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Period Forms:[edit | edit source]

English:[edit | edit source]

<Storm> 1206, 1297 (R&W - Reaney & Wilson, s.n. Storm) <Strangweder> dated to 1249 in R&W s.n. Allweather. It means "strong weather

<Tempeste> 1168, 1209, <Tempest> 1222 (R&W s.n. Tempest),

<Wyndswyft> 1301 (R&W s.n. Wind, really for someone who is fast, but also a neat mental image for a storm)

Norse:[edit | edit source]

The Cleasby-Vigfusson dictionary s.v. <haf> p. 228 gives the adjective <hafreka> "wrecked, tossed about" from 1347 and the participle <hafrekinn> "shipwrecked" from Lárentíus saga biskups, written in the third quarter of the fourteenth century, describing the life of Icelandic bishop Laurentius Kálfsson, thus covering the period 1267–1331. [Submitted wanted "Storm-tossed.]


Sources:[edit | edit source]

Academy of St. Gabriel "Medieval Names Archive" - [[1]] Database of medieval names (from the Medieval Names Archive) - http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/database/

Laurel Name Articles - http:heraldry.sca.org/laurel/

IGI Searches, batches beginning with C, J, K, M (except M17 and M18), or P are acceptable - http://familysearch.org


Precedents:[edit | edit source]

Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - [[2]] Morsulus Heralds Website - [[3]] (to search the LoARs and Precedents)

From the <month> <year> LoAR: