Minutes of the 5 November 2000 Meeting

[Note: These submissions appear on the Apr 2001 LoAR]

al-Sahid, Shire of

Odd Thorvald (New Name)

Name:

Odd is found in Reaney, page 327, dated to 1327. Thorald is the English form of Þorvaldr, found in Reaney, page 444, dated to 1261 and used in this position of the name. We note that Oddr is found in Gierr Bassi, page 13 and Þorvaldr is found in Gierr Bassi, page 16. The Norse form of the submitted name would be Oddr Þorvaldsson, and the Anglicized form would be Odd Thorvaldsson.

NAME APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Teka Turmanov (New Device)

Per bend potenty sable and Or, a unicorn's head erased argent horned Or and a tau cross sable.

Name:

Laurel registered the name Teka Turmanov in March 1998.

Device:

No conflict found. The line of division is improperly drawn. We are returning this for a re-draw, with instructions to center the bend and draw it at a 45 degree angle. The submitter wishes to retain her old device as a badge.

DEVICE RETURNED FOR REDRAW

Calafia, Barony of

Marie Aoibeall (Kingdom Resub Device)

Purpure, a bell and on a chief embattled Or three quavers sable.

Name:

forwarded to Laurel in Sept. 2000

Device:

No conflict found.

DEVICE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Míchél MacDara (New Badge)

(Fieldless) A tree eradicated sable.

Badge:

We found the following SCA arms Azure, a tree issuant from base sable [Brandy of Mirkwood, Jan. '73?]. We must return these arms for conflict.

BADGE RETURNED FOR CONFLICT

Dreiburgen, Barony of

Molle of Norwiche (New Name and Device)

Sable, three anchors argent.

Name:

Molle is found under Moll in Reaney, page 312, dated to 1277. Norwiche is found under Norwich in Johnson "Placenames of England and Wales," page 383, and dates to 1297.

Device:

No conflict found.

NAME AND DEVICE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Martin de Thalassa (Kingdom Resub Device)

Or, an owl contourney perched on a barrel sable banded argent, a chief enarched vert.

Name:

Registered by Laurel, July 1999

Device:

We believe these arms are clear of the following SCA arms: Or, a penguin statant affronty facing dexter sable bellied argent, on a chief vert three mullets of 6 points Or [Allison of Basarabia, Sept '92], by a change of type of bird, and the addition of the mullets to the chief.

DEVICE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Mons Draconis, Canton of (Dreiburgen)

Mons Draconis, Canton of (Laurel Resub Badge)

(Fieldless) Issuant from a tower gules, a demi-wyvern vert.

Name:

approved by Laurel, June 1997

Badge:

Because the Canton has a wyvern in their arms, they prefer to have the monster blazoned as a demi-wyvern instead of a demi-dragon.

BADGE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Heatherwyne, Shire of

Jarucha Ekaterina Delamare (New Name)

Name:

Jarucha is found in Wickenden, page 127, undated. Ekaterina is found ibid., page 80, dated to 1533. Delamare is from Dauzat "Noms et Prenoms," page 185.

NAME APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Ida Haroldsdottir (New Name and Device)

Argent, a mullet within an annulet gules.

Name:

Ida is found in Withycombe, page 159, and dates to 1086. Haraldsdóttir is documentable from Gierr Bassi, with Haraldr on page 11, and the feminine patronymic dóttir on page 16. Harold is found in Reaney, page 218, dated to 1066 (DB). The author list many variants of the name, including Haraldr. The submitter would prefer the submitted form but will accept the documented form if necessary.

Device:

No conflict found.

NAME AND DEVICE APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL

Jens inn Draumspaki (New Name and Device)

Vert, on a bear statant erect affronty argent, a Thor's hammer gules.

Name:

Jens is found in Bahlow, page 276, dated to 1593 in Flensburg, a town in northern Germany on the border of Denmark. inn Draumspaki is found in Gierr Bassi, page 20, and dates to 1000. The temporal inconsistency is a single weirdness.

Device:

These arms conflict with the following SCA arms: Bendy sinister sable and gules, a bear statant erect affronty, grasping in its forepaws a halberd bendwise argent, the bear's jaws embrued gules [Hagar Hagarsson the Bear, Jan, '81].

NAME APPROVED AND SENT TO LAUREL.
DEVICE RETURNED FOR CONFLICT.

Postmeeting

Except for putting away book, the meeting ended at 1:07 pm! It's a record J.

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