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Lady Ines Alfón

Sheryl Niemann         

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Results from Laurel are IN!

ELoI Letter Designation: JM-E24

Date the ELoI Letter left the Kingdom: November 24, 2004.

Date the Saker Office received the results of the Laurel Decision: June 6, 2005

ELoI Letter Designation: JM-E25
Date the ELoI Letter left the Kingdom: February 14, 2005.

Date the Saker Office received the results of the Laurel Decision: September 9, 2005

ELoI Letter Designation: JM-E26
Date the ELoI Letter left the Kingdom: April 28, 2005

Date the Saker Office received the results of the Laurel Decision: November 2005

ELoI Letter Designation: 20050610-LOI-CAL-MDB
Date the ELoI Letter left the Kingdom: June 10, 2005

Date the Saker Office received the results of the Laurel Decision: January 9, 2006

Awaiting Laurel Decision

ELoI Letter Designation: 20051231-LOI-CAL-MDB
Date the ELoI Letter left the Kingdom: December 31, 2005

Date the Saker Office received the results of the Laurel Decision:

At Kingdom Saker Herald's Office

Returned at Kingdom

Item(s)

Name Passed

Name Passed as Anneke inghean Mhurchadha

Submitted as Annika  Murchadha, this name mixes Gaelic and Finnish in the same name, but no documentation was submitted and none found showing substantial contact between Finnish and Gaelic speaking cultures in period.  Barring such documentation, such combinations are not registerable.  In addition, the name proposes Murchadha as a patronymic byname.  However, this form makes it an unmarked patronymic, and there is no evidence for the use of unmarked patronymics in Gaelic names.  We have changed the name to Anneke inghean Mhurchadha in order to register it.  Sveriges medeltida personnamn dates Anneke to 1465.  The patronymic particle inghean is the Early Modern Gaelic particle meaning "daughter" which matches the Early Modern Irish form of the patronymic; we have added this particle to the byname, and lenited the patronymic as is required by Gaelic grammar.

Device Passed: Per pale purpure and vert, a lizard tergiant embowed-counterembowed argent.

Name Passed

Badge Returned: Multiple Conflicts

This badge must be returned for multiple conflicts. Since the grapes are effectively a maintained charge, there are conflicts with Graffico de Drell, Vert, entwined about a chalice Or, a serpent head to sinister sable, and Melisande de Belvoir, Argent, a chalice Or, upon the dexter lip, a honeybee proper. In both cases, there is a CD for fieldlessness, but nothing for changes to a maintained charge. The badge also conflicts with Ladies of the Bay, Per saltire azure and gules, a goblet Or, Mary of Livermore, Per chevron argent and gules, in base a goblet Or, and Carl of Sutherland, Quarterly azure and erminois in dexter chief a goblet Or. In each case, there is only the CD for fielded versus fielded armory (since, in the latter two cases, there is no difference for location on the field versus a fieldless badge).

Name Passed: Nice Name!

Device Returned: Conflicts

Conflict with Georgia the Pragmatic of Clyffmarsh, (Fieldless) A lotus in profile azure, slipped vert, with only one CD for fielded versus fielded armory.

Name Passed as Caitríona inghean ui Fhloinn of Corke

Submitted as Caitríona ó Floinn of Corke, the name combines a feminine given name with a masculine patronymic.  In Gaelic, the gender of the patronymic particle must agree with the gender of the given name.  In addition, the patronymic must be lenited. We have changed the name to Caitríona inghean uí Fhloinn of Corke to correct the grammar.

Device Passed: Argent, a cat couchant sable and a bordure invected purpure semy of shamrocks argent.

Name Passed

Device Passed: Per bend vert and azure, a quill of yarn and a loaf of bread Or.

Name Passed

Device Passed: Azure, on a fess between three Celtic crosses argent a dragon passant azure.

Name Passed

Name Passed

Device Passed: Azure, five roundels argent in annulo within a laurel wreath, a chief embattled Or.

Badge Passed: Azure, a chi-rho and a bordure Or.

Name Passed

There is a more than 300 year gap between the 1201 date for the given name and the 1595 date of the byname.  This is one step from period practice.

Device Returned: Blurred distinction between per chevron division and a point pointed.

This device must be returned for blurring the distinction between a per chevron division and a point pointed. Please advise the submitter to draw it as clearly one or the other if she chooses to resubmit this design in the future.

Name Passed

Name Passed

The Saint Gabriel report used to document this name says this about the use of Welsh locative bynames in Anglo-Latin documents: "In Anglo-Latin documents, the place name tended to be used without the preposition <de> when the locative was the only byname, but with <de> when there was another byname present."  This seems to indicate that locative bynames were occassionally, but rarely, found without the de when there was another byname present.  The more usual form of this name would be Mevanwy verch Tuder de Courtecadeno.

Device Passed: Or, a greyhound statant gules and a bordure embattled vert.

Name Passed

Submitted as Onóra Ébliu nic Leod, the submitter requested a name authentic to 12th C Scotland. As submitted the name has several problems.  First, it has two given names, which is unattested in period Gaelic names.  Second, it uses the patronymic marker nic, which is not found until after our period. Both of these things must be fixed for the name to be registerable.  Finally, the name combines Gaelic and Anglo-Norman spellings; if the submitter is interested in an authentic name, then only one language should be used throughout. In the 12th C, the proper form for the patronymic would be inghean Leoid.  Therefore, we have changed this name to Onóra inghean Leoid to make it registerable and to partially comply with the submitter's request for authenticity.

Device Passed: Per bend sinister sable and argent, a decrescent argent and a compass star elongated to base purpure.

Badge Returned: Conflicts

 This badge conflicts with the protected symbol of the Red Crescent, Argent, a decrescent gules, with only one CD for changing the tincture of the primary charge.

Device Changed:  Azure, a dragon passant and a bordure engrailed Or.

This device does not conflict with Roger of Belden Abbey, Azure, a two-headed dragon passant respectant Or, turbanned argent, gorged of a collar gules, pendant therefrom a bell argent, in base a bumblebee displayed erect proper. There is a CD for changing the secondary bumblebee to a bordure engrailed and another for changing half its tincture. Bees proper have argent wings, and we have often given a CD for changing the tincture of the wings on various charges when the visual weight of the wings is equivalent to half the charge, as it is in this case. To cite one example from precedent, registering (Fieldless) A dragonfly vert winged Or, Laurel wrote, "After examining the emblazon, it is clear that Ann's dragonfly is half vert and half Or, thereby giving it one CD for fieldlessness and one CD for change to half the tincture in each case" [Ann Travers of Amberlye, 05/00, A-Caid].

Name: Holding name of Victoria of Cúm an Iolair. Name conflics with Victoria Rose, registered January 2004.

Conflict with Victoria Rose, registered January 2004.  In general, the addition or deletion of a preposition does not contribute to difference.

Her armory has been registered under the holding name Victoria of Cúm an Iolair.

Device Passed: Per bend sinister Or and Purpure, a spiderweb purpure and a keythong's head erased Or.

While spiderwebs are described in Guillim's Display of Heraldry, 1632, the only known examples show the spiderweb alone and covering the entire field. Using the spiderweb on only half the field is thus a step from period practice.

Device Passed: Argent, a chevron between two estoiles azure and an eagle sable.

Device Passed: Barry wavy argent and azure, a ship gules and a chief wavy sable mulletty Or.

Name Passed

Name Passed

Device Passed: Azure, an alphyn passant and on a chief Or three step-cut gemstones azure.

Name Passed as Andor i Ólgarði

Device Passed: Argent semy of maple leaves gules, an eagle azure and a bordure sable.

Name Passed as Conall mac Fearghasa Charraigh

Device Passed: Per chevron gules and azure, a wolf couchant contourny and two triquetras bases to center one and two argent.

Name Passed as Dammo Utwiler

Device Returned: Conflicts

Name Passed

Device Passed: Per pale argent and azure, a demi-sun counterchanged.

Name Passed as Gabrielle d'Evereaux

Device not addressed

Name Passed

Device Passed: Argent semy of Lochaber axes sable, on a bend sinister purpure a crossbow argent.

Name Passed as Olaus af Scherffø

Device Passed: Or, a standing balance purpure an on a chief dovetailed vert three open books Or.

Name Passed

Device Returned: Conflicts

Name Passed

Device Passed: Quarterly argent and gules, two cats sejant contourny gules.

NAME                                       

Device returned at Kingdom

Name Returned: Holding name of Taliesin of Three Rivers

Device Passed: Quarterly argent and sable, a cross flory and a bordure counterchanged. Comment of "Nice armory"

Name Passed

Device Returned: This is returned for a redraw as the waves are drawn as wavy bretessed. This non-period style has long been grounds for return. On resubmission, the submitter is advised that the ford should be drawn with four or more traits instead of three.

Name Change Passed (old name, Finé Macrennie, is released)

Device Passed: Or estencelly vert, an opinicus salient gules and a dexter tierce vert.

Name Passed as Dash Unegen

Device Passed: Or, a broken snaffle-bit chevronwise inverted sable within five arrows in annulo gules.

Name Passed

Device Passed: Sable, in pale three cartouches fesswise argent each charged with a spider passant contourny gules.

Name Passed

Device Passed: Purpure, two cutlasses in saltire edges to chief and a base rayonny Or.

Blazoned as scimitars, these swords lack the curvature and general shape of a heraldic scimitar (cf. Pictorial Dictiionary, q.v. Sword). We have reblazoned these as cutlasses, which sword type dates at least to 1594 according to the OED.

Name Passed

Device Passed: Argent, a wyvern sejant between three estoiles gules.

This was blazoned on the LoI as Per pale purpure and sable, in pall a laurel wreath Or between three elfbolts argent. The laurel wreath is large enough - though it could be drawn larger - to be a primary charge between three secondaries. It has been blazoned as such.

ALTERNATE NAME of Kytte de Wodeford,

DEVICE & BADGE

Name Passed

Device Passed: Argent, in fess three cedar trees eradicated purpure and a base wavy barry wavy purpure and argent.

Badge Returned: This is being returned for lack of identifiability; RfS VII.7.a requires that "Elements must be recognizable solely from their appearance". In this emblazon, the trees have lost their identity as trees due to the manner of conjoining them.

Submitted as Galen Bogle MacHugh, the spelling for the byname Bogle is a header spelling. However, all of the spellings dated to period include a vowel or a y between the g and the l. We have changed this byname to Bogile, a form dated to the mid 16th C in Black.

Name Passed

Device Passed: Per pale embattled barry purpure and Or and gules, two lozenges in pale Or.

Name Passed

Device Passed: Sable, on a fess bretessed between three chamfrons Or, a dragon passant purpure.

Name Passed as Kaios Alexandrou

Submitted as Kaios Alexandros Barbarou, there is a more than 1000 year gap between the date for the first given name, Kaios, and the descriptive byname, Barabrou. The name Kaios was documented in "Greek Lexicon of Personal Names," which lists names from the earliest records through the 6th C. However, the only date we were able to find for this name was prior to 331 BC. The article "Duris of Samos: Early Ties with Sicily," by Robert B. Kebric American Journal of Archaeology © 1975 notes that the family of Duris of Samos sought refuge in 321 B.C. and says of Duris "...his father's name Kaios, extremely rare if not unique, appeas to have had an origin in the West: Pape-Benseler make it the equivalent of the Latin Caius, a name not known widely in the fourth century since Roman influence was generally confined to Italy." While it is possible that this name came more into use later, it seems unlikely since the "Greek Lexicon of Personal Names" only finds one example of it. In addition, the volume from which this name is taken includes names from the island of Samos, making it likely that the name found is the same father of Duris in Kebric's article. The byname Barbarou is found in "Byzantine Seals: 1025-1261", hence there must be more than 1000 years between the dates for Kaios and Barbarou. We have changed the name to Kaios Alexandrou in order to register it; Alexandrou is the standard genitive form of Alexandros. If the submitter is interested in a later Greek name, Alexandros Barbarou would be an appropriate form of this name.

Device Passed: Per saltire gules and sable, an alphyn rampant and in chief three annulets interlaced in fess argent.

The alphyn's front legs are separated; the back legs are separated but both are planted. This is an acceptable variant of rampant. In fact, Siebmacher's 1605 Wappenbuch shows pretty much all its rampant animals with both feet on the same level or with the "away" foot only very slightly raised.

Name Passed

Device Passed: Argent vêtu ployé vert, on a golpe a triquetra argent.

Badge Passed: Argent, on a golpe between flaunches vert, a triquetra argent.

This name mixes Gaelic and Scots; this is one step from period practice. The submitter requested authenticity for 13th-14th C. However, names that mix two orthographies are almost never authentic; for an authentic name, the name should be render fully in a single orthography. If the submitter is interested in an authentic Scots name for her time period, we suggest Marie Rose; Marie is dated to 1296 in Black The Surnames of Scotland s.n. Glengavel. As we do not have a Gaelic form of the locative Rose, we cannot suggest a fully Gaelic form for this name.

This does not conflict with Amber Lang, Vert, on a lozenge argent, a cat sejant guardant sable. Mairi's device could be blazoned as Vert, on a lozenge throughout ployé argent a golpe charged with a triquetra argent. Versus Amber's device, there would only a single CD for changes to the charges on the lozenge. However, the June 2004 Cover Letter has a section "From Wreath: Alternate Blazons and Conflicts which states in part:

This month we registered ...on a pale argent fimbriated vert, a peacock feather proper despite a possible conflict with ...on a pale vert three fangs palewise Or. The argument was made that both pieces of armory could be considered as ...a pale vert charged with <stuff>. However, in order for the new submission to fit this interpretation, it would be blazoned as ...on a pale vert a pale argent charged with a peacock feather proper. That would be four layers, which is unregisterable. Since the unregisterable blazon is the only blazon under which the conflict exists, this is not a conflict.

In this case, Vert, on a lozenge throughout ployé argent a golpe charged with a triquetra argent is an unregisterable blazon and is the only blazon under which the conflict exists, thus it is not a conflict.

 

Submitted as Miriam von Schwarzwald, this byname almost always appears with the definite article (von dem Schwarzwald). This preposition/article combination is usually contracted to vom. We have changed the name to Miriam vom Schwarzwald to correct the grammar.

Name Passed

Device Passed: Or, a sun azure eclipsed argent and a bordure azure estoilly argent.

Heraldic Will Recorded

Name Passed as Tristram Cynydd

Name Passed

Device Passed: Per fess purpure and vert, in chief a pair of angles fesswise interlaced in pale Or and a base wavy barry wavy argent and vert.

Name Passed

Device Returned: This conflicts with Melchior Erasmi von Frankfurt, Argent, a bend sinister between two crosses crosslet fitchy sable. There is a single CD for changing one of the crosses to a decrescent. The fitching of the cross is worth no difference.

Decision by Laurel

Name Passed as Alana filia Tigernáin

Originally submitted as Alana filia Tigernán, the name was changed at kingdom to Alana inghean Tighearnáin because the patronymic phrase mixed Latin and Irish in violation of RfS 3.I.a, Linguistic Consistency. However, for languages where the practice of mixing Latin with vernacular spellings in a patronymic is well documented, such combinations may be allowed.  This is the case for Old and Middle Irish; an examination of the various Irish Annals and other Irish manuscripts found at the CELT site (www.ucc.ie/celt) reveals numerous examples where both the given name and patronymic are in Gaelic, while the patronymic marker used is the Latin filia or filius. The Annals of Ulster entries for 730 have Bran filius Eugain and Oitecde m. Baithectde, filius Blathmicc, in 580 Colggu filius Domnaill filii Muirchertaigh mc. Muireadhaigh, and in 801 Be Fáil filia Cathail. The Annals of Tigernach show Sebdand filia Cuirc in 732 and Martha filia Maic Dubain in 758. While using the Latin patronymic marker is not the usual thing in these manuscripts, it happens often enough to form a distinctive pattern in Old and Middle Irish manuscripts.  However, we do not find this pattern in Early Modern Irish documents.  Therefore, because of a well established pattern showing the pattern of Latin patronymic markers used with Gaelic patronymics in Old or Middle Irish, either a Latin or a Gaelic patronymic marker may be used in patronymics where the name is Old or Middle Irish.  For patronymics where the name is Early Modern Irish, only the Gaelic patronymics markers may be used.  Because the originally submitted form of the patronymic, Tigernán, is Middle Irish, it is acceptable to use the Latin patronymic marker with it.  However, the originally submitted form had the patronymic in the nominative case rather than the required genitive case.  We have changed the name back to the originally submitted form, put the patronymic in the required genitive case, and registered the name as Alana filia Tigernáin

Device Passed: Per pale sable and gules, a phoenix and on a chief Or an ivy vine vert.

Name Passed

Device Passed: Vert, a horse couchant and on a chief nebuly Or three plumes bendwise sinister sable.

Please instruct the submitter to draw the chief narrower.

Name Passed as Cécille Cerise of Cherybeare

Submitted as Cécile Cerise of Mazzardbeare-on-Stitch, there are several issues with this name.  The given name Cécile is a modern spelling.  However, the spelling Cécille appears in Aryhanwy ferch Catmael, "Names from a 1587 Tax Roll from Provin." We have made this change.

More serious, though, is the construction of the locative byname. First, the overall construction of treegrove-on-piece of land is not a pattern found in English placenames. The only examples we have of similar constructions show the pattern placename+on or upon+river name. However, the element Stitch is documented only as a generic topographic term meaning "a piece of land". This is neither an actual placename nor a river name, and its inclusion in a compound English placename of this sort does not fit the pattern found for these names. Second, the initial element, Mazzardbeare is not well formed. We have found no examples of mazzard or the related maser meaning a "cherry tree" in English placenames, nor do we have examples of mazzard meaning "cherry tree" until the late 16th/early 17th C. As such, it is not appropriate for use in an English placename. However, Mills, A Dictionary of English Place-Names has several examples of the Middle English chiri "cherry" used in placenames: s.n. Burton Cheriburton in 1444, s.n. Hinton Cheryhynton in 1576, and s.n. Willingham Chyry Wylynham in 1386. Ekwall, A Dictionary of English Place-Names s.n. Rockbeare has the deuterotheme -bear(e) in Rockbear in 1275. Cherybeare , meaning "cherry grove" is a possible form for such a placename. We have changed the name to Cécille Cerise of Cherybeare in order to register it.

Device Returned: Conflict

This is returned for conflict with the badge of Da'ud ibn Auda, (Fieldless) An apple gules slipped and leaved proper.  There is one CD for fieldlessness, but no more.

The cherry does appear to be a period heraldic charge:  Parker, p.104, cites the example of Cheriton, Bishop of Bangor 1436-37:  ... on a chevron between three martlets ... as many cherries stalked; in chief three annulets... (The ellipses are because we don't know tinctures; presumably this is a stone carving or other tinctureless rendition.)  The only reason we know they're cherries is from the cant.

On the other hand, Fox-Davies (Complete Guide to Heraldry, p.209) says that "Papworth mentions in the arms of Messarney an instance of cherries. Elsewhere, however, the charges on the shield of this family are termed apples."  This is confirmed by looking in Papworth, p.428, at the arms of Messarney:  Or, a chevron per pale gules and vert between three (apples) cherries of the second slipped as the third.  The two different blazons, apples vs. cherries, are found in different editions of Glover's Ordinary.  It would appear that even period heralds had difficulty telling the two charges apart. As the charges were not distinct in period, we grant no difference between an apple and a cherry, and this conflicts with Da'ud's badge as cited above.

Name Change Passed as Ceara Wyther

Submitted as Cére Wyther, as submitted this name is two steps from period practice.  First, it mixes Gaelic and English.  Second, there is a more than 300 year gap between the 681 date for the given name and the mid 13th C date for the surname. Although the surname Wyther is grandfathered to her, grandfathered names may only violate rules already violated in the originally registered name.  Her original name had neither the language nor the temporal problems of the submitted name. We have changed this name to Ceara Wyther in order to register it.  Ó Corrain and Maguire, Irish Names s.n. Cera, lists Ceara as the latter form of the name of a virgin saint.  As saints names are generally registerable as parts of mixed language names, this removes the temporal problem.

Device Passed: Per fess Or and vert, two oak leaves and a full drop spindle inverted bendwise sinister counterchanged.

Old Name, Katharine Wyther, is released.

Previous device: Per fess Or and vert, three oak leaves counterchanged is retained as a badge.

Name Passed

As documented, this name mixes English and German; this is one step from period practice.  However, Rede Boke has found the spellings Elen and Helena in German.  While a name using one of these spellings would be the best recreation, given these variants, Elena would not be completely unexpected in German.

Device Returned: Conflict with Xenia Dimitrievna Morózova, Per chevron throughout purpure and Or, three compass-stars counterchanged.

Name Passed

Device Passed: Gules ermined argent, on a bend sinister argent three holly sprigs palewise vert fructed gules.

Device Passed: Sable, a boar passant and on a chief Or three Thor's hammers gules.

Name Passed

Device Passed: Or, a stag's attires and a bordure sable.

Name Returned: Multiple problems.

This name has several problems.  First, it is unlikely that Hamr is actually a given name. The only undisputed example we have of this name is from Hrólfs saga kraka ok kappa hans, where it is one of a pair of names assumed by two young brothers in hiding so they won't be killed; the adopted names are Hrani and Hamr. Now, Hrani is found as a given name, but it is also a word meaning "a blusterer". The word hamr means skin or cover, and is particularly connected to legends of skin-changers or shape-shifters. As such it is a perfect descriptive nickname or disguise name for a young boy in hiding to adopt. However, this makes it much less likely to be a reasonable given name. All other citations found were for placename etymologies where equally likely alternative etymologies were also given (either the place is derived from a different name, or the word "hamr" in the name is descriptive).  Unless Hamr can be found in a non-allegorical sense used for a regular human being, it cannot be registered.

The bynames were intended to mean "gray wolf". For a properly formed byname, there should not be a space between the two elements. Argent Snail notes: "Lind's book on bynames has several bynames starting with grá- like grábarði (greybeard) and grátoppr (greytop, greyhair). Thus a byname meaning 'greywolf' would probably be written 'gráúlfr', as one word, not two." However, no examples of Old Norse bynames of the form color+animal have been found; by precedent they are not registerable:

[Kristin Hvithestr]. Lacking solid evidence of a clear pattern of descriptive bynames of the form [color] + [animal] in Old Norse, there is no support for the submitted Hvithestr as a plausible descriptive byname in Old Norse. (West, Dec 2003)

Because the submitter cares most about the meaning "Hamr Gray Wolf", and because we cannot construct a name with the submitter's desired meaning, we are returning this. However, if the submitter is interested in a name with a similar sound, we suggest Hamundr grai Úlfsson or Hamall grai Úlfsson. These names means "Hamundr/Hamall the gray, son of Úlfr". Both Hamundr and Hamall are found in Haraldson, The Old Norse Name, and are names from the Landnamabok, so either of these would be a reasonable Old Norse name.

10.

Ichikawa Moromoto

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DEVICE RESUBMISSION

Device Passed: Sable, on a hawk's bell argent a quatrefoil sable.

11.

Ichikawa Moromoto

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BADGE RESUBMISSION

Badge Passed: Argent, on a hawk's bell sable a quatrefoil argent.

Name Passed

Device Passed: Per pale sable and argent, a double-headed phoenix and in chief a pair of hands appaumy, within a bordure counterchanged.

Name Returned: Aural conflict

Aural conflict with Julienne de Léon, the bynames are identical, and the only difference in the pronunciation of the given names is the a possible J to Y first sounds and the vowel in the unstressed final syllable.

Device Returned: Returned for redraw.

The device is returned for redraw. The thimble is not recognizable as such; the most common guess for this charge was a tombstone. Charges must be identifiable from their appearance, per RfS VIII.3.

14.

Kathalyn Nimet

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Letter of permission to conflict

Recorded

The permission to conflict is for anything that is one countable step different, or a CD, from her registered badge, Or, a dolphin vert finned and beaked and in base two bars wavy purpure.

15.

Kathalyn Nimet

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Letter of release

Recorded release of name: Ceara inghean Ghallchobhair uí Chionaoith.

Badge Passed: [Fieldless] On a beehive purpure, a bee Or.

Name Passed

Device Passed: Quarterly Or and sable, two bear's pawprints sable.

Name Passed as Órækja Ottarsson j Tunsbergi

Submitted as Órækja Óttarson of Tonsberg, the submitter requested authenticity for 12th-14th C Norwegian language/culture. The given name and patronymic were documented as Old Norse, however the 12th-14th C Norwegian forms are very similar. Lind, Norsk-Isländska Dopnamn Och Fingerade Namn frän Medeltiden vol 6 s.n. Órókia, lists the spelling Órækja in both 1236 and 1356; it is a fine given name for this period. "Diplomatarium Norvegicum", http://www.dokpro.uio.no/dipl_norv/diplom_felt.html, lists the patronymic Ottarsson in 1346 and 1347. The locative is found in the same collection as Tunsberg in 1294, and in its genitive forms Tunbergi and Tunberghi at various points in the 14th C. We have changed this name to Órækja Ottarsson j Tunsbergi, a fully 14th C form of this name, to fulfill the submitter's request for authenticity.

Device Passed: Quarterly Or and vert, a cross gules between two feathers bendwise sinister argent.

Device Passed: Per pale argent and azure all estencely, a fleur-de-lys counterchanged

Name Passed

Rhiannon is SCA compatible.

Name Passed

Device Passed: Ermine, on a bend sinister azure three horse's heads palewise coupled Or.

Name Passed as Rós Fhionn inghean Domhnaill

Device Passed: Azure, a wilf couchant contourney and on a chief triangular argent a rose proper.

Please advise the submitter to draw the chief wider in the center.

23.

Svein sutari svithanda

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DEVICE RESUBMISSION

Device Passed: Argent, a bottell sable between three ogresses.

The leather bottell is a period heraldic charge.  It was used as a charge by the Worshipful Company of Horners since at least the end of the 16th C.  (Armorial Bearings of the Guilds of London, Bromley & Child, pp.141-142.)  Baron Bruce Draconarius has provided an illustration of the Horners' leather bottell, which can be found at the end of this LoAR. The submitted emblazon depicts an actual period bottell; not a perfect duplicate of the charge used by the Horners, being less stylized and with smaller loops, but clearly the same charge.

Name Passed as Thóra Jódísadóttir

Device Passed: Or, an elfbolt and on a chief azure three decrescnts Or.

Submitted as Thóra Jódísdótter, the grammar of the byname is incorrect.  The correct form of a feminine patronymic of the name Jódis is Jódisardóttir. We have made this change.

Name Passed

Device Passed: Per fess gules and Or crusilly Russian Orthodox counterchanged.

ELoI Letter Designation: 20050820-LOI-CAL-MDB
Date the ELoI Letter left the Kingdom: August 20, 2005
Date the Laurel-of-Arms Office decides on these submissions: December 2005
Date the Saker Herald Office received the results of the Laurel decisions:

1.

Alexander Sage

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NAME & DEVICE

Name Passed

Device Passed: Argent, a pall inverted bretessed sale between three wyverns gules.

2.

Anastasia de Carrera

<Heraldshill>

NAME

Name Passed as Anastasia da Carrara

Device Passed:

3.

Anna der Schatz

<Heraldshill>

NAME

Name Passed as Anna Die Schatzin

4.

Brian Mac Tomás Uí Fhoghladha

<Forgotten Sea>

NAME

Name Passed as Brian mac Tomáis Uí Fhoghladha

5.

Constance Wilkicke

<Forgotten Sea>

NAME & DEVICE

Name Passed

Device Passed: Per pale gules and sable, on a bend argent three footprints palewise sable.

6.

Cum an Iolair, Canton of

DESIGNATOR CHANGE to Shire

Change recorded

7.

Cum an Iolair, Shire of

Sub: Talon Herald

HERALD TITLE

Name Passed

8.

Einarr Grímsson

<Flinthyll>

NAME

Name Passed

9.

Friedrich von Bayern

<Ridgehaven>

NAME & DEVICE

Name Passed

Device Passed: Bendy sable and argent, a double-headed eagle azure and a bordure embattled gules.

10.

Giudo di Niccolo Brunilleschi

Sub: Mishka Lamanov

<Deodar>

NAME - Alternate & BADGE

Name Passed

Badge Returned: Returned for redraw - willow slip not identifiable as such.

11.

Heraldshill, Shire of

BADGE

Badge Passed: Gules, in fess two straight trumpets Or.

12.

Isabel la Fouchiere

<Lost Mor>

NAME & DEVICE

Name Passed

Device Passed: Per fess fleury counter-fleury gules and sable, three towers, one and two, argent.

13.

Johan Berger

<Heraldshill>

NAME & DEVICE

Name Passed

Device Passed: Azure, an eagle on a chief argent three fleurs-de-lys azure. - Nice Armory

14.

Juliana Macnayre

<Heraldshill>

DEVICE - RESUBMISSION

Device Passed: Per pale azure and purpure, a triskelion arrondy pommenty and a chief Or.

15.

Luci