Calontir Submissions Status 2009

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The following items have been decided by Laurel.

ELoI Letter Designation: 20090131-LOI-CAL-EG
Date the ELoI Letter left the Kingdom: January 31, 2009
Date the Laurel-of-Arms Office decides on these submissions: June 2009
Date the Saker Herald Office received the results of the Laurel decisions: October 1, 2009

	Submitter's Name	Item(s)	Decision by Laurel
1.	Calontir, Kingdom of - Batelier Herald	Resub Heraldic Title	Title Registered
2.	Leif Andersson	New Badge	Badge Registered Azure, in pale a bull passant guardant and a greyhound courant argent
3.	Leif Andersson	New Badge	Badge Returned Gules, in pale a bull passant guardant and a greyhound courant argent. This badge is returned for conﬂict with the device of Lizbeth Ravensholm, Gules, a wolf passant reguardant argent maintaining on its back a raven sable, reblazoned elsewhere in this letter. There is but a single CD for the addition of the bull. There is not signiﬁcant difference between passant and courant. There is no difference for changing the head position of the canine from reguardant to guardant. Lastly, there is no difference for removing the maintained raven.
4.	Rúadán del Wich	New Name & New Device	Name & Device Registered This name combines Gaelic and English, which is a step from period practice
5.	Sefa Steinólfsdóttir	New Device	Device Registered The combination of the roundel and the crescents is a step from period practice, by precedent: The motif a roundel between an increscent and a decrescent has previously been ruled registerable but one step from period practice [Linet Grímófsdóttir 7/2005] The submitted device is not slot-machine heraldry. Slot-machine is deﬁned as armory having a charge group that contains three different types of charges. The charge group in sinister chief consists of a roundel and two crescents. The gouttes are in another, separate, secondary charge group. While crescents in many orientations are seen commonly enough in armory that there are terms for each of the facings, the use of separate terms does not make them different types.
6.	Sören atte Raven	New Name & New Device	Name & Device Registered Submitted as Sören atte Raven, the only documentation provided for the spelling Sören was Bahlow, A Dictionary of German Names, s.n. Sör(e)nsen which says: Sör(e)nsen (freq. in Hbg. and Holstein), Sörens; patr. ’son of Sören, i.e. a Danish form of Severin (a saint’s n.), see this. Well-known from the Danish Theologian Sören Kierkegaard, Cf, the Church of St. Severin or Sören in old Haldsl. Also Söhren, Söhrnsen. This entry gives evidence only that St. Severin is known modernly as Sören, not that this is a period form of the name. Academy of Saint Gabriel Report #1952 says: The modern Danish name (Søren) and the modern Swedish name (Sören) ultimately derived from the name of St. Severinus. (Søren) is found in Denmark from c.1400 on. We ﬁnd it spelled as (Søren) in 1403-1540, though the spellings (Sewryn) and (Sewren) were more typical for that period. [1] (Severin) ﬁrst came to Norway c.1440; after 1500 it became more common, especially in the form (Søren). [2] We haven’t been able to determine when the name spread to Sweden, we think it is likely that the name was used there by the 16th century. [1] Knudsen Gunnar, Marius Kristiansen, & Rikard Hornby, Danmarks Gamle Personnavne, Vol. I: Fornavne (Copenhagen: 1936-48). s.n. Severin. [2] Kruken, Kristoffer, ed. Norsk personnamnleksikon, 2nd ed. (Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, 1995). s.nn. Severin, Søren. Lacking evidence that Sören is a period spelling of the name, it is not registerable. We have changed the name to the documentable form Søren in order to register it. This name combines Danish or Norwegian and English; either is a step from period practice. Blazoned on the LoI as crows, crows and ravens are heraldically equivalent. The blazon was changed so that the arms are a cant on his byname.
7.	Uldin de Vatavia	Resub Device	Device Registered
8.	Yamamoto Yukiko	Resub Device	Device Registered This device is not in conﬂict with that of Robert du Mont, Azure, three chevronels braced and in chief a crescent all within a bordure argent. There is a CD for the change of type of secondary charges (crescent to gouttes) and another for change of number of secondary charges (one to ﬁve).

The following items have been decided by Laurel.

ELoI Letter Designation: 20090228-LOI-CAL-EG
Date the ELoI Letter left the Kingdom: February 28, 2009
Date the Laurel-of-Arms Office decides on these submissions: June 2009
Date the Saker Herald Office received the results of the Laurel decisions: October 1, 2009

	Submitter's Name	Item(s)	Decision by Laurel
1.	Æsa Kársdóttir	New Name	Name Registered
2.	Brigida von München	New Badge	Badge Registered
3.	Daniel mac Néill	New Name & New Device	Name Returned Conﬂict with Daniel McNeil. Device registered under the holding name Daniel of Calanais Nuadh. Device Registered This device is clear of that of Sibán in Feda, Argent semy of leaves, on a pile inverted vert a weaver’s knot argent. Precedent says: When comparing per chevron armory with pile inverted armory, the two items must be compared as if they both used a per chevron ﬁeld, and also as if they both used the charge of a pile inverted. [Dun an Chalaidh, Shire of, 08/01, R-An Tir] When the devices are considered only as having a primary charge of a pile inverted, there is a CD for the change of type of secondary charge group (leaves to shamrocks) and a CD, under Section X.4.j.ii of the Rules for Submission for the change of only type of the tertiary charge, and the devices are clear. Considered as having per chevron ﬁelds, they are also clear. While the September 2008 ruling in the return of Ia ingen Áeda says that charges on either side of a line of division are co-primary charges ["As two types of charges lying on either side of a line of division, this is four co-primary charges, not a primary and three secondary charges"], another precedent overrides that when semy of charges are involved: [Per fess sable mullety Or and azure, a dance and in base a sun Or] The device does not conﬂict with ... Per fess gules mullety Or, and vert, a dance and in base a terrestrial sphere Or. There is one CD for the change to the ﬁeld. There is another CD for the change in type of the charge group in base, which is a different charge group from the semy group in chief. By current precedent, the semy charges must be in a separate group from all other charges (LoAR 7/01, Giraude Benet). [Wolfgang Dracke, 11/01, A-Artemisia] Due to that precedent, the semy group is considered a separate group than the charge in base. Therefore, the two devices are clear under X.2, since a halberd is substantially different than a weaver’s knot. Submitted under the name Daniel mac Néill.
4.	Ingjaldr inn stórh{o,}ggvi	Resub Name From Holding Name	Name Registered

The following items have been decided by Laurel.

ELoI Letter Designation: 20090422-LOI-CAL-EG
Date the ELoI Letter left the Kingdom: April 22, 2009
Date the Laurel-of-Arms Office decides on these submissions: August 2009
Date the Saker Herald Office received the results of the Laurel decisions: November 19, 2009

	Submitter's Name	Item(s)	Decision by Laurel
1.	Bridget Edan	New Device	Device Returned This device conflicts with the device of Helene Noel de Montbeliart, Gules ermined argent, on a bend sinister argent three holly sprigs palewise vert fructed argent. T here is a single CD for the field. While there is significant difference between a holly leaf and a holly sprig, Section X.4.j.ii requires that there be substantial difference for us to grant a CD based only on the change of type of tertiary charge. Only one third of the tertiary group has substantially changed type, from holly sprig to sea-horse. There is not a second CD for orientation between a sprig and a single leaf. It is also a conflict with the device of Thérèse de Merc, Counter-ermine, on a bend sinister Or three oak leaves palewise vert. Precedent states, "Prior Laurel precedent (December 1993 LoAR, p. 12) does not grant a CD between oak leaves and holly leaves." [Kynda of Hollyoak, April 1994, R-East] Therefore, there is a single CD for the change of tincture of the primary charge, but no CD for changing only the orientation of the tertiary charges. There is no CD for changing one leaf to a seahorse, since section X.4.j of the Rules for Submission requires that changes be made to the entire group.
2.	Catalina Arazuri	New Name & New Device	Name & Device Registered The use of the New-World monarch butterfly is a step from period practice
3.	Conchobhar mac an Druaidh	New Badge	Badge Registered Please instruct the submitter to extend the fitching further to base. We apologize for the instructions on the previous return which implied that a fitched arm of a Maltese cross should be the same length as the other arms. This is not the case.
4.	Derek Logan (Randal Logan of Knightsbridge)	New Name & New Device	Name & Device Registered Knightsbridge was documented as the modern form of the place name; all of the period citations of the place name provided on the LoI or in commentary either put the 'knight' element in the genitive or used the genitive spelling -es. However, Siren later found a citation of Knightsbryge dated to 1526 in St Martin-in-the-Fields: The accounts of the churchwardens, 1525-1603 (1901), pp. 1-20. This demonstrates that the modern spelling Knights- was in use by the end of our period, hence the submitted form is registerable. His previous name, Derek Logan, is retained as an alternate name. His previous device, Azure, on a plate between three lightning bolts palewise Or, a unicorn's head couped sable, is released.
5.	Geoffrey de Gournay	New Name & New Device	Name & Device Registered
6.	Gwenhwyfar Grek	New Device	Device Returned This device is returned for using a modern bass clef. This would be the first registration of a bass/F-clef in Society armory. The submitter did not provide substantive, reliable documentation for this element. Batonvert provided documentation of the form of bass/F-clefs from the 12th, 15th, and 16th centuries from The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, vol. 6, p. 26. None of the forms matches the submitted depiction.
7.	Helena Gewolf	New Badge	Badge Registered
8.	Katarina kettlingr	New Name	Name Registered Listed on the LoI as Katarina_kettlingr, the name was originally submitted as Katarina vándr kettlingr. The first byname was dropped in kingdom for lack of documentation. Cleasby-Vigfussen, An Icelandic-English Dictionary, s.v. vándr glosses the word as "bad", and gives as an example the phrase vándr maðr 'wicked, bad man', in the moral sense of the term. As such, it is not unlike documented bynames which can be found in Landnámabók, including inn illi "evil, bad" and inn óargi "virtuous". Since vándr is a strong adjective, it must agree with the gender of the given name, i.e., it must be changed to the feminine form vánd. Since vánd is a plausible byname, we have changed the name to Katarina vánd kettlingr to make it more similar to the originally submitted form. This name combines Swedish and Old Norse, which is a step from period practice.
9.	Líadan Winter	New Name & New Device	Name & Device Registered This name combines Gaelic and English, which is a step from period practice
10.	Sarra O'Shanan	New Name & New Device	Name & Device Registered
11.	Sorcha O'Rian	New Name & New Device	Name & Device Registered This name combines Gaelic and Anglicized Irish, which is a step from period practice.

The following items have been decided by Laurel.

ELoI Letter Designation: 20090630-LOI-CAL-EG
Date the ELoI Letter left the Kingdom: June 30, 2009
Date the Laurel-of-Arms Office decides on these submissions: October 2009
Date the Saker Herald Office received the results of the Laurel decisions: December 1, 2009

	Submitter's Name	Item(s)	Decision by Laurel
1.	Brian Logan the Bowyer	New Change From Holding Name	Name Registered Name change from holding name Brian of Coeur d'Ennui
2.	Calontir, Kingdom of	New Name Transfer	Transfer of heraldic title Blanch Tyger Herald to Ines Alfón
3.	Daire Leboucher	New Device	Device Registered As drawn, the enflaming on both this submission and on the badge of the Barony of Bhakail, (Fieldless) A salamander tergiant sable, enflamed proper, are substantial enough that the enflaming is equivalent to half the charge. Therefore, there is a CD for the difference between fielded and fieldless armory and another CD for the change of tincture of the flames.
4.	Daire Leboucher	New Badge	Badge Registered This badge is clear by X.2 of the badge for the Barony of Bhakail's Order of the Salamander, Gules, on a flame Or a natural salamander tergiant bendwise sinister sable, reblazoned elsewhere in this letter.
5.	Delis Alms	New Badge	Badge Registered The website used to document the submission was not available by the time commenters checked the website, and the documentation was not actually summarized on the LoI. Thankfully, Keythong provided documentation that Sir Francis Drake and his crew encountered llamas near the port of Arica in late January 1579. The word can be found in print in Europe in 1600, according to the OED. Based on these examples, llamas are registerable since they are known in the period and domain of the Society. The use of New-World fauna not demonstrated as a period charge is a step from period practice. Adding wings to an animal to make a winged monster is a period practice.
6.	Dimitrii Miasnikov	New Name	Name Registered
7.	Dis in bareyska	New Name	Name Registered
8.	Ines Alfón	New Acceptance of Name Transfer	Transfer of heraldic title Blanch Tyger Herald to Ines Alfón
9.	Joscelyn Gloriette de St. James	New Name & New Device	Name Registered Submitted as Joscelyn Gloriette de St. James, we do not register scribal abbreviations such as St.. We have expanded the byname to de Saint James in order to register it. Device Returned This device is returned for violating section VIII.3 of the Rules for Submission, which says that "Elements must be used in a design so as to preserve their individual identifiability." As emblazoned, both the crozier and the key are so small and fancy that they obscure the difference between the charges when viewed from any distance.
10.	Joscelyn Gloriette de St. James	New Badge	Badge Returned This device is returned for violating section VIII.3 of the Rules for Submission, which says that "Elements must be used in a design so as to preserve their individual identifiability." As emblazoned, both the crozier and the key are so small and fancy that they obscure the difference between the charges when viewed from any distance.
11.	Krystyn i Lund	New Name & New Device	Name & Device Registered
12.	Marcus Geminius Lupus	New Name & New Device	Name & Device Registered
13.	Onóra inghean uí Chon Mhara	New Name	Name Registered The submitter requested authenticity for 14th-16th C Irish. We've found only one example of Onóra before the 16th C, so the name is unusual for the early part of her period, but an excellent choice for the 16th C.
14.	Randolph Fletcher	New Name & New Device	Name Registered Device Returned The charges, blazoned as cartouches on the Letter of Intent, are not really cartouches, but are instead annulets or rings in trian aspect. Cartouches would have flat sections along the major axis. There is no way to blazon the charges in a fashion that would cause the emblazon to be reliably reproduced. Therefore, this device is returned for violating section VII.7.b of the Rules for Submission, which requires that "Elements must be reconstructible in a recognizable form from a competent blazon." It goes on to say that "Elements that cannot be described in such a way that the depiction of the armory will remain consistent may not be used, even if they are identifiable design motifs that were used before 1600."
15.	Robert of Oakheart	New Name & New Device	Name & Device Registered Submitted as Robert of Oakheart, Oakheart was documented as the name of an SCA branch. However, the registered form of the branch name is actually Oak Heart. We have corrected the name to Robert of Oak Heart in order to register it. Since the creature does not have visible spots, it is not an English panther, which is a heraldic monster.
16.	Rohese de Dinan	New Badge	Badge Registered
17.	Simon Aspatins	New Name & New Device	Name & Device Registered The submitter requested authenticity for 14th C English. Both elements of the name were dated to the 13th C on the LoI. Simon was also used in England in the 14th C; Julian Goodwyn, "English Names from Pre-1600 Brass Inscriptions", dates the name to 1306. We could not find any 14th C examples of the byname, so we cannot confirm that the entire name is authentic. If the submitter would like a name with a similar meaning which can be dated to the 14th C, we recommend Simon Patynmaker or Simon Patener. Patynmaker is dated to 1379 and Patener to 1381 in Reaney & Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames, s.n. Patten
18.	Sinead Upton	New Name	Name Registered Submitted as Sinead Upton, Sinead was documented from Ó Corráin & Maguire, Irish Names, s.n. Sibán. However, that entry merely says: "Sinéad and Sineaid are Irish forms of the French and English diminutives Jonet, Janeta, and Jennet." When Ó Corráin & Maguire use the present tense like this, they are discussing contemporary (i.e., modern) usage, not medieval usage. Thus, this entry does not provide any support for Sinéad as a period name. Krossa, "Scottish Gaelic Given Names", notes that the early 16th C Book of the Dean of Lismore has examples of the name in the bynames Mak soonayd and v'soynoid. The Book of the Dean of Lismore, while written in Gaelic, uses Scots-style spelling rather than standard Gaelic spelling. The most likely standardized Gaelic spelling of the name, on the basis of these two examples, is Seonaid. We are willing to give the submitter the benefit of the doubt that Seonaid is a period Gaelic form. We have changed the name to Seonaid Upton in order to register it. This name combines Gaelic and English, which is a step from period practice.
19.	Talia Griffin	New Name & New Device	Name & Device Registered This name combines Italian and English, which is a step from period practice. If the submitter is interested in a wholly Italian name, we recommend Talia Grifoni. The family name Grifoni is found once in the list of family names in Herlihy, Litchfield, Molho, & Barducci, "Online Tratte of Office Holders 1282-1532".
20.	William le Wolfe	New Name & New Device	Name Returned This conflicts with William Ulf; the bynames are insignificantly different in sound. His device has been registered under the holding name William of the Lonely Tower. Device Registered
21.	Wyvern Cliffe, Shire of	New Device Change	Device Registered Their old device, Checky azure and argent, a wyvern erect gules within a laurel wreath in orle Or, is released.

The following items have been decided by Laurel.

ELoI Letter Designation: 20090829-LOI-CAL-EG
Date the ELoI Letter left the Kingdom: August 29, 2009
Date the Laurel-of-Arms Office decides on these submissions: December 2009
Date the Saker Herald Office received the results of the Laurel decisions: February 15, 2010

	Submitter's Name	Item(s)	Decision by Laurel
1.	Adhemar de Chartres	New Name Change & New Device Change	Name Registered Submitted as Adhemar de Chartres, the submitter requested authenticity for 12th-13th C France. The name as documented combined a 14th C Occitan given name with a 13th C (northern) French byname; a name authentic for France would either be wholly Occitan or wholly French, not a mixture of the two. The French form of the given name, Ademar, was used in the 11th and 12th C according to Academy of S. Gabriel Report #2583. We have changed the name to Ademar de Chartres to meet the submitter's request for authenticity. His previous name, Gwalchmai Saethydd, is released. Device Returned This device is returned for conflict with the device of Dorcas Dorcadas, Sable, a three-headed hound rampant, one head reguardant, argent, langued gules. There is a CD for the addition of the goutte. There is not a CD for the change of type of the primary charges. We do not grant difference between an enfield and a canine, since the only difference is the eagle talons replacing the canid fore-legs on an enfield, by precedent: While the enfield appears in period, the only period examples we can find are supporters. As such it is impossible to tell whether enfields were considered different from canines in period as charges on the shield. With that in mind, we are left with visual differences; at least three-quarters of an enfield is canine, and the avian forelimbs often appear close to hands, as do those of canines in period heraldry. There is not enough visual difference to give a CD between canines and enfields, so the July 1992 precedent is hereby extended to give no CD even when the critters are not holding anything. This overturns the precedent from September 2003, which was solely based on implications from the July 1992 ruling. [Anacletus McTerlach, July 2004, R-Meridies] The difference between one and three heads is not worth a CD, by precedent: ...the change from one head to three heads is not sufficient for another CD. [Rodrigo Hernandez de Toledo, December 1997, R-Atlantia]
2.	Ailith Bystoune	New Name & New Device	Name & Device Registered
3.	Aldred Lyccidfelth	New Name & New Device	Name & Device Registered Submitted as Aldred_Lyccidfelth_, Lyccidfelth was documented as an Old English place name from the 8th C. In this period, we do not have any examples of unmarked locative bynames in Old English; the earliest examples that we have are from the Domesday Boke (cf. the introduction of Reaney & Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames, and Tengvik, Old English Bynames, pp. 125-30, 137-8.) Lacking evidence for unmarked locative bynames in Old English before the Conquest, they are not registerable. Watts, Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, s.n. Lichfield dates the phrases Anliccitfelda and Onlicitfelda 'on/of Lichfield' to late 11th C/early 12th C copies of charters originally written c715. (The change from -feld or -felth to -felda or -feltha following on or an is a requirement of Old English grammar.) In the context of a personal name, we would not be surprised to find the preposition an or on separated from the place name, e.g., on Licitfelda. We have changed the name to Aldred on Lyccidfeltha to make the byname a marked locative so that we can register it.
4.	Anayama Tarou Ariie	New Name & New Device	Name & Device Registered Please instruct the submitter to draw the per pall line of division so that the central joint is slightly further down on the field and to draw the dice larger, to better fill the available space
5.	Audrey Tulet	New Name	Name Registered
6.	Emmelina Lutz	Device Resubmission	Device Registered
7.	Falon von Wulfhagen	New Name Change	Name Registered This name combines Russian and German, which is a step from period practice. The byname von Wulfhagen is grandfathered to the submitter. His previous name, Folland von Wulfhagen, is released.
8.	Helena Soranzo	New Name & New Device	Name & Device Registered
9.	Ingeborg bildsbriotr Ulfsdottir	New Device	Device Registered A chatloup, or calopus, is a period heraldic monster with a wolf's body, a cat's face, and goat's horns. As such, there is a CD between it and either a wolf or a lion. Therefore, the submission is clear of the device of Rognvaldr Byrgisheraðingr, Azure, a wolf salient and a base engrailed Or. There is a CD for changes to the type of monster and another CD for the change of type of peripheral ordinary. It is also clear of Gelre (important non-SCA arms), Azure, a lion rampant queue-forche Or. There is a CD for the change of type of monster and another for adding the tierce.
10.	Jehannette Montjaux	New Alternate Name & New Badge	Name & Badge Registered
11.	Julian Ó Néill	New Device	Device Registered Both the submitted form and the LoI listed this as a new device; however, he already has a device registered. His previous device, Or, a pine tree couped proper and on a chief azure three mullets argent, is released. Please instruct the submitter to draw a thicker bordure and larger, more easily recognizable acorns.
12.	Jürgen Weiter von Landstuhl	New Device	Device Registered
13.	Jürgen Weiter von Landstuhl	New Badge	Badge Registered
14.	Katheryne Winterbourne	New Badge	Badge Returned This badge is returned for conflict with the badge of Iustinos Tekton, (Fieldless) A cog wheel azure. There's a CD for fieldlessness, but precedent grants no difference between a cog wheel and a Catherine's wheel. The fact that this wheel is spoked of a Maltese cross is blazonable but is not a significant difference, since we do not grant difference between wheels.
15.	Malachi Mac Kenzie O Corrigan	New Device	Device Returned This device is returned for conflict with the device of Rosalia la Gatta, Or, a cat rampant to sinister queue forchy the tails sable ending in roses proper within an orle azure. There is a single CD for the change from an orle to a tierce embattled, but no difference is granted for the incensing or for the number of tails. The roses at the end of the tails are maintained charges and also do not count for difference.
16.	Rycharde de Stonham	Device Resubmission	Device Registered Charging ordinaries which are counterchanged over other ordinaries was declared to be a step from period practice in the return of Rycharde's original submission, in February 2009. This submission uses a wolf sejant rather than a wolf sejant ululant, which means there are no longer two steps from period practice and the device is registerable.
17.	Sean Traveler	New Device	Device Registered
18.	Thomas Fleischer	New Name & New Device	Name & Device Registered Submitted as Thomas Fleischer, this conflicted with Thomas Fletcher as the bynames are not significantly different in sound and appearance. The submitter allowed all changes and cared most about the meaning of the byname, 'butcher'. Another German byname for a butcher, Fleischacker, literally meaning 'flesh-hacker', is dated to 1433 in Schwind, Ausgewählte urkunden zur verfassungs-geschichte der deutsch-österreichischen, p. 335. Fletcher and Fleischacker are significantly different in sound and appearance, so they do not conflict. We have changed the name to Thomas Fleischacker to remove the conflict so that we can register the name with his desired meaning.
19.	Úlfkell {o,}lfúss	Device Resubmission	Device Registered

The following have been decided by Laurel.

ELoI Letter Designation: 20091105-LOI-CAL-EG
Date the ELoI Letter left the Kingdom: November 5, 2009
Date the Laurel-of-Arms Office decides on these submissions: March 2010
Date the Saker Herald Office received the results of the Laurel decisions: June 21, 2010

	Submitter's Name	Item(s)	Decision by Laurel
1.	Abigail Rose of Nairn	Resub Device	Device Registered Per saltire azure and purpure, a winged horse's head couped contourny wings addorsed, on a chief argent three roses gules barbed vert seeded argent.
2.	Alexandra Vazquez de Granada	New Device	Device Returned Azure, a bend engouled of two wolf's heads argent. This device is returned for conflict with the device of Michael of Braghan, Azure, a bend bevilled argent. Both engouling and bevilling are complex treatments of a bend. Therefore, there is only a single CD between a bend engouled and a bend bevilled.
3.	Alina Grace	New Device	Device Returned Per fess engrailed sable and azure, a swan naiant argent and three estoiles two and one Or. This device is returned for using a low-contrast complex line of division. Precedent says: [Per bend sinister nebuly azure and sable, in bend a Norse sun cross argent and double rose argent and azure.] This has an unregisterable low-contrast complex line of division: "...Finally, we no longer allow combining azure and sable with a complex line of division." (Sep 1997, Returns, Trimaris, Tymm Colbert le Gard) This is one of the combinations that has been held to violate RfS VIII.3, Armorial Identifiability, even without a charge overlying it. [Katerin ferch Gwenllian, LoAR 06/2004, Middle-R]
4.	Blackleg Gilmyn	New Name	Name Returned This name is returned for lack of documentation for compound bynames being prepended in English. While there is evidence for prepended bynames in English, all of the examples that the College found were simple, single-word bynames. Latimer comments: Of the cited examples in Jonsjo's "Middle English Nicknames", I found only six where the compound nickname was the first element of a multi-element name (there are various other instances where a person was recorded by a compound nickname alone): (Deuleward of Skapwic) 1231 [Deuleward] (Godmanno parvo) c1220-27? [Godman] (Godsaule de Brakenholm') 1361-64 [Godsoule] (Maluaisin de Hersin) 1230 [Mauveysin] (Mauuaisin clericus) 1230 [Mauveysin] (Richemann Calle) 1241 [Richeman] It does not appear that the second element in any of these is a given name. As the overwhelming majority of the cited examples take the form (given name) (compound nickname), it appears statistically legitimate to conclude that the pattern (compound nickname) (given name) did not exist, unless there is reason to believe Jonsjo normalized his data. Lacking evidence for the pattern (compound nickname) (given name) in English, this pattern is not registerable. We would change the name to Gilmyn Blackleg in order to register it, but the submitter does not allow major changes, such as changing the order of the elements.
5.	Eisenhund, Shire of	Resub Appeal of Laurel Return of Request for Name Reconsideration Change	Name Change Returned This is an appeal of a return from the December 2007 LoAR, which read: This place name does not match known patterns for forming German place names. No documentation was provided and none found to support the use of -hund "hound" or for any animal name as the second element in two-part compound German town or city names. While animal names are used in this way in house names, house names are not appropriate models for branch names. Barring documentation for such a formation, it is not registerable. In appeal, the submitters provide examples of place names which they believe contain the name of an animal as the second element including: Mule: Greutzmuhl, Kranstermuhl, Kröthemuhl, Hauffenmuhl, Ladmul, Brantemule. Catfish: Oberweloz. Bull: Tetenbul, Walsbul. Cat: Oberkatz, Unterkatz. Weasel: Wesel, Oberwesel. Cow: Gutzkow, Volkskow, Crucow, Woltkow, Bertkow, Lantkow, Kritzkow. Sow: Smarsow, Rosentasow, Gransow, Dassow, Rensow. Unfortunately, this list and the purported derivations contain many misconceptions about medieval German place names: The element muhl does not mean 'mule' in German, but rather 'mill'; the word mule or mul means 'mouth' (Ladmul is located at the mouth of a river). The usual German word for mule is maultier. Oberweloz was named after the river on which it lies, the Wölzer Bach. Given its location in Moravia, the river name is more likely of Slavic origin than German. Brechenmacher, Etymologisches Woerterbuch der deutschen Familiennamen, s.n. Bulle notes that the word bul(le) for 'bull' did not exist before the 16th C. Instead, in these place names -bul represents either a variant of Middle Low German pûl 'water-filled depression' or of Danish -bøl 'farm'. The cities of Oberkatz and Unterkatz are named after the river Katz, not the word for 'cat'. Wesel and Ober Wesel derive not from the word for 'weasel' but either from Weselo 'low-lying bog area' or from an older Celtic settlement named Volsavia or Volsolvia. The examples of -kow, -cow, and -sow are not examples of the medieval German word for 'cow' and 'sow', but are rather examples of places ending in -ow, as the examples of Clabow, Turow, Ilow, etc., show. These are almost certainly all German spellings of Slavic place names. None of the commenters were able to find any German place name that unequivocally used the name of an animal as the second element. Barring such examples, this pattern continues to be unregisterable.
6.	Flur' le Swan	New Name Change	Name Registered Name change from Guðrún Valdísardóttir. Submitted as Flur' le Swan, the apostrophe in Flur' represents a scribal suspension, probably of the letter e or letter i. We do not register scribal abbreviations of names, so the form Flur' is not registerable. This name is identical to the Middle English word for 'flower', of which the most common forms in the Middle English Dictionary are flour, flur, and the like. On the basis of these examples, Flur is also a plausible spelling of the given name. Since the submitter cares most about the sound of the name, we have changed the given name to Flur_ in order to register the name. Her previous name, Guðrún Valdísardóttir, is retained as an alternate name.
7.	Hans Sebastian Bamberger	New Name	Name Registered
8.	Isibel Hallberudottir	Resub Device	Device Registered Purpure, a winged tyger rampant contourny argent within a bordure dovetailed Or.
9.	Lucia da Riva	New Name & New Device	Name Registered Nice 14th C Venetian name! Device Returned Per pale azure and vert, a Bowen knot crosswise interlaced with an annulet argent. This device is returned for lack of blazonability. Section VII.7.b of the Rules for Submissions requires that "Any element used in Society armory must be describable in standard heraldic terms so that a competent heraldic artist can reproduce the armory solely from the blazon." Described on the LoI as a Bowen knot crosswise, the item interlaced with the annulet is not actually blazonable. Bowen knots have rounded ends, a space in the middle, and are set saltirewise. Occasionally, one finds a version which appears to be made out of five rectangles. The Bowen cross, in the SCA, is the angular version set crosswise, similar to a cross of lozenges. There is no way to blazon the charge here, which has no space in the center and has rounded arms with pointed ends.
10.	Maren Þorskabítr	New Name	Name Registered Submitted as Maren Þorskabítr, we have changed the byname to conform to current precedent concerning the capitalization of Old Norse descriptive bynames. Maren is the submitter's legal given name.
11.	Michael de Lundie	New Name	Name Registered
12.	Nellie Sheenagh MacAodha	New Device	Device Registered Argent, on a chevron sable a rose argent barbed and overall an orle of shamrocks vert.
13.	Stephen FitzAlan	New Name	Name Registered While the documentation for the byname spelled it Fitzalan, Reaney and Wilson (s.n. FitzSimon) date the form FitzSymond to 1387. This entry shows the patronym as capitalized, supporting the capitalization in the submitted FitzAlan.
14.	Thora Sigurdsdottir	New Name & New Device	Name & Device Registered Per chevron throughout Or and azure, two needles in chevron gules and a domestic cat rampant guardant Or. Submitted as Thora Sigurdsdottir, the submitter requested authenticity for Denmark but did not specify a time period. The languages spoken in Denmark changed over time during our period. Thora is found as the Latin form of the name of a 10th C Danish queen taken from a record in Norfolk, England. The typical Old Norse form of this name is Þora. The form Sigurdsdottir was found by the commenters to be appropriate for 14th C Sweden. Therefore, the submitted name combines a 10th C Latin form of an Old Norse name with a 14th C Swedish byname. This combination has a step from period practice for temporal disparity and a second for the lingual disparity of combining Latinized Old Norse with Swedish. We have changed the name to the fully Old Norse form Þora Sigurðardóttir to make the name register and to meet the submitter's request for authenticity. Though documented as Old Norse, this form is likely authentic for 10th C Denmark as well.
15.	Titus Aurelius Serenus	New Name & New Device	Name & Device Registered Azure, a doumbek and on a chief rayonny argent an arrow azure.
16.	Tzipporah Ebrea da Pesaro	New Name & New Device	Name & Device Registered Vert, a dance between three seeblätter, one and two argent. This name combines Hebrew and Italian, which is a step from period practice. If the submitter is interested in a wholly Italian name, we recommend the given name Sippora; this is the Italian form of Tzipporah found in the 1641 Diodati Bible. This device is clear of the device of the Shire of Cortlandslot, Vert, a fess dancetty between three hearts and a laurel wreath argent. There is a CD for the change of number of secondaries, from four to three, and another for the change of arrangement of the secondary charges, from three and one to one and two.

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ELoI Letter Designation: 20090131-LOI-CAL-EG Date the ELoI Letter left the Kingdom: January 31, 2009 Date the Laurel-of-Arms Office decides on these submissions: June 2009 Date the Saker Herald Office received the results of the Laurel decisions: October 1, 2009	ELoI Letter Designation: 20090228-LOI-CAL-EG Date the ELoI Letter left the Kingdom: February 28, 2009 Date the Laurel-of-Arms Office decides on these submissions: June 2009 Date the Saker Herald Office received the results of the Laurel decisions: October 1, 2009
ELoI Letter Designation: 20090422-LOI-CAL-EG Date the ELoI Letter left the Kingdom: April 22, 2009 Date the Laurel-of-Arms Office decides on these submissions: August 2009 Date the Saker Herald Office received the results of the Laurel decisions: November 19, 2009	ELoI Letter Designation: 20090630-LOI-CAL-EG Date the ELoI Letter left the Kingdom: June 30, 2009 Date the Laurel-of-Arms Office decides on these submissions: October 2009 Date the Saker Herald Office received the results of the Laurel decisions: December 1, 2009
ELoI Letter Designation: 20090829-LOI-CAL-EG Date the ELoI Letter left the Kingdom: August 29, 2009 Date the Laurel-of-Arms Office decides on these submissions: December 2009 Date the Saker Herald Office received the results of the Laurel decisions: February 15, 2010	ELoI Letter Designation: 20091105-LOI-CAL-EG Date the ELoI Letter left the Kingdom: November 5, 2009 Date the Laurel-of-Arms Office decides on these submissions: March 2010 Date the Saker Herald Office received the results of the Laurel decisions: June 21, 2010
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