Unto Lord Alan Fairfax, Rouge Scarpe; Master Dmitrii Volkovich, Dragon;
and Lord Paul Wickenden of Thanet, Escutcheon; Greetings from Lord Dagonell 
Collingwood and Lady Shahira bint al-Sammad.

Good gentles, permit me to introduce ourselves.  I am Lord Dagonell
Collingwood, mundanely David Salley, from AEthelmearc Kingdom.  For several 
years now, I've been running a small commenting heraldry group which 
researches the ILoIs for AEthelmearc and the East.

One of my students, Lady Shahira bint al-Sammad, mundanely Caroline Tomczak, 
wishes to do still more commenting.  So we downloaded your current ILoI's 
off the net and will periodically be sending you letters of comment as our
schedules permit.  If you have questions, we can be reached at:

	Dagonell: salley@klaatu.canisius.edu
	Shahira: weretigress@usa.net

If you wish to see some of our previous letters, our commenting group is 
The Heraldic Flying Circus and Moving Company and we are linked to the 
AEthelmearc Heralds web-page at:
	http://www-cs.canisius.edu/~salley/heralds.html

01.) Adelais de Saviniaco -- (name) 
	Withycombe (pg. 4, under Adelaide) says: "This became in Norman
	French 'Adelais', 'Adeliz', 'Aaliz','Aliz' (whence the English
	'Alice' q.v.)  ...  Adeliz seu Adeliza (Domesday Boke) 1086"

    (device:"Gules, an orle of martlets argent.") 
	No conflicts found.  Nicely medieval.  

02.) Caterina de Cesare -- (device: "Per pale gules and argent, a cross 
    fleury counterchanged.")
	No conflicts found.  Also nicely medieval.  

03.) Elsa von Heilbronn -- (name) 
	From Withycombe (pg.100, under Elizabeth) "The German 'Elsa', 'Lise',
	'Liesl' ... are all occasionally used in England."

    (device: "Argent, on a pale wavy azure, between two roses proper, 
     a cross bottony argent, a bordure azure.")
	This device strikes us as far too crowded.  The roses and cross
	are so large that their placement is forced to where the waves of 
	the pale have left room for them.  Charges should not be so large
	that the choice or placement of the line of partition should make
	a difference.  The bordure is so small, Dagonell didn't even 
	notice it until Shahira read him the blazon.  We're not sure what
	the current ruling is on two connecting ordinaries, in this case
	pale and bordure, on the same shield.  The fact that they are the
	same color tends to make it more likely to pass Laurel.

05.) Morwith Blackthorn -- (device: "Argent, a crown of thorns vert, barbed 
    sable, a bordure sable.")
	The default position for a 'crown' is affronte, as if it was
	being worn on someone's head.  This looks more like an 'annulet
	of thorns'.

06.) Vivienne du Lac -- (device: "Per bend purpure and azure semy-de-lys Or,
    in sinister chief a unicorn rampant argent.")
	From Laurel's LoAR for January 1999: (under Ysabeau Lambert - Calontir)
	"We do not permit more than two gold fleurs on a blue background, 
	since that is how augmentations of France were done in period." 

07.) Wynter Aline Poe -- (name) 
	Winter -- Reaney & Wilson (pg. 496) "OE 'Winter', 'Wintra' or 
	    OG 'Wintar' or a nickname"
	Aline -- Withycombe (pg. 16) "very common from the 12th to 15th
	    centuries."

In service,
Lord Dagonell Collingwood
Lady Shahira bint al-Sammad