[MR] [HERALDRY]Laurel ACCEPTANCES for July, 2002

[Gorm of Berra]

Unto the Crown, Peers, and Populace of Atlantia does Gorm of Berra, 
Golden Dolphin Herald, send greetings:


At his meetings in July, reported on at the end of September, Laurel 
considered the following items and REGISTERED them.  Their owners may 
use them without any further let or hinderance:

Brita Hughes. Name.

    Submitted as Brita Hughs, the LoI noted that she "wishes the name to
    be Swedish, with the caveat that she primarily wishes it to reflect
    her marriage to her husband, who carries the SCA name Hugh de
    Bardenay (recently submitted)." The College found examples of widows
    whose bynames indicated their husband's given name. This was done by
    putting the husband's name in the genitive case. It is less clear
    whether a woman whose husband was still living would have used this
    form. As we were unable to find a Swedish form of Hugh, we were
    unable to meet this request.

    In English, the byname Hughes is a patronymic that became an
    inherited surname. No evidence was found that it would have
    indicated a husband's name. All forms of this byname that the
    College was able to find in period were spelled Hughes. We have
    changed the byname to this form in order to register this name.

    A name mixing Swedish and English is registerable with a weirdness.

Cecily Clervaus. Name and device. Azure, two bars wavy argent between 
three sea serpents glissant palewise Or.

    Submitted as Cecily Clervaux, the submitter requested authenticity
    for 12th to 14th C Norman English. Reaney & Wilson (s.n. Gorrell)
    date Cecily de Gorhull to 1246. Metron Ariston found forms of this
    byname in the submitter's desired period in Reaney & Wilson (s.n.
    Clarvis). This entry dates Michael de Clervaus, de Clereuals to 1208
    and John Clervaus to 1320. As Clervaus is the closest of these to
    the submitted form, we have changed the byname to this form to meet
    the submitter's request for authenticity.

Cloelia of the Mists. Name and device. Per pale azure and vert, a lily 
argent and in base three flames two and one Or.

    Cloelia was the name of a Roman girl whose tale is told in Virgil's
    Aeneid, among other places. She was held hostage by the Etruscans
    and fled home across the Tiber. Metron Ariston notes that she
    appears in Renaissance art:

        Vergil was by no means the first to mention the heroic maiden
        Cloelia as she appeared in Livy's history of Rome and a very
        famous equestrian statue of her swimming across the back of the
        Tiber on the back of a horse was erected on the Via Appia. (It
        is by no means clear, however, that it is the same statue that
        can be seen today.) Cloelia was also a favorite motif in
        Renaissance and Baroque art. Between Livy, Vergil, Plutarch and
        the artistic motifs, there is no doubt that Cloelia would have
        been familiar to an educated period audience.

    Given the prominence of Cloelia, her name is registerable under the
    guidelines for use of literary names given in the cover letter for
    the February 1999 LoAR.

Delphina the Mad. Name and device. Per saltire sable and argent, a skull 
between in cross four goblets all counterchanged.

    The submitter requested authenticity for the 16th C and did not
    specify a language or culture. Delphina is a Latinized form of the
    French name Delphine, which was the name of a saint from Provence
    who lived in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. Bardsley (p.
    505 s.n. Mad) dates Jordan le Madde to temp. Edward I. By the 16th
    C, surnames had virtually completely replaced literal bynames in
    both France and England. As we were unable to find appropriate forms
    of either element in the 16th C, we were unable to make this name
    authentic for the submitter's requested time period.

Delphina the Mad. Badge. (Fieldless) A bat-winged skull argent.

    In the SCA, winged objects such as winged swords, and (presumably)
    winged skulls, have the wings displayed by default.

Elizabeth Margarete. Name.

    Note: Margarete is used as an unmarked matronymic byname. Orle found
    a period example of exactly this spelling in Bardsley (p. 513 s.n.
    Margaret), which dates Hugh Margarete to 1273.

    Good name!

Gianetta Veronese. Name.

Giles MacManus. Name and device. Per bend sinister sable and gules, a 
tankard argent.

Howard of Brockenhurst. Name and device. Vert, in pale three broad 
arrows and on a chief Or a battleaxe gules.

Kevin of Thornbury. Badge. (Fieldless) A bear passant guardant Or 
charged on the shoulder with a cross crosslet fitchy azure.

    This is the submitter's fourth registered piece of armory. The
    Armorial and Ordinary records on this submitter's long submission
    history can be interpreted as implying that the submitter had four
    pieces of armory registered already. Morsulus and Pelican have
    clarified the situation from the files and original letters, and
    Morsulus will be making appropriate modifications to the Armorial
    and Ordinary.

Lassar ingen Artúir. Name and device. Azure, a trefoil knot between 
three torches argent.

    Listed on the LoI as Lassar Ingen Artúr, the form spelled the name
    as Lassar ingen Artúr. The submitter requested authenticity for 7th
    C "Irish/Celtic" language/culture. In the 7th century, the language
    used in Ireland was Oghamic Irish. Very few examples of Oghamic
    Irish inscriptions remain (including only one example of a feminine
    name). Lacking Oghamic Irish forms of the submitter's desired name
    elements, we have left this name in the submitted Old Irish Gaelic
    (c. 700 to c. 900) form, correcting only the patronym to the
    genitive form Artúir as required by Gaelic grammar. We have returned
    the particle to the submitted lowercase form ingen. Lacking evidence
    that the particle would have been capitalized in period, it is not
    registerable in that form.

Michel von Schönsee. Name change from holding name Michael of Lochmere.

Osanna Emiliani. Name.

Roana de Laci. Device. Argent, a rowan tree eradicated and in chief a 
label purpure.

Séamus mac Inneirghe. Badge. (Fieldless) A winged sea-stag argent 
attired Or charged on its shoulder with a rose vert maintaining in its 
sinister hoof a rapier argent.

Siobhán NicDhuinnshléibhe. Badge. Vert, on a spider argent a drop 
spindle inverted sable.

    Our textile pals were able to identify the drop spindle on first
    glance. They also note that some styles of period drop spindle have
    the whorl to chief, so a spindle with the whorl to chief would not
    have been intrinsically unrecognizable in a period context. However,
    the default drop spindle in the SCA has its whorl to base, so we
    have blazoned these as inverted. This also matches the blazon of her
    device, which uses this sort of drop spindle.

Yngvildr Gøstafsdotter. Name change from Ingvild Gøstafsdotter.

    Her previous name, Ingvild Gøstafsdotter, is released.

Yoshimitsu Hideyoshi. Name.

Returns will follow shortly in a separate e-mail.

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