New Household Name: Caergarthen

The submitter marked they will NOT accept any changes to the name, but has later confirmed they will accept <Caer garthen>, splitting the parts of the name with a space in between, if required. The submitter requests the previously registered badge Lozengy vert and Or, a chief embattled argent be associated with the name upon registration.

Caer- is a Welsh household name designator found in “A Collection of Welsh Household Names from 1602” by Countess Aryanhwy merch Catmael modernly known as Sara L. Uckelman: under the header caer: Welsh meaning ‘fort, stronghold, fortified estate” Caeryvallen, p.11 [https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/welsh/household-names].

-garthen - found as a place name suffix in The Place-names of Cardiganshire, Part 3 by Iwan Wmffre. P.1028 under the header Rhyd Rhiwgarthenni and p.1204 under the header Cilgarthen [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Place_names_of_Cardiganshire/VoZnAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=carthen].

Aryanhwy's article, cited for <Caer->, also lists <garth> as a second element, from English. She notes that dithemic names combining Welsh and English were rare but did exist. <garth> is listed with a star, as are others, but the author does not explain what the star means. Aryhanwy's article lists one name that includes <-garthan> with two "a"s: <Gogarthan>.

Per Aryanhwy's and Tangwystyl's articles, the name formation <prototheme + deutorotheme> is correct for Welsh households.

The submitter cares about the sound (shorter simpler name. In order of preference, Scotts, Irish Gaelic, or Welsh. Prefer later period/early modern) and gender (female), but will accept gender-neutral for the name.

Ceara – from O'Corrain & Maguire in "Irish Names" [NCS] p. 50 state that it is the name of three virgin saints.

And from NCS Academy of St Gabriel Report 2106 "The Gaelic name <Cera> is found in early medieval Irish records, before 1200 [O'Corrain & Maguire]. Gaelic spelling underwent a change around the year 1200, and this name was spelled <Ceara> in the later system. However, we're not sure the name remained in use after 1200, so we recommend you focus on an earlier period if you want to use this name." [https://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/showfinal.cgi/2106.txt]

Morven/Morvern is a place-name derived from Mor-Bhearn. Discussed in 2009 paper by A. Jennings and A. Kruse, One coast - three peoples: names and ethnicity in the Scottish west during the early Viking period: [https://pureadmin.uhi.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/1049609/One_coast_three_peoples_1_Final.pdf]. (Which further cites Watson, W.J., 1926: The Celtic Place-Names of Scotland. Edinburgh.) Note that some records show this name as <Morvern> with a second <r>.

Also “The history of the Celtic place-names of Scotland, being the Rhind lectures on archaeology (expanded) delivered in 1916” by William J. Watson book, p.123 “Morvern itself is badly spelled Morven on maps; in Gaelic it is A’ Mhorbhairn, gen. na Morbhairne ; a poem of the sixteenth century has san Mhorbhairn, ‘in Morvern’ ; in the next century the nominative is written an Mor- bhairni”

This is in the public domain in the USA and is available at [https://archive.org/details/historyofcelticp0000unse/page/n17/mode/2up].

Per SENA, Appendix C, Old, Middle, and Modern English are all compatible with Gaelic.

The English name formation <given name + of + byname> is acceptable per SENA, Appendix A.

The previously registered Kelsy Aylesworth is to be retained as an alternate.

The submitter will NOT accept any changes.

Evren - from “Onomatican Turcicum, Turkic Personal Names” as collected by Laszlo Rasonyi: under the header Evren, 15th C., multiple instances, p.262.

Ankaravi - the Turkish form for "person from Ankara" is Ankaravi - based on “The Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy” [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Biographical_Encyclopedia_of_Islamic/2wS2CAAAQBAJ] lists an early 17th century figure Isma'il Ankaravi. It looks like this particular byname is used either before or after the given name, so either Evren Ankaravi or Ankaravi Evren.

The West College requests assistance documenting the name formation.

The submitter cares about the sound (none noted) and the gender (female) of the name.

Gwenhwyvar appears with two attestations in the article "Women's Names in the First Half of 16th Century Wales" by Tangwystyl verch Morgant Glasvryn (Heather Rose Jones) [http://heraldry.sca.org/names/welshfem16/given.html].

MacColgan appears as the family name of Donell m'Colgan MacColgan in the list of pardons of people in “Inishowen in the Province of Ulster dating to 1602” and compiled in the Appendix to the 18th Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records in Ireland and provided in the list of “Names Found in Anglicized Irish Documents: Men's Names” by Mari ingen Briain meic Donnchada (Kathleen M. O'Brien), available at [http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnglicizedIrish/Masculine.shtml].

The name pattern of [Feminine Given Name] + [Family Name] for women of Gaelic families in 16th century Ireland is attested to in “Names Found in Anglicized Irish Documents” by Mari ingen Briain meic Donnchada (Kathleen M. O'Brien), [http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnglicizedIrish/]. May also be permitted under Appendix A of SENA if "clan affiliation/name" is understood to include family name as described by O'Brien.

The combination of Welsh and Irish names in the early 16th century is permitted under Appendix C of SENA.

The elements of the name are within the 300 year span required by SENA rule PN2.C.2.b.

Device:
Per chevron inverted rayonny Or and purpure, a phoenix purpure.

Household name: The Golden Stag Players

The submitter will NOT accept any changes to the name and cares about the gender (neutral) of the name. The badge: (Fieldless) Two stag's heads erased addorsed and conjoined at the neck Or registered January 2004 is to be associated with this name upon registration.

Household name formed using <tincture + charge + designator> as per Alys’ Simple Guide to Household Names [https://heraldry.sca.org/names/households.html].

Documentation for using <Players> as a designator for a group name: from REED Online, Hampshire, Southampton, 1561–2, Steward's Accounts, Southampton City Archives: SC5/1/43: “oxfordes players”, “my Lorde of arronndelles players”, “the duches of suffokes players” [https://ereed.library.utoronto.ca/records/hamps-ridp226679680/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2dvZNjI308MBrCVeygwWXM8mSx6oFEyH3-dEsZOndWkzySKmDqGyF0LDk_aem_AYb_HN2D6Aedq0EAL8ZGLXkCWjgS-2kqUhelAgXvlAj-yQ8EQBF_xBlxcw-5Lpnrr-bI_qWnk24vmWQBhf6fDwgk].

(Fieldless) On a tankard azure, a musical note Or.

The submitter had a name returned on the June 2014 LoAR:

Name: Marocatha Bodua Brigiani. Comments summarized: the name was returned for lack of documentation of double-given names in Gaulish, for the use of the name of a goddess with no documentation of its use for normal humans, and for confusion of the gender of the name elements. This new submission is a rework of the name.

The submitter will accept the following changes: correct construction for gender and use of an ethnonym for the second name. The submitter also requests AUTHENTICITY for: Gaulish or Brittonic of c. 200 BCE-200CE. The submitter will accept female or neutral as the gender.

Marobodua is feminized from an attested male name Maroboduus (also attested as Maroboduos). The submitter is happy for the gender construction to be corrected, it can be feminine or neutral, whichever is easier to form and register.

Attached references:

• Delamarre, Xavier. Dictionnaire de La Langue Gauloise. Paris: Éditions Errance, 2003. p. 81 in PDF.
• Church, Alfred John and William Jackson Brodribb, Eds. Cornelius. Tacitus, The Annals. Beginning of html version of book: [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0078].

Tacitus, Book 2, Chapter 26: [https://oscar.sca.org/s.php?u=294294 [www.perseus.tufts.edu]].

Tacitus in 8 volumes, translated by Arthur Murphy, is available to download as a zip file at [https://archive.org/details/tacitus-7/Tacitus%201/page/n7/mode/2up].

Brigiani is an ethnonym of an attested tribe, listed on the Tropaeum Alpeum monument celebrating Roman conquest of the Alpine tribes. Submitter is unclear on the exact proper construction of the ethnonym and is happy for this to be corrected so that the name means “Marobodua of the Brigiani”.

Attached references:

Pliny the Elder, scanned: [https://archive.org/details/naturalhistoryof11855plin/page/n1/mode/2up]
Pliny the Elder. The Natural History. Online: [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137] or [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=plin.+nat.+toc]
Pliny the Elder. The Natural History. Book 3, Chapter 24 Online: [https://oscar.sca.org/s.php?u=294295 [www.perseus.tufts.edu]]
Formigé Jules. La dédicace du Trophée des Alpes (La Turbie). In: Gallia, tome 13, fascicule 1, 1955.

The West College requests assistance documenting the Gaulish name formation <given + locative/tribe>.

Device:
The submitter had a device returned on the June 2014 LoAR:

Device: Per pale gules and sable, a raven displayed argent between in pale two plates charged with triskelions of spirals. Returned for containing two steps from period practice (now termed steps from core practice): one for the use of the charge <triskelion of spirals> and a second for the use of a non-eagle bird in the displayed posture.

The resubmission is almost identical to the original, but a non-eagle bird displayed is no longer considered a step from core practice.

Per pale gules and sable, a raven displayed argent between in pale two plates, each charged with a triskelion of spirals within and conjoined to an annulet sable.

There is a step from core practice for the use of the charge <triskelion of spirals>, as per Precedent most recently upheld per the Sept 2023 LoAR under the registration for Anauved de Mona.

The previously registered Mícheál Ó Foghladha will be retained as an alternate.

The submitter will accept the following changes: spelling of the words, and cares about the meaning (pre 1300 Ireland) and gender (male) of the name. The submitter also requests AUTHENTICITY for: pre 1300 Ireland.

Mícheál - previously registered given name.

Bruigad - from in the Dictionary of the Irish Language (http://www.dil.ie/), it looks like the correct form of the name would be "Mícheál Briugad" or "Mícheál ṁBriuga" [https://dil.ie/search?q=briugu&search_in=headword].

In The Death-Tales of the Ulster Heroes, in Gaelic, by Kuno Meyer, p, 24, the spelling used is <briuga>, uncapitalized. [https://archive.org/details/deathtalesofulst00meye/page/n3/mode/1up].

Historical documentation of men filling the same role are found historically in the Ulster saga (Blai Briugu) meaning the hospitaller or landholder. [https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T301037.html] This documentation is for an English translation, so it documents "hospitaller", but not the Gaelic spelling.

Household name: Bruden Míchíl (bruiden of Michil)

The submitter will accept the following changes: spelling of the words, and cares about the meaning (pre 1300 Ireland) and gender (male) of the name.

The correct form of the household name would be "Bruden Míchíl" [https://dil.ie/search?search_in=headword&q=1%20bruiden].

Bruden – from NCS O'Sullivan as: "The guesthouse (teach n-oiged)" or hostel (bruiden) 20 in which the hospitaller dispensed hospitality unreservedly to his guests was the seat of his livelihood, and any evidence regarding this establishment is a vital component to understanding fully the hospitaller's function in medieval Irish society." (O'Sullivan, C.M. Hospitality in medieval Ireland 900-1500, Four courts press, 2004).

See also The Destruction of Dá Derga’s Hostel: “Bruden Dá Derga” [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Destruction_of_D%C3%A1_Derga%E2%80%99s_Hostel].

The header is <bruiden>, but the commonest form appears to be <bruden>.

Míchíl - per the Irish Grammar Database, the genitive form of <Micheál> is <Michíl> or <an Mhichíl>. [https://www.teanglann.ie/en/gram/Miche%C3%A1l]

Name formation: to date, the designators identified for Gaelic households are <Clann> (clan), <luchd taighe> (household), and <teaghlach> (household). [http://medievalscotland.org/scotnames/households.shtml]. To register this name, the use of <bruden> (hostel) for a household name will need to be approved.

Badge:
To be associated with the household name Bruden Míchíl:

(Fieldless) A torch Or, overall a cauldron gules.

Transfer of Arms from the Prince of the Mists to the Principality of the Mists: Argent, a crown within a laurel wreath vert, all within a bordure engrailed azure. Signed by Kean de Lacy, Prince of the Mists.

Transfer of Arms from the Princess of the Mists to the Principality of the Mists: Argent, a crown within a rose leaf wreath vert, all within a bordure engrailed azure, semé of roses argent. Signed by Hannah Storyteller, Princess of the Mists.

Acceptance of both Transfers signed by Their Highnesses of the Mists as follows:

Acceptance of transfer of the Sovereign's arms as a Branch device to be used by the Sovereign of the Mists, who is further requested to be listed as the secondary owner (similar to the registration of the West Kingdom’s arms).

Acceptance of transfer of the Consort’s Arms as a Branch badge to be used by the Consort of the Mists, who is further requested to be listed as the secondary owner (similar to the registration of the West Kingdom’s badge for the Queen). Additionally, the following commentary relating to the emblazon and blazon of this badge: While blazoned as a rose leaf wreath, the wreath on these arms has been drawn as a laurel wreath since the original submission and in fact was originally described as a laurel wreath on that submission before being edited to say rose leaf wreath. We leave it to the College of Arms to decide whether to reblazon the arms for accuracy or to preserve the interesting historical curiosity of the Society's only rose leaf wreath.

New Order: Order of the Keystone of the Mists

The submitter will NOT accept any changes.

Formed using the pattern established in SENA Appendix E.2.b: Order of the <Heraldic Charge> of the <Branch Name>.

New Badge:
(Fieldless) A keystone argent.

This badge is to be associated with the Order of the Keystone of the Mists.

The previously registered Niell Mac Nyven is to be released upon registration.

The submitter will accept the following changes: d’Exeter, and cares about the gender (male) of the name.

Niall - from NCS Woulfe: Niall, p. 45.

de Exeter - At Our Irish Heritage, there are three articles that mention a person by the name of <de Exeter>: [https://www.ouririshheritage.org/content/archive/place/miscellaneous-place/rathfran-abbey-ruins], [https://www.ouririshheritage.org/content/archive/place/miscellaneous-place/ballylahan-castle] (specifically mentions Jordan De Exeter), and [https://www.ouririshheritage.org/content/archive/place/miscellaneous-place/the-early-history-of-the-priory-of-the-holy-cross] (specifically mentions Jordan De Exeter).

Name formation: since de Exeter is 1250 onward, the name is indeed Early Modern Gaelic. Although <de Exeter> is Anglo-Norman, not Gaelic, it became used as a Gaelic family name. Per SENA< Appendix C, Gaelic and English are compatible across this period.

The submitter will NOT accept any changes to the name and cares about the gender (male) of the name. The submitter further clarified that they are willing to accept <Byornson> with the single <s> if necessary.

Øyuinder - Lind col. 256 1389,1430

Byornsson - Lind col. 145 1413 includes a variety of spellings: Byornson, Byørnson, Biornsson, Biørnsson, based on which we believe this to be acceptable.

The name formation Old Norse/Old Icelandic name formation <given + patronymic> is found in SENA Appendix A.

Device:
Argent, on a mountain of three peaks vert a drakkar Or, a base engrailed barry engrailed azure and argent.

Previously registered device: Quarterly per pale embattled gules and azure, in chief two crows respectant counterchanged Or and argent, August 2023 via the West to be Released upon registration.

Quarterly gules and azure, two crows respectant and a tree blasted and eradicated argent.

Household Name: 501st Gladiatorial Legion

The submitter will NOT accept any changes to the name.

Per SENA Appendix E.4: Legion is an acceptable Designator for forming household names:

Designator - Language - Reference

Legion - English - Kál-Bárðr Gellir, 02/2023, A-Meridies

All the registered examples are in the formation: Legion of X

The Latin form would be Legio DI Gladiatores or Legio CCCCCI Gladiatores, although the West College found no record of Roman legions numbered higher than 30. Following other translation patterns and using Lingua Societatis, this could be translated as 501st Gladiatorial Legion.

Badge:

This badge submission form is marked to be associated with the name 501st Gladiatorial Legion.

Sable, a vol and a vol inverted and conjoined, overall a plate charged with a cogwheel all between four swords in cross, hilts to center, argent.

Subject to Administrative Return: the required fees were not received for the name and device submissions under this given name. These submissions were not considered at this time.

(Fieldless) An open book Or.

This badge is in conflict with the registered device: Cormac Longstrider (June 2000 via the East): Gyronny azure and argent, an open book Or bound sable.

There is one Distinct Change for the field. The binding of the book is an artistic detail and is not considered a Change to clear conflict. With only one DC, and two required to clear conflict, this badge is in conflict with the registered device and is returned for further work.