1: Ælric Ravenshaw - New Household Name & New Badge
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in December of 1995, via the East.
House Silver Talon
Quarterly azure and argent, on a roundel sable a talon argent.
No changes.
Language (English) most important.
Culture (English) most important.
No documentation for the household name was provided. I find:
Meradudd Cethin, "Project Ordensnamen" [http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/order/] lists the pattern Colour + Thing among "frequently used patterns" (Construction patterns comprising up to 5% of the data set.)
Garnet asks, can someone with access to the OED get period usage data for "silver" and for "talon"?
The household members include this statement:
This household has been together since 1993. "They/We willcontinue to use said name and device regardless." HST members.
Although the expected term for the tertiary charge would be a "jambe", the submitter has blazoned it as a "talon" as a cant on the household name.
Herald of Record: Ælric Ravenshaw
2: Amy Davenport - New Name & New Device
Per pale Or and vert, a shamrock within a bordure embattled counterchanged.
Submitter desires a feminine name.
Sound most important.
Amy - Aryanhwy merch Catmael, "16th Century Gloucestershire Names" [http://heraldry.sca.org/names/english/late16.html], counts two occurences of the name in the data set, comprised of five marriage registers from Glouchestershire in the late 16th century.
Davenport - Reaney and Wilson, p. 127, s.n. Davenport, gives Richard de Daveneport in 1203 and Thomas Davenport in 1642.
Bardsley gives John Davenport in 1555.
Herald of Record: Kateryna ty Isaf
3: Ballachlagan, Shire of - New Branch Name & New Device
Or, a bridge throughout enarched sable between in chief two laurel wreaths proper and a base wavy barry wavy azure and argent.
No major changes.
Sound most important.
Language (something Irish-Gaelic) most important.
Meaning most important.
This is a kingdom-level resubmission.
The previous submission of Abhain ri Naimh and accompanying device Barry of eight sable and azure, a lanter[n] environed of a laurel wreath and a triquetra Or, were returned at Kingdom on Æthelmearc Letter of Report Æ111 dated May 31, 2008 with the following commentary:
The only documentation supplied for the group name was a list of translations of elements, which were found in an unspecified online English-Gaelic dictionary. No hard copy printouts of the website were provided. The first problem with the name is that it lacks a required designator "Shire of". Adding the designator would be a major change, which the submitters do not allow. As for the construction of the Gaelic, Members of the College found documentation for the Gaelic word river as abhainn. However, the College found no support for the word naimh at all. Online searches would seem to indicat[e] that the correct word for "bright" would be geal. The meaning of the preposition ri seems to be more at "towards, against, engaged at" rather than "of." Without sufficient documentation for the submitted construction, and without an appropriate group designator, this name must be returned.A device, Barry of eight sable and azure, a lanter environed of a laurel wreath and a triquetra Or, is returned firstly for lack of an accompanying name, and secondly for violation of RfS VIII.2.b.iv: "Elements evenly divided into multiple parts of two different tinctures must have good contrast between their parts."
Ballachlagan - James MacDonald, Place Names of West Aberdeenshire" (Aberdeen: The New Spalding Club, 1899) [Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=So8OAAAAYAAJ], p. 78, s.n. Ballachlaggan, dates the submitted spelling to 1564 and gives the meaning as "town of the skull or round-headed knoll" from the Gaelic Baile a' chlaiginn.
The submission form includes the original signatures of four officers: Senechal, Herald, Knight Marshal and Exchequer.
The device form does not include officer signatures. A request for a petition has been sent to the submitting herald.
Herald of Record: Ælric Ravenshaw
4: Cailin Ruadh mac Cainnich - New Name Change From Holding Name
Old Item: Cailin of Blackstone Mountain, to be
released.
Submitter desires a masculine name.
Language (Scottish) most important.
The submitter's previous submission of Cailin mac Cainnich was returned in December 2008 for conflict with Colin McKenna. Here, the descriptive byname Ruadh is added to clear the conflict.
Cailin - Sharon L. Krossa, "Scottish Gaelic Given Names: Names of Scottish Gaels from Scottish Gaelic Sources: Cailin," Draft Edition [http://www.medievalscotland.org/scotnames/gaelicgiven/men/cailin.shtml], under "Pre-1600 Scottish Gaelic Evidence (from documents written using Gaelic orthography)" gives the submitted form as the name of "a man in the 1st generation of the genealogy of Clann Cailin (and so theoretically should be nominative case)." Under "Pre-1600 Irish Gaelic Evidence", Krossa dates Cailin mac Gilla Espuic to 1529.
Black, p. 161, s.n. Colin, gives Cailin dated to 1467, and describes it as a variant of Cailean that is peculiar to a dialect of Gaelic prevalent in Menteith and Perthshire in the 13th century. It has no connection with the English and continental Colin (a diminutive of Nicholas).
Ruadh - Mari Elspeth nic Bryan, "Index of Names in Irish Annals: Descriptive Bynames: Ruadh" [http://www.medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/DescriptiveBynames/Ruadh.shtml] gives Ruadh as the normalized Early Modern Irish Gaelic (c1200-c1700) nominative form of this masculine descriptive byname meaning "Red" (probably refers to hair color) and counts 78 individuals of the name in the years 1039 through 1597.
mac - Sharon L. Krossa, "Quick and Easy Gaelic Names ", [http://www.medievalscotland.org/scotnames/quickgaelicbynames/#simplepatronymicbyname] gives this as the standard simple patronymic byname phrase meaning "son."
Cainnich - Sharon L. Krossa, "Scottish Gaelic Given Names: For Men: Names of Scottish Gaels from Scottish Gaelic Sources: Cainneach (Draft Edition)" [http://www.medievalscotland.org/scotnames/gaelicgiven/men/cainneach.shtml] gives this spelling as one of two normalized spellings of the genitive of Cainneach appropriate for the 14th-16th centuries.
Herald of Record: Alheydis von Körckhingen
5: Daniel O Rian the Fletcher - New Badge
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in June of 2001, via Æthelmearc.
Or, a fess couped gules and in chief to saltires couped sable.
Herald of Record: Ailis Linne
6: Finnr jafnkollr - Resub Device
OSCAR finds the name on the Æthelmearc LoI of February 25, 2008 as submitted.
Gules, in bend a merlin rising contourney sustaining as axe bendwise sinister reversed within a bordure Or.
The submitter's previous device submission Gules, in bend sinister a merlin rising sustaining an axe bendwise Or was returned by Laurel for conflict with the following comments:
This device is returned for conflict with a badge for the Barony of Highland Foorde, Gules, a lark rising, wings elevated and addorsed, sustaining in its beak an open scroll Or. There is a CD for changing the type of sustained charged, but nothing for the fact that it is sustained in the bird's feet rather than its mouth. A lark not having been shown to be a period charge, we must fall back on visual comparison. In this case, the main distinguishing characteristic, the beak, is obscured by the charge sustained in the lark's beak. Therefore, there is not a CD between the types of bird.This emblazon reverses the primary charge group to gain a second CD.
A subsequent resubmission, Gules, in bend a merlin rising contourny sustaining an axe bendwise sinister reversed Or was forwarded to Laurel on AEthelmearc External Letter of Intenet AE 116 on March 23, 2009 and was withdrawn by the submitter on April 2, 2009. This submission is intended to replace the withdrawn submission.
Herald of Record: Alheydis von Körckhingen
7: Raghnailt in Eich - New Name
Submitter desires a feminine name.
Client requests authenticity for 12th century Irish.
Language (Irish Gaelic) most important.
Meaning ("of the horse") most important.
This is a kingdom-level resubmission. The submitter's original submission of Ragnailt Marcuigham was pended at kingdom on Æthelmearc Letter of Report Æ115 February 24, 2009 and will be returned on the April Letter of Report.
Raghnailt - Mari Elspeth nic Bryan, "Index of Names in Irish Annals: Raghnailt" [http://www.medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Feminine/Ragnailt.shtml] gives Raghnailt as the normalized Early Modern Irish Gaelic (c1200-c1700) form and counts 11 individuals of the name in the years 1211-1473. The submitted spelling is found in the years: 1255, 1257, 1268, 1393, 1417, 1421 and 1473.
in Eich - Mari Elspeth nic Bryan, "Index of Names in Irish Annals: Descriptive Bynames: in Eich Gil " [http://www.medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/DescriptiveBynames/inEichGil.shtml] gives in Eich Gil as the normalized Middle Irish Gaelic (c900-c1200) nominative and genitive form of this masculine descriptive byname meaning "[of] the White Horse" and counts one individual of the name in the years 1014, 1023, 1030, 1036, 1067, 1097, 1118. The submitter wants to omit the color and desires the meaning "of the horse".
Herald of Record: Alheydis von Körckhingen
8: Remus Fletcher - New Badge
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in August of 1990, via the East.
Or, a chevron gules and in chief two hurts.
Herald of Record: Ailis Linne