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Letter of Intent #91
Myfanwy ferch Rhiannon
Feast of St. Nicholas
6 December, AS XL
Greetings from Myfanwy!
Enclosed pray find commentary on Æ #91. Because the letter was
short,
and because there was some question as to whether this could be
appended to the ELoI for Æ #90, I tried to get commentary out
quickly. Conflict-checking was done up through the August 2005 LoAR
(the most
recent posted online).
I remain your servant and the Society’s.
Lady Myfanwy ferch Rhiannon
Ruth Morrisson
myfanwy@nauticom.net
1. Tancred of Thescorre
The Withycombe docs are as cited. I don’t have Dauzat. Reaney and
Wilson [p. 439, sn Tancred] gives dated citations for the form
<Tancredus>: Tancredus [sic] filius Bernardi, and
Tancredus [sic] de Witton, (both dated to 1253). Morlet [p. 917,
sn Tancré,
-ez] says:
de personne d’origine germ. Tan- [sic] crad [sic]
[tanc- [sic], se rattache au
got. thaghs [sic], v.h.a. danc,
tanc [sic], après la mutation consonantique,
pensée, souvenir; -rad [sic], conseil], forme
savante Tan- [sic] crède [sic]
(Normandie).
However, it isn’t at all clear whether this is helpful, and Morlet
gives no dated citations for this name or its apparent variants.
The docs for the byname are as given; the group’s device was
registered 12/83 (East).
2. William Smydele von Soelinge (device resub) -- Argent, a
double-horned anvil sable within a bordure vert.
I still haven’t tracked down my copy of the PIC-DIC, so I am unsure as
to whether there is a CD between different types of anvils. I tried
to check in the Precedents
[http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/precedents/], but very little
information was found -- there was contradictory evidence as to the
period-ness of a single-horned anvil vs. a double-horned anvil (and
very old Precedents at that -- the most recent discussion about anvils
at all dates to Alisoun MacCoul’s tenure, and only discusses the the
standard orientation for a single-horned anvil).
possibly not clear of: Richard of Black Iron (badge, 7/89 Caid) --
Argent, a single-horned anvil reversed sable, enflamed proper.
There is a CD for adding the bordure. Without actually seeing the
registered badge, it is unclear whether the flaming is significant
enough to considered “sustained”.
possibly clear of: Heatherwyne, Shire of (badge, 2/86 Caid) --
Argent, a sprig of heather palewise vert surmounted by a single-horned
anvil sable.
There is a CD for adding the bordure; if the sprig is significant
enough to be considered the primary charge (or at least a co-primary)
there should be a second CD.
Bibliography: Morlet, Marie-Thérèse. Dictionnaireétymologiquedesnomsdefamille, nouvelle édition revue et augmentée.
[??]: Librairie
Académique Perrin, 1991, 1997.
Reaney, P. H. and R. M. Wilson. ADictionaryofEnglishSurnames, Rev.
3rd. Ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Withycombe, E. G. TheOxfordDictionaryofEnglishChristianNames, 3rd.
Ed. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press,
1977.