Æthelmearc Internal Letter of Intent Æ97
July 5, 2006

Commentary on these items will be due on: August 5, 2006

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1.  Ásta Vagensdóttir – New Name, New Device

Azure, two bars Or, overall an owl displayed argent

The name is intended to be feminine. The submitter will not accept major changes. The submitter states a preference for language/culture but doesn’t specify a language or culture. The submitter is not requesting authenticity.

Ásta - Geirr Bassi Haraldsson, p. 8, lists Ásta as a feminine given name.

Vagensdóttir - Geirr Bassi lists <Vagn> as a male name with Vagnsdóttir as the probable patronymic. The submitter want the form with the ‘e’. 

Herald of record: Elsbeth Jewel

2.  Creature Tywne Dragon – Resubmitted Device

Per pale argent and sable semy of fishhooks counterchanged

This name was registered in October of 2004 (via AEthelmearc)

Herald of record: Arkhelaia Vsevolozha

3.  Desiderata Drake – New Name, New Device

Per chevron azure and vert, two ducks naiant argent and a goose close Or.

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

Desidarata – Withycombe, P. 83, s.n. Désirée, dates <Desiderata> to 1210-1316 and describes it as a Latin documentary form of an English name which has “not survived on record.”

Drake – Reany & Wilson, p. 141, s.n. Drake, gives:

Herald of record: Fenris McGill and Alheydis von Körckhingen

4.  Máel-dúin O'Donn – New Name, New Device

Per bend sinister gules and argent, two foxes sejant respectant counterchanged

The name is intended to be masculine. The submitter will accept any changes and cares most about language. The submitter is requesting authenticity to Ireland of the 1400’s.

Máel-dúin – Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn, "100 Most Popular Men's Names in Early Medieval Ireland" (WWW: Heather Rose Jones, 1998) [URL: http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/irish100.html] lists this name as one of the “one hundred most common masculine given names in M.A. O'Brien's Corpus Genealogiarum Hiberniae (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1976), a collection of Irish genealogical material from the pre-Norman period (i.e., roughly pre-12th century).”

OCM, p. 129, s.n. Máel Dúin, gives <Máel Dúin> as the early form of the name, stating that is was “relatively common in early Irish society." OCM give <Maol Dúin> as the modern form.

O'Donn – the submitter refers to Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn, "Names and Naming Practices in the Red Book of Ormond (Ireland 14th Century): Glossary of Elements in Bynames" (WWW: H.R. Jones, 1999) [URL: http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/lateirish/ormond-glossary.html#Glossary].

However, the closest match we find among the O-patronyms is

Donnán                O Donan 4; Woulfe p.502.

<Donnán> is the modern form and < O Donan> is given as the form found in the manuscript.

Among the descriptive bynames is:

Donn     Don 1, Done 2; "brown, dun" DIL "donn"

<Donn> is the modern form while <Don> and <Done> are the forms found in the manuscript

Herald of record: Siobhan Callánach

5.  Morgan Holte – New Name, New Device

Argent, a unicorn rampant and in chief three mullets sable.

The name is intended to be masculine. The submitter will accept any changes and cares about language/culture. The submitter is not requesting authenticity. The submitter will allow the creation of a holding name.

Morgan – Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn, "A Simple Guide to Constructing 16th Century Welsh Names (in English Contexts)" (WWW: Heather Rose Jones, 1996) [URL: http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/welsh16.html] lists <Morgan> as a male name with the form requested given as both the modern form and the form appearing in the author’s source documents.

Holte - Reaney, P. H., & R. M. Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames (Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 236, s.n. Holt, Hoult, lists the following under Holt:

Hugo de Holte 1185

Walter in the Holte 1260

Hugo atte Holte 1268

Herald of record: Arkhelaia Vsevolozha

6.  Tommasa Isolana – Resubmitted Device

Sable, a Russian firebird rising, wings elevated and addorsed and a gore argent.

The name was registered in February of 2006. Her original device submission, Purpure, a bird of paradise displayed, head to sinister, Or, on a chief argent a sword sable, was returned at Laurel in February of 2006.

Herald of Record: Alheydis von Körckhingen / Yvianne de Castel d'Avignon

7.  Yngrid Yngvarsdottir – change of name from Elizabeth of Misty Highlands

Holding name of Elizabeth of Misty Highlands was registered in November 2001.

The name is intended to be feminine. The submitter will accept all changes and states a preference for language/culture. The submitter is requesting authenticity.

Yngrid – Geirr Bassi, p. 12 lists <Ingríðr> as a woman’s given name. As for the I/Y switch, note that Geirr Bassi has Yngvarr and Ingvarr plus Yngvildr and Ingvildr. Given that Ingríðr starts with the same syllable, the I/Y switch seems likely.

Yngvarsdottir - Geirr Bassi lists <Yngvarr> as a male given name. According to the rules on page 17-18, <Yngvarsdóttir> is the correct patronymic.

The accents in Old Norse names are registerable with the accents consistently omitted per the LoAR of January 2004:

Herald of record: Arkhelaia Vsevolozha

This concludes the Æthelmearc Internal Letter of Intent for July 5, 2006

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