Below are the results of the April 2002 Letter of Acceptance and Return from the Laurel King of Arms. This website is not authoritative, but is an accurate reproduction of the text of the April LoAR.

December 2001 Letter of Intent
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ACCEPTANCES

Bronwen Blackwell. Name and device. Per pale vert and argent, a seeblatt counterchanged.

The name Bronwen has long been SCA compatible. It was among those included in the list provided in the Cover Letter that accompanied the June 1996 LoAR.

Caterine d'Albret. Device. Per pale vert and purpure, three fleurs-de-lys argent.

Conchenn ingen Briain. Name and device. Per chevron vert and argent, two spoons in saltire argent and a brown mouse statant erect proper.

There was some question about the spelling of this byname. As submitted, this name is Old Irish Gaelic (c. 700 to c. 900) or Middle Irish Gaelic (c. 900 to c. 1200). In Gaelic, lenition can affect a name in two ways. It affects pronunciation by causing a softening of the pronunciation of the letter in question. In the written form of the name, lenition is shown by placing an 'h' after the letter that is lenited. (In some scripts, a punctum delens, which shows up as a dot over the letter, is used instead of an 'h' following the letter.) There are several letters ('b','d','g', and 'm') which lenited in Old and Middle Irish Gaelic, but did not show lenition in written forms until Early Modern Gaelic (c. 1200 to c. 1700). Therefore, ingen Briain is the correct form of the submitted byname. In Early Modern Gaelic, the same byname would become inghean Bhriain.

Dietrich Karl von Andernach. Name and device. Per chevron gules and sable, an eagle between three crosses formy Or.

Please advise the submitter to draw all the charges larger.

Ophelia Mulryan. Device. Per fess azure and argent, a mermaid in her vanity proper crined gules and in chief three escallops argent.

Sabiha al-Zarqa. Name.

Thomas Edward Dudley. Device change. Per pale argent and sable, three bars counterchanged.

Nice device! His previous device, Argent ermined azure, an oak tree proper issuant from a base sable, is released.

Tuman Elnikov. Device change. Per chevron throughout sable and Or, two towers Or and a demon genuant guardant azure maintaining a sword gules.

His previous device was the same except for the tincture of the demon, and is being released: Per chevron throughout sable and Or, two towers Or and a demon genuant guardant vert maintaining a sword gules.

Uilliam mac Maoláin. Device. Sable, a bear and a catamount rampant addorsed between in pale an arrow fesswise reversed and an arrow fesswise argent.

Unser Hafen, Barony of. Badge. (Fieldless) On a portcullis vert a torch Or.

Zoraya de Navarre. Device. Purpure, a natural tiger couchant guardant Or marked sable between two sexfoils in bend sinister argent all within a bordure Or.

The flowers were originally blazoned as gardenia blossoms, but those flowers have an indefinite number of petals (anywhere from five to eleven petals). We have therefore reblazoned these as generic six-petalled flowers, or sexfoils. The classic sexfoil would show more seperation between the petals.

RETURNS

Katherine Linnet Holford. Badge. Sable, a Catherine wheel argent charged with a capital letter A gules.

As drawn, the letter A lies almost completely on the field because of the spaces between the spokes of the wheel. It therefore needs to have good contrast with the field, and it does not.

December 2001 Letter of Intent
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