Last modified: May 29, 2005
14 May 2005
From the Office of the White Stag Principal Herald
Lady Sorcha MacLeod
whitestag@outlandsheralds.org
UNTO the Outlands College of Heralds, our respected friends and colleagues who give freely of their time to provide commentary, and all others who come by these letters, on this Letter of Presentation, on the 14th day of May A.S.XXXIX (2005 CE), does Lady Sorcha MacLeod, White Stag Herald send greetings.
Anyone may comment upon the items found herein, and e-mail
commentary to the above address is encouraged. Please have comments on
items contained herein to me by 10 Jun, 2005, for the White Stag
decision meeting scheduled for 11 June.
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I present the following items for your consideration:
1- Aliana merch Gryffydd. New Device. Per
pale embattled Or and azure, two goats salient combatent sable and
argent.
(Hawk's Hollow)
Name passed on 1989 LoAR, Kingdom of the Outlands and was submitted
without a device.
2- Carraig Magh, Shire of . New Name. New
Device. Azure, seven mullets argent forming the constellation
Orion Rising, a laurel wreath Or, on base embattled gules, a sword
fesswise reversed.
(Carraigmagh)
Carraig Magh is derived from the Gaelic "Carraig" meaning
rock, and "Magh" meaning plain. The majority of the Shire at this
time consists of Gaelic (Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Pict) personaes, and
felt the name describes this area of northeastern Wyoming, with its
flat plains and mineral extraction background. An alternate
meaning of carraig is pillar, or monument, which would fit the Devil's
Tower Monument located in theis area. The populace thought the
name Carraig Magh descriptive of the region and a fitting
representation.
Both Carraig and Magh are found in MacBain's Etymological
Dictionary located at (http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/MB2/index.html)
It is found in Placenames in the North of Ireland
(http://www.geographyinaction.co.uk/Townlands/pnamesmeaning.html)
which states that Carrick or Carraig means "rock" in the Gaelic
language, and gives the example of Baile nagCarraig 'Townland of the
Rocks' and Maigh or Moy, meaning Plain, and gives the example of Maigh
Rath meaning 'Plain of the Fort'.
The Placenames of Breifne http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ruairc/placname.htm
talks of Carrick Patrick, aka Carraig Phadruic which in 1508 was a
monastery near Dromahaire, county Leitrim. Placenames with the
'Magh' in the 1500's are also mentioned throughout the document.
In The Celtic Place-Names of Scotland http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/instititutes/sassi/spns/index.htm
in the Index of Celtic Elements, page 6, letter C, Carraig, and page 2
letter M, Magh. Unavailable for print from PDF file, for viewing
only.
3- Ceara inghean Rónáin. Device Resubmission -
Previously returned by Kingdom of Outlands. Argent, a dragon
rampant vert and on a chief purpure two mascles fesswise argent.
(Caer Galen)
A search of the Outlands Rampart site does not return any
information on the previous submission under the name above.
5- Elise Porteuse d'Eau. New Name. New Device. Per
pale sable and vert, a lion sejant Or maintaining a ewer azure, between
three plates.
(al-Barran)
Elise - Oxford Dictionary of English Names, page 30.
Porteuse d'Eau is French for the water carrier. From the Dictionnaires
d'autrefois http://portail.atilf.fr/cgi-bin/dico1look.pl?strippedhw=porteur+d'eau
Submittor is concerned with the meaning of the name (Elizabeth the
Water Bearer). Desired gender is female. Authenticity is
desired for the French language/culture with no time period specified.
In service and duty,
Cameron, Internal Submissions Office
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