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Outlands College of Heralds

January 02, 2006
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 2nd day of January A.S.XXXX (2006 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 21 January, 2006, for the White Stag decision meeting tenatively scheduled for 22 January.

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I present the following items for your consideration:

1.  Anne Juste.  New Name and Device.  Sable, a fretty Or and on a chief argent four hearts gules.
(Bloodstone Keep)
Submitter will not accept major changes to name.  Desired gender is female.  Submitter will not accept a holding name.
Anne - Withycombe, E.G.  Oxford Dictionary English Christian Names, 3rd Ed.  pg. 25 (heading anghard/ann) 14th c. ref Anne of Bohemia, Queen of Richard II, popular until 16th c.
Juste - R&W, 3rd ed.  pg. 258 under header Just"...French surnames Juste and Jux".  This name has been previously registered within the society.
(No documentation included other than a copy of  Wilham Juste's submission cover letter.)

2.  Cuinn McEwen.  New Name and New Device.  Gyronny argent and azure, a double-headed eagle and in base a stag's head cabossed Or.
(al-Barran)
Submitter will not accept any changes, major or minor, cares most for the Scottish language and/or culture and desires the name to be authentic.  Desired gender is male.
No summary was submitted for this submission.
Documentation provided has the element Cuinn documented in the name Conn mac Cuinn mic Neill Uí Domhnaill with a date of 1497.  http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/mari/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/Conn.shtml
Documentation provided has the element McEwen  listed as an alternate spelling for a member of the Clan Macewen.  "History of the Clan Macewen", Clan MacLachlan Society, http://clanmaclachlanwesternusa.org/mcewenhistory.htm [Note from Castle:  After researching this I have found that the link supplied no longer works.  Try this one which appears to be the same page hosted by a different server:  http://www.gilcrist.com/clansite/mcewenhistory.htm]
Submitter wishes to be consulted if any changes are required.

3.  Khalidah bint Yahya'a.  New Name and Device.  No blazon submitted for device.
(Unser Hafen)
Submitter will not accept any major changes to the name, desired gender is female, and she is interested in the name being authentic for the Islamic/Middle Eastern culture.
Included documentation:
- "Period Arabic Names and Naming Practices", 2nd ed., by Da'ud ibn Auda.  http://sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/arabic-naming2.htm
- Hadeeth No. 5323, from Sahihal Bukhari, narrated by Khalid bin Sad (may Allah be pleased with him.)  http://www.spubs.com/sps/sbk/sahihalbukhari.cfm
- "The Manners fo Welcoming the New-Born Child in Islaam" from troid.org  http://www.troid.org/articles/sisters/children/print/newborn.htm
The name for which the documentation supports is Khalidah bint Yahya'a.
In the third paragraph of Da'ud ibn Auda's introduction gives the example of how masculine names are feminized; Khalidah is one of the example names which is from the masculine name of Khalid.
Page 3 of Da'ud ibn Auda's article makes mention of the ism (first name: Khalidah) and the nasab which being the son or daughter of, in this case - bint Yahya'a or daughter of John.  Page 4 gives an example of  the first generation nasab.  The paragraph above this example states, "As a general rule, women's names tended to use the less complex forms..."  The first generation nasab is the least complex of Arabic naming practices.
The first generation nasab is further complimented by Hadeeth No. 5323 whose narrator was Khalid son of Sad (may Allah be pleased with him).  The hadeeth also show that the name was used in period and prior to - since the formation of Islaam and the recording of the Hadeeths.
Page 8 of Da'ud ibn Auda's article lists the name of Yahya being in period.  However, given the variances of how Arabic is transliterated into English and other languages, Yahya'a is also a proper transliteration.  Page 9 of the article lists the name of Khalidah as being in period.
Islamically, according to the article from troid.org, children are to be given a first name then named after their fathers.  Ideally, children should be named after a Prophet or a pious person.  Yahya'a or John (man Allah be pleased with him) is a prophet and Kalid ben Sad (may Allah be pleased with him) is a pious person and companion to the Prophet Mohammed (was).

4.  Killian MacKenzie.  New Badge.  A cross of Toulouse argent voided azure.
(Bloodstone Keep)
Name passed in February 1998 LoAR.  http://www.sca.org/heraldry/loar/1998/02/lar.html
Device passed in July 2001 LoAR.  http://sca.org/heraldry/loar/2001/07/01-07lar.html

5.  Mabel Francesca McEwen.  New Name and Device.  Purpure, a lily flower Or between three fleurs-de-lys argent.
(al-Barran)
Submitter will not accept major/minor changes to name, desired gender is female and desires name to be authentic for French/Scottish language/culture.
Mabel - Faire Names for English Folk:  Late 16th C. English Names.  http://www.s-gabriel.org Chris Laming (SCA:Christian de Holacombe) [No documentation is included for this item.]
No summary is provided for Francesca or McEwen but the following documentation was given:
Francesca - http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/arval/catasto/
McEwen - Listed as an alternate spelling for a member of the Clan Macewen.  "History of the Clan Macewen", Clan MacLachlan Society, http://clanmaclachlanwesternusa.org/mcewenhistory.htm [Note from Castle:  After researching this I have found that the link supplied no longer works.  Try this one which appears to be the same page hosted by a different server:  http://www.gilcrist.com/clansite/mcewenhistory.htm]
Submitter wishes to be consulted if any changes are required.

6.  Maredudd Angharad ferch Gwenhyfar.  New Badge.  A lion rampant Or ermine azure langued and armed azure
(Bloodstone Keep)
Name passed December 1990 LoAR.  http://www.sca.org/heraldry/loar/1990/12/lar.html
Device passed January 1992 LoAR.  http://www.sca.org/heraldry/loar/1992/01/lar.html

7.  Melodia Shaw.  New Device.  Azure, within a harpframe argent a double-rose argent and sable.
(al-Barran)
Name passed on October 2001 LoAR.  http://sca.org/heraldry/loar/2001/10/01-10lar.html

8.  Ryan de Caergybi.  Resubmission of Augmentation (Kingdom).  Per pale, argent and gules, a griffin between six feathers in annulo counterchanged, and as an augmentation, in fess point on an inescutcheon vert, a wheel and a bordure embattled Or.
(al-Barran)
Name and Device passed on May 2003 LoAR.  http://www.sca.org/heraldry/loar/2003/05/03-05lar.html
Augmentation granted on May 10, 2003, Outlands.
Originally returned on the February 2005 LoR.  http://rampart.outlandsheralds.org/2005-01-lop/0502-lor.html
Per pale argent and gules, a griffin between six feathers in annulo counterchanged, and for augmentation, in fess point on an inescutcheon sable, a wagon wheel argent.
This augmentation is returned for conflict with Serena Lascelles (Fieldless) A Catherine's wheel argent registered July 1996 (Ansteorra) with a single CD for the field, and with Raichbhe Walkman Per bend sinister gules and purpure, a cartwheel argent registered March 1999 (Lochac) with a single CD for changes to the field. Unfortunately, an augmentation that has the appearance of independent armory must be conflict checked as if it were independent armory.

9.  Sigurd Hakonson.  New Name and Device.  Gules, a bend sinister, a Thor's hammer and an anvil Or.
(Bloodstone Keep)
The submitter cares most for the language/culture of the name and the desired gender of the name is male.  [The culture isn't specified on the page.]  Submitter will not allow for the creation of a holding name.
heimskringla - Snorri Sturtuson pg 836 for Hakon(son).
The Poetic Edda - Hollander 2nd ed. pg 339 Sigurd, pg 334 Hakon
Legends of Middle Ages - H.A. Guerber pg 33 Sigurd also 269
The Varangians of Byzantium - Sigfús Blöndal pg 241 Siguror pg 55 Sigurdarson
Documentation provided for all references above.

10.   Siobhán OTine.  New Name.
(al-Barran)
Submitter did not fill in any of the Name Processing Criteria.
Sibhán is found in O'Corrain and Maguire pg 165 under the heading Siban.
OTine is found in Woulfe Irish Names and Surnames pg 651 under the headin OTeimin
No documentation was included with this submission.

11.  Tomas Moreno dela Cruz.  New Name and Device.  A Cross of Santiago Or and gules with an engrailed bordure quartered and counter-changed.
(al-Barran)
Submitter will not accept major changes and cares most about the language/culture of the name.  Desired gender is male and submitter wishes the name to be authentic for 16th c. Spanish.
There is no documentation or summary presented with this submission.

12.  Viga-Horn.  New Name and Device.  In bend sinister gules and sable between a bend argent a horn Or and a dragon head couped argent.
(Bloodstone Keep)
Submitter cares most about the language/culture of the name, desired gender is male, and he will not accept a holding name.  He has, however, submitted two alternate names if the the first does not pass: 2nd choice is Vig-Viglundr i Horn, 3rd choice is Viga-Vikingr i Horn.  If none of the 3 are acceptable, the Herald for Bloodstone Keep would like to be contacted.
The Old Norse Names, Geir Bassie Haraldsson. (1977) viga (pg 29) Vikingr/Vikinga (pg 29)
Viking Names found in the Landnámabák, Aryanwy merch Catmael (Sarah Friedemann) http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/landnamabak.html - Found vikinr and viglundr (viking meaning)., http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/vikingnames.html - found viga, vikingr, horn, vikinga
No documentation has been included with this submission.

Thus ends the December 2005 Letter of Presentation.

In service and duty,

Cameron, Castle Herald


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December 2005 Letter of Presentation
January 2006 Letter of Response
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