1: Æthelmearc, Kingdom of - New Heraldic Title
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in January of 1998, via Æthelmearc.
Nesselblatt Herald
Client requests authenticity for Middle-High German, 13th
14th centuries.
This title is meant to follow the pattern of Heraldic Titles taken from heraldic charges.
Nesselblatt - Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme & Akagawa Yoshio, A Pictorial Dictionary of Heraldry, s.v. Nesselblatt, state, "A nesselblatt is a highly stylized nettle leaf; it is found in German heraldry, c. 1350, in the arms of the Counts von Holstein.
German Wikipedia, s.v. Nesselblatt [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesselblatt] states in part:
Das Nesselblatt ist in der Heraldik die stilisierte Darstellung eines Blatts der Brennnessel…Das gezackte Blatt wird allerdings erstmals um 1420 von König Erich von Dänemark als Nesselblatt bezeichnet.
[Translation: The Nesselblatt is, in heraldry, a stylized representation of a leaf of the stinging nettle...The jagged leaf is first c. 1420 under King Erich of Denmark described as Nesselblatt.]
2: Æthelmearc, Kingdom of - New Heraldic Title
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in January of 1998, via Æthelmearc.
Tabor Herald
Language (English) most important.
This is meant to model heraldic titles taken from heraldic charges. The spelling tabor is preferred.
Tabor - OED, 1933 edition, vol. XI, p. 13, s.v. Tabor, tabour, gives the primary meaning as: The earlier name of the drum; in later use (esp. since the introduction of the name drum in the 16th c.), A small kind of drum, used chiefly as an accompaniment to the pipe or trumpet; a taborin or tabret. Dated usages include: 1290: "Of bellene ande of tabours so gret was þe soun"; 1297: "Of trompes & of tabors þe sarazins made þere So gret noyse"; c. 1460 "Ther was myche menstralse, Trommpus, tabours, and sawtre"; 1523: "Than the kyng mounted on his horse, and entred into the towne with trumpets, tabours"; 1610: "Then I beate my Tabor, At which like vnback't colts they prickt their eares." The spelling tabor is preferred.
In support of the tabor as a period charge, precedent states:
Fortunately, the instrument is indistinguishable from a tambour or tabor, which can be documented at least to Tudor times. Indeed, O Súilleabháin notes that the bodhrán is called a tambourine in Kerry, and its player a tambourine tipper. We have no qualms, then, in using a more readily accessible and provably period term for the charge in chief. [Cynthia Mairin of the Wilde Wode, LoAR, June, 1993, Per bend vert and argent, a tambour argent, framed of wood, and a wooden drop spindle proper threaded vert.]
3: Æthelmearc, Kingdom of - New Heraldic Title
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in January of 1998, via Æthelmearc.
White Conye Herald
Language (English) most important.
This is meant to model heraldic titles taken from heraldic charges.
Conye - Conye - The OED, Vol. II, p. 955, s.v. Cony gives the following meanings: 1. A rabbit: formerly the proper and ordinary name, but now superseded in general use by rabbit, which was originally a name for the young only…; c. It is also the name in Heraldry. In meaning 1, the submitted spelling is dated to 1440. The plural conyes is dated to 1381. In heraldic use, dated usages are given as: c. 1610: …three Argent, three Conies, Sable; 1641: 3 Conies current argent.
Parker, s.v. Hare states:
Hare: the Hare (fr. lièvre). as also the rabbit (fr. lapin), always blazoned coney (and in one case the leveret), are not infrequent in coats of arms, but, so far as has been observed, there are no rules followed as to distinct drawing of these varieties.
and lists: Argent, on a fesse nebuly sable three hare's heads couped or--HAREWELL, Bp. of Bath and Wells, 1366-86.
White - White - The Corpus and Middle English Prose and Verse, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/] cites Three Kings of Cologne : an early English translation of the "Historia Trium Regum", Joannes, of Hildesheim, d. 1375. (Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus Reprint, 1988) and counts four occurrences of the submitted spelling in Middle English context.
4: Ariella of Thornbury - New Badge
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in January of 2000, via Æthelmearc.
Argent, in pale two hearts gules winged Or.
We find this to be close to but clear of Jeene MacDoughal (1/96 Atlantia) -- Gules, in pale two winged hearts Or. There is one difference for field tincture and a second for changing the tincture of half the charges.
5: Cainder ingen Chonchobair - New Device
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in March of 2009, via Æthelmearc.
Gules, on a shamrock argent a thistle proper.
6: Desiderata Drake - Resub Device
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in January of 2007, via Æthelmearc.
Azure, in a pale a duck's head and two rapiers in saltire, on a chief wavy argent, three hearts gules.
Her previous device submission, Azure, in pale a duck's head and two swords in saltire, on a chief wavy argent three hearts gules enflamed proper, was returned by Laurel in July, 2009, for problems issuing from the enflaming of the hearts. This problem has been solved by removing the flames. No conflicts were noted at that time.
7: Duncan von Halstern - New Badge
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in November of 2006, via Æthelmearc.
Per pale purpure and sable, a lion rampant and a bordure argent
This is close to but clear of: Gaston de Barre (11/06 Æthelmearc) -- Per pale gules and sable, a tyger rampant within a bordure argent. We see one difference for the change of the field tincture and another difference for the change of tyger to lion.
8: Edward Harbinger - New Household Name & New Badge
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in November of 2005, via Æthelmearc.
House of the Woolf and Thymble
[Fieldless] A wolf's head sable sustaining in its mouth a thimble argent
Language (English) most important.
Follows the pattern of inn names as suggested for household names in RfS III.2.b.iv.
Mari Elspeth nic Bryan, "English Sign Names" [http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/mari/inn/] lists both "Things" and "Animals" as forms seen in sign names and dates the pattern <animal>+<thing> to James I (Bear and Harrow).
House - The Corpus and Middle English Prose and Verse, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/] cites Three Kings of Cologne : an early English translation of the "Historia Trium Regum", Joannes, of Hildesheim, d. 1375. (Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus Reprint, 1988) and counts seven occurrences of the submitted spelling house in Middle English context.
Woolf - The Corpus and Middle English Prose and Verse, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/] cites The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books, Wycliffe, John, d. 1384., Forshall, Josiah, 1795-1863., Madden, Frederic, 1801-1873. (Oxford: University press, 1850.) which transcribes Wycliffe's annotation to I John 3:5 in part, "if a woolf entrith the floc to corumpe it in feith and vertues"
Thymble The OED, 1933 ed., Vol. XI, p. 305,s.v. Thimble, dates the submitted spelling to c. 1440 with the meaning, "A bell shaped sheath of metal (formerly of leather) worn on the end of the finger to push the needle in sewing."
This is close to, but clear of Leidhrun Leidolfsdottir (9/92, Ansteorra): Per fess paly azure and argent and argent, in base a wolf's head couped sable. We have the zen cd for fieldlessness. Further, we feel that the thimble is large enough to be treated as a sustained secondary charge, as opposed to being treated a maintained charge (and thus not be counted for difference). As per the September, 2008, cover letter, a sustained secondary charge can be counted as a cd. This was confirmed in the May, 2009, cover letter. Further, it is clear of Julianna Peri de Novellara (2/99 Middle) -- (Fieldless) A thimble argent, by the same count by adding the wolf's head.
9: Elss von Augsburg - New Name & New Device
Per pale gules and Or, in fess two fleurs-de-lys counterchanged.
Submitter desires a feminine name.
No major changes.
Language (German) most important.
Elss - Aryanhwy merch Catmael (Sara L. Uckelman), "Women's Surnames in 15th- and 16th-Century Germany" [http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/german/womenssurnames.html] dates Elß Lonnyn to Baden-Württemberg in 1495. The letter ß is a ligatur of two letters s.
von - German preposition meaning "from" or "of"
Augsburg - Aryanhwy merch Catmael (Sara L. Uckelman), "German Place Names from a 16th C Czech Register: Modern to medieval index" [http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/german/modernperiod.html] lists Augsburg as the modern form with Augspurg as the corresponding North Bavarian dialectic spelling. The same source lists Koburg, Presburg and Wurtzburg as 16th c. spellings of placenames for which the modern spelling also ends with -burg.
Siebmacher, fol. 10 lists Avgspvrg in the upper corner.
We note that the fleurs-de-lys are higher than might be expected from the blazon. We feel that this is an artistic matter that can be handled by instructing the submitter to draw them larger and longer to fill the space.
10: Giovanna Elisabetta Cellini - Resub Device
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in July of 2008, via Æthelmearc.
Purpure, on a pile throughout between two lions Or, a cross bottony purpure
Her original device submission, Purpure, four bendlets enhanced and in bend two lions Or, was returned by Laurel in July, 2008, for conflict with the device of Cynan Gould, Quarterly azure and argent, in bend two lions rampant Or. The resubmission is completely redesigned.
Correction (2010-Feb-23 15:02:12): The blazon should be Purpure, on a pile throughout between two lions combattant Or, a cross bottony purpure.
11: Ian of the Debatable Lands - New Name & New Device
Per pale azure and Or, a duck naiant counterchanged.
Submitter desires a masculine name.
Meaning most important.
Ian - This is the submitter's legal given name. A copy of the submitter's birth certificate, issued by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is included.
Debatable Lands - SCA Branch Name, Debatable Lands, Barony-Marche of the, was registered in December of 1975.
We believe that this is clear of Edmund de la Haye (badge, 8.96 An Tir) -- Per pale azure and Or, a crane in his vigilance counterchanged collared and chained gules. There is a substantial difference for the type of bird per Francois's precedents:
Birds in different categories are given substantial difference from each other as long as they meet the general requirements for substantial difference listed above. Thus, a correctly drawn dunghill cock (close), in the "poultry-shaped" bird category, is substantially different from a "crane-shaped" heron (close), a "swan-shaped" swan close, or a "regular-shaped" martlet (close).
Both birds are in a standard posture and their types are different ("swan-shaped" vs "crane shaped"). Thus we feel that they are clear per RfS X.2.
12: Myskia Náttfara - New Name
Submitter desires a feminine name.
Language (Norse) most important.
Myskia - Lena Peterson, Nordiskt runnamnslexicon, s.n. Myskia, lists three occurrences of the name, two dated to the Viking Age (transcribed: nominative muskia and genitive musku) and one dated to 1010-1050 (transcribed: nominative mus:kia). The submitter prefers the submitted (header) form.
Náttfari - Lena Peterson, Nordiskt runnamnslexicon, s.n. Náttfari, counts one occurrence of the name dated 1020-1050 used in a nominative setting, apparently as a given name (transcribed: natfari). However, the name itself is descriptive in nature. The meaning given is translated as "someone who goes out at night", perhaps with supernatural associations. In the sagas, it is not uncommon to find persons referred to solely by their descriptive bynames, so we proposed that it is possible that náttfari is a descriptive byname used alone in this cited inscription. If this is plausible, then the submitter prefers to register Náttfara as the feminine form, but will accept, if neccessary for registration, the patronym Náttfaradóttir.
Náttfara - Geirr Bassi, p. 19, states that the feminine form of a masculine weak adjectives are formed by changing the ending -i to -a.
Náttfaradóttir - Geirr Bassi, p. 17, states that the genitive case of names ending with -i is formed by changing the ending -i to -a The patronymic suffix -dóttir is then added to the genitive case stem.
Although some concerns were raised that the name may violate RFS IV.2 which prohibits name claiming or implying magical powers, we do not find that here. The byname simply means "One who walks at night." In support, Zoega, A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, p. 810, cites various Old Icelandic words stemming from nátt, including náttfar, "travelling by night"; fara dagfari ok náttfari, "to travel by day and night"; and náttfarar, "night wanderings".
13: Riversedge, Shire of - New Device
OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in February of 2004, via Æthelmearc.
Or, on a bend wavy cotised azure a laurel wreath palewise Or.
The group's senechal has provided a signed petition documenting unanimous support of the officer's and majority support of the populace as required by the Administrative Handbook section IV.C.5.
We feel this is close to but clear of Katharine de la Vache (3/06 Atlantia) -- Or, on a bend wavy azure a sun in splendor palewise Or. There is a CD for adding the secondaries; since these are both simple armory, there is one for changing only the type of tertiary, by X.4.j.2.
14: Violante de Luna - New Name & New Device
Azure, three crescents inverted argent.
Submitter desires a feminine name.
No major changes.
Sound most important.
Violante - Juliana de Luna (Julia Smith), "Spanish Names from the Late 15th Century: Women's Names in Alphabetical Order" [http://heraldry.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/isabella/WomensGivenAlpha.html] lists five occurrences of this form in the data set of 456 women.
de Luna - Juliana de Luna (Julia Smith), "Spanish Names from the Late 15th Century: Names from the Account Books of Isabel la Catolica (1477-1504, mostly 1483-1504) Locative Surnames" [http://heraldry.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/isabella/locative.html] lists de Luna.
This is close to but clear of Rosalind bint Mihrimah (12/06 Gleann Abhann) -- Azure, three crescents in pall, horns to center Or. One difference for tincture of the crescents; a second for orientation of the crescents.
Also close to but clear of Gro Torstensdotter (6/04 Drachenwald) -- Gules, three crescents argent; Lamorak of Dunsinane (4/02 Middle) -- Per chevron sable and purpure, three decrescents argent; and Sylvana Ballaster (9/02 via Atlantia) -- Per fess rayonny gules and sable, three decrescents argent. Against each, one difference for field tincture; a second for orientation to the crescents.