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.

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

The December 2025 Letter of Acceptances and Returns has been published. Here are the results for Calontir.

CALONTIR acceptances

Attikos Drakontos. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Submitted as Atticus Drakontos, commenters raised the issue of presumption with the well-known Athenian lawmaker Drako of Athens, who codified Athens’ first legal code. Atticus is listed in the LGPN as both a given name and as a locative byname meaning of Athens. The patronymic byname, Drakontos, means son of Drako. Therefore, as this name is saying that Attikos is Drako’s son, and not that this person is Drako of Athens, this name is clear of presumption. Additionally, commenters were able to document the entirely Greek rendition of the given name — Attikos, versus the Latinized form, Atticus, that was submitted. Therefore, with the submitter’s permission, we have made this change for registration.

Brigida von München. Heraldic title Monkshood Herald.

Devis in le Breres. Name.

Ealasaid Eliot. Name.

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

Eawynn ben Broccáin. Name change from Eawynn ingen Broccáin.

Submitted as Eawynn bean Broccáin, the relationship marker bean comes from Middle and Late Irish, while the given name spelling Broccáin is an Old Irish spelling. As each name phrase must be in a single language, we have changed this to the Old Irish spelling ben for registration.

The submitter’s prior name, Eawynn ingen Broccáin, is released.

Helias Basilou. Badge. (Fieldless) On a sun purpure the minuscule Greek letter eta Or.

Helmut der Adler. Badge. (Fieldless) An eagle maintaining in its feet a glaive purpure.

Nice cant!

I’na Yukime. Blanket permission to conflict with name.

The submitter grants permission to conflict with any name that is not identical to their registered name.

I’na Yukime. Blanket permission to conflict with device. Per pale Or and purpure, within a torii gate in saltire two artist’s paintbrushes inverted counterchanged.

The submitter grants permission to conflict for all armory which is not identical to their device.

Jakob Knüttler. Name and device. Per bend sinister raguly azure and argent, a club argent and a mastiff sejant sable.

Nice 14th century German name!

Jóhann Steinarsson. Badge. Vert, a fess compony sable and argent between a foot couped argent and a mullet Or.

This was submitted as a badge for Walker Herald. Precedent says:

“Submitted as a badge for Mistle Thrush Herald, we can’t associate a badge with a heraldic title. Submitters are not allowed to register armory for officers that fall under the auspices of Society-level officers that have registered badges. As the College of Arms has a badge for heralds, Vert, two straight trumpets in saltire, bells to chief Or, badges for subsidiary offices, including Heralds Extraordinary, may not be registered. The sole exception to this rule is for tinctureless seals for principal heralds of kingdoms, under SENA A3A2. [Dorcas Whitecap, 08/2025, R-Calontir]”

Therefore, we are unable to make this association.

The default foot is a human foot, which we direct Palimpsest to add to Table 8 of the Glossary of Terms.

Kolfinna Hálfgrímsdóttir. Name and device. Sable, a sun between in pale two otters courant Or.

The submitter has permission to conflict with the device of Wolfgang Grothe de Verron, Sable, a mullet of eight points between two scarpes Or.

This device does not conflict with the device of Ayloara de Meddestane, Sable, in base a sun in its splendour, flaunches Or. There is a DC for changing the type of secondary charges. There is also a DC for the placement on the field of the primary charge; in period heraldry primary charges with flaunches default to being central, so Ayloara’s sun is not forced to base.

Lyleth Whitrose. Device. Argent, a squirrel rampant maintaining a sword sable, on a chief azure three roses argent.

Nice cant!

Magdalene von Osnabrück. Name and device. Gules, a crescent pendant argent surmounted by an arrow fracted in chevron inverted Or.

Sadb ingen uí Cherbaill. Badge for Iji no Hitomi. Gules, on a hexagon argent a hanakaku gules.

This is 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, equal in width and height; as opposed to hanabishi, a similar flower that is lozenge-shaped, taller than it is wide.

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

Wilhelmus Ostfrieslandter. Name and device. Per bend argent and Or, a hedgehog rampant proper its quills impaling grapes purpure and a penguin azure bellied argent.

CALONTIR returns

Attikos Drakontos. Device. Sable, a chevron Or surmounted by a scythe blade argent.

This device is returned for conflict with the device of Ragnarr ulfheðinn, Sable, a chevron Or, overall a fleur de lys argent. There is a single DC for changing the type of the overall charge.