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Letter of Intent #73
Myfanwy ferch Rhiannon

2 December AS XXXVIII

Greetings from Myfanwy!

Herein pray find comments on Æ LoI #73. Because it was a small letter, I tried to skim the LoAR for all the months after 9/02. which apparently is as updated as the oanda.sca.org site gets. [I guess it's time to go back to doing conflict checking on the farreaches site! :-) ]

I'm trying to get this squeaked in under the deadline wire (it's about 4:50 pm) because I was out of town for a week plus, and still had 6 months worth of LoARs to skim between the second half of the laundry. (Monday was the first 5 loads, including two sleeping bags. Sigh.)

I remain your servant and the Society's.
Lady Myfanwy ferch Rhiannon
mka Ruth Payes Morrisson
RMorrisson@aol.com
myfanwy@nauticom.net

PS -- I couldn't find my copy of Attwater, so I don't know what saint's day it is! :-)

1. Blausa Korsakova -- Vert, three fox's masks and on a chief argent three increscents azure.

Name docs are as cited.

Nicely drawn.

clear of: Robert the Forgotten of Foxmoor (3/99 Atlantia) -- Vert, a fox's mask, and on a chief argent three pheons sable.
There is a CD for changing the number of the primary charge(s), and one for changing the type and tincture of the tertiaries.

clear of: Fahlah al-Nasafiyyah (12/98 Outlands) -- Vert, a phoenix, on a chief argent three crescents azure.
clear of: Mora of Lincolnshire (9/99 An Tir) -- Vert, a tyger rampant contourny and on a chief argent three moons in their plenitude azure.
In each case, there are CDs for changing the type and number of the primary charge. There is probably not one for changing only the posture/position of the tertiaries, however.

clear of: Diego Ramos del Lobo (7/03 Atenveldt) -- Vert, a wolf rampant contourny and on a chief argent three fleurs-de-lys azure.
There are CDs for changing the type and number of the primary charge. There is only a change of type for the tertiaries.

2. Esa Baird

The docs for "Esa" are as cited, except that [URL: http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/scottishfem/scottishfemearly.html]. R&W docs are as cited.

3. Gryphon's Keep, Shire of -- Gules, a gryphon segreant and on a chief embattled argent a laurel wreath between two pheons inverted sable.

The chief should come down further on the field, even if that means the gryphon has to be a bit smaller.

clear of: Domhnall Ó Catháin (2/95 East) -- Per pale azure and sable, a griffin segreant and on a chief dovetailed argent two floats gules.
There is a CD for changing the field tincture, and one for changing the type and tincture of at least half the tertiaries.

probably clear of: Connor Mac Phie (2/01 Meridies) -- Vert, a winged stag segreant, on a chief embattled argent three pheons sable.
This may be a visual (segreant critter vs. segreant critter), but there is probably a CD between them. There is also a CD for changing the field tincture. There may not a CD for changing the tertiaries -- the posture/position changes for two of them, and the third is a different charge, so it could go either way.

4. Lyev Davidovitch (badge) -- Azure, a sparrowhawk volant to sinister argent.

conflict: Petr Aleksivich of Novgorod (1/74 ??) -- Azure, semy of stars a naturelle, overall a hawk volant to sinister argent.
There is only one CD, for adding the semy. Since this is very old, I don't know if we can track this person down to get a letter of permission to conflict, but maybe someone at the Laurel level can help.

probable conflict: Fionndaire Fearcuairt (4/97 Drachenwald) -- Per pale azure and sable, a falcon volant to sinister maintaining in its claws an oak slip argent.
There is only one CD, for changing at least half the field. The maintained charge would count for nothing. However, since this is a reasonably recent registration, there is a better chance of tracking this person down to try and get a letter to conflict.

possibly not clear of: Rannveigr Haakonardottir (badge 6/01 East) -- Azure, a falcon close contourny argent. (for House Utfara)
possibly not clear of: Este, House of (12/94 Laurel) -- Azure, an eagle displayed argent crowned Or. [important non-SCA arms; also the arms of Modena]
There is a CD for posture (wing position), but I'm going to call a raptor a raptor.

probably clear of: Rorik Fredericsson (12/99 Atlantia) -- Azure, a grey goose volant bendwise wings addorsed proper gorged of a coronet Or.
probably clear of: Reagan of the White Dawn (6/81 Atlantia) -- Azure, a songbird migrant bendwise, maintaining in its beak a fusa, Or.
In each case, there is probably a CD for the type of bird, and one for orientation.

clear of: Yngvar the Dismal (badge 5/93 East) -- (Fieldless) An eagle stooping wings elevated and addorsed argent. (for Hus Færhaga)
There is a CD for field vs. fieldless, and one for the orientation of the bird.

probably clear of: Vladimir Neupokoev (9/97 Artemisia) -- Per bend sinister sable and azure, a hawk stooping to sinister argent.
There is a CD for changing at least half the field, and probably one for changing the posture/wing position of the bird.

possibly clear of: Christall Gordon (3/99 Caid) -- Azure, a dove volant wings elevated and addorsed argent sustaining in its beak a ladle palewise Or.
There is a CD for changing the orientation of the bird, and possibly one for changing from a dove to a hawk.

probably clear of: Isabella Benalcázar (12/93 Atlantia) -- Azure, a heron volant contourny, wings addorsed, between three harps argent.
There is a CD for adding the secondaries, and probably one for changing the type of bird.

possibly clear of: Myra Naedlsang (9/88 Calontir) -- Per bend sinister purpure and vert, a skylark volant to sinister argent, holding in its beak a nettle branch Or.
Petr Aleksivich of Novgorod (6/75 ??) Per pale sable and gules, a tern volant to sinister proper.
Taira den Fharraigi Thiar (2/83 Middle) -- Per fess indented azure and Or, in chief a swallow volant to sinister argent.
In each case, there is a CD for changing the field, and possibly one for changing the type of bird.

5. Rashid al-Tayyib -- Per fess argent and vert, two gophers courant contourny and another courant proper.

I presume that these are what gophers look like (?). Are they Old or New World critters?

The bottom one could be a bit larger to fill the space a bit better.

Name docs are as given [URL: http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/arabic-naming2.htm].

clear of conflict (note that the last time a gopher was registered as a charge was 1988)

6. Sergei Bolotnikov (resub) -- Gules, two wolves combattant and in chief a mullet argent, a point pointed ermine.

This is not particularly good style.

clear of conflict

7. Thomas Lestrange

Name docs are as cited.

8. Wilhelm Smydele von Solingen -- Argent, a griffin segreant gules winged sable haloed Or maintaining a rapier all within a bordure sable.

Name docs for "Wilhelm" are as given [URL: http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/bahlow/bahlowMasc.html].

clear of: Eithne ni Chailein (5/96 Trimaris) -- Or, a griffin gules maintaining a sword sable between three wolf's heads erased gules all within a bordure sable.

Bibliography:

Reaney, P. H. and R. M. Wilson. _A Dictionary of English Surnames_, revised 3rd. Ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Paul Wickenden of Thanet [Paul W. Goldschmidt]. _A Dictionary of Period Russian Names_, 3rd. Ed. Normal, IL: S.C.A. Inc. -- Free Trumpet Press West, 2000.

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

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