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Letter of Intent #126 Myfanwy ferch Rhiannon
Feast
of St. Hugh of Cluny 29
April, AS XLIV Greetings
from Myfanwy! Herein
pray find commentary on Æ LoI #126 [I actually managed to get it
done before
the last minute, for a change. :-) ]Everything has been conflict-checked through the January 2010
LoARs. I
remain your servant and the Society’s. Lady
Myfanwy ferch Rhiannon Ruth
Morrisson myfanwy@consolidated.net 1. Æthelmearc,
Kingdom of (Order Name) --
Order of the Silver Stirrup” The
Compact OED [vol.
II, pp.
2825-26, (reproducing vol. Si.-St.., pp.
49-56), sn. Silver ] dates the submitted spelling to 1340, with the
meaning of
“the metal regarded as a valuable possession or medium of exchange”.The submitted spelling, in the submitted
meaning, dates to 1669; the closest to the submitted spelling for this
definition is <siluer>, dating to 1300. The
Compact OED [vol.
II, p.
3058, (reproducing vol. Si.-St.., pp.
981-84), sn Stirrup] dates the submitted spelling to 1686; the closest
period
spelling I found is <stirrop>, dating to 1585. conflict withthe Kingdom of the
Outlands’ “Order of the
Silver Stirrup” (10/99 Outlands) 2. Æthelmearc,
Kingdom of (transfer of
Heraldic Title Comet Pursuivant to Barony-Marche of the
Debatable Lands Seems
pretty straightforward.Is there any
sort of other paperwork that has to be involved?I
know that group armory has to have a
petition of support. 3. Aileisaabai{th}
Hlasa The
facsimile is interesting, but I couldn’t actually decipher it; another
page is
from the same site is for Luke 1:5 [URL:
http://app.ub.uu.se/arv/codex/faksimiledition/ jpg_files/135lc1f.html];
there is a gloss in the margin which appears to show some partial form
of the
submitted given name: <Aelizaber-> is about all I can make out
since the
edge of the page appears to be cut off. The
St. Gabriel docs are as cited. I
tried to follow the discussion on the grammar.I’m willing to give the submitter the benefit of the doubt,
because I
can’t tell enough about Gothic language and grammar to tell if the
byname is
formed correctly (or for that matter, whether a strong or weak ending
form is
appropriate). My
recommendation is to forward this on to Laurel with a request for
assistance
from someone better at the omnastics and grammar. 4. Alessandra Grazzini
-- Gules, a
decrescent argent and in chief three mullets Or. The
docs for both name elements are as cited. Nice
armory! clear of: Drusticc
inigena Eddarrnonn
(6/05 Lochac) -- Gules, a crescent bendwise sinister argent. There
is a CD for changing the orientation of the crescent, and one for
adding the
secondary charge group. clear of: Lourana
Moonwind (10/85
Atenveldt) -- Gules, a decrescent moon within an orle of mullets Or. There
is a CD the tincture of the decrescent and at least one for changing
the number
and arrangement of the mullets. clear of: Aigiarn
Aljin (12/03 Outlands)
-- Gules, three crescents in pall inverted horns to center argent
between three
mullets of six points Or. There
is a CD for changing the number of crescents, and one for for the
arrangement
of the charges (but nothing for type of secondary). clear of: Conrad von
Regensburg (badge,
1/74 ??) -- Gules semy of decrescents argent. There
is a CD for changing the number of the primary charge group and one for
adding
the secondaries. clear of: Croatia,
Ancient (important
non-SCA arms, 1/00 West) -- Azure, in pale a mullet of six points Or
and a
crescent argent. There
are CDs for changing the field, for orientation of the crescent, and
for number
(but not type) of mullets Note
that this registration may be incorrect: when double-checking what the
Ancient
Croatian flag actually looks like I found a website showing the flag
with the
field as being gules [URL: http://www.squidoo.com/croatianflag]; this
would
still clear, however, with a CD for orientation of the crescent and one
for the
number of mullets. clear of: Randal of
Elfsea (5/07
Ansteorra) -- Gules, a heart and in chief three mullets Or. This
is a case of X.2 , with both this and the submission being simple
armory, and
the type of primary charge substantially changed. clear of: Aelfric
MacRancan (10/02 An Tir)
-- Vert, a decrescent and in chief three mullets of eight points Or. There
is a CD for changing the field and one for the tincture of the
decrescent.There may also be one for
changing the
mullets of 8 points to standard mullets of 5 points. possibly
not a CD -- type of secondaries 5. Alethea Cowle The
Withycombe docs for the given name are as cited.The
online docs are also as cited. The
Reaney and Wilson docs for the byname are not quite as cited: while the
submitted for is dated as cited, the beginning of the entry actually
says
<Henry de Cuwell [sic], dated to 1196.The
online docs are as cited. 6. Cristiano Martelli The
docs for both name elements are as cited.In addition, the given name is found in Ferrante LaVolpe’s
“Italian
Renaissance Men’s Names” [URL: http://www.s-gabriel. org/names/ferrante/catasto/names.txt],
working from the “Online Catasto of 1427” which cites 2 instances of
the name
[URL: http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/ catasto/newsearch/first_names.html].
7. Debatable Lands,
Barony-Marche ofthe (acceptance of
transfer of Heraldic Title
Comet Pursuivant from Kingdom of Æthelmearc) Seems
pretty straightforward.Is there any
sort of other paperwork that has to be involved?I
know that group armory has to have a
petition of support. 8. Egill the Dane
(badge resub) --
(Fieldless) An acorn bendwise Or. clear of: Tearlach na
Drochaide (badge,
9/97) -- (Fieldless) An acorn argent. clear of: Fjorleif in
Haga (badge, 12/98
An Tir) -- (Fieldless) An acorn inverted slipped and leaved argent. clear of: Aldgudana
Gunnarsdóttir (badge,
4/03 An Tir) -- (Fieldless) An acorn per pall sable argent and Or. clear of: Caid,
Kingdom of (badge for the
Order of the Acorn, 3/00) -- (Fieldless) An acorn proper. In
each of these, there is a CD for fieldless vs. fieldless, and one for
changing
at half the tincture; in the case of the Caidan badge, the default
tincture of
an acorn “proper” is brown, which, according to the table of
Conventional“Proper” Colorings in the
Glossary of Terms
website [URL: http://heraldry.sca.org/coagloss.html#proper], falls
under the
“Color” (i.e., as opposed to “Metal”) tincture class.There should also be a CD in each of these
for orientation. probably clear
of: Drei Eichen,
Barony of (badge, 10/96 Drachenwald) -- Azure, an acorn Or. probably clear of
Rivenoak, Shire of
(badge, 12/88 West) -- Gyronny argent and sable, an acorn inverted Or. In
each case there is a CD for field vs. fieldless, and there should be
one for
orientation. probably clear of:
Wealdsmere, Barony of (badge
for Sergeants of Wealdsmere, 3/06 An Tir) -- Per bend wavy Or and bendy
wavy
azure and argent, in chief an oak leaf inverted conjoined at the stem
with an
acorn all bendwise proper. There
is a CD for field vs. fieldless, and one for tincture of the acorn.There may or may not be one for removing the
leaf. possibly clear of:
Ammalynne Sternjekrakki
Haraldsdottir (badge for Hüs Løk, 9/80 Meridies) --
(Fieldless) A sprouting
yellow onion bendwise proper. [Liliacae [sic] Alium cepa] possibly clear of:
Ysabelot Clarisse
(badge, 2/06 An Tir) -- (Fieldless) A turnip bendwise proper. In
each case there is a CD for fieldless vs. fieldless, and there might be
one for
type; I can’t tell whether there is one for tincture. 9. Maeve ni Siurtain
(badge) -- (Fieldless)
A chamfron azure charged on the forehead with a crescent argent. The
docs for the charge are pretty much as cited (except that there was a
typo
during transcription -- it’s <c{a-} mus> not <c{a-}us>).Note that the emblazon, which is in the
default orientation, is similar to what is shown in the PIC-DIC [fig.
100]. clear of: Taliba bint
Ihsan (9/80 Caid) --
Argent, a horse’s head affronté couped at the neck azure, blazed
of a crescent
argent, between three roses sable. There
is a CD for field vs. fieldless, and one for the removal of the
secondary
charges.There may also be one for type
of primary, but given that both are affronty, and the tertiary charge
is
identical for type tincture and (probably) position, it may need a
visual
inspection. possibly not clear of:
Constancia
Tattersall (9/02 An Tir) -- Argent goutty, on a chamfron azure a cross
patonce
argent. There
is a CD for field vs. fieldless; there is only a change of type of
tertiary,
and a chamfron is probably too complex to qualify for X.4.j.ii: a
Precedent
from Shauna’s tenure says: [Sable, on a compass star argent
a Maltese cross azure and in base two swords inverted crossed at the tips argent]
[sic]The device conflicts with Conner McAuliffe FitzJames, Sable,
within a sun throughout argent, eclipsed azure, a goshawk displayed argent
[sic], which could also be blazoned as Sable, on a sun throughout argent, a roundel
azure charged with a goshawk displayed argent
[sic].This emphasizes the
quaternary nature of Conner's goshawk, and we ignore quaternary charges
completely when checking for conflict. We give no CD between a compass star
and a sun, nor for throughout vs. not-throughout for non-ordinaries.
Since compass stars are not eligible for X.4.j.ii, there is no CD for type
only between a roundel and a Maltese cross. Thus there is only one CD between
this armory and Conner's for adding the secondary swords. [John the
Wanderer, 05/04, R-Caid] [sic] 10. Ottilige von
Rappoltsweiler I
don’t have Bahlow.The form
<Otilge> can be found as a variant of <Ottilie> in Scott’s
“Medieval German Given Names from Silesia” [URL:
http://www.s-gabriel.org/ names/talan/bahlow/bahlowFem.html]
dated to 1370; the form <Ottilig> is found (as a single instance)
in
Uckelman’s “German Names from Kulmbach, 1495” [URL: http:// www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/german/kulmbach1495.html]. The
Dauzat and Rostaing docs are as cited; note that while the entry does
not give
a dated citation, it suggests that <Rappoltsweiler> is the German
form of
the name, with the form <Ratbaldo villare [sic]>
apparently dated
to 768. 11. Petr Kotok (badge)
-- Quarterly gules
and sable, a sickle within a bordure Or. The
sickle is in its default orientation [c.f. PIC-DIC, sn Sickle, and fig.
669]. clear of: Rorik
Gunnulfsson (10/76 ??) --
Sable, a sickle fesswise, blade to chief, withina
bordure, all Or. There
is a CD for changing half of the field, and one for the orientation of
the
sickle. clear of: Tristan
Giles Richardson (3/86
West) -- Quarterly gules and sable, a narwhal haurient to sinister
within a
bordure Or. clear of: Imran Yosuf
le Scorpioun (8/87
Atlantia) -- Quarterly gules and sable, a swan rousant wings displayed,
argent,
beaked and membered, within a bordure Or. clear of: Karl
Redstone (9/94 An Tir) --
Quarterly gules and sable, a sword inverted proper within a bordure Or. These
should all be clear by X.2 (complete difference of primary charge). clear
of: Drosten Sutherland (4/06 An Tir) -- Gules, a fishhook reversed Or
within a
bordure per pale sable and argent. There
is a CD for changing half the field, and one for changing the tincture
of the
bordure; there may also be one for type/orientation of the primary
charge, but
it might need a visual comparison. 12. Raven Whitehart
(device resub) -- Per
chevron embowed argent and vert, two ravens purpure and a stag salient
argent. While
this seems to be better (check old submission to be sure, I think this
still
blurs the distinction between per chevron and a point pointed somewhat.The line does seem to start above the tick
marks on the edges of the escutcheon, but the point of the line
probably should
come up to at least halfway between the ravens (possibly as much as two
thirds
of the way in between them. Moving
the line up would have the added effect of giving the stag a bit more
room to
be a bit larger. I
don’t think that “embowed” is the correct terminology here.Parker [pp. 224 -25, sn Embowed] says: Embowed, [sic] (fr. courbé
[sic]: bent, or bowed; applied to the arm [sic] of a man, and still more
frequently to dolphins [sic].... [p. 225] With French heralds
the word courbé [sic] is more frequently applied to the fesse [sic], bend,
&c., when either are slightly bent upwards. English heralds also speak of the
bend, &c., as arched, enarched, or embowed [sic], but such devices, though
common in French arms, and more so still in German arms, are very seldom, if
ever, found in true English heraldry. The
margin illustration for “a bend embowed” [p. 225] shows a gentle convex
curve,
not the steeper concave curves of the line of division in the
submission.Woodward [p. 88, in the
section describing
“chapé” and “chausse” fields, says: When the chapé [sic], or chaussé
[sic], is formed by arched or concave lines it is said to be ployé
[sic], as in the Bavarian coat of VON SCHLEICH (Plate
VI.,
fig.
9)[sic]; de Gueules chausse-ployé d’argent
[sic]. Likewise,
in the discussion of chevrons [p. 137], Woodward says: In foreign coats the chevron
is often drawn ployé [sic], i.e. [sic], with its limbs curved inwards. An
example of a chevron ployé is given on Plate XIII, fig. 4, with
the arms of
Moll [von Moll?] and blazoned in Woodward [p. 137] as “Azure, a chevron
ployé
between three estoiles Or”. The original
return’s blazon was “a point
pointed ployé” and I suspect that “per chevron ployé”
better describes the line
of division here. Reblazon:
Per chevron ployé argent and vert, two ravens purpure and a stag
salient
argent. possibly clear of:
Volradus Tammius (12/00
Atlantia) -- Per chevron argent and vert, three birds volant contourny
wings
addorsed one and two purpure and a plate. There
is a CD for changing the number of charges; there may be a CD for
cumulative
changes to the charge group (changing just the type of bottom-most
charge alone
is not sufficient, as it is less than half of the charge group, but the
change
of posture of the birds may push it to the clear side. probably clear of:
Einarr inn spaki (2/07
Calontir) -- Per chevron argent and vert, two ravens addorsed sable and
a bear
rampant argent. probably clear of:
Gwalchmai Wynber vap
Bran (11/88 An Tir) -- Per chevron argent and vert, two ravens rising
addorsed,
wings displayed, sable, and a fir tree argent. probably clear of:
Kian hrafn af Dyrnesi
(8/93 Atenveldt) -- Per chevron throughout argent and vert, two ravens
respectant sable and a reindeer’s head erased argent, collared sable
and
chained Or. probably clear of:
Gwyn Chwith ap Llyr
(11/96 West) Per chevron argent and vert, three owls contourny
counterchanged. In
each case, there is a CD for changes to the birds (either tincture or
posture)
and one for changing type of the bottom-most charge; there may or may
not be
one for changing the orientation of some of the birds. probably clear of:
Lillias Collingbourne
(8/01 Meridies) -- Per chevron argent and purpure, two hummingbirds
rising
respectant wings addorsed and a lotus in profile counterchanged. There
is a CD for changing half the field.There
may be a CD for changing the posture of the birds (but possibly not
type) and
there should be one for changing the type of the bottom-most charge;there may or may not be one for changing the
orientation of some of the birds. clear of: Victoria
Pringle (5/08 Atlantia)
-- (Fieldless) Three birds close conjoined in annulo purpure. There
is a CD for field vs. fieldless and one for arrangement of the charges;
there
is not, however, one for changing the type of only one, since the
registered
armory does not have the charges in the default arrangement of two and
one. 13. Ullrych Sturm --
Paly bendy azure and
argent, three chevronels sable. The
chevrons should probably be a bit thicker, but may be acceptable as is
(it
would just need an artist’s note). Nice
armory.Unfortunately, there’s a
conflict. conflict with: Sitric
McConnaill (9/99 Artemisia)
-- Checky vert and Or, three chevronels sable. There
is only a single CD, for changing the field. probably clear of:
Daniel the Defender of
Silvertere (8/79 ??) -- Bendy paly barry bendy sinister argent and
azure, on a
fess azure goutty d’eau a sword reversed argent. probably
clear of: Damian of
Silvertere
(7/79 ??) -- Bendy, paly, barry, bendy sinister argent and azure, a
fess azure,
goutty d’eau. In
each case, there is at least one CD for cumulative changes to the
primary
charge group (type, number, and tincture), and there should be one for
removing
the tertiary charges; there may also be one for changes to the field. probably clear of:
Margrethe Anelsesløs
(10/94 East) -- Checky argent and azure, on a pale sable three crosses
crosslet
argent. There
is at least one CD for cumulative changes to the primary charge group
(type and
number) and there should be one for removing the tertiary charges;
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