Gunnvor's Heraldry Articles

Heraldry, Heraldic Art, Emblazons, Rolls of Arms

• List of Rolls of Arms
  
  
• SVG Images for Heralds
  
  
• Heraldry for a Non-Heraldic Culture: Vikings and Coats of Arms in the SCA
  
  
• 1506-1509 Livro do Armeiro-Mor, Portugal
  
  
• 1516-1528 Livro da Nobreza e Perfeição das Armas, Portugal
  
  
• 1567 Zacharias Bartsch, Wappen Buch Darinen aller Geistlichen Prelaten Herren vnd Landleut auch der Stett des Iöblichen Fürstenhumbs Steyer Wappen vnd Insignia
  
  
• Data Analysis of Emblazons Containing Mullets, Estoiles, Spur-Rowels, and Suns
  
  
• Emblazons Containing Crescents, Increscents, Decrescents, and Moons
  
  
• Data Analysis of Emblazons Containing Labels
  
  
• An Analysis of Gyronny in pre-17th c. Heraldry
  
  
• Owls in pre-17th c. Heraldry
  
  
• [UNDER DEVELOPMENT] Bugs in pre-17th c. Heraldry
  
  

Scandinavian Names

• Old Norse Names
  
  
• Names of Scandinavians in the Byzantine Varangian Guard and in Russia
  
  
• Persona Development Worksheet (Aimed at Viking personas but can be used by anybody. If you can get a client to work through a few of these questions, finding them a good name becomes ever so much easier.)
  
  
• Lind, in a series of PDFs, zipped
  
  
• Bird Names in Oluf Rygh's Norwegian Farm Names
  
  

Other Names

• Some Old English Occupational Bynames
  
  
• Peasant Bynames from Late-Eleventh-Century Bury St Edmunds (Old English, Latin, and Old French)
  
  
• Lincolnshire Placenames, by Gunnvôr silfrahárr and Talan Gwynek
  
  
• 11th – 13th c. Names from the Abbey of Korvey, Saxony (work in progress, raw data only)
  
  
• Valencian Names of the Inhabitants of Peníscola, Easter 1549
  
  
• Ancient Egyptian Names of Private Individuals, Taken from Seal Scarabs. Separated by period from the Middle Kingdom (ca. 2055 BC - ca. 1650 BC) to the 26th to 30th Dynasties, Late Period (ca. 664 BC - ca. 323 BC)
  
  
• Heraldic Titles in Medieval England