Herald of Record: Margaret Holmwood
Per pale gules and argent, a sinister hand apaumy couped sable.
Documentation is from Paul Widkenden of Thanet's "A Dictionary of Period Russian Names", online (2nd) ed.: http://www.sca.org/heraldry/paul/
Aleksandr: given name; "Aleksandr Pleschei" c. 1370; Tup p.306
Ruslanovich: patronymic derived fr. given name "Ruslan" + suffix "ov" + suffix "-ich". "Ruslan" is dated to the 15th c. in Veselovskii, "Onomastikon", p. 273 (source provided by Paul Wikenden of Thanet, to be included in an upcoming 3rd edition of the Dictionary)
Yevsha: variation of "Evsha" (end of 13th c.), a variant of "Iov"; Art VII 76; #482 (see attached email fr. Paul supprting spelling "Yevsha").
Herald of Record: Aine Granite
Vert an owl displayed argent.
"Anders" -- Danish variation on Andros/Andrew -- Charlotte Yonge pg. 86. "Boutman" -- German for "boatman". Originally submitted as "Bootman", changed to "Boutman" at submitter's request.
Herald of Record: Dorren of Ashwell
Sable, a corbie passant wings addorsed argent.
Name "Arden" comes from the Domesday Book [edition I use is Hinde, Thomas, edit. The Domesday Book: England's Heritage Then and Now. Crown Publishers, Inc: NY, 1985] Arden is a threefold name -- it is a section of NW Warwickshire, it is the adoped name of the Turchill family that settled in the region under William, and a personal name. Icomb [sp. also Icumb, Iccumb] is a tiny village (still extant) in Gloucestershire near the Welsh border. It is also mentioned in the rolls of Domesday, along with its manor-house "Icomb Place".
Herald of Record: Miles of Whitewood Hall
Per bend sinister azure and argent, a bear statant contourny and a dolmen counterchanged.
No documentation provided for the name.
Herald of Record: Caitlin Davies, Shepherd's Crook
[Fieldless] A cross patonce gules.
Herald of Record: Margaret Holmwood
Argent, a chevron rompu azure between three pawprints sable.
Herald of Record: Margaret Holmwood
Per chevron azure and argent, two lions rampant Or and a cross couped gules.
Herald of Record: Ignatia Snowflake
(Fieldless) A dove ascending argent, in its beak an oak sprig fruited gules.
Herald of Record: Dorren of Ashwell
Sable, in bend sinister three gurges proper.
Gabriel -- Wythecombe, p. 118. De Maccuswell -- "The Surnames of Scotland", G.G. Black, p. 589. Anglicized "de" to "of".
Herald of Record: Dorren of Ashwell
[Fieldless] A winged trumpet palewise Or.
Herald of Record: Margaret Holmwood
Gyronny Or and sable, on a bend gules, to chief a Maltese cross argent.
Herald of Record: Margaret Holmwood
Per pale azure and gules, a mascle knot Or.
Líadan - p. 122, "Irish Names", Ó Corraín and Maquire (pbk. ed. 1990)
ní - meaning "daughter of"
Laoghaire - p. 120, "Irish Names", Ó Corraín and Maquire
N.B. Submitter would vastly prefer the use of "ní" to mean "daughter of", rahter than the alternative "ingen".
Herald of Record: Jan Janowicz Bogdanski
Gules, a cock rising to sinister argent.
Household name submitted as La Grande Compagnie des Coqs Blancs, intended to mean "The Grand Company of the White Rooster" [sic]. Desired languages is 14th-15th century French.
Herald of Record: Henry MacQueen
Argent, a bee sable within a laurel wreath vert.
Proposed Old English name meaning "Midge Valley", from mycg ("midge") and halh ("valley").
Herald of Record: Migel Gneuyle de Normandie, Sinking Tower Pursuivant
Sable, a human ribcage argent.
According to the submission form: "Otgon" means 'young' in Mongolian. "Otgon Tenger" is the name of the shamanic holy mountain in the Altai range in western Mongolia. There is a current Olympic archer (female) whose last name is Otgon. It is close to the mongol word for female shaman (utgan).
Herald of Record: Ignatia Snowflake
Per fess azure and Or, a scorpion tergiant and in chief an axe fesswise counterchanged.
Name passed 03/1999, previous device, Azure, a scorpion tergiant and in chief an axe fesswise Or returned for conflict with Prospero de San Giuseppe Iato, Azure, a scorpion and a bordure Or.
Herald of Record: Margaret Holmwood
Quarterly argent and azure, a cross clechy counterchanged.
Sam -- submittor's mundane first name.
of the Towers -- locative referring to the submitter's home branch (Canton of the Towers, Barony of Carolingia).
Herald of Record: Morgan de Villarquemada
Per bend rayonny vert a fox sejant argent and argent semy of bunches of grapes purpure.
Tammarion is submitted as a diminuitive of Tammara, a Hebrew name, used several times in the Old Testament.
De Sidana -- a locative. Sidana is given as a city in Southern France, in the vicinity of Montpellier.
Herald of Record: Morgan de Villarquemada
Purpure, a fox sejant argent.
Herald of Record: Morwyn Edain
Quarterly argent and azure, in the first quarter a wolf rampant to sinister & in the third [sic] quarter a satyr maintaining a trident gules.
Uileag - Documentation provided by Tangwystl verch Morgant, Harpy Herald. Although the Harpy Herald shows the name spelled with a double "l", the submitter prefers the above spelling and relies upon the fact that variations in spelling of a name were not uncommon in the middle ages.
Amhairghin: Ancient Celtic bard. How the Irish Saved Civilization, Thomas Cahill, pp 81, 128.
[Although note says "see attached", there was no attachment].
Herald of Record: Brion mac Gideard, Icicle Pursuivant
Per pile azure and or, a thistle proper.
"Uther, as a warrior name, suits my period of history I picked for my Persona as I am a fighter and I wanted the end of the 13th century as my time period 1270-1300 AD"
