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.
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.)
Silver - The use of silver as a color can be found in The Compact OED [p. 2826, sn Silver] (definition 6, given as "a silvery colour or lustre". Its use for this definition is dated to 1481, citing Caxton's Reynard xxxii , (Arb.) 85:
Wherin stode somme strange hystoryes whiche were of gold, of sable, of siluer.
It is also dated to 1592, cited in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, II. ii. 108:
By yonder Moone I vow, That tips with siluer all these Fruite tree tops.
The submitted spelling (with the meaning of wealth or money) is dated to c. 1340 [ibid.] citing HAMPOLE Pr. Consc. 4434:
He sal gyf þam..Of gold and silver gret plente.
and (in the meaning of the metallic thread used for embroidery oe cloth of silver) to 1423 [ibid.], in the Rolls of Parl. IV, 255/1:
Brauderie..wrought with Gold or Silver of Cipre.
Talon - Talon is found in The Compact OED [p. 3230, sn Talon]; definition 2 says:
2. pl. The claws (or less usually in sing. any claw) of a bird or beast. a. spec. The powerful claws of a bird of prey, or of a dragon, griffin, etc.
The closest spelling for this (plural) meaning is taloun and dates to roughly 1400 in Maundev (1839) xxvi. 269:
[The griffon] hath his talouns so longe and so grete as þough þei weren hornes of grete oxen,
The submitted spelling (in the plural form) is dated to 1486 as an earlier (but obsolete) definition, that of the "hallux or hinder claw of a bird"; the citation is the Bk. St. Albans v. viij:
The grete Clees [of a hawk] behynde..ye shall call hom Talons.</blcokquote>
Although the expected term for the tertiary charge would be a "jambe a la guise", the submitter has blazoned it as a "talon" as a cant on the household name. We defer to Wreath as to whether this is an appropriate use of the term "talon" or whether "(eagle's) jambe a la guise" is preferred.
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.
We note the armory of Bele Anna de Rugé (registered September 2004 Calontir), Per pale Or and vert, a fleur-de-lys within a bordure embattled counterchanged. We find precedent to be silent as to whether a fleur-de-lys is substantially different from a shamrock. We defer to the College's research and Wreath's judgement on the matter.
3: Ballachlagan, Shire of - New Branch Name & New Device
Or, a bridge enarched throughout between in chief two laurel wreaths sable and a ford proper.
No major changes.
Sound most important.
Language (something Irish-Gaelic) most important.
Meaning most important.
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.
A petition of support for the device is included, signed by five officers.
Please note that the petition blazoned the laurel wreaths "proper". This was an error by Garnet Herald, who prepared the document. The emblazon on the petition matches that of the submission forms, on which the laurel wreaths are dark gray and sable. The word "proper" has been struck and replaced with "sable" with permission of the group's Herald, speaking on behalf of the officers.
4: Cailin Ruadh mac Cainnich - New Name Change From Holding Name
OSCAR NOTE: 'Old Item' should contain the former primary name. The form that is there is not a registered 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. According to Black, Cailin 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.
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 two saltorels sable.
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 contourny sustaining an 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.
7: Raghnailt in Eich - New Name
Submitter desires a feminine name.
Client requests authenticity for 12th century Irish.
Language (Irish Gaelic) most important.
Meaning most important.
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.
an 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". We ask for the assistance of the college in researching the plausibility of the byname as submitted.
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.