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Atenveldt Submissions (excerpted from the S.C.A. College of Arms' Letters of Acceptance and Return)

ATENVELDT REGISTRATIONS by the College of Arms, January 2006:

Abigail de Westminster. Name.

Alexander of Mons Tonitrus. Holding name and device. Per bend gules and sable, on a bend argent four crosses formy palewise gules.

Nice armory! Submitted under the name Alexander of Tyre, that name was returned on the November 2005 LoAR.

Amalie zu dem Blumen. Device. Argent, a gurges and a base azure charged with a bouquet of three gillyflowers argent, slipped and leaved vert.

Brigh McGavin. Name and device. Per bend argent and purpure, a cauldron and three hearts counterchanged.

Submitted as Bree McGavin, no documentation was submitted and none found for a name in either English or Irish spelled Bree. The documentation shows Bree as the phonetic spelling of the Middle Irish Brig or Early Modern Irish Brigh. Ó Corrain and Maguire, Irish Names s.n. Brig, says that the name was born by 13 saints. Therefore, Brig and Brigh are registerable because they are the forms of the name of a saint. Early Modern Irish is temporally (if not linguistically) consistent with the Anglicized byname McGavin. We have changed the name to Brigh McGavin in order to register it. If the submitter is interested in a fully Irish version of this name, we suggest Brigh inghean an Ghobhann. The Annals of the Four Masters (found at www.ucc.ie/celt) has a Muirchertach Mac an Gobhann in 1341.

Ceara MacTagan. Name.

Submitted as Ceara mac Tag, the byname mac Tag was intended as a theoretical Anglicization of the name inghean Taidhg. This was based on the 16th C Anglicization O Tagan from the Irish Ó Tadhgain. However, the first syllable in the genitive Tadhgain has a different pronunciation from the genitive Taidgh, therefore, it is not reasonable to base an Anglicization of the second name on the pronunciation of the first. In addition, in such Anglicizations, the patronymic particle is usually capitalized. We have changed this to Ceara MacTagan in order to register it. O Tagan is a late period Anglicization of Ó Tadhgháin found in Woulfe, Irish Names and Surnames, s.n. Ó Tadhgáin.

Colyn MacRuairidh of Rathlin. Badge. Vert, a beehive argent.

Nice badge!

Damian Silberberg. Name and device. Per pale Or and gules, a pair of demi-wings conjoined, each wingtip terminating in a hand maintaining a sword, the swords crossed in saltire counterchanged.

Elizabet Alfinnsdottir. Device. Sable, on a bend sinister between two unicorn's horns bendwise sinister Or, an ivy vine throughout vert.

Geirríðr in víðf{o,}rla. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Submitted as Geirríðr in víðfgrla, the documentation, Geirr Bassi Haraldsson, The Old Norse Name, shows the masculine form of the byname as inn víðf{o,}rla. We have changed the name to Geirríðr in víðf{o,}rla to match the documentation.

Godfried of Frisia. Reblazon of device. Azure, two natural tigers rampant addorsed argent marked sable, their tails entwined around and sustaining a sword inverted proper.

Registered in January 1984 with the blazon Azure, two natural tigers rampant addorsed argent, their tails entwined around a sword inverted proper, the sword is taller than the tigers making it a sustained charge. In order to ensure that the tigers are properly drawn, we have added the fact that they are marked sable.

Lysander Keisalovitch. Reblazon of badge for the House of the Golden Ibex. Gules, a natural ibex statant Or, its sinister foreleg raised and entangled in the slide of a sackbut bendwise sinister, bell to base argent.

Registered March 1980 with the blazon Gules, an ibex statant Or, its sinister fore-leg raised and entangled in the slide of a sackbut bendwise sinister, bell to base, argent, the ibex is a natural ibex, not a heraldic ibex. Please see the Cover Letter for a discussion on ibexes.

Mikel of Perth. Name.

This name mixes Swedish and Scots; this is one step from period practice. The submitter requested a name authentic for 14th C Scotland/Perth, but accepted only minor changes. Because of this, we are unable to change the language of the given name to make this name authentic. No evidence has been found for use of the letter k in the name Michael in Scots (the common tongue spoken in Perth in the 14th C). Forms of this name found in Black include Michael in Latin contexts in 1214 and 1307, and Michel(l) and Mechil (as a surname or part of a surname) in the 15th and 16th C. The Dictionary of the Scots Language (http://www.dsl.ac.uk) also lists Michel in 1400. The spelling of the locative, Perth, is consistent with 14th C Scots forms. Johnston, The Placenames of Scotland s.n. Perth, lists this spelling in 1210, while Black, The Surnames of Scotland s.n. Perth, lists a John de Perth in 1296, and a Thomas of Perth in 1339-40.If the submitter is interested in an authentic 14th C Scots name, we suggest Michel de Perth or Michel of Perth.

Rivka bat Yehudah. Name.

Sundragon, Barony of. Badge. Per fess argent and azure, a rainbow gules, argent, azure, Or and purpure, clouded azure, and an acorn Or.

This is neither a heraldic rainbow nor a natural rainbow; however, it is grandfathered to the barony as it matches the rainbow on their arms.

Sundragon, Barony of. Badge. Argent, a fess azure between a rainbow gules, argent, azure, Or and purpure, clouded azure, and a heart gules.

This is neither a heraldic rainbow nor a natural rainbow; however, it is grandfathered to the barony as it matches the rainbow on their arms.

Sundragon, Barony of. Badge. Gules, a dragon segreant contourny and a bordure indented argent.

William of Mons Tonitrus. Holding name and device. Vert, on a plate a stag's head cabossed sable, on a chief embattled argent a roundel between an increscent and decrescent sable.

Submitted under the name William MacLeod the Moonstag, this device would have been returned for presumption under RfS XI.2 - Charge and Name Combination. The byname "the Moonstag" combined with increscent-roundel-decrescent combination, which is widely used by Wiccans and neo-pagans, and the stag's head creates too strong an association with the Lord of the Forest. However, as the problematic name element ("the Moonstag") is not registerable, this device may be registered under a holding name.


ATENVELDT RETURNS by the College of Arms, January 2006:

Geirríðr in víðf{o,}rla. Device. Pily barry bendy sinister Or and gules and sable.

The submitter requested that this device be withdrawn from consideration.

William MacLeod the Moonstag. Name.

No documentation was submitted and none found to show that a word combining moon and stag forms a meaningful descriptive byname in English or follows known patterns for forming English bynames. As Orle notes, "The elements may be documented to period but the combined byname is nonsense. I can document Star and Ship to period but that doesn't make Starship a period name." We would drop the offending element, but the name William MacLeod is an aural conflict with Uilleam MacLeòid, registered Jan 1997.

His armory has been registered under the holding name William of Mons Tonitrus.
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