[ANSTHRLD] name and device check

Serpentine Pursuivant lochherald at gmail.com
Thu Mar 29 06:27:20 PDT 2007


Alright, now that my warrant is almost up I am starting to feel a little
more confident in myself (ironies of life I know).  So, I have a name &
device I've been helping someone with; here is what I've come up with:

 Or estencely, in pale two scimitars fesswise sable and on a chief sable a
scimitar fesswise Or

>From what I can find it is clear...a sword is a sword is a sword I know so I
checked it against all of them.  Because of the field treatment and the
number of swords I find it to be clear.  Am I wrong?
(Looks over shoulder for Daniel's ummm input ;-)

The name:

 Rhiannon NiBryan McLaughlan

 NAME PRECEDENTS OF THE S.C.A. COLLEGE OF ARMS

*The 2nd Tenure of Da'ud Ibn Auda (2nd year)*
 What Names Are 'SCA-Compatible'?...  I thought that it might be helpful to
list the status of some of the most common names that have been considered
under this rubric.  The post-period English name Fiona, which is not to be
confused with the period Irish name Fíona (earlier Fíne), has long been
considered 'SCA-compatible'.  So have the names Cer(r)idwen (Ker(r)idwen), *
*Rhiannon**, Bronwen, Branwen, Rowen(a), and Rhonwen, all of which *may be
found in Welsh myth and legend, but none of which seems to have been in
actual use by real people in our period.*

(edited for length in this post)

>From the lingual weirdness table:

http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/sca/weirdness_table.html

Welsh and Gaelic are non registerable but Welsh and Scottish are, with
weirdness. Ruling LoAR: Anton Cwith, 08/2001 01/2002

Meaning, niBryan or nic Brian is Gaelic and not registerable with Rhiannon.
 However, McLaughlan (in several different spellings) is found in Black's
*Surnames of Scotland* which is a no photocopy resource for name
documentation. So, if she is willing to drop her middle name her name is
registerable (I didn't find any conflicts either.)

Yes, no?

Thanks Y'all,
Hedwig



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