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ATENVELDT COLLEGE OF HERALDS 1 October 2015, A.S. L
Unto Their Royal Majesties Morgan and Elizabeth; Baron Tymothy Smythson, 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 October 2015 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 October. Thanks!
Kingdom Arts and Sciences: There will be an Heraldic Consultation Table at Kingdom Arts and Sciences in the Barony of Twin Moons on Saturday (only), 3 October. If you'd like to help consult, check on submissions for your clients, and the usual armorial things, please drop by!
Heraldry Hut: will be held on Friday, 16 October, beginning at 7:30 PM. Please contact me by e-mail if you or other interested folks would like to attend, and I'll give you directions.
Please consider the following submissions for the October 2015 Letter of Intent:
Ástríðr of Sundragon (Sundragon): NEW NAME The given name is female Old Norse, found in “Viking Names found in Landnámabók,” Aryanhwy merch Catmael, http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/landnamabok.html. The Barony of Sundragon's branch-name was registered September 1984. The client desires a female name and is most interested in the Norse language/culture.
Elizabeth Redfern (Windale): NEW DEVICE Or, a fess bretessed between an owl displayed gules and a boar statant azure. The name appears in the 30 June 2015 Atenveldt Letter of Intent. The use of an owl displayed is one SFPP.
Enia al-Andalusiyya (Barony of Atenveldt): DEVICE RESUBMISSION by Laurel, June 2015. Per fess embattled azure and argent, a crossbow inverted an a dumbek counterchanged. The name was registered June 2015. The original device submission, as blazoned above, was returned for a redraw “for violating SENA A2C2 which states 'Elements must be drawn to be identifiable.' Here the dumbek is too narrow in the lower section and resembles a thistle head.” Hopefully this has been corrected to the satisfaction of the College.
Katrin Hakonsdottir (Sundragon): NEW NAME and DEVICE Azure, a natural seahorse contourny Or sustaining in its tail an arrow bendwise inverted argent. The name is Old Norse. Katrin is a female name found in Geirr Bassi, p. 12 (although it doesn't seem to appear in the Landnamabok or in the family sagas used by the author. Hákon is a male name found in “Viking Names found in Landnámabók,” Aryanhwy merch Catmael, http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/landnamabok.html. This seems the simplest construction for the byname, as Hakonsdottir; the unaccented form of the male name, as Hakon, appears in 1448 (E.H. Lind, Norsk-islandska dopnamn ock name fran medeltiden. The client desires a female name and is most interested in the Norse language/culture.
Mattea Locatelli (Sundragon): NEW NAME The name is Italian. Mattea is a female given name found in “Feminine Given Names from the Online Catasto of Florence of 14217,” Arval Benicoeur, http://www.s-gabriel.org/name/arval/catasto/. Giacomo Locatelli (1580–1628) was a painter; he was born in Verona (http://self.gutenberg.org/articles/giacomo_locatelli). The byname is also seen as Lucatelli, but the client prefers Locatelli. The client desires a female name and is most interested the culture/language of the name (Italian); she will not accept major changes to the name.
Ronan Cu (Windale): NEW NAME and DEVICE Gules, in pale a phoenix atop a single-horned anvil, on a chief Or a pick-axe fesswise sable. The
name is Old Irish Gaelic, Ronan is a masculine name dated 590
through 1117. Cu is a descriptive byname, “wolf/hound,”
dated 597 through 604. The client desires a male name and is most
interested in a Gaelic name (meaning dog).
The following appear in the October 2015 Atenveldt Letter of Intent:
I was assisted in the preparation of this Letter of Intent by Alys Mackyntoich, Basil Dragonstrike, Brenna Lowri o Ruthin, ffride wlffsdotter, Sorcha inghen Chon Mhara. Full commentary is seen at https://oscar.sca.org/index.php?action=100&loi=3475. This Letter of Intent is dated 25 September 2015.
Ceallach Colquhoun (Sundragon): NEW BADGE: Per bend sinister gules and argent, a door argent banded, handled and charged with two arrows crossed in saltire sable, and a dragon sejant affronty, wings displayed and head to dexter gules.
Danielle Camere de Misericordia (Granite Mountain): NEW NAME and DEVICE: Per bend sinister argent and vert, three shamrocks and a dagger/skene inverted counterchanged. Danielle is the client's legal given name (DMV copy to Laurel). This spelling isn't found in the IGI/family search, but several Spanish names similar to it appear between 1575 and 1645, which might be plausible to use the spelling of Danielle as a period name rather than relying on the legal name loophole: Daniela Vela has a christening date of 12 April 1591 in San Feliu, Gerona, Gerona, Spain (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FR8M-T24, Batch C89274-2); and Daniella Figuerolas with the christening date of 16 Oct 1575, same locale (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FR8M-YH2, Batch C89274-2 ). Danielle is found in “Names of Jews in Rome In the 1550's, Table of Names,” compiled by Yehoshua ben Haim haYerushalmi (http://heraldry.sca.org/names/Jewish/rome_names.html), for <Danielle di Angelo di Celone>; however, this is in the list of men's names, so the mundane name loophole seems to be the more reasonable path to follow. Catalina Martin Camera has a christening date of 24 May 1551 at Pozaldez, Valladolid, Spain; Camera is her mother's surname, and Martin is her father's (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FFLZ-2YV, Batch C02679-6 ). Juan Antonio Baez Misericordia has a christening date of 24 Feb 1645 at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Caribbean (https://familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3AJuan~%20%2Bsurname%3AMi sericordia~%20%2Bbirth_year%3A1500-1650~, Batch C67602-1); his mother is listed as Manuela De Misericordia. The client desires a female name and is most interested in the sound of the name.
Gilly Wede (Sundragon): NEW NAME, DEVICE and BADGE (device) Gyronny of eight sable and gules, a gilly flower argent within eight bees in annulo Or. (badge) Per saltire gules and sable, a bee Or between four gilly flowers in saltire argent.
The
justification for using a gyronny of two colors comes from the device
submission for Jaquelle d'Artois, Gyronny
gules and sable, two sea-horses respectant Or and a sunflower proper.
http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2014/09/14-09lar.html
. In the registration, Laurel comments: “This design was well
documented as an Individually Attested Pattern in late period English
armory. Orle provided evidence of the red and black gyronny with
charges, and Non Scripta verified that the seahorses and sunflowers
were found in the same jurisdiction.”
Johnathan Crusadene Whitewolf (Barony of Atenveldt): NEW TRANSFER OF BADGE: Quarterly sable and gules, a demi-wolf rampant erased argent. This badge, registered to Johnathan Crusadene Whitewolf ,is transferred is to Nichelle of Whitewolfe. The clients have supplied letters of acceptance of transferred items, along with the certified Certificate of Death and the Affadavit for Collection for All Personal Property.
Mark the Just (Twin Moons): DEVICE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, July 2015: Sable, a hand balance and on a chief embattled argent, a rod per pale gules and sable. The name was registered July 2015. Originally submitted as Per bend sinister sable and gules, a hand balance and a rod bendwise sinister argent., this was returned by Laurel for a redraw: “As depicted, the staff is neither palewise nor bendwise sinister. On resubmission, the submitter should pay attention to requirements for unity of posture/orientation.” The submission has been redesigned. The client requests that the tertiary charge be blazoned as a rod.
Pól mac Coileáin (Granite Mountain): NEW NAME and DEVICE:Or, a bend sinister sable between a hawk striking contourny and a drawn recurved bow and arrow reversed azure.
Ogress comments: “A 16th/17th
cen. hypothetical <Ó Coileáin> does not support <mac
Coileáin>, unfortunately. As the April 2012 Cover Letter
explains: "Bynames using O "male descendant (usually
grandson)" were formed from the 7th to the 11th century; then
they became frozen as inherited family names." So <Ó
Coileáin> does not mean that <Coileáin> or anything like
it survived as a given name past the 7th-11th centuries. Prism Pursuivant replied: “Laurence Ó Coileáin - was registered in the 0912 LOAR. ( I used this docuementation for Coileáin " Since 16th/17th cen. Anglicized Irish forms of <Ó Coileáin> are shown to exist in Woulfe (and in Mari's article), the general practice has been to assume that Woulfe's header form is an appropriate Early Modern Irish Gaelic form unless there is evidence to the contrary. So the submitted <Ó Coileáin> is likely registerable." http://oscar.sca.org/index.php?action=145&id=23573 .Both Pól and Ó Coileáin are within 500 years of each other. I strongly suspect my client would be willing to change mac to O if that helps to register the name.” I am forwarding the name as submitted, to see what the opinion of the College as a whole might be.
Tobias Wade (GM): DEVICE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, June 2015: Gyronny gules and Or, a fleur-de-lys within an orle azure. The name was registered June 2015. The original submission, Gyronny gules and Or, a fleur-de-lys azure., was returned for conflict with Elwyn of Snow Hill: Per chevron azure, ermined argent, and argent, in base a fleur-de-lis azure. “The position of the fleur-de-lys in Elwyn's device is forced and thus there is only one DC for changing the field.” Adding the orle resolves the conflict.
`Izza al-Zarqa' (Barony of Atenveldt): BADGE RESUBMISSION from Laurel, September 2014 (fieldless) A horse's head erased contourny argent charged with a lotus blossom in profile purpure. The name was registered July 2012. The client's previous submission, (Fieldless) A horse's head erased purpure, crined Or., was “returned for redraw, because the horse's head is neither erased nor couped. Please instruct the submitter on the proper way to draw erasing: fewer, ampler and pointed jags on the erasing, as described on the Cover Letter to the November 2001 LoAR: 'Therefore, for purposes of recreating period armorial style for erasing, the erasing should (1) have between three and eight jags; (2) have jags that are approximately one-sixth to one-third the total height of the charge being erased; and (3) have jags that are not straight but rather are wavy or curved. '” The head has been redrawn with big, bold erasing; the badge uses elements and tinctures of her registered device, Purpure, two horses combattant and a chief Or.
The following are held within the Atenveldt CoH, pending questions and clarification, September 2015: Móivar Vignirson (Tir Ysgithr): NEW NAME and DEVICE (?) Per fess Or and sable, a double-headed eagle sable and on a sun Or eclipsed sable a lightning bolt bendwise sinister argent. The documentation provided for the names: “Moivar is a combination of the Icelandic names Mói and Ivar, both from the Old Norse. The surname is Vignirson, or son of Vignir. That name originates from the ON Vig or battle.” Documentation sources are http://wsimag.com/culture/2248-the-peculiarities-of-icelandic-naming ; http://www.nordienames.de/wiki/M%C3%B3 ; and http://nordicnames.de/wiki/%C3%8Dvar . The Viking Answer Lady (http://vikinganswerlady.com/ONMensNames.shtml#vnotes) the ON masculine given name Ívarr is found in Old Danish as Iwar, in Old Swedish as Ivar, and in OW. Norse as Ívarr. The closest to Mói- in any name (Móðólfr) has the protheme as Móð, related to Móðr, “wrath, excitement.” There are several masculine given names with the protheme Víg-, OW Norse for “war, battle.” There is a masculine given name Vígmárr, with the patronymic probably Vígmársson. The client cares most about the sound of the name (I will attest that the sound of the name is very important to him), and that it be authentic for 12th C Iceland. If this is to be the client's device (which I suspect it is), it will need to be transferred to a device form, with a shield shape.
The following are held within the Atenveldt CoH, pending questions and clarification, August 2015:
Aislinn Flur MacAlister (Burning Sands): NEW NAME and DEVICE Purpure, a lion rampant and on a chief Or, five sprigs of heather purpure, stemmed and leaved vert. Aislinn is an SCA-compatible Gaelic name (as of August 2000). I think it has continued to be registered, but after 15 years, I may be wrong. I find no example of the name Flur, but the meaning of the name is said to be “dream + flower,” so it's likely that it might be Fleur. Fleur is the name of a 14th-C. French saint. MacAlister is a Scots surname, from the Scots Gaelic family name MacAlasdair (undated in Black, pp. 449-450, s.n. Macalaster). IGI records help, although the full form MacAlister does not appear until after 1650. However, the scribal abbreviation McAlister does appear in christening records earlier: Dow Mcalister was christened on 28 September, 1606, at Inverness (Batch: C110987); Mcrobie Mcalister was christened on 29 March, 1608, at Inverness (Batch: C110987) (it should be noted that her father's name was William Mcrobie Mcalister so this may be an example of surname-form middle name as given name from Scotland); William Moir Mcalister Mcwilliam was christened on 6 May, 1610, at Inverness (Batch: C110987); and Thomas Mcalister Reoche was christened on 12 October, 1609, at Inverness (Batch: C110987). The CoA allowed the registration of MacAlister. So I've come up with a Gaelic given name + French given name + Scots surname. I can't see how to justify this. The client desires a female name and is most interested in the meaning, “dream + flower”. The primary charge is blazoned as a lioness. While it looks more like a lion to me, I don't have a problem blazoning it to please the client (a feline is a feline is a feline). Consider
Alyna Trewpeny(registered in December of 2014): Purpure,
a domestic cat rampant and on a chief Or three butterflies purpure.,
and Friedrich von Augsburg (registered in August of 2001): Purpure,
a lion rampant and on a chief Or three crosses formy gules.;
this submission is clear by 2 DCs of the tertiary charges (three vs.
five and butterflies vs.
heather sprigs). Lachlan MacAlister (Burning Sands): NEW NAME and DEVICE Sable, a wyvern erect gules and a bordure argent charged with six crosses crosslet gules. Spelled as Lachlan on the name submission form, but as Lachland on the device submission form, a decision needs to be made here. Lachlann is found in Black as a given name, with the Gaelic Lachlann Makfingane in 1409, s.n. Mackinnon, and Lachlann M'Fynwyn de Myschenys in 1467. Lachlann is also dated to 1436 in Black p. 410 s.n. Lachlan. MacAlister is a Scots surname, from the Scots Gaelic family name MacAlasdair (undated in Black, pp. 449-450, s.n. Macalaster). IGI records help, although the full form MacAlister does not appear until after 1650. However, the scribal abbreviation McAlister does appear in christening records earlier: Dow Mcalister was christened on 28 September, 1606, at Inverness (Batch: C110987); Mcrobie Mcalister was christened on 29 March, 1608, at Inverness (Batch: C110987) (it should be noted that her father's name was William Mcrobie Mcalister so this may be an example of surname-form middle name as given name from Scotland); William Moir Mcalister Mcwilliam was christened on 6 May, 1610, at Inverness (Batch: C110987); and Thomas Mcalister Reoche was christened on 12 October, 1609, at Inverness (Batch: C110987). The CoA allowed the registration of MacAlister. The client desires a male name.
Nai Metzli Quetzaxochitl
(Ered Sul): NEW NAME and DEVICE The name is said to be Mayan, and no documentation was provided for the name. As found in SENA GP.2.B. The Burden of Proof: “The College of Arms and the kingdom colleges of heralds should work to provide suitable documentation to register a submission. However, it is ultimately the submitter's responsibility (italics mine) to demonstrate that a submission meets the standards set forth in these rules; a complete lack of documentation can be cause for return. It is not the responsibility of the Laurel office to demonstrate that a submission does not meet these standards...” The client desires a female name, is most interested in the sound of the name, and would like it authentic for 5th-7th C. Mayan. (A very quick scan before posting the Letter of Presentation show Metzli and Quetzalxochitl as Nahuatl/Aztec names.)
The following submissions were registered by the SCA College of Arms, July 2015 (Estrella Batch 2!):
Adheliza Stjarna. Name. This
name does not conflict with the registered Aðísla stjarna. A
syllable has been added to the given name, which clears the potential
conflict under PN3C2 of SENA. Submitted as Arnfríðr Friðrekrsdóttir, the name appeared in the Letter of Intent as Arnfríðr Friðreksdótt{i}r. That corrected the form of the patronym, but introduced a dotless i in the byname in error. We have changed the spelling of the byname to Arnfríðr Friðreksdóttir (with the standard dotted i) in order to register this name. The
submitter requested authenticity for an Old Norse name. Both the
given name and the father's name are found in the Landnámabók,
so this name meets the submitter's authenticity request. The
submitter's previous name, Fíne ingen huí Chatháin, is
retained as an alternate name. Submitted
as Dubgall MacCoinnich, the byname MacCoinnich is not grammatically
correct. In Gaelic, Mac or mac appears as a separate word; it's only
in Anglicized Irish or Scots that Mac is combined with the patronym
that follows (i.e., MacX). We have changed the byname to Mac Coinnich
in order to register this name. We note that mac Coinnich is also
registerable. There is a step from period practice for the use of charges in annulo not in their default palewise orientation. There is not an additional step from period practice for "a central charge on a gyronny arrondi field drawn with the corners of the field in the center of a gyron", as defined per appendix G because the center of the field is clearly visible. The
submitter's old device, Lozengy gules and argent, a goat clymant
sable, is retained as a badge. Submitted
as Ernín na Beag Caomhánach, this name contains two descriptive
bynames, one meaning "small" and one meaning "[somehow
connected, via fostering, etc., with the] Ó Caemhain [family]".
Unfortunately, this pattern is not listed for Gaelic in Appendix A of
SENA and commenters were unable to provide documentation to support
it. The submitter allowed a change to Ernín Beag Ó Caoimhín, which
has a similar meaning but uses the attested pattern of given name +
descriptive byname + clan affiliation byname. We have made this
change in order to register this name. Submitted as Hans Heinrich von Grenzlande, the submitter requested authenticity for the German language. As Grenzlande is a toponym, or place named for a geographic feature rather than a town name, we have changed the byname to vom Grenzlande, which uses the term meaning "of the" rather than "of" in the form required by German grammar. The
place name was not dated to period in the Letter of Intent.
Grenzlande is dated to 1591 in Adels-Spiegel, Historischer
Ausführlicher Bericht Was Adel sey und heisse (p. 310,
https://books.google.com/books?id=2X1DAAAAcAAJ). Submitted
as Lochlann Alexander MacCoag, the spelling Lochlann
could not be documented. Although we seemingly registered this form
in January 2014 [Lochlann Magnusson, A-Caid], a typographical error
was made in that ruling and the header form was not updated as
intended to the documented Lachlann. This will be corrected in
an erratum. In the present submission, we have changed the given name
to the attested form. Submitted as Mark Teufelskerl the Just, no evidence was found to support the term Teufelskerl ("daredevil") in our period. The submitter allowed a change to Mark von Teufel; however, commenters were unable to document Teufel as a place name, so the byname von ("of/from") Teufel is not registerable. As an alternative, the submitter allowed a change to Mark the Just. We have made this change in order to register this name. The Letter of Intent stated that Mark is the submitter's legal given name, but a copy of the legal documentation was not included in the packet, and the Letter of Intent didn't mention whether such documentation was witnessed per the June 2015 Cover Letter. Luckily for the submitter, Mark is also found in England and Germany in our period, so the submitter need not rely on the legal name allowance. We
note that Mark Teufel is also registerable. Both elements can
be documented to Germany in the FamilySearch Historical Records. If
the submitter prefers this form, he can submit a request for
reconsideration.
The
following submissions were returned for further work, July 2015: Arianwen Sweet. Device. Per fess doubly-enarched azure and Or, three compass stars in fess argent and a pair of bat wings conjoined sable. This device is returned for using a per fess doubly-enarched line of division. To quote a return from March 2014: “This device is returned for using a per fess doubly-enarched field division. Precedent states: 'This device is returned due to the use of a fess doubly-enarched. No evidence was presented, and none could be found by commenters, that the charge is compatible with period heraldry. A chief doubly-enarched has been ruled a step from period practice, as its use is documented as a post-period charge no earlier than 1806. As there is no evidence of a fess doubly-enarched in period or post-period, extending that motif to a fess would be two steps from period practice, and thus the fess doubly-enarched is unregisterable. [Catalina Damiana Flores de la Montaña, December 2011, R-Lochac]' “By the same reasoning, the corresponding field division is also unregisterable. [Verctissa neptis Venutii, March 2014, R-Calontir]” There is a step from period practice for the use of compass stars. Note
that if the submitter wanted to resubmit Or, a pair of bat wings
conjoined sable and on a chief doubly enarched azure three compass
stars argent, that design would have to be returned since both a
doubly-enarched chief and compass stars are steps from period
practice. “Precedent states: '...no documentation was submitted to show that a hearth has a unique or standard depiction appropriate for use as a heraldic charge. To claim an item as a heraldic charge that has not previously been registered in the SCA as a heraldic charge, it is necessary to show that either the item was a heraldic charge in period, or that there is a standard depiction of it suitable for use in armory. [Marcaster, Barony of. Order name Order of the Golden Hearth, November 2006, R-Trimaris]' The Letter of Intent documented Hearth as a term meaning "fireplace, hearth, brazier" and "a furnace or forge". This shows that the term is dated to period, although the submitted spelling is a lingua Anglica form of the attested Herthe. However, no evidence was presented to show that a hearth is a plausible blazonry term from which an order name can be formed, or that it has a standard heraldic depiction as mentioned in the prior return. Therefore, we uphold the 2006 precedent and return this order name. This badge is returned for redesign. No evidence was presented of the fireplace depiction with a contrasting firebox. Thus, here the Or sun is a quaternary charge lying on a sable object lying on the firebox section of the Or fireplace. Commenters
questioned the registerability of a fireplace as a charge. It is
registerable as a period artifact. This depiction fits reasonably
within the range of shapes of medieval fireplaces. This device is returned for lack of documentation for a charge used. This would have been the first registration of Atlas in the Society and neither the Letter of Intent nor any commentary provided any support for this as a standard depiction of Atlas in period heraldry or period art. The posture of the humanoid figure should be addressed as well, the humanoid figure is not in a defined heraldic posture: it is neither truly passant as we define passant for human figures nor is it kneeling as we have defined it in the past; such a posture would have to be documented as well. On
resubmission, please advise the submitter to draw the embattlements
with more amplitude and similar in height and and width as they are
distant from each other. This
device is returned for conflict with the badge of Iliya Volkov:
(Fieldless) A rake argent. Although as blazoned this design
has a primary staff and secondary attires, in effect the conjoined
charges are insufficiently different from the rake which is a period
charge. This
device must be returned for redraw. As depicted, the staff is neither
palewise nor bendwise sinister. On resubmission, the submitter should
pay attention to requirements for unity of
posture/orientation. This
badge is returned for having two overall groups, including a barely
overall charge. Section D of Appendix I states: "There can be
only one overall charge group in any design.". Here the handle
overlaps the hand and is surmounted by the Bohemian love knot.
Additionally, the Bohemian love knot cannot be considered a fully
overall charge (which crosses the center of the field, lying
partially on the field and partially on other charges) as it only
overlaps the handle and the hands. This badge is returned for having a barely overall charge. As drawn, the Bohemian love knot doesn't appear to be a conjoined secondary (where the contact would not be by the center of the knot) or an fully overall charge (which crosses the center of the field, lying partially on the field and partially on other charges) as it only overlaps the handle.
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