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

The May 2025 Letter of Acceptances and Returns has been published. Here are the results for Calontir. This month, they reblazoned an already registered device. This doesn’t mean the device was changed; only the words describing the device were changed.

CALONTIR acceptances

Caroline Mell. Name change from Yang Shaoyun and device. Argent, a tortoise and on a chief wavy sable three lotus blossoms in profile argent.

Nice late 16th century German name!

The submitter’s prior name, Yang Shaoyun, is retained as an alternate.

Dagný ingen Murchada. Device. Gyronny arrondi vert and Or, on a pellet an alaunt passant guardant defamed argent.

As the term has not been used in some time, we note that defamed is a term used in modern heraldry for a tailless beast. This does not appear to be a period armorial practice. Without evidence of defaming in period armory we will consider it to be a step from core practice, which we direct Palimpsest to note in SENA Appendix G2.

Guinivere of East Loch. Reblazon of device. Per pall vert, azure, and Or, in fess a pair of hands holding a heart argent, a sword proper, and a natural panther sejant erect sable.

Blazoned when registered in January 1985 as Per pall vert, azure, and Or, a pair of hands holding a heart argent, a sword proper, and a natural panther sejant erect sable, we are clarifying that all of the charges are co-primary.

Jameson Sinclair. Name.

Kjaran Hroereksson. Badge. (Fieldless) A tricorporate wolf argent, each body maintaining an axe proper.

Commenters questioned the orientation of the wolves’ bodies. Precedent says: “The submitter may wish to be aware that the more typical drawing of a tricorporate beast in period armory has the top two bodies back to back, with the bottommost body facing to dexter. The specific orientation difference here of one of the three bodies is not a blazonable detail.” [Galen O’Conaill, 07/2013, A-Middle]

Tricorporate quadrupeds default to being arranged two and one with the bodies rampant and the head guardant. The body in base faces to dexter. The upper bodies are usually drawn back to back, but the exact orientation is an unblazonable detail. We direct Palimpsest to note these details in Table 5 of the Glossary of Terms.

Marinus of Eleusis. Name.

This name combines a Latin cognomen for someone or something belonging to the sea, with a lingua Societatis rendering of the Greek byname Eleusinios, an acceptable lingual mix per SENA Appendix C. The Greek byname is constructed per Ursula Serpent’s article “A Simple Guide to Classical Greek Names (https://yarntheory.net/ursulageorges/names/classicalgreeknames.html).

If the submitter is interested in a wholly Ancient Greek version of this name, Marinos Eleusinios, they may submit a request for reconsideration.

We direct Palimpsest to update SENA Appendix A for Greek to include a link to this article.

Sadb ingen uí Cherbaill. Alternate name Iji no Hitomi (see RETURNS for badge).

Hitomi is the submitter’s legal middle name. As a given name by type, it may be used as a given name.

CALONTIR returns

Cain Belmont. Device. Gyronny of six sable and Or, a skeletal hand irradiated argent.

This device is returned for lack of identifiability of the primary charge. The rays being similar in width to the bones combined with them sharing a tincture makes it difficult to recognize the hand as a hand.

The charge depicted is not the restricted hand of glory and thus would be registerable if it were identifiable.

Sadb ingen uí Cherbaill. Badge. Argent, a hanakaku within a bordure gules.

This badge is returned for conflict with the device of Judith the Rose, Argent, a rose gules slipped and leaved proper. There is a DC for adding the bordure, but nothing for the difference between a rose and a hanakaku, and nothing for removing the slip and leaves.

This badge is also returned for conflict with the badge of Adelaide de Beaumont, Argent, a pimpernel gules, slipped and leaved, within a bordure vert. There is a single DC for changing the tincture of the bordure.

This badge is also returned for conflict with the device of Nikki Bergstadt, Argent, a rose azure bendwise, slipped and leaved vert, within a bordure gules. There is a single DC for changing the tincture of the flower.

This badge is also returned for conflict with the device of Roseline d’Anjou, Argent, a rose proper, a bordure gules semy-de-lys argent. There is a single DC for removing the tertiary charges.

If registered, this would have been the defining instance of a hanakaku in Society armory. A hanakaku is a four-petaled flower found in Japanese armory, stylized to be approximately a bendwise square in shape; as opposed to hanabashi, a similar flower that is lozenge-shaped.