 2017

Paly gules and argent, a seven-pointed mullet sable within an annulet Or.

The name was registered March 2017.

The original submission Argent, three pallets gules, overall a mullet of seven points sable., was returned for “being the equivalent to equivalent to Paly argent and gules, a mullet of seven points sable.; there are multiple conflicts. Per the April 2012 Cover Letter on suns vs. mullets vs. estoiles (http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2012/04/12-04cl.html), there is no difference between mullets of any number of points and there is a difference between mullets of seven points and suns.” This is a redesign.

Litli Knartr (Twin Moons): NEW NAME and NEW DEVICE: Sable, a rhinoceros head erased, a bordure Or.

The name is Old Norse, and documentation comes from Nordiskt runnamnslexicon, Lena Peterson. Litli is a masculine name, p. 160, dated c. 1050-1050 AD. The Old West Norse form would be Lítli. Knartr, found as Gunnar knartr, 1329 in Norway, comes from knart, “a small, densely-grown person” (Lind, column 207). The name elements are within 500 years of each other. The client is most interested in in the meaning (his nickname in his local group is “Tiny”) and culture/language of the name. He wishes it to be authentic for Old Norse.

The device was blazoned as cabossed; this is incorrect, as the beast appears in profile to dexter, the default orientation for most creatures’ heads.

Gunnvor silfraharr: The problem here is that <lítli> and <knartr> are BOTH bynames in Old West Norse. He needs a given name in there. Fortunately, Lena Peterson’s Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/om-oss/publikationer/institutets-publikationer/personnamn-och-ovrig a-namn/2016-09-17-nordiskt-runnamnslexikon.html) s.n. <Litli> has it as a given name.

There was a great deal of commentary on the line of division for the beasts’ head. Michael Gerard Curtememoire says “From Wreath: Couped and Erased” in http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2001/11/01-11cl.html, declares that in period: “The most significant difference between couped and erased is that couped was almost universally treated as a smooth line, while erased was marked by the presence of significant and prominent jags. Virtually all heads found in period heraldic artwork are distinctly either couped or erased, without intermediate artistic forms.” If a smooth convex line–the same cover-letter item notes “Another convex form [of couped] resembled a shallow T-shirt neck line”–is drawn along the sinister edge of the head and a bit of Or is filled in to meet it, or if the neck plates are adjusted so they form such a line, we would have Sable, a rhinoceros head couped, a bordure Or., without losing much if any beauty from this emblazon.

Litli Knartr: NEW BADGE: Sable, a unicorn’s head erased Or, a bordure argent.

The requirement in http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2001/11/01-11cl.html, “From Wreath: Couped and Erased”, is “the erasing should (1) have between three and eight jags”. This meets the requirement.

Melonia Marie Popoff (Barony of Atenveldt): NEW NAME

There was a lot of commentary on the name submission. In http:/heraldry.sca.org/admin.html#III.A, paragraph 10, “Name Used by the Submitter Outside the Society”, provides, “A small change in the name is sufficient for registration, such as the addition of a syllable or a spelling change that changes the pronunciation.” <Melonia> differs from <Meloney> by both the addition of a syllable and a spelling change that changes the pronunciation, including the stress pattern. Adelaide de Beaumont comments that “Since Melonia would be the expected Latin scribal formation of someone named Melony, I think this is de facto identical with her legal name and should be returned. (It is likely that that’s how Melonia got into record in the first place; I note one of the Melonia examples has her father listed as Thome which looks like it is Latinized as well. Where the records show no signs of Latinization, the spelling is Melony or Melonye.). I think there is another thing we should consider. SENA states, “This rule can allow a name phrase which is not attested in period, but the name as a whole must still meet the other requirements for names. This includes issues with overall construction, conflict, presumption, and offense.” However, when someone uses the allowance on multiple name phrases, they do an end-around our rules for combining cultures. What we have here is an English given name, well two of them, and a Russian surname, which we wouldn’t allow (and of course the Russian isn’t correct for the gender of the submitter). All the examples in SENA assume that a submitter is using the allowance for ONE name phrase, though it never explicitly says they only get one. However, as soon as you allow multiple uses, you almost have to be running up against identity with their entire legal name. Just for grins, it would be nice to tell the submitter that Wickenden has Melitina as a Russian martyr, and Melitina Popova would be an awesome name.” She bows to the precedent that the change if sufficient to make the name “different” from her mundane name. That would be “de jure”.

Robbert Broekhuijsen (Mons Tonitrus): NEW NAME and DEVICE

Per bend sinister gules and argent, an Oriental dragon in annulo azure, in base a spiral hunting horn reversed vert surmounted by two arrows inverted in saltire sable.

The name is Dutch. Robbert Schaerdenberch is the father of a son Robbert, baptized February 1632 in Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (https://familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3ARobbert~%20%2Bbirth_place%3ANetherlands~%20%2Bbirth_year%3A1500-1650~). The father’s citation is https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2D5-KV54. Broekhuijsen is the surname of Jan and Stevening, the parents of Gosenwinus; the child was baptized February 1656 at Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2DB-DS4Z) ; it is apparent that the child’s parents were born before 1650. The father’s citation is https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2DB-DS4Z. The client desires a male name and is most interested in the spelling of the name.

While the musical instrument is visually similar to a bugle, that blazon hasn’t been used in years (mostly in the 1970s and 1980s), the last in 2003 to

Flóki hvítskeggr Lambason. This is more like a (slightly-squashed) spiral hunting horn.

William of Grimsby (Tir Ysgithr): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Per pale gules and azure, a badger’s head cabossed Or marked sable.

The following were returned by the Atenveldt College of Heralds for further work, July 2017:

Melonia Marie Popoff: NEW DEVICE: Vert, a catamount rampant gardant argent, enflamed complete proper, a bordure ermine.

The current policy of enflaming charges follows that found in the Pictorial Dictionary: ‘The Society’s depiction of a “[charge] enflamed” has also changed over the years. Originally, a “[charge] enflamed” was equivalent to “on a flame a [charge]” – with the exception of candles, lamps, torches, and the like, where “enflamed” simply means “lit”. Currently, a “[charge] enflamed” is drawn as it would be in medieval armory: with spurts of flame issuant from and surrounding the charge. In Precedents the June 1993 Cover Letter notes: “in period, the normal depiction of a [charge] enflamed showed the charge on the field, with tiny spurts of flame issuant (and also on the field).” (This matches to what is said in the PicDic.) Morsulus Herald puts it clearly: “The catamount is “fimbriated with flames” which is not registrable and has not been for a long long time.” It is seen in the arms of the Barony of Atenveldt, with the fimbriated with flames laurel wreath, but that is fairly concurrent with when that practice became prohibited. This will be returned and a period manner of drawing enflamed will be shown to the client. (There are also a couple of submissions from the 9 July 2017 Gleann Abhann for Jehanne Darc de la Coste that have similar enflamed charges and a badge from Faye Trees which had an acorn recently registered with the charge completely surrounded on the perimeter, although these nave discreet tongues of flame alternately gules and Or.)

Device RETURNED for prohibited form of flames.

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

Atenveldt, Kingdom of: NEW TRANSFER OF BADGE

Gyronny azure and gules, a dexter hand couped apaumy Or.

Áilgheanán and Amber (Andrew and Amber Coleman), as Crown of Atenveldt, transfer this badge, once registered to Mary Margaret of Derby in October 1976 and transferred by her to the Kingdom of Atenveldt in July 1981, to the Barony of Sundragon in the Kingdom of Atenveldt. Necessary signed paperwork is forwarded to Laurel.
Fenrich Stürmer Hahn (Tir Ysgithr): DEVICE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, March 2017
Or, a dunghill cock rising contourny vert maintaining a spear bendwise sinister gules hafted sable, a bordure raguly sable.

The name was registered March 2017.

The previous submission, Or, a dunghill cock rising contourny vert maintaining a spear bendwise sinister argent hafted sable, a bordure raguly sable., was returned for contrast issues. a’According to the precedent set in August 2015 which allows maintained charges to count towards difference, they need to be identifiable and are no longer exempt from the usual requirements for good contrast. As the identifying portion of the spear is argent on an Or field, there is not sufficient contrast for the identifiability to be maintained.” Making the blade gules solves the problem.

Mary Margaret of Derby: NEW TRANSFER OF DEVICE

Azure, a domestic cat passant to sinister Or.

Dawn Johnson, daughter and estate executor of Mary Margaret of Derby (Mary Johnson) transfers to the Barony of Sundragon in the Kingdom of Atenveldt Mary Margaret’s device. Necessary signed paperwork is forwarded to Laurel.

Odette Steingrim (Sundragon): NAME RESUBMISSION from Laurel, November 2014

The original submission, as seen above, was returned for the following reasons: “This name was pended on the June 2014 Letter of Acceptances and Returns in order to allow the submitter to provide the correct attestation of legal relationship with Eirik Ising Steingrim. Written proof of the relationship was not provided, so we are unable to grandfather the byname Steingrim to the submitter. This name combines a French given name and Norwegian byname. This is not an acceptable lingual mix under Appendix C of SENA. Therefore, we are unable to register this name and must return it.”

Eirik has supplied a Letter of Permission for Odette to use part of his SCA registered name Steingrim; he is her legal step-father. Odette is demonstrated as a French given name found in a tax archive of 14-17th century French record, “Late Period French Feminine Names,” Aryenhwy merch Catmael (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/french/latefrench.html).

Otto Blauschild: NEW TRANSFER OF DEVICE

Azure, a fret argent, a bordure ermine.

The client’s widow and estate executor Angelica Blauschild (Nancy Denkeler), transfers to the Barony of Sundragon in the Kingdom of Atenveldt Otto’s device. Necessary signed paperwork is forwarded to Laurel.

Sundragon, Barony of: ACCEPTANCE OF TRANSFERS OF ARMORIES
Gefroi and Jacqueline, the Baron and Baroness of Sundragon, accept the following armories:
Argent, on a bend between two reef knots fesswise azure, three reef knots argent, a bordure azure. (device)

Azure, a domestic cat passant to sinister Or. (device)
Azure, a fret argent, a bordure ermine. (device)
Gyronny azure and gules, a dexter hand couped apaumy Or. (badge)

Necessary signed paperwork is forwarded to Laurel.

Yehudah of Nuremberg: NEW TRANSFER OF DEVICE

Argent, on a bend between two reef knots fesswise azure, three reef knots argent, a bordure azure.

The client’s widow and estate executor Agnes of Blackfeld (Wanda Baum) transfers to the Barony of Sundragon in the Kingdom of Atenveldt Yehudah’s registered device. Necessary signed paperwork is forwarded to Laurel.

Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy

c/o Linda Miku

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Tucson AZ 85716

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LOP – 1 July 2017, A.S. LII

ATENVELDT COLLEGE OF HERALDS 1 July 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 of the New Year from Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy, Brickbat Herald and Parhelium Herald for the Kingdom of Atenveldt!

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

Heraldry Hut: The July Heraldry Hut is tentatively scheduled for Friday, 21 July, 7:30 PM.

Please consider the following for the July 2017 Atenveldt Letter of Intent:

Eirný Þrúðadóttir (Twin Moons): NEW NAME

The name is Old Norse and is documented in The Viking Answer Lady’s website, http://vikinganswerlady.com/ONWomensNames.shtml, for the given name: Eirný appears in Landnamabok for Eirný Þiðrandadóttr. Þrúdr was the daughter of the god Thor and the goddess Sif, but this also appears as a human name and in compounds (http://vikinganswerlady.com/ONWomensNames.shtml#thorn). The rather out-of-the-ordinary matronymic formation is seen atmhttp://vikinganswerlady.com/ONNames.shtml#general_info. The client desires a female name and will not accept Major changes to the name. She will not allow the registration of a holding name.

Litli Knartr (Twin Moons): NEW NAME, NEW DEVICE and NEW BADGE

(device) Sable, a rhinoceros head erased, a bordure Or.

(badge) Sable, an unicorn’s head erased Or, a bordure argent.

The device was blazoned as cabossed; this is incorrect, as the beast appears in profile to dexter, the default orientation for most creatures’ heads.

Melonia Marie Popoff (Barony of Atenveldt): NEW NAME and DEVICE

Vert, a catamount rampant gardant argent, enflamed complete proper, a bordure ermine.

Melonia is found as an feminine English given name, under Melonia Langbridge, christening date 16 Nov 1579 in Burlescombe, Devon, England (Batch C16847-1, https://familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3AMelonia~%20%2Bbirth_place%3AEngland~%20%2Bbirth_year%3A1400-1650~). However, her submitted name, aside from this slight variation in her given name, is identical to her legal name, Meloney Marie Popoff. This may run afoul of using one’s legal name as one’s SCA name.
I’m guessing that “enflamed complete” means that the charge is completely surrounded by flames. I’m fairly certain that this has been prohibited for years, and that the correct depiction of an enflamed charge has “tufts” or tongues of flame along its edges (not continually touching), and that the flame are usually gules, or Or, or in the case of proper, alternating Or and gules tongues in a single tuft.

The submission was made on obsolete forms, which have been banned since February (Estrella-time) 2017. They will be returned.

William of Grimsby (Tir Ysgithr): NEW NAME and DEVICE

Per pale gules and azure, a badger’s head cabossed Or marked sable.

The name is English. William is a masculine given name, under William Abbot, christening date 18 Oct 1573 in St. Thomas, Newport, Hasmpshire, England (Batch C16659-1, https://familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3AWilliam~%20%2Bsurname%3AAbbot~%20%2Bbirth_year%3A1500-1600~%20%2Brecord_country%3AEngland). Grimsby is found under Catherine Grimsby, christening date 12 Oct 1567, Horkstow, Lincoln, England (Batch, C02927-3, https://familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3ACatherine~%20%2Bsurname%3AGrimsby~%20%2Bbirth_year%3A1500-1600~%20%2Brecord_country%3AEngland). Grimsby, England, is a town and seasport in Lincolnshire, eastern England. It is situated on the south side of the River Humber estuary, 6 miles from the North Sea(https://www.britannica.com/place/Grimsby).

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

Atenveldt, Kingdom of: NEW TRANSFER OF BADGE

Gyronny azure and gules, a dexter hand couped apaumy Or.

The name was registered March 2017.

Mary Margaret of Derby: NEW TRANSFER OF DEVICE

Azure, a domestic cat passant to sinister Or.

Odette Steingrim (Sundragon): NAME RESUBMISSION from Laurel, November 2014

Otto Blauschild: NEW TRANSFER OF DEVICE

Azure, a fret argent, a bordure ermine.

Azure, a domestic cat passant to sinister Or. (device)
Azure, a fret argent, a bordure ermine. (device)
Gyronny azure and gules, a dexter hand couped apaumy Or. (badge)

Necessary signed paperwork is forwarded to Laurel.

Yehudah of Nuremberg: NEW TRANSFER OF DEVICE

Argent, on a bend between two reef knots fesswise azure, three reef knots argent, a bordure azure.

The following submissions were register by the SCA College of Arms, April 2017:
(these were submissions on the January 2017 Letter of Intent)

Ælfgyfu Æthelwulfesdohtor. Name change from holding name Michelle of Twin Moons.
Submitted as Ælfgyfe Æthelwulfesdohtor, the submitted spelling did not use the nominative (base) form of the given name. In certain languages (including Old English), the spelling of a name may change depending on how the name is used in a sentence. In such languages, only the nominative form can be used for a registerable given name. In this case, the nominative form of the given name is Ælfgyfu. With the submitter’s permission, we have made this change for registration.
Ambrose the Gutless. Device. Sable, a hand argent between in chief two bees, a bordure Or.
Please advise the submitter to draw the bees slightly smaller so that there is no doubt that they are in a secondary charge group.
Devorix Catumari. Name and device. Gules, in pale a lion’s head cabossed and on a winged lozenge Or a saltire sable, an orle Or.
Submitted as Devorix Tiberius Catumaros, the name as submitted did not follow any of the documented patterns for Gaulish names. With the submitter’s permission, we have changed the name to Devorix _ Catumari to use the pattern for patronymic bynames found in “Name Constructions in Gaulish” (https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/gaulish/) by Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn.
Francois Barbe d’Or. Name and device. Per bend sinister gules and argent, a Paschal lamb regardant proper and a cross formy gules.
Submitted as François Barbe–d’Or, we have removed the hyphen from the byname to match the documentation. In addition, the c-cedilla in the given name does not appear on the name form; it seems to have been added at Kingdom without explanation. As the name is registerable both with and without the cedilla, we have restored the given name to its originally submitted form.
Kaylea of Twin Moons. Name and device. Argent, a chevron enarched within and conjoined at the point to a chevron between two butterflies purpure and a tulip gules slipped and leaved vert.
Submitted as Kaylea of Atenveldt, this name conflicted with the registered Kali of Atenveldt. Although different in appearance, both names reasonably can be (and in some dialects are) pronounced as “kay-lee.” Therefore, the two names conflict in sound. With the submitter’s permission, we have changed the name to Kaylea of Twin Moons for registration. Twin Moons is the registered name of an SCA branch.
Sewenna de Carlton. Name.
The Letter of Intent did not document the spelling de Carlton. Fortunately, Lillia Pelican Emerita found this spelling dated to 1190-1260 in Watts.
Nice early 13th century English name!
Sólveig Æsudóttir. Name.
Submitted as Sólveig Æsadóttir, the submitted spelling of the byname uses an incorrect genitive (possessive) form of the parent’s name. Lind s.n. Ása indicates that the genitive form ends in -u. Therefore, we have changed the byname to Æsudóttir to use the correct grammar.
The submitter requested authenticity for “Old Norse, 600-800 AD.” We cannot meet this request because the earliest evidence we have for the name Sólveig is from c. 1000 C.E.
Una {O,}lfúss. Name and device. Or, a domestic cat statant erect gules maintaining a sword sable, a chief embattled gules.

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

Viktoria of York. Device. Per saltire argent and purpure, in pale two crosses and in fess two dragonflies counterchanged.

This device is returned for running afoul of SENA A3D2b. which states “Mixing Ordinaries and Other Charges: While charge groups may have different types of charges, charge groups consist of either identical ordinaries or complex charges. Thus, a single charge group may not mix ordinaries with non-ordinaries or mix two types of ordinaries.”
Here we have a primary charge group with the crosses throughout (which are considered ordinaries) and the dragonflies.
On resubmission, please advise the submitter to properly draw the dragonflies with the wings parallel to one another rather than at an angle.

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c/o Linda Miku

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Tucson AZ 85716

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LOP – 30 May 2017, A.S. LII

ATENVELDT COLLEGE OF HERALDS 30 May 2017, A.S. LII

LETTER OF PRESENTATION Kingdom of Atenveldt

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

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

This is the June 2017 Atenveldt Letter of Presentation. There will be a Consultation Table at Kingdom A&S Collegium in Mons Tonitrus on Saturday,3 June 2017. If you are a herald and would like to help out, drop on by!

Aten University will be held on Saturday, 17 June, in the Barony of Twin Moons; the populace is invited to attend, but all warranted officers are required to be there.

Heraldry Hut: There was no Heraldry Hut in April or May. The June Heraldry Hut is tentatively scheduled for Friday, 16 June, 7:30 PM.

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

Damon Constantine (Tir Ysgithr): NEW DEVICE CHANGE

Quarterly sable and azure, in bend two talbot’s heads couped contourny Or.

The name was registered March 1999.

If registered, his current device, Sable, two serpents erect and entwined that to dexter argent and that to sinister Or, a ford proper., should be released.

Eoda Blauschild (Sundragon): TRANSFER OF NAME to Jodie W. Vaughn, Jr.

The name Eoda Blauschild was registered October 2016, and the client’s previously-registered name, Angelica Blauschild, was maintained as an alternate name. She wishes that Eoda Blauschild be transferred to Jodie W. Vaughn, Jr., and that her primary name once again be Angelica Blauschild. Necessary signed paperwork is forwarded to Laurel.

Jodie W. Vaughn, Jr. (Sundragon): ACCEPTANCE OF NAME TRANSFER Eoda Blauschild from Angelica Blauschild.

The client accepts the name transfer from Angelica. It should be noted that the client’s originally-registered SCA name of Joseph Walter McFadden was released at his request by the College of Arms October 2014. Necessary signed paperwork is forwarded to Laurel.

Tir Ysgithr, Barony of: NEW BADGE

(Fieldless) A maunch Or charged with a boar’s head couped contourny sable.

The branch-name was registered around January 1973.

The following submissions were register by the SCA College of Arms, March 2017:
(these were submissions on the November 2016 and December 2016 LoIs)

Areus of Sparta. Device change. Sable, a trident head Or and a bordure parted bordurewise wavy argent and gules.
The submitter’s old device, Azure, a horseshoe inverted within a bordure Or, is retained as a badge.
Cullen Ellis. Name and device. Per bend sinister gules and azure, a dragon contourny argent and three Celtic crosses Or.
Fenrich Stürmer Hahn. Name (see RETURNS for device).
Submitted as Fenrich der Stürmer Hahn, the byname was intended to mean “the fighting rooster.” However, we have no evidence to support the use of the definite article der in a compound byname composed of two separate descriptives. However, both Stürmer and Hahn were documented as late period German bynames. Appendix A permits double bynames (without the article der) in German. Therefore, we have changed the name to Fenrich Stürmer Hahn for registration.
Gallant O’Driscole. Badge. (Fieldless) Between and conjoined to two serpents erect addorsed each nowed argent a roundel vert.
Granite Mountain, Barony of. Badge (see RETURNS for order name). Per fess indented vert and sable, in chief a bezant charged with a heart vert, a bordure erminois.
Please advise the submitters to draw the line of division with at least three indentations as in the badges previously registered to the barony.
Granite Mountain, Barony of. Order name Order of Grace of Granite Mountain.
Submitted as Order of the Grace of Granite Mountain, the phrasing the Gracedoes not follow the pattern of order names based on virtues or positive qualities. We have dropped the article and changed the name to Order of Grace of Granite Mountain for registration.
Granite Mountain, Barony of. Badge for Populace. Per fess indented vert and sable, in base an ermine spot Or, a bordure erminois.
Please advise the submitters to draw the line of division with at least three indentations as in the badges previously registered to the barony.
Granite Mountain, Barony of. Badge. Per fess indented vert and sable, an ermine statant contourny regardant ermine and an ermine spot Or, a bordure erminois.
Granite Mountain, Barony of. Badge for Order of Peregrine of Granite Mountain. Per fess indented vert and sable, in saltire an arrow inverted and a bow Or, a bordure erminois.
Granite Mountain, Barony of. Badge. Sable, an ermine spot Or, a bordure erminois.
Gunnvarðr Egilsson. Device. Or, a phoenix face to sinister gules, a bordure engrailed azure.
Honour Grenehart. Badge. Argent goutty de vin, a labyrinth azure.
Ignacio Diaz de Castile. Device. Pean, on a tyger rampant Or a crescent gules, a bordure embattled Or crusilly Santiago gules.
The submitter has permission to conflict with the device of Adam Carlos Diaz de Castile: Pean, a tyger rampant within a bordure embattled Or charged with six crosses of Santiago gules.
Liam Warr. Name (see RETURNS for device).
Maria de Venetia. Name change from Mariyah al-Madiniyah.
The submitter’s old name, Mariyah al-Madiniyah, is retained as an alternate name.
Mathias Steinson. Name and device. Quarterly sable and azure, a butterfly bendwise sinister argent.
The given name Mathias is found in the Diplomatarium Norvegicum dated to 1421 and the byname Steinson is found in the same source dated to 1422, making this an excellent 15th century Norwegian name!
Músa-Sunnifa. Name and device. Azure, in bend three estoiles argent between two bendlets Or, all between two open books argent.
Nefratiri Ani. Badge. (Fieldless) A triskelion of human legs azure.
Nice badge!
Nikolaus Martin. Name and device. Per pale sable and gules, a chi-rho argent and a double-headed eagle Or, on a chief argent a cross of Jerusalem sable.
Tobias Wade. Household name House of Roan Brook and badge. Per chevron inverted grady azure and argent, a sunburst Or clouded argent and two towers gules.
Submitted as Household of Roan Brook, this pattern was not documented. By precedent, the designator Household cannot be used with a substantive element based on a place name. [Robert Longshanks of Canterbury. Household name Manor of Long Whitney, 4/2007 LoAr, A-Drachenwald]. In this instance, the substantive element Roan Brook is an English place name, constructed from the family name Roan and the generic toponym Brook, according to the patterns set forth in “Compound Placenames in English” by Juliana de Luna (http://medievalscotland.org/jes/EnglishCompoundPlacenames/). We have changed the designator to House for registration, as this is the smallest change from the submitted form.
Valdis Skarpa. Device. Gules, a dragon couchant and on a chief argent three open books sable.
Viviana Dalessana. Name and device. Argent, a fleur-de-lys and a bordure per pale azure and sable. Submitted as Vivianna Dalessana, the Letter of Intent argued that the spelling Vivianna should be plausible given evidence of both Viviana and Anna in the same source. However, the Byzantine Greek Viviana is not etymologically related to Anna. Viviana and its masculine form Vivianus use the Roman -anus/-ana ending, in which the n is not doubled. There is no evidence, therefore, to support the submitter’s requested spelling. We have changed the given name to Viviana to match the documentation.: The following submissions were returned by the College of Arms for further work, March 2017:
Fenrich Stürmer Hahn. Device. Or, a dunghill cock rising contourny vert maintaining a spear bendwise sinister argent hafted sable, a bordure raguly sable.

This device is returned for contrast issues. According to the precedent set in August 2015 which allows maintained charges to count towards difference, they need to be identifiable and are no longer exempt from the usual requirements for good contrast. As the identifying portion of the spear is argent on an Or field, there is not sufficient contrast for the identifiability to be maintained.
Granite Mountain, Barony of. Order name Order of the Emerald Heart of Granite Mountain.
This name must be returned due to the lack of documentation for the pattern of the order name. On the April 2012 Cover Letter, Pelican ruled that “no convincing evidence has been presented for the use of non-heraldic color names, including the names for particular shades of a color, like scarlet or crimson.” No new evidence has been presented since April 2012 for the use of non-heraldic color terms. Accordingly, while ordinary color names (such as green) or heraldic tinctures (such as vert) can be registered in order names, the use of a color term outside of these two categories, such as emerald, continues to be prohibited by precedent.
On resubmission, we recommend that the Barony consider the following alternatives: Order of the Green Heart of Granite Mountain, Order of the Vert Heart of Granite Mountain or Order of the Heart Vert of Granite Mountain.
Granite Mountain, Barony of. Heraldic title Erminois Pursuivant.
This name is being returned due to the lack of the documentation for the pattern of creating a heraldic title from a tincture. The sole example given in the Letter of Intent was the title of Ermine King of Arms. However, this title was based on the animal called the ermine, not the heraldic tincture. Lacking any evidence for naming a heraldic title after a heraldic tincture, we cannot register this name.
Kára Hanadóttir. Badge. (Fieldless) A harp sable within and conjoined to three calla lilies in triangle argent, slipped and leaved vert. This device is returned for not being reliably blazonable, which is a violation of SENA A1C which requires an emblazon to be describable in heraldic terms. Blazoned on the Letter of Intent as “in triangle” that triangular arrangement is neither palewise nor bendwise.
Liam Warr. Device. Argent, three pallets gules, overall a mullet of seven points sable.
As this is equivalent to Paly argent and gules, a mullet of seven points sablethere are multiple conflicts. Per the April 2012 Cover Letter on suns vs. mullets vs. estoiles (http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2012/04/12-04cl.html), there is no difference between mullets of any number of points and there is a difference between mullets of seven points and suns. Thus we have the following conflicts:
It conflicts with the badge of Craig of the Glyn: Gyronny gules and Or, a compass star sable. A compass star is a mullet, thus there is no difference for the number of points. That leaves a single DC for changes to the field.
It conflicts with the badge of Kedivor Tal ap Cadugon, Barry vert and Or, a mullet sable, with a single DC for changes to the field.
It conflicts with the device of Melissande Aefensteorra (device, June 1986, West): Chevronelly vert and argent, a mullet of eight points, alternately straight and wavy, sable. There is only one DC for changes to the field.
It also conflicts with the badge of Eleanor Leonard (badge, July 1982, Atlantia),(Tinctureless) A mullet of four points distilling a goutte. There is only one DC for the difference between fielded and fieldless design. However, as the field is not a solid tincture Eleanor’s blanket Permission to Conflict applies and the conflict is not a bar to registration.

Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy

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LOP -1 April 2017, A.S. LI

ATENVELDT COLLEGE OF HERALDS 1 April 2017, A.S. LI

LETTER OF PRESENTATION Kingdom of Atenveldt

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

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

This is the April 2017 Atenveldt Letter of Presentation; it is the second LoP issued in March, and the submissions will hopefully be included in the April 2017 Letter of Intent; it precedes the Letter of Intent with commentary made internally via OSCAR. Please have your comments made by 25 April.

Heraldry Hut: will be held on Friday, 31 March, at the home of Symond and Marta, 7:30 PM. Please email one of us if you have questions or need directions.

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

Muiredach mac Robartaig (Granholme): NEW NAME and DEVICE

Chevronelly inverted azure and Or, on a chief-pale between two doves respectant gules, a double-headed axe Or.

The name is Gaelic. Muiredach is an Old and Middle Irish Gaelic masculine name dated 760-1257 (“Index of Names in Irish Annals: Muiredach / Muireadhach,” Mari Elspeth nic Bryan, http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/Muiredach.shtml).Robartaig is the genitive form of Robartach. Dated 757-1136 (“Index of Names in Irish Annals: Robartach,” Mari Elspeth nic Bryan, http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/Robartach.shtml). The construction using mac is for a simple patronymic byname (“Quick and Easy Gaelic Names,” 3rd Edition, Sharon L. Krossa,http://medievalscotland.org/scotnames/quickgaelicbynames/#simplepatronymicbyname). The client is most interested in a Gaelic/Scots name.

Olive Long Anne Prosper (Granholme): NEW NAME and DEVICE

Quarterly purpure and sable, on a cross rayonny Or between in chief two owls respectant argent, an increscent moon azure.

The name is English. Olive is a female given name; Olive Stillington has a christening date of 24 February 1595 in St. Martin Coney Street, York, York, English, Batch P01094-1(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J33D-F8G). Anne is a female given name and Long is a surname; Anne Long has a christening date of 21 December 1561 in Saint John the Baptist, Croyden, Surrey, England, Batch C09865-2(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKXJ-WYZ). A Long Herodias is dated 16245-1722, born in England and died in Rhode Island, with no Batch number given (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:9WVV-M95 ). Prosper is a surname; Elizabeth Prosper’s christening date is 7 July 1601, St. Paul, Lincoln, Lincoln, England, Batch C02631-1 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NGVM-V89). The client desires a female name and is most interested in the sound of the name.

There are five tinctures and three charge types in the device. According to the Pictorial Dictionary, an increscent with a human face is blazoned as an increscent moon.

Orabilis Douw (Barony of Atenveldt): NEW NAME, DEVICE and BADGE

(device) Per pale dovetailed argent and purpure, a wolf sable and a winged unicorn argent combatant, on a chief rayonny vert three thistles argent, flowered purpure.

(badge) Argent, a wolf’s head erased sable and a unicorn’s head erased purpure armed gules respectant and a point pointed counter-ermine.

Orabilis is a female given name dated to 1221 in “Feminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surname: Orabel,” Talan Gwynek (https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/reaney/reaney.cgi?Orabel); it is also the name of two women in Black’s The Surnames of Scotland, p. 639, The daughter and heiress of Nesius, William’s son, who married before 1200, and the woman who married Adam, son or Duncan, earl of Mar, son of Gilchrist, Earl of Mar. Douw is a surname in Black, p. 218, s.n. Dove, Dow, Dowe; Ede Dow held a land in “vico boreali,” Edinburgh, 1366. The client desires a female name and is most interested in the sound and the language/culture of the name (Scottish clan).

Sibyl Breathnach (BoA): NEW NAME and DEVICE

Gules, a corgi dog rampant to sinister Or maintaining a dagger inverted sable, a bordure embattled Or.

Sibyl is a a female given name dated to 1201 in “Feminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surname: Sibyl,” Talan Gwynek, https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/reaney/reaney.cgi?Sibyl. Breathnach is a Gaelic descriptive byname, meaning “Welsh” (“Index of Names in Irish Annals: Masculine Descriptive Bynames,” Mari Elspeth nic Bryan,

medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/DescriptiveBynames/Alpha.shtml), I have no idea if this byname can be applied to a woman, or how it might be feminized.

I think this is a corgi (I didn’t consult on this submission, but only heard about “corgis” around the edges; there is no documentation that demonstrates this as a period breed. I believe that the dagger, albeit a maintained charge, needs to have sufficient contrast with the field.

Yagi Tenji Yoshitatsu Kakujo (Sundragon): NEW NAME CHANGE and NEW DEVICE CHANGE

Azure, on a hexagon within a hexagon voided argent a hemp leaf vert.

The name is Japanese. He wishes to drop the azana Jaku’an in favor of the following name construction. The name elements are found in Name Construction in Medieval Japan, revised edition, Solveig Throndardottir. Yagi is a surname dated to 1332, p. 329. The yobina Tenji, “sky, heaven,” is dated to 1124, p. 191. The nanori Yoshitatsu, “dragon,” is dated to 1600, p. 297. Kakujo has been previously registered; it is an imina/personal name dated to 1336. The client desires a male name and will not accept Major or Minor changes to the name.

SENA A4 states that “Any armorial design that does not fit within our core style rules may still be registered if it can be documented as following a pattern of period practice within the armorial style of a single time and place within the temporal scope of the Society. This time and place may be in Europe or may be from a non-European period armorial tradition, such as Islamic or Japanese heraldry. We call such a design an Individually Attested Pattern. All elements in an Individually Attested Pattern must be found in that single time and place, including charges, arrangement of charge groups, and lines of division. Documentation under the Individually Attested Pattern rules does not exempt a design from conflict, presumption, or offense rules.” The client hopes that the armory can be registered, given evidence for the hexagon shape kikko (tortoise shell) that is a recognized motif in Japanese armory. Examples of this design are found in The Daibukan (The Great Book of Heraldry) edited by Hasimoto Hiroshi circa 1591 and the Kenmon Shokamon, Hanawa Hokiichi, dated 1470.

The hemp leaf was determined to be a permitted charge in SCA heraldry in the badge registered to the client, Sable, a hemp leaf within an annulet argent., April 2015. If registered, the client’s current device, Per pale sable and vert, within a torii a lion dormant argent., should be released.

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

Comment for this Letter was provided by Coblaith Muimnech, ffride wlffsdotter, Fiora Vespucci, Maridonna Benvenuti, Michael Gerard Curtememoire and Selene of the Sky.

Adelaide Duval (S. Vladimir/Ered Sul): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Per bend sinister argent and vert, three roses purpure and a dagger bendwise sinister inverted argent.

At the suggestion of several commenters, the dagger was enlarged.

Aed Mac Eochagaín (Mons Tonitrus): NEW NAME

Apollonia Kautz (Sundragon): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Gules, a polypus argent, on a point pointed Or three apples one and two gules.

Aurora Rothais (S. Vladimir/Ered Sul): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Azure, a rose argent and a demi-sun issuant from base, on a chief Or, seven mullets sable.

Aurora is the client’s legal given name; documentation will be forwarded to Laurel.Rothais is an English byname dated to 1086 in Reaney and Wilson, 3^rd edition, p. 383 s.n. Rose.

We don’t do “semy of [a number]”. However, Azure, a rose argent and a demi-sun issuant from base, on a chief Or seven mullets three and four sable. should be good blazon. I am encouraged by the registration of Elana Blakefenn’s badge, Nov 2009, as Argent, a mullet voided and interlaced within and conjoined to an annulet vert, in chief seven paw prints three and four sable. [MGC]

Beth Drache (Granite Mountain): NEW NAME CHANGE from Beth of Granite Mountain

The woman Beth Green has a chirstening date of October 1544 in Hartford, Huntington, England, Batch C16869-1 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NK2M-HZK).

Brando Coradini (Barony of Atenveldt): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Per pale azure and argent, two wolves combattant counterchanged, on a chief triangular sable a sheaf of rapiers inverted proper.

There were a couple of comments on the size of the rapiers on the chief, but given the size of the chief, the client has done the best possible with the charges as he can.

Canaan Falconer (Granite Mountain): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Or, a stag’s head cabossed proper within a torc sable.

Cora Boyle (Windale): NEW NAME and NEW DEVICE: Per pale ployé throughout azure and Or, two Celtic crosses and a sheaf of arrows counterchanged.

Darius al-Gafūr (SD): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Vert, a wolf’s head erased contourny argent and a point pointed Or.

Dominic de Grae (Barony of Atenveldt): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Vert, an owl stooping argent, on a chief wavy Or a moon in her plenitude azure between two mullets vert.

Donwenna Dwn (BoA): NEW DEVICE CHANGE: Per chevron gules and sable, three walnuts and a Catherine wheel Or.

The name was registered October 2006.

It was suggested by some commenters that the blazon be modified to Per chevron gules and sable, in chief three walnuts in fess and in base a Catherine wheel Or.

Eoghan MacIver (TY): NEW NAME CHANGE, from William MacIver

Eirikr Stjarna (BoA): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Argent, three empty embroiderers spools/quills in pall inverted gules and sable.

Charges can’t be blazoned just [tincture] and [tincture]; we have to say what goes where. I believe here we can have: Argent, in pall inverted three empty embroiderer’s quills gules lipped sable. [MGC]

Evelyn of Windale (Windale): NEW NAME

Evelyn Grace, a woman has a christening date of May 1598 in Saint Margaret, Westminster, London, England Batch P00160-1(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5WX-793).

Ezekiel Crow (SD): NEW DEVICE: Gules, on a triangle within and conjoined to an annulet argent a raven regardant sable.

Fíne Ingen Ui Cheallaigh (SD): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Vert, two swords crossed in saltire and on a chief argent, three wooden harps proper.

The final letter in OSCAR’s find of <Fíne ingen uí Scolaighe> should provide an additional syllable, making the names clear of conflict for sound under http://heraldry.sca.org/sena.html#PN3C2, and <Sco> is clear of <Chea> for both spelling and sound under the same rule. [MGC]

Finna Ívarsdóttir (TY): NEW NAME

Friedrich Swartzen Hut (ES): DEVICE RESUBMISSION, from Laurel June 2015:Lozengy argent and azure, a Capotain hat sable.

Michael Gerard Curtememoire comes to the rescue with several period paintings, with a portrait of James I in 1590, now in the National Gallery, http://www.oceansbridge.com/oil-paintings/product/87989/jamesiin1590, and “”1596 Mrs Jennyngs (b.1550-1551) in a capotain hat, Aged 45 British School,” http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/explore-the-collection/401-450/joan-alleyn/ . The website “It’s About Time,”https://bjws.blogspot.com/search?q=capotain, demonstrates several capotains, and their inclusion in 1596 portraits (evidently 1596 was a banner year for the stylish capoain). Many thanks to Gerard for digging into the history of habedashery!

Galen Peter Gilmore (TY): NEW NAME

Geraint de Grey (BoA): NEW DEVICE: Azure, a chevron Or between two mullets of eight point argent and a demi-sun issuant from base Or.

Ginevra of Sofia (TY): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Per pale gules and azure emined argent, a lion Or and an orle argent.

A map in Gerard Mercator’s 1595 map of Servia, Bulgaria, Romania shows the spelling as Soyfia.
The bordure Or had to be changed to an orle argent to avoid several conflicts.

Grimald the Faithful (TY): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Per pale Or and sable, two badgers rampant addorsed counterchanged marked argent.

Fíne Ingen Ui Cheallaigh (SD): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Vert, two swords crossed in saltire and on a chief argent, three wooden harps proper.

Hallbiǫrn Freysgoði: NEW NAME and DEVICE: Vert, three drinking horns fretted in triangle mouths inward and on a chief Or, four Futhark runes Algiz vert.

The blazon of the drinking horns is borrowed from charges seen in the badge of Grímólfr Skúlason, Gules, three drinking horns fretted in triangle mouths inward and on a chief argent a valknut between two ravens respectant sable., in September 2014. The motif as blazoned simply as three drinking horns fretted in triangle: for Siiri Toivotytär, in April 2012, and for Wulfgar Wartooth, in June 2015.

Hannah Millican (BoA): NEW NAME

Hildegard Reinharet (SD): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Per fess vert and argent, a crescent argent and a domestic cat’s face sable.

Hürrem bint Osman al-Urduni (TY): NEW NAME CHANGE and NEW DEVICE CHANGE from Layla bint Suleiman al-Urduni

Purpure, a pall inverted raguly between two lotus flowers in profile and a squirrel argent.

Iðunn of the Citadel of the Southern Pass (ES): NAME and DEVICE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, June 2016: Vert, two bones in saltire within a wingless wyvern in annulo argent.

ffride comments in the most recent LoP: “For completeness, here’s what I’d written previously: Lind col. 620 sn. Iðunn includes a mention from the 14th c. Flateyjarbók, of <Idunn kona Þoralfs bonda>. Looking in the Guðbrandur and Unger edition, volume 1 p. 134 (https://books.google.com.au/books?id=UmgJAAAAQAAJ&vq=Idunn&pg=PA134#v=onepage&q=Idunn&f=false) we have <Þoralfr het bonda… ok het Jdunn kona hans>. Assuming that this isn’t a normalised spelling, she could have <Jdunn> or <Idunn>, but it wouldn’t be a normalised Old Norse/”Viking Age” spelling, nor would it have her desired sound of “Id-toon”.”

Isabella Cara (TY): NEW NAME CHANGE from Ceara inghean Chárthaigh

James Shinner (BoA): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Vert, a compass rose Or, on a chief argent three oak leaves vert.

Another documentation for the suname is James Shinner, male, married 1589 in Marytavy, Devon, England, Batch no. M05139-1 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N2J1-SYT). [fw]

Joseph Grünewald of York (BoA): NEW ALTERNATE NAME, Iosif Syl’vestrov

Julian Faith McCabe: NEW DEVICE CHANGE: Per saltire sable and argent, two unicorn’s heads erased respectant sable.

Kathryn De Feuer (BoA): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Vert, in pale within a stag’s antler conjoined to itself in annulo a rose and a goblet argent.

Michael Gerard Curtmoire suggested what seems to be a clearer blazon: Vert, in pale a stag’s antler conjoined to itself and a goblet, within the antler a rose, all argent.

Kidala Boskov (TY/St. Felix): NEW NAME

No one was able to document Kidala as a given name; I am sending it on for, hopefully, some information on this type of Russian name practice.

Marcus de Grae (BoA): NEW NAME

Mariette Dominique du Beau (MT): NEW DEVICE: Azure, a bat-winged mermaid erect to sinister between flaunches argent.

Occadai Dogshin (BoA): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Per bend sinister azure and purpure, two dogs sejant erect addorsed Or.

Owain Sayer (Windale): NEW NAME and DEVICE:Per fess dovetailed vert and argent, a mortar and pestle argent and three flames azure.

Rebekah bat Mikael: NEW NAME

Runa Gigja (S. Felix/TY): NEW DEVICE: Per chevron azure and sable, two unicorn’s combattant argent and a lit Arabian lamp Or.

Ryan Thorne (TY) NEW NAME and DEVICE: Per bend wavy Or semy of reremice sable, and gules, in dexter base a compass star Or.

Swetiue de Torleton’ (MT): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Or, two elephants statant respectant sable maintaining in their raised trunks a heart gules.

ffride comments: “According to the abbreviations page, (g.) indicates it is a “form attested following Lat. filius or filia.” Apparently Swetiue is from The Anglo-Saxon Heritage in Middle English Personal Names: East Anglia 1100-1399 and with a bit of digging I think their source was the Pipe Rolls, with: “Leciam filiam Swetiue petentem.” (https://books.google.com.au/books?id=czYIAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Swetiue%22&dq=%22Swetiue%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0a hUKEwi-pNPA17nSAhXijVQKHUjcDB8Q6AEIIzAC). I’d strongly suspect it’s declined in Latin, so the nominative would be Swetiua?”
Michael Gerard Curtememoire comments: “Consider also the image below proposed athttp://oscar.sca.org/index.php?action=145&id=43019 as a badge for the Barony of the Skraeling Althing, blazoned (Fieldless) Two hares salient respectant argent sustaining in chief a heart per chevron argent and gules at http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2014/09/14-09lar.html#204 when it was returned with the comment: ‘This badge is returned for the appearance of being a device with supporters: since a heart is a medium for heraldic display, the hares appear to be supporters. The College of Arms neither protects nor regulates the use of crests or supporters, and therefore will not register any submission that appears to be one.’ Whether the rather smaller size of this heart, its being a single tincture, and/or the charges being on a field saves it from the same problem I do not know.” I hope that this is the case, and the maintained heart does not appear to be a badge supported by the elephants.

Uilliam ua Briain (BoA): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Quarterly argent and sable, a cross gules between four snakes nowed counterchanged.

It will be suggested to the client that the snakes should be centered in their own little quarters.

Yvonnet le Bouer (ES): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Azure, a lighted candle and a quill pen cross in saltire, on a chief triangular Or a cauldron sable.

“This is not a cauldron, which hangs by a bail without feet, perhttp://mistholme.com/dictionary/pot-cauldron/, which bail must be visible (http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2015/07/15-07lar.html#146) and would badly crowd this chief. Rather, it is a three-footed pot. For the official statement, seehttp://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2012/11/12-11cl.html#7, “From Wreath: Blazoning Fun — Kitchen Pots and Pans”. “[MGC] The blazon will be modified.

The following are returned for further work, March 2017:

Finna Ívarsdóttir: NEW DEVICE

Argent, two ovoid annulets conjoined in fess at their smaller ends gules.

As drawn, this is the lem[ni]scate, or infinity symbol. The infinity symbol is post-period, having first been used in 1655. If the submitter can document this symbol earlier, we need copies of the documentation to register it. This submission more accurately blazons the lemniscate, but does not make it more registerable. Moreover, a single abstract symbol, or an arrangement of charges amounting to one, cannot be registered as the sole charge or charges in a device. [MGC]
Interlaced annulets do appear in late 16^th C German armory, but they might be considered an abstract symbol as well, and may need an additional charge. [CM]

The following submissions were registered by the SCA College of Arms, December 2016:

Anton Højen. Reblazon of device. Gyronny from canton Or and sable, in sinister a dolphin haurient argent. Registered in November of 1980 as Gyronny from canton Or and sable, to sinister a dolphin haurient argent, current blazoning grammar has the dolphin insinister.
Beaune de la Sorse. Badge. Per fess paly argent and gules and sable, a cubit arm issuant from base argent. Please advise the submitter to draw an equal number of argent and gules sections.
Eric the Bald. Device change. Per pale azure and sable, two bear’s pawprints argent.
The submitter’s old device, Sable, a sledge hammer argent within a bordure rayonny Or, is retained as a badge. There is a step from period practice for the use of pawprints.
Franceska Lucrezia la Sarta. Device. Per bend sinister indented gules and purpure, a threaded needle and a natural leopard’s head cabossed Or.
Mercurio da Spin. Device. Gyronny arrondi azure and ermine, in saltire a rapier and a comet Or.
Natasiia Novgorodova. Name change from Mariyah al-Madiniyah and device change. Per bend argent and gules, a swan sable and a sword inverted Or.
The submitter’s prior name, Mariyah al-Madiniyah, is retained as an alternate name.
The submitter’s old device, Per pale azure and Or, a crescent and between its horns a mullet of four points all counterchanged, is retained as a badge.
Rachel Phythian Sons of Scotia. Name and device. Purpure, in chief a cross formy between flaunches argent. Submitted as Rachel Phythien of Sons of Scotia, the name in this form did not match any documented naming pattern. With the submitter’s permission, we have changed the name for registration to Rachel Phythian Sons of Scotia, a construction that uses an English double surname plus a locative. Phythian is a variant spelling of Fythian, found as an early 17th century English surname in the FamilySearch Historical Records. Sons was also documented as an early 17th century English surname in FamilySearch.

The following were returned by the College of Arms for further work, November 2016:

Millicent Couture. Name.
This name was withdrawn by the submitter after the close of commentary.

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LOP – 5 January 2017, A.S. LI

ATENVELDT COLLEGE OF HERALDS 5 January 2017, A.S. LI

LETTER OF PRESENTATION Kingdom of Atenveldt

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

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

This is the January 2017 Atenveldt Letter of Presentation, for the January 2017 LoI; it precedes the Letter of Intent with submissions considered for the next Letter of Intent. Please have your commentary made by 20 January .

Heraldry Hut: will be held on Friday, January, at the home of Symond and Marta, 7:30 PM. Please email one of us if you have questions or need directions.

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

Áilgheanán mac Síthigh (Twin Moons): NEW DEVICE

Or, a Celtic hound passant regardant vert, in chief a sword, a Battersea shield and a boarspear Or.

The name was registered via Meridies February 2001.

We don’t register beasts or monsters drawn in a particular style or motif; a dog or boar or raven is registered as simply that, but the client can give it flourishes associated with Celtic knotwork or something like that once it has been registered. Of more concern is that the submission will be returned for the use of three dissimilar charges (sword, shield and spear) in the same charge group (here, tertiary charges on the chief). (The Battersea shield appears mostly having to do with the outline of the shield, similar to a cartouche, rather than embellishments found upon it.)

Amber Bikkadóttir (TM): NEW DEVICE

Per chevron inverted vert semy of cat’s pawprints argent, and sable, a domestic cat couchant contourny paly Or and sable and a tree eradicated argent.

The name was registered via Meridies June 2012.

The chevron inverted needs to issue from the sides of the field, not the upper corners of the field. This will reduce the space for the tree, but this seems to be permitted by the College of Arms. Please be aware that the uncolored copy of the device should match the colored copies; not being the same is a reason for return.

François Barbe-d’Or (Barony of Atenveldt): NEW NAME and DEVICE

Per bend sinister gules and argent, a Paschal lamb passant regardant proper and a cross formy gules.

François is a French male given name found in “Names from Artois, 1601,” Aryanhwy merch Catmael,http://heraldry.sca.org/names/french/french1601.html. Barbe-d’Or is a locative byname found in “Inn Signs and House Names in 15th Century Paris,” Juliana de Luna,http://medievalscotland.org/jes/ParisInnHouseNames/. The client desires a male name and is most interested in the language and/or culture of the name (French). He will not accept Major changes to the name.

The Paschal lamb registered by Galen of Bristol in March 2013 was blazoned simply as “argent,” although the cross on its banner is gules. Isabel de Annesley’s Pashal lamb, registered June 2014, is blazoned as argent, although the cross on its banner is gules and the halo is Or. Alisoun MacCoul notes in commentary for Isabel’s submission, “While the lamb is haloed Or and its banner is the standard argent and gules ensign of Saint George, of late we have been omitting such details from blazon. . .” I’m using the blazon as it was submitted.

Please consider the following submissions for the December 2016 Atennveldt Letter of Intent:

Ceallach Colquhoun (Sundragon): NEW HOUSEHOLD NAME, Red Dragon Keep

The personal name was registered June 2006.

Company of the Red Dragon is registered to Tristram O’Shee, and House of the Red Dragons is registered to Anastasia MacEwan de Ravenna and Juliana Red MacLachlan. Per SENA, 3. Substantial Change of Single-Syllable Name Element: Two names whose substantive elements are two words or less and have a comparable single-syllable name element (excluding articles and prepositions, like de and the) are eligible for this rule. Comparable single-syllable name elements are substantially different in sound if a group of adjacent vowels or of adjacent consonants within a word is completely changed, so that they have no sound in common. In rare cases, the sound may still be too similar for this rule to clear the conflict. The change of a single letter is sufficient for two eligible name phrases to be different in appearance, as such name phrases are quite short. On a case by case basis, two-syllable names phrases may be eligible for this rule, such as Harry and Mary (http://heraldry.sca.org/sena.html#NPN3),

Keep is an acceptable household designator, http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/Designations.html#Keep. The client is willing to accept Red Dragon Keep of Sundragon if a conflict is found (Sundragon is a baronial designator register September 1984). She is most interested in the meaning of the name.

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

Commentary was provided by Basil Dragonstrike Coblaith Muimnech, ffride wlffsdotter, Juetta Copin, Michael Gerard Curtememoire, Seraphina Delfino and Sorcha inghen Chon Mhara.

Cullen Ellis (Sundragon): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Per bend sinister gules and azure, a dragon segreant contourny argent and three Celtic crosses one and two Or.

>Gallant O’Driscole (Tir Ysgithr): NEW BADGE: (Fieldless) A roundel vert conjoined in fess to two snakes nowed palewise addorsed argent.

The name was registered August 2003.

The posture for the snakes is taken from the registered armory for Justa Vucheselin von Schlangen: Sable, in pale three wolf’s pawprints between in fess two snakes nowed palewise addorsed argent. (registered January 2006)

>Gunnvarðr Egilsson (Mons Tonitrus): NEW DEVICE: Or, a phoenix head to sinister gules, a bordure engrailed azure.

The name was registered September 2015.

Compare with Fionn Bàn: Or, a phoenix azure rising from flames gules, a bordure azure. There is 1 DC for changing the tincture of the primary charge (from part azure/part gules to all gules), and 1 DC for the complex line of division on the bordure.

>Kára Hanadóttir (TY): NEW BADGE: (Fieldless) A harp sable within and conjoined to three calla lilies in triangle argent, slipped and leaved vert.

The name was registered June 2012.

“In triangle” has been used in blazonry for some long, thin charges:

East, Kingdom of the (badge, October 1987): (Fieldless) A goutte between three barley stalks in triangle Or.

Grímólfr Skúlason (badge, September 2014): Gules, three drinking horns fretted in triangle mouths inward and on a chief argent a valknut between two ravens respectant sable.
Shauna of Carrick Point (badge, March 1987): Vert, three flutes in triangle argent.

Kamejima Saburou Takauji (device, March 2003): Vert, three lathes fretted in triangle within an annulet argent.

In some cases, in annulo is retained in the blazon:

Mairghread Murdoch (device, January 2008): Argent, a thistle proper between three arrows in annulo sable flighted gules.

“In this case the phrase in annulo refers to the fact that the arrows are following each other head-to-tail. They are in as much of a circle as is possible for three long, straight charges.”

Liam Warr (TY): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Argent, three pallets gules, a mullet of seven points sable.

The name is English. Liam is a late 16th C. English surname found in the Family Search Historical Records as Joana Liam; Female; Marriage; 1592; Elsworth, Cambridge, England; Batch: M13053-1. It can also be used as a given name by precedent. [Alton of Grimfells, 4/2010 LoAR, A-East]. Warr is dated to 10 March 1597 as the christening date for John Warr in Yetminster, Dorset, Englansd, Batch C16031-1,https://familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bsurname%3AWarr~%20%2Bbirth_place%3AEngland~%20%2Bbirth_year%3A1400-1650~.

Master Kedivor Tal ap Cadugon has kindly provided Permission for Liam’s device submission to conflict with his registered badge, Barry vert and Or, a mullet sable.

Músa-Sunnifa (MT): NEW DEVICE: Azure, three estoiles argent between two bendlets Or, all between two open books argent.

The name appears in the 30 November 2016 Atenveldt Letter of Intent.

This device was originally returned for violating SENA A3E1, Arrangement of Charge Groups: “This arrangement of two secondary charge groups is not listed in SENA Appendix J, and so may not be registered without documentation that this is a period arrangement of charge groups. Specifically, it would need documentation that primary charges framed by bendlets or other ordinaries appeared on a field with other secondary charges that are not peripheral ordinaries.” An example of this undocumented arrangement of charges is seen with the return of Liliona Ruth Hampton’s device submission, http://oscar.sca.org/index.php?action=145&id=60977, and its return, http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2016/04/16-04lar.html#248. (Also, the blazon was incorrect, and the estoiles should be argent, and that has been corrected.)

The client has done additional work on her own and demonstrates the registration of the armory for Malkyn of the Cheviot Hills, registered December 2013, Gules, three suns between two bendlets Or, all between two bees Or marked sable., with the emblazon seen at https://oscar.sca.org/index.php?action=145&id=35875. The charges on Músa-Sunnifa’s submission are identical in placement to those on Malkyn’s armory, and Malkyn’s submission was registered without comment. Because of this, we send on this submission for final consideration by the College of Arms. Our blazon was modified to match the pattern of Malkyn’s.

Nikolaus Martin (TY): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Per pale sable and gules, a chi-rho argent and a double-headed eagle Or, on a chief argent a cross of Jerusalem sable.

The name is German. Nikolaus is a male given name, second only to Johann in the period 1451-1550, according to Volkmar Hellfritzsch’s Vogtländische Personennamen (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1969) (“Late Period German Masculine Given Names,” Talan Gwynek, https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/germmasc/). Martin is a patronymic surname found in “German Names from 1495: Surnames,” Aryanhwy merch Catmael, http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/german/surnames1495h-m.html. The client desires a male name and is most interested in the sound of the name.

Tobias Wade (GM): NEW HOUSEHOLD NAME and BADGE: Per chevron inverted grady azure and argent, a sunburst Or clouded argent and two towers gules.

The name was registered June 2015.

“Roan Brook loosely translates for Copper Creek, which is a commonly-known feature in the Bagdad, Arizona, mining ares. If these two words cannot be used together in this fashion, I would like to keep any changes along this line of thinking, or possibly make another submission.”–Tobias Wade. Unfortunately, most of the definitions in the COED for Roan are associated with the color/skin of animals, particularly horses, cattle, or a specific type of antelope; it is also a soft, flexible leather of sheepskin used in bookbinding. Reaney and Wilson comment that it is a locative, from Rouen, Normandy: Roen, Roan, Rone 1418-1420 (3rd edition, p. 380 s.n. Roan, Rone). Brook is a locative surname, a residence near a stream or water-meadow (and a brook is a physical geographical locale itself) (R&W, 3rd edition, p. 67 s.n. Brook et al, and p. 66 s.n. Brock et al). A 19th C. map shows UK place names of Roan Island, Loch Roan, Roanhead (Crag, Beach and Estate). After some amount of discussion, it appears that Roan, being a surname, could be used as Household of Roans Brook. I’ve spoken with the client, and he’s agreeable with this.

Vivianna Dalessana (BoAtenveldt): NAME CHANGE, from Millicent Couture, and NEW DEVICE:Argent, a fleur-de-lys and a bordure, all per pale azure and sable.

ffride wlffsdotter demonstrated in the Prosopography of the Byzantine World(http://db.pbw.kcl.ac.uk/jsp/index.jsp) s.n. Dalassenos: Dalassene, magistrissa, early-mid 12th C.; Anna Dalassene, mid-11th to early 12th D.; Maria Dalassene, protoproedrissa*, mid-late 11th C.; and Xene Dalassene, nun, mid-late 11th C. The -ne ending here occurs in Byzantine Greek is because it is the feminine of –nos. ffride believes that this might be a Latinisation, given her father’s name is written as Dalassenus. If the byname is Latin, then the given name Viviana (with, again, a single -n-) also appears in 13-14th C. Italy: “Viviana,” in S. L. Uckelman, ed. The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, Edition 2016, no. 4. (http://dmnes.org/2016/4/name/Viviana). SENA Appendix C says Italian and Greek name elements can be mixed.
The client desires a female name. She also is most interested in the spelling of the name, so the Latinized form is likely more acceptable to her.

The following submissions are held or returned for further work by the Atenveldt CoH, November 2016:

Johnathan Crusadene Whitewolf (BA): NEW ALTERNATE NAME, Eber Hauer, and NEW BADGE

Per bend raguly Or and argent, a double-headed eagle sable and a boar’s tusk gules.

Christopher Devereux (Liber) was able to justify the alternate name as a period German name, which might be the only way to register it without making any Major or Minor changes. The only tooth/fang that is permitted in SCA armory is the elephant tusk. I have emailed the client to get clarification on these matters.

HELD for name and badge charge issues.

Viktoria of York (Twin Moons): DEVICE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, July 2012

Quarterly purpure and argent, in bend two dragonflies argent, and in bend sinister two crosses purpure.

The submission is in violation of SENA’s prohibition of marshalling, A.6. Armory Presumption F.2.c. Multiple Types of Primary Charges: When different sections of the field contain different types of charges, it creates the appearance of marshalling. The client has been emailed with suggestions as how to resolve this so the submission can proceed.

RETURNED for the appearance/prohibition on marshalling.

The following submissions were registered by the SCA College of Arms, October 2016:

Æsa Væna. Device. Per pale purpure and argent, two domestic cats sejant respectant counterchanged argent and sable, on a chief vert an ivy vine Or.
Aldontza Nafarra. Device. Argent, in annulo three falcons contourny striking in annulo vert.
There is a step from period practice for the use of charges in annulo not in their default palewise orientation.
Argouanagos of Scythia. Name and device. Argent, on a chevron between two chess knights and a wolf’s head cabossed sable a plate.
Submitted as Argouanagus of Scythia, the wholly Greek form of the given name found in the documentation is Argouanagos. With the submitter’s permission, we have made this change.
Brígiða Finnvarðardóttir. Name.
The submitter may be interested to know that both name elements are Norse versions of Irish names, making this an excellent name for a Norse woman with Irish roots or one living in or around Ireland.
Conrad Bombast von Trittenheim. Device change. Argent, a moth and on a chief sable four tiler’s nails argent.
The submitter’s old device, Argent, a bat-winged manticore segreant gules, headed and winged sable, is retained as a badge.
Duncan the Sinister. Name and device. Argent, a badger rampant regardant contourny sable marked argent, a chief embattled sable.
In February 2015, we accepted the name Xavier the Sinister (A-An Tir), ruling:
Appendix A of SENA allows the use of marked and unmarked descriptive/occupational bynames in French. Examples of descriptive or occupational bynames from the 15th and 16th centuries include Cordewanier/le Cordewanier, Devin/Le Devin, Villain/Le Villain, and Mauwin/Le Mauwin, all found in Domhnall na Moicheirghe’s article, “Names from Lallaing 1384 – 1600” (http://heraldry.sca.org/names/lallaing_names.html). Therefore le Senestre is a plausible form of the attested 15th century French Senestre, and we can allow the lingua Anglica form, the Sinister. Based on this ruling, the Sinister is registerable here as a lingua Anglican form of a French byname. Scots and French are an acceptable lingual mix under Appendix C.
Duncan the Sinister. Badge. Argent, a badger’s head erased sable marked argent between six pellets in annulo.
Elena Maria Suberria. Name.
The submitter’s original name, Elena Maria de Suberria, was returned on the January 2016 LoAR (R-Atenveldt) because the documentation did not support the marked form de Suberria and the submitter did not allow us to drop the preposition. As resubmitted without the preposition, the name is registrable as a combination of Castilian Spanish and Basque elements.
Elezabeth Dayseye. Device. Purpure semy of daisies Or, a unicorn couchant contourny and on a chief argent an arrow azure.
Elise la Galante. Name and device. Or, a female archer statant drawing a bow and arrow to sinister vert, on a chief embattled azure a demi-sun issuant from chief Or.
The word galante shows up in late period French as an adjective or occupational term, meaning “courtesan.” Numerous examples of marked occupational or descriptive bynames in French found in Aryanhwy merch Catmael’s “French Surnames from Paris, 1421, 1423 & 1438” (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/french/paris1423surnames.html). Therefore, a marked byname such as la galante is plausible.
The submitter requested authenticity for 12th-14th century France. This name does not meet that request because none of the elements could be documented in French for that time period.
Emeludt von Zerssen. Name (see RETURNS for device).
The submitter requested authenticity for 14th-15th century German language/culture. This name is not authentic for that period because we were not able to find evidence of the byname that early. However, it is registerable.
Eoda Blauschild. Name change from Angelica Blauschild.
The submitter’s previous name, Angelica Blauschild, is retained as an alternate name.
Blauschild is grandfathered to the submitter, and thus may be combined with the 8th century Anglo-Saxon given name Eoda.
Felipe Mendo de Eslava de Montoya. Name and device. Per bend sinister argent and Or, a boar statant gules and a lupine azure slipped and leaved vert.
Submitted as Felipe Mendo de Eslava del Montoya, no documentation was provided and none could be found for this name pattern. The submitter allowed no major changes to the name, but permitted the byname to be changed to de Montoya if necessary for registration. Since such a change was necessary, we made it.
Gaius Clodius Pugnax. Name.
The submitter requested authenticity for “Roman Republican Era.” The praenomen and the nomen were both found during the Republican era and the cognomen Pugnax was found in inscriptions prior to 79 C.E. Thus, it is possible (and even likely) that the name is authentic for Rome during the Republic, but we cannot say for sure.
Grigor Medvedev. Device. Azure, two bears combattant Or, on a chief argent three Latin crosses gules.
Precedent states: When we re-defined the protection for the cross symbol of the Red Cross, we stated that multiple crosses will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Since there is more than one cross on this design, and both crosses are Latinate crosses, this design is not considered to infringe on the symbol of the International Committee of the Red Cross.[Alexander of Lancaster, Dec 2010, A-Outlands]
Here we have a similar situation and this device is registerable.
Jaep Van Doornik. Name.
The byname Van Doornik was not dated to period in the documentation provided in the LoI. However, commenters found it dated to the gray period in Resolutien van Holland (https://books.google.com/books?id=x2JJAAAAcAAJ).
By precedent, “[a]lthough prepositions like van are typically found in lower case, capitalization varies in the Low Countries in period.” [Claaerkin Van Dalle, Nov 2015]. Therefore, the submitted Van Doornik is registerable.
Jakob the Bald. Name change from Garrett Fitzpatrick.
The submitter’s previous name, Garret Fitzpatrick, is released.
The byname the Bald is the lingua Anglica form of the documented byname le Bald’, found in Reaney & Wilson dated to 1178.
James Thorn de Lyon. Badge (see RETURNS for household name). Sable, in pale a lion dormant Or and a house argent.
Jnnifer of Mons Tonitrus. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Sable, a moon in her plenitude argent and a ford proper.
Submitted under the name Hamasaki Eiwa Miyako.
Koga Takashirou Kagehiro. Name and device. Argent, a pair of calipers, in chief a pair of katanas in saltire, a point pointed sable.
The use of katanas, a non-European artifact, is a step from period practice.
Lilie Simmons. Name and device. Per bend argent and purpure, a dragonfly vert and a lotus blossom in profile argent.
Liber found documentation for the female given name Lylie in the FamilySearch Historical Records dated to 1584 in London, England. As there is substantial evidence that i and y were used interchangeably in Early Modern English, the spelling Lylie supports the submitted Lilie. Nice 16th century English name!
Lucia Van Doornik. Name and device. Azure, a horse rampant and on a chief argent three tulips slipped and leaved gules.
The byname Van Doornik was not dated to period in the documentation provided in the LoI. However, commenters found it dated to the gray period in Resolutien van Holland (https://books.google.com/books?id=x2JJAAAAcAAJ).
By precedent, “[a]lthough prepositions like van are typically found in lower case, capitalization varies in the Low Countries in period.” [Claaerkin Van Dalle, Nov 2015]. Therefore, the submitted Van Doornik is registerable.
Massimo Rosa da Milano. Name.
Mons Tonitrus, Barony of. Badge for Order of the Sable Harps of Mons Tonitrus. Per chevron argent and sable, three harps and a bordure denticulada counterchanged.
This badge is registered in addition to the currently registered badge for the Order.
Mons Tonitrus, Barony of. Badge for Order of the Silver Morion of Mons Tonitrus. Sable, a morion and a bordure denticulada argent.
This badge is registered in addition to the currently registered badge for the Order.
Nia the Pict. Name and device. Gules, a natural seahorse Or and a bordure argent.
As documented, this name combined a 17th century English given name with a lingua Anglica rendering of a late 3rd century Latin descriptive byname. This documentation resulted in a 1300-year gap between the elements, which is far more than what is permitted by SENA PN2C. In commentary, Aldyrne and Rocket found evidence of Nia as an 8th century Irish Gaelic male name, with an earliest date of 722 CE. Nia the Pictthus can be registered as a Gaelic name, with the lingua Anglica form the Pict based on the documented Old Gaelic descriptive byname Cruithnech. The submitter requested authenticity for “Pictish, 360 AD during the Roman invasion/occupation of Britain.” This name does not meet that request, as there is no evidence of Niaas a Pictish given name.
Runa Gigja. Name.
Submitted as Runa Gígja, Appendix D requires that transliterations of Old Norse use or omit accents consistently throughout the name. We therefore have dropped the accent in the byname for registration. If the submitter prefers all accents to be included, she may submit a request for reconsideration.
Tóka Kolbiarnardóttir. Name change from Astríðr Kolbiarnardóttir (see RETURNS for device).
The byname Kolbiarnardóttir is grandfathered to the submitter. Her previous name, Astríðr Kolbiarnardóttiris retained as an alternate name. The submitter requested authenticity for “Old Norse/Danish.” Although this name combines an Old Norse element with a Danish element, it is not authentic because the two elements were not found at the same place and time.

The following submissions have been returned by the CoA October 2016 for further work:

Ælfgyfe Æthelwulfesdohtor. Name change from holding name Michelle of Twin Moons.
This submission must be returned because there was no name form provided.
Emeludt von Zerssen. Device. Argent, a chevron rompu azure between two peacocks respectant proper and a seeblatt azure.
This device is returned for a redraw, for violating the guidelines set forth on the May 2011 Cover Letter for a properly drawn chevron; the chevron rompu here is too low. Please see that Cover Letter for further discussion and details of how to properly draw a chevron.
Finnvarðr Snæbiarnarson. Device. Per bend vert and argent, a boar’s head erased and a quiver with three arrows bendwise counterchanged.
This device is returned for violating SENA A3D2c, Unity of Posture and Orientation, which states “The charges within a charge group should be in either identical postures/orientations or an arrangement that includes posture/orientation”. The charges here are not in a unified arrangement, as the orientations of the head and quiver must be blazoned separately.
Hamasaki Eiwa Miyako. Name.
This name must be returned because the element Eiwa is not appropriate for personal names during the SCA’s period. Eiwa is an “era” name; in other words, it was an element used to name time periods, not people. Era names were not incorporated into personal names before 1868. Additionally, Hamasaki is not a correct transliteration of the Japanese elements. Keystone advised that the correct transliteration is Hamazaki. This name would be registerable as Hamazaki Miyako, but the submitter does not allow any changes. Therefore, it must be returned. Her device is registered under the holding name Jennifer of Mons Tonitrus.
James Thorn de Lyon. Household name La Maison du Repaire du Lyon. Unfortunately, this household name must be returned, as no evidence was provided (and none was found by commenters) that it matches a period pattern for naming households or groups of people.
Mons Tonitrus, Barony of. Badge for Order of the Sable Arrows. Argent, a sheaf of arrows between flaunches sable, overall a bordure denticulada counterchanged.
This badge is returned due to the bordure denticulada surmounting the flaunches. While flaunches may be charged, a bordure surmounting flaunches has long been cause for return. While the group has two badges registered with a bordure surmounting flaunches, those badges have a simple bordure. Therefore the grandfather clause cannot be used to register this badge as SENA A2B3 states that “Only the exact, actual elements which are registered may be used, not variants or patterns.”
Mons Tonitrus, Barony of. Badge for Order of the Sable Chevronels of Mons Tonitrus. Per fess sable and argent, three chevronels braced counterchanged and on a chief embattled argent a pellet.
This badge is returned for redraw. As depicted, there is confusion as to whether this is a per fess field with a chief that is higher than the upper section of the divided field or more likely a fess embattled that is too high on the field. On resubmission, please let the submitter know that the chief should be placed above two equally divided per fess sections.
Natasiia of Nyenskans. Name change from Mariyah al-Madiniyah.
This name submission was withdrawn by the submitter.
Tóka Kolbiarnardóttir. Device change. Per chevron inverted argent and gules, a bear dormant sable and a mushroom argent the cap spotted gules.
This device is returned for redraw, for violating SENA A2C2 which states “Elements must be drawn to be identifiable.” Commenters had trouble identifying the dormant bear. On resubmission please advise the submitter to separate the limbs from the body and add more internal details so the bear is recognizable.

Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy

c/o Linda Miku

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Tucson AZ 85716

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LOP – 15 December 2016, A.S. LI

ATENVELDT COLLEGE OF HERALDS 15 December 2016, A.S. LI

LETTER OF PRESENTATION Kingdom of Atenveldt

Unto Their Royal Majesties Morgan and Elizabeth; 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 December 2016 Atenveldt Letter of Presentation, for the December 2016 LoI; it precedes the Letter of Intent with submissions considered for the next Letter of Intent. Please have your commentary made by December 2016.

Submission Fee Increase: The fee for new submissions by the S.C.A . College of Arms has increased to $4.00 per item. At this time, there is no intent to increase the current fee for a new submission from the Kingdom of Atenveldt ($7.00).

Heraldry Hut: will be held on Friday, 16 December, at the home of Symond and Marta, 7:30 PM. Please email one of us if you have questions or need directions.

Please consider the following submissions for the December 2016 Atenveldt Letter of Intent:

Ceallach Colquhoun (Sundragon): NEW HOUSEHOLD NAME, Red Dragon Keep

The personal name was registered June 2006.

Cullen Ellis (Sundragon): NEW NAME and DEVICE

Per bend sinister gules and azure, a dragon segreant contourny argent and three Celtic crosses one and two Or.

The name is English. While Cullen developed as a surname, late period/post-1500 surnames can be used as given names (Cullen Quintrell was born about 1646 in about 1646 om Camborne, Cornwall, England,https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:94QB-YDF. James Cullen has a christening date of 1 April 1564 in Hemsby, Norfolk, England, Batch C04500-1,https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NB91-3JB). Ellis is a surname associated with John Ellis, who has a marriage record dated to 26 June 1580 in Saint Giles Cripplegate, London, London England, Batch M02243-1,https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NJ54-J8X. The client desires a male name.

Tobias Wade (Granite Mountain): NEW HOUSEHOLD NAME, Household of Roan Brook, and NEW BADGE

Per chevron inverted azure and argent, a sunburst Or clouded argent and two towers gules.

The personal name was registered June 2015.

“Roan Brook loosely translates for Copper Creek , which is a commonly-known feature in the Bagdad, Arizona, mining ares. If these two words cannot be used together in this fashion, I would like to keep any changes along this line of thinking, or possibly make another submission.”–Tobias Wade. Most of the definitions in the COED for Roan are associated with the color/skin of animals, particularly horses, cattle, or a specific type of antelope; it is also a soft, flexible leather of sheepskin used in bookbinding. Reaney and Wilson comment that it is a locative, from Rouen, Normandy: Roen, Roan, Rone 1418-1420 (3^rd edition, p. 380 s.n. Roan, Rone). Brookis a locative, residence near a stream or water-meadow, (R&W, 3^rd edition, p. 67 s.n. Brook et al, and p. 66 s.n. Brock et al). A 19^th C. map shows UK place names of Roan Island, Loch Roan, Roanhead (Crag, Beach and Estate). House rather than Household is likely more accurate. The client is most interested in the meaning of the name.

Vivianna Dalessana (BoAtenveldt): NAME CHANGE, from Millicent Couture, and NEW DEVICE

Argent, a fleur-de-lys and a bordure, all per pale azure and sable.

The client’s original name submission, Millicent Couture, appears on the 20 September 2016 Atenveldt Letter of Intent; she wishes that name withdrawn. The new name is Byzantine Greek. I can find no example of the given name Vivianna, nor was one supplied. (Considering that the given name Vivian was an English masculine given name in the Middle Ages, there could be an issue here.) On the other hand, Withycombe cites the 5^th C. St. Vivianus (a man), 3^rd Ed., pp. 290-291, so the saint may have been familiar to people in the eastern Roman Empire. And I do find one example of the female name Viviana (single -n-) in “Common Names of the Aristocracy in the Roman Empire During the 6th and 7th Centuries,” Bardas Xiphias,http://heraldry.sca.org/names/byzantine/early_byz_names.html. Hurrah! (The same article finds the female name Anna with two -n-). Anna Dalassena was the mother of Emperof Alexius I Comnenus, 1081-1118, and she served as regent in the early years of her son’s reign (http://www.roman-emperors.org/annadal.htm.). She was the daughter of Alexius Charon and a daughter of Adrian Dalassenus. She maintained her monther’s name because it had greater notoriety than that of her father or her husband. The client desires a female name and is most interested in the spelling.

The following submissions appear in the November 2016 Letter of Intent:

Commentary for the Letter of Presentation was supplied by Brenna Lowri o Ruthin, Coblaith Muimnech, Etienne Le Mons, ffride wlffsdotter, Maridonna Benvenuti and Michael Gerard Curtememoire.

Areus of Sparta: NEW DEVICE CHANGE: Sable, a trident head Or and a bordure parted bordurewise wavy gules and argent.

A division of a bordure in a similar fashion is seen in the registered armory of Akastos Theodorou, Or, a calamarie inverted sable and a bordure parted bordurewise indented argent and sable. () and in the registered armory of Marie de Roelent,Argent, three sea-horses contourny azure, a bordure parted bordurewise wavy azure and argent ( https://oscar.sca.org/index.php?action=145&id=55064,http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2015/10/15-10lar.html#307 ).

Fenrich der Stürmer Hahn (Tir Ysgithr): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Or, a dunghill cock rising contourny vert maintaining a spear bendwise sinister, a bordure raguly sable.

Michael Gerard Curtememoire: Actually, because we blazon bladed weapons by their blades, this is Or, a dunghill cock rising contourny vert maintaining a spear bendwise sinister argent hafted sable, a bordure raguly sable.

Granite Mountain, Barony of: NEW ORDER NAME, Order of the Emerald Heart of Granite Mountain and NEW BADGE: Per fess indented vert and sable, in chief a bezant charged with a heart vert, a bordure erminois.

Granite Mountain, Barony of: NEW ORDER NAME, Order of the Grace of Granite Mountain

Granite Mountain, Barony of: NEW BADGE: Per fess indented vert and sable, in base an ermine spot Or, a bordure erminois.

Granite Mountain, Barony of: NEW BADGE: Sable, an ermine spot Or, a bordure erminois.

Granite Mountain, Barony of: NEW BADGE

Per fess indented vert and sable, in pale an ermine statant contourny regardant ermine and an ermine spot Or, a bordure erminois.

The territorial name was registered November 2014.

Granite Mountain, Barony of: NEW HERALDIC TITLE, Erminois Pursuivant

The territorial name was registered November 2014.

A Barony is entitled to have titled pursuivant. Parker cites erminois as an heraldic fur, Or with sable spots (pp. 234-5). It appears in most of the Barony’s armory.

Michael Gerard Curtememoire: “All that is said in the head matter here is probably or certainly true, and wholly irrelevant.
Our sources for acceptable patterns for heraldic titles seem to be “Heraldic Titles from the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Overview” by Julia Smith, http://medievalscotland.org/jes/HeraldicTitles/, and “Heraldic Titles in Medieval England” by Christie L. Ward (Gunnvǫr silfrahárr),http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/Stars/Heraldic_Titles.htm. Both note that the names of charges can be used, in combination with ordinary color words, not heraldic tinctures. Neither shows the name of a tincture being used by itself in a heraldic title.”

However, we’ve based the name on the Ermine King of Arms, an heraldic title associated with Brittany and an important non-SCA title; An Tir saw it protected November 2008.

Granite Mountain, Barony of: BADGE RESUBMISSION for the Order of Peregrine of Granite Mountain: Per fess indented vert and sable,an arrow and bow crossed in saltire Or, a bordure erminois.

Ignacio Diaz de Castile: DEVICE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, August 2016:Pean, on a tyger rampant Or a crescent gules, a bordure embattled Or crusilly Santiago gules.

Maria de Venetia (TY): NEW NAME CHANGE

Maria as an Italian name is found several hundred times between 1457 and 1557 in 2014 KWHSS paper “Names from 15th and 16th Century Pisa,” Juliana de Luna, http://heraldry.sca.org/kwhss/2014/#Pisa.

The client asked for a more Italian or Ventian form of the name, originally submitted as Maria of Venice. Maridonna Benvenuti believes that de Venetia would be the medieval Latin spelling. “Dizionario di toponomastica. Storia e significato dei nomi geografici italiani.”, UTET Libreria, print, s.n.Venezia: Il nome di Venezia è una forma dotta (riprende il classico Venetia)… . A translation: the name Venezia is a learned form from the classic Venetia. pp.814-5.
The Venetia spelling can be found in use in many Italian books when googling the name Venetia at Googlebooks. https://www.google.com/search?lr=lang_it&tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=Venetia&tbs=,bkv:f,bkt:b,cdr:1,cd_min:Dec+2 3_2+1449,cd_max:Dec+31_2+1625&num=10

Mathias Steinson (TY): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Quarterly sable and azure, a butterfly bendwise sinister argent.

ffride wlffsdotter says: 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 (ie. still Norse).

Michael Gerard Curtememoire: Minimally clear of Anne of Caerdydd’s badge, Jan 1993, (Fieldless) A butterfly argent, wings tipped gules, and Kynedriþ filia Gerald’s device, Oct 2008, (Fieldless) A butterfly bendwise argent. I say minimally because butterflies tergiant (I find) don’t get an SC for orientation under http://heraldry.sca.org/sena.html#A5E5a, “[Change of Posture of] Animate Charges”, but do get a DC under http://heraldry.sca.org/sena.html#A5G7a, “Change of Posture for Animate Charges”. With the other DC for field(less), no conflict.

Músa-Sunnifa (Mons Tonitrus): NEW NAME

Nefratiri Ani : NEW BADGE: (Fieldless) A triskelion of human legs azure.

Valdis Skarpa: NEW DEVICE: Gules, a dragon couchant and on a chief argent three open books sable.

The following submissions are held or returnd for further work by the Atenveldt CoH, November 2016:

Johnathan Crusadene Whitewolf (BA): NEW ALTERNATE NAME, Eber Hauer, and NEW BADGE

Per bend raguly Or and argent, a double-headed eagle sable and a boar’s tusk gules.

HELD for name and badge charge issues.

Músa-Sunnifa: NEW DEVICE

Azure, in bend three estoiles between two bendlets Or, all between two open books argent.

This device is returned for violating SENA A3E1, Arrangement of Charge Groups. This arrangement of two secondary charge groups is not listed in SENA Appendix J, and so may not be registered without documentation that this is a period arrangement of charge groups. Specifically, it would need documentation that primary charges framed by bendlets or other ordinaries appeared on a field with other secondary charges that are not peripheral ordinaries. An example of this undocumented arrangement of charges is seen with the return of Liliona Ruth Hampton’s device submission, http://oscar.sca.org/index.php?action=145&id=60977, and its return,http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2016/04/16-04lar.html#248. (Also, the blazon was incorrect, and the estoiles should be argent.)

RETURNED for undocumented charge arrangement.

Viktoria of York (Twin Moons): DEVICE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, July 2012

Quarterly purpure and argent, in bend two dragonflies argent, and in bend sinister two crosses purpure.

RETURNED for the appearance/prohibition on marshalling.

The following submissions were registered by the SCA College of Arms, September 2016:

Andromeda Lykaina. Name change from Umm Ma’bad Amirah al-Zahra’ bint ‘Abd al-Aziz al-Azhar ibn Malik ibn Mansur.
The submitter’s old name, Umm Ma’bad Amirah al-Zahra’ bint ‘Abd al-Aziz al-Azhar ibn Malik ibn Mansur, is retained as an alternate name.
Collin de Lacy. Name and device. Sable, on a cross Or two spears in cross, the fesswise spear reversed sable, in canton a Lacy knot Or.
The given name was presented as the submitter’s legal given name. However, the legal given name was not properly attested, as only a single herald attested to the document and no copy of the document was provided. Fortunately, the given name Collin can easily be documented in both French and English, making this name registerable.
Attestations as to the contents of legal documents such as driver’s licenses must be made by two heralds. If a second herald is not available at an event, then another SCA officer, such as a seneschal, may make the attestation in place of the second herald.
Sely Bloxam. Device change. Argent, a bend wavy azure between a gillyflower purpure slipped and leaved vert and a human footprint sable.
There is a step from period practice for the use of a footprint.
The submitter’s old device, Per bend Or and argent, a gillyflower purpure slipped and leaved vert and a human footprint sable, is released.
Stefan Jäger von Ansbach. Badge. Paly bendy sinister argent and azure, an edelweiss blossom Or and an orle vert.

The following submissions have been returned for further work, September 2016:

Honour Grenehart. Badge. Argent goutty de vin, a labyrinth azure.
This badge is returned for redraw. The gouttes should not appear in the argent portion of the labyrinth, as a labyrinth is a solid charge, but only be present around it.
On redraw, please advise the submitter to use gouttes of a more period shape, with a longer wavy tail.

The following is pended until the February 2017 CoA meetings for further commentary:
Areus of Sparta. Name change from Phelan Ó Coileáin.
In commentary, Metron Ariston identified a possible presumption issue: one of the kings of Sparta was named Areus. SENA PN4D1 sets out the standards for whether a historical person is important enough to protect from presumption. It states in relevant part:
‘Sovereign rulers of significant states are generally important enough to protect. Some historical city-states are not considered significant states. Provinces or regions integrated into larger units like the Holy Roman Empire are not generally considered significant states. Sovereigns of small states that did not give rise directly to modern countries will not be protected under this clause, nor will legendary kings of any state (though these kings may be individually important enough to protect).”
Sparta was a Greek city-state. It did not directly give rise to any modern country. Commenters are asked to discuss whether Sparta nevertheless is sufficiently significant to warrant protecting its kings from presumption. Alternatively, commenters should address whether Atreus of Sparta himself was historically significant such that he should be protected from presumption.

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LOP – 8 November 2016, A.S. LI

ATENVELDT COLLEGE OF HERALDS 8 November 2016, A.S. LI

LETTER OF PRESENTATION Kingdom of Atenveldt

Unto Their Royal Majesties Morgan and Elizabeth; 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 2016 Atenveldt Letter of Presentation, for the November 2016 LoP; it precedes the Letter of Intent with submissions considered for the next Letter of Intent. Please have your commentary made by 25 November 2016.

Submission Fee Increase: The fee for new submissions by the S.C.A . College of Arms has increase to $4.00 per item. At this time, there is no intent to increase the current fee for a new submission from the Kingdom of Atenveldt ($7.00).

Heraldry Hut: will be held on Friday, 18 November, at the home of Symond and Marta, 7:30 PM. Please email one of us if you have questions or need directions.

Please consider the following submissions for the November 2016 Atennveldt Letter of Intent:

Areus of Sparta (Barony of Atenveldt): NEW DEVICE CHANGE

Sable, a trident head Or and a bordure parted bordurewise wavy gules and argent.

The client’s name change submission appears on the 20 June 2016 Atenveldt Letter of Intent. A division of a bordure in a similar fashion is seen in the registered armory of Akastos Theodorou, Or, a calamarie inverted sable and a bordure parted bordurewise indented argent and sable. (https://oscar.sca.org/index.php?action=145&id=33514)

This takes the place of a badge resubmission for Phelan Ó Coileáin, Sable, a cross alisée gules fimbriated argent. It was returned by Laurel, September 2009, for multiple conflicts, including that for the Knights Templar.

If registered, please retain his current device as a badge, Azure, a horseshoe inverted within a bordure Or.

Fenrich der Stürmer Hahn (Tir Ysgithr): NEW NAME and DEVICE

Or, a dunghill cock rising contourny vert maintaining a spear bendwise sinister, a bordure reguly sable.

The name is German. He has been known as Fenris for years and wishes something more registerable. Meynhardt Fenrich Ophuss has a christening date of 5 August 1645 in Evangelisch, Kamen, Westfalen, Prussia; his father name was FenrichOphuss (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N63L-38W, Batch J95158-1). der Stürmer Hahn is said to mean “the fighting rooster/cock,” although http://www.collinsdictionary.com /translator shows stürmer as “one who is on (a labor) strike,” rather than just pugilistic. Nevertheless, Stürmer is found as a German surname for Hans Wilhelm Stürmer with a christening datd 6 November 1603 in Barfüßer Klosterkirche, Heidelberg, Baden, Germany (https://familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bsurname%3ASt%C3%BCrmer~%20%2Bbirth_place%3AGermany~%20%2Bbirth_year%3A1400-1650~, Batch C93414-1); and Hahn is found as a German surname for Ludwig Hahn with a christening date 18 July 1581 in Stuttgart, Wurttemberg, Germany (https://familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bsurname%3AHahn~%20%2Bbirth_place%3AGermany~%20%2Bbirth_year%3A1400-1650~, Batch C91613-1 ). Appendix A in SENA says double bynames are rare, so this might be possible if a “simple” descriptive byname like “the fighting cock” (minus der) is not permitted. The client desires a male name and is most interested in meaning (“the fighting rooster”), sound (as similar to Fenris as possible) and language/culture (German, 1480-1600).

Granite Mountain, Barony of: NEW ORDER NAME, Order of the Emerald Heart of Granite Mountain and NEW BADGE

Per fess indented vert and sable, in chief a bezant charged with a heart vert, a bordure erminois.

The territorial name was registered November 2014.

Emerald refers to a precious stone, the color of that gemstone and to a brilliant color like that of the stone (in 1598, spelled as emerold, according to the COED). Heart, in the COED, dates the meaning as “a figure or representation of the human heart; esp. a conventionalized symmetrical figure formed of two similar curves meeting in a point at one end and a cusp at the other. Also, an object, as a jewel or ornament, in the shape of a heart” to 1463: “The seid broche herte of gold to be hange, naylyd, and festnyd vpon the shryne”. The modern spelling heart is used for a stylized figure in 1529 (referring to a playing card). It is also a charge seen in Parker (http://www7b.biglobe.ne.jp/~bprince/hr/parker/jpglossh.htm#Heart).

Granite Mountain, Barony of: NEW ORDER NAME, Order of the Grace of Granite Mountain

The territorial name was registered November 2014.

The Middle English Dictionary, s.n. grace, includes quotes using that specific form to mean “goodwill, kindness, favor, love,” and is dated to multiple years c. 1300-c.1500 (http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED19175). Grace is a noun and not an object which is normally used in the construction of Saint + attribute. However, in this case, it is used to demonstrate by example the recipient’s virtue. The addition of the locative avoids conflict with other Order names. (The definite article the might be best deleted to follow the pattern of orders named after abstract qualities.)

This is to be associated with the Barony’s registered badge, Per fess indented vert and sable, a vol Or and a bordure erminois., registered April 2015.

Granite Mountain, Barony of: NEW HERALDIC TITLE, Erminois Pursuivant

The territorial name was registered November 2014.

A Barony is entitled to have titled pursuivant. Parker cites erminois as an heraldic fur, Or with sable spots (pp. 234-5). It appears in most of the Barony’s armory.

Granite Mountain, Barony of: NEW BADGE

Per fess indented vert and sable, in base an ermine spot Or, a bordure erminois.

The territorial name was registered November 2014.

This is intended as a populace badge.

Granite Mountain, Barony of: NEW BADGE

Per fess indented vert and sable, in chief an ermine statant contourny regardant ermine, a bordure erminois.

The territorial name was registered November 2014.

Granite Mountain, Barony of: BADGE RESUBMISSION for the Order of Peregrine of Granite Mountain

Per fess indented vert and sable,an arrow and bow crossed in saltire Or, a bordure erminois.

The Order name was registered April 2015.

The original submission, Per fess indented vert and sable, a falcon rising Or and a bordure erminois., was returned by Laurel April 2015 for conflict;

this is a redesign. We feel that the primary charges are thin enough so as not to obscure the complex line of division.

Granite Mountain, Barony of: NEW BADGE

Sable, an ermine spot Or, a bordure erminois.

The territorial name was registered November 2014.

This is intended as a badge for the fighters in the Barony. We believe it is clear of the device registered to Francesca da Trani, Sable, an ermine spot and an orle Or.; one DC for the orle vs. bordure, one DC for Or vs. erminois.

Ignacio Diaz de Castile (Sundragon): DEVICE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, August 2016: Pean, on a tyger rampant Or a crescent gules, a bordure embattled Or crusilly Santiago gules.

The name was registered August 2016.
This device was returned August 2016 for a redraw “for violating SENA A2C2 which states “Elements must be drawn to be identifiable.” Commenters had trouble identifying the gules charges on the bordure. On resubmission, please advise the submitter to draw fewer and larger ermine spots.” This has been redone.
The submitter has permission to conflict with the device of Adam Carlos Diaz de Castile: Pean, a tyger rampant within a bordure embattled Or charged with six crosses of Santiago gules.

Johnathan Crusadene Whitewolf (BA): NEW ALTERNATE NAME, Eber Hauer, and NEW BADGE

Per bend raguly Or and argent, a double-headed eagle sable and a boar’s tusk gules.

The client’s primary name was registered October 2015 (transferred from his deceased father).

I am assuming that the new alternate name is for a fighting unit, not a personal name, as documentation lists it as such. However, I think that as a unit, it might need a group designation.

The name is German, Eber Hauer meaning “boar tusks” (http://www.collinsdictionary.com/translator), in reference to a fighting unit that hails primarily from the Barony of Tir Ysgithr, which has a boar head on its armory.

The use of a tooth/tusk is limited because it is usually unrecognizable when used by itself (one sees them as “teeth” in skulls, the heads of boars, the heads of predators and monsters). The Pictorial Dictionary notes that a fang is visually equivalent to a drinking horn, and it has been disallowed for Society heraldry, due to its lack of ready identifiability. It does note that a tusk, an elephant’s tooth, couped and with point to chief by default, is still permitted (http://mistholme.com/?s=tooth). The client might consider such a tusk, or even wolf’s teeth, as his arms feature a wolf.

Maria of Venice (TY): NEW NAME CHANGE

The client’s previous name change (from the registered Mariyah al-Madiniyah to Natasiia Novgorodova, currently in the 20 September 2016 Atenveldt Letter of Intent) has been asked to be withdrawn by the client. She asks that this be considered her name change.

Maria is a female given name dated to 1186, found in “Feminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames,” Talan Gwynek, https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/reaney/reaney.cgi?Mary. The client would like to have the locative rendered into Italian (da Venezia, I think), Venetian (perhap da Venesia), or even into Latin, if that would be possible, a form as early in period as could be done.

Mathias Steinson (TY): NEW NAME and DEVICE

Quarterly sable and azure, a butterfly bendwise sinister argent.

Mathias is a German male given name dated to 1332, 1374 and 1388 in “”Medieval German Given Names from Silesia Men’s Names” Talan Gwynek (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/bahlow/bahlowMasc.html). Steinson is a nod to his legal surname, Stinson. It appears that there are a number of period German surnames Stein, but none like Steinson. On the other hand, there is an Old Norse masculine name Steinn (“Viking Names found in Landnámabók,” Aryanhwy merch Catmael, http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/landnamabok.html), which would give rise to the patronymic Steinsson (“A Simple Guide to Creating Old Norse Names,” Aryanhwy merch Catmael, http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/sg-viking.html). Appendix C in SENA allow the mixing of German and Scandanavian name elements. The client desires a male name and cases most about having a German or Norse/Viking name.

Músa-Sunnifa (Mons Tonitrus): NEW NAME and NEW DEVICE

Azure, in bend three estoiles between two bendlets Or, all between two open books argent.

The name is Old Norse, and both elements are found in “The Old Norse Name.” Sunnifa is a female given name, p. 15, and Músa-, “Mouse-,” is a prepended byname, p. 26. The client desires a female name and it most interested in the language/culture of the name. She will not accept Major changes to the name.

Natasiia Novgorodova (Tir Ygithr): WITHDRAWAL OF NEW NAME CHANGE

This name change, from the registered Mariyah al-Madiniyah, appears in the 20 September 2016 Atenveldt Letter of Intent. The client has asked that it be withdrawn from consideration.

Maria is a female given name dated to 1186 in “Feminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames: Mary,” Talan Gwynek, https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/reaney/reaney.cgi?Mary. The client would like the locative rendered into Italian (da Venecia, I think), Venetian (da Venesia, maybe), or a form like Latin or as early in period as possible. The area was inhabited by the Veneti people as early as 10^th C BCE.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice#Origins).

Nefratiri Ani (Granholme): NEW BADGE

(Fieldless) A triskelion of human legs azure.

The name was registered March 1984.

Valdis Skarpa (BoA): NEW DEVICE

Gules, a dragon couchant and on a chief argent three open books sable.

The name was registered July 2012.

Viktoria of York (Twin Moons): DEVICE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, July 2012

Quarterly purpure and argent, in bend two dragonflies argent, and in bend sinister two crosses purpure.

The name was registered July 2012.

The original submission, Per saltire purpure and argent, a dragonfly and a rose argent barbed vert seeded gules., was returned by Laurel July 2012 for presumption, for combining the byname of York with armory containing a white rose. This is a violation of section XI.2 of the Rules for Submissions, and section A6E of the Standards for Evaluation, both of which discuss disallowed charge and name combinations. This is a complete redesign.

This appears to be in violation of SENA’s prohibition of marshalling, A.6. Armory Presumption F.2.c. Multiple Types of Primary Charges: When different sections of the field contain different types of charges, it creates the appearance of marshalling.

I have several questions that might help in resolving this issue:

Can this type of cross (really, an ordinary rather than a specific cross), be used in a divided field?

Is Per saltire purpure and argent, in pale two dragonflies and in fess two crosses counterchanged., permitted and clear of conflict?

Is Per saltire argent and purpure, in pale two crosses and in fess two dragonflies counterchnaged., permitted and clear of conflict?

The following submissions appear in the October Letter of Intent:

Commentary was provided by Coblaith Muimnech and Michael Gerard Curtememoire.

Alexandra Starling of Ravenspurn (Windale): DEVICE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, July 2016: Purpure, a chevron inverted of chain conjoined at the point to a lighthouse Or flammant gules.
The name was registered July 2016.
The original submission was returned “for having the chevron of chain issuing far too high on the field. Per long standing precedent, it should issue from the sides of the field. On redesign, please keep in mind that some commenters had some trouble identifying the lighthouse, mostly due to the low contrast of the flames on the field.” The client has redrawn and adjusted the chain to be more in keeping with the placement of a chevron inverted.

Cirina Badartai (Twin Moons): NEW NAME CHANGE and NEW DEVICE: Per saltire purpure and argent, in fess two feathers sable and a demi-sun issuant from base Or.

Magnus Ulfsson (Twin Moons): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Or, a boar statant sable and one a chief rayonny gules a tau-rho Or.

To resolve the conflict with the other Magnus Ulfson, he has chosen the ON byname inn hugprúði “stout-hearted,” found in “Viking Bynames found in the Landnámabók,” Aryanhwy merch Catmael (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/vikbynames.html).

Michael Gerard Curtememoire comments further: The Bible History Daily site–which looks to be itself a wholly reliable source–lists and links to exactly one source at its parent site: “The Staurogram: Earliest Depiction of Jesus’ Crucifixion” in the March/April 2013 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, showing the same papyrus. The body of that article is unfortunately behind a membership wall, but a discussion without photographs by the same author, arguing that the tau-rho cross or staurogram is earlier than the 4th or 5th century based on the evidence of early papyri is available athttps://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1842/1204/staurogram%20chapter-%20Manuscripts%20volume a.pdf;sequence=1. Since we know medieval scholars saw ancient papryi, this is a small step toward the target Coblaith Muimnech correctly sets, “a period form of a symbol used in the Middle Ages or Renaissance”.
More reliably known to medieval people are ancient coins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staurogram shows a 6th century solidus with a staurogram-topped staff. More ancient-looking copies of that coin are found elsewhere on the Net, e.g. the first image below from http://www.icollector.com/Byzantine-Emp-Anastasius-I-Solidus-498-518_i8604902 which is conveniently more readable than Wikipedia’s. A tau-rho cross much closer to the submission’s is found on a coin of the 4th-c. Arcadius, the second image here, fromhttps://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/beast_coins/22/product/arcadius_ae4__salvs_reipvblicae/52031/Defaul t.aspx
My third image shows another one on a staff, perhaps representing a labarum, with the rho curled as in the submission, on an ancient coin otherwise unidentified at http://www.rhedesium.com/the-sign-of-christ-v-the-name-of-christ–the-vision-of-constantine.html. To quickly find it and similar images there, page-search for various Greek coins. (I’m sure a specialist numismatist could get a better source than this, but Google image search is convinced this is Victoria’s 1845 gold sovereign.)
The rho was also commonly curled in contemporary chi-rhos (a different but often confused monogram of Christ), like three of Magnentius’s coins at https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Chrismon (one is the fourth image here). More relevantly, the staurogram is combined with the chi-rho in an 11th century sculpture in the St-Denis St- Nicholas church, Tramezaïgues, France, shown below as my fifth image from a stock-photo site,http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-sculpted-chi-rho-monogram-11th-century-in-st-nicholass-church-trame zagues-60381472.html, seen also athttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trameza%C3%AFgues_%C3%A9glise_chrisme.JPG with a better caption.
A tau-rho cross combined with alpha and omega is also found in the catacombs according tohttps://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staurogramma, and in the baptistery of the 4th-c. church of San Giovanni in Fonte, seen athttp://ioamocastiglione.blogspot.com/2013/12/storia-della-raffigurazione-della-croce.html (page-search for battistero).
Given all this bracketing, I am morally certain that exactly the charge here can either be found in period or at minimum could have been created in period. Moreover, I’ve seen it modernly in Roman Catholic use, often looking like the image (not shown here) at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staurogramm.

Many thanks to Michael for his exhaustive investigation!

Riane Goch (Tir Ysgithr): NEW DEVICE CHANGE: Gules, on a plate a dragon’s head erased sable impaled on a sword gules.

The following submissions were registered by the SCA College of Arms, July 2016:

Alexandra Starling of Ravenspurn. Name.
Ravenspurn is a lingua Anglica form of the place name found as Ravenser Spurne, Raven(e)ser(e), and other forms found in period in Watts. The 1597 edition of Shakespeare’s Richard II uses the form Rauen spurgh(http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/Texts/search.html?e=R2_Q1&w=s&w=sd&w=marg&q=rauen). If the submitter prefers one of the attested forms, she can submit a request for reconsideration.

Callum of Skye. Name and device. Azure, on a bend between a sheaf of arrows inverted and a thistle Or, three fleurs-de-lys azure.
The submitter requested authenticity for a 12th to 16th century Scottish name. The given name Callum was documented as a Scots name from 1643, and was also documented in commentary to the late 16th century. The place name Skye was also found in a map from 1573. Although both elements are found in the 16th century, bynames tended to be inherited at this time rather than literal. Therefore, this name as a whole is not as likely in the 16th century as a form such as Callum Skyeor something like Callum [surname] of Skye, but it may be authentic.
Hunter de Grae. Name.
Submitted as Hunter du Grae, the correct preposition is de (“of”) rather than the French contraction du (“of the”): “Submitted as Sutton du Grae, the correct preposition is de rather than the French du (a contraction of de and le). We have made this change. Ogress found de Grae as a Gaelic header form in Woulfe, with the late period Anglicized Irish forms de Gray and de Graye. Therefore, we are able to register de Grae as a Gaelic form. The Letter of Intent also included Grae as an unmarked English surname and de Gray in Scots. This name combines an English given name and Gaelic byname. This is an acceptable lingual mix under Appendix C of SENA. [Sutton de Grae, August 2015, A-Atenveldt]”
Just as in the prior name, we have changed the preposition to the correct form, and the English-Gaelic lingual mix is acceptable under Appendix C of SENA.
Hunter is the submitter’s legal middle name, but is also a 16th century English surname that is registerable as a given name. Therefore, the submitter need not rely on the legal name allowance.
We note that the Letter of Intent stated that the byname du Grae is grandfathered to the submitter because it is the byname of his legal father, Ivan du Grae. However, the father’s name is registered as Ivan of Navarette, so du Grae is not eligible for the grandfather clause.
`Izza al-Zarqa’. Device change. Purpure, two horses combattant and on a chief argent three lotus blossoms in profile purpure.
Please advise the submitter to draw the lotus flowers more vertically centered on the chief so that they do not look as if they were issuant from the line of division.
The submitter’s old device, Purpure, two horses combattant and a chief Or, is retained as a badge.
Jacket Tyllyng. Device. Per fess azure and vert, on a fess between three lions argent a sinister fist azure.
William MacIver. Name and device. Per saltire gules and argent, in fess two wyverns erect respectant sable.
The submitted form of the byname, MacIver, was not clearly documented before 1650 in non-normalized sources. Past registration is no guarantee of current registerability.
However, Black s.n. Ivar dates Iver as a given name spelling to the first half of the 16th century. Period forms of the submitted byname in this source include M’Euir, Makevire, and McEvir. In additon, Ogress found the name Iver M’Ever in Account of the Clan-Iver by Peter Colin Campbell, dated to 1635 (p.98, https://books.google.com/books?id=rSYAAAAAQAAJ). This example may have been normalized, but given the range of period examples, we can give the submitter the benefit of the doubt that the submitted form of the byname is reasonable.

The following submissions have been returned for further work, July 2016:

Alexandra Starling of Ravenspurn. Device. Purpure, a chevron inverted of chain conjoined at the point to a lighthouse Or flammant gules.
This device is returned for having the chevron of chain issuing far too high on the field. Per long standing precedent, it should issue from the sides of the field.On redesign, please keep in mind that some commenters had some trouble identifying the lighthouse, mostly due to the low contrast of the flames on the field.

The following submissions were registered by the SCA College of Arms, August 2016:
Aibhilín Bhaireíd. Name. Submitted as Aibhilín inghean Baireíd, Baireíd is the Gaelic form of a borrowed Anglo-Norman surname, not a given name. Without evidence to show that a literal patronym can be formed from such a surname, we cannot register this name as submitted. In addition, due to the requirements of Gaelic grammar, the surname must be lenited. Therefore, we have removed the patronymic particle inghean and have lenited the surname: Aibhilín Bhaireíd.
Aillenn inghean Chonaill. Device. Vert, two wolves combattant Or and in base a moon in her plenitude argent.
Ambrose the Gutless. Name. Gutless is an interpolated spelling of the early 17th century gut-less and gutlesse, found in the Oxford English Dictionary. The submitter may wish to know that literal descriptive bynames are not likely for 17th century England, but the name is registerable.
Elezabeth Dayseye. Name.
Frederick Gloucester. Name and device. Azure, a cross between four martlets, a bordure embattled argent.
Garrett Seaburn. Name (see RETURNS for device). Nice 16th century English name!
Ignacio Diaz de Castile. Name (see RETURNS for device). Diaz de Castile is grandfathered to the submitter, as it is part of the registered name of his father, Adam Carlos Diaz de Castile.
Sigríðr Úlfsdóttir of Aschehyrst. Device. Sable, a key inverted and on a chief argent two compass stars, the dexter sable and the sinister gules.
There is a step from period practice for the use of compass stars.

The following submissions were returned for further work, August 2016:

Ambrose the Gutless. Device. Sable, a hand argent between in chief two bees Or.
This device is returned for presumption with the arms of Isengard: Sable, a hand argent. The hand appears to be a primary charge as it crosses the fess line. Thus there is only one DC for adding the secondary charges in chief. Drawn properly as coprimary charges, with two bees Or and a hand argent of similar visual weight (with the hand staying below the fess line), the present presumption issue would not exist.
Garrett Seaburn. Device. Per bend Or four piles inverted issuant from chief azure and barry wavy argent and azure, a bend vert.
Although blazoned on the Letter of Intent as Per bend Or four piles inverted issuant from chief azure and barry wavy argent and azure, a bend vert, this device is actually more accurately described as Per bend gyronny from chief Or and azure and barry wavy argent and azure, a bend vert. Therefore, it conflicts with the device of Úna ingenue Ragnaill:Checky sable and argent, a bend vert. There is only one DC for changing the field.
Ignacio Diaz de Castile. Device. Pean, on a tyger rampant Or a crescent gules, a bordure embattled Or crusilly Santiago gules.
This device is returned for redraw, for violating SENA A2C2 which states “Elements must be drawn to be identifiable.” Commenters had trouble identifying the gules charges on the bordure. On resubmission, please advise the submitter to draw fewer and larger ermine spots.
The submitter has permission to conflict with the device of Adam Carlos Diaz de Castile: Pean, a tyger rampant within a bordure embattled Or charged with six crosses of Santiago gules.

Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy

c/o Linda Miku

2527 East 3^rd Street

Tucson AZ 85716

brickbat@nexiliscom.com

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LOP – 30 September 2016, A.S. LI

ATENVELDT COLLEGE OF HERALDS 30 September 2016, A.S. LI

LETTER OF PRESENTATION Kingdom of Atenveldt

Unto Their Royal Majesties Cosmo Craven and Elzbieta; 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 October2016 Atenveldt Letter of Presentation; it precedes the Letter of Intent with submissions considered for the next Letter of Intent. Please have your commentary made by 15 October 2016.

Submission Fee Increase: The fee for new submissions by the S.C.A . College of Arms has increases to $4.00 as of the September 2016 LoAR. At this time, there is no intent to increase the current fee for a new submission from the Kingdom of Atenveldt ($7.00).

Heraldry Hut: the September meeting was held at the home of Symond Bayard and Marta. Please contact me with questions or directions.

Please consider the following submissions for the October 2016 Atennveldt Letter of Intent:

Cirina Badartai (Twin Moons): NEW NAME CHANGE and NEW DEVICE

Per saltire purpure and argent, in fess two feathers sable and a demi-sun issuant from base Or.

The name is Mongolian. Cirina is a female given name found in Mongolian Naming Practices, Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy,http://heraldry.sca.org/names/mongolian_names_marta.html. Badartai means “monk, mdendicant.” The literal term is badarcila(http://www.linguamongolia.html) but following On the Documentation and Construction of Period Mongolian Names, Baras-aghur Naran (https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/baras-aghur/mongolian.html), it was suggested on Facebook’s SCA Heraldry Chat that the appropriate suffix to indicate possessions (a conditiion of being a monk) would be “tai.” The client desires a female name and will not accept Major or Minor changes to the name. If registered, the client’s current name, Serena the Lavendere, should be retained as an alternate name.

Magnus Ulfsson (Twin Moons): NEW NAME and DEVICE

Or, a boar statant sable and one a chief rayonny gules a tau-rho Or.

The name is Old Norse. Magnus is a masculine given name found in The Old Norse Name, Geir Bassi Haraldsson, p.13. Ulfr is a masculine given name, same source, p. 15. Ulfsson is an ON patronymic formed from Ulfr+son according to the patronymic formation p.17, in Geirr Bassi. Unfortunately, there is a direct conflict with Magnus Ulfson, registered March 2016. The client may wish to choose a byname that would clear the conflict: Galti is ON for “boar,” surtr “black,” inn hugprúði “stout-hearted.”

The tau-rho staurogram is one of several christograms, or monogram-like devices used by ancient Christians, to refer to Jesus. However, New Testament scholar Larry Hurtado points out that the staurogram only refers to the crucifixion, unlike others, which mention Jesus’ other characteristics. Also, the staurogram is visual—the tau-rho combinations create images of Jesus on the cross, making the staurogram the earliest Christian images of Jesus on the cross. It is created out of the Greek letters tau and rho: “In Greek, the language of the early church, the capital tau, or T, looks pretty much like our T. The capital rho, or R, however, is written like our P. If you superimpose the two letters, it looks something like this.” (http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/crucifixion/the-staurogram/)

Riane Goch (Tir Ysgithr):NEW DEVICE CHANGE

Gules, on a plate a dragon’s head erased sable impaled on a sword gules.

The name was registered December 2014.

If the new device is registered, the current device, Per saltire argent and gules, in chief two chevronels couped and in base a pair of scissors sable., should be released.

The following submissions were registered by the SCA College of Arms, July 2016:

Callum of Skye. Name and device. Azure, on a bend between a sheaf of arrows inverted and a thistle Or, three fleurs-de-lys azure.
The submitter requested authenticity for a 12th to 16th century Scottish name. The given name Callum was documented as a Scots name from 1643, and was also documented in commentary to the late 16th century. The place name Skyewas also found in a map from 1573. Although both elements are found in the 16th century, bynames tended to be inherited at this time rather than literal. Therefore, this name as a whole is not as likely in the 16th century as a form such as Callum Skye or something like Callum [surname] of Skye, but it may be authentic.
Hunter de Grae. Name.
Submitted as Hunter du Grae, the correct preposition is de (“of”) rather than the French contraction du (“of the”): “Submitted as Sutton du Grae, the correct preposition is de rather than the French du (a contraction of de and le). We have made this change. Ogress found de Grae as a Gaelic header form in Woulfe, with the late period Anglicized Irish forms de Gray and de Graye. Therefore, we are able to register de Grae as a Gaelic form. The Letter of Intent also included Grae as an unmarked English surname and de Gray in Scots. This name combines an English given name and Gaelic byname. This is an acceptable lingual mix under Appendix C of SENA. [Sutton de Grae, August 2015, A-Atenveldt]”
Just as in the prior name, we have changed the preposition to the correct form, and the English-Gaelic lingual mix is acceptable under Appendix C of SENA.
Hunter is the submitter’s legal middle name, but is also a 16th century English surname that is registerable as a given name. Therefore, the submitter need not rely on the legal name allowance.
We note that the Letter of Intent stated that the byname du Grae is grandfathered to the submitter because it is the byname of his legal father, Ivan du Grae. However, the father’s name is registered as Ivan of Navarette, so du Grae is not eligible for the grandfather clause.
`Izza al-Zarqa’. Device change. Purpure, two horses combattant and on a chief argent three lotus blossoms in profile purpure.
Please advise the submitter to draw the lotus flowers more vertically centered on the chief so that they do not look as if they were issuant from the line of division.
The submitter’s old device, Purpure, two horses combattant and a chief Or, is retained as a badge.
Jacket Tyllyng. Device. Per fess azure and vert, on a fess between three lions argent a sinister fist azure.
William MacIver. Name and device. Per saltire gules and argent, in fess two wyverns erect respectant sable.
The submitted form of the byname, MacIver, was not clearly documented before 1650 in non-normalized sources. Past registration is no guarantee of current registerability.
However, Black s.n. Ivar dates Iver as a given name spelling to the first half of the 16th century. Period forms of the submitted byname in this source include M’Euir, Makevire, and McEvir. In additon, Ogress found the name Iver M’Ever in Account of the Clan-Iver by Peter Colin Campbell, dated to 1635 (p.98, https://books.google.com/books?id=rSYAAAAAQAAJ). This example may have been normalized, but given the range of period examples, we can give the submitter the benefit of the doubt that the submitted form of the byname is reasonable.

The following submissions have been returned for further work, July 2016:

Alexandra Starling of Ravenspurn. Device. Purpure, a chevron inverted of chain conjoined at the point to a lighthouse Or flammant gules.
This device is returned for having the chevron of chain issuing far too high on the field. Per long standing precedent, it should issue from the sides of the field.On redesign, please keep in mind that some commenters had some trouble identifying the lighthouse, mostly due to the low contrast of the flames on the field.

Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy

c/o Linda Miku

2527 East 3^rd Street

Tucson AZ 85716

brickbat@nexiliscom.com

atensubmissions.nexiliscom.com