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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 June 2017 by the SCA College of Arms:
Adelaide Duval. Name and device. Per bend sinister argent and vert, three roses purpure and a dagger bendwise sinister inverted argent.
Nice 16th century French name!
Aed Mac Eochagáin. Name.
Submitted as Aed Mac Eochagaín, this spelling placed the diacritical marking on the wrong letter. We have corrected the name to Aed Mac Eochagáin for registration. Although the standardized Gaelic form of the byname would be mac Eochagáin, capitalization in the Irish Annals is extremely variable. Therefore, we are leaving that portion of the name as submitted and not changing mac to lower case.
This name does not conflict with the registered Aedh mac Eoghain. Although Mac Eochagáin can be pronounced with either one or two syllables, depending on dialect, there are sufficient differences in the sound and appearance of the two bynames to bring them clear of conflict. Mac Eochagáin is pronounced roughly like "Mac Coghegan" or "Mac Coogan," whereas Mac Eoghain is pronounced more like "Mac Owen."
Apollonia Kautz. Name and device. Gules, a polypus argent, on a point pointed Or three apples one and two gules.
The Letter of Intent asserted that Kautz is the submitter's legal surname. However, this fact was not properly attested according to the standards set out in the June 2015 Cover Letter:
Where photocopies cannot easily be made, heralds may attest that they have seen the identification. Such attestation must include the following: the type of identification, the complete name exactly as it appears on the identification (for example noting that the name is rendered completely in capital letters), the names and titles of two heralds who have seen the identification (herald/pursuivant at large is a title), and the signature or initials of those heralds. If signatures cannot be obtained, the herald may confirm that he or she has seen the documentation in commentary (internal or external - in the case of internal commentary the Letter of Intent should note that it was confirmed). At a local event where only a single herald is available, another officer (seneschal, for example) can serve as a second witness.
Fortunately, Kautz is also a documented German surname, dated to 1598 in the FamilySearch Historical Records, making this a nice late 16th century German name!
Aurora Rothais. Name and device. Azure, a rose argent, issuant from base a demi-sun Or, a chief Or mullety sable.
Aurora is the submitter's legal given name. Although Aurora has been documented to the gray period in English, the submitter nevertheless must rely on the Legal Name Allowance because the attested instance of Aurora is more than 500 years later than the attested date for her byname.
Artist's note: Please draw the rose larger to help identify it as a primary charge.
Beth Drache. Name change from Beth of Granite Mountain.
The Letter of Intent asserted that Drache is the registered surname of the submitter's spouse. However, this fact was not properly attested. To use her spouse's surname under PN1B2g of SENA, the submitter needed to include proof of the legal relationship, either in the form of a photocopy of the marriage license (or similar document) or a signed attestation of the relationship from her husband.
Fortunately, Drache is also an attested English surname, found in Reaney & Wilson s.n. Drake dated to 1066.
The submitter's previous name, Beth of Granite Mountain, is released.
Brando Coradini. Name and device. Per pale azure and argent, two wolves combattant counterchanged, on a chief triangular sable a sheaf of rapiers inverted proper.
Canaan Falconer. Name and device. Or, a stag's head cabossed proper within a torc sable.
Nice late 16th century English name!
Cora Boyle. Name and device. Per chevron throughout ployé azure and Or, two Celtic crosses and a sheaf of arrows counterchanged.
At the Pelican decision meeting, Jeanne Marie Noir Licorne found the byname Boyle in the FamilySearch Historical Records for England, dated to 1585, within 14 years of the attested instance of the given name. Nice 16th century English name!
Darius of Sundragon. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Vert, a wolf's head erased contourny argent and a point pointed Or.
Artist's note: Please draw the wolf's head much larger to fill the available space on the field.
Submitted under the name Darius al-Gaf{u-}r.
Dominic de Grae. Name (see RETURNS for device).
Donwenna Dwn. Device change. Per chevron gules and sable, three walnuts and a Catherine wheel Or.
Artist's note: Please draw the walnuts larger, as they were on the old device.
The submitter's old device, Per chevron gules and sable, three walnuts Or and a triskelion arrondi argent, is released.
Eirikr Stjarna. Name (see RETURNS for device).
Eoghan MacIver. Name change from William MacIver.
The byname MacIver was already registered to the submitter and thus did not need to be re-documented under PN1B2g of SENA.
The submitter's previous name, William MacIver, is released.
Evelyn of Windale. Name.
Evelyn is the submitter's legal given name. However, she need not rely on the Legal Name Allowance because Evelyn is also an attested English name dated to 1598 in the FamilySearch Historical Records.
Windale is the registered name of an SCA branch.
Ezekiel Crow. Device. Gules, on a triangle within and conjoined to an annulet argent a crow regardant sable.
Fíne ingen Uí Chellaig. Name and device. Vert, two swords in saltire and on a chief argent three wooden harps proper.
Submitted as Fíne Ingen Ui Cheallaigh, the name combined the pre-1200 Ingen Ui with the post-1200 Cheallaigh. As set out in the examples to PN1B1, the combination of pre-1200 and post-1200 Gaelic orthography in the same name phrase is not allowed. With the submitter's permission, we have changed the name to Fíne ingen Uí Chellaig_ to use entirely pre-1200 orthography, consistent markings, and the standard capitalization.
The submitter requested authenticity for Irish Gaelic. Both Fíne and Cellach (the nominative form of the father's name) are found in the early 9th century. Cellach continued in use for several centuries thereafter. However, Clan Affiliation bynames, such as ingen Uí Chellaig did not come into use until the 10th and 11th centuries. Thus, while the name is registerable, it is not authentic for the early 9th century.
Finna Ívarsdóttir. Name.
Nice 9th-10th century Icelandic name!
Friedrich Swartzen Hut. Device change. Lozengy argent and azure, a sugar-loaf hat sable.
This style of hat is also known as a capotain or copotain hat. It dates to the late 16th Century in England and northwestern Europe.
The submitter's previous device, Quarterly gules and sable, a quadrant and in chief a pair of shackles conjoined by a chain fesswise Or, is retained as a badge.
Galen Peter Gilmore. Name.
Peter was not adequately documented in the Letter of Intent. Fortunately, Peter is easily found in "Late Sixteenth Century English Given Names" by Talan Gwynek (http://heraldry.sca.org/names/eng16/eng16mfreq.html).
Ginevra of Sofia. Name and device. Per pale gules and azure ermined argent, a lion Or and an orle argent.
The byname of Sofia uses the lingua Anglica form of the city that is the present capital of Bulgaria, which appears on Gerard Mercator's 1595 map as Sofya. Even though of Sofia uses the lingua Anglica form, it is still considered a Bulgarian name element. Italian and South Slavic (Bulgarian) is an acceptable lingual mix under Appendix C.
Artist's note: Please draw fewer, larger ermine spots.
Grimald the Faithful. Name and device. Per pale Or and sable, two badgers rampant addorsed counterchanged marked argent.
The only evidence for Grimald provided in the Letter of Intent was a user-submitted genealogy from FamilySearch Historical Records. This was not adequate documentation. Heralds and submitters should keep in mind that amateur family trees and genealogies generally are not reliable, even when published through FamilySearch.
Fortunately, the Latinized Grimaldus is attested to 977 C.E. in France in Morlet, Les Noms de Personnes, Vol. I, p. 115, s.n. Grimoaldus/Grimaldus. The expected vernacular form is Grimald. The byname the Faithful is a reasonable lingua Anglica form of the Middle English surname le Fykes, meaning "the faithful," dated to 1221 in Reaney & Wilson s.n. Figgess.
The combination of a French given name and an English surname dated within 300 years of each other is acceptable lingual mix under Appendix C.
Hallbi{o,}rn of Ered Sûl. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Vert, three drinking horns fretted in triangle and on a chief Or four Algiz runes vert.
Submitted under the name Hallbi{o,}rn Freysgoði.
Hannah Milligan. Name.
Submitted as Hannah Millican, the surname spelling is an entirely modern form. With the submitter's permission, we have changed the surname to Milligan, a variant of Mylligan, a surname found in the FamilySearch Historical Records for Norfolk, England, dated to 1597.
As the given name Hannah is also found in the FamilySearch Historical Records for Norfolk, England, in a christening record dated to 1597, this is an excellent late 16th century English name!
Hildegard Reinhart. Name and device. Per fess vert and argent, a crescent argent and a domestic cat's face sable.
Submitted as Hildegard Reinharet, no documentation could be found for the submitted surname. With the submitter's permission, we have changed the surname to Reinhart, which was found in the FamilySearch Historical Records for Baden, Germany, dated to 1567.
As the given name Hildegard was documented in the Letter of Intent from Baden, Germany, dated to 1577, this is an excellent 16th century German name!
Hürrem bint Osman al-Urduni. Name change from Layla bint Suleiman al-Urduni and device change. Purpure, a pall inverted raguly between two lotus flowers in profile and a squirrel argent.
The element al-Urduni was already registered to the submitter and thus did not need to be re-documented pursuant to PN1B2g of SENA.
The submitter's previous name, Layla bint Suleiman al-Urduni, is released.
The submitter's old device, Purpure, a pall inverted raguly between two lotus flowers in profile and a peacock in his pride argent, is released.
Iðunn of the Citadel of the Southern Pass. Name and device. Vert, two bones in saltire within a wingless wyvern in annulo argent.
The byname of the Citadel of the Southern Pass uses the name of a registered SCA branch.
Isabella Cara. Name change from Ceara inghean Chárthaigh.
The submitter's previous name, Ceara inghean Chárthaigh, is retained as an alternate name.
James Shinner. Name and device. Vert, a compass rose Or, on a chief argent three oak leaves vert.
This precise name is found in the FamilySearch Historical Records, in a 1589 marriage record from Devon, England. Excellent English name!
Joseph Grünewald of York. Alternate name Iosif Syl'vestrov.
Julian Faith McCabe. Device change. Per saltire sable and argent, two unicorn's heads erased respectant sable.
The submitter's old device, Per saltire azure and vert, two unicorn's heads erased respectant Or, is released.
Kathryn De Feuer. Name (see RETURNS for device).
The submitter requested authenticity for "English and Flemish languages/cultures." Mixed language names generally are not authentic. However, the combination of an English given name and a Flemish byname is registerable under Appendix C.
Marcus de Grae. Name.
Occadai Dogshin. Name and device. Per bend sinister azure and purpure, in bend two dogs sejant erect addorsed Or.
Owain Sayer. Name and device. Per fess dovetailed vert and argent, a mortar and pestle argent and three flames azure.
Rebekah bat Mikael. Name.
Runa Gigja. Device. Per chevron azure and sable, two unicorns combattant argent and a lit Arabian lamp Or.
There is a step from period practice for the use of an Arabian lamp.
Ryan Thorne. Name and device. Per bend wavy Or semy of reremice sable and gules, a compass star Or.
Nice English name for the 1590s!
There is a step from period practice for use of a compass star.
Swetiua de Torleton. Name and device. Or, two elephants statant respectant sable maintaining in their raised trunks a heart gules. Submitted as Swetiue de Torleton', two minor changes are necessary to make the name registerable. First, Swetiue is not the nominative (base) form of the given name; it appears to be a genitive (possessive) form, which cannot be used as a given name. We have changed the given name to Swetiua to use the nominative form.
Second, the terminal apostrophe in de Torleton' is a scribal abbreviation, which we do not register. Watts s.n. Tarlton dates the spelling Torleton to 1204. Therefore, we changed the byname to de Torleton_ to remove the scribal abbreviation.
The submitter requested authenticity for 13th century England. In the registered form, the name meets that request.
Uilliam ua Briain. Name and device. Quarterly sable and argent, a cross gules between four serpents nowed counterchanged.
Nice Gaelic name from the 14th century onwards!
Artist's note: Please center the serpents in their respective quarters.
Yvonnet le Bouer. Name and device. Azure, a lit candle and a quill pen in saltire, on a chief triangular Or a three-footed pot sable.
This name combines a French given name with an English byname, an acceptable lingual mix under Appendix C.

The following have been returned by the College of Arms for further work, June 2017:


Darius al-Gaf{u-}r. Name.
This name must be returned because there is too great a temporal gap between the name elements. The given name Darius was documented in the Letter of Intent as Greek. The byname al-Gaf{u-}r was documented in Arabic. Because these name elements are not in the same language group under Appendix C, they must be attested within 300 years of each other.
The byname al-Gaf{u-}r is dated to the 12th century. We were unable to find any evidence of Darius or Dareios in Greek later than the 2nd century C.E. Even giving the submitter the benefit of the doubt on the attested dates, there are more than 300 years between the elements and the name cannot be registered.
On resubmission, the submitter should be aware that al-Gaf{u-}r is likely a transcription error for al-Ghaf{u-}r. In addition, Juliana Siren advises that the reference to this element in her article "Arabic Names from al-Andalus: Masculine Bynames Found in al- Andalus" is based on a single citation to the name of a 12th century man elsewhere identified as Ibn `Abd al-Ghaf{u-}r and Ibn al-Ghaf{u-}r. It is unclear, therefore, whether al-Ghaf{u-}r is actually a byname.
His device is registered under the holding name Darius of Sundragon.
Dominic de Grae. Device. Vert, an owl striking argent, on a chief wavy Or a moon in her plenitude azure between two mullets vert.
This device is returned for use of two tertiary charge groups on the same charge. In this design, the mullets on either side of the moon are substantially smaller, making them appear to be subordinate to the moon in size and importance. If the tertairy charges were equivalent in size, they would be part of a single tertiary charge group and this device would be registerable.
Upon resubmission, we encourage the submitter to make the mullets the same size as the moon, ideally by modifying the frequency of the waves that form the chief so that each charge has its own undulation in which to appear.
Eirikr Stjarna. Device. Argent, three empty embroiderer's quills in pall inverted gules "lipped" sable. This device is returned for violation of SENA A1D, which states that emblazons which cannot be reliably blazoned must be returned for redraw. Were these quills depicted with a gules center and sable ends, they would be reproducible using "quills sable threaded gules" with a note to make the threaded portion thicker. However, the proposed blazon term of "lipped" does not adequately describe the portion of the charge that is sable. Upon resubmission, we encourage the submitter to either stick with a single tincture, or otherwise to have the quill one solid tincture and the yarn another.
Geraint de Grey. Device. Azure, a chevron Or between two mullets of eight points argent and a demi-sun issuant from base Or.
This device must be 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.
Hallbi{o,}rn Freysgoði. Name.
This name must be returned because it makes a presumptuous claim of rank. SENA PN4B1 states:
"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. Those titles which are so protected can be found in the List of Alternate Titles. Bynames which are identical to titles used in the Society are generally not allowed for individuals who do not have that rank."
Although the byname Freysgoði is attested, it is nevertheless presumptuous. "The word goði is best translated as "chieftain," not "priest." As of the August 2016 Cover Letter, goði is now officially a reserved Alternate Title in the Society for "Baron" for Viking Age Iceland." [Sigfúss Hlíðmannagodi, 12/2016 LoAR, R-Avacal]. Thus, the byname Freysgoði is essentially a presumptuous claim to be a Baron of a group of people or a place named after Frey.
If the submitter holds the permanent rank of Baron in the Society, he may register the byname goði. As no evidence of rank was submitted with this name, we must return it.
His device is registered under the holding name Hallbi{o,}rn of Ered Sûl.
Kathryn De Feuer. Device. Vert, in pale a rose within a stag's antler conjoined to itself in annulo and a goblet argent.
This device is returned for blurring the distinction between co-primary charges and primary/secondary charges. The attire crosses the fess line, pushing the goblet to base, but they have similar visual weight. The rose, in contrast, is much, much smaller, visually the size of a tertiary charge. However, given its arrangement, it is considered to be co-primary. This device is also returned for having three different charges in the same charge group. If drawn so that all three charges have more or less equal weight and are co-primary, this device would have three different charges in the primary charge group, which is grounds for return.
Kidala Boskov. Name.
PN1A1 of SENA states that "[a]ll personal name submissions are required to have a given name." Both name elements of this name were documented as bynames. We were unable to find any evidence of Kidala as a given name. Therefore, this name must be returned.
Mariette Dominique du Beau. Device. Azure, a bat-winged mermaid erect to sinister between flaunches argent.
This device is returned for lack of recognizability. This depiction of bat wings does not match any depiction known to the College of Arms, and appears to be closer to a cape than any structured sort of wing.
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