[Namron] New name and device approvals

[Doug Copley]

We had several people in our area that got names or devices approved 
recently ....


Vincenti da Murano. Device. Or, a wolf courant purpure and on a chief 
rayonny sable an increscent Or.

     Please advise the submitter to exaggerate the curves on the rayonny 
line of division, to avoid its being confused with indented.
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Ciarán Mac Giolla Bhríghde. Device. Vert, between the horns of a 
decrescent a bell, an orle argent.

     Per the precedent set on the April 2012 LoAR, this is a primary 
decrescent and a secondary bell.
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Alicia Blackdragon. Name.

     Appearing on the Letter of Intent as Alicia Black Dragon, a timely 
correction made it clear that it should have appeared as Alicia Blackdragon.

     There are multiple examples of bynames that combine a color and the 
name of an animal or monster: Margaret Makafee's "Comparison of 
Inn/Shop/House names found London 1473-1600 with those found in the ten 
shires surrounding London in 1636" adds 1585-1600 forms, including Black 
Beare, Black horse, Black eliphant, and Greene dragon. Examples of 
single word versions of such names in bynames can be found in the Middle 
English Dictionary, for example (s.n. red (adj)): Agn' atte Redcokke 1338.
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Kathryn atte Unicorn. Device. Azure, two bars Or, issuant from the upper 
bar a demi-unicorn argent.
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Tigernach mac Máel Míchíl. Name.

     Submitted as Tigernach_Máel Míchíl, the name consists of two given 
names. This is not a construction that has been found in medieval Gaelic 
names. The smallest change to match a medieval pattern for names is to 
make the second name a patronymic byname (which names the submitter as 
the son of a man of this name). That form is Tigernach mac Máel Míchíl 
(this name is a rare case in which a genitive form is the same as the 
nominative form). We have changed the name to that form in order to 
register it.