September Letter of Acceptances and Returns

The Bavarian Herald Jörg Rügen around 1510. Public Domain in the US

The September Letter of Acceptances and Returns was published yesterday. Here are the results for Calontir.

CALONTIR acceptances

Artair de Bruis of Bristol. Name (see PENDS for device).

Berke Chinua. Exchange of primary and alternate name Gwenne Margareta Melinnith.
The submitter’s previous primary name, Gwenne Margareta Melinnith, is now their alternate name.

Clara Masen. Blanket permission to conflict with device. Per pale argent and Or.
The submitter grants permission to conflict for all armory is not identical to this device.

Dýrfinna Tonnudóttir. Alternate name Ame Tesserande.
Nice French name from 1292!

Eynon ab Iohannes Mal. Transfer of device to Mori Sadabumi. Azure, a demi-sheep argent issuant from a bickern maintaining in its mouth a falchion bendwise inverted Or and a chief Or crusily azure.

Foteine Yfantissa. Name.
Nice name from 14th century Macedonia!

Friðbjorn inn kyrri. Name and device. Per fess indented azure and vert, a demi-bear argent.
If the submitter is interested in an alternative orthographic form of Friðbj{o,}rn inn kyrri they may submit a request for reconsideration.

Gilana Peregrina. Reblazon of badge. Per pale vert and purpure, three periwinkles argent.
Blazoned when registered in January of 2018 as Per pale vert and purpure, three gillyflowers argent, the flowers’ petals lack the pinking which is a defining feature of gillyflowers. We have reblazoned them as periwinkles, which they closely resemble.

Kitsu Kotome. Device. Argent, a brown raccoon’s head cabossed proper and a bordure purpure semy of elder flowers argent.

Meriilda of Yorkshire. Device. Per bend argent and purpure, a gillyflower purpure slipped and leaved vert and a dog sejant contourny argent.

Mori Sadabumi. Acceptance of transfer of device from Eynon ab Iohannes Mal. Azure, a demi-sheep argent issuant from a bickern maintaining in its mouth a falchion bendwise inverted Or and a chief Or crusily azure.

Ragnar MacCrimmon. Name.
This name combines a Swedish or English given name and a Scots byname, both are acceptable lingual mixes per SENA Appendix C.

Rónán Rohan. Name change from Rónán le Sauvage.
Rohan is the submitter’s legal surname.
The submitter’s prior name, Rónán le Sauvage, is released.

Þorfinna Grimsdottir. Name change from Euginia in rauða.
This is a nice 9th-11th century Old Norse name from Iceland!
The submitter’s prior name, Euginia in rauða, is retained as an alternate.

Udrost Arilith. Name.

Valentyne Rose. Name and device. Quarterly Or and sable, a heart purpure and a bordure argent.
Nice English name from the early 14th C to the end of our period!

CALONTIR returns

Frithuswith inghean Ui Cremthainn. Badge. Purpure, a goat’s head erased maintaining a sewing needle with its tongue argent.
This badge is returned for use of animal other than a frog maintaining a charge with its tongue. Precedent says, “Therefore, we will allow the practice of frogs maintaining insects with their tongues as a step from period practice; for other charges, this will be disallowed without evidence.” [Eadaoin inghean Fhuinche, 10/2019, A-Trimaris] As no such evidence was provided, this badge must be returned.

Tófa in eldra Eiríksdóttir. Badge. Argent, a linden tree eradicated in flower proper.
This badge is returned for multiple conflicts. The blossoms on the tree are expected decoration, like fructing, and are not worth difference.

Versus Douglas MacPherson the Tall, Argent, a tree blasted and eradicated per fess vert and sable, there is a DC for the tincture of the tree.

Versus the Barony of Madrone, (Fieldless) A madrone tree eradicated proper, there is a DC for adding a field.

Versus:
Gillian du Bois des Fleurs, Argent, a Lombardy poplar tree proper between in fess two gillyflowers affronty gules slipped and leaved vert,
Asa Huttuinen, Argent, a birch tree eradicated proper between in fess two ivy vines palewise vert,
Maurizio Giovanni Guglielmi, Argent, a palm tree couped proper between in base two lions combattant gules,
Celine Alexandria, Argent, a palm tree proper and in chief an eye azure irised argent,
Giliana Attewatyr, Argent, a tree eradicated proper between a capital letter G and a capital letter A sable,
Aaliz de Saint-Joseph, Argent, a tree eradicated proper fructed Or between in chief two mullets purpure,
Tadhg Mag Uidhir, Argent, a tree eradicated proper, in chief three mullets gules,
Jamie of the Oakenshield, Argent, an oak tree eradicated proper, its trunk grasped by a sinister gauntlet fesswise aversant sable,
Aemilia Tacita, Argent, an olive tree proper, in chief a decrescent azure between two brown owls respectant proper,
Elina de Braose, Argent, a crequier and in chief a mullet of four points vert,
Ulrich von Kues, Argent, a tree blasted and eradicated vert, in base in fess a trillium between two feathers azure,
Tychon Herakleous, Argent, a tree couped vert and in chief an arrow and a feather in saltire sable,
Alfhild de Foxley, Argent, a tree eradicated vert between two squirrels respectant gules, and
Elizabeth Riverwood, Argent, a tree stump with an oak branch leaved and fructed issuant from dexter and sinister, all between five otters courant in annulo vert,
in each case there is a single DC for removing the secondary charge group.

Versus:
Gwendolyn of Caer Cerddinen, Argent, a rowan tree eradicated and fructed proper [Sorbus aucuparia] within a bordure embattled vert,
Willow Faye Dunne, Argent, a weeping willow tree proper within an orle vert,
Christian of Orange, Argent, an orange tree fructed proper issuant from a mount vert,
David Martin Failsworth, Argent, a crequier within a bordure embattled vert, and
Anlaith ingen Trena, Argent, a weeping willow tree vert and a ford proper,
in each case there is a single DC for removing the peripheral charge.

Versus Isabeau Eaglestone of Glinwood, Argent, a tree proper surmounted by a pair of wings conjoined azure, and Ragna feilan, Argent, a tree blasted and eradicated vert and overall a wolf statant sable, there is a single DC in each case for removing the overall charge.

CALONTIR pends

Artair de Bruis of Bristol. Device. Per fess gules and sable, on a bezant a dragon gules.
This device is pended to redraw the dragon in an identifiable segreant posture. As drawn, one of the forelimbs is on the opposite side of the body from the other, similar to affronty postures, despite it not being affronty. It is also being redrawn to enlarge the bezant and dragon.
This was item 1 on the Calontir letter of June 3, 2024.