1. Ásta Vagnsdóttir –
New Name, New Device It is
the intent of the Æthelmearc College of Heralds to register the
following devices. Unless other wise noted, submitters will
accept any changes and will allow holding names.
1. Ásta Vagnsdóttir –
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.
The name was changed at kingdom from <Ásta Vagensdóttir>.
Ásta - Geirr Bassi Haraldsson, p. 8, lists Ásta as a feminine given name.
Vagnsdóttir - Geirr Bassi lists <Vagn> as a male name.
The byname was originally submitted as <Vagensdóttir>. We were unable to find documentation for <Vagen> as a spelling variant of <Vagn>. The Æthelmearc College reached no consensus as to whether <Vagns-> or <Vagnar-> would be the correct genitive form. We have changed the byname to <Vagnsdóttir>.
2. Creature
Tywne Dragon – Resubmitted Device
Per pale argent and sable all semy of fishhooks counterchanged.
This name was registered in October of 2004 (via AEthelmearc)
His previous submission, Sable, a dragon's head cabossed argent, was returned at Laurel in October 2004.
Albion suggests that the fishhooks should be blazoned as bendwise.
We ask Wreath to decide whether the hooks, as depicted, are bendwise.
3. Desiderata Drake – New Name
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:
4. Máel-dúin O'Duinn – New Name
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.
The name was changed at kingdom from <Máel-dúin O'Donn>.
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, but does not provide documentation that the name remained in use into the Early Modern period.
Mari Elspeth nic Bryan's "Index of Names in Irish Annals: Masculine Given Names" (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/mari/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/) has <M{a'}el D{u'}in> only as late as 1090.
O'Duinn – Originally submitted as <O'Donn> the submitter referred 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 found 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
Albion noted that, Mari Elspeth nic Bryan 's "Index of Names in
Irish Annals: Masculine Given Names"
(http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/mari/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/) has the
given name <Donn>, found in 1263, 1302, and 1488, stating that
the genitive of <Donn> is <Duinn>, and that <{O'}
Duinn> should therefore be a fine byname for his period.
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:
Albion adds <Holte>, without the preposition, can be found 4
times in her article "Index of Names in the 1582 Subsidy Roll of
London" (http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/english/london1582.html),
which also has <Morgan> 6 times.
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.
Albion drew our attention to two possible conflicts:
Cristobal degli Glicine che Mangia Uome (reg. 08/1988 via Caid), Sable, a peacock rising, wings elevated and displayed, maintaining a sprig of wisteria, all argent. There is one CD for the gore. While we doubt that there is a CD for the type of bird, we think there is probably a CD for the wing posture
Domhnall Dubh Ó Ruairc (reg. 03/2005 via Ansteorra), Sable,
an eagle rising wings addorsed within an orle argent.
There's
one CD for the type of peripheral, and we think probably one for the
type of bird.
7. Yngríðr Yngvarsdóttir – change of holding 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.
Originally submitted as Yngrid Yngvarsdottir. It was changed at kingdom to comply with her request for authenticity.
Yngríðr – 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.
Yngvarsdóttir - Geirr Bassi lists <Yngvarr> as a male given name. According to the rules on page 17-18, <Yngvarsdóttir> is the correct patronymic.
The submitted form omitted all accents. This is registerable as per the LoAR of January 2004:
Submitted as Halldórr halfskeggr, Old Norse names are registerable with accents used or omitted consistently throughout the name. As the given name included accents, we have added the missing accent to the byname. [Halldórr hálfskeggr 01/04 An Tir]
We have added the accents to comply with her request for authenticity.
This
concludes the Æthelmearc External Letter of Intent dated
September 21,
2006.
We count 4 new primary names, 2 new devices and no new badges for a total of 6 payable items. We count 1 change of holding name and 2 resubmitted devices for a total of 3 non-payable items. We count 9 items in total. A check for $24 will be forwarded to Laurel separately.