Æthelmearc Internal Letter of Intent Æ88
September 1, 2005

Commentary on this letter will be due on September 30. Please post your commentary to aethel-heralds@lists.andrew.cmu.edu, or send it privately to: garnet [AT] aeheralds [DOT] net

I apologize for the length of this letter, but I wanted to get all the Pennsic submissions out for commentary as quickly as possible. This letter includes almost everything that I have in hand as of this date. The sole exception is a device submission for Rauri Macallan of Hunter's Home. I am unable to locate any indication that he has registered his name, so I will be contacting him.

It is the intent of the Æthelmearc College of Heralds that the following items be considered for registration. Unless otherwise noted, submitters will accept any changes.

1. Aleksander Regulanka - New name, New device

Per bend sable and argent, a decresent and a hound dormant counterchanged.

The name is intended to be masculine. The submitter will accept minor changes only. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Aleksander - website: Speer and Mittleman, "Polish Given Names in Nazwiska Polakolw" at http://s-gabriel.org/names/walraven/polish/

Regulanka - Istvan, Blue Tyger, attests to this and will provide documentation. No additional documentation cited. Can the college assist with documentation?

Herald of Record: Pennsic

2. Alide van Spaarnwoude - New name, New device

Azure, a castle and on a chief rayonny argent three elm trees couped vert.

No intended gender is given. The submitter will accept any changes, and requests authenticity for 14th-15th century Holland.

Alide - website: Friedemann, "Dutch names 1393-96" at http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/dutch/dutch14.html s.n. Aleid

van - website: Toddekyn, "Flemish Names from Bruges, 1400-1600" http://www.s-gabriel.org/docs/bruges/index.html shows "van <Placename>" as a frequent byname construction.

Spaarnwoude - Spaarnwoude, Sparnwoude, Sparwoude: found in a family geneology as the name of a river near Haarlem in the Natherlands. As no Dutch placename references were available at Pennsic, the consulting herald requests that the college document this name element as needed.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

3. Ambrose Kyrielle - New name, New device

Per chevron purpure and Or, a chevron rompu counterchanged.

The name is intended to be male. The submitter will accept any changes and cares most about English or French language/culture. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Ambrose - Withycombe, s.n. Ambrose. Header form. Dated in this spelling to c. 1440. The submitter would prefer the spelling <Ambros> if the college can provide documentation for it.

Kyrielle - Reaney & Wilson, s.n. Kerrell.
<John Kyrrell>, 1583
<Bertram de Criel> & <de Crioille>, 1221
<Kyrielle> is presented as a reasonable interpolation.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

4. Antonius Hasebroek - New name, New device

Per pale purpure and Or, a pair of jointed trews vairy potent azure and argent.

The name is intended to be male. The submitter will accept minor changes only and cares most about sound. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Antonius - website: Toddekyn, "Flemish Given Names from Bruges, 1400-1600" at http://www.s-gabriel.org/docs/bruges/given-list.html dates this spelling to 1400-1550.

Hasebroek - website: Toddekyn, "Flemish Bynames from Bruges, 1400-1600: D-K" at http://www.s-gabriel.org/docs/bruges/byname-list2.html dates this spelling to 1593.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

Azure, a pine tree and on a chief argent three arrows point to chief azure.

The name is intended to be feminine. The submitter accepts any changes and cares most about the language/culture.

6. Bj{o,}rn Einarsson - New name, New device

Gules, a squirrel per fess Or and azure.

The name is intended to be male. The submitter will accept minor changes only and cares most about the meaning "Bjorn, son of Einarsson". The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Bj{o,}rn - Geirr Bassi, p. 8, attests to 42 occurrences in the Landnámabók

Einarsson - Geirr Bassi, p. 9, attests to 28 occurrences of <Einarr> in the Landnámabók. <-rr> becomes <-rs> in the genitive, giving <Einars>+<son>.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

7. Celine Violier - New name

The name is intended to be female. The submitter will accept minor changes only and cares most about meaning. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Celine - Morlet, Dictionnaire Étymologique des Noms de Famille, header form. Two saints by this name, one a friend of Ste. Genevieve (6th century), the other the mother of a bishop of Soissons.

Violier - Morlet, op. cit., s.n. Viola. Occitan byname for a stringed instrument player.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

8. Corbinus of Æthelmearc - New name, New device

Per saltire vert and argent, in fess two ravens close respectant sable.

No intended gender is given. The submitter will accept any changes. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Corbinus - Morlet, Latin, s.n. Corbinus dated to 780 in Cart. S. Vict. Mars.

Æthelmearc - SCA kingdom name registered September 1989

Herald of Record: Pennsic

9. Deianeira Carmen Rodriguez y Aragonés - New name, New device

Purpure, on a chevron argent between two bull's heads erased contourney and a straight-rayed demi-sun issuant from base Or three crosses flory sable.

This name is intended to be feminine. The submitter requests authenticity for late 15th Century Spain. The submitter will accept any changes and cares most about the sound. Of the four names lists, the submitter notes that the most important element for her is Deianeira..

I checked the House of Names links. May I ask that any member of the College with knowledge of Spanish names supply further documentation?

Deianeira - the Beazley Archive [http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/CGPrograms/Dict/ASP/OpenDictionary.asp?name=Deianeira.html] shows Deianeira (human wife of Herakles) detailed on a Athenian red-figure clay was dating about 475-425 BC. - http://www.bartleby.com/65/he/HerculesGk.html details the marriage of Deianeira and Herakles.

Additionally, in both the Grecian and Iberian cultures compound names are common. Dei (Theophoric) and Aneira cited from (Heini Gruffudd Welsh Personal Names, p. 9).

The submitter also included these links:

http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/names/practices.html Lexicon of Personal Names
http://www.cedarseed.com/air/celticnames.html Names of Celtic, Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish origins
http://pup.princeton.edu/books/lyons/chapter_2.html [¶22.] and [¶55.] respectively
http://www.cubagenweb.org/names.htm Compound surnames / Honorifics / Middle names

Rodriguez - Names from registries of the second half of the 15th century, in the Historical Archive of the Province of Cordoba [http://www.historiaviva.org/nombres/nombres_cordob15-ing.shtml]

Rodriguez - http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp/sId./kbId.316/title.Sample+History:+Rodriguez/qx/knowledgebase.htm - Cites that the name Rodriquez has been traced to its source in Castile, where the name originated in Visigothic times. Variations include: Rodriguez, Rodriz, Rodríguiz, Rodriguiz, Rodrigo, Roderiz, Ruderiz, Roiz. The Rodriguez family originated in Old Castile, where the Visigothic nobles became established. One of the first records of the name is from the ninth century, making it one of the oldest documented Castilian surnames.

Aragones - http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp/sId./kbId.18/qx/knowledgebase.htm - Spelling variations include: Aragón, Aragon, de Aragón, de Aragon, Arogonés and many more. First found in Aragon, in northeastern Spain. Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Early migrants to the New World bearing this surname were: Diego de Aragón, who sailed to America in 1528 with his brother Pedro: Francisco de Aragón sailed to America in 1513.

Herald of Record: Taranach

10. Drogomir Von Litwin - New name

The name is intended to be male. The submitter will accept minor changes only and cares most about 13th century Polish language/culture. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Drogomir - website: Magistra Nicolaa de Bracton of Leicester, "Early Germanic Names from Primary Sources" at http://members.tripod.com/nicolaa5/articles/german.html dates <Drogo> to 5th-9th century in Penguin Classics Two Lives of Charlemagne.

Searle, Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum, s.n. Drogo, dated to 367.

Litwin - Bahlow, Dictionary of German Names, s.n. Littwin. The Polish word is <Littauer>, meaning "Lithuanian". Undated.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

11. Eoin of Argyll - New name, New device

Per pall Or, sable and purpure, a chief vert.

The name is intended to be male. The submitter will accept minor changes only and cares most about the sound "O-wen of AR-guy-ell". The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Eoin - OCM, p. 58, header form.

Argyll - Johnston, p. 87, s.n. Argyle. Former spelling is dated prior to end of grey period; latter spelling dated to 1425.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

10. Eudoxia Antonina - New name, New device

Or, an apple tree gules fructed Or, on a chief gules a crescent between two roundels all Or.

The name is intended to be female. The submitter will accept any changes and requests authenticity for 6th - 7th century Byzantine.

Eudoxia - website: Chavez, "Common Names of the Aristocracy in the Roman Empire During the 6th and 7th Centuries" at http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/byzantine/early_byz_names.html lists <Eudocia>, and the male form <Eudoxius>.

Antonina - website: Chavez, op. cit., lists <Antonius>. The client would like the patronymic form of Antonius

Herald of Record: Pennsic

13. Failenn de Céarsaigh - New device

Per pale azure and argent, a vol counterchanged.

The name was registered in May 2002. Her old device, Counterermine, a nude winged woman statant affronty wings displayed argent crined azure within a bordure argent (registered November 2002), will be released when this device is accepted.

Herald of Record: Roanna d'Evreux

(fieldless) A brown onager rampant proper within and conjoined to a joscelyn wreathed gules and ermine belled Or.

The name was registered in April 2003 via Æthelmearc. There is one device and one badge currently associated with this name

Herald of Record: Pennsic

15. Gabrán Glas - New name

The name is intended to be male. The submitter will accept minor changes only and cares most about spelling. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Gabrán - website: "Identity of Arthur" at http://www.templum.freeserve.co.uk/history/strathclyde/realarthur.htm. <Gabran> is given as the name of a king who took his throne in 537-540 AD, per the Annals of Tigernach and other annals.

Black, p. 214, s.n. Domangart, says "Domingartus or Domangartus, son of Aidan mac Gabhran" was slain in a battle dated to 598.

Glas - Gaelic descriptive byname meaning "grey". Dictionary of the Irish Language s.n. Glas, lists this word and many examples of the word appearing in early texts.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

16. Gabriela Von Litwin - New name

The name is intended to be female. The submitter will accept minor changes only and cares most about 13th century Polish language/culture. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Gabriela - website: Speer and Mittleman, "Polish Given Names in Nazwiska Polakolw" at http://s-gabriel.org/names/ walraven/polish/ s.n. masculine names gives <Gabriel> and <Gabryjel>

Wickendon, Dictionary of Period Russian Names s.n. Gabriel, given as a variant of the masculine name <Gavriil>. S.n. Gavriil, <Gavriil Bozhin> is dated to 1500; <Gavrila Baishin> is dated to 1445, all masculine.

Website: Scott, "Medieval German Given Names from Silesia" s.n. Gabriel gives one occurrence in 1365 and two occurrences in 1422.

Litwin - Bahlow, Dictionary of German Names, s.n. Littwin. The Polish word is <Littauer>, meaning "Lithuanian". Undated.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

17. Gillian Llywelyn - New badge

Per pale vert and argent, a stag's head cabossed and in chief a mullet sable.

The name was registered in September 1996 via East. There is one device currently associated with this name.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

18. Grania filia Briani - New name, New device

Per fess vert and sable, a winged boar statant argent and a lymphad Or.

The name is intended to be female. The submitter will accept minor changes only and cares most about the meaning "Grania daughter of Brianus," specifying the she "just wants Grania". The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Grania - OCM, p. 114, s.n. Gráinne: Irish myth, retained its popularity (for real people) through late Middle Ages. Famous Gráinne (Grace O Malley)

Woulfe, Sloinnte Gaideal irGall, p. 211, s.n. Gráinne, gives Latin form as <Grania>.

Withycombe, 3rd ed., p. 138, s.n. Grainne, Grania: header spelling.

filia - Latin meaning "daughter"

Briani - OCM, p. 35, s.n. Brian: popular since Brian Bora's 1014 victory.

Woulfe, p. 113, s.n. Brian, gives Latin as Brianus.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

19. Isabella FitzRandolph - New device

Per pale vert and ermine argent with sable, a trefoil per pale argent and sable.

Her name was registered in July 2004.

Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd du

20. Isabella FitzRandolph - New badge

(Fieldless) a trefoil per pale vert and ermine argent with sable.

Her name was registered in July 2004.

Herald of Record: Cadell Blaidd du

21. Juliana de Duglas - New name

The name is intended to be female. The submitter will accept any changes and cares most about sound. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Juliana - Withycombe, p. 184, s.n. Juliana, dated to 1196-1220; 1273

de Duglas - Black, p. 218, s.n. Douglas, says "William de Duglas, the first of the family in record, between 1175 and 1199..."

Herald of Record: Pennsic

22. Katerine Chamberlyne - New name

The name is intended to be female. The submitter will accept minor changes only and cares most about sound. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Katerine - website: Scott, "Feminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames", s.n. Katharine at http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/reaney/reaney.cgi?Katharine dates this spelling to 1437, 1450 and 1502

Chamberlyne - website: O'Brien, "Name Distribution in King's Stanley Marriages: 1573-1600", at http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/mari/kingsstanley/SurnamesAlpha.html, s.n. Chamberlyn, dates <Chamberlyne> to 1577

Herald of Record: Pennsic

23. Katrina of York - New name, New device

Per fess wavy Or and purpure, two dragons sejant counterchanged.

The name is intended to be female. The submitter will accept minor changes only and cares most about sound and English language/culture. She specifically requests that Katrina not be changed to Katerina. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Katrina - Withycombe, s.n. Katharine, dates <Katerine> to 15th century and <Katerina> to 1428.

website: Scott, "Feminine Given Names in A Dictionary of English Surnames", s.n. Katharine at http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/reaney/reaney.cgi?Katharine dates <Kateryn> to 1456, <Kateryne> to 1524, and <Kateryna> to 1296

website: Friedemann, "16th Century Gloucestershire Names" at http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/late16.html lists both <Katheryn> and <Katryne>

Based on the above, the shift of <-y-> to <-i-> and of <-e> to <-a> is proposed as a reasonable extrapolation from <Katryne>, yielding <Katrina>.

York - Reaney & Wilson, s.n. York, dates <John de York> to 1324 and <Thomas York> to 1522.

N.B.: If there is a mundane conflict (consulting herald at Pennsic could not check), the submitter will allow the addition of the byname <Wulfricson>, as documented in the submission for Ulric Wulfricson below.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

24. Kieran Ursel - New name, New device

Vert, a bear rampant argent collared sable between three bezants.

The name is intended to be male. The submitter will accept minor changes only and cares most about the meaning of Ursel as "bear." The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Kieran - OCM, s.n. Ciaran: "according to early Irish sources, there were some 6 saints of the name...generally anglicized Kieran."

Ursel - Reaney & Wilson, s.n. Ursell gives <William Ursel> dated 1163

Herald of Record: Pennsic

25. Lodowick of Greys Inn - New badge

(fieldless) A spidersweb purpure.

The name was registered in August 1995 via East. There is one badge currently associated with this name.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

26. Luceta di Cosimo - New name, New device

Sable, a raremouse between three fleaurs-de-lys one and two Or.

No intended gender is given. The submitter will accept any changes. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Luceta - De Felice, Dizionario dei Nomi Italiani, p. 240, s.n. Lucia gives <Lucetta>. Submitter prefers one t, not two,  yielding <Luceta>.

Cosimo - De Felice, Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani, p. 108, s.n. Cosma.

Fucilla, Joseph, Our Italian Surnames, p. 20, describes this as a Greek and Roman name.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

27. Mendel Wisebegere - New name, New device

Per chevron vert semy of cogwheels Or and argent, two open books argent and a right triangle voided vert .

The name submission form is absent from the submissions packet. According to the Pennsic Name Worksheet, the submitter will accept any changes and requests authenticity for the surname only for 1350-1450-ish Moravia or Bavaria.

Mendel - Bahlow-Gentry, p. 326, s.n. Mendel, dates <Mendel> to 1414, 1365 and 1381 as a masculine given name in Moravia, Brünn and Linz, respectively.

Wisebegere - website: Scott, "Some Early Middle High German Bynames with Emphasis on Names from the Bavarian Dialect Area" at http://www.s-gabriel.org/ names/talan/Early_German_Bynames.html dates this spelling to 1250

Herald of Record: Pennsic

28. Mendel Wisebegere - Household name: Schmiedekamp Haus

The name submission form is absent from the submissions packet. According to the Pennsic Name Worksheet, the submitter will accept any changes and cares most about sound. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Schmiedekamp - Bahlow-Gentry, s.n. Schmiedekampf: a placename ('smith-field') in Westphalia, used here as a surname to designate a family (a [semi-]organized group of people as required for households in the RfS). Note that <Schmiedekamp> is the submitter's legal surname.

Haus - German for "house". Seems to have the same family of extended meanings as the English for use as a household designator.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

29. Míchéal Dúin Gharbhaín Ó Murchadha - New name

The name is intended to be male. The submitter will accept any changes and cares most about Irish Gaelic language/culture. The submitter requests authenticity for 16th century Southern Irish.

Míchéal - OCM, p. 136, s.n. Míchél, gives <Míchéal> as the post-1200 form.

Dúin Gharbhaín - Room, p. 51, s.n. Dungarven gives <Dún Garbhaín>. The genitive form is <Dúin Gharbhaín>, with the second element lenited.

Ó Murchadha - Woulfe, p. 194, s.n. Ó Murchadha gives this as the genitive. Undated.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

30. Minamoto no Taikawa Saiaiko - New name

This name is intended to be feminine. The submitter requests authenticity for 12th Century Japan and for Japanese language, but the submitter will accept no changes. She cares most about the meaning of the name, Saiaiko, which she believes to mean "beloved child".

The included documentation is as cited forthwith:

Minamoto - http://www.sengokudaimyo.com/miscellany/names.html
A table on the Web page is titled: "Some surnames of families active prior to 1600:" and includes the name Minamoto.

The vast majority of surnames consist of two kanji; a few names use three or more, and there is a handful of one kanji names as well. Some of the latter - though by no means all, as such native Japanese names as Katsura, Minamoto, and Kusunoki show - point to possible Chinese or Korean ancestry, where single-kanji surnames are the rule.

Ex: Minamoto

Reference: Barbara Nostrand's Name Construction in Medieval Japan.

The College of Arms has in the past discouraged the use of historically significant surnames such as Fujiwara, Minamoto, Taira, Hojo, Ashikaga, and Tokugawa. These names were used by many people and probably should be admissible for use in the Society for Creative Anachronism. Only Yamato and Toyotomi should be reserved surnames.

As well, within th eera that contains The Gempei Wars (1181-85 AD), the Heian Jidai and in the Kamakura Jidai, one could take the clan name, Minamoto, in return for swearing fealty to a daimyo of the clan. This surname does not fall under the restrictions of Presumptuous Names.

Taikawa - Reference: Barbara Nostrand's Name Construction in Medieval Japan.

Using the place-name construction chart in Barbara Nostrand's Name Construction in Medieval Japan, I have constructed the name Taikawa using the prefix Tai, meaning "big", and -kawa, meaning "river." Minamoto no Taikawa (http://www.sengokudaimyo.com/miscellany/names.html)

During the Heian and early Kamakura periods, the names of the aristocracy would be rendered as "Surname no Given name". The "no" is analogous to the German "von" or the French "de" (yes, and the English "of"). Literally, the name Minamoto no Yoritomo is "Yoritomo of the Minamoto". Ex: Minamoto (clan name) no Taikawa (given name).

Saiaiko - http://www.sengokudaimyo.com/miscellany/names.html

Most of the "names" of women known in early Japan are not the actual names of the women in question. Sei Shônagon, for example, the author of Makura no Sôshi (The Pillow Book) and other writings, is known by the Chinese pronounciation of the first kanji in her family's name (Kiyowara) and a court-title sobriquet. Likewise, the true name of Murasaki Shikibu, author of the Tale of Genji, is unknown. The latter seems to have been called Tô no Shikibu in earlier sources; the "Tô" is the first character from the name "Fujiwara", into a cadet branch of which she had been born; the "Shikibu" comes from the title of an office held by her father and brother; the "Murasaki" was a nickname given her owing to the lead female character in her book, Genji Monogalari (The Tale of the Genji).

A table on this page titled: "Common elements in women's names" includes the suffic -ko/-shi, meaning "child."
Ex: Saiai (beloved) -ko (child)

Herald of Record: Magariki Katsuichi no Koredono

31. Pádraig an Fhasaigh - New name, New device

Quarterly Or and gules, on a chief sable three harps Or.

The name is intended to be male. The submitter will accept minor changes only, but specifically allows change to <Padraig Bharain> or <Padraig Ó Murnain>. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Pádraig - OCM, p. 152, s.n. Pátraic. Undated.

Website: O'Brien, "Index of Names in Irish Annals", s.n. Padraig at http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/mari/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/Padraig.html gives this as the nominative standard Early Modern Irish Gaelic form (c1200-c1700).

an Fhasaigh - Website: O'Brien, "Index of Names in Irish Annals", s.n. an Fhasaigh at http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/mari/AnnalsIndex/DescriptiveBynames/anFhasaigh.shtml gives this as the genitive standard Early Modern Irish Gaelic form (c1200-c1700) meaning "[of] the wilderness".

Herald of Record: Pennsic

32. Paul Spyke - New device

Gules, on a cross Or a mullet gules, on a chief indented Or two dragons passant respectant gules.

The name was registered in March 2004 via Æthelmearc. There is no device or badge currently associated with this name.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

33. Paul Spyke - New badge

Gules, a dexter tierce Or.

The name was registered in March 2004 via Æthelmearc. There is no device or badge currently associated with this name, but a device submission accompanies this item (see above).

Herald of Record: Pennsic

34. Poe Silvertop - New name, New device

Per chevron azure and sable, a rapier inverted argent and overall an apple Or.

The name is intended to be male. The submitter will accept minor changes only and cares most about sound. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Poe - Reaney & Wilson, s.n. Paw. Describes <Poe> as from Old Norse <Pá>, Middle English <Po> 'peacock', used both as a personal-name and as a nickname. <Pavo Cocus> is dated to 1203; <Robert son of Pawe> to 1277.

Silvertop - Jönsjö, Jan, Middle English Nicknames, vol. I Compounds, p. 161, s.n. Silvertop, dates <Ric. Silvertop> to 1388.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

35. Rayne le Fey - New name, New device

Purpure, a cat couchant gardant contourney, a chief indented argent.

The name is intended to be female. The submitter will accept minor changes only and cares most about sound. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Rayne - Reaney & Wilson, s.n. Rain dates <Richard Rayneson> to 1379 and says, "Fr Reine, Lat Regina 'queen', a personal-name found in France; also a nickname, here derogatory."

le Fey - Reaney & Wilson, s.n. Fay dates <Margaret le Fey> to 1332; from Old French fae 'fairy'

Herald of Record: Pennsic

36. Reinhardt Holtgreve - New name, New device

Argent, a chevron inverted vert and in chief a pine tree eradicated proper.

The name is intended to be male. The submitter will accept minor changes only and cares most about the meaning "forest ranger." The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Reinhardt - Bahlow, Deutches Namenlexicon, s.n. Reinhard(t). Gentry's translation states "popular personal name in the Middle Ages," though no dated citations are given.

Holtgreve - Bahlow, Deutches Namenlexicon, s.n. Holtgrewe, cites <Bruno Holtgreve> 1351.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

Azure a unicorn rampant, in chief five pointed croses Or.

The name is intended to be feminine. The submitter requests authenticity for 13th Century Britain, but will accept no changes and cares most about the language/culture.

There was no documentation submitted for this name. Can the college assist with documentation?

Herald of Record: none

38. Safiye bint Kara Sun'üllah - New name

The name is intended to be female. The submitter will accept any changes and requests authenticity for 16th century Turkish language/culture.

Safiye - website: Witcher, "16th Century Turkish Names" at http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/ursula/ottoman/ s.n. Women's Names, lists <Safiye> as a Muslim name.

Kara - Op. Cit., s.n. Titles and Bynames, gives <Kara> meaning "black, unlucky, gloomy" and gives as an example <Kara Mustafa>

Sun'üllah - Op. Cit., s.n. Men's Names, gives <Sun'üllah> as a Muslim name.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

39. Shea Rose O'Donnell - New name, New device

Purpure a rose argent with leaves vert.

This name is intended to be feminine. The submitter requests authenticity for 13th Century Irish, but will not accept changes and cares most about the language/culture.

There was no documentation submitted for this name. Can the college assist with documentation?

Herald of Record: none

Per chevron Gules and Argent, in pale a riding bit Or and an eagle Sable.

The name was registered in December 1996 via Atenveldt. There is one badge currently associated with this name.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

41. Skalla-Valgarðr Gunnarsson - New badge

Purpure, on a pile argent a raven Volant wings displayed bendwise sinister sable.

The name was registered in April 2001 via Æthelmearc. There is one device currently associated with this name.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

42. Skjaldv{o,}r Vikarsdöttir - New name, New device

Per saltire sable and vert, an opicus segreant contourney within a bordure argent.

The name is intended to be female. The submitter will accept minor changes only, cares most about language/culture and requests authenticity for early period Norse.

Skjaldv{o,}r - Geirr Bassi, p. 14, cites this as a feminine name from the Heimskringla.

Vikarsdöttir - Geirr Bassi, p. 16, gives <Vikarr> as a masculine name from the Íslendingasogur. <-rr> becomes <-rs> in the genitive, giving <Vikars>.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

43. Sorcha inghean Airt - New name, New device

Vert, on a lozenge argent, a butterfly displayed azure.

The name is intended to be female. The submitter will accept any changes, cares most about language/culture and requests authenticity for post-1200 Gaelic culture.

Sorcha - Withycombe; also O'Corrain and Maguire - header, p. 167

inghean - proper Gaelic term for "daughter of" - see http://www.medievalscotland.org/scoCLRames/quickgaelicbynames#simplepatronymicbyname.

Airt - proper form of patronymic - Arte; see http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/irish100/.

Herald of Record: Matilda Bosvyle

44. Thomas Lestrange - New device

Gules, on a chevron between three estoiles Or three lozenges sable.

His name was registered in April 2004.

Herald of Record: Roana d'Evreux.

45. Þorfinna hrogn Jósepsdottir - New name

The name is intended to be female. The submitter will accept minor changes only and cares most about sound. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Þorfinna - Geirr Bassi, p. 16, cites this as a feminine name with one occurrence in the Landnámabók

hrogn - Geirr Bassi, p. 23, meaning 'roe, spawn'. Two occurrences in the Landnámabók.

Jósepsdottir - Geirr Bassi, p. 12, gives <Jósep> as a masculine name of Christian origin.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

46. Tommasa Isolana - New name, New device

Purpure, a bird of paradise displayed Or, on a chief argent a broadsword fesswise sable.

The name is intended to be female. The submitter will accept any changes and cares most about the  meaning "islander/of the island". The submitter is not requesting authenticity for, but is interested in Italian language of any time period.

Tomassa - De Felice, Dizionario dei Nomi Italiani, p. 344, s.n. Tommaso

Website: Mittleman, "Feminine Given Names from the Online Catasto of Florence of 1427" cites 19 occurances of <Tomassa>

Isolana - Langenscheidt Standard Italian Dictionary, p. 171 s.n. islander, gives <isolano>. <Isolana> is the presumed feminine form.

De Felice, Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani, p. 147, s.n. Isola gives "derivati: Isolani" <-i> should be the masculine plural, with <-a> the presumed feminine singular.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

47. Ulric Wulfricson - New name, New device

Sable, a drakkar Or sailed argent within a snake involved in annulo Or.

The name is intended to be male. The submitter will accept minor changes only and cares most about sound. The submitter specifically requests that no letters be added to the end of <Ulric>. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Ulric - Searle, s.n. Ulfric

Wulfricson - constructed byname.

<Wulfric>: numerous headers in Searle with dates including 956, 901, 1044-1061, and 890. Reaney & Wilson, s.n. Woolrich gives <William Wulfric> in 1212.

<-son>: Reaney & Wilson, s.n. Williamson, dates <Arnold Williamssone> to 1360; s.n. Stephenson, dates <Adam Stevenson> to 1327

Herald of Record: Pennsic

48. Una of Rabenwald - New name, New device

Per bend gules and sable, a dragon passant and an anvil argent.

No intended gender is given. The submitter will accept any changes, according to the check boxes. However, while the submitter specifically allows for changes in spelling of <Una>, she allows no changes to <Rabenwald>. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Una - Withycombe, s.n. Una: "sometimes used in England after Una in Spencer's Faerie Queene"

Rabenwald - constructed byname.

<Raben->: Bahlow, s.n. Rabenstein gives <Hensel Rabenstein> dated to 1381.

<-wald>: Bahlow, s.n. Vogel, gives <Walther von der Vogelweide>, attesting to the <bird>+<geographic feature> construction of a placename.

Bahlow: s.n. Grunewald, gives <Hinrich Grunewalt> 1322; s.n. Hauswald, gives <Hannos Huswald> 1413

Herald of Record: Pennsic

49. Vladimir Mechnik - New name, New device

Sable, two natural panthers combatant and on a point pointed argent a rose sable slipped and leaved vert.

The name is intended to be male. The submitter will accept any changes and cares most about the meaning "Vladimir the swordsman" and sound. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Vladimir - Wickenden, A DIctionary of Period Russian Names (3rd ed.), s.n. Vladimir. Header spelling dated to 1053, many other uses as late as 1605 (that one spelled <Wlodimir>).

Mechnik - Wickenden, A DIctionary of Period Russian Names (3rd ed.), s.n. Mechnik: byname meaning 'warrior, swordsman' dated 1614 in this header spelling.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

50. Wentlian Bekelert - New device

Per pale sable and azure, a crescent and a chief invected Or.

The name was registered in March 2004 via Æthelmearc. There is no device or badge currently associated with this name.

Herald of Record: Pennsic

Gules, a kanji argent.

This name is intended to be masculine. The submitter requests authenticity for 16th Century Japanese language/culture. He will accept any changes and cares most about the meaning of the name. He says that it means "calm path - mountain field".

There was no documentation submitted for this name. Can the college assist with documentation? Also, can anyone offer information on the device?

Herald of Record: Khodoska Mordosova