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Letter of Intent #112 Myfanwy ferch Rhiannon
Feast of St. Bernard of Montjoux
28 May, AS XLIV
Greetings from Myfanwy!
Herein pray find commentary on Æ LoI #112. The armory has been
conflict-checked through the December LoAR.
I had planned to get it out sooner, but life intruded. Additionally,
I kept hoping that the January 2007 LoAR would be out, but it didn’t
get posted.
I remain your servant and the Society’s.
Lady Myfanwy ferch Rhiannon
Ruth Morrisson
myfanwy@nauticom.net
1. Æthelmearc, Kingdom of (badge resub) -- (Fieldless) On a
barrel
palewise proper an escarbuncle argent.
clear of: Marian of Edwinstowe (badge, 4/89 East) -- (Fieldless) A
barrel palewise pierced to sinister by three arrows fesswise in pale
sable, fletched vert.
There is a CD for fieldless vs. fieldless, and one for the addition of
the tertiary. Note that there may not be a CD for tincture, and there
may not be one for the arrows (which may be effectively maintained
charges).
2. Caitríona Fhíal inghean Uí Chonaill -- Per bend
azure and vert, in
bend sinister a domestic cat sejant argent and a dragon rampant
contourney [sic] Or.
The docs for the given name are as cited; the submitted spelling is
dated to 1493 in the Raw Data, in the name <Caitríona
inghen Aodha Ruaidh Még Mathghamhna
(ben-sidhe Uí Raghallaigh, .i. [sic]
Toirrdhealbhaigh mic Seain mic Eoghain)>.
The docs for the descriptive byname are as cited. Information on how
the lenited form was omitted. Krossa’s “The Spelling of Lenited
Consonants in Gaelic”
[http://www.medievalscotland.org/scotlang/lenition.shtml] shows the AD
1200 and later lenition for <f> as <fh> or <f.>; the
latter is
also the pre-1200 form, with a note saying:
7 A common modern editorial convention is
simply to use an <h>
[sic] after a letter even when the original manuscript used a
punctum delens [sic] over the letter. For example, to use
<fh> [sic] rather than <f.>
and <sh> [sic] rather than <s.> [sic] to represent the
punctum delens [sic]
over <f> [sic]and <s> [sic].
The documentation for the patronymic designator is as cited.
The documentation for the the patronymic is also as cited; the
genitive form is found dated to 1637, for <Máel mc. Oengussa
m.
Conaill m. Subne>, but is also found in early records (apparently as
a
nominative form) as well: the name <Conaill meicc Comgaill> is
dated
to 574, while <Conaill Chon maic Aedha> is dated to 604. The
formation of the lenited form can be found in Krossa’s “The Spelling
of Lenited Consonants in Gaelic” [op. cit.] as both the pre-1200 and
post-1200 lenition for <c>; the spelling can also be found in
O’Brien’s Raw Data (again, as an apparently early-period nominative
form), in the name <Chonaill Chuu m. Aedha m. Ainmirech>, dated
to
604.
Has the submitter requested authenticity?
For relatively simple armory, this still has a complexity count of six!
no conflicts found
Bibliography:
http://oanda.sca.org
http://www.sca.org/heraldry/loar
other URLs as cited