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(11:03 am to 12:45 pm)
Alizan De la Fontaine, Vesper; Edith of Swanesdale, Matins; Caoilinn Rose Maddox, Princess of Cynagua; Hirsch von Henford, Golem; Astrið of Swansvale, PaL; Eilis O'Boirne, Banner; Domamir Vlatko syn, Seawolf; Moira O’Connor, Sableswan; Caitriona inghean ui Chionaodha, Stellanordica; Na'arah bat Avraham, Pinnacle; Anne FitzRichard, PaL; Angus Duncan Cameron, PEaL.
COLLEGE OF HERALDS MEETINGS
The January meeting was via remote conference, as will be the upcoming meetings until Vesper announces otherwise.
Meetings for 2022: March 13, May 15, July TBD (pending KWHSS), September 18, November 6.
Meetings usually begin at 11:00 AM and will be held via online/remote teleconference until further notice
(see also: When/Where Are the
Next Meetings?).
The DEADLINES for submission forms and documentation are: Deadlines: March 2, May 4, July TBD, September 7, October 26. Submission forms must be complete and received either via EMAIL or hardcopy by the deadline date at midnight to be considered at the next meeting (which is about 11 days later, except December due to holidays and the roadshow meeting prep time needed). If the forms are EMAILED, then payment must arrive by the meeting day. WALK-IN submissions will not be accepted while meetings are held via remote conference.
REPORTS
Vesper (Alizan): Still seeking candidates to take on the positions of Green Trumpet (town cry) deputy: Green Cloak (field) deputy; and Compline (successor to Principle Herald). Any interested parties should contact Vesper with their resumes (herald@westkingdom.org).
Seawolf (Damir): We had a virtual event and he still needs to submit the court report. No other activity to report since last meeting.
Sable Swan (Moira): All Court reports are in, and approved. There will be a Principality event at the end of the month. It has been moved to an out-door only in a different location. They will need field heralds. She has been actively consulting for submissions. She has a Deputy!
Stellanordica (Caitriona): Events have been held, Court reports were submitted and approved. She and Wolfhound (Oerthan consulting herald) are both looking for successors. Please send interest or resumes to (stellanordica@heralds.westkingdom.org).
Exchequer (Damir): The College remains solvent. No activity to report since last meeting.
Matins (Edith): Deputy (Hannah): Matins Office continues to function.
Mid-year Virtual Known World Heraldic Symposium will be held January 14-16, 2022. See [https://sites.google.com/view/midyearkwhss2022/home?authuser=0] for more information, including registration.
Green Crown (Eilis): As far as she can tell, all Courts held at Western events have been properly reported and have been/are being confirmed. There have been some problems with the mail-forwarding in Oertha, but that is being worked on. [Hirsch note: this has been fixed ...]
The West Kingdom's Twelfth Night had a virtual court. Officers were changed, awards were given, and Damir is still a saint.
The search for the bag of court tabards continues, but we have pretty much given up on them showing up. In the meantime, she and Anne FitzRichard are planning replacements for the Norse apron fronts to be ready for Spring Crown. Materials for this will come from her stash. They are planning to modify the new “regalia” so that they can be worn as a small cloak/baldric-y thing by male-presenting heralds. They are discussing materials and fabrication for more formal tabards and also plain baldrics for assistant Heralds.
The bag of ceremony books is with Anne FitzRichard.
Baldric (Gwenhwyfaer): Nothing to report.
Brachet (Kean), Leveret (Ræv): No report received.
Green Cloak (vacant): This position oversees Field Heralds for the Kingdom events (Crown tourneys, Wars, etc.). If interested in this position, please contact Vesper.
Green Trumpet (vacant): This position will oversee Town Cry (formerly called Duty Shout) and Heralds Point (information). If interested in this position, please contact Vesper.
Green Banner (Aasa): No report received.
Golem (Hirsch): This last couple of months have been busy-busy-busy. The Heraldic Archivist (Shauna of Carrick Point) appointed a deputy to assist with his project of filling in blanks for heraldry registered to people in the West, going back to the earliest days of the SCA (the ‘70s were fascinating for heraldry). Shauna had done several hundred requests, which is quite a lot, but in the last month+ Helena d’Èvreux has done over 1,400 pieces of armory, helping complete the personal armory also completed the missing branch armory.
As many of those earlier items were black and white (and in a few cases there were no pictures at all), and some of the art was … er … questionable … he has had the assistance of Ræv Kolfinsson in going through and re-doing them, as needed, cleaning them up and colorizing the art. Raev has been doing an amazing amount of work here. They are through the names beginning with ‘C’, and there’s a lot more, but he’s just working through them.
This is on top of having to data scrub (due to a weird upgrade issue from Dreamhost, who hosts the Awards List and History sites) the databases, fixing diacriticals and other special characters in names, and in the text. It’s been a lot of work, and it’s not complete, but large amounts of progress have been made.
There was an issue with Google’s Chrome browser and the awards list (and history …) that may have been resolved. He is relieved because it was something he couldn’t figure out. The display was weird, and scripts weren’t running (search routines, Court Report forms …). He has tested things in Chrome and they do seem to work (now).
ANNOUNCEMENTS / Other Business
GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTSFacebook Page: The West Kingdom Heralds' have their own page on Facebook, announcements, help with consultation, and more are often done there:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/302970543102065/
MAILING LIST: The Yahoo hosted mailing lists have been closed by the folk at Yahoo. At this time, we no longer have a means of communicating with the College of Heralds except the Facebook Page noted above, or via email. To make it possible to post announcements from senior staff heralds, there is a new Announcements page (link removed, as this page was not used and removed from the site).
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES: Many interesting heraldic links can be found through the SCA Heraldry web page at http://www.sca.org/heraldry, including the Laurel home page, the on-line Armorial and Ordinary (with search capabilities) and The Academy of St. Gabriel (an onomastic and heraldic consultation service). The West Kingdom Heraldry site and the West Kingdom Awards List can be accessed through the West Kingdom site, http://www.westkingdom.org. Heraldic queries may also be addressed to Vesper at herald@westkingdom.org -- answers may take a few days.
BRACHET MEETINGS
Contact brachet@heralds.westkingdom.org for external commenting participation.
FROM THE LOARS
The cover letters, acceptances and returns for the past can be found at http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/. If you are interested in responding to some of the calls for commentary put out by the Laurel Sovereign of Arms, please be sure to visit the site.
September, 2021 LoAR (printed November 14, 2021) (West - June, 2021 LoI)
Cover Letter
West Acceptances - September LoAR
West Returns - September LoAR
None!
October, 2021 LoAR (printed December 11, 2021) (West - July, 2021 LoI)
Cover Letter
West Acceptances - October LoAR
West Returns - October LoAR
None!
November, 2021 LoAR (printed January 8, 2021) (West - No LoI)
Cover Letter
West Acceptances - November LoAR
West Returns - November LoAR
None!
In Service,
Edith of Swanesdale, PaL,
Matins Herald
SUBMISSONS – January (2022)
ITEMS SENT TO LAURELThe submitter will NOT accept ANY changes and cares about the gender (female) of the name.
Ásta - from Lind col. 85-6 sn. Ásta.
Asta Arnad. (nominative) Norway, 1386
Bjornsdotter - from Lind col. 145 sn. Biǫrn.
Biorns (genitive), Norway, 1330.
-dotter is a patronymic suffix used in 14th century names in Norway, as seen in Academy of Saint
Gabriel report number 2685
(http://www.s-gabriel.org/2685),
which states:
"The most common form for a patronymic [between 1370 and 1410] is the father's name in the genitive (possessive) case followed by <dotter>."
The Scandinavian naming pattern <given+patronymic> is found in SENA Appendix A.
The West College notes:
Bjǫrn: Lind dates this to at least 1290.
Bjǫrn: Bassi, p. 8Form the genitive of the father's name, then add <-dóttir> to form the patronymic: Bassi, p. 17. Per Bassi, p. 18, the correct genitive form for <Bjǫrn> is <Bjarnar>. So this would result in <Bjarnardóttir>
Both Lind and Bassi list Bjǫrn with the o-ogonek form, but the diacritical is lost when it is converted to <Bjarnar->
The submitter has given express permission to change this name to Ásta Bjarnardóttir if required for registration, noting that this includes all accents and diacritical marks across the whole name.
Per pale purpure and vert, a peach argent.
Ommadan ingen Ruaidrí Uí Gallchobair
This is a new name change: the previously registered Ommadan inigena Ru is to be released upon registration.
The submitter will NOT accept MAJOR changes and cares about the language and/or culture (pre-12th C Irish - byname only), the gender (female), and request Authenticity for language and/or culture (pre-12th C Irish - byname only).
Ommadan - currently registered, originally registered August 1979.
ingen - daughter of, Old Gaelic (SENA Appendix A).
Ruaidrí - from "Index of Names in Irish Annals" [http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/Ruaidhri.shtml].
Uí Gallchobair - from Woulfe, <Gallchobhair> "Irish Names and Surnames"
[https://www.libraryireland.com/names/og/o-gallchobhair.php],
- and "Quick and Easy Gaelic Names"
[http://medievalscotland.org/scotnames/quickgaelicbynames].
Additional notes from submitter:
I wish to keep the name Ommadan and add to it the byname "ingen Ruaidrí Uí Gallchobair" please! I will accept any changes to make the byname grammatically correct to pre-12th century Irish. Thank you!
The submitter will NOT accept MAJOR changes and cares about the sound (none noted) and gender (male) of the name. The submitter marked that they will not accept the creation of a holding name, but as they did not submit armory, this is not relevant.
The submitter supplied only the attached as documentation for this name. Matins was able to locate the following:
Richard - from NCS ‘French Names from Paris, 1421, 1423, & 1438’ by Aryanhwy merch Catmael (Sara L. Uckelman) [https://heraldry.sca.org/names/french/paris1423.html] ‘Richard’.
Rober - from NCS ‘An Index to Given Names in the 1292 Census of Paris’ by Lord Colm Dubh [https://heraldry.sca.org/names/paris.html#R] ‘Rober Bergier’.
Tissot - FamilySearch <Dominge Tissot>
[https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-J36M-792Z-R?cc=3661061&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903 %2F1%3A1%3A6W29-4RPZ]
has the actual microfiche copy of the register showing the burial date for
<Dominge Tissot> on October 28, 1618. Barraux, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France.
-- FamilySearch <Claude Tissot>
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSR6-P3L6-F?cc=2840171&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903 %2F1%3A1%3A7S2P-MCN2]
also has the microfiche copy of the register showing the burial date for
<Claude Tissot> on January 15, 1629. Sens, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
The French language name <double given + byname> is found in SENA Appendix A.
Previously used the unregistered Teagan Mikelsdottir.
The submitter will NOT accept MAJOR changes and cares about the meaning (Wolfs Daughter), language and/or culture (Irish/Norwegian Blend), and gender (female).
Teagan - legal name allowance, as attested via a copy of the submitter’s drivers license “a name used by the submitter for purposes of identification outside of a Society context." [AH III.A.10].
Ulfsdotter - Viking Names found in Landnámabók by Aryanhwy merch Catmael (Sara L. Uckelman)
[https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/landnamabok.html - Úlfr 21]
- <-dotter> is a patronymic suffix used in 14th century names in Norway, as seen in
Academy of Saint Gabriel report number 2685
([http://www.s-gabriel.org/2685]),
which states:
"The most common form for a patronymic [between 1370 and 1410] is the father's name in the genitive (possesive) case followed by <-dotter>
The Scandinavian naming pattern <given+patronymic> is found in SENA, Appendix A.
RETURNS
None.
ADMINISTRATIVE REJECTIONS
New Name and Device submissions were sent in for this individual. A determination was not made on these submissions, as fees for the submissions were not received by the meeting date. When fees are received, these submissions can be added for consideration at a future meeting.
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