Greetings!
Here are my comments.
1. Æthelmearc, Kingdom of - This should be redrawn so that the pots are not conjoined to the chevron. I found no conflicts.
2.AÃbell ingen Diarmata - A bit of blazon fu: "Or, a snail between flaunches gules each charged with a snail Or." No conflicts found.
It's not clear from OCM whether this name was ever used by real people; they mention an old Irish goddess, who was "according to some legends a supernatural lady who lives in the fairy-mound of Craig Liath." They also say that in other stories "there is mention of AÃbell, daughter of the Ulster warrior Celtchar mac Uithechair, and of AÃbell Gr{u'}adsolus, (AÃbell of the bright cheeks) who is daughter of the king of Munster." It would be good to see clear evidence that this name was used by people outside of legendary stories; without such evidence, the name is not registerable. The name does not appear in Mari's Annals index (though there is the similar name <Ailbe>, dated to 1077).
3.Andreas Jäger - Good name; I found no conflicts.
The submitter should told to draw the chief with about half as many rayons. The combination of rayonny and enarched in the same charge is registerable per this precedent:
"Justinian the Gentle. Name and device. Or, an elephant rampant and on a chief enarched and invected azure a crescent between two musical notes argent. To quote from the LoAR of June 1997, "While it is true that lines could be enarched and also embattled, engrailed, et cetera, the enarching was basically to show the curvature of the shield". Enarched lines are an exception to the general practice of disallowing the combination of two different complex lines of partition into one line of partition, so this enarched and invected chief may be accepted." [LoAR 05/2002]
I found no conflicts.
4.Arden Scot - The header has <Arden>, but the documentation has <Ardan>. I searched the CELT archive (http://www.ucc.ie/ celt/search.html), and got no hits for the submitted spelling. The use of <Arden> as a given name appears to be modern; it isn't even listed in Withycombe. I also checked Black and R&W ; the only eamples are from R&W s.n. Arden, which has <Adam de Arden> 1268.
Barring evidence for <Arden> as a given name in period, this should be corrected to the documented <Ardan>. This should be clear of <Art the Scot> (reg. 12/2005 via the Outlands), since <Art> and <Ardan> since the given names look and sound substantially different. On the other hand, <-an> is a diminutive suffix in Gaelic, so I don't know if <Ardan> is etymologically a diminutive of <Art>, in which case this would be a conflict irrespective of other differences between the names. OCM doesn't have <Ardan>, but does have <Art{a'}n> as a header, and notes that it is a diminutive of <Art>. I believe this is in fact a conflict.
5.Cerridwyn ingen Cera - <Cerridwen> is SCA-compatible, but <Cerridwyn> is not:
"This name has a weirdness for use of Cerridwyn, which is registerable only because it is grandfathered to the submitter. The spelling Cerridwyn is not SCA compatible; only the spellings Ceridwen and Cerridwen were ruled SCA compatible in August 1995." [LoAR 04/2002]
Furthermore, Welsh/Gaelic combinations were ruled unregisterable on the on the January 2005 LoAR.
I found no conflicts with the arms.
6.GrÃmólfr Ormulfsson - Nice arms, I found no conflicts. The name looks fine too.
7.Hrefna Úlfvarinsdóttir - The name looks good. The arms are clear of Ceara nà Loideáin (reg. 02/1996 via Atlantia), "Per pale azure and argent, a crescent and a demi sun issuant from base counterchanged," with one CD for the number of primaries, and another for removing the secondary base. That was the closest I found.
8.Kiara Kavanagh - "Behind the Name" is not an acceptable source for documentation:
"Torgeir of Falcon's Keep. Name. Although the commenters documented the given name from reasonable sources, the LoI only documented it from "Behind The Name: the etymology and history of first names" (http://www.behindthename.com/nmc/nor2.html). This site is not an acceptable source for documentation for SCA names. It may be used as a starting point, but any name found on it must be documented from other, more scholarly, sources. It should not appear on an LoI as the sole citation for anything." [LoAR 09/2005]
S. Gabriel Report #2105 (www.s-gabriel.org/2105) says:
"Unfortunately, we have found no late-period Irish woman's name that sounds anything like <Kiara>."
Report #2057 (www.s-gabriel.org/2057) says:
"<Ciara> or <Kiara> is not a period Irish name. It is a modern latinized or anglicized form of one of at least three early medieval names, which we've listed below with their pronunciations [1, 2]:
Ciar \KEE@R\ Ciarnat \KEE@R-n@tch\ Cera \KEHR-@\
The symbol \@\ represents a schwa, the last sound in <soda>. These names were all in use in early medieval Ireland, but we haven't found evidence of their use later in period; so we recommend them only through 1200 or so."
Woulfe gives no period citations s.n. Caomhánach, anglicized or otherwise. I was unable to find any anglicized forms in any other sources either.
Mari's Annals index has <Chaomhanach> in 1465, however, <Ciar Chaomhanach> would not be registerable because there is one weirdness for the temporal disparity, and another for combining Early Modern and Old/Middle Gaelic in the same name.
I found no conflicts with the arms.
9.Sabina de Lyons - Inverted animate creatures are not registerable:
"Mistylla of the Misty Isle. Badge. (fieldless) Two mice salient respectant inverted, tails nowed together Or. The charges are not in a blazonable heraldic posture; not really being salient, passant, statant or couchant. Additionally, the College has judged inverted creatures to be unacceptable style, barring documentation of this practice in period heraldry." [LoAR 09/1993]
10.Siobhan Callánach - The article by Tangwystyl cited on the ELoI is not reliable, as legendary and non-human names have not been separated out, and has been superceded by Mari's Annals index. In particular, S. Gabriel has found the following about <Uathach>:
"We do have an example a woman with the byname <Uathach> "horrible, dreadful"; but it appears in an early medieval genealogy which includes a mixture of historical people and legendary or mythical figures. As we explained in our previous report [1], this particular woman appears to be legendary, not a real person. We therefore recommend strongly that you not use this byname."
(Report #2333, www.s-gabriel.org/2333)
The bynames from the Annals index appear to be much more straightforward, and based on physical characteristics, e.g. "young", "big", "crooked". I searched the CELT archive, and found no hits for <Callánach>.
If it turns out that it is a reasonable byname, it will need to be lenited, since it is being used in a woman's name, e.g. <Challánach>.
I found no conflicts with the arms.
That's all for now!
-Aryanhwy merch Catmael, Albion Herald