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An Tir KLOI from Tir Righ dated 2023-07-20

Greetings unto Black Lion, Lions Blood and the College of Heralds. Please find herein this month's submissions for Tir Righ.

Commentary on this letter closes on Friday August 18 2023.

For their assistance with last month's internal items, we thank all our commenters, especially Margaret Dexter Gauntlet, Alys Ogress, and Lilie Ragged Staff.

Commentators, please cite references to SENA when noting problems. Please provide executive summaries for any extended commentary. Thank you.


1: Ciarán Ó Murchadha -New Name (NP) & New Device

Per bend sable and gules, a lynx passant and a sheaf of arrows argent.

Submitter desires a masculine name.

Tir Righ submission

Submitter is from Cold Keep.

Ciarán - Old & Middle Gaelic nominative form, c700 thru to c1200 CE.

https://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/Ciaran.shtml

Murchadha - Early Modern Irish Gaelic (c1200-c1700) genitive form of Murchadh or Murchad

https://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Masculine/Murchad.shtml

All medievalscotland.org/kmo articles are non-photocopy per AH App H.

<given name> Ó <genitive form of ancenstor's name> is the standard way to form a name using an Irish clan affiliation byname per Quick and Easy Gaelic Names, Sharon L Krossa http://medievalscotland.org/scotnames/quickgaelicbynames/


2: Etienne Racine -New Name (NP) & New Device

Per pale sable and gules, three potato blossoms and a chief embattled argent.

Language/Culture (French 14th C) most important.

Tir Righ submission

Submitter is from Lions Gate.

Etienne is a French masculine given name from 1327:

https://dmnes.org/cite/Etienne/1327/MemDocMan-2

(Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, S.L. Uckelman, ed)

Racine is a French surname from 1340:

https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/french/frenchbynames.pdf

pg 168, data compiled by S.L. Uckelman

Tir Righ submission

Submitter is from Lions Gate.

Submitter prefers the blazon "potato blossoms" vs cinquefoil or equivalent, due to the cant on Racine (root).


3: Geirhildr Vilhjálmsdóttir -New Name (NP) & New Device

Quarterly gules and sable, a goat clymant controuny argent.

Submitter desires a feminine name.

Tir Righ submission

Submitter is from Hartwood.

Both first and last names are in GB's Old Norse Names (2nd Ed).

Geirhildr, female name, p17

Vilhjálmr, masculine name, p23.

Patronymic construction follow the rules on p25.

Tir Righ submission

Submitter is from Hartwood.

Correction to Device (2023-Aug-16 14:08:16): Typo in the provided blazon, caused entirely by data entry errors by myself. Blazon should be:


Quarterly gules and sable, a goat clymant contourny argent.

Will be corrected for the External. - V


4: Geirhildr Vilhjálmsdóttir -New Alternate Name (NP)

OSCAR is unable to find the name, either registered or submitted.

Helga Vilhjálmsdóttir

Submitter desires a feminine name.

Tir Righ submission

Submitter is from Hartwood.

Both names from GB's Old Norse Names (2nd ed)

Helga, female name, p18.

Vilhjálm, male name, p23

Patronymic construction rules from p25 followed.


5: Geirhildr Vilhjálmsdóttir -New Alternate Name (NP)

OSCAR is unable to find the name, either registered or submitted.

Thomas Fellow

Submitter desires a masculine name.

Tir Righ submission

Submitter is from Hartwood.

This exact name can be found several times in the Family Search DB in the late 16th C.

"England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991",database, Family Search - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JDZW-6YF - Thomas Fellow, 1581. Batch B07304-7

"England Marriages, 1538-1973", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NV7S-WXT : 12 March 2020), Thomas Fellow, 1580. Batch M00998-7

"England Marriages, 1538-1973", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V526-D8W : 12 March 2020), Thomas Fellow, 1561. Batch M00160-1


6: Malyss Makneile -New Alternate Name (NP)

OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in November of 2021, via An Tir.

Niclas Mellis szkot

Submitter desires a masculine name.
Language/Culture (Scot in Poland) most important.

Tir Righ submission

Submitter is from Lions Gate.

All name resources found in "Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th - 18th Centuries: The Formation and Disappearance of an Ethnic Group" (Bajer, Peter Paul, 2023)(SPLC)

Niclas found in 1648 in Gdansk, SPLC Appendix II

Mellis found in 1641 in Gdansk, SPLC Appendix II

szkot found in 1644 in Wilno, SPLC Appendix VII

Per SENA App A, double bynames are a recognized pattern in Polish.

The above submission has images. To view them, see the URLs below:
#1 https://oscar.sca.org/showimage.php?I=2636/2023-07-19/23-18-13_Malyss_name1.jpg
#2 https://oscar.sca.org/showimage.php?I=2636/2023-07-19/23-18-14_Malyss_name2.jpg
#3 https://oscar.sca.org/showimage.php?I=2636/2023-07-19/23-18-14_Malyss_name3.png
#4 https://oscar.sca.org/showimage.php?I=2636/2023-07-19/23-18-14_Malyss_name4.jpg


7: Richard Abbot -New Name (NP)

Submitter desires a masculine name.

Tir Righ submission

Submitter is from Krakafjord.

Richard is a masculine given name found in England in the DMNES dated in this spelling to several years between 1245 and 1599 (https://dmnes.org/name/Richard).

Abbot is an English byname found in R&W s.n. Abbatt: Walter Abbot, 12th century; Peter le Abbot 1237.


8: Ro Magdalena Freyin -New Name (NP) & New Device

Per fess sable and azure, three crescents in pall Or.

Language/Culture (German) most important.

Tir Righ submission

Submitter is from Lions Gate

Ro and Magdalena are German feminine given names found in 1495:

https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/german/german1495.html

Per SENA App A, double given names are a pattern requiring no further documentation for German.

Frey is a German surname found in 1495:

https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/german/surnames1495a-g.html

Baden-Wurttemberg: -in appended to the surname Frey for the feminine surname "Freyin", see:

https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/german/womenssurnames.html

All data sourced from lists compiled by Aryanhwy merch Catmael.

Tir Righ submission

Submitter is from Lions Gate


9: Ysabell de Cunningham -New Alternate Name Change (NP)

OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in November of 2019, via An Tir.

Katherine de Cunningham

Old Item: Ysabell de Cunningham, to be retained as an alternate name.
Submitter desires a feminine name.

Tir Righ submission

Submitter is from Cold Keep.

Katherine - Scots. Perth, Scotland . 1464. PGB. A. Brown, R. Le Get, N. Shiel, J. Uckelman, S.L. Uckelman. "Katherine". In S.L. Uckelman, ed. The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, Edition 2023, no. 1. http://dmnes.org/2023/1/name/Katherine

"de Cunningham" is previously registered to the submitter as 13th C Scots.


In Heraldic Service,

Vémundr Syvursson

Red Flame Herald

Pily barry argent and azure.


OSCAR counts 5 Names, 3 Alternate Names, 1 Alternate Name Change and 4 Devices. There are a total of 13 items submitted on this letter.