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 anticipate they will be decided on in November 2006.
1.
Andreas Jäger – New Name, New
Device accepted
Argent, a bear sejant
erect sable and on a chief rayonny enarched gules
a lightning bolt fesswise argent.
This item was pended on LoR AE95.
Commenters had noted a
conflict with with <Enderlin Jäger>, item #4 on the West's
24 May 2006
ELoI. <Enderlin> is a diminutive
of <Andreas> in German. Since
Enderlin's name isn't registered yet, this could not be returned for
conflict.
The item was pended to allow further consultation with the submitter.
We have discussed the matter with the submitter, who prefers to continue with the submission as is. The submitter is considering adding the locative <von Holstein>, but is not willing to allow major changes at this time. If necessary, he prefers to add the locative under a later resubmission.
2. Arnþóra Grímarskona – New Name and Device accepted.
Sable, a bear rampant contourny and on a chief engrailed argent, three bear's pawprints purpure.
3. Calylvorr Ine Skylycorne – Resubmitted Name and Device accepted.
Per pale argent and sable, two griffins sejant respectant, each with one forepaw raised, counterchanged.
During commentary, the question was raised as to whether the primary charges, as emblazoned, are actually in chief. We defer to Wreath’s judgement.
4. Duncan von Halstern – Change of Name accepted.
5. Gaston de Barre – Change of Device accepted.
Per pale gules and sable, a tyger rampant within a bordure argent.
6. Grímarr Bjarnarson – New Name and Device accepted.
Sable, a bear's head caboshed
and on a chief Or three
fleurs-de-lys vert.
Commenters noted that the bear, as emblazoned, should probably be reblazoned “Or, marked sable.” After consultation with the submitter, the device has been redrawn with less interior striping.
7. Kiara
Kavanagh – Name and Device returned
Argent, a rose
purpure
barbed vert seeded Or, in chief three crosses flory azure.
This item was
pended on LoR
AE95.
As noted on our
Letter of
Report AE95, the
documentation source given by the submitter for the given name is not
adequately reliable as a scholarly source. Commenters found no
acceptable
documentation for the submitted given name, which appears to be a
modern
Anglicization of the Old/Middle Irish form <Ciar>. The byname
appears to
be an Anglicization of the Early Modern Irish descriptive byname, <Cáomhanach>. Although the submitter
has requested
authenticity for “Celtic,” she does not allow the major changes
necessary to
make this Anglicized name authentic to the Gaelic language.
Because this will
be the
second return to this submitter, the item was pended to allow further
direct
consultation. The submitter is currently preparing another resubmission
with
our assistance, which should appear on our ILoI of September 2006
Without an accompanying name submission, we are forced to return this device at this time, which appears to be otherwise acceptable.
8. Sabina de Lyons –Resubmitted
Household Badge: House Laughing Fox
returned
(Fieldless) A fox
passant inverted gules.
Commenters found several
rulings barring the registration of
inverted animals, other than as part of a group in annulo.
However, the
Heronter Heralds referred us to Slater, The Complete Book of
Heraldry,
p. 221, which includes an image from the Banderia Prutenorum, a
15th
century manuscript documenting 56 war banners captured from the
Teutonic
knights at their loss of the battle of Tannenberg in 1410. Because this
manuscript presented some confusion as to the orientation on the page
of the
armory, and also includes devices with unusual orientations, this item
was
pended to allow further examination of the source.
Upon examination,
we find
that there are three pieces of armory in the manuscript depicting
animals in an
unusual combination of posture and orientation, including the device
pictured
in Slater. In all cases, the banners themselves are shown in the
manuscript
with the hoist edge at the top of the page. Since the hoist edge on a
banner
(as opposed to a gonfalon) runs along the side of the device, all of
the armory
in the manuscript is shown rotated 90 degrees. Therefore, the charges
which
appear to be completely inverted are actually rotated 90 degrees on a
banner
that is itself rotated 90 degrees. The Academy of Saint Gabriel article
“Banners from the Battle of Tannenberg” (WWW: Thomas Barnes, 2002)
[URL:
http://www.s-gabriel.org/heraldry/lothar/tannenberg.html], provides
blazons of
the armory. Two of the three devices to be considered are blazoned as
“statant
palewise”; the other as “courant palewise”.
In all three of
these
cases, the normal orientation of the posture has been rotated by only
90
degrees, rather than completely inverted. This, combined with prior SCA
precedent
prohibiting inverted animals, leads us to conclude that the badge, as
submitted, is unregisterable and must therefore be returned.
Should the submitter wish to submit an animal either statant palewise or courant palewise, she should know that both would possibly be considered visually equivalent to rampant.
9.
Skalla-Valgarðr Gunnarsson – Resubmitted
Badge returned
Purpure, on a pile embattled argent, a raven Volant bendwise sinister head to base sable.
This conflicts with William de Lacy of Sherborne: Purpure, on a pile raguly argent a gauntlet aversant gules. [08/83 via Ansteorra]
Bibliography
“Banners
from the Battle of Tannenberg” (WWW: Thomas
Barnes, 2002) [URL:
http://www.s-gabriel.org/heraldry/lothar/tannenberg.html],
“Flags
in the 'Banderia Prutenorum' Manuscript (Teutonic Order, Germany)” (WWW:
Chrystian Kretowicz, 2001) [URL:
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/de_to_bp.html]
“Chorągwie
Krzyżackie wg Banderia Prutenorum Jana
Długosza” (WWW: Adam Kromer) [URL:
http://akromer.republika.pl/flagi_dlugosz1.html]
“Teutonic Banners
at Tannenberg” (WWW: Matthew
Haywood, 2002) [URL:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/matthaywood/main/Teutonic_Standards.htm]
“Chorągwie
Pruskie cz. 1 - Jan Długosz” [URL:
http://web.archive.org/web/20021218143509/http://www.leksykony.pl/opracow/militaria/flagi1.html]
“Le Bandiere teutoniche alla battaglia di Tannenberg” [URL: http://xoomer.alice.it/frmaid/Bandiere_Tann.htm]
This concludes our Letter of Report AE96 dated July20, 2006.