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

The March 2026 Letter of Acceptances and Returns has been published. Here are the results for Calontir.

CALONTIR acceptances

Brighid ingen Donngaile. Badge. Or, a pink flamingo proper.

Dorcas Whitecap. Badge. Per chevron gules and sable, a tree stump snagged Or.

Dragoncina di Cecco. Device. Gules, on a chevron between three goose’s feet inverted argent two stalks of wheat gules.

Elspeth Modlen ferch Dafydd. Device change. Per bend sinister gules and azure, three spoons hanging from a bar couped Or.

This ‘hanging spoons’ motif is found in the St. Gallen Armorial, p323 https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/csg/1084/323. We will consider the bar to be a secondary charge conjoined to the primary spoons.

The submitter’s prior device, Or, a torteau charged with a sea-horse erect Or, in base a ford proper, is released.

Katherine Renée la Cousturière. Name and device. Per bend sinister argent and purpure, a domestic cat sejant guardant sable and two threaded needles in saltire argent.

Natasha Aldredesdohtor. Name and device. Papellony sable and Or, a bend purpure, overall a unicorn passant contourny argent.

Submitted as Natasha Aldredsdohtor, the patronymic byname was not correctly formed. Old English given names ending in red form the genitive by adding es to the end, not simply s. We have therefore changed this to Natasha Aldredesdohtor for registration.

Natasha is the submitter’s legal given name.

Nikita Pavlovich. Device. Per fess sable and azure, a sun argent eclipsed sable and a bear rampant argent.

Olivera Woll. Device. Argent, an olive tree and on a chief embattled vert three open books argent.

Nice cant!

Rónán mac Diarmata. Name and device. Sable, a rainbow bendwise throughout proper, in sinister chief a sea-lion argent.

Nice Middle Irish Gaelic name!

CALONTIR returns
None.

CALONTIR pends

Devis in le Breres. Device. Per pale vert and sable, three lozenges conjoined in pale between two sprigs of blackberry, a bordure argent.

This device is pended to redraw the lozenges larger so that they are clearly the primary charges. Lozenges conjoined in pale are equivalent to a pale fusily and thus must be the primary charge in this design. The sprigs and bordure may be drawn smaller to accomplish this aim.

Nice cant!

This was item 2 on the Calontir letter of December 4, 2025.

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

The February 2026 Letter of Acceptances and Returns has been published. Here are the results for Calontir.

CALONTIR acceptances

Danik Guskin. Name and device. Per fess azure and vert, a goose reguardant argent.

Nice cant on Gus, Russian for goose!

Fulk de Barenton. Name (see RETURNS for device).

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

Ívarr inn rauði. Badge. (Fieldless) A valknut purpure.

There is a step from core practice for the use of a valknut.

Johanna Tehrani. Name change from Giovanna Canzoniere da Firenze.

Submitted as Johanna al Tehrani, this Persian name was not formed correctly. Tehrani is a locative both in Persian and Arabic. For a Persian byname derived from this element, we need to omit the Arablic definite article al (‘the’). For Arabic we need to feminize the byname al-Tehrani to al-Tehraniyya. Therefore, with the submitter’s permission, we have changed this to the Persian byname Johanna __ Tehrani. Arabic Bible translations gloss the Hebrew given name, Johanna as Yuwanna. If the submitter is interested in the fully Arabic form of the name Yuwanna al-Terhaniyya, they may submit a request for reconsideration.

Johanna is the submitter’s legal given name.

The submitter’s prior name, Giovanna Canzoniere da Firenze, is retained as an alternate.

Kassiani Zaridina. Device. Vert, a sea-horse contourny Or tailed argent.

Ketill Emerickson. Name change from Ketill Steinarsson.

Submitted using the Existing Registration Allowance for the given name, the submitter need not rely on that, as Ketill can be dated to 1338 Norway.

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

The submitter’s prior name, Ketill Steinarsson, is released.

Kunigund von Lichtenstein. Name and device. Pean, on a pile throughout argent a tyger rampant purpure.

Magge Magnus. Augmentation of arms. Purpure, on a bend between two hummingbirds hovering argent three butterflies bendwise sinister purpure and for augmentation the center butterfly replaced with a fireball palewise proper.

Meriilda of Yorkshire. Alternate name Ulpia Martialis Secunda.

Nathaniel Lennox. Badge. Vert platy, a beaker and on a chief Or three lemons vert.

Nikolai Gornostai Spiach’ev. Badge. (Fieldless) A sea-dodo azure tailed vert.

As this is the first submission of a dodo in over thirty years we take this opportunity to redocument the charge. The dodo is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius. The birds were described by Portuguese sailors in 1507 and were extinct by 1681.

Usuki Atsutada. Name.

CALONTIR returns

Fulk de Barenton. Device. Argent, an icosahedral die vert.

This device is returned for conflict with the badge of the Principality of Nordmark, (Fieldless) A hexagonal gemstone vert. There is a DC for fieldlessness, but both charges are essentially diapered hexagons, without sufficient visual difference between them for a DC.

We direct Morsulus to cross reference these charges with each other in the O and A.

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

The January 2026 Letter of Acceptances and Returns has been published. Here are the results for Calontir.

CALONTIR acceptances

Aleit de la Thomme. Device change. Vert, a lion dormant to sinister crowned of a pearled coronet and a chief enarched argent.

The submitter has been granted a court barony and is thus entitled to display a coronet.

Use of the disallowed dormant posture is permitted for this submitter under the Existing Registration Allowance.

The submitter’s prior device, Vert, a lion dormant to sinister and a chief enarched argent, is retained as a badge.

Aleit de la Thomme. Badge. (Fieldless) A tau cross vert estencely argent.

Aleit de la Thomme. Badge. Vert estencely, a tau cross argent.

Baldric Zenck. Name.

Cain Belmont. Device. Gyronny of six sable and Or, a skeletal hand argent couped at the wrist irradiated vert.

Since it is skeletal, the charge depicted is not the restricted Hand of Glory.

Caoilfhionn of Oak Heart. Name and device. Sable, a four-lobed quadrate cornice and on a chief Or a domestic cat couchant guardant sable.

Oak Heart is the registered name of an SCA branch.

Caoilfhionn of Oak Heart. Badge. (Fieldless) A domestic cat couchant guardant within and conjoined to a four-lobed quadrate cornice sable.

Edric Grenewode. Device. Per bend sinister vert and argent, a badger rampant sable marked argent.

John Everingham. Name and device. Or, a bordure vert semy of martlets Or.

Nice name for 1576 England!

Nice device!

John Kildare of Mag Mor. Name.

Mag Mor is the registered name of an SCA branch.

John Kildare is the submitter’s legal name.

Karl Torgrimsson. Name change from Charles von Strausberg.

The submitter’s prior name, Charles von Strausberg, is retained as an alternate.

Mekety Nakhthor. Badge. (Fieldless) An Eye of Horus argent.

Despite being a hieroglyph, this armory does not violate SENA GP2A, which prohibits armory consisting solely of abstract symbols, as we treat an Eye of Horus as an eye rather than as an abstract symbol for purposes of style [Ja’far al-Asad, 06/2024, A-Trimaris]. Symbols will not be considered to violate this restriction where they are determined to be more easily interpreted by the layperson as representations of non-abstract charges than as writing.

An Eye of Horus is disjoint by definition, and may be used in fieldless designs.

Solveig Briansdottir. Device. Per bend sinister Or and argent, a crocus purpure slipped and leaved vert and a maple leaf gules.

Vintila Viteazul. Name.