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Outlands College of Heralds
March 12, 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 12th day of March, 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 April 15, 2006, for the
White
Stag
decision meeting tenatively scheduled for April 16, 2006.
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I present the following items for your consideration:
1. Ambrose atte Redehulle. Device Resubmission and New
Badge. Device - Argent, three piles azure, overall an elephant
gules. Badge - Fieldless, an elephant head trumpeting erased
gules.
(Hawk's Hollow)
This name was passed on the July
2005 LoAR. This device was originally submitted as Barry
of six azure and gules, an elephant statant Or and was returned by
Kingdom on the March
2005 LoR for violation
of RfS
VIII.2.b.iv.
2. Anna Katherine Spinner. New Name and Device. The
device is unblazoned on the submission.
(Fontaine)
Submitter will not accept any changes to name and does not submit any
other processing criteria.
Anna - A feminine German given name found in Seibicke,
pp.146-149. 12th century in Oberbayern also 13C refs.
Katherine - A feminine given name found in Seibicke, pp. 660-661, under
Katharina. Katherine Arnsberg 1250-1300.
Spinner - A surname found in Brechenmacher, p.640, dated 1348.
No documentation was included with this submission.
3. Cassia bint Abdullah. New Name and Device. Gules,
an inverted chevron and in chief a lotus flower argent.
(Blaiddwyn)
Submitter will not accept any changes to name. Gender is
female. Desires authenticity for 14th century Turkish.
Cassia - Found in Jewish Women's Names in an Arab Context:
Names from the Geniza of Cairo (http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/geniza.html)
bint Abdullah - Found in Academy of Saint Gabriel Report 3084 (http://www.s-gabriel.org/3084)
"...In the Ottoman empire, former slaves and other converts to Islam
used the conventional patronymic <bin Abdullah>, literally 'son
of a servant of Allah' rather than identifying themselves by their
actual father's names..."
Copies of both articles are included with submission.
4. Cu Roi ÓDuibhir. New Name and Device. The
device in unblazoned on the submission.
(Drygestan)
Submitter cares most about the sound of the name. Desired gender
is Male. Submitter marked desire for having name be authentic for
language and/or culture but didn't specify which one (assume Ireland).
Cu Roi - Irish Names p. 65 header spelling
ÓDuibhir - Surnames of Ireland p. 94 (ÓDwyer
header)
No documentation was included with this submission.
5. Gere Thorkellsson. New Name and Device. Gyronny Or
and vert, a wolf passant argent.
(al-Barran)
Submitter will not accept major changes, cares most about the sound of
the name and desired gender is male.
Gere - Taken from The Viking Answer Lady site (http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ONMensNames.shtml).
Found in Old Danish as Geri, in Old Swedish as Gere, and in OW.Norse as
Geiri. This name is a short form of masculine names in Geir- or
-geirr, and also occurs as a weak side form of the name Geirr.
Thorkell - The Laxdaela Saga (http://omacl.org/Laxdaela/chapter52.html)
Chapter LII, The Killing of Thorkell of Goat Peaks. Online
Medieval and Classical Library Release #32. Patronymic naming
convention utilized per instructions found at The Viking Answer Lady
site (http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ONMensNames.shtml).
Summarization of documentation included with submission (to include
excerpts from The Viking Answer Lady site.)
6. Iira Kazimir Zarubezhanin. New Name.
(Saint Golias)
Submitter will not accept major changes, cares most about the sound of
the name and desired gender is male.
All three names appear in Wickenden.
Iira - p.118: Iira(m) - vars: Jira syn Paulou 1480 [Mor 94]
Kazimir - p.134: Kazimir(m) ancient Polish name Kazimir -
Oleksandrov - 1498 [PKN IV 123]
Zarubezhanin - p.413 - Zarubezhanin - Foreigner
No documentation was included with this submission.
7. Mari the Far Travelled. New Badge.
(Blackwater Keep)
It appears that the original submission of device and badge was
lost without being processed. Her name was submitted on the January
2005 LoR and her device was submitted on the August
2005 LoR. She desires that the most likely badge to pass be
submitted to Laurel and offers three choices blazoned here in order of
preference.
1st Choice - Fieldless, a mullet of eight Or
2nd Choice - Divided field, Green left, blue right, eight-pointed star
gold.
3rd Choice - Compass star gold on a feather field blue and white.
8. Nathaira MacDuff. Resubmission of Name and New
Device. Or, a pall inverted vert between two suns in splendour
and a duck, naiant to sinister gules.
(al-Barran)
Name originally submitted, Natasha Mechislav, can be found on December
2004 LoR.
The only name processing information given on form is desired gender of
name is female.
Nathaira - An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/MB2/mb27.html#MB.N)
The School Gaelic Dictionary (http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/MF2/mf09.html#MF.N)
Saint Gabriel Report 1607 (http://www.s-gabriel.org/1607)
MacDuff - Not documented by submitter.
Excerpts of entries above included with submission.
Thus ends the March 2006 Letter of Presentation.
In service and duty,
Cameron, Castle Herald
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