ATENVELDT COLLEGE OF HERALDS 1 January 2016, A.S. L

LETTER OF PRESENTATION Kingdom of Atenveldt

Unto Their Royal Majesties Casca and Melissa; 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 2016 Atenveldt Letter of Presentation; it precedes the Letter of Intent with submissions considered for the next Letter of Intent.

Please have commentary to me by 15 January. Thanks!

Heraldry Hut: will be held on Friday, 15 January, 7:30 PM. This is very low-key (no garb or titles are required). Please contact me for directions and any questions you might have at brickbat@nexiliscom.com.

Please consider the following submissions for the January 2016 Letter of Intent:

Anita de Challis (TM): NEW AUGMENTATION OF ARMS

Gules, a seeblatt and a chief doubly-arched Or, and as an augmentation on a canton gules a sun and a moon in her plentitude in pale within a bordure Or.

The name was registered February 2002. The device was registered December 2005. The Augmentation was awarded by TRM Craven and Elzbieta October 2014.

Ealhswith Einarskona (TM): NEW NAME

Ealhswith is an Anglo-Saxon (Old English) female given name found in “The Names of Testators in the Cartularium Saxonicum Malmesburiensem,” Aryanhwy merch Catmael, http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/english/malmesbury-oe.html; it is dated to 901 AD. Einarr is an Old Norse male given name found in “Viking Names in Landnamabok,” Aryanhwy merch Catmael, http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/landnamabok.html.: “The surviving versions of Landnámabók date from the second half of the 13th century or a little later, though it has been suggested that it was composed in an early form by Ari Þorgilsson (1068-1148). The initial settlement of Iceland largely took place between 870 and 930, but Landnámabók definitely mentions descendants significantly later than the actual settlement period, at least into the 11th century. [1] Names in blue are names of people who were part of the originally settlers of Iceland in the 9th century.” [Einarr is one such name, such that the two names overlap and are temporally compatible, within 200 years of each other.] The Old Norse byname for wife is kona (http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/MaritalBynames.htmlFranois le Flamme, November 2003).SENA Appendix C allows for an Old English/Old Norse combination. The client desires a female name and it more interested in the language/culture of the name; she wants to keep “wife of Einarr”. She will not accept Major changes to the names.

Einarr fullspakr (TM): NEW NAME

The name is Old Norse. Einarr is a male given name found in “Viking Names in Landnamabok,” Aryanhwy merch Catmael, http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/landnamabok.html. The byname fullspakr, “fully wise, very wise,” is found in “Viking Bynames found in the Landnámabók,” Aryanhwy merch Catmael, http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/vikbynames.html. The client wants a name name andis most interested in the language/culture of the name (Norse); he will not accept Major changes to the name.

Mateo de Jesus Esteban Gomez (TM): NEW NAME

The name is Spanish. SENA Appendix A allows double and given and double bynames for Spanish names.

Mateo is dated to 1597 for as a christening name for Mateo Acedo in Pievramillera, Navarra, Spain,

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FR8Q-HD. Jesus has been used as both a male and a female given name and as a byname, particularly in late period. As a male given name, it can be seen for Antonio De Jesus Ruiz, with a christening date of 1648 in San Jose, Granada, Granada, Spain, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FTGS-8VV, Batch C77543-2 ; his parents are listed as Sebastian Ruiz and Ana Rodriguez.

Esteban Gomez is a double byname. It is seen for Bernardo Esteban Gomez , with a christening date in 1606, in San Matin, Cuirel de Duero, Valladolid, in Spain. (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FR7P-3YV, Batch C87211-1. The client desires a male name and is most interested in the language/culture of the name; he will not accept Major changes to the name.

Marta as tu Mika-Mysliwy

c/o Linda Miku

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