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.

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

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

CALONTIR acceptances

Antonio Arias de Valencia. Alternate name Styrbjorn Ormsson.

Arabella Isidora del Sol. Name and device. Argent, on a sun gules a phoenix Or, a bordure compony Or and azure.

Nice cant!

Balli i Ubbaholl. Name and device. Per pale Or and sable, on a bend a dragon passant counterchanged.

Balli i Ubbaholl. Badge. (Fieldless) A brown squirrel proper winged maintaining a valknut Or.

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

Deirdre inghean Cormaic. Name and device. Azure, a willow tree argent and an orle argent lozengy azure.

Edmund Parsy. Name and device. Azure, a pall argent semy of hearts palewise gules.

Gabhan mac Aedain. Reblazon of device. Per fess argent and sable, in base a wyvern erect with one foot raised, wings displayed, and tail nowed argent.

Blazoned when registered in July of 1988 as Per fess argent and sable, in base a wyvern passant, wings displayed and tail nowed erect, argent, we are clarifying the posture of the wyvern. Its body is oriented vertically so it is erect. We are also taking this opportunity to update the blazon using current, standard defaults and terminology.

Issabell Saint Charles. Device change. Or, four fleurs-de-lys in cross bases to center, in chief a coronet flory azure, a bordure azure semy-de-lys argent.

Submitted as a ducal coronet, the coronet in this submission is drawn as a coronet flory (which is not reserved for ducal rank) so we have blazoned it as such.

The submitter is a royal peer of ducal rank and thus entitled to display a coronet.

The submitter’s prior device, Azure, a bell argent, a bordure Or semy-de-lis azure, is retained as a badge.

Istvan of Mag Mor. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Mag Mor is the registered name of an SCA branch.

Jacquette DeBrackeleire. Device change. Or chaussé, a human breast gules distilling three gouttes argent.

The submitter’s prior device, Or, on a fess azure cotised sable between three roses azure barbed, seeded, slipped and leaved proper three flames Or, is retained as a badge.

Jane Augusta Sinclair. Badge. Azure, an elephant rampant proper within a four-lobed quadrate cornice Or.

For conflict purposes the elephant is argent, which we ask Morsulus to note in the O&A.

Jóhann Steinarsson. Heraldic title Walker Herald.

Ketill Karlsson. Device change. Or, a wyvern erect with one leg raised contourny sable, a bordure indented gules.

This device does not conflict with the device of Vīryavān ca Tūṣṇīṃ, Or, a monster composed of the foreparts a lion and the hindquarters of a dragon sejant contourny gules winged sable, a bordure indented gules. There is a DC for changing the tincture of half the primary charge, and another for the difference between Vīryavān’s monster and a wyvern.

The submitter’s prior device, Per fess sable and Or, a roundel and a wolf rampant counterchanged, is retained as a badge.

Kolfinna Valdísardóttir. Name and device. Per pale purpure and sable, a chevron fracted Or.

Nice 9th-11th century Old Norse name from Iceland!

Marcus Octavius Valentinus. Name.

Matthias Worcestershire. Badge. Azure, in fess two mascles interlaced, overall a fess Or.

Miyazaki Atsutaka. Badge for Thomas Foulmoth. Per fess vert and gules, a moth argent charged with in fess two mullets voided and interlaced sable and a cockatrice argent.

Morwenna ferch Dafydd. Reblazon of device. Argent semy of dandelions in profile Or slipped and leaved vert, a wooden A-frame plumb-line proper.

Blazoned when registered in August of 2025 as Argent semy of dandelion plants, a wooden A-frame plumb-line proper, the strewn charges are dandelions in profile slipped and leaved, not dandelion plants, which would have multiple stems and flowers.

Rayna Stensdottir. Name.

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

Ubbe Hrœreksson. Blanket permission to conflict with name.

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

Ubbe Hrœreksson. Blanket permission to conflict with household name Ubbah{o,}ll.

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

Ubbe Hrœreksson. Blanket permission to conflict with device. Vert, in cross a plate between four wolf’s heads couped contourny argent.

The submitter grants blanket permission to conflict for any armory that is not identical to their device.

Ubbe Hrœreksson. Blanket permission to conflict with badge. Vert, in bend sinister two wolf’s heads couped contourny argent.

The submitter grants blanket permission to conflict for any armory that is not identical to their badge.

Véný Andríðardóttir. Name (see PENDS for device).

Submitted as Véný Andríðsdóttir, the patronymic byname was not correctly formed. The old Norse genitive for the masculine given name Andriðr is Andriðar. We have therefore changed this name to Véný Andríðardóttir for registration.

William of Friedrichsburg. Reblazon of device. Per fess Or and vert, two wyverns sejant respectant, each with one foot raised gules, a bordure embattled counterchanged.

Blazoned when registered in September of 1993 as Per fess Or and vert, two wyverns passant respectant gules within a bordure embattled counterchanged, we are clarifying the posture of the wyverns. Their bodies are oriented on an angle, with their weight balanced on their unraised feet and tails, so they are sejant.

CALONTIR returns

Istvan of Mag Mor. Device. Argent, on a pale azure between two roses gules a comet argent.

This device is returned for conflict with the device of Douglass Elisabeth Montgomery, Argent, on a pale azure between two roses proper, a unicorn rampant argent. There is a single DC for changing the type of tertiary charge.

CALONTIR pends

Véný Andríðsdóttir. Device. Azure, in pale a domestic cat courant and a fleur-de-lys per pale Or and argent.

This device is pended to redraw it with a larger fleur-de-lys. As submitted the fleur-de-lys is significantly smaller than the cat such that it appears to be a secondary charge.

This was item 21 on the Calontir letter of August 5, 2025.

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

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

CALONTIR acceptances

Aia Gold-Bearer. Badge. (Fieldless) Within and conjoined to the blade of a sickle inverted Or a sprig of mistletoe vert fructed argent.

Aia Gold-Bearer. Badge. Gules, a skull per pale sable and argent, a bordure embattled argent.

Aveline de Morton. Name and device. Per pale invected vert and argent semy-de-lys vert, a weeping willow tree eradicated argent and a brown stoat rampant proper.

Artist’s note: Please draw fewer and larger fleurs-de-lys.

Cadwgan Sadilgos. Name and device. Per bend engrailed gules and sable, a goose rising wings displayed and a jester’s bauble bendwise Or.

Chiaretta da Chachavo. Device. Per bend flory counter-flory vert and Or, a rabbit rampant maintaining an artist’s paintbrush argent and a lily gules slipped and leaved vert.

Corotica of Ansteorra. Name.

Ansteorra is the registered name of an SCA branch.

Éadaoin inghean Chionaodha. Alternate name Emeludt Kühl and badge. (Fieldless) On a chemise Or a harpy vert.

As it has been over a decade since the last registration of a chemise we take this opportunity to redocument the charge. A chemise is a period charge, found in the arms of Mondunno in the 16th C Grand armorial colorié (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 5232), f. 541v.

Submitters and consulting heralds are reminded that charges that have not been registered in a decade (and charges that have never been registered before) should be documented as part of the submission.

Erik inn grái Haraldsson. Device change. Sable, a bear’s head erased argent between an increscent, a decrescent and a crescent pendant Or.

This device conflicts with the badge of Hroerekr Steinbjarnarson, Sable, a bear’s head erased argent muzzled gules crowned of a county coronet Or, with a DC for adding the crescents but no difference for removing the muzzle or crown. However, Hroerekr Steinbjarnarson has provided permission to conflict, allowing this device to be registered.

Kitsumi Hisamoto. Device. Sable, on a tortoise-shell plate sable marked, a bladed katabami Or.

This is the defining instance of a bladed katabami in Society armory. This is a period Japanese heraldic charge representing a wood sorrel leaf with blades between the lobes. A bladed katabami is considered to be equivalent to a three-petaled flower for the purposes of conflict.

Oleg Veleslavich. Device. Or, a pale azure, overall a bear’s head cabossed proper.

Sem’iyye bint Tahir al-Hindi. Alternate name Eufemia Lotharsdochter and badge. Per bend sable and argent, in bend six woodlice bendwise sinister two, two, and two counterchanged.

This is the defining instance of woodlice in Society armory. Woodlice may be a period charge; the arms of Lässe, in Wappenbuch der Arlberg-Bruderschaft, p. 751 include a charge that certainly look like woodlice. Even if they aren’t, woodlice lived in areas where humans lived in period, so are acceptable as a constructed charge under SENA A2B2b.

The arrangement of two rows of charges in bend is unusual, but is attested in the period example. Without evidence that this arrangement was considered different from it in period, it will be considered equivalent to six charges in their default arrangement on either side of a divided field. We decline to rule at this time as to the registerability of this arrangement on an undivided field.

Sven Fálkason. Device. Per chevron throughout vert and argent, a pomme.

Tatiana Nikonovna Besprozvannyja. Badge. (Fieldless) On a cushion erminois a domestic cat couchant guardant azure.

Zacharias Wolff. Device. Vert, a wolf courant Or vested of a helmet and cuirass argent and on a chief Or a torteau.

Nice cant!

There were no CALONTIR returns this month.