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1. Berwyn Conall of Blackwood – New and Device
Per chevron
throughout sable and purpure, in chief two wolves combatant argent.
The name is
intended to be male. The submitter will allow all changes and cares
most about
the meaning “white strong wolf.” The submitter understands the language
and
culture to be 11th – 13th century “Gaelic, Welsh,
Irish.”
The submitter is not requesting
authenticity.
No documentation
was provided by the submitter. We find:
Berwyn – Heini Gruffudd, Welsh Names for Children,
p. 14, s.n. Berwyn, lists this masculine name as that of an early
saint, the
son of Brychan Brycheiniog, the 5th century Welsh king.
Conall – OCM, p. 56, s.n. Conall, list this as a male
personal name meaning “strong as a
wolf” and call it a “very old, common Celtic name borne by many of the
legendary kings and warriors of Ireland.” They give the Anglicization
as either
Conall or Connell.
Black, p. 168,
s.n. Connal, lists the spellings Connal, Connell, Connel, and Connall,
and
states that the name is modern for Congal or Congual. The earliest
dated occurrence
given is Cuthbert Connell, 1513.
Note that the
combination of Welsh and Gaelic is not registerable, although Welsh and
Anglicized Irish is only one step from period practice.
Although Welsh
combined with English is not a step from period practice, we find
nothing in
either Reaney & Wilson or Bardsley.
Blackwood – Ekwall, p. 47, s.n. Blackwood, gives
Blakwod, 1280 and le Blacwode, 1308.
Herald of Record:
(submitter)
2. Domnall
na nAmus – New Name and
Device
Vert, three crosses
formy Or.
The
name is intended to be male. The submitter will allow all changes and
cares
most about the language and culture of Western Scotland Gaelic. The
submitter
is not requesting authenticity.
Domnall - OCM, p. 75, s.n.
Domnall, give this as the pre-1200
spelling of the name and state that it is the ninth most popular name
in early
Ireland.
Black,
p. 214, s.n. Donald, states: "This is one of the very oldest of our
Gaelic
personal names, and, from the greatness of Clan Donald, commonly
considered as
the Highland name pre-eminently. It, however, ranks only second, John
being the
first...in the Gaelic genealogical manuscript of 1467 and in the Gaelic
entries
in the Book of Deer (c. 1100) it is Domnall."
an nAmus - Mari Elspeth nic
Bryan, Index of Names in Irish Annals:
Masculine Descriptive Bynames (URL:
http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/mari/AnnalsIndex/DescriptiveBynames/Topic.shtml)
lists this as a masculine despcriptive byname meaning "[of] the
Onsets/Attacks". The linked sub-page gives the normalized Early Modern
Irish Gaelic spelling as <na nAmus>. The article is inconclusive
about
the Middle Irish Gaelic spelling, and gives both <na nAmmsae> and
<na
nAmus> as possible Middle Irish Gaelic forms (with the modern
editorial
hyphens here omitted). This page further describes the byname as
derived from
Anglo-Norman, and counts four entries in the Annals, referring to the
same
person, dated to 1158.
Herald of Record: Alheydis von Körckhingen
The name is intended to female. The submitter will
not accept major
changes and cares most about an unspecified language or culture. The
submitter
is not requesting authenticity.
Hadija – Juliana de
Luna, “Andalusian Names: Arabs in Spain,”
(www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/andalusia.html)
lists <Hadija> among the Arabic women’s given names from the data
set,
which spans 700 AD to 1200 AD.
al Zahra' – Juliana de Luna, “Andalusian Names: Arabs
in
Spain,” (www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/andalusia.html) lists
<al-Zahra'> among “other women’s bynames” and gives the meaning
as “the
radiant.”
Herald of Record: Yvianne de Castel d’Avignon
The name is
intended to female. The submitter will accept all changes and cares
most about
spelling. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.
Helewys – Talan Gwynek, “Feminine Given
Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames,”
(http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/reaneyHZ.html) s.n. Helewise
dates
<Helewys> to 1296.
Spynnere – Reaney and Wilson, 3rd ed. p.
421, s.n. Spinner, dates <Spinnere> to 1356. The <i> to
<y>
shift is supported by Reany and Wilson, s.n. Spir, which gives Thomas,
William Spir
in 1229, 1279 and Thomas le Spyr in 1296. Both
Spinner and Spir derive from Old English.
Other examples of
this shift occur in Reaney and Wilson under Spine (Spinis, 1296; Spine,
1379;
and Spyns, 1402) and under Spinney (Spinei, 1198; Spyneye, 1327,
Spynneye,
1377. Both these examples derive from Old French.
Herald of Record: Elsbeth Anne Roth
5. Phiala O'Ceallaigh –
Resubmitted Device
Argent,
semy of crosses crosslet saltirewise, on a cheron azure three nettle
leaves
argent.
Her name
was registered in May 1994 via the East.
A previous
device submission of "Vert, a fret and overall a mascle
argent" was returned at Laurel in October 2004 for multiple conflicts.
This submission represents a complete redesign.
Herald of Record: Elsbeth Anne Roth
6. Phiala O'Ceallaigh – New Badge
(Fieldless)
On a nettle leaf argent a cross crosslet saltirewise azure.
Her name
was registered in May 1994 via the East.
Herald of Record: Elsbeth Anne Roth
7.
Rowan de la Garnison – New
Badge
(Fieldless)
On a coney courant argent three torteaux in fess.
Her name
was registered in January 1985 via the East.
Herald
of Record: Snaebjorn Hakonarson
8.
Thorgrim Skullsplitter – Resubmitted Device
Per pale gules
and sable, two wolves rampant addorsed, each maintaining an axe and on
a chief
argent an eagle per pale sable and gules.
His name was
registered in February 2005 via Æthelmearc.
His previous
device submission of “Per pale gules and sable, two wolves addorsed,
that to
dexter rampant and maintaining an axe, that to sinister salient and
maintaining
a sword, on a chief argent an eagle per pale sable and gules” was
returned at
Laurel in February 2005 for violating the “sword-and-dagger” rule via
the
postures of the beast. Here, both wolves are rampant, thus correcting
the
problem. Although Laurel’s decision specifically noted that the motif
of the
two wolves maintaining different types of charges was rare, but
acceptable, the
revised submission avoids the issue by replacing the sword with a
second axe.
Herald of Record:
Yvianne de Castel d’Avignon
This concludes the Æthelmearc Internal Letter of Intent for February 1, 2007