Last modified: February 27, 2006


Outlands College of Heralds

February 27, 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 27th day of February, 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 March 18, 2006, for the White Stag decision meeting tenatively scheduled for March 19, 2006.

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I present the following items for your consideration:

1.  Furukusu Tatsujirou Masahide.  Badge change resubmission.  Sable, a pine tree within a hexagon voided and fracted per pall, argent.
(Hawks Hollow)
Name passed on January 2005 LoAR
Original badge passed on July 2005 LoAR.  Sable, three pine trees each within a hexagon voided and fracted per pall, one and two, argent.   Fracting the hexagons is one step from period practice.
I cannot find the Kingdom LoI that  returned this submission.  A letter giving permission to conflict with the device "Sable a hexagon voided within another argent" and written by al-Haadi abd-al-Malik Husam ibn Khalid has been included.

2.  Giovanna di Meir.  Resubmission of Name and Device.  Argent, on a heart gules, a dragonfly argent, a chief gules.
(Fontaine)
Original name Giovanna figlia di Meir and device was returned by Kindom on the May 2005 LoR.
Submitter cares about the language/culture of the name, desired gender is female and is interested in the name being authentic for 16th c. Italian.
Giovanna http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/italian.html
di Meir  http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/Jewish/rome_article.html

3.  Muireann Ghlass inghean Faolain.  New name and device.  Per bend sinister vert and argent a wolf salient to sinister and a thistle counter-changed.
(Citadel)
Submitter will not accept major changes, cares most about the language/culture, desired gender is female, and desires name to be authentic for Irish Gaelic language and/or culture.
Muireann - OCM (O'Corrain and Maguire) pg. 141.  As a header spelling.  Bearer died in 831.
Ghlass - "Glass" as listed at http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/irish-obrien.html
inghean - located on same page.  http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/irish-obrien.html
Faolain - Surnames of Ireland by Maclysagnt pg. 245  Gaelic spelling found under Phelan.
Submitting Herald's Note:  All books are listed on heraldry site as not needing copies.

4.  Svein hammar Bowswayer.  Resubmission of Name and Device.  Per chevron inverted argent and Or, a pheonix gules.
(Fontaine)
Original name (Hammar Bowswayer) and device returned by Kingdom on May 2005 LoR.
Submitter cares most about the meaning of the name (Person who uses a hammer), desired gender is male, and is interested in name being authentic for Viking language and/or culture.
Svein and Bowswayer - http://thescholarsgarret.com/opusculi/viking_names/
hammar - http://www.s-gabriel.org/1915
byname structure - http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/vikbynames.html.  [Castle Note:  This link is dead and can no longer be found on this site.]
Copies of documentation are included.

5.  Töregene Al-altun.  Resubmission of device.  Azure a pheonix Or between in pale two lotus blossoms argent and in fess two wheels Or.
(Citadel)
The original device "Azure, a peacock feather between in fess a hand of Fatima bendwise and another bendwise sinister" was returned on the May 2003 LoP.

6.  Wilhelm Galbreath.  New name and device.  Per chevron sable and Or, a spear counter-changed, and in chief, two compass stars Or.
(Caerthe)
Submitter cares most about the sound of the name, desired gender is male, and is interested in being authentic for 10th-13th c. German/Prussian.
Wilhelm - German Given Names 1200-1250 http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/germ13.html notes that Wilhelm is the fourth most common name in the listings.
Galbreath - English Surnames, Reaney and Wilson. under header "Galbraith, Galbreath"

Thus ends the February 2006 Letter of Presentation.

In service and duty,

Cameron, Castle Herald


Line Emblazon Sheet
Color Emblazon Sheet
February 2006 Letter of Presentation
March 2006 Letter of Response
March 2006 Letter of Intent
July 2006 LoAR Results
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