July 2010 LoP

Academy of St. Gabriel letter 3372 (http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/showfinal.cgi/3372.txt) documents Shoshana (in Hebrew) to 1318-1342 in Germany. According to the same Letter, Simkhah appears numerous times in Germany as a Hebrew feminine given name between 1211 and c. 1660. Also according to this Letter, Ruven, a Biblical male given name, was in use in Germany by Jews by the 13^th Century. This Letter further states that patronymic bynames are a traditional Jewish naming practice, and the Ashkenazic bas Ruven would be the most common form of “daughter of” in 14C Germany.

The Letter cited above notes that double given names were not common for Jewish women, but the practice was not unheard-of, and states that the form submitted would be a possible, if unusual, name for a 14C German Jewish woman.

23.Tatiana Moskovskaia - Name appeal, Device resubmission (Laurel). Sable, a griffin statant, tail nowed, between three hourglasses argent.

(Ravenhyrst) Gender:Female. The submitter cares most about language/culture(16c Russian) and meaning(woman of/from Moscow)

No changes accepted.

Name and device change from Eowyn Erthton.

Submitter's current name and device (Eowyn Erthton, Erminois, in pale two catamounts passant contourny, a bordure rayonny sable) were registered on the October 2000 LoAR (http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2000/10/00-10lar.html) via Atenveldt.

The previous device submission, Sable, a griffin statant, tail nowed, between three hourglasses argent, was returned on October 2009 LoAR http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2009/10/09-10lar.html for the following reasons:

This device is returned because the hourglasses are drawn in trian aspect, showing three dimensions. We do not allow most items to be depicted in trian asspect unless that depiction is necessary for identifiability or the charge is typically depicted that way in period armory. Hourglasses do not require depiction in trian aspect to be identifiable, nor are they typically depicted that way in period armory, so this must be returned for a redraw.Please instruct the submitter that, when resubmitting, the hourglasses should not be drawn transparently. They should be entirely solid tinctures.

The current redrawing addresses the above issues.

The previous Name submission was returned on June 2009 LoAR http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2009/06/09-06lar.html for the following reasons: This is being returned for using incorrect grammar in the byname. The byname Moskovskaia was intended to mean 'woman from Moscow', and constructed on the basis of the Russian form of the city's name, Moskva. The LoI cited Paul Wickenden of Thanet, "Locative Bynames in Medieval Russia", for the construction, section IV of which says locative bynames are created by taking the toponym and adding an adjectival suffix, the feminine version being -skaia. On the basis of this information, the correct feminine byname constructed from Moskva is Moskvaskaia, not Moskovskaia. We would change the byname to this form, but the submitter allows no changes, so we are forced to return the name.

[Tatiana] - "Dictionary of Period Russian Names" by Paul Wickenden of Thanet (http://heraldry.sca.org/heraldry/paul/) states it is a variant of [Tat'iana] and dates the spelling [Tatiana] as early as 225.

"Юрьи повелѣ емоу Смоленьскоую волостъ воевати . и шедъ Ст҃ославъ . и взѧ люди Голѧдь верхъ Поротве . и тако ѡполонишасѧ дроужина Ст҃ославлѧ . и приславъ Гюргии . реч̑ приди ко мнѣ брате въ Московъ"