1: Æthelmearc, Kingdom of - New Badge
(Fieldless) On a barrel palewise proper, an escarbuncle argent.
This submission is to be associated with Æthelmearc
Brewers Guild
The branch name was registered in January of 1998 (via AEthelmearc).
2: Caitríona Fhíal inghean Uí Chonaill - New Name & New Device
Per bend azure and vert, in bend sinister a domestic cat sejant argent and a dragon rampant contourney Or.
Submitter desires a feminine name.
No major changes.
Language (Irish) most important.
Culture (Irish) most important.
Catríona - Mari Elspeth nic Bryan (Kathleen M. O'Brien), "Index of Names in Irish Annals: Caitríona," [http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/mari/AnnalsIndex/Feminine/Caiterina.shtm l] gives the submitted spelling as the standard Early Modern Irish Gaelic (c1200-c1700) form of this feminine given name, borne by 15 women dated between 1360 and 1607. The submitted spelling is dated to 1493 in the Raw Data, in the name Caitríona inghen Aodha Ruaidh Még Mathghamhna.
Fhíal - Mari Elspeth nic Bryan, "Index of Names in Irish Annals: Descriptive Bynames: Fíal" [http://www.medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/DescriptiveBynames/Fial.shtm l] gives Fíal as the normalized Middle Irish Gaelic (c900-c1200) nominative form of this masculine descriptive byname dated to 970 and 1013. The two entries cited in the raw data omit the accent over the i. Here, the -h- is added for lenition for a proposed feminine form. Krossa's "The Spelling of Lenited Consonants in Gaelic" [http://www.medievalscotland.org/scotlang/lenition.shtm l] shows the post-1200 lenition for <f> as <fh> or <f.> (the latter being also the pre-1200 form) with a note saying:
A common modern editorial convention is simply to use an <h> after a letter even when the original manuscript used a punctum delens over the letter. For example, to use <fh> rather than <f.> and <sh> rather than <s.> to represent the punctum delens over <f> and <s>.
Malcolm MacFarlane, Faclair Gàidhlig - Beurla: Gaelic - English Dictionary (Eneas MacKay: Stirling, 1912) [http://www.clanmacrae.org/documents/gaelic.ht m] under the heading "F" [http://www.clanmacrae.org/documents/gaelic-f.ht m] gives fial as a Modern Gaelic word meaning "generous, liberal, bounteous." The spelling remains unchanged from the documentary forms cited in the Four Annals article. Thus, we propose that the spelling and meaning of this word remained the same throughout the Early Modern Gaelic period.
inghean Uí - Sharon L. Krossa, "Quick and Easy Gaelic Names ", [http://www.medievalscotland.org/scotnames/quickgaelicbynames /] gives this as the standard clan affiliation byname phrase meaning "daughter of a male descendant"
Chonaill - Mari Elspeth nic Bryan (Kathleen M. O'Brien), "Index of Names in Irish Annals: Conall," [http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/mari/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/Conall.shtm l] gives Conaill as the Old Irish Gaelic, Middle Irish Gaelic and Early Modern Gaelic genitive form of the masculine given name Conall, borne by 45 men dated between 565 and 1599. The spelling Conall appears in the raw data throughout the period represented. Here the -h- is added for lenition following the feminine given name. 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>.