FROM THE OFFICE OF SAKER HERALD
The latest Heraldic Letter of Acceptances and Returns was published December 15, 2022. These items have been processed through the College of Heralds and have been made official or returned for further work.
CALONTIR ACCEPTANCES:
* David de la Cloude. Name and device. Argent, in pale two clouds gules. Nice 13th-14th century English name! Nice cant!
* Hamilton fitzHugh. Name change from holding name Jack fitzHugh. This is an appeal of the original February 1991 return for using a surname as a given name. At the time, precedent required that “the use of surnames as given names should be limited to surnames actually shown to have been used as given names in period.” This precedent was overturned in April 2010, when a more general pattern of late period surnames in England being used as given names was established, and so we may joyfully register this name.
* Irial mac Uilliam. Name. Nice 15th century Irish Gaelic name!
* Numerius Volusius Germanicus Secundus. Device. Quarterly gules and sable, a cross counter-vairy Or and gules between a pair of wings in bend Or.
* Rúna Úlfsdóttir. Device. Per saltire Or and azure, a wolf’s head erased argent between in cross the runes algiz, rahu, fehu, and urhuz counterchanged.
* Sancha Lestrange. Badge. (Fieldless) Issuant from a snail shell opening to chief Or a flame proper. Nice badge!
* Sem’iyye bint Tahir al-Hindi. Name change from Miakushka Loshkina. This name combines a Turkish given name and an Arabic byname, an acceptable lingual mix post-1100 per SENA Appendix C.
* Týki Mikaelsson. Name. Submitted as Týki Mikaelson, this byname is not constructed correctly. The patronymic byname formed from the Old Norse given name Mikael is Mikaelsson. We have made this change for registration.
* Volusia Zoe. Name and device. Argent, a rat rampant sable vested purpure and hooded Or. The Roman cognomen Zoe is found in several inscriptions cataloged in the Epigraphic Database Heidelberg as documented by Gwen Recorder. Nice Imperial Roman name!
CALONTIR RETURNS:
* Visvamitra Yavana. Badge. Per fess argent and vert semy of acorns Or, atop a tree a brown squirrel proper maintaining an acorn Or. This badge is returned per the August 2015 Cover Letter: “A held or conjoined charge which is not identifiable will render the design unregisterable. A charge may be rendered unidentifiable through the usual methods, including reduction in size, poor contrast, etc…” [emphasis added]. As the held acorn has poor contrast with the field, this design is unregisterable.
You can find the entire Letter here: http://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2022/10/