1: Herkir Vargtämjare - New Name (KLoI) (NP) & New Device (KLoI)

Purpure, a wolf sejant maintaining a sheaf of arrows inverted and a bordure wavy argent.

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The submitter, who lives in Sweden (Principality of Nordmark) wishes to use the Lingua Societatis rule https://heraldry.sca.org/sena.html#... to end up with the byname "Vargämjare" which is in modern Swedish. It means Wolf-tamer. The submitter is aware of the negative connotations the byname "Wolf" could have in a byname constructed in Norse/Icelandic and is okay with it.

Herkir is a an masculine, Islandic given name found in E.H. Lind Dopnamn. There's a giant by that name, but also a human character <Herkir kappi> in Gǫngu-Hrólfs saga, and Diplomatarium Islandicum has a 1397 placename of <Herkistader>, though Lind says the farm name may be based on a byname <herkir>. He suggests <hark> "tumult". [E.H. Lind].

Although we could find other animal handling occupations as bynames, like Biørnakarl (bear hunter) and hestageldir (horse-gelder ,see image 1 for name documentation) we were not able to find support for the byname Wolf-tamer. Therefore (with a special thanks to Gunnvor silfraharr (Orle)) we're presenting documentation for the two byname elements separately

Vargr temjandi

In "Tilnavne i den islandske oldlitteratur" by Finnur Jónsson, 1908 (http://heimskringla.no/wiki/Tilnavne_i_den_island...) one can find bynames meaning wolf like gylðir and vargr. http://heimskringla.no/wiki/Tilnavne_som_er_h%C3%... nr.10.

When it comes to temjandi we couldn't find that it had been used in a byname but it is used as a part occupation or description. A person who tamed horses was called "eyktemjandi". See "Lexicon Poeticum" (https://lexiconpoeticum.org/m.php?...) for more about the word. All in all you end up with Wolf tamer in English, and since you usually compound words in Swedish,Vargtämjare.

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