Comments on ILoI #AE125 from Myfanwy ferch Rhiannon

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Letter of Intent #125
Myfanwy ferch Rhiannon

Feast of St. Richard of Chichester
also Holy Saturday
3 April AS XLIV

Greetings from Myfanwy!
Attached pray find part 1 commentary on Æ #125. Given what the past month has been like, there was no possible way to get commentary done any earlier: I lost over two weeks due to Gulf Wars and the prep for it, and then was sick for another week after I got home (I expected to only have time to do conflict checking in the LoARS, but discovered that everything up through December ‘09 had already been interfiled into the online O&A -- which made things both easier and harder....). Some of the conflict-checking was a little, um, rushed -- I may have skimmed over some categories more than I should have, so I don’t promise to be 100% accurate.   :-(
I remain your servant and the Society’s.
Lady Myfanwy ferch Rhiannon
Ruth Morrisson

     1. Æthelmearc, Kingdom of (new badge for the Kingdom MoL) -- (Fieldless) On an open scroll gules, two quill pens in saltire argent.
Artist’s note: This is the default orientation for an open scroll (I checked before drawing it). Additionally, according to the PIC-DIC, there is no blazonable difference between having the rods or not.
By Precedent, there is a CD between a book and a scroll; this is from Elizabeth’s tenure as Laurel:
            [Sable, on an open scroll argent a stag's attire palewise gules.] [sic] This
            is clear of the College of Saint Bartholomew's badge, Sable, on an open book
            argent, a bee sable, banded Or. [sic] There is a CD between a scroll and a book.
            The changes to the tertiary charge provides the second CD. [Ymanya Murray,
            09/05, A-Outlands] [sic]
      clear of: Æthelmearc, Kingdom of (badge, 2/00 Æthelmearc) -- Argent, on an open scroll gules an “Æ” Or.
There is a CD for fieldless vs. fieldless, and one for cumulative changes to the tertiary charge group.

      2. Amalie Jäger von Holstein -- Argent, a horse rampant and on a chief rayonny enarched purpure, two bears sejant erect reguardant argent.
I don’t have Brechenmacher; all the other name docs are as cited. However, I question the grammar, especially given the cited documentation for the feminized form <Holsteinin>. I’m just not completely certain whether or the name should be <Jägerin von Holstein>.
The bears are not reguardant (i.e., looking back over their shoulders). They *are* respectant, in that they are facing each other but not rampant (even though there is not a posture difference between rampant and sejant erect for purposes of conflict-checking). I presume that this is just a rookie blazon mistake.
I checked to see if there would be an issue with the complex line on the enarched chief.
There is a Precedent from François’ first tenure that addresses this:
            [a chief enarched and invected] [sic] To quote from the LoAR of June 1997,
            "While it is true that lines could be enarched and also embattled, engrailed,
            et cetera, the enarching was basically to show the curvature of the shield".
            Enarched lines are an exception to the general practice of disallowing the
            combination of two different complex lines of partition into one line of
            partition, so this enarched and invected chief may be accepted. [Justinian
            the Gentle, 05/2002, A-Outlands] [sic]
Reblazon: Argent, a horse rampant and on a chief rayonny enarched purpure, two bears sejant respectant argent.
      clear of: Alexander Mieszkowicz (12/95 East) -- Or, a horse rampant and on a chief rayonny purpure a plate.
There is a CD for changing the field tincture and one for cumulative changes to the tertiaries on the chief.
      clear of: Caitriona ni Dhubhghaill (9/95 Middle) -- Argent, a demi-horse rampant sable, on a chief wavy purpure, three triskelions pommety Or.
There is a CD for changing the tincture of the horse, and one for cumulative changes to the tertiary charges. There may also be one for complete vs. demi-beasts, but I was unable to find a specific Precedent ruling.

      3. Boi Quickfoot (device resub) -- Argent, in pale two rapiers inverted in saltire and a lion rampant, a bordure sable platy.
This may need a bit of blazon foo -- as currently blazoned I’m worried that the lion and rapiers should also have the semy.
Complexity of 6 (two tinctures and four types of charges).
Possible reblazon: Argent, in pale two rapiers inverted in saltire and a lion rampant sable, a bordure sable platy.
      clear of: Marria Theresa LeCalm (3/87 East) -- Or, in pale two swords in saltire and a catamount sejant guardant to sinister, all within a bordure sable.
There are CDs for the change of field tincture, changes to the charges (orientation and posture) and addition of the tertiary charges.
      clear of: Lewina of Sussex (1/92 Middle) -- Argent, two domestic cats passant addorsed sable within a bordure sable semy of martlets argent.
There is a change for the type of half the primary charge group, and one for arrangement. There is, however, only change of type of the tertiaries: while Lewina’s armory is simple, the new submission is not.
      clear of: Richard, Earl of Cornwall (important non-SCA arms, 12/94 Laurel) -- Argent, a lion rampant gules crowned Or within a bordure sable bezanty.
There is a CD for changing the tincture of the lion, and one for adding the co-primaries; however, there is only change of tincture of the tertiaries.
      probably clear of: Sean Edward de Marksberry (6/05 Middle) -- Argent, a dagger and an axe in saltire, a bordure sable semy of lightning bolts argent.
There is a CD for changing half the type of the primary charge group, and one for adding the co-primary; but there is only change of type of tertiary (and neither pieces of armory are simple).

      4. Brada Æthelward (name resub)
The docs for the given name are as cited. Given the provided documentation, the byname seems to be a reasonable spelling variant.
The cite from “Period Name Construction” is quoted from his original submission, on Æ #115, but the original work does not appear to be online.

      5. Folan Wayfarer (badge resub) -- Per chevron inverted azure and gules, an increscent, a decrescent and a wolf ululant argent.
This was apparently blazoned as in the original submission, but it is *not* per “chevron inverted” -- it’s “per chevron” (there was a bit of discussion with Garnet during the redraw process of what the submitter really wants -- or *thinks* he wants). The posture of the wolf needs to be blazoned as well -- “ululant” would only refer to the head position, not the entire posture.
I do worry a bit about the redrawing. It solved the reason for the initial return, but may introduce another -- that of slot machine heraldry (I’m not sure whether the increscent and decrescent would be considered as one type of charge or two.
Reblazon: Per chevron azure and gules, an increscent, a decrescent and a wolf sejant ululant argent.
      clear of: Eoghann MacAindreis (9/03 Lochac) -- Per chevron sable and vert, two crescents and a wolf rampant argent.
      clear of: Slobadan Sretenov Ivanisevic (3/78 ??) -- Sable, a wolf salient to sinister, in dexter chief a mullet of twelve points, in sinister chief a decrescent argent.
      clear of: Dregel Alewulf (10/92 West) -- Per chevron gules and sable, two drinking horns and a wolf sejant to sinister argent.
      clear of: {Th}óra Sværradóttir (2/03 Atenveldt) -- Per chevron azure and purpure, two Thor’s hammers and a wolf sejant ululant argent.
      clear of: Alfric gyl{dh}ir (8/02 Meridies) -- Per pale sable and azure, a wolf sejant ululant and in chief a crescent pendant argent.
      clear of: Thorarin of the Desert (11/90 Caid) -- Sable, a coyote sejant ululant to sinister, and in chief an increscent between two mullets of six points argent.
clear of: Takaishi no Hida Saburou Yoshimori (3/09 Atlantia) -- Per bend sinister sable and gules, a winged enfield rampant and in canton a decrescent argent.
In each case there is a CD for changes to the field, and at least one for cumulative changes to the charge group
      clear of: William Gregor Grant (2/90 Ansteorra) -- Per chevron embattled azure and gules, in sinister chief a crescent argent.
There is a CD for removing the complex line on the field and at least one for type and number of charges.

      6. Gaius Sergius Vettius (device resub) -- ??
Wow. Paperwork foo. Obviously the blazon goes with the next numbered item....
IIRC from the redraw paperwork, this is actually “Per pale gules and argent, three fishhooks and in chief a lucy naiant counterchanged.
      no conflicts found

      7. Hauoc the Wild -- Per chevron gules and sable, an eagle displayed erminois within a bordure embattled Or.
The ermine spots should probably be fewer and larger, but this probably just needs an artist’s note.
      clear of: Gerhard von Regensburg (5/94 Caid) -- Per chevron inverted gules and sable, an eagle displayed within a dovetailed Or.
There is a CD for changing the field division (i.e., from “per chevron inverted” to “per chevron” and one for the tincture of the eagle; there is nothing, however, for changing the line of division on the bordure from dovetailed to embattled.

      8. Huon Damebrigge (new name change and device change) -- Per saltire Or and vert, on a pale cotised sable a crescent and overall an owl rising wings displayed and inverted argent.
IIRC, the complexity count is 7 (four tinctures, three types of charges).
Possible reblazon: Per saltire Or and vert, on a pale endorsed sable a crescent and overall an owl rising wings displayed and inverted argent.
The docs for the given name are as cited. However, the submitter has asked for authenticity (has he checked the magic authenticity box?) for 13th-14th century England and this is a 16th century Breton name.
The website British History Online [URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/search.
aspx?query=Huon] gives two instances of the name. One is a byname: <Sir Thomas Tyrell of Huon [sic]> (ca. early to mid 1500s); the other is for an apparent character in Arthurian romance, given the context, which seems to be from Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 14 Part 1, dated to February 1539:
            Englishmen have forsaken Satan, his satellites and all works of darkness
            and dedicated themselves to Christ's words and faith, and to the works
            of light. .... They have now in every church and place, almost every man,
            the Bible and New Testament in their mother tongue, instead of the old
            fabulous and fantastical books of the Table Round, Launcelot du Lake,
            Huon de Bourdeaux, Beves of Hampton, Guy of Warwyk, the Quatre
            Filz Aymon, Calisto et Melibee, and such other whose impure filth and
            vain fabulosity the light of God hath abolished there utterly.
Withycombe [p. 157, sn Hugh] says:
            The French forms of the name were Hugues [sic] and Hugon [sic] in the
            north, Hue [sic] and Huon [sic] in the south (cf. Ives [sic] and Ivon [sic],
            Guy [sic] and Guyon [sic], the medieval cas-sujet and cas[regime [sic]).
Morlet [p. 522, sn Hue] calls <Huon> as an ”anc. cas rég.” of <Hue/Hugues>, and gives it and <Hugon> as “formes méridion”; Morlet goes one to say:
            -- [de Huon] [sic], breton Huo- [sic] nic, Huonnic [sic]
but does not give a dated citation for that form. I have found no other evidence for the name in either an English or French context, and none for the time period the submitter desires. That being said, the combination of English with French is acceptable [URL: http://www.ellipsis.cx/%7Eliana/sca/weirdness_table.html] (although I’m not sure how different Breton is from French).
      no conflicts found

      9. Huon Damebrigge (badge change) -- (Fieldless) On the bowl of a spoon inverted argent a blackletter miniscule h sable.
The inverted orientation is as blazoned; according to the PIC-DIC [sn Spoon], the default is with the bowl to chief (I wanted to double-check, because I drew the original submission for the badge that is now being released).
      clear of: Fiametta Margherita del Sanguigno (badge, 9/09 West) -- (Fieldless) A spoon argent and a snake Or entwined.
There is a CD for fieldless vs. fieldless and one for removing the co-primary; there may also be one for adding the tertiary charge.

      10. Isabel de Fleur -- Azure, on a pile argent a fleur-de-lis azure.
The docs for both name elements are as cited. I’m not sure however, whether the byname needs to be feminized.
Nice armory.
      clear of: Niam inghean Dhuibhshithe (12/97 Meridies) -- Azure, a pile between two crosses crosslet argent.
There is a CD for removing the secondaries and one for adding the tertiary.
      clear of: Roland de Trevieres (9/83 West) -- Checky Or and vert, a pile throughout surmounted by a fleur-de-lys sable.
There is a CD for changing the field and one for the tincture of the fleur-de-lys. There may be one for the fleur-de-lys being an overall charge; this might warrant a visual inspection.
      clear of: Roxana Greenlefe (5/07 Lochac) -- Azure estencely Or, on a pile throughout argent a fig leaf vert.
There is a CD for removing the estencely, and one for cumulative changes to the tertiary charge.
      clear of: Jaromir Mikhailovich (1/06 Middle) -- Azure, on a pile Or a sun gules.
There is a CD for the tincture of the pile, and one for cumulative changes to the tertiary charge.
      clear of: Caelin on Andrede (1/99 Ansteorra) -- Azure, on a pile argent three cinquefoils azure, a bordure ermine.
There is a CD for removing the peripheral charge, and one for cumulative changes to the tertiary charge.
      possibly clear of: Deotrich Hilipard (11/06 Calontir) -- Azure, on a pile throughout between two Continental panthers combatant argent, Latin cross azure.
There is a CD for removing the secondary charges; there is only change of type of tertiary charge, but this may be a case of X.4.2.j because this is simple armory.
      clear of: Isabeau dela Couste (5/01 Ansteorra) -- Per chevron inverted argent and azure, a heart gules and a fleur-de-lys argent.
There is a CD for removing one of the co-primaries, and one for changing the tincture of the fleur-de-lys.

      11. Padraig na Féasóige Ua Céileachair (name resub)
The online docs for the form <Padraicc> appear to be as cited, but I don’t know whether the assertion for the meaning of <comarba> is accurate.
The docs for <Pádraigín/Máel Pátraic> appear to be as cited. The OC&M and Black docs are as cited.
The docs for the descriptive byname are not quite as cited: the (only) form in the raw data is <Maol Ruanaidh na Fésóicce mic Taidhcc Uí Cerbhaill [sic]>; the submitted spelling is not found except as a standard Early Modern Irish Gaelic form.
The docs for the clan byname are as cited.

     12. Randal of Berwick (name change and device change) -- Per pale vert and azure, three eagles argent.
The docs for the given name are as cited [pp. 249-50, sn Randal]; , it also gives the derived surname <Randal(l)>, and says:
            Randal [sic] was less common after the 15th C [sic], but has never entirely
            died out and is also used in the gipsy families of Smith, Boss, and Lee.
Reaney and Wilson [p. 371, sn Randall] does date the submitted spelling to 1204 (although it isn’t clear from context if it is a given name or a byname).
The docs for the byname are as cited.
No emblazons? Do you need this drawn up? You can’t really use the old armory forms, because there is a blazonable difference between hawks and eagles, even if there is not a difference between them (especially for displayed birds) for conflict-checking purposes.
There has been some discussion as to whether this is a change of arms (hawks displayed vs. eagles displayed, since the default posture for hawks is close) or whether it is just a change/correction of blazon. Note that the O&A lists the prior blazon, not as given here, but as “Per pale vert and azure, three hawks jessed displayed argent.
There may actually be some relevant Precedents: this is from François’ second tenure:
            [...a hawk displayed head to sinister gules.] [sic] In addition, if the
            submitter decides to use the canting charge of a hawk in a future
            submission, we suggest that she place it in the default close posture
            and/or add the characteristic bells and jesses. As currently drawn, the
            hawk is indistinguishable from the heraldic eagle. [Gracia Rede de Hauke,
            LoAR 01/2005, Artemisia-R] [sic]
Another, from his first tenure, says:
            [three hawks jessed displayed] [sic] Some commenters suggested that
            these birds be reblazoned to eagles. The birds in this submission are
            jessed, which is an identifying attribute for hawks. They can thus
            be visually distinguished from eagles. [Randal Gartnet, 08/2002,
            A-Æthelmearc] [sic]
      clear of: Rayya al-Kurtubiyya (6/00 Ansteorra) -- Azure, three hawks displayed, a bordure engrailed argent.
There is a CD for changing half the field and one for removing the bordure.
     clear of: Gavin Hawkins (10/93 Atlantia) -- Per chevron embattled argent and vert, three hawks volant, wings addorsed counterchanged.
      clear of: Lie de Camurac (4/02 Middle) -- Per chevron vert and azure, three martlets argent.
      clear of: Serena Fabrizio (4/02 An Tir) -- Sable, three doves volant contourny argent.
In each case there is a CD for changes to the field and probably one for the partial tincture of the birds; there is also a CD for posture.
      clear of: Eleonora di Gerardo (1/08 Caid) -- Vert, three peacocks in their pride argent.
      clear of: Hreothbeorht the Fat (8/84 East) -- Vert, two geese volant and a swan naiant bendwise pierced by an arrow fesswise argent.
      possibly clear of: Volradus Tammius (12/00 Atlantia) -- Per chevron purpure and argent, three birds migrant counterchanged.
There is a CD for changing the field and one for partial changes to to the tincture; however, there is not one for posture; this Precedent is from Elsbeth’s tenure:
            There is not a CD between generic birds displayed or migrant and an
            eagle displayed ... [Elizabeth of Roxbury Mill, 02/01, R-Meridies] [sic]
      clear of: Sebastian von Guggenburg (4/03 Æthelmearc) -- Per pale argent and vert, three eagles counterchanged.
There is a CD for changes to the field and one for changing the tincture of at least half the charge group.
      probably clear of: Flavius Valerius Verus (6/88 Caid) -- Sable, two eagles rampant combattant Or and a dove displayed argent.
There is a CD for changing the field, and probably one for cumulative changes to the charge group.

      13. Randal of Berwick (badge) -- (Fieldless) A water bouget sable.
Nice badge!
      clear of: Sebastian ffraser (badge, 7/01 An Tir) -- (Fieldless) a water bouget Or.
There is a CD for fieldless vs. fieldless and one for tincture.
      clear of: Merouda Pendray (3/97 Middle) -- (Fieldless) On a water bouget sable, two ermine spots Or.
There is a CD for fieldless vs. fieldless and one for the removal of the tertiaries.
      clear of: Athenais Bryennissa (5/01 Artemisia) -- Argent, a water bouget sable and a point pointed azure.
There is a CD for field vs. fieldless and one for removing the peripheral charge.

      14. Sigris Burckhart -- Argent, three roundels sable, a bordure gules.
The docs for both name elements are as cited.
Nice armory!
      probably clear of: Cynethryth Dall (6/01 Lochac) -- Argent semy of roundels, a bordure sable.
There is a CD for changing the tincture of the bordure, and there should be one for changing the number of roundels from three to a semy.
      clear of: Andrew the Black (3/80 West) -- Per chevron debased argent and Or, a pellet within a bordure gules.
There is a CD for changing half the field and one for the number of primary charges.
      clear of: Molon Munokhoi Tsagaan (1/03 Atenveldt) -- Or, four roundels two and two within a bordure gules.
There is a CD for changing the field tincture, and one for the tincture of the roundels; there may also be one for changing the number of them from four to three.

      15. Solveig Throndardottir (new Household name Accademia Minerva)
The documentation provided shows the use of <Accademia> but the cited examples do not appear to have any references connected to the use of the names of gods/goddesses. There *was* a cite for the <Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia>, however.
The use of Minerva in an English language context is dated in The Compact OED to 1375 [Vol I, p. 1802 (reproducing pp. 467-70), sn Minerva:
            BARBOURT [sic] Bruce [sic] IV. 262 He callit hir his deir mynerfe.
A closer spelling to the modern form dates to 1589:
            PUTTEN- [sic] HAM [sic] Eng. Poesie [sic] III. SSV. (Arb.) 311 That which
            he doth put by long meditation rather then by a suddaine inspiration, ...
            [sic] (and as they are woont to say) in spite of Nature or Minerua.

      16. Solveig Throndardottir (new badge) -- (Fieldless) An owl rising wings displayed sable.
No B&W mini? I get a little blue box with a question mark in it where the B&W should be in the html version.
Nice badge. Unfortunately, there are many potential conflicts.
      possibly clear of: Muhrenah Vasilanovna Romanovich (8/79 ??) -- Per pale ermine and counter-ermine, a barn owl [Tyto alba] striking affronty proper.
There is a CD for field vs. fieldless; there is possibly one for tincture of the owl [c.f. URL: http://www.owlpages.com/gallery.php?section=species&cat=Tyto&sub=alba] but there may not be one for posture.
      possibly clear of: Prussia (important non-SCA arms, 12/94 Laurel) -- Argent, an eagle displayed sable crowned Or.
      possibly clear of: Manfred, King of Sicily (important non-SCA arms, 12/94 Laurel) -- Argent, an eagle displayed sable.
      possibly clear of: Albania, People’s Republic of (post-1992 important non-SCA arms, 12/94 Laurel) -- Gules, a double-headed eagle displayed sable.
      possibly clear of: Andrei de Sevastopol (1/73 ??) -- Gyronny argent and gules, a double-headed eagle displayed sable.
      possibly clear of: Holy Roman Empire (important non-SCA arms, 12/94 Laurel) -- Or, a double-headed eagle displayed sable (sometimes crowned, sometimes also nimbed Or).
      possibly not clear of: Russia (badge, important non-SCA flag, 12/94 Laurel) -- Or, a double headed eagle sable displayed armed crowned and maintaining an orb and sceptre [sic] Or.
      possibly not clear of: Holy Roman Empire (important non-SCA arms, 12/94 Laurel) -- Or, an eagle displayed sable (sometimes crowned, sometimes also nimbed Or).
      possibly clear of: Germany (important non-SCA arms, 12/94 Laurel) -- Or, an eagle displayed sable.
      possibly not clear of: Njali Styrbjornsoni (1/73 ??) -- Per pall inverted gules, vert and Or, a double-headed eagle displayed sable.
      possibly not clear of: Rurik of Mirkwood (8/71 ??) -- Quarterly gules and argent, a falcon displayed sable.
      possibly not clear of: Wilhelm von Messer (1/73 ??) -- Gules, an eagle displayed sable, fimbriated argent, beaked and membered, grasping in the dexter talon a warhammer Or, and in sinister talon a sword, point in base, proper.
      possibly not clear of: Sweinn Grímarsson (1/04 Outlands) -- Per chevron vair and Or, in base a raven displayed sable.
      possibly not clear of: Bran of Cornwall (8/72 ??) -- Vair, a raven displayed sable.
In each case there is a CD for field vs. fieldless. There may be a CD for type, even though both owls and eagles are “regular-shaped”; a Precedent from François’ first tenure says:
            ... there is another CD for changing the type of bird from an owl close
            to a falcon close. [Falco de Jablonec, 06/2002, A-Drachenwald] [sic]
but that was from before the redefinition of bird types and postures in the 11/2003 Cover Letter, which says in part:
            Thus there will not be a CD between an owl displayed and an eagle
            displayed, because they are too visually similar.....
It isn’t clear whether or not there is a CD between the postures “displayed” and “rising, wings displayed”.
      possibly not clear of: Hal Ravn (9/73 ??) -- Ermine, a raven semi-displayed reversed sable, orbed and taloned Or, grasping two lightning bolts crossed in saltire Or.
There is a CD for field vs. fieldless; I can’t tell from the blazon just what the heck the posture of the bird actually is, so someone will probably have to pull the old file for a visual comparison. The birds are both in the “regular-shaped” category. Additionally, there is probably nothing for the lightning bolts, unless they are deemed significantly large to be considered sustained charges.
      possibly not clear of: Ragnar Karlson (9/91 Middle) -- Paly gules and argent, an owl passant wings displayed inverted sable brandishing an axe palewise Or.
There is a CD for field vs fieldless, but there is probably not one for posture; if the axe is large enough to be a sustained charge, that would be another CD, but it may only be a maintained charge and therefore not count for difference.
      possibly clear of: Juan Santiago (badge, 10/07 West) -- (Fieldless) A brown falcon striking, wings displayed proper, maintaining in its claws a rapier bendwise inverted argent.
There is a CD for fieldless vs. fieldless; there may be one for type, even though they are both “regular-type” birds. There may or may not be one for the posture, and possibly not one for tincture; there is probably also nothing for the maintained charge.
      probably clear of: Atai Tetsuko (badge, 12/95 East) -- (Fieldless) An eagle displayed bendwise sable.
There is a CD for fieldless vs. fieldless, and there should be one for orientation. There is probably not one for type, given that both birds are displayed, and are “regular-shaped”.
      clear of: Mikel the Silent (9/88 Outlands) -- Argent, a Great Horned Owl rising guardant, wings elevated and displayed, proper, maintaining in its sinister claw an arrow bendwise, within an orle of arrows set barb to fletch clockwise, sable. [Bubo virginianus]
There is a CD for field vs. fieldless and one for removing the secondary charges; there may also be one for changing the tincture of the owl.
      possibly not clear of: Cigfran Myddrael Joserlin, the Raven (3/03 Middle) -- Argent, a raven rising regardant wings disclosed proper, maintaining in the dexter claw a sword gules.
There is a CD for field vs. fieldless; there may or may not be one for type (both are “regular-shaped” birds). There is probably not one for posture: according to Parker
[p. 624,, sn Wing] “disclosed” is an equivalent term with “displayed inverted”.
      clear of: Colm Dubh (badge for House of the Black Dove, 6/90 Caid) -- (Fieldless) A dove stooping, wings addorsed, sable. There is a CD for field vs. fieldless, and one for posture: a very old Precedent (from Baldwin’s tenure) defines “stooping”:
      The characteristics of a kestrel stooping [sic[ are as follows: Wings raised,
      swept back; tail closed, between and in same direction as wings; body
      vertical (head down) [sic]; feet back until just before strike, then stretched
      toward prey; talons spread or half-spread; head pointing down, or at prey
      when close to strike (which is always from above) [sic]. [BoE, cvr ltr, 12
      Jul 86, p.2] [sic]
This is explicitly different from “striking”, which is considered a variant of “rising, wings elevated and addorsed”.
      possibly clear of: Astrid Helvegr von Eulenwald (4/06 Ansteorra) -- Per chevron inverted abased vert and argent, in chief a Great Horned Owl rising to sinister guardant, wings displayed, proper. [A note says: “the owl is cream/light tan with dark brown markings”.]
There is a CD for field vs. fieldless, and probably one for tincture. There may or may not be one for posture, however, there may be an orientation change for the body itself, but the head and wings would be pretty much the same, whether the bird is rising to dexter or to sinister in this instance.
      possibly clear of: Friedrich der Falkner (1/95 Caid) -- (Fieldless) A falcon dexter wing expanded and inverted sable.
There is a CD for fieldless vs. fieldless. There may or may not be one for type (they are both “regular-shaped”, but there may be one for posture: It sounds as if it is a cross between “rising” and “close”, and may warrant a visual comparison.

17. Willehalm Bärenjäger
The docs for the given name are as cited.
The docs for the byname are as cited (although I’m not sure why the docs for <Bernhart> were included, since it doesn’t seem to have any relevancy).
The name <Gunther Bärenjäger> was registered without comment 1/02 (not 4/07), via the West: “without comment” means that there is no explanation or documentation provided in the LoAR.

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other URLs as cited