1: Alister of Champcorbeau -New Name (NP) & New Device

Argent, a brown bear rampant proper, in chief a holly branch proper

Submitter desires a masculine name.
The following changes are allowed: Changes to Byname
Spelling (Alister of Champcorbeau) most important.

Alister: Scottish masculine given name found as Alister de Glengerry, dated to 1531 in the "Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707"

https://www.rps.ac.uk/mss/1531/10

of Champcorbeau: Byname formed from SCA Branch name.

This branch-name was registered in September of 2021 (via Ealdormere).

https://oanda.sca.org//oanda_name.cgi?p=Champcorbeau%2c%20Shire%20of

2: Ellynor Fairamay -New Name (NP) & New Device

Azure, a goose regardant displayed Or, on a chief argent, three oak leaves fesswise vert

Submitter has no preference about the gender of the name.
The following changes are allowed: Any changes to given name; no changes to Fairamay.
Sound (ell-EE-nor) most important.

Ellynor: a variant of Ellenor, date 1601, found Kathleen O'Brien's Names Found in Anglicized Irish Documents: Women's Names.

http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnglicizedIrish/Feminine.shtml?

fbclid=IwAR3aT7st8S_nPN0eJAPPBJeUb_lHAhXjW7iEyKXZuAzkXU_sEGv8s9PRLmc

Fairamay: dated to 1327 CE; is found in "Misplaced" Names in Reaney & Wilson - Sorted by Header by Jeanne Marie

Lacroix

https://heraldry.sca.org/names/misplacednamesbyheader.htm?

fbclid=IwAR2JJTpeBrGdw_ay5wtOylycsVVnh7_qJEQEEEhtGDnGjdiO7UzTlVN5Tic

Irish and Scottish are an acceptable language mix according to SENA

Both elements are within 500 years of each other.

3: Kraku-hallr Gunnarsson -New Device

OSCAR thinks the name is registered as Kráku-Hallr Gunnarsson in September of 2019, via Ealdormere.

Gules, on a mullet Or, a heart gules

Correction to Device (2023-Nov-20 18:11:33): This should be a new *badge*, not device.

4: Lewis Merryweather -New Name (NP) & New Device

Per chevron vert and gules, a chevron between in chief a sun between two crescents and in base an arm issuant from base hand in benediction Or

The following changes are allowed: All
Meaning (Name is to imply that submiter is a happy person) most important.

Lewis

Late Sixteenth Century English Given Names,

By Talan Gwynek (Brian M. Scott, [email protected])

©1994, 1999 by Brian M. Scott; all rights reserved.

Merryweather

"England Marriages, 1538-1973", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/

61903/1:1:NJ5H-C22 : 12 March 2020), Raphe Merryweather, 1575. Batch M02243-1

5: Minck the Skinner -New Device

OSCAR finds the name on the Ealdormere LoI of July 25, 2023 as submitted.

Per pale vert and counter-ermine, a mink's head erased argent

6: Oswald of Ruantallan -New Name (NP) & New Device

Per chevron ermine and azure

Submitter desires a masculine name.
The following changes are allowed: All

Oswald: German masculine given name, dated to 1441. From Sara L. Uckelman, "German Names

from Rottweil, Baden-Württemberg, 1441", June 22nd, 2006. Access July 9th, 2023.

https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/german/rottweil1441.html

of Ruantallan: Byname constructed from SCA Branch. This branch-name was registered in May of

1988 (via the East). https://oanda.sca.org//oanda_name.cgi?p=Ruantallan%2C%20Barony%20of

7: Rylyn Buchanan -New Heraldic Title

OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in March of 2017, via Ealdormere.

Chat Noir Herald

The following changes are allowed: Minor changes to spelling
Meaning (Black Cat) most important.

Submitter was granted the rank of Herald Extraordinary On May 20, 2023.

This title follows the pattern of charge + colour

http://medievalscotland.org/jes/HeraldicTitlesSCA/heraldic_titles_by_type.shtml

Chat: Heraldic charge (cat) in French; from the Latin "Cattus", Chat can be dated to at least the 12th century. Exists in both Old and Middle French.

Jean-Paul Savignac, Dictionnaire français-gaulois, art. « chat », Paris, Errance, 2004, p. 82.

Noir: Colour (black) in French; from the Old French Noir or Neir. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/noir#Middle_French