Æthelmearc Letter of Report Æ93
April 20, 2005 (AS 40)

Greetings from Garnet and Cornelian,

We would very much like to thank those who commented on these items: Aryanhwy merch Catmael, The Heronter Heralds Commenting Group, and Myfanwy ferch Rhiannon!

The items accepted on this letter have been forwarded to Laurel for further consideration, where we expect they will be decided on in July of 2006.

1.  Alicia Hennenberg – New Device Returned

Per pale vert and sable, two peacocks pavonated addorsed and in chief two acorns slipped and leaved inverted argent.

This device appears to be in conflict with RfS XI.3 which states, regarding fields divided per pale or quarterly:

Such fields may be used with identical charges over the entire field, or with complex lines of partition or charges overall that were not used for marshalling in period heraldry.

Such fields may only be used when no single portion of the field may appear to be an independent piece of armory.

No section of the field may contain an ordinary that terminates at the edge of that section, or more than one charge unless those charges are part of a group over the whole field. Charged sections must all contain charges of the same type to avoid the appearance of being different from each other.

This device has more than one type of charge, and thus does not use “identical charges over the entire field.” The secondary charges, being in chief, are not “part of a group over the whole field.” Thus, this device must regrettably be returned.

2.  Anton Vadim – New Name Accepted, New Device Accepted (with change of blazon)

Per fess sable and purpure semy throughout of double-bitted axes Or.

On the suggestion of commenters, the blazon has been changed from the originally submitted Per fess sable and purpure, thirteen double-bitted axes Or. Also, the emblazon on all black and white versions of the ILoI omitted the fess line, which was corrected on the XloI.

3.  Béibhinn Mackynnay – New Device Accepted

Per bend engrailed argent and sable, a raven and a decrescent counterchanged.

4.  Camy inghean mhic Cullaich of Cardoness – New Name Accepted (with change); subequently withdrawn

Originally submitted as <Camy inghean Mhic Culloch of Cardoness>, we have corrected the capitalization of <mhic> and conformed the patronym to the Gaelic as given in Black, p. 483, s.n. MacCulloch.

After the External Letter of Intent had been published, the submitter informed us that she would like to revise her name to a fully Scots form. We issued Æthelmearc Letter of Correction dated April 20, 2006, with drawing the name as submitted here. The new form of the name will be treated as a resubmission.

5.  Deirdre Scot – New Name Accepted

We note that the combination of Scots and Gaelic counts as a step from period practice. <Deirdre>, being an SCA-compatible name, introduces a second step from period practice. However, recent discussion on the SCA Heralds list serve has provided new evidence for the use of <Deirdre> as a feminine given name by an historical woman in period. In light of this new evidence, we are forwarding the submission unchanged and inviting Pelican to review the SCA-combatable status of the name <Deirdre>.

6.  Kaðlín Sigvaldakona – New Name Accepted (with change), New Device Accepted (with change of bazon)

Per bend sinister wavy argent and gules, four domestic cats in bend sinister two and two counterchanged.

Originally submitted as <Kaðlin Sigvaldiskona>, we have added the accent in the given name, and corrected the genitive form of the patronym, as indicated in Geirr Bassi Haraldsson.

7.  Sifrid der Blint – New Name Accepted, New Device Accepted

Quarterly vert and argent, a mace bendwise argent between two wolf’s heads erased vert.

8.  Sigvaldi inn enski – New Name Accepted, New Device Accepted

Per chevron argent and sable, a crescent counterchanged.

9.  Sorcha inghean Airt – New Device (kingdom resubmission) Accepted

Vert, on a lozenge argent a butterfly displayed azure and a chief wavy argent.

10.  Sven Tyrvisson – Resubmitted Device Accepted

Vert, a Thor’s hammer inverted and in chief three mullets of six points Or.

The Internal Letter of Intent indicated that this was a new device to Laurel (kingdom resubmission). This is actually a resubmission to Laurel. His original device was returned at Laurel in March 1994.

11.  Tristán Isidro de Alcaçar – New Name Accepted, New Device Accepted

Gules, a trebuchet argent and on a chief embattled Or three towers sable.

Some question was raised in commentary as to whether the arm of the trebuchet should point to dexter or sinister, and as to whether the arm of the trebuchet was depicted “at rest,” which is the SCA default. We defer to Wreath for clarification. 

This concludes our Letter of Report Æ 93 dated April 20, 2006.