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MINUTES OF THE HERALDS MEETING – January 8, 2023
(10:20 AM to 11:30 AM)
ATTENDEES:
Antonio Giordano, Vesper; Edith of Swanesdale; Matins; Astrith of Swansvale, HE; Eilis O'Boirne, interim Stellanordica; Hirsch von Henford, Golem; Moira of Kent, Seawolf; Victoria of Durham, Sable Swan; Frederik of Holland, PaL; Alizon dela Fontaine, Green Cloak; Khevron Oktavii Tikhikovich Vorotnikov, PaL; Tangwystel Telynores, Cornet; Lena of Eskalya, Cornet; Sine ni Mharbhen, Glora Fjord; Urtatim al-Qurtubiyya bint 'abd al-Karim al-hakam al-Fassi; Matilda FitzRichard of Lochaven, PaL.
COLLEGE OF HERALDS MEETINGS
The January meeting was held in person at West Kingdom Twelfth Night, future meetings will be held via online conference until Vesper announces otherwise.
Heralds’ Meeting for 2023: March 19, May 21, July 23, September 17, November 12. Meetings usually begin at 11:00 AM and will be held via online/remote teleconference until further notice.
The DEADLINES for submission forms and documentation are: Deadlines: March 8, May 10, July 12, September 6, November 1.
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 (Antonio): Deputy (Eilis): Antonio has reached out asking an individual to consider taking the position of Brachet, more information to come soon.
Congratulations to Moira Seawolf for her elevation to the Order of the Pelican.
The College’s congratulations to Antonio for his receipt of a Grant of Arms.
Seawolf (Moira): Following is the brief Seawolf Herald report for the West Kingdom College of Heralds Twelfth Night meeting on January 8, 2023.
Mists Fall Investiture took place on Saturday, November 19. Her thanks to Baroness Angeleta Marina Castillo de Guzman and Baroness Elinora O'Connor for Heralding Consort's side for the final court of Helga and Hans and the Investiture Court/First Court of Neil and Kelsy, respectively.
The “de-gendering” of the Mists ceremonies is nearly finished. She has received feedback from several Heralds regarding the gender-neutral terms used. She continues to work closely with Their Highnesses on the wording of the ceremonies, to ensure the revised ceremonies use the same terms now written into Principality Law
Their Highnesses have determined the format for Their Coronet Tournament, which will be triple-elimination. Depending on the number of entrants, they may require more Field Heralds than usual.
Sable Swan (Victoria): There has been little activity this last quarter with the holidays.
She did attend Fettburg Yule where they held a small court heralded by the Baronial Herald.
She will be posting this next week seeking help with courts for Investiture.
Stellanordica (Eilis, interim): Eilis is holding the interim position for two more weeks. They now have heralds in all the Baronies, with two recent changes. Work on the Ceremony Book continues. They are clarifying some of the awards and de-gendering and updating some ceremonies.
Exchequer (Damir): Successor (Heinreich): The College remains solvent. Thanks to Matins for taking over deposits in the interim while he deals with his case of life.
Matins (Edith): Deputies (Ruadrí and Sieglinde): Submissions are continuing to be processed through the system. As a reminder: we do accept forms via electronic submission BUT fees are still required and must be sent in. If the fees are not received by the date of the next meeting. Even if the submission was discussed at the meeting it will not be processed until the fees are received.
Green Crown (Damir, stunt deputy Eilis): It's Twelfth Night and we had a lot of court. My thanks to all the heralds and to Eilis for taking the lead on Coronation and first court.
Baldric (training deputy): Vesper is running training as a College-wide program, not assigned to a specific individual at this time.
Brachet (vacant).
Green Cloak (Alizan): Fall Crown went well. She still needs more voices for field, please continue in recruiting efforts. The banner used at Fall Crown is not large enough, so she will be working on another larger one. The announcements board is working well at Point, two tables were donated, and new stakes are in-process.
Green Trumpet (Gwenhwyfaer): No report received
Green Banner (Aasa): No report received
Golem (Hirsch): Golem has been the usual busy, then not-quite-so-busy. Court Reports are coming in, in a timely fashion, and most of the time he doesn’t have to nag the royalty (much) about checking their email and confirming the reports. There have been no major updates to the website, pretty much “things as usual”.
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.
October, 2023 LoAR (printed December 15, 2022) (West - July 2022 LoI)
Cover Letter
West Acceptances - October LoAR
West Returns - October LoAR
In Service,
Edith of Swanesdale, PaL,
Matins Herald
SUBMISSONS – January (2023)
ITEMS SENT TO LAURELThis is a change from the Holding Name: Jennifer of Oertha.
Ceara - Irish Gaelic from NCS Academy of St Gabriel Report 2106 [http://www.s-gabriel.org/2106].
The Gaelic name <Cera> is found in early medieval Irish records, before 1200 [1]. Gaelic spelling underwent a change around the year 1200, and this name was spelled <Ceara> in the later system.
ingen - Per SENA, Appendix A, <ingen> is the Old/Middle Gaelic [before c.1200] spelling.
Ailchon - from masculine name Ailchú found in NCS "Index of Names in Irish Annals" by Mari ingen Briain meic Donnchada [http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/Ailchu.shtml]. The latest Annals date for this Middle Irish name is 947, which puts it within 300 years of the Early Modern form of the given name.
<Ailchon> is the correct genitive form for the patronymic, according to the source for the name.
The (Gaelic) name formation <given + marked patronymic> is found in SENA, Appendix A.
The previously registered, Cempestrae of Winter’s Gate, is to be released upon registration.
The submitter cares about the language and/or culture (Icelandic/Norwegian/Swedish/Finnish 700-1200) and gender (female) of the name and further requests Authenticity for language and/or culture and time period.
Originally submitted as <Cempestrae í Holta-sjona>, the name was corrected by the West and agreed by the submitter to this version
Holta- - from NCS “Viking Bynames found in the Landnámabók” by Aryanhwy merch Catmael (Sara L. Uckelman) <Holta-> a byname meaning <Wood-> or <Forest-> that is placed in front of and conjoined to the given name with <->
Cempestrae - from the previously registered name under the Existing Registration Allowance, as originally registered with the Legal Name Allowance
sjóna - from NCS “Viking Bynames found in the Landnámabók” by Aryanhwy merch Catmael (Sara L. Uckelman) lists “sjóna” meaning “seeress” [https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/vikbynames.html]. This name is acceptable for registration as per the April 2011 LoAR sn. Þórdís sjóna says:
"The byname sjóna "seeress" was used to describe normal people, and is not an unregisterable claim to superhuman powers; it was registered as recently as 2008."
Which was reinforced with registration of <Ásælfr Sjóna> on the March 2019 LoAR.
The Scandinavian name formation (given name + byname) is found in SENA, Appendix A. The submitter is using all of the accents and diacritical marks.
RETURNS
The submissions under this name were not considered, as the fees were not received by the meeting date.
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