[ANSTHRLD] Comments on August (long)

doug bell magnus77840 at hotmail.com
Fri Aug 24 05:42:02 PDT 2001


August ILoI items and commentary.  Any mistakes or snarky
remarks should be blamed on that little known Oriental
philospher Kun-Fus-Us and his student Kun-Fus-Them.

Enjoy
Magnus von Lubeck

1) Abaigeal O Brogan (Elfsea)
[Name] Abaigeal: O Corrain & Maguire give it as a 19th century borrowing
into Gaelic in this spelling.  Withycombe, page 1, header Abigail gives its
use from the 16th century as an English name.  The only registration of this
spelling from LoAR November 1989 lists "Abaigeal Fairchild. Name only. The
given name is a period Irish form of Abigail (O Corrain and Maguire, Gaelic
Personal Names, p. 11)."  This is not what the book states and I can find no
other documentation for that spelling.
O Brogan: Woulfe gives this as the English version of the name in the time
of Elizabeth I.
For the 1500s recommend Abigail O Brogan to avoid mixing Gaelic and English
and to avoid a non-period spelling of Abigail.
[Device] (Da'ud ibn Auda, Cover Letter to the LoAR of November 1994, p. 3).
"The commentary is in, with a clear majority of commenters in favor of
adopting Baron Bruce's proposal that we continue to accept garden roses in
SCA armory, but simply blazon them as roses.  As a consequence, we will
immediately and henceforth blazon a rose, whether the default heraldic rose
or the garden rose, as a rose."  So blazon it "Argent, two rose branches in
saltire vert, each with a rose gules, on a chief sable three otters Or."  A
letter of permission to conflict was included for Rosalia O Brogan September
1998: "Argent, two rose branches in saltire vert, each with a rose gules,
and on a chief sable three butterflies Or."  Since the new device is
X.4.j.ii.c simple there is one CD for change of type from butterflies to
otters.

2) Burke Kyriell MacDonald (Wiesenfeuer)
[Badge] Blazon as "(Fieldless) On a mullet of five greater and five lesser
points Or, a griffin passant contourny sable."

3. Cassia MacWilliam (Namron)
[Name] MacWilliam: Black, Surnames of Scotland, page 572 header MacWilliam
gives Henry Makwilliam from 1506.  It is an anglicized form of the name.
[Device] Sebastian von Baden February 1981 (via the West): "(Fieldless) A
bear statant erect vert grasping in its dexter paw a sword and in its
sinister paw a spear, both proper."  There should be a CD for fieldless and
posture of the bear but nothing from the rather unfriendly items it is
holding.

4) Constance MacLeod (Namron)
[Device] Consider this from the Danse Macabre, a good place to find gothic
stuff from woodcuts in period.
http://www.godecookery.com/macabre/gallery3/macbr86.htm "Death leaping from
Hell on his charger with arrow and coffin, to claim his rights over mortals.


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