An Tir LoI dated 2023-09-08

Unto Dame Emma Fetherstan, Laurel Queen of Arms, Viscountess Elisabetta Tommaso di Carducci, Pelican Queen of Arms, Daunt Iago ab Adam, Wreath King of Arms, and the ever-tireless College of Arms, Malyss Makneile humbly sends greetings.
Having but lately come to this office, and having received much good and wise instruction from the hand of Sadhbh Bheag, Lions Blood emerita, I now make bold to send forth this my first Letter of Intent on behalf of the Kingdom of An Tir, offering up the following items for your gracious consideration.

1: Alessandra de la Fontaine - New Name (KLoI) (NP) & New Device (KLoI)

Per saltire Or and argent, a wyvern purpure maintaining in its mouth a belladona purpure slipped and leaved vert

Submitter desires a feminine name.
Sound (AL-i-SAN-dra day la fawn-TAYN) most important.

Submitter is from Glyn Dwfn

Alessandra - Feminine Italian given name dated to the 14th-15th centuries
Rhian Lyth of Blackmoor Vale, "Italian Renaissance Women's Names", https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/rhian/italian.html
and
Juliana de Luna, "Names in 15th Century Florence and her Dominions: the Condado", https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juliana/condado/wome...

de la Fontaine - French surname dated to 1421, 1423, 1438
Aryanhwy merch Catmael, "French Surnames from Paris 1421, 1423 & 1438 https://heraldry.sca.org/names/french/paris1423surn...

Kingdom commenters found no conflicts for this name.

Kingdom commenters found no conflicts for this device.

2: Blue Spider Fairy - New Name (KLoI) (NP) & New Device (KLoI)

Per chevron wavy Or and azure, two orcas naiant respectant proper and a spider argent

Submitter desires a feminine name.

Submitter is from Three Mountains

Blue is a late 16th C English surname found in the Family Search Historical Records
"England Marriages, 1538-1973", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5KY-292 : 13 March 2020), Godfridus Blue, 1577 Batch# M00984-1

Spider is a grey period English surname found in the Family Search Historical Records
"England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J8V7-PJ1 : 17 April 2023), Spider, 1638. Batch# I04692-7
Kingdom commenters noted that this batch is no longer accepted and provided
Nicholas Spyder, marriage 1606, Yorkshire, England, batch M00700-1, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NLD8-59S.
As English allows an i/y switch, this gives the surname Spider.

Fairy is a late 16th Century English Surname found in the Family Search Historical Records
"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N1PP-25S : 5 February 2023), William Fairy, 1585. Batch# C04738-2

By precedence, late period English Surnames can be used as given names.

Kingdom commenters raised the question of obtrusive modernity with regard to this name; no conflicts were found at kingdom for this name.

Kingdom commenters found no conflicts for this device.

3: Blue Spider Fairy - New Badge (KLoI)

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

(Fieldless) Within and conjoined to a masculyn two leaves slipped vert

Submitter is from Three Mountains

Kingdom commenters found no conflicts for this badge.

4: Deborah Second Harpur of Faulkbourne - New Name Change (KLoI) (NP) & New Device Change (KLoI)

OSCAR NOTE: the old name was registered in January of 2013, via An Tir.

Azure, head of a man couped argent

Old Item: Jacob Faulkbourne, to be released.
Old Item: Counter-ermine, in pale three lions passant argent each maintaining a roundel all within a double tressure Or, to be released.
Submitter desires a feminine name.
The following changes are allowed: Deborah le Harpur
Client requests authenticity for Tudor or Elizabethan.
Sound (Not noted) most important.

Submitter is from Madrone

Our thanks to Ragged Staff and Palimpsest for their generous assistance with the name documentation:

Deborah is a feminine given name found in the DMNES with dating between 1395 and 1599. https://dmnes.org/name/Deborah

R&W, s.n. Harper, date Robert le Harpur to 1186. SENA Appendix A notes that occupational bynames "may use article the/le or omit it."

Second is found as a surname at FamilySearch with Thomas Second chr. 1647, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, batch P00962-1, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NPT6-13X. SENA Appendix A allows a late period English surname to be used as a given name.

The pattern <given><given><byname><byname> is found in SENA Appendix A.

In the case that the name must be changed, submitter's father is Martin le Harpur of Faulkbourne and submitter will accept that form using ERA.
No conflict check was noted at kingdom for this name.

Palimpsest noted a potential conflict with the Barony of Bhakail's badge for the Order of the Harlequin ((Fieldless) A human head proper vested in a jester's hood gules) but believes it clear by dint of the jester's hood being half the charge or more. No other conflicts were found at kingdom for this device.

5: Mālik ibn Qārin ibn al-Māridī ibn Jinnī al-'Abdārī al-Shaybānī - New Transfer of Badge (KLoI)

OSCAR thinks the name is registered as Malik ibn Qarin ibn al-Maridi ibn Jinni al-'Abdari al-Shaybani in October of 2022, via An Tir.

I, Mālik ibn Qārin ibn al-Māīridī ibn Jinnī al-`Abdārī al-Shaybānī, legal name <redacted>, hereby transfer to Emma de Fetherstan, legal name <redacted>, my badge "Per chevron Or and argent.". I understand that once the transfer is registered I cannot reverse it.

Signed

Recevied by email July 5, 2023

6: Mālik ibn Qārin ibn al-Māridī ibn Jinnī al-'Abdārī al-Shaybānī - New Transfer of Badge (KLoI)

OSCAR thinks the name is registered as Malik ibn Qarin ibn al-Maridi ibn Jinni al-'Abdari al-Shaybani in October of 2022, via An Tir.

Per pale azure and purpure, three fleurs-de-lys Or

I, Mālik ibn Qārin ibn al-Māīridī ibn Jinnī al-`Abdārī al-Shaybānī, legal name <redacted>, hereby transfer to Brunissende Dragonette, legal name <redacted>, my badge "Per pale azure and purpure, three fleurs-de-lys Or." I understand that once the transfer is registered I cannot reverse it.

Signed

Received by email July 5, 2023

The letter of acceptance is on the East KLOI of 08/03 which is undecided at the time of this writing.

7: Mālik ibn Qārin ibn al-Māridī ibn Jinnī al-'Abdārī al-Shaybānī - New Release of Badge (KLoI)

OSCAR thinks the name is registered as Malik ibn Qarin ibn al-Maridi ibn Jinni al-'Abdari al-Shaybani in October of 2022, via An Tir.

Vert, a gyron argent

I, Mālik ibn Qārin ibn al-Māīridī ibn Jinnī al-`Abdārī al-Shaybānī, legal name <redacted>,

hereby release my registered armory "Vert, a gyron argent". I understand that release of

registration cannot be reversed.

Signed

Received by email July 5, 2023

8: Raffaella di Contino - New Device Change (KLoI)

OSCAR finds the name registered exactly as it appears in March of 2004, via An Tir.

Per pale gules and argent, two chevronels inverted counterchanged

Old Item: Argent, a sheaf of peacock feathers proper and on a chief sable two rapiers in saltire proper, to be retained as a badge.

Submitter is from Blatha An Oir

Palimpsest called out Einarr inn yrri Úlfsson, Per pale argent and gules, two chevronels inverted counterchanged as close but clear. No conflicts were noted at kingdom for this device.

9: Rollo inn Svarti - New Name (KLoI) (NP) & New Device (KLoI)

Per chevron gules and sable, a crescent pendant Or and a winged skull argent

Submitter desires a masculine name.

Submitter is from Aquaterra

Submitter wants to keep "Rollo" specifically

Rollo is attested to be a Viking-era warlord (born between 846 and 860 ACE, died 930 ACE) who became the first ruler of Normandy per:
Ferguson, Rober (2009). The Vikings: A History. London: Penguin Books Ltd. (see attached)
Palimpsest noted that Rollo is a Frankish name and that this name combines a Frankish given name and an Old Norse byname, an acceptable combination per SENA Appendix C.

inn svarti is found in the article Viking Bynames found in the Landnámabók, by Aryanhwy merch Catmael (2006), meaning "black"
https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/norse/vikbyna...

Kingdom commenters found no conflicts for this name.

Kingdom commenters found no conflicts for this device.

The above submission has images. To view them, see the URLs below:
#1 https://oscar.sca.org/images/cImages/2658/2023-07-10/22-56-22_Rollo_Name_0001.jpg

10: Sybell Woderose - New Name (KLoI) (NP)

The following changes are allowed: any changes acceptable
Language/Culture (European 1300-1600) most important.

Submitter is from Blatha An Oir

Submitter will not accept a holding name.

Our thanks to Ragged Staff for assistance with the documentation writeup:

Sybell is an English feminine given name dated to 1541 in that spelling in Dictionary of Tudor London Names by Sara L Uckelman (https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/english/tudor...)

Woderose is an English byname found in R&W, sn Woodrose with Henry Woderose dated to 1332.

Kingdom commenters found no conflicts for this name.

11: Þóra in fróða - New Name Change (KLoI) (NP)

OSCAR NOTE: the old name was registered in June of 2018, via An Tir.

Old Item: Þóra Jórsalafari, to be retained as an alternate name.
Submitter desires a feminine name.
No changes.

Submitter is from Stromgard

Þóra is previously registered to this Submitter and is found in GB, pg 23

inn fróði is a descriptive byname meaning "the learned, wise" Ibid. p21

Submitted as Þóra inn fróði, the submitter emailed the Lions Blood office expressly to correct the grammar of the byname even before Palimpsest & Orle's commentary to that effect. We have therefore made that change for the external letter, despite "No Changes" being marked on the form.

Kingdom commenters found no conflicts for this name.

Done by my hand at Lions Gate,
Malyss Makneile
Lion's Blood Herald

OSCAR counts 4 New Names, 2 New Name Changes, 3 New Devices, 2 New Device Changes and 1 New Badge. These 12 items are chargeable, Laurel should receive $48 for them. There are 2 transfers, which do not require payment. There is 1 release, which does not require payment. There are a total of 15 items submitted on this letter.