[Artemisia] Registered items with Laurel 4/2009

Sun Jul 19 01:47:26 CDT 2009

Greetings all,

The following items have been registered by the Laurel Sovereign of
Arms as of the April 2009 meeting.

Fíne ingen Scandail. Name.
Submitted as Fiona ingen Scandal, this name had a number of problems.
First, ingen Scandal is not grammatically correct; following ingen,
Scandal needs to be in the genitive case, e.g., ingen
Scandail.
Second, as submitted the name was two steps from period practice. The
given name Fiona is an SCA-compatible given name;
its use is one step from period practice. (Note that as ruled on the
May 2008 Cover Letter, as of the May 2009 decision meeting
we will no longer consider any name element to be SCA-compatible.) The
spelling Fiona is consistent with Early Modern Irish
spelling conventions, but it is not consistent with the spelling
conventions of Old or Middle Irish. The byname ingen Scandail
is Old or Middle Irish. The combination of Old or Middle Irish with
Early Modern Irish is a second step from period practice.
The only examples of the given name Scandal that we have are from the
middle of the 9th century. We do not have any
evidence that Scandal remained in use into the Early Modern period.
Lacking evidence that it was, it cannot be registered as a
given name or as part of a literal patronymic byname in Early Modern
Irish contexts.
According to the forms, the submitter does not have any preferences
about her name. A similar feminine given name, Fíne,
was in use during the 9th century, according to Mari Elspeth nic
Bryan, "Index of Names in Irish Annals". We have changed
the name to Fíne ingen Scandail in order to correct the grammar of the
byname and to remove the steps from period practice so
that it can be registered.

Hue de Givors. Device. Azure, a bend argent between a sun and a ship
Or, a bordure argent.

Iduna Snorradottir. Name change from Iduna Snorrisdottir.
Her previous name, Iduna Snorrisdottir, is retained as an alternate name.

John Gilson. Device change. Vert, a rapier bendwise sinister argent
between two keys inverted, wards to sinister Or.
Please instruct the submitter to draw all of the charges larger,
especially the keys, to better ﬁll the available space.
His previous device, reblazoned elsewhere on this letter as Vert, a
sword bendwise sinister argent between two keys inverted
wards to dexter Or, is retained as a badge.

John Gilson. Reblazon of badge. Vert, a sword bendwise sinister argent
beween two keys inverted wards to dexter Or.
Blazoned when registered as his device in August 2005 as Vert, a
rapier bendwise sinister argent between two keys inverted
wards to dexter Or, the weapon has a single bar cross-hilt, not a cup hilt.

Kharlampii P’ianitsa. Name.
Submitted as Kharlampii P’(ianitsa, the parenthesis was intended to
represent an upside-down caron over the ia. So far as we
can tell, this symbol is a pronunciation marker, and not a part of the
transliteration of the name. We have dropped the ( to
register the name as Kharlampii P’ianitsa.

Maderun verch Hugh. Name.
Submitted as Maderun verch Pugh, the construction verch Pugh is not
correct. The byname Pugh is a contraction of Welsh ap
Hugh ’son of Hugh’; while Pugh evolved into a ﬁxed, inherited surname,
it was never used as a given name, and so it cannot
follow verch. Either Maderun verch Hugh or Maderun_Pugh would follow
period Welsh naming practices. The submitter does
not allow major changes, such as dropping an element, so we have
changed the name to Maderun verch Hugh in order to
register it.

Ysemay Bowman. Name and device. Per pale argent and purpure, an
increscent sable and a decrescent argent.

And, the following items have been returned for further work.

Azir de Lucera. Name change from al-Azar Lucero.
The documentation for Lucera provided evidence that this city has been
in existence since the early 13th C, but it does not
provide any period citations for the name Lucera. Siren notes:
The Latin <Luceria> can be found (well, as the genitive <Lucerie>) in
the 13th c. on p. 162 of Muslims in Medieval
Italy by Julie Anne Taylor
(http://books.google.com/books?id=KujYKqks3SAC). Two of them are:
<Sarracenos
Lucerie, servos nostros...>, <in thesauro castri Lucerie>.
I don’t know when <Lucera> came to be used for the place, but all the
13th c. Latin records I have found give
<Luceria>. Not suprisingly, I haven’t found any vernacular records.
Lacking evidence that Lucera is a period name of the place, it is not
registerable in the context of a locative byname.
We would change the name to Azir de Luceria, but the submitter does
not allow any changes, so we must return the name.

Iuliana Constanteanu. Device. Argent, a lavender sprig purpure slipped
vert and in base a pellet, on a chief embattled sable a roundel
between a decrescent and an increscent Or.
Her original submission, Argent, a larkspur vert ﬂowered purpure, in
base a roundel, on a chief embattled sable a roundel
between a decrescent and an increscent Or, was returned in November
2008 for three reasons: identiﬁability of the plant, the
fact that the pellet appeared to be part of the plant, and having a
complexity count of nine. The submitter redesigned with a
lavender plant in an attempt to correct the identiﬁability problem,
and successfully addressed the issue with the pellet, but did
not address the complexity issue at all: both plants are vert and
purpure and the remainder of the design is unchanged.
Therefore, this submission is returned for having a complexity count
of nine (argent, purpure, vert, sable, Or, sprig, pellet,
chief, crescent).

Onóra inghean uí Aodha. Device. Gules, a ﬂame argent.
This device is returned for conﬂict with the badge of Aislynn of
Jarrow, (Fieldless) A ﬂame argent, as there is only a single CD
for the difference between a ﬁeldless design and a ﬁelded one.

William le Dragoner. Name and device. Per pale purpure and argent, a
chevron inverted Or between a dragon displayed and two towers
counterchanged.
The name conﬂicts with Guillaume le Dragon. Guillaume and William are
variants of the same name, and they are not
signiﬁcantly different in pronunciation. Thus, they conﬂict, per RfS
V.1.a, which says that "Variant spellings of the same word
or name, no matter how radical, are not considered signiﬁcantly
different unless there is also a signiﬁcant difference in
pronunciation." The bynames are also not signiﬁcantly different in
sound, as they differ just by the addition of an unstressed,
terminal syllable.
This device is returned for having the dragon in trian aspect. It is
not displayed, which would have the entire body spread out
ﬂat, with the head directly to chief and the tail directly to base.
Instead, it appears to be crouched, and leaning both to the side
and towards the viewer.
It is also returned for lack of identiﬁability. The dragon is drawn so
that most of the identifying features are obscured -- nearly
the entire head overlies the wing. This depiction is in violation of
Section VII.7.a of the Rules for Submission, which requires
that "Elements must be recognizable solely from their appearance."
Please inform the submitter that, if he chooses to resubmit this
design, the chevron should be drawn steeper and extended
lower, the dragon’s head should be lifted above the wings, and the
co-primary towers should be drawn larger, so as to ﬁll the
available space.
The use of a dragon displayed is a step from period practice.

Please note, as always, while these decisions are final and official,
this should not be considered the official notification from either
Golden Pillar (Submissions) Herald or Golden Wing (Principal) Herald.
If you have any questions, feel free to refer them to your local
herald, myself, Johanne Golden Pillar, or Kelwin Golden Wing.

Conchobhar, Sage (Deputy Principal) Herald