1: Ælfra Long - New Device Change
Per pale argent and lozengy argent and purpure, three domestic cats rampant contourny sable crowned Or.
Old Item: Per pale argent and lozengy argent and purpure,
three domestic cats rampant contourny sable, to be released.
Her name was registered in January 1993 (via the East).
The submitter received a court baronetcy July 17, 2004, as recorded in the court report archived at: http://www.aeheralds.net/CourtReports/2004.07.17.html.
Her old device, Per pale argent and lozengy argent and purpure, three domestic cats rampant contourny sable, was registered in December 1993 (via the East).
2: Æsa Helgulfsdottir - New Name & New Device
Per bend argent and sable, a flame azure and an arrow bendwise argent.
Submitter desires a female name.
No major changes.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Sound most important.
Æsa - Geirr Bassi, p. 17 lists this as a feminine given name.
Helgi - Geirr Bassi, p. 11, lists this as a masculine given name. Ibid., p. 22, lists Helgu- as a prepended descriptive byname meaning "Helga-", and lists inn helgi as a descriptive byname phrase meaning "holy."
Ulfr - Geirr Bassi, p. 15, lists this as a masculine given name. Geirr Bassi, p. 17, specifies the change of -r to -s in the genitive case, plus -dóttir to make the patronym.
Helgulfsdottir - This is proposed as a constructed byname following the pattern the documented Skallagrímr from Skalla-Grímr
Precedent states:
Although Skallagrímr is in origin a combination of the nickname Skalla 'bald' and the forename Grímr, Lind, NorskIsländska Dopnamn ock Fingerade Namm från Medeltiden, s.n. Skallagrímr notes that there is at least one instance of the compound Skallagrímr as a forename in its own right: a Skallagrimr Audvnar son died in 1353. Egils saga Skallagrímssonar is thought to have been written c.1220; Egill himself was a contemporary of Eirík Blóðøx, so he can be dated to the 10th c. A 14th c. Úlfr Skallagrímsson is therefore entirely possible. We have, however, removed the unnecessary hyphen. (LoAR August 1997, s.n. Úlfr Skallagrímsson [Meridies])
Precedent further states:
The name was submitted as Blund- lfr Kleykir. Though we have no evidence for Old Norse use of more than one nickname at a time, there is some indication that at times a preposed nickname combined with the given name to produce what was effectively a new given name. We are therefore giving the name the benefit of the doubt, though we have followed what seems to have been normal documentary practice in fusing nickname and name. (LoAR May 1996, s.n. Blundúlfr Kleykir [Trimaris])
We think it reasonable that <Helgu-Ulfr> would reduce to <Helgulfr>, rather than <Helguulfr>.
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3: Aquila Blackmore - New Device Change
Gules, on a lozenge ployé argent between in chief two coronets Or, a mullet sable, a bordure embattled argent.
Old Item: Argent, vetu ployé gules, a mullet sable
within a bordure embattled argent, to be retained.
His name was registered in February of 1992 (via the East).
The submitter received a court baronetcy July 17, 2004, as recorded in the court report archived at: http://www.aeheralds.net/CourtReports/2004.07.17.html.
His old device, Argent, vetu ployé gules, a mullet sable within a bordure embattled argent, was registered in March of 1994 (via the East).
4: Beniamin Hackewode - New Name & New Device
Vert, a wolf rampant contourny maintaining a halberd argent, in dexter chief a mullet Or.
Submitter desires a male name.
No major changes.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Language (English) most important.
Culture (English) most important.
Beniamin - Reaney and Wilson, s.n. Benjamin, gives Beniamin 12th century and Roger Beniamin 1166.
Bardsley, s.n. Benjamin, gives Caterina fil. Benjamini dated 1273.
Hackewode - Reaney and Wilson, s.n. Hackwood, date the submitted spelling to 1327
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5: Brandubh Ó Donnghaile - New Badge
(Fieldless) A drum bendwise argent.
His name was registered in April of 2000 (via AEthelmearc).
6: Catrijn van der Hedde - New Device
Or, a dragon's head cabossed sable and on a chief vert three triangles inverted Or.
Her name was registered in February 2007 (Via AEthelmearc).
7: Éamonn mac Alaxandair - New Name & New Device
Per bend sinister argent and Or, three dexter hands in bend sinister and a lion rampant gules, a bordure sable.
Submitter desires a male name.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Sound most important.
Éamonn - Mari Elspeth nic Bryan (Kathleen M. O'Brien), "Index of Names in Irish Annals: Éamonn," [URL: http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/mari/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/Eamonn.shtml] gives the submitted spelling as the standard Early Modern Irish Gaelic (c1200-c1700) nominative form of this masculine given name, borne by 19 men dated between 1444 and 1559.
mac - Gaelic meaning "son"
Alaxandair - Mari Elspeth nic Bryan (Kathleen M. O'Brien), "Index of Names in Irish Annals: Alaxandar, Alaxandair (Alasdrann, Alasdar)," [URL: http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/mari/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/Alaxandar.shtml] gives this as the standard Early Modern Irish Gaelic (c1200-c1700) genitive form of this masculine given name, borne by 18 men dated between 1124 and 1577.
There was mild concern among some commenters that the use of a red hand with an Irish name was evocative of the so-called "Red Hand of Ulster," a restricted charge. However, precendent states:
There was some concern whether this was too reminiscent of the Red Hand of Ulster, a prohibited charge in the SCA. It turns out that the Red Hand of Ulster was used as an augmentation, not as a main charge. We would certainly return a device that used a canton argent charged with a hand gules, and perhaps even a chief argent charged with a hand gules would be too suggestive; but the use of red hands, gloves, gauntlets, etc., on white backgrounds is not, in and of itself, cause for return. (LoAR August 1992, s.n. Guillaume de la Rapière [Atenveldt])
We note that Table 2 of the Glossary of Terms [URL: http://www.sca.org/heraldry/coagloss.html] does list among the restricted charges the "Red Hand of Ulster" blazoned as A sinister hand appaumy gules on argent canton or inescutcheon on the grounds that it is the augmentation used British Baronets. The online O&A lists the registration of the augmentation (without reference to Ulster) as follows:
# Great Britain
* The following augmentation associated with this name was registered in May of 1999 (via Laurel):
Argent, a sinister hand appaumy gules.
Important non-SCA augmentation
The charge in question, while in fact the badge of British Baronets, is not the equivalent of the "Red Hand of Ulster." The Red Hand of Ulster, as it appears on the Ulster flag and arms, and on the former flag of Northern Ireland, is a dexter hand. (The hand appears on a white escucheon on the Ulster arms, and on a white mullet of six points on the flag of northern Ireland.) Conversely, the hand used as an augmentation by British Coronets is a sinister hand. This was confirmed to Garnet in private correspondence from Richmond Herald of the College of Arms, London, dated February 19, 2007:
Thank you for your e-mail of 12 February addressed to the College of Arms. As far as I know (and I have had a quick look at some 17th century recordings), the badge of a baronet has always been a sinister hand. The emblem associated with Ulster is indeed a dexter hand while the hand in the arms of the O'Neills seems usually to have been a sinister one.
Lynch-Robinson, Intelligible Heraldry (London, 1948), p. 179, traces to confusion to Fox-Davies:
The Baronet's Augmentation. The hand in the officially registered arms of the Province of Ulster is the Red Hand of the O'Neills, and is a dexter hand[sic]. It will be seen on the Eire 2 1/2 d. stamp, in the arms of the Government of Northern Ireland and on many Irish documents. The hand of the Baronet's Augmentation is a sinister [sic] hand, and - despite all English heraldic authority to the contrary - it is not the Red Hand of Ulster. One or two instances can be found (e.g. Campbell, of Succoth, Co. Dumbarton) where a dester hand is used for the badge, but these are exceedingly rare. We find that Fox-Davies, with beautiful impartiality, refers, in his blazons, to both sinister and dexter hand as "...his Badge of Ulster as a Baronet". Undoubtedly, ninety-eight percent of more of the baronets' arms bear the sinister hand...
Therefore, Garnet respectfully requests that the restricted charge no longer be refered to as the "Red Hand of Ulster" in the Glossary of Terms. Such use perpetuates the long-standing confusion of the two charges. And while no difference is granted in SCA armory between a dexter hand and a sinister hand, the modern and historical political context makes it most prudent to clearly differentiate between the (dexter) Red Hand of Ulser and the (sinister) augmentation of the Baronets of the United Kingdom.
8: Erasmus Fryermut - New Name
Submitter desires a male name.
No major changes.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Language (German) most important.
Culture (German) most important.
Erasmus - Bahlow, p. 106, s.n. Erasmus, gives the meaning of this name as "likable" and states that it was not popular until the 15th century. Bahlow also makes reference to the humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam.
Bahlow, p. 20, s.n. Assmann, cites "Aßman = Aßmus = Eraßmus Wincke" dated 1565.
Aryanhwy merch Catmael, "German Names from 1495" (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/german/german1495.html) counts two occurences of Erasmus in a German tax roll from 1495.
Fryermut - Bahlow, p. 131, s.n. Freimuth, dates this spelling to Freiburg, 1490.
9: Ernine ingen Duib Dara - New Name & New Device
Argent, an oak leaf bendwise sinister vert and on a chief sable three triquetras argent.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Sound most important.
Meaning ([byname] of the oaks) most important.
Ernine - O'Corrain and Maguire, p. 89, give this as the pre-1200 spelling and count 11 saints who bore the name, listing St. Erníne, a bishop (feast day May 12), St. Erníne Cass of Leighlin (feast day February 23), and a female St. Erníne (feast day February 28).
ingen = pre-1200 Gaelic for "daughter"
Duib Dara - The submission form gives the URL http://www.ucc.ie as a gateway page. Doing a search on "Duib Dara" yields numerous hits, including the following:
The Annals of Ulster [URL: http://www.ucc.ie/research/celt/online/G100001A.html] under the year 1010 lists the death of one Cathal m. Duib Dara ri Fer Manach.
Ibid., under the year 1076, lists one Gilla Crist H. Duib Dara ri Fer Manach i n-Daiminis la Firu Manach
Ibid., under the 1118, lists one Laidhgnen H. Duib Dara ri Fer Manach
The Annals of Inisfallen [URL: http://www.ucc.ie/research/celt/online/G100004/G100004.html] under the year 1118, lists Laidgnén Ua Duib Dara
The Annals of Tigernach [URL: http://www.ucc.ie/research/celt/online/G100002/text021.html] under the year 1110, lists Duarcan mac Duib Dara Ua Eolais
The Annal of Tigernach [URL: http://www.ucc.ie/research/celt/online/G100002/text022.html] under the year 1146, lists Gilla m-Beraigh mac Duib Dara maic Duib
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10: Helena Lyncoln of Norfolk - New Name & New Device
Quarterly gules and azure, four griffins argent.
Submitter desires a female name.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Helena - Douglas Galbi, "Given Names in England Before 1800" [URL: http://www.galbithink.org/names/engb1800.htm] under "Stratford-On-Avon and Solihull, County Warwick, females, (Stratford, births 1558-1652; Solihull, births 1539-1668)" [URL: http://www.galbithink.org/names/stratsol.txt] lists five occurrences of this spelling in the raw data set, dating from 1562, 1563, 1564,1566 and 1603.
Lyncoln - Aryanhwy merch Catmael, "Index of Names in the 1541 Subsidy Roll of London: Surnames of English Men and Women" [URL: http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/english/engsurlondon1541.html] lists one occurrence of this spelling.
Norfolk - Ekwall dates the submitted spelling to 1043-5, and it remains the spelling of a notheastern county in England.
Reaney and Wilson, s.n. Norfolk list de Norfolc 1154-76, de Norfolk 1228, and Northfolk, Norfolk 1377, 1380.
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11: Iohann filius Agustin - New Name & New Device
Azure, two axes in saltire and on a chief argent two eagles displayed heads to sinister sable.
Submitter desires a male name.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Sound most important.
Iohann - Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn (Heather Rose Jones), Cornish (and Other) Personal Names from the 10th Century Bodmin Manumissions, "Given Names: Names of Latin or Biblical Origin" [URL: http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/Bodmin/biblical.html], s.n. Johannes, lists the submitted spelling as a period documentary form in a Latin context.
Agustin - Ibid., s.n. Augustine, lists the submitted spelling as a period documentary form in a Latin context.
filius - Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn (Heather Rose Jones), Op. cit., in the section on Name Formats [URL: http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/Bodmin/formats.html], lists five examples of patronymics in Latin using "filius", none of which use an obvious genitive form of the father's name (Brun, Catgustel, Samuel, Wasso, Mor), so the form here has been left as Agustin.
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12: Iwan Dyerrics - New Name & New Device
Quarterly argent and azure, a winged moose passant guardant sable.
Submitter desires a male name.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Sound most important.
Iwan - Talan Gwynek (Brian M. Scott), "Medieval German Given Names from Silesia" [URL: http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/bahlow_v.htm] dates the submitted spelling to 1296.
Dyerrics - Socin, Mittelhochdeutsches Namensbuch, p. 12, s.n. Theodericus, dates Dyerricus to 1295. Dyerric would be the un-Latinized form. Non-Latinized dated forms include Dietric, 1275; Diether, 13 c.; Dietherich, 1298, 1296, etc. Socin discusses patronyms in chapter 29, "Genitivnamen," and on p. 584 gives the example of Kunrat Diethers dated to 1280. Other examples include Heinrich Arnoldes, 1298 (p. 583) and Wernher Peters, 1297 (p. 586).
Herald of record: Pennsic
13: Jakob Heckrath - New Name & New Device
Per chevron argent and gules, a dragon's head erased and a chief azure.
Submitter desires a male name.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Language (German) most important.
Culture (German) most important.
Jakob - Bahlow-Gentry, p. 248, gives this as an undated header form. Ibid., p. 247, dates Jekel (Jocob) to 1381. Talan Gwynek (Brian M. Scott), "Medieval German Given Names from Silesia" [URL: http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/bahlow_v.htm] dates the submitted spelling to 1581.
Brechenmacher, p. 172, s.n. Bogenschütz, dates Jakob Bogenschütz to 1499.
Heckrath - Bahlow-Gentry, p. 201, gives this as an undated header form, from a place name ending in -rode (in Hesse and Thuringia) or -rath (Rhineland).
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14: John Lionheart - New Name & New Device
Vert, a lion's head affronty and on a chief Or three hearts vert.
Submitter desires a male name.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Meaning most important.
The submission form states, "Lionheart is the most important name element but Lionhearted would also be acceptable." Submitted to kingom as John atte Lionheart, we found no evidence to support Lionheart as a toponym, locative or sign name. We have therefore dropped the prepostion, treating the byname as a descriptive.
No documentation was provided with this submission. However, we find:
John - Karen Larsdatter (Karen Harris), "Masculine Given Names Found in the 1296 Lay Subsidy Rolls for Rutland (sorted by Frequency)" [URL: http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/Rutland/given-masc-freq.htm] lists John as the third most common name in the data set.
Lionheart - "Collected Precedents of the S.C.A.: French" [URL: http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/French.html] state:
"An Index to the Given Names in the 1292 Census of Paris" (http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/paris.html) lists the name Hunout le fuiz Cuer-de-Lion. In this construction, the element Cuer-de-Lion would be his father's byname. Therefore, we have support for Cuer-de-Roy 'heart of [the] king' and Cuer-de-Lion 'heart of [the] lion' (more commonly translated into modern English as Lionheart).
The Lingua Anglica allowance should allow the registration of Lionheart as a byname.
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15: Katarzina Pogonowska - New Name & New Device
Vert, a fox sejant argent, a trimount Or.
Submitter desires a female name.
No major changes.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Language (Polish - 16th century) most important.
Culture (Polish - 16th century) most important.
Submitted to kingdom as Katarzina Poganowski, commenters alerted us to the need to match the gender of the locative byname to the gender of the bearer. We have changed the byname to Pogonowska to make it feminine.
Katarzina - Sara L. Friedemann (Aryanhwy merch Catmael), "Polish Feminine Given Names, 1600-1650" [URL http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/polish/polishfem.html] dates this speling to 1610 in a Polish language context.
Pogonowska - Hoffman, William F., Polish Surnames: Originas and Meanings (Chicago: Polish Genealogical Society of America), p. 393, s.v., Pogon-, lists the undated surname Pogonowski followed by what appears to be a citation number, but the citation key was not photocpied. The header, Pogon- is described as possibly deriving from pogon' meaning "chase". Paszkiewicz, Mieczyslaw and Jerzy Kulczycki, Polish Coats of Arms (London: Orbis Books Ltd., 1990), p. 246, dates the surname Pogonowski to 1674. The ending -a is used to make the byname feminine.
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16: Katerina of the Debatable Lands - Resub Name & New Device
Per bend Or and vert, two linden leaves in bend sinister stems issuant from the line of division counterchanged.
No major changes.
Authenticity NOT requested.
The submitter's previous submission of Kazi Enkazi was returned in February 2000 for lack of documentation.
Submitted to kingdom as Katerina of the Debateable Lands, the spelling of the locative was changed at kingdom to reflect the registered spelling of the SCA group name.
Katerina - Withycombe, s.n. Katharine, dates this spelling to 1196-1215, 1273 and 1428.
In addition, this is the submitter's legal given name. No photocopy was provided, however, her submission form includes the following statement:
Her mundane name is "Katerina S. Pavelle", as seen on driver's license"
This is attested by Mari Elspeth nic Bryan, Rowel, and Ailis Linne, who have undersigned the statement with their legal signatures.
Debatable Lands - the SCA group name Debatable Lands, Barony-Marche of the was registered in December 1975.
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17: Katheryn M'Kethirryke - New Name Change & New Device Change
Per chevron azure and argent goutty de sang, two wolves combattant and a chief fleury argent.
Old Item: Constance M'Kethirryke, to be released.
Old Item: Or, two pallets sable overall two natural dolphins
naiant in pale azure, a chief embattled sable , to be released.
Submitter desires a female name.
No major changes.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Sound most important.
Katheryn - Mari Elspeth nic Bryan (Kathleen M. O'Brien), "Feminine Given Names in King's Stanley Marriages: 1573-1600", [URL: http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/mari/kingsstanley/FemGivenNamesAlpha.html] lists the submitted spelling variant to 1580.
M'Kethirryke - the submitter's current SCA name was registered as Constance M'Kethirryke in April 1995 via Atlantia. The byname is grandfathered per RfS II.5.
Black, p. 528, s.n. MacKettrick, has a John M'Kethirryke dated to 1376.
Her old device, Or, two pallets sable overall two natural dolphins naiant in pale azure, a chief embattled sable, was registered in April of 1995 (via Atlantia).
Albion raised concern that the "per chevron" division did not adequately divide the area below the chief into roughly equal parts. We defer to Wreath for a decision on this. Commenters noted that the fleurs appeared "squished", but Myfanwy ferch Rhiannon (commentary and also the artist) notes that the division line is as shown in Brooke-Little, page 159, fig. m.
18: Magdalena de Mayfeld - New Name & New Device
Argent vetu ployé counter-ermine, a winged dragon sejant contourny purpure maintaining an egg sable.
Submitter desires a female name.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Sound most important.
Magdalena - Academy of Saint Gabriel report #3034 dates the submitted spelling to 1596 in Durham, England.
de Mayfeld - York Archeological Trust, York Bridgemasters' Accounts [URL: http://www.iadb.co.uk/bridgemasters/], under "Foss Bridge Accounts" [URL: http://www.iadb.co.uk/bridgemasters/fossaccounts.pdf], pp. 49-51, records indivduals named John de Mayfeld and Alice de Mayfeld in 1406.
Commenters noted that the egg is very small, even for a maintained charge. We note the following precedent:
Aurelia du Coeur Sincère. Device. Per pale gules and argent, a goblet bendwise distilling a gout, within a bordure "nebuly" counterchanged.The nebuly line of partition is unidentifiable on the emblazon; it more strongly resembles a potenty line with the corners rounded off. This must be returned for redrawing.If she resubmits with this motif, also instruct her to draw the gout larger. Even as a "maintained" charge, it should be drawn large enough to see. (LoAR August 1993, s.n. Aurelia du Coeur Sincère [returns - East])
Since the small size of the gout in Aurelia's device was not the cause for return, we defer to Wreath to decide on whether the size of egg in Magdalena's emblazon warrants an artist's note or a return for redraw.
19: Morien MacBain - New Badge
(Fieldless) Four arrows fretted in saltire, overall a sword palewise inverted argent.
His name was registered in February of 2002 (via the East).
Commenters reached no firm concensus as to whether this would conflict with Ingilborg Sigmundardóttir, (Fieldless) A sheaf of a sword inverted between four arrows argent bound with a garter sable. (reg. 06/2006 via Caid). We defer to Wreath's judgement.
20: Sebastian Wolfgang von Bayern - Resub Device
Per fess argent and bendy sinister azure and argent, on a demi-eagle issuant from the line of division sable a mullet Or.
His name was registered in February of 2005 (via AEthelmearc).
His previous submission, Per fess argent and paly bendy argent and azure, on a demi-eagle issuant from the line of division sable a mullet Or, was returned in February 2005 for using a partial field of Bavaria, Lozengy bendwise azure and argent, with the surname von Bayern.
21: Shait ben Mikha'el - New Name Change
Old Item: Seth MacMichael, to be retained.
Submitter desires a male name.
No major changes.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Language (Hebrew) most important.
Meaning (Seth son of Michael) most important.
His old name was registered in August of 2002 (via AEthelmearc).
This was submitted to kingdom as Shait ben Michael. The documentation provided by the submitter gives Michael as an English equivalent, rather than an alternate transliteration of the Hebrew. We have changed the patronym to be wholly transliterated Hebrew to avoid violating RfS III.1.a which disallows the combination of more than one language in a single name phrase.
Shait - A Biblical name appearing in the Book of Genesis 4:25. Stuhlman, Daniel D., Hebrew Names and Name Authority in Library Catalogs (Skokie, IL: Jewish University of America, 2004), which appears to be a dissertation in support of a Doctorate of Hebrew Literature, gives a table of Hebrew Biblical names with transliterations of the Hebrew as well as English forms. The name [tav][shin] is listed, transcribed as Shait, with the English equivalent listed as Seth.
Albion notes that the likely pronounciation of the given name may be viewed as scatalogical.
ben - Hebrew meaning "son of"
Mikha'el - A Biblical name appearing in the Book of Numbers 13:13. Stuhlman, Daniel D., Hebrew Names and Name Authority in Library Catalogs (Skokie, IL: Jewish University of America, 2004), which appears to be a dissertation in support of a Doctorate of Hebrew Literature, gives a table of Hebrew Biblical names with transliterations of the Hebrew as well as English forms. The name [lamed][aleph][khaf][yod][mem] is listed, transcribed as Mikha'el, with the English equivalent listed as Michael.
22: Sion ap Rhainallt - New Device
Per chevron azure and vert, an armoured arm embowed sustaining a spear fesswise argent.
His name was registered in February 2007 (via AEthelmearc)
23: Þorvaldr friðsamr - New Name & New Device
Per pale sable and Or, a sheaf of swords, the center inverted, counterchanged, a chief enarched counterchanged erminois and pean.
Submitter desires a male name.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Sound most important.
Þorvaldr - Geirr Bassi, p. 16, lists this as a masculine given name.
friðsamr - Byname derived from the weak form as shown in Geirr Bassi, p. 21, innfriðsami meaning "peaceful." An example of a weak form and a strong form pair of the same meaning is demonstrated in Geirr Bassi, p. 27, by inn skjálgi and skjálgr, both meaning "squinting."
The client will only accept changes to the byname (if necessary) and is adamant that the article inn NOT be interjected. Acceptable variants are friðbrota-maðr or frið-.
In support of a long, thin item counterchanged along the long axis, the submitter lists:
Siebmacher, p. 113, top row, the arms of Die Lautenschlager zu Wilmansberg show a per saltire fiend bearing two arrowns crossed in saltire, counterchanged along the long axis of each arrow.
Siebmacher, p. 79, bottom row, the arms of von Blacha show an arrow between two fleurs-de-lis on a per pale field with the arrow counterchanged along the long axis of the arrow.
Although only two examples of thin items counterchanged along the long axis were provided, given that the sword so counterchanged here is part of a larger sheaf, we defer to Wreath's judgement.
24: Ulfkell Dungalsson - New Name & New Device
Sable, a wolf's head erased contourney argent and a base barry argent and azure.
Submitter desires a male name.
No major changes.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Sound most important.
Ulfkell - Geirr Bassi, p. 15, lists Úlfkell as a masculine given name.
Dungalsson - Geirr Bassi, p. 9, lists Dungall as a masculine given name. Geirr Bassi, p. 17, specifies the genitive form of names ending in -ll as -ls+son.
Herald of record: Pennsic
25: Viðarr Hrafnsson - New Name & New Device
Argent, a raven displayed sable and on a chief azure, an increscent between two triskelions of legs argent.
Submitter desires a male name.
Authenticity NOT requested.
Language (Norse) most important.
Culture (Norse) most important.
Viðarr - Geirr Bassi, p. 16, counts two occurences of this masuline given name in the Landnámabók.
Hrafnsson - Geirr Bassi, p. 11, counts 17 occurences of the masculine given name Hrafn in the Landnámabók.
Geirr Bassi, p. 17, in the section on genetive endings, does not give -fn as a possible ending for a given name. Albion noted in her commentary that <Hrafn> has two genitives, <Hrafn> and <Hrafnar>, citing the following:
Ruulfr Rafnsson. Name change from Rohlfe Ravenson.Questions were raised as to the correct patronymic form of Hrafn; Zoega's Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic gives both Hrafns and Hrafnar as genitive forms of the word hrafn from which the name is derived. [LoAR November 2003]
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