CAMeL February 2006

Lochac arms CoH Arms

Crux Australis Principal Herald

Wakeline de Foxley
PO Box 91 Sandy Bay, Tasmania 7006
phone: +61 3 6225 4334
herald at sca dot org dot au

Warmest greetings unto the College of Heralds of the Kingdom of Lochac, and unto any others who may read this missive from Wakeline de Foxley, Crux Australis Principal Herald

From Crux Australis

Greetings all,

Festival

Festival is only two weeks away. Well, okay two months, but that is almost as bad! Declan of Drogheda was going to organise heraldry at Festival for us this year, but due to real-life commitments he has had to step aside. Thankfully Massaria has leapt forth to save the day. No doubt she will be seeking information from each of you as to what you are willing and able to do to help out at Festival.

One thing that will be happening at Festival is a consulting table. Apart from being generally good fun, consulting tables are a great way to help clients sort out their submissions quickly. They are also a great way to learn heraldry, so don't feel like you have to be a super-herald to participate. Come along and join the fun!

We were planning to drive up and thus bring the Crux library with us, but it appears that we will be flying instead. Thus, if you want to help out with the consulting table it would be great if you could bring a book each. We will try to organise that so that we don't end up with twenty copies of Fox-Davies and nothing else...

Astrolabe Herald

Alys de Wilton has announced that she is seeking a successor as Astrolabe. The duties of Astrolabe are not rigidly set; basically your job would be to oversee heraldry in New Zealand. There will be some requirements to deal with financial matters, so you will need to be a member. If you are interested in the role then please contact Alys and/or me. Oh, and before anyone asks, yes you do have to live in New Zealand!

Important Addresses

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 (Special Projects- Ranks & Education

William Castille

Email: smay1968 at bigpond dot net dot au

Submission Requirements

Cost: $20 per new submission (name, device or badge). No cost for resubmissions (within the permitted time limit) or branch submissions. Note: a new name and device costs a total of $40. Make cheques or money orders payable to "SCA Inc. College of Heralds". Do not send cash through the post!

Copies required:

NAMES: Two (2) copies of both the form and ALL documentation, including title page of each book NB: The title page is not the same as the book cover! Essays about a submitter's persona may be entertaining, but do NOT constitute documentation. When citing web sites as documentation, you must include a printout of the pages used. Please don't staple your forms, paperclips are fine and loose is ok too.

DEVICES AND BADGES: Four (4) colour copies and one (1) black & white OUTLINE copy. The colour copies should be accurately coloured, preferably in felt tip pen. Colour printers or faint coloured pencil is not acceptable. The colours must be visible across a crowded Herald's meeting. Laurel has requested that gold pen NOT be used, as it deteriorates in files and turns to glue. Please don't staple your forms, assuming that all goes well at kingdom level they are separated and go to four different homes. Paperclips are fine and loose is ok too.

Please include ALL necessary documentation to support each submission. It is the responsibility of the submitter to present their submission in a way that makes registration easy. Name documentation should be as accurate as possible. Failure to provide sufficient documentation is a cause for return of your submission. If you are having trouble with your documentation then speak to your local herald. If they can't answer your specific question, consider writing to Blazons, or contacting me. If I don't know the answer but I will at least be able to point you in the direction of someone who will.

From Baryl - February Meeting Results

The February meeting was held on Thursday 23^nd February 2006. Present at the meeting were Wakeline de Foxley, Crux Australis Herald.

Submissions Forwarded to Laurel

1. Cairn Fell, Shire of

Name and device submission.

Per pale sable and Or, an oak tree eradicated counterchanged and on a point pointed vert a laurel wreath Or.

This submission was considered at the July 2005 Crux meeting and pended for lack of documentation for the element "Fell" and lack of documentation for construction.
The submitters request a name authentic for Gaelic or English, but with no specified time. They will allow any changes, and in the event of such changes care most about sound.
Much of the documentation for this name will be drawn from the dictionary of the Scots language. The web references for individual pages in this dictionary are quite long, so some readers may prefer to use the nice web interface at http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/. For brevity I will state just once that the web-sites given below were all accessed on the 23rd of February 2006.
Cairn is said to have entered Old Scots from Gaelic carn. The word is said to have meant "A pile or small pyramid of loose stones, esp. one serving as a boundary- or land-mark, or marking a grave". Variants of the word appear first in personal names: David of the Carnes (1362), Johannes del Carnys (1363). The dictionary gives about nine examples of the use of the word in our period, one example from 1446 being "Syn evyn furth til a rod behynd the Carnehill, and sua furth to the caryn of Mar". This example is particularly cogent as it shows the concatenation of Carn with another geographically descriptive word (a situation very similar to the submitted name). The first cited occurrence of the desired spelling, Cairn, is in 1530.
Pages for viewing the above information can be found at this subpage and also here.
The same source states that fell was ultimately derived from Norse -fell, fjall. Its meaning is "a hill or mountain". An early example of the use of the word in Scots is from 1448, "Thair sal ane baill be brynt … on the fell abone the Dowlwerk and ane on the watchfell". Again the concatenation of "fell" with a preceding word in "watchfell" is notable. The dictionary entry for fell can be seen here .
Ekwall provides a number of (undated) place names including the -fell element: Bowfell, Hampsfell and Whinfell. Ekwall agrees that the element is said to derive from Old Norse.
It thus seems reasonable to posit a late period Scots place name including the elements Cairn and Fell.
The question of how to combine the two elements then arises. Two citations that I have provided above seem to indicate that the compound name would be formed by concatenation of the individual words, thus Cairnfell. This is in agreement with the examples provided by Ekwall.
However, a web search finds extant Northern English or Scottish places called "Cairnerzean Fell", "Cairnmon Fell" and "Cairn Fell". We don't have dates for any of these names, but we believe that they refer to mountains, rather than town names. (As an aside, we do not believe these places to be significant enough to protect.)
We are thus inclined to suggest that Cairnfell would be a more authentic spelling of the name, but are not sufficiently confident to change its form at Lochac level.
The submitters have included a poll that complies with the requirements of the Administrative Handbook IV.C.5.
I would also like to thank participants on the Blazons list for providing information for the documentation of the name Cairnfell. My particular thanks to Massaria Baryl, Alys Astrolabe, Eleyne de Commnocke and Giles Leabrook.

Cairn Fell's device

Submissions Returned by Crux

None

News from Laurel LoARs

From Laurel's November Letter of Acceptance and Return

Acceptances

Angus Galbraith. Name.

Ava del Mas. Name.

Helene du Puy. Name and device. Or, on a bend cotised gules three crosses flory Or.

Liadan inghean Ghlasain. Name change from Liadan ingen Glassain.

Mael Muire ingen Alpin. Name.

Mikhaila von Dhaun. Device. Purpure, a lizard tergiant and in chief three Celtic crosses Or.

Nicodemus Novello. Name and device. Azure, a bend sinister embattled argent between three cog wheels Or and three caltraps argent.

Saint Hieronymus, College of. Branch name.

Tatianitsa Iaroslavna. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Submitted as Tatianitsa Yaroslavna, two different transcription systems are used in this name. For registration, a single transcription system must be used. We have changed the name to Tatianitsa Iaroslavna to unify the transcription system.

Returns

Tatianitsa Iaroslavna. Device. Gules, a dog's head couped and a chief embattled argent.

This device is returned for conflict with Erik Gravargr, "Gules, a wolf's head couped within a bordure rayonny argent". There is no difference between a wolf's head and a dog's head, leaving only a single CD for changing the type of the peripheral ordinary.

Corrections

Lochac, Kingdom of. Correction of badge designation to Worshipful Company of Broiderers. Gules, a chevron cotised between three pairs of shears inverted Or.

Listed on the LoAR as a badge for the Worshipful Company of Broiders, the LoAR specifically said Broiders was incorrect and that the correct form was Broiderers, though the header did not get changed.

Crux Seal Wakeline's Signature

Wakeline de Foxley,
Crux Australis Principal Herald

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