[Elfsea] April 2009 LoAR results forlocal submissions.

[Alasdair MacEogan]

Greetings all.  The April Letter of Acceptances and Returns has been published by Laurel and here are the results for submissions from this area.  Both through Steppes and Elfsea.

Acceptances

- Caitrina inghean Mhurchadha. Device. Vert, a rat rampant to sinister and in canton a mullet of eight points argent.

- Elfsea, Barony of. Badge. Azure, in base two bars wavy Or.
Please instruct the submitter to draw the bars with deeper, more prominent waves.

- Elfsea, Barony of. Badge. (Fieldless) On a tower per pale argent and azure, an escallop inverted counterchanged.

- Elspeth de Stervlen. Device. Purpure, six cinquefoils Or.

- Uillecc Dubh mac Uillicc. Name.

- Viviana Ammary Rowntree. Badge. Argent, a dragonfly and in chief three lotus blossoms in profile purpure.

Returns

- Elfsea, Barony of. Badge. (Fieldless) On a tower per pale azure and argent, an escallop inverted counterchanged.

Reason: This is returned for conflict with the badge of Gregor von Münchhausen, (Fieldless) On a tower per pale azure and argent, a dexter gauntlet clenched counterchanged.There is a CD for fieldlessness, but a tower is not suitable for purposes of X.4.j.ii, thus there is not a CD for the change of only the type of the tertiary charge. There is not a CD for the difference in posture between a fist and an escallop.


- Mairi Berwyk. Name change from Branwen Nimblefingers.

Reason: Conflict with Mariot de Berwic. Mariot is a diminutive of English Mary, and Mairi is a Gaelic form of Mary, pronounced almost identically to Mary. While Mariot is not a diminutive of Gaelic Mairi, the difference in pronunciation between the two names, which is only the addition of an unstressed terminal syllable, is not a significant difference in pronunciation. Therefore, Mariot and Mairi conflict per RfS V.1.a.i. The bynames are also not significantly different in sound and appearance, as RfS V.1.a.ii says that "in general the addition or deletion of prepositions and articles is not significant."

The names are different enough that Mairi Berwyk would be registerable with permission to conflict from Mariot de Berwic.