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Atenveldt Submissions (excerpted from the S.C.A. College of Arms' Letters of Acceptance and Return)
The following submissions were registered by the S.C.A. College of Arms, July 2012:
Adriana di Berto Adriani. Name and device. Argent, a squirrel sejant maintaining a sword purpure, on a base vert an acorn Or. Submitted as Adriana di Berto Adraini, the submitter asked for help documenting the byname. Commenters could document Adriani, but not her desired form. We have changed the byname to the documented form. Commenters were able to date Adriana to Florence in 1527.
Ælfwin Ironhair. Badge. Vair, a hare salient sable.
Aldontza Nafarra. Name (see RETURNS for device).
Alessandria Caterina Terranova. Name and device. Per fess azure and vert, an open book between three mice statant argent.
Anne of Brackley. Name and device. Per bend argent and purpure, a maunche counterchanged. Nice device!
Antonia Maria de Montoya. Name and device. Per chevron vert and sable, on a chevron throughout per pale Or and argent three cinquefoils gules. Nice late period Spanish name! Please advise the submitter to draw the chevron either lower on the field, or steeper, in order to balance it nicely across the center of the field.
Aoife inghean Oisín. Name and device. Per bend wavy vert and azure, a triquetra and a triskelion Or. We cannot be sure that this is the correct form of the byname; however, in earlier times, the nominative and genitive of the patronym were the same, and it seems likely at the later time as well. Therefore, this can be registered as submitted.
Auelyn Spyle Syngere. Name (see RETURNS for device).
Bronwyn Morgan the Bold. Name and device. Gules, a Celtic cross and on a chief invected Or an anchor sable between two hearts gules. Originally submitted as Bronwyn Morgan, the element the Bold was added at kingdom to clear a potential conflict with the registered Bronwyn ferch Morgan. Under the Rules for Submissions, these conflict. Under the Standards for Evaluation, these names are clear as the removal of the syllable ferch clears the conflict. Nonetheless, communication with the submitter indicated that she preferred the name with the additional byname. Therefore, we are registering the name as it appears on the Letter of Intent.
Cynric of Birka. Name and device. Per pale sable and gules, a phoenix argent rising from flames Or and in chief a goblet, an orle argent. Submitted as Cynric of Birca, the lingua Anglica allowance requires the standard modern form of the name, which is Birka. To register of Birca the submitter would have to document that Birca was used in English. This name mixes an Anglo-Saxon given name and the lingua Anglica form of an Old Norse byname. This mix is a step from period practice under the Rules for Submissions. It is an allowable lingual mix under Appendix C of the Standards for Evaluation.
Dawn Silverrose. Device. Per fess wavy vert and azure, a demi-sun issuant from the line of division Or and a rose slipped and leaved argent.
Submitted as Dimitri Salteris, Salteris was documented as a modern Greek surname. Commenters could not find evidence that it was used in period. The Latinized Salterius was used in period; the submitter authorized the change to that element if necessary for registration. We have changed the byname to the documented form in order to register the name.
Eirik Ising Steingrim. Badge. Per pale sable and vert, on a lozenge Or a sword sable embrued gules. Under the Rules for Submissions, this device is in conflict with the device of Kenwrec FitzRaymund, Per saltire sable and gules, on a lozenge Or a sword inverted sable. There is a CD for the change in field, but nothing for the artistic embruing. Under the Standards for Evaluation, this device is not in conflict with Kenwrec's device, as there is a DC for the change in field, and a DC for the change in orientation of the sword. Therefore, this device may be registered.
Eleanor Peregrine. Badge. (Fieldless) A goblet per pale vert and purpure.
Ellen Redbootes. Device. Gules, a ferret rampant and on a chief argent four boots gules. The minimal raising of the heel shown in these depictions of boots is similar to spring heels found in late medieval shoes and boots. Therefore, this depiction of a boot may be registered. Please advise the submitter to draw the ferret with a somewhat longer body and shorter tail, to avoid its confusion with a cat.
Ellen Redbootes. Badge. (Fieldless) A boot contourny gules. The minimal raising of the heel shown in this depiction of a boot is similar to spring heels found in late medieval shoes and boots. Therefore, this depiction of a boot may be registered.
Ellen Redbootes. Badge. (Fieldless) In pale a demi-ferret argent issuant from a boot gules. The minimal raising of the heel shown in this depiction of a boot is similar to spring heels found in late medieval shoes and boots. Therefore, this depiction of a boot may be registered.
Elysant d'Antioch. Device. Argent, a bend sinister between a tree blasted sable and a bag of madder gules corded sable. The bag of madder is a package of goods wrapped with cords, as seen on the arms of the Worshipful Company of Dyers. It should be noted that the contents of the bag are invisible to the viewer, and so this should likely be more properly blazoned as merely a bag, but as it echoes a period blazon we are inclined to leave it as-is.
Emm Swan. Device. Per chevron inverted argent and azure, a swan naiant sable, an increscent and a decrescent argent.
Gaius of Burning Sands. Name change from Gaius Romanus. Burning Sands is the registered name of an SCA branch. The submitter's previous name, Gaius Romanus, is retained as an alternate name.
Galen O'Flagherty. Name and device. Per chevron sable and purpure, a hand and a bordure indented argent. This name mixes English and Anglicized Irish. This mix is not a step from period practice under the Rules for Submissions. The elements are all from a single naming pool under the Standards for Evaluation, and hence registerable together.
The submitter requested authenticity for an undetermined time and place. We cannot meet that request, as the given name is found only in England and the byname only in Scotland. But the name is registerable.
Grazia of Lorelei. Name and device. Per bend sinister azure and vert, on a bend sinister between a fox couchant gardant and a rat couchant argent, a peacock feather sable. The byname of Lorelei (or of Loreley) is a lingua Anglica form, derived from the placename dated as Lorlei in 1608/09 and as lúrleye in 1372. This name mixes an Italian given name with the lingua Anglica form of a German byname. This combination is a step from period practice under the Rules for Submissions. It is an allowable lingual mix under Appendix C of the Standards for Evaluation.
The submitter requested authenticity for 1440s Germany. This name meets that request.
Gwenhevare Leopard. Device. Argent, a gillyflower gules and a chief engrailed purpure. Commenters discussed whether or not this flower was identifiable as a gillyflower. The defining feature of a gillyflower is the pinked ends of its petals. While Parker's gillyflower depiction has seven or eight petals, gillyflowers in nature, being carnations in the dianthus family, can have as few as five petals. Most gillyflowers in period heraldry have six or more petals, and thus we have classified them as a multi-petaled flower. Gillyflower registrations in the Society have ranged from five to eight petals, most shown affronty; all, however, have the distinct pinked edges, and that is what we will consider the defining feature of a gillyflower. This device is not in conflict with the device of Judith the Rose, Argent, a rose gules slipped and leaved proper. Under both the Rules for Submissions and the Standards for Evaluation, there is a CD/DC for the difference between a gillyflower and a rose, and a CD/DC for the addition of the chief.
Helga Fuchs. Name and device. Azure goutty d'eau, on a pile throughout argent a double-headed eagle sable. This name mixes a Swedish given name with a German byname. Under the Rules for Submissions, this mix is a step from period practice. This mix is an allowable lingual mix under Appendix C of the Standards for Evaluation.
Ilandria Brin. Name (see RETURNS for device). Submitted as Ilandria Brinson, the submitter indicated she would prefer Ylandra Brin. While commenters could not help with the given name, Eastern Crown was able to date Brin as an English byname to 1599. Therefore, we have changed the byname to the form the submitter requested. This name mixes an Italian given name with an English byname. This mix is a step from period practice under the Rules for Submissions, and thus it can be registered. This is not an allowable mix under Appendix C of the Standards for Evaluation. Therefore, under the Standards, this name would require documentation that name elements from these languages were mixed.
`Izza al-Zarqa'. Name and device. Purpure, two horses combattant and a chief Or.
Kedivor Tal ap Cadugon. Badge. (Fieldless) A billet fesswise Or winged argent.
Kýlan inn froði. Name (see RETURNS for device).
Lilian Amia Basile Bennett. Name (see RETURNS for device). Submitted as Lilian Amia Basilia Bennett, this name is not registerable as submitted, as we have no evidence of three given names in English. There are several possible solutions, including dropping a given name, but the submitter does not allow major changes. The submitter approved changing the last given name to the similar sounding byname Basile, which Eastern Crown found dated to 1604 in England (in the IGI Parish Records Extracts). We have made that change in order to register the name.
Lucia Simonetti. Device. Per saltire azure and vert, a Latin cross and a chief argent.
Submitted as Matilda Cyppesdohter, the submitter requested authenticity for 9th century England. The only Old English example of this given name is 10th century; it appears in documents as Mahtildis. We have changed the given name to that form to partially meet that request, by making the name authentic for 10th century England. The submitter may want to know that the name as submitted is registerable under either the Rules for Submissions or the Standards for Evaluation, as a mix of Old English and Middle English.
Marcus de Shirewude. Name and device. Per fess vert and argent, three demi-swords inverted issuant from the line of division and a dragon dormant wings elevated and addorsed counterchanged.
Mariella di Mariano. Device. Per bend azure and sable, in bend sinister two compass stars elongated to base bendwise Or. By longstanding precedent, there is no difference granted between a comet and a mullet elongated to base. A mullet with a long straight tail may be a period rendition of a comet; certainly there are comets in period armory that more resemble a mullet with a short squiggly tail. We would have reblazoned these as comets, but chose to retain the original emblazon as it more accurately describes the depiction. Please advise the submitter to draw shorter tails on the compass stars. There is a step from period practice for the use of compass stars.
Merewyn of Edington. Name and device. Sable, on a pile between two arrows in pile argent a turtle azure.
Mihrimah bint Arslan. Name change from Melissente Lyonne. Nice late period Turkish name! Her previous name, Melissente Lyonne, is retained as an alternate name.
Mineko of Twin Moons. Device. Per pale argent and sable all mullety of four points, two serpents erect respectant tails entwined counterchanged.
Nathaniel of Tode Haulle. Name and device. Argent, two dragons in annulo biting each other's tails gules and sable bellied Or. Commenters questioned whether a byname that had the same form as a registered household name presumed on that name, as Toad Hall was registered in 1973. It does not. Such a requirement would make the registration of personal and household names alike very difficult. Specifically, the byname derived from a household name usually does not include a designator like Hall; thus, this would require anyone using a byname Toad to get permission to conflict from the owner of this item and would forbid the registration of a name like Toad Hall without getting the permission of everyone with the byname Toad. This also makes our treatment of bynames derived from non-personal names consistent. We allow anyone to register a byname derived from the name of a registered SCA branch without requiring permission from the branch.
Niamh Fhinn. Name and device. Purpure, two lions combattant Or and a bordure Or mullety purpure. The registerability of the given name Niamh has been questioned on several occasions. It was ruled registerable in July 2000, despite the fact that it has never been found as a period name, on the basis of information in Ó Corrain and Maguire. The decision says in part "While there is no evidence that Niamh was actually used in period, it appears in period sagas, in some cases as the name of a human being." Our standards have changed since then. The Ó Corrain and Maguire entry discusses three women of that name: one loved by Cuchulainn and two associated with Oisín, the son of Fionn mac Cumhaill. Names associated with the Cuchulainn story have previously been ruled unregisterable barring evidence they were used by normal humans (see the return of Dechtire ingen Ruairc, 11/01, and Emer ni Maeve, 3/94). Similarly, names only found in the Fianna stories are not registerable barring evidence that they were used by normal humans (see the return of Miach of the Shire, 11/08). As the name has been registerable using the same evidence for over a decade, we are registering this submission. However, barring evidence that Niamh was used by non-legendary human beings or falls into another registerable category (like a saint's name), it will not be registered after the December 2012 meeting.
Patrekr Járngrímsson. Name change from Patrick of Mindrum and device change. Per bend gules and sable, a wolf's head couped contourny and two swords crossed in saltire argent. The submitter's previous name, Patrick of Mindrum, is retained as an alternate name. This device is in violation of section A3D2c of the Standards for Evaluation, which states that "A charge group in which postures for different charges must be blazoned individually will not be allowed without period examples of that combination of postures." As the two swords are blazoned separately from the wolf's head, the three charges are not in a unified orientation within the group. However, this is a registerable arrangement under the Rules for Submissions, and so this device may be registered. His previous device, Per chevron vert and sable, two roses and a wolf passant Or, is retained as a badge.
Rickard Hawthorne. Household name House of the Silver Moon and badge. Per bend sable and azure, on a bend vert fimbriated three increscents palewise argent. Submitted as House_Silvermoon, this word order House X is not documented to period in English. Additionally, commenters could not find evidence that words were combined in English household names. Either Silver Moon House or House of the Silver Moon is registerable. The submitter indicated that he preferred the latter; we have changed it to that form in order to register it.
Rickard Hawthorne. Badge. (Fieldless) A tree eradicated vert charged with an increscent and a decrescent conjoined in fess argent.
Robert Redbowe. Device. Argent, a tree couped blasted sable and a base rayonny gules.
Robyn Grayham. Name and device. Argent, a pall inverted sable between two frogs sejant respectant and a frog sejant affronty vert. This device is in violation of section A3D2c of the Standards for Evaluation, which states that "A charge group in which postures for different charges must be blazoned individually will not be allowed without period examples of that combination of postures." It goes on to give the specific example of "a design such as Argent, two lions passant respectant and a lion statant erect affronty vert would not be allowed." The frogs here are similarly not in identical postures. However, this arrangement is acceptable under the Rules for Submissions, and so this device may be registered.
Róis inghean mhic Oisdealbhaigh. Name. The submitter may want more information about various forms this byname took in Gaelic. Mari Elspeth nic Bryan posted that information at http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/AngloNorman/Costello.shtml. If the submitter prefers one of these other Gaelic forms, she may make a request for reconsideration.
Róis inghean mhic Oisdealbhaigh. Alternate name Rose Mac Casdallowe.
Roseline d'Avignon. Name and device. Per chevron purpure and vert, three harps and a horse's head couped argent. The submitter requested authenticity for "the era of the Black Plague in France." While this name is registerable, it name does not meet that authenticity request. The Catholic Encyclopedia entry implies that Rosaline is a modern English form of a name that was originally Rossolina. Therefore, we require better evidence that it is a period spelling. Luckily, Eastern Crown was able to date Roselyne as a 1591 English feminine given name; Roseline is a plausible variant, given the frequency of i/y switches in English. Dolphin was able to find it in gray period France. However, this does not demonstrate that the name is authentic for the era of the Black Plague in France.
Seraphina Jameson. Device. Vert, an open book Or charged with a domestic cat dormant sable, an orle Or. Please advise the submitter to draw the book larger, to better take up the available space, which will also give more room to draw the tertiary charge larger, so it is more easily identified.
Þyri ingen Aedain ui Rigain. Device change. Sable, on a bend sinister between two ram's heads couped Or three crosses formy gules.
Ulbrecht vom Walde. Device change. Per pale gules and vert, a tree Or trunked proper and on a chief Or, three smith's hammers sable. His previous device, Per fess Or and vert, three trees eradicated and two lozenges counterchanged, is released.
Ulrich von Wolfsfeldt. Name and device. Azure, a mullet and two wolf's heads erased respectant one and two argent. Under the Rules for Submissions, this device is in conflict with the important non-SCA flag of Somalia, Azure, a mullet argent. There is only one CD for changing the number of primary charges, by adding the wolf's heads. Under the Standards for Evaluation, this device is not in conflict with the flag of Somalia, as there is a substantial difference for changing the number of primary charges from one to three. Therefore, this device may be registered.
Appearing on the Letter of Intent as Valdís skarpa, examination of the forms indicated that the submitted form had no accents and capitalized the descriptive byname. We note that all changes to the submission must be summarized on the letter of intent. In this case, the changes are unnecessary; Norse names may be registered with or without accents and in April 2012 Laurel ruled that descriptive bynames in Old Norse may be capitalized or lowercase. We have changed those parts of the name back to the submitted forms.
Valdisa Álarsdóttir. Name change from holding name Valdís of Sundragon. Submitted as Valdisa Álarsdóttir, the name was changed at kingdom to Valdís Álarsdóttir in order to match the documentation they could find. Commenters were able to date Valdisa to Iceland in 1370, which conflicted with her authenticity request for 10th-12th century Scandinavia. It was pended to allow discussion of that request, which was not summarized on the Letter of Intent. The submitter indicated that she preferred the name as submitted to her authenticity request. We have therefore restored this name to the submitted form. This name mixes an Icelandic given name with an Old Norse byname. This mix (of a later Scandinavian language with an earlier one) is a step from period practice under the Rules for Submissions. It mixes languages in a single naming pool under Appendix C of the Standards for Evaluation. This name was pended from the February 2012 Letter of Acceptances and Returns.
Viktoria of York. Name (see RETURNS for device). Viktoria was documented on the Letter of Intent only as a period word, not as a name. The only name spelling that was documented was Victoria. Dolphin was able to date Viktoria as a feminine given name in Germany in 1608. The combination of German and English is a step from period practice under the Rules for Submissions, making the name registerable. The combination of German and English is not registerable without further documentation under the Standards for Evaluation.
The following submissions were returned by the College of Arms for further work, July 2012:
Aldontza Nafarra. Device. Argent, in pall three falcons striking, claws to center, vert. This device is returned for not being reliably blazonable, which is a violation of section VII.7.b of the Rules for Submissions, and section A1C of the Standards for Evaluation, both of which require an emblazon to be describable in heraldic terms. Long-standing precedent does not allow animate charges to be inverted except when they are part of a standard arrangement such as in annulo. The posture and orientation of the birds here is difficult to adequately describe, and so this must be returned.
Auelyn Spyle Syngere. Device. Argent, a griffin passant and in canton three musical notes, all within a bordure purpure. This device is returned for not being reliably blazonable, which is a violation of section VII.7.b of the Rules for Submissions, and section A1C of the Standards for Evaluation, both of which require an emblazon to be describable in heraldic terms. The musical notes here are not in canton or in any other recognized heraldic arrangement. They are also drawn far too small, hampering their identifiability.
Ilandria Brin. Device. Sable, three triquetras in pall points outward Or, a bordure compony azure and argent. This device is returned for not being reliably blazonable, which is a violation of section VII.7.b of the Rules for Submissions, and section A1C of the Standards for Evaluation, both of which require an emblazon to be describable in heraldic terms. The specific orientation of the triquetras here is difficult to describe or recognize.
Kýlan inn froði. Device. Vert, an open book between three keys palewise wards to sinister base argent. This device is returned for conflict with the device of Jana Haviland, Vert, an open book between three roses argent. Under both the Rules for Submissions and the Standards for Evaluations, there is one CD/DC for the change in type of the secondary charge group, but nothing else.
Lilian Amia Basile Bennett. Device. Argent, a phoenix azure rising from flames proper and on a chief sable two arum lilies in saltire slipped and leaved argent. This device is returned for redraw, for violating section VII.7.a of the Rules for Submissions which requires that "Elements must be recognizable solely from their appearance." This is repeated in section A2C2 of the Standards for Evaluation which states "Elements must be drawn to be identifiable." The arum lilies here are not really in profile nor affronty, and cannot be easily identified.
Viktoria of York. Device. Per saltire purpure and argent, a dragonfly and a rose argent barbed vert seeded gules. This device is returned 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.
Ysabel de Vega. Device. Argent, a tree eradicated proper between flaunches vert. Blazoned on the Letter of Intent as a tree stump eradicated and sprouting on both sides, given the stylized depictions of trees in period heraldry, this charge is indistinguishable from a tree. This device is returned for conflict with the device of Isabella Lupo, Argent, a tree eradicated proper between flaunches vert each charged with three plates. Under both the Rules for Submissions and the Standards for Evaluation, there is only one CD/DC for removal of the tertiary charges. This device is also returned for conflict with the important non-SCA arms of O'Connor Don, Argent, a tree eradicated vert. Under both the Rules for Submissions and the Standards for Evaluation, there is only one CD/DC for adding the flaunches. |
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