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Æthelmearc Internal Letter of Intent Æ101
  December 1, 2006

Commentary on these items will be due on: January 1, 2007

Commentary may be posted to the list-serve at: aethel-heralds@lists.andrew.cmu.edu

Commentary may be sent privately to: garnet [AT] aeheralds [DOT] net and cornelian [AT] aeheralds [DOT] net

It is the intent of the Æthelmearc College of Heralds that the following items be considered for registration. Unless noted otherwise,submitters will accept any changes and allow holding names.

1.  Barbary Rose – New Name and Device

Gules, a dragon displayed and in chief a rose Or. .

The name is intended to be feminine. The submitter will not accept major changes and cares most about sound. The submitter is requesting authenticity for the late 1500s, Elizabethan era.

Barbary – Talan Gwynek, “Feminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames” s.n. Barbara (http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/reaneyAG.html) states:

Barbara < Gk bárbaros ‘foreign, strange’. Barbary, Barbery are the usual vern. forms of Barbara; Bab and Barb are hyps. from which various dims. in -et, -ot, and el are formed”

and dates the spelling <Barbery> to 1581 Barbary.

 Rose – Talan Gwynek, “Feminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames” s.n. Rose (http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/reaneyHZ.html) states:

Rose CG Hrodohaidis, Rothaid> Norman Rohese, Roese, later Royse, whence ME Rose, as if < Lat rosa `rose'. [Rose]

And dates this spelling (as a given name) from 1202 to 1525.

In addition, we find:

Reaney and Wilson, s.n. Rose, give Richard Roycse, Rose 1604, 1609.

Julie Kahan, “Surnames in Durham and Northumberland, 1521-1615” (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juetta/parish/surnames_r.html) gives nine occurrences of the name from 1572 to 1615

Herald of Record: Taranach McLeod

2.  Clarice Roan – Resubmitted Device

Per fess azure and argent, a dove rising wings displayed and inverted argent and a serpent embowed counter-embowed gules.

The submitter’s name was registered in July 2006 (via Æthelmearc).

Her device previous submission, Per fess azure and argent, a dove rising wings displayed and inverted argent sustaining in its claws a serpent embowed counter-embowed gules, was returned by Laurel in July 2006, for the following reason:

This device is returned as no blazon we could derive adequately described the careful placement required to have the dove and the snake on opposite sides of the line of division. As a blazon cannot be derived which would allow the reconstruction of this emblazon, per RfS VII.7.b - Reconstruction Requirement the device must be returned.

Here, the two charges are separated, with neither crossing the division line.

Herald of Record: Alheydis von Körckhingen

3.  Clarice Roan – New Badge

(Fieldless) A dove rising wings displayed and inverted argent sustaining in its claws a serpent embowed counter-embowed gules.

A previous device submission, Per fess azure and argent, a dove rising wings displayed and inverted argent sustaining in its claws a serpent embowed counter-embowed gules, was returned by Laurel in July 2006, for the following reason:

This device is returned as no blazon we could derive adequately described the careful placement required to have the dove and the snake on opposite sides of the line of division. As a blazon cannot be derived which would allow the reconstruction of this emblazon, per RfS VII.7.b - Reconstruction Requirement the device must be returned.

This design, being fieldless, should avoid the problems of her previous device submission.

Herald of Record: Alheydis von Körckhingen

4.  Gunnar of the Endless Hills – New Name and Device

Purpure, two horses combattant Or and on a chief argent, four roses gules.

The name is intended to be masculine. The submitter will accept any changes and cares most about Viking/Icelandic language/culture. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Gunnar – Rouva Gertrud, “Vanhat nimityyppimme (Finnish Names)” (http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/FinnishNamesArticle.htm), s.n. Gunnar, lists two dated occurances of this masculine name:

Gunnar Elifson, 1463

Gunnar j Palonei 1426

Endless Hills – the SCA branch name <Endless Hills, Barony of> was registered in August of 1999 (via AEthelmearc).

Herald of Record: Barbary Rose

5.  Onóra inghean Chonaill – New Device

Vert, a seahorse argent and on a chief Or three shamrocks vert.

The submitter’s name was registered in July 2006 (via Æthelmearc).

Herald of Record: Alheydis von Körckhingen

6. Verederosa Dal Sol – New Name, New Device

Per fess argent and vert, a rose vert barbed and seeded and a sun in splendor Or.

The name is intended to be feminine. The submitter accepts all changes and cares most about the sound of the name. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Verederosa – Arval Benicoeur, "Feminine Given Names from Thirteenth Century Perugia" (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/arval/perugia/perugiaFemAlpha.html)  counts one occurrence of this spelling in a tax roll of the city of Perugia taken in 1285.

Dal Sol – Arval Benicoeur and Talan Gwynek, "Fourteenth Century Venetian Personal Names" (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/arval/venice14/venice14sur.html) list this form and describe it as a "locative, perhaps 'from the clearing'."

Herald of Record: Alheydis von Körckhingen

This concludes the Æthelmearc Internal Letter of Intent for December 1, 2006

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