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

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

CALONTIR acceptances

Aldred on Lyccidfeltha. Reblazon of device. Per bend sable and vert, in bend three drinking horns contourny argent.

Blazoned when registered in December 2009 as Per bend sable and vert, in bend three drinking horns argent, we are clarifying the orientation of the drinking horns. Their backs are to sinister, thus they are contourny.

Astriðr Birnudóttir. Alternate name Diglach Albanach.

Epodacus of Villa Frumentaria. Name and device. Per bend azure and vert, a horse rampant reguardant and a lyre, a bordure argent.

Villa Frumentaria is the registered name of an SCA branch.

Giacomo Dellafonte. Device. Per pale embattled gules and Or, in dexter three annulets conjoined one and two argent.

The submitter has permission to conflict with badge of Suzanna the Herbalist, (Fieldless) Three annulets conjoined one and two argent.

Isabella of Fyren-Ar. Reblazon of device. Vert, on a chevron between three gauntlets aversant each sustaining a bow fesswise string to chief argent two threaded needles in chevron vert.

Blazoned when registered in January 2003 as Vert, on a chevron between three gauntlets each sustaining a bow fesswise string to chief argent two threaded needles in chevron vert, we are clarifying the facing of the gauntlets. They are aversant.

Margaret Fitz Thomas. Name and device. Gules, a fess wavy and a bordure argent.

Nice late 16th century English name!

Nice device!

Mikal the Ram. Reblazon of device. Sable, a pair of ram’s horns, a bordure argent.

Blazoned when registered in December 1988 as Sable, two ram’s horns couped affronty within a bordure argent, we are clarifying the orientation of the ram’s horns. Since they face in opposite directions, they are a pair of horns. Horns are couped by default and these are in their default orientation.

Randgar Schmidt. Reblazon of device. Per fess sable and Or, two horseshoes inverted and a single-headed chess knight counterchanged.

Blazoned when registered in December 1988 as Per fess sable and Or, two horseshoes and a single-headed chess knight counterchanged, we are clarifying the orientation of the horseshoes. Their openings are to chief, thus they are inverted.

Rolanda de Lyndhurst. Device change. Vert, a goose rising to sinister argent maintaining in its beak the thread of a quill of yarn purpure threaded Or.

The submitter’s prior device, Per bend vert and bendy sinister sable and argent, a bend wavy and in chief a cross of five annulets braced argent, is retained as a badge.

Skallagrímr Bárðarson. Blanket permission to conflict with device. Per chevron sable and azure, a chevron rayonny argent.

The submitter grant blanket permission to conflict for all armory that is not identical to their registered device.

CALONTIR returns

Ragnar MacCrimmon. Device. Per bend argent and vert, five seals naiant in annulo bellies to center and a unicorn’s head couped contourny counterchanged.

This device is returned for violation of SENA A3D2e, Unity of Arrangement, which states “Charges within a charge group should be in an arrangement that can be blazoned with a single arrangement phrase. Charges in a default arrangement are always considered to be in a unified arrangement.” The seals are not in a default arrangement, and the arrangement of the seals needs to be blazoned separately from the arrangement of the primary charge group as a whole.

There is a step from core practice for the use of charges orientated in annulo.

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.

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

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

CALONTIR acceptances

Dragoncina di Cecco. Name.

Submitted as Dragoncina Di Cecco, we have changed the capitalization of the byname to di Cecco to follow standard Italian practices.

Eawynn ingen Broccáin. Device change. Or, a sea-badger vert marked sable between three dragonflies gules.

The submitter’s prior device, Or, a sea-badger vert marked sable, is released.

Edgar Arkewright. Name and device. Vert, a dragon couchant between three hammers Or, a bordure argent.

Nice 15th century English name!

Eleanor Deyeson. Badge. Azure, on a fess engrailed argent a sprig of laurel fesswise vert.

The submitter has permission to conflict with the device of Gwen Hir, Azure, a fess fusilly argent.

Mekety Nakhthor. Device change. Per chevron inverted rayonny sable and vert, an Eye of Horus and an ankh argent.

The submitter’s prior device, Per saltire sable and vert, a falcon striking to sinister and a bordure rayonny argent, is retained as a badge.

Roslyn Froste. Name (see PENDS for device).

Nice 16th century English name!

Sancha Lestrange. Badge change. (Fieldless) A rat sejant erect reguardant vert ermined Or maintaining a staff sable.

The submitter’s prior badge, (Fieldless) A rat sejant erect reguardant vert ermined Or sustaining a wand sable, is released.

Seamus of Gallhaven. Reblazon of device. Per fess azure and sable, a snowy owl’s head argent and in saltire a straight trumpet Or and a pen argent.

Blazoned when registered in August 1985 as Per fess azure and sable, in pale a snowy owl’s head caboshed argent and in saltire a straight trumpet bell in chief Or and a quill argent, we are clarifying that the charge in base is a pen not a quill of yarn. We are also taking this opportunity to update the blazon using current, standard defaults and terminology.

Siggi gjallandi. Badge. (Fieldless) A sea-rhinoceros argent tailed gules.

Vilhjálmr hálftrǫll. Reblazon of badge. Gyronny arrondi of six gules and Or, a demi-troll affronty arms raised azure.

Blazoned when registered in October 2015 as Gyronny arrondi of six gules and Or, a demi-troll arms raised azure, we are clarifying that the demi-troll is affronty.

CALONTIR returns

None.

CALONTIR pends

Roslyn Froste. Device. Azure semy of estoiles Or, a fox rampant reguardant contourny argent.

This device is pended to redraw it with more estoiles. There are only five estoiles on the field in an unblazonable arrangement, which blurs the line between five charges and semy.

This was item 6 on the Calontir letter of January 7, 2025.