Feast of St. Hugh of Grenoble
1 April AS XXXVII

Greetings from Myfanwy!

Herein pray find commentary on Æ LoI #66. No conflict checking this time, I'm afraid. Life conspired against me, particularly today (when I had actually planned to do some) AOL got cranky about letting me actually connect to the Internet, and then my computer crashed and I had to spend some time letting Norton Disk Doctor do it's job fixing things. Not too many style comments necessary this time either (it's amazing how little I have to say about stuff I drew in the first place, which turned out to be the bulk of the letter :-) :-) ].

My email address is about to change. If someone could send something to me at the new address, myfanwy@nauticom.net to check it and see if it works, then I can drop AOL entirely (yaay). Then, once I know it works, I can post it to all the places (various mailing lists like the Æ list and Pennsic Heralds) that need to have it. Thanks in advance.

Lady Myfanwy ferch Rhiannon
mka Ruth Morrisson
myfanwy@nauticom.net
RMorrisson@aol.com [old address]

1. Bastiano di Iacopo -- Vert, an amphora and a chief rayonny Or.
The name docs are as given (well, I'm just assuming that for "di").
Artist's note: I was told the submitter wanted the amphora to be pointed on the bottom. The one in the PIC-DIC (fig. 6) is shown with a flat bottom, as the default; it says: "A 'wine amphora' has a pointed base, instead of a flat base." So I guess this one needs to be reblazoned.
Reblazon: Vert, a wine amphora and a chief rayonny Or.

2. Caitríona M'Gilledoroughe (resub) -- Vert, a panther sejant argent spotted sable within a bordure argent.
Is the incensing argent or also spotted? I can't tell from the mini, since it looks like it might have been computer generated.
Possible reblazon: Vert, a panther sejant argent pellety within a bordure argent.

3. Cellach mac Toimín -- Gules, a crossbow argent within an orle of pheons Or.
O'C&M (pp. 48-9) gives "Cellach" as a header form; since it's before the colon, the submitted spelling is, IIRC, a pre-1200 form. It is given as the name of several saints; additionally, the poet Cellach Ua Máel Corgais (d. 1000) is cited.
Artist's note: the crossbow is very like the one in the PIC-DIC (fig. 66), but is in fact based on the one in von Volborth (p. 58, fig. 487).

4. Deryk Archer -- Per pale sable and Or, a goblet between three pheons counterchanged.
The Withycombe docs are as cited (p. 82).
The Reaney & Wilson docs are also as cited (p. 12).

5. Gareth Craig -- Argent, a badger rampant sable marked argent between three standing balances vert.
The Withycombe docs are as cited (pp. 125-26).
I don't have Black. Reaney and Wilson (p. 114, s. n. Craig) cites John del Crag [sic], dated to 1143-1214, and John of the Craig [sic], dated to 1335; both cites appear to be from Black.
Artist's note: Do badgers ramp? This is the best I could do under the circumstances.
The standing balances are as shown in the PIC-DIC (fig. 34b).

6. Lochlainn mac Faoláin Bán -- Per pale azure and argent, a chevron between three wolves' heads erased counterchanged.
The O'C&M docs for "Lochlainn" are as cited (p. 123).
I don't have Woulfe. O'C&M (pp. 92-3, s. n. Fáelán: Faolán) says:

There were three kings of Leinster of the name between the seventh and ninth centuries. According to the ecclesias- [sic] tical sources, there were fourteen saints called Fáelán among whom were St Fáelán Find whose feast-day is 5 May; St Fáelán of Meath whose feast-day is 9 January; and St Fáelán, brother of St Fursu, who was martyred in Flanders about 656....From this name derive the surnames [p. 93] O Phelan, O Whelan and Hyland."

7. Lorenz Butterman (resub) -- Per saltire indented sable and pean.
Name registered 10/02 (Æthelmearc) -- it isn't in the online O&A yet, but it is in the LoAR [URL: http://www.sca.org/heraldry/loar/2002/10/02-10lar.html]; for what it's worth, it's listed in the current issue of _The Æsh_, the page after the end of the new LoI! :-)
Is this really supposed to be pean? Or is it actually erminois that has been mis-blazoned? If the former, there may be a problem -- the complex line is very hard to distinguish in the mini when colored in, even at a foot away (i.e., at the distance between my face and the document holder attached to my computer screen). It could just as easily be a plain per saltire, because of the extreme low contrast.

8. Rose Thorne -- Gules, a rabbit sejant contourny regardant and a chief dovetailed argent.
Name registered 11/92 (East).
Nice device.

Bibliography:

Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme and Akagawa Yoshio [Kevin Munday and Bruce Miller]. _A Pictorial Dictionary of Heraldry_, 2nd ed., 1992.

O' Corráin, Donnchadh, and Fidelma Maguire. _Irish Names._ Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1981, 1990.

Reaney, P. H., and R. M. Wilson. _A Dictionary of British Surnames_, 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, 1997.

von Volborth, Carl-Alexander. _Heraldry: Customs, Rules and Styles_. Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press, 1981.

Withycombe, E. G. _The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names_, 3rd ed. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press; 1977, 1988.

URLs and Academy of St. Gabriel letters as cited.