ANSTHRLD - Cyniric name and device

[Doug Bell]

The name should be fine for SCA registration.

The device has a problem.

It's called a Norse sun cross as well as a sun wheel.

>From the Laurel letters
The Norse sun cross had at one time been treated as an alphanumeric
symbol
(that of the planet Earth), and so unacceptable for use in SCA devices.
Under the current Rules, such symbols are now acceptable; indeed, a
Norse
sun cross was registered to Etain MacDhomhnuill on the LoAR of April 90.
(Kenneth MacQuarrie of Tobermory, January, 1993, pg. 12)

[Returning {Fieldless} A Norse sun cross per pale indented Or and
gules.]
Additionally, ... precedent still disallows armory consisting of a
single
letter or abstract symbol. [4/94, p.15]

So it is still used as a charge and the ban had nothing to do with white 
supremacists at least, in this case.  The triskelions were what stirred
that up.

Fieldless, a Nordic sun cross gules, will not pass because it is still 
the astrological symbol for Earth and the above ruling doesn't allow 
armory consisting of a single abstract symbol.  It can be used as part 
of a device but just not by itself on a fieldless badge.

By the way only badges in the SCA are fieldless.

Sorry to sound like an heraldic lawyer but I don't want you to spend
good money only to have a device returned 9 months later with
nasty comments.

Magnus von Lubeck
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