[ANSTHRLD] May LoAR for Ansteorra

[doug bell]

Ansteorra has a rather good run in the latest LoAR.

Magnus

ANSTEORRA - Acceptances :)

Aoife inghean Tuathail. Name. 

There was some question regarding the registerability of the name Aoife. 
This name has previously was ruled unregisterable (in the Cover Letter for 
the 09/2002 LoAR) lacking evidence of this name used by humans in period. 
Since that time, evidence has been found this name in the 11th - 13th C. 
Two women with forms of this name are dated to 1166-1173 and 1227 in 
"Index of Names in Irish Annals: Aífe / Aoife" 
(http://www.medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Feminine/Aife.shtml). 

Additionally, Colm Dubh "The Ban-Shenchus: A Dated Index" (KWHS, 2003) lists 5 women with this name:

Aife (fl. 12th) 
Aife ingen Uguaire (ob. 1112) 
Aife ingene hUi Ogaon (fl. 12th) 
Aife mathair Con Criche (ob 1042) 
Aife mathair Diarmada (ob. 1072) 
Aife mathair Gilla Padraig (ob. 1042)

Based on this new information, we are overturning the previous ruling. 
This name is now registerable as a feminine name used in the 11th - 13th C. 
The standard Middle Irish (c. 900-c. 1200) form of this name is Aífe and the 
standard Early Modern Irish (c. 1200 - c. 1700) form of this name is Aoife.

Elena Constabl. Name and device (see RETURNS for badge). Vert, a wolf rampant
maintaining a cross crosslet fitchy and on a base argent a sheaf of arrows vert. 

Please instruct the submitter to draw the wolf larger, to better fill the available space.

Evangelos Thrakios. Name. 

Gregor of the Eldern Hills. Name. 

Barony of the Eldern Hills is the registered name of an SCA branch.

Magdalena Cortez. Device. Argent, a cross of Santiago gules and on a 
chief sable three crescents Or. 

Muirghein Keigan. Name and device. Per bend sinister gules and sable, 
on a wing argent a rose sable. 

Listed on the LoI as Muirgen mac Keigan, this name was submitted as 
Muirgen_Keigan and changed at kingdom to match available documentation.

As submitted, this name combined a Middle Irish Gaelic (c. 900 - c. 1200) 
given name with an Anglicized Irish form of a byname dated to c. 1627. 
As a result, the name had two steps from period practice, one for combining 
Middle Irish Gaelic with Anglicized Irish and a second for a temporal 
disparity of greater than 300 years.

We have changed the given name to the later form Muirghein to remove the 
temporal disparity issue in order to register this name.

This submission originally omitted the element mac. It was added at 
kingdom to match available documentation. The Fiants of the Reign of 
Queen Elizabeth show examples of this byname without mac. Some examples include: 
Tho. Keigan (document 6493, 08 Apr 1601), Wm. Kegan (document 6440, 22 Sep 1600), 
Wm. Kegan (document 6510, 07 May 1601).

Based on these examples, we have returned the byname to the originally submitted form.

Pasquale Pace. Name. 

Great 15th C Italian name!

ANSTEORRA - Returns :(

Elena Constabl. Badge. (Fieldless) A cross crosslet fitchy surmounting in base two arrows in saltire argent. 

This badge is returned for violating section VII.7.b of the Rules for Submissions,
 which says that "Elements must be reconstructible in a recognizable form from a 
competent blazon." We are unable to construct a blazon that effectively communicates 
to an artist that the cross crosslet fitchy is significantly larger than the arrows 
it surmounts while still placing the overall charge (the cross) later in the blazon 
than the primary charge group (the arrows).

James Northfolke. Device. Per bend argent and azure, a cross moline azure. 

This device is returned for lack of identifiability, a violation of section VII.7.a of 
the Rules for Submissions, which requires that "elements must be recognizable solely 
from their appearance." While the cross does look similar to some late-period depictions 
of crosses moline, all of the crosses had a deeper split to the limbs and the splits
were more forked. A well-drawn period cross moline can be seen at 
http://www.kb.nl/galerie/wapenboek/browse/page_049v.xml

Properly drawn, there would be a CD between a cross moline and a cross swallowtailed.

Due to the depiction, this device is returned for conflict with the device of Eric of the 
Broken Cross, Gules, a cross swallowtailed azure fimbriated Or. There is a single CD for 
the change of field, but none between this depiction of a cross moline and a cross swallowtailed.