Last modified: November 27, 2005
Outlands College of Heralds
27 November 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 27th day of November A.S.XXXX (2005 CE), does Lord Cameron
deBlakstan
send greetings on behalf of Lady Sorcha MacLeod, White Stag Principal
Herald.
Anyone may comment upon the items found herein, and e-mail
commentary to the Rampart address is encouraged. Please have comments
on
items contained herein to Rampart, Furukusu Masahide-dono
by 17 December, 2005, for the
White
Stag
decision meeting tenatively scheduled for 18 December.
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I present the following items for your consideration:
1. Anastasia Vladimirovicha Alzhbetina. New Name, Device
and Badge.
Device - Gules a chevron ermine cotised Or and in base a rose argent
barbed and seeded sable.
Badge - Fieldless a double rose argent barbed of ermine spots and
seeded sable.
(Bloodstone Keep)
Client will not accept major changes to the name and desired gender is
feminine.
All three names come from Paul Goldschmidt's "Dictionary of
Period Russian Names"
Anastasiia is the fem. form of Anastasii and means "arisen,
resurrected." Anastasia (Client's preferred spelling) is dated to
1187 and the name is noted as being the lover of Oleg Nastas'ich.
Vladimirovicha - Derived from the masculine noun Vladimir which
means "to rule the land". Feminine names in Russian must agree
with the byname in gender. Done by adding an "a" to the end of
the name. This was also done to "-vich" names.
Vladimirovich is dated to 1174 (Great Prince Iurii Vladimirovich).
2. Cydifor Goch ab Llygad. New Name and Device.
Sable, a tree blasted and eradicated argent, fructed and in base two
horse heads cabossed Or, orbed and langued gules.
(Drygestan)
Client will not accept major changes to name, cares most about
language/culture, desired gender is male and wishes name to be
authentic for Welsh language/culture.
No documentation provided
All name elements come from http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/welsh13.html
Name means Cydifor (the) Red son Llygad.
3. Fynn of Blarney. New Name and Device. Per Pall
vert and argent two rocks and one knowed reversed (knotted snake)
(facing left)
(Bloodstone Keep)
Client cares most about the language/culture (Irish) and desired gender
is male.
O'Corrain & Maguire - "Irish Names" pg 100 (1990 ed.) He
would like the spelling of his name Fynn instead of Finn as on
pg.100. Herald could not find "of" Blarney in proper form, which
was something else the client wanted. He will accept the above as
is and the spelling "Finn" as an alternate if the desired form cannot
be accepted.
No documentation was provided.
4. Gabriela Wende. New Name.
(Hawks Hollow)
Client will not accept major changes, cares most about language/culture
(English/German/Slavic) and desired gender is female.
"Wende" is found as a surname in Bahlow, Hans "Deutsches Nameslexikon
as translated by Edda Gentry, German Names", page 543, (paperback
edition) under the header Wendt, citing knight Heinrich Wende, Sil.
1336. No documentation included.
Gabriela is the submitter's legal given name - a copy of her driver's
license is enclosed. It si also found as the Latin root for
medieval feminine names Gabrielle, Gabriel among others and occurred in
some form within our period in German, English, French and
Italian. (No enclosed documentation for this.)
5. Johannus Rodenwerper. New Name and Device. Argent,
a flamingo proper pink, within a dovetail border sable.
(Bloodstone Keep)
Client cares most about the language/culture of the name (doesn't
specify which culture but I would assume German) and the gender is
male. Will not accept a holding name.
Johannes - He would like to keep this spelling Ref. of various
spellings are in "Deutsches Namenlexikon" (1998) Ursula Bahlow.
Pg 264 and "Dictionary of German Names", 2nd Ed., Hans Bahlow, Pg
251. He will accept "Johannes" as last resort.
Rodenwerper - "Dictionary of German Names", 2nd Ed., Hans Bahlow, Pg
VI. Ref. appearing in Hanover & Baunschweig as early as 1300,
1436 in Kiel.
No documentation provided.
Handwritten notes regarding the device was also included and
read:
www.answers.com pink flamingo (coat of arms) supporters Turks and
Caicas Islands.
Chordita, Carribbean - discovered 1512 by Ponce de Leon - flamingos at
this time.
also: same website greater (pink) flamingo found Africa, Asia,
Turkey, Spain, France. (fossilized flamingo footprints in Andres
Mountains.)
6. Rand the Tracker of Oak Hollow. Change of Device.
Sable, a mounted archer courant to sinister, maintaining a drawn bow
and arrow to dexter argent.
(Hawks Hollow)
Device passed on September 1995
LoAR as "Per pall sable goutty
d'eau, Or, and vert, a stag at gaze sable and a drawn bow nocked of an
arrow Or."
Submitting Herald writes: Please change the blazon as needed to
match the picture. The client very much wants the horse's legs to
be under the body.
Thus ends the November 2005 Letter of Presentation.
In service and duty,
Cameron, Castle Herald
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