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

CALONTIR acceptances

Anne Renarde. Device. Azure, a sun in splendor per pale Or and argent between three mullets Or.

Antonio Arias de Valencia. Name and device. Or, on a pile indented sable between in base two lions sejant respectant gules an estoile argent.

Nice late 15th century Spanish name!

There is a step from core practice for piles which extend between 75% and 85% the length of the shield. We direct Palimpsest to add this to SENA Appendix G2.

Cecilia Lovelace. Name.

Nice 14th century English name!

Debora de ffrogenhole. Name (see PENDS for device).

Submitted as Debora de Ffrogenhole, we have changed this to Debora de ffrogenhole, with the submitter’s permission, for registration. Per https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2020/01/two-fs-a-capital-idea/ certain medieval English legal hands (i.e., semi-standard forms of writing) did not use the capital ‘F’ as part of their script. In these hands, the initial ‘f’ was doubled to represent the capital ‘F’. Thus, the byname here can be written as either de Frogenhole or as de ffrogenhole, as a simple matter of orthography. The submitter expressed a preference for the double-f form which is what we have registered here.

Going forward, we will register either the double lowercase-f version of such names or the single, uppercase-f version of those same names, as these are functionally the same name. We will not, however, register versions with the Ff form, as functionally that would translate to fff using those scripts.

Decimus Hostilius Agathon. Name and device. Per bend sinister vert and Or, a sun Or and a crocodile rampant vert maintaining a spear proper steeled argent.

The submitter requested authenticity for 3rd century Roman. Unfortunately, as the Ancient Western Roman civilization spanned from 753 BCE to 476 CE, we do not know which 3rd century this authenticity request refers to. As naming practices changed significantly between the 3rd century BCE and the 3rd century CE, we cannot say whether this name meets the submitter’s authenticity request.

Elizabeth Daundelyon. Device. Per chevron gules and azure, in base a dandelion in profile slipped and leaved Or.

This device does not presume upon the mon of the Emperor of Japan: (Tinctureless) A sixteen-petalled chrysanthemum. There is a DC for adding the field, and a DC between a multi-petaled flower affronty and one in profile.

Nice cant!

Helenos ben Simon. Device. Sable, on a sun Or an eye azure irised argent, a bordure Or.

Ignatius Rufus. Name and device. Or, a cockatrice wings displayed and an orle embattled grady on the outer edge sable.

Commenters questioned whether we allow orles with complex lines, particularly with the complex line on only one edge. There are precedents disallowing certain complex lines on orles – bottony/trefly in the case of Katerina Saunfayle in January 2015 and issuing acorns leaved in the case of Margaret Hepburn of Ardrossan – but in both of those decisions the issue appears to be the lack of documentation for the complex line itself, rather than its use specifically on an orle. John Guillim, in his 1611 A Display of Heraldrie, cites examples of both an orle engrailed and an orle engrailed on its inner edge. We see no reason a complex line could not be applied to the outer edge instead, so will allow orles with complex line on either or both edges, provided identifiability is maintained.

Iuliana Brewhous. Name and device. Vert, a barrel palewise and on a chief enarched Or a bearded axe fesswise reversed blade to base purpure.

Jehanne Bening. Name change from Siobhán le Blake.

This name combines a French given name and an English byname, an acceptable lingual mix per SENA Appendix C.

The submitter’s prior name, Siobhán le Blake, is retained as an alternate.

Johan Sachs. Name.

Johanne of Fisher Gate. Badge. Gules, in bend three Bourchier knots bendwise sinister Or.

Nice badge!

Kjaran Hr{oe}reksson. Name change from Cearan Mac Brendan (see RETURNS for badge).

The submitter’s prior name, Cearan Mac Brendan, is retained as an alternate.

Solveig Briansdottir. Name.

This name is clear both visually and aurally of the registered name Sólveig Brúnsdóttir, registered in August 2018. The change of Brúnsdóttir to Briansdóttir introduces a change in two letters and the addition of a syllable in the byname, thus clearing this name of conflict under PN3C2 and 4.

CALONTIR returns

Kjaran Hr{oe}reksson. Badge. (Fieldless) A tricorporate wolf argent, each body maintaining an ax proper, within and conjoined to three lightning bolts in annulo azure.

This badge is returned for using three charges in an in annulo arrangement. Per the August 2019 Cover Letter:
Likewise, three charges cannot be arranged “in annulo” as their placement can be more accurately described as “one and two” or the default for three charges, “two and one.”

Though these lightning bolts are arranged two and one, there is no way to blazon their orientations, or the fact that they are bent into circular arcs, without blazoning them as in annulo.

There is a step from core practice for the use of lightning bolts outside of a thunderbolt.

CALONTIR pends

Debora de ffrogenhole. Device. Per bend sinister wavy azure and Or, a sun Or and a frog sejant vert.

This device is pended to redraw the frog. As submitted, the frog appears to be missing its front legs.

This was item 4 on the Calontir letter of July 5, 2024.