Crux Australis Principal Herald

Crux Australis Principal Herald:

Wakeline de Foxley
PO Box 91, Sandy Bay TAS, 7006
(03) 6225 4334

Email: herald at sca dot org dot au

Baryl Herald:

Massaria da Cortona
PO Box 91, Sandy Bay TAS, 7006
(03) 6225 4334

Email: massaria at hotmail dot com

Bombard Herald (Ceremonies and Protocol):

Uberto Renaldi

Email: bombard at sca dot org dot au

Canon Herald (OP and Gentry list):

Karl Faustus von Aachen (Paul Sleigh )
PO Box 1269, Belconnen ACT 2616
(02) 6271-1534 0407-468-244.

Email: canon at sca do org do au

Astrolabe Herald (New Zealand Regional Deputy):

Alys de Wilton (Jennifer Geard)

Email: geard at verso dot org

Rocket Pursuivant (Special Projects):

Giles de Roet (Mark Calderwood)
PO Box 247
Jesmond NSW 2299

Hund Herald (External Commentary):

Thorfinn Hrolfsson (Steven Roylance)
1592 Malvern Road, Glen Iris, VIC 3146.

Email: roylance at corplink dot com dot au

Mortar Pursuivant

Vacant

1. Álfgeirr Agnarsson

New Name and device

Azure, on a chevron Or three pheons sable, in base a horse forcene Or.

The submitter seeks an authentic "Viking-Norse/Icelandic" masculine name suitable for the 9th-11th centuries. He will allow minor changes and expresses no preferences on the nature of any such changes.

Álfgeirr is a masculine given name, two instances of which are cited as given names in Geirr-Bassi [2].

Geirr-Bassi also cites Agnarr as a masculine given name. According to the rules for constructing patronymic bynames provided in Geirr-Bassi the "-rr" ending of Agnarr should change to "-rs", whence Agnarsson.

The submitted name omitted the accent on the initial Á of Álfgeirr. The patronymic was also submitted with a single s. We have made the appropriate changes to comply with the submitter's request for authenticity.

2. Axel von Rügen

New name and device.

Sable, on a six fingered dexter hand argent a butterfly sable.

The submitter seeks a masculine name authentic for a German of unspecified date. He will accept minor changes and makes no requests about the nature of any such changes.

Axel is discussed in the Academy of Saint Gabriel's report number 3044 [http://www.s-gabriel.org/3044]. The report states that Axel is a Danish derivative of Absalom. The name spread from Denmark to Norway and Sweden within period (in a variety of forms) but the shortened form Axel has not been found in Germany before the 17th century. The report concludes that northern Germans might have used the name in period.

Rügen is a Baltic island situated just North of mainland Germany. The submitter has provided a period map of Scandinavia that labels the island with the desired spelling. This map is a reproduction of Sebastian Münster's Regiones Septentrionales-Scandinavia, part of his Cosmographia, which is dated 1588-1628. The copy of the map provided is from Moreland and Bannister's "Antique maps".

3. Dragon Demonskyi

Device resubmission to Crux.

Per chevron embattled Or and azure three dragon's heads couped azure and a flame Or.

The submitter's previous device submission Per chevron embattels Or and azure, in base a flame Or and in chief a mullet between two increscents azure.

The submitter's name was registered on the January 2005 LoAR.

4. Kaðlin mj{o,}ksiglanda

New name and device.

Gyronny gules and argent, on a chief Or three lozenges sable.

The submitter seeks an authentic feminine Viking name for the 9th to 13th century. She will accept minor changes but states no preferences about the nature of such changes, should they be required.
Kaðlin may be found in Lind , which says: "Kaðlín, -ar. Kv. K. d. Gôngu-Hrólfs Ld 106[20], Ln[1] 358[9], skriven g. Kadlínar Ln 31[10], 152[14]. Kelt. Caitlín." (Items in square brackets were superscripted in the text).

The translation of the above provided by Gunnvor silfraharr in internal commentary is as follows:
"Kaðlín, genitive (possessive) form is Kaðlínar. feminine name. Found as the name Kaðlín dóttir Gôngu-Hrólfs in Laxdæla saga 106[20], Landnámabók[1] 358[9], as well as in the written genitive form Kadlínar in Landnámabók 31[10], 152[14]. From Celtic Caitlín."

Three instances of Mj{o,}ksiglandi are cited in Geirr Bassi, as a byname meaning "much-sailing" or "far travelling". As Geirr-Bassi describes, the byname must agree in with the gender of the name. The rules for this formation are unclear as we cannot determine whether Mj{o,}ksiglandi is a weak or a strong adjective. If weak then we believe that the submitted form is the correct one; if strong then we believe that it should be Mj{o,}ksigl{o,}nd.

Note that {o,} inthe above discussion indicates o-ogomek, which I cannot render nicely in html.

5. Randall of Willoughby Vale

New device.

Azure, a saltire and on a chief argent three oak leaves bendwise vert.

A previous version of this device was returned by Crux in December 2004, because the oak leaves didn't look sufficiently oak-like. The new rendition of the device fixes this problem.

The submitter's name was registered in Laurel's April 2005 LoAR.

1. Clovis Virius Tacitus

New name and device.

Vert vetu ployé argent, a roundel argent within a bordure vert.

The submitter seeks a masculine name and makes no request for authenticity. He will allow minor changes and cares most about sound in the event of such changes.

Five instances of Clovis may be found in Aryanhwy merch Catmael's "Masculine & Feminine Names from the Merovingian Line c.400-c.600 AD" [http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/other/merovence.html].

Virius may be found in a list of Roman Nomina in an article entitled "Roman Names" at http://www.larp.com/legioxx/nomina.html.

Tacitus is a byname meaning "He who doesn't speak, the quiet one" which may be found in the article "On Choosing a Roman Name" [http://www.novaroma.org/via_romana/names.html].

We could find no evidence for three element Frankish names, but Clovis Tacitus does seem reasonable as a Frankish documentary Frankish name. We cannot justify it as a Roman name because of the Frankish first element; those bearing "barbarian" given names in the empire would generally have combined them with the gentive form of their "tribe" (Clovis of the Franks). Once an outsider took a Roman name they tended to discard all elements of the old name and use a wholly Roman thereafter.

This submission is being pended to see whether the submitter will allow the dropping of the second element to allow registration as a Franksih name.

The bordure in the submitted device is too thin. The submission is being pended to see whether the submitter will accept an alternative version with a thicker bordure.

1. Ysabeau Suárez de Challon

Change of holding name.

The submitter seeks an feminine name authentic for 16th century France/Spain. She will accept major changes, but not minor changes. In the event of changes the submitter cares about both sound and language.

The submitter previously submitted the name Ysabeau de Challon which was returned on the February 2005 LoAR for aural conflict with Isabeau Charron. At that time the holding name Isabeau of Stowe on the Wold was registered by Laurel. The current submission seeks to clear the previous conflict through the addition of a name element.

Ysabeau can be found in Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn's "Given Names from Brittany, 1384-1600" [http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/latebreton/]. The name is a variant of Isabelle cited in 1537.

Suárez may be found in Elsbeth Anne Roth's article "16th Century Spanish Names" in the section "Patronymic Bynames by Frequency" which may be found on the Laurel web site [http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/spanish/patro-freq.html]. Twelve instances of the patronymic are cited.

Challon may be found in Cateline de la Mor's "Sixteenth Century Norman Names" [http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/cateline/norman16.html]. The article lists de Challon as a surname.

The submitter has provided no specific documentation about the construction of the name from its various elements.

This name is being pended because of the request for authenticity for France/Spain. Crux can't fathom what that request means and will require further guidance from the submitter.