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

The September Letter of Acceptances and Returns was published yesterday. Here are the results for Calontir.

CALONTIR acceptances

Artair de Bruis of Bristol. Name (see PENDS for device).

Berke Chinua. Exchange of primary and alternate name Gwenne Margareta Melinnith.
The submitter’s previous primary name, Gwenne Margareta Melinnith, is now their alternate name.

Clara Masen. Blanket permission to conflict with device. Per pale argent and Or.
The submitter grants permission to conflict for all armory is not identical to this device.

Dýrfinna Tonnudóttir. Alternate name Ame Tesserande.
Nice French name from 1292!

Eynon ab Iohannes Mal. Transfer of device to Mori Sadabumi. Azure, a demi-sheep argent issuant from a bickern maintaining in its mouth a falchion bendwise inverted Or and a chief Or crusily azure.

Foteine Yfantissa. Name.
Nice name from 14th century Macedonia!

Friðbjorn inn kyrri. Name and device. Per fess indented azure and vert, a demi-bear argent.
If the submitter is interested in an alternative orthographic form of Friðbj{o,}rn inn kyrri they may submit a request for reconsideration.

Gilana Peregrina. Reblazon of badge. Per pale vert and purpure, three periwinkles argent.
Blazoned when registered in January of 2018 as Per pale vert and purpure, three gillyflowers argent, the flowers’ petals lack the pinking which is a defining feature of gillyflowers. We have reblazoned them as periwinkles, which they closely resemble.

Kitsu Kotome. Device. Argent, a brown raccoon’s head cabossed proper and a bordure purpure semy of elder flowers argent.

Meriilda of Yorkshire. Device. Per bend argent and purpure, a gillyflower purpure slipped and leaved vert and a dog sejant contourny argent.

Mori Sadabumi. Acceptance of transfer of device from Eynon ab Iohannes Mal. Azure, a demi-sheep argent issuant from a bickern maintaining in its mouth a falchion bendwise inverted Or and a chief Or crusily azure.

Ragnar MacCrimmon. Name.
This name combines a Swedish or English given name and a Scots byname, both are acceptable lingual mixes per SENA Appendix C.

Rónán Rohan. Name change from Rónán le Sauvage.
Rohan is the submitter’s legal surname.
The submitter’s prior name, Rónán le Sauvage, is released.

Þorfinna Grimsdottir. Name change from Euginia in rauða.
This is a nice 9th-11th century Old Norse name from Iceland!
The submitter’s prior name, Euginia in rauða, is retained as an alternate.

Udrost Arilith. Name.

Valentyne Rose. Name and device. Quarterly Or and sable, a heart purpure and a bordure argent.
Nice English name from the early 14th C to the end of our period!

CALONTIR returns

Frithuswith inghean Ui Cremthainn. Badge. Purpure, a goat’s head erased maintaining a sewing needle with its tongue argent.
This badge is returned for use of animal other than a frog maintaining a charge with its tongue. Precedent says, “Therefore, we will allow the practice of frogs maintaining insects with their tongues as a step from period practice; for other charges, this will be disallowed without evidence.” [Eadaoin inghean Fhuinche, 10/2019, A-Trimaris] As no such evidence was provided, this badge must be returned.

Tófa in eldra Eiríksdóttir. Badge. Argent, a linden tree eradicated in flower proper.
This badge is returned for multiple conflicts. The blossoms on the tree are expected decoration, like fructing, and are not worth difference.

Versus Douglas MacPherson the Tall, Argent, a tree blasted and eradicated per fess vert and sable, there is a DC for the tincture of the tree.

Versus the Barony of Madrone, (Fieldless) A madrone tree eradicated proper, there is a DC for adding a field.

Versus:
Gillian du Bois des Fleurs, Argent, a Lombardy poplar tree proper between in fess two gillyflowers affronty gules slipped and leaved vert,
Asa Huttuinen, Argent, a birch tree eradicated proper between in fess two ivy vines palewise vert,
Maurizio Giovanni Guglielmi, Argent, a palm tree couped proper between in base two lions combattant gules,
Celine Alexandria, Argent, a palm tree proper and in chief an eye azure irised argent,
Giliana Attewatyr, Argent, a tree eradicated proper between a capital letter G and a capital letter A sable,
Aaliz de Saint-Joseph, Argent, a tree eradicated proper fructed Or between in chief two mullets purpure,
Tadhg Mag Uidhir, Argent, a tree eradicated proper, in chief three mullets gules,
Jamie of the Oakenshield, Argent, an oak tree eradicated proper, its trunk grasped by a sinister gauntlet fesswise aversant sable,
Aemilia Tacita, Argent, an olive tree proper, in chief a decrescent azure between two brown owls respectant proper,
Elina de Braose, Argent, a crequier and in chief a mullet of four points vert,
Ulrich von Kues, Argent, a tree blasted and eradicated vert, in base in fess a trillium between two feathers azure,
Tychon Herakleous, Argent, a tree couped vert and in chief an arrow and a feather in saltire sable,
Alfhild de Foxley, Argent, a tree eradicated vert between two squirrels respectant gules, and
Elizabeth Riverwood, Argent, a tree stump with an oak branch leaved and fructed issuant from dexter and sinister, all between five otters courant in annulo vert,
in each case there is a single DC for removing the secondary charge group.

Versus:
Gwendolyn of Caer Cerddinen, Argent, a rowan tree eradicated and fructed proper [Sorbus aucuparia] within a bordure embattled vert,
Willow Faye Dunne, Argent, a weeping willow tree proper within an orle vert,
Christian of Orange, Argent, an orange tree fructed proper issuant from a mount vert,
David Martin Failsworth, Argent, a crequier within a bordure embattled vert, and
Anlaith ingen Trena, Argent, a weeping willow tree vert and a ford proper,
in each case there is a single DC for removing the peripheral charge.

Versus Isabeau Eaglestone of Glinwood, Argent, a tree proper surmounted by a pair of wings conjoined azure, and Ragna feilan, Argent, a tree blasted and eradicated vert and overall a wolf statant sable, there is a single DC in each case for removing the overall charge.

CALONTIR pends

Artair de Bruis of Bristol. Device. Per fess gules and sable, on a bezant a dragon gules.
This device is pended to redraw the dragon in an identifiable segreant posture. As drawn, one of the forelimbs is on the opposite side of the body from the other, similar to affronty postures, despite it not being affronty. It is also being redrawn to enlarge the bezant and dragon.
This was item 1 on the Calontir letter of June 3, 2024.

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

The August Letter of Acceptances and Returns was published yesterday. Here are the results for Calontir.

CALONTIR acceptances

Alexander the Red. Name.

Batu Qulun. Name and device. Per pale gules and purpure, a wheel of cheese Or.

A wheel of cheese is shown in trian aspect, also more or less fesswise as if lying upon a table. The fact that a wedge of cheese has been removed is a defining characteristic of a wheel of cheese but the exact placement of the cut-out wedge does not matter nor is it blazonable. Palimpsest is directed to update Table 5 of the Glossary of Terms with this information.

Bawdwyn Kaye. Name and device. Argent, a domestic cat couchant guardant between three mullets sable, a chief triangular gules.

Nice 16th century English name!

Berakha bat Mira v’Shlomo. Badge. (Fieldless) In pale a pomegranate gules conjoined to a crescent Or.

Berakha bat Mira v’Shlomo. Badge. (Fieldless) On a sun Or a star of David azure.

This badge was pended on the May 2024 LoAR to redraw the sun in a period style.

Hildegard the Clever. Name and device. Azure, a closed book palewise argent garnished Or, on a chief invected argent a Wake knot azure.

The byname the Clever is the lingua Societatis form of the attested Middle English bynames le Slee and le Slege.

When closed books are palewise, the direction the spine faces is an optionally blazonable detail not worth difference. We direct Palimpsest to include this information in Table 5 of the Glossary of Terms.

Iosef MacGregor. Name.

Submitted as Iósef Mac_Gregor, this name has two problems. First, no documentation was provided for the spelling Iósef, nor could any be found during the commentary process. Juetta Copin provided documentation for the spelling Josef in English dated to 1571, where a switch between the initial letters I/J is well-documented. This gives us a plausible English spelling Iosef without the accent over the letter o. Accordingly, we have removed it for registration. In addition, the Scots byname MacGregor does not contain a space; we have therefore removed it for registration.

The submitter requested authenticity for Gaelic/Welsh. This name does not meet this request; it contains an English given name and a Scots byname. While this combination is an acceptable lingual mix per SENA Appendix C, such mixes are not considered authentic without direct evidence of the mix during our period.

The submitter might be interested to know that the name Iosef ap Gregor would be an authentic name for 16th century English/Welsh. Jeanne Marie Palimpsest provided evidence of the Welsh byname dated to 1561 as well as its use with English given names, both putting it within 10 years of the English given name and providing the necessary evidence for us to consider this name authentic. In addition, the name Ioseph mac Grighair would be a registerable name in Irish Gaelic, but it is not authentic as the name elements do not overlap in time. If they are interested in either of these names, they may submit a request for reconsideration.

Jorunn Eydisardottir. Augmentation of arms. Vert, a tub Or and a ford proper, and for augmentation on the tub a cross of Calatrava purpure.

Kilix Tragou Erycinos. Name and device. Quarterly argent and Or, a frog sejant vert winged purpure.

The submitter requested authenticity for “Classical Greece”. This name meets this request as all of the elements can be found in an attested pattern for Ancient Greek names.

Robyn Cissor. Name and device. Vert, on a bend Or between a robin Or marked gules and a pair of shears Or two lupins gules.

Nice 13th century English name!

Nice cant!

Siggi gjallandi. Name change from Deomotheor Zÿdmond and device change. Quarterly azure and Or, in saltire four Thor’s hammers hafts to center counterchanged.

The submitter’s prior name, Deomotheor Zÿdmond, is retained as an alternate.

The submitter’s prior device, Azure semy of doubled crosses, a bordure Or, is retained as a badge.

Sláine inghean Uí Duibh Darach. Device. Argent, an oak tree blasted and fructed sable and a bordure purpure, overall on a chief sable three keys bendwise inverted argent.

Chiefs surmounting bordures are an exception to the requirement in SENA Appendix I4 that overall charges be in the center of the design and surmount a primary charge. See the Cover Letter for details.

Nice cant on a byname derived from ‘black oak’.

Yoshi’no no Masamitsu. Name and device. Azure, a chalice with flames issuant to chief, a bordure wavy argent.

This device does not conflict with the device of Fionn mac Aodha, Azure, a goblet argent with flames issuant to chief Or and a chief invected argent. There is a DC for changing the type of peripheral charge, and a DC for changing the tincture of the flames, which are effectively maintained charges.

This device also does not conflict with the device of Arianwen Esyllt Gwynedd, Purpure, a chalice within a bordure wavy argent. There is a DC for the tincture of the field and another for adding the flame.

Yoshi’no no Masamitsu. Badge. Or, a saltire sable between four torteaux and a bordure sable.

CALONTIR returns

Astriðr Birnudóttir. Alternate name Diglach de Pairis.

This name is returned for a violation of SENA PN1B1. As documented, there are more than 500 years between these two elements; the given name is dated to 764 and the byname is dated to 1295. Commenters were unable to find any evidence to push the given name later in time or the byname earlier in time. Therefore, we are forced to return this name.

Ginevra Brandini. Device. Azure, a bend vert fimbriated Or between a roundel between and conjoined to an increscent and decrescent argent and two sheaves of wheat Or.

This device is returned for violation of SENA A3D2a, Slot Machine. The roundel, crescents, and sheaves are all in the same charge group.

This device is also returned for violation of SENA A3D2c, Unity of Posture and Orientation. On the June 2023 Cover Letter we said “However, when arrows are in a sheaf or in saltire they are treated like compact charges”. This is also true of sheaves of any other type of long charge. Since the secondary charges in this design are all considered compact, they are comparable and A3D2c applies. As the arrangement of the charges above the bend needs to be blazoned separately from the arrangement of the entire secondary charge group, the charges are not in a unified arrangement.

On resubmission, the submitter should ensure the sable outline of the sheaves of wheat does not overwhelm the Or fill.

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

The June Letter of Acceptances and Returns was published on Wednesday, August 21st. Here are the results for Calontir.

CALONTIR acceptances

Bragi Oddsson. Release of Badge. Gyronny arrondi sable and Or, in fess an increscent and a decrescent interlaced gules.

Charles von Bayrreuth. Device. Per pall Or, vert and azure, a cross patonce argent between in chief in chevron a rose gules between two roses Or.

Eleanor Deyeson. Badge (see RETURNS for other badges). Azure, in pale three escallops between flaunches argent.

This badge does not conflict with the device of Katherine Elys of Glastonbury, Azure, in bend three escallops argent. There is an SC for the unforced change in arrangement of the primary charges from in bend to in pale.

The submitter has permission to conflict with the device of Katerina Buonnarroti de Firenze, Azure, in pale three escallops between two flaunches fleury argent.

Finnr Ketilsson. Name change from Eilo de Castil.

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

The submitter’s prior name, Eilo de Castil, is released.

Lisette la fauconniere d’Amboise. Badge. (Fieldless) A chicken’s footprint gules.

This badge does not conflict with the badge of Artemas Maximus, Or, a bear’s paw print gules. There is a DC for fieldlessness and a DC between a bird’s footprint and a pawprint.

There is a step from core practice for the use of a bird’s footprint. Palimpsest is directed to update SENA Appendix G1 to note this.

Marta della Casa. Name and device. Argent, on a strawberry leaf vert a strawberry Or.

Nice 15th century Florentine name!

This device does not conflict with the badge of Bronwyn Acthorn, Argent, an oak leaf vert, charged with an Old English letter “B” Or. There is a DC for the type of tertiary charge, and a DC between the “oak-shaped” oak leaf and the “maple-shaped” strawberry leaf.

As noted in SENA Appendix M1j, we blazon a cluster of three strawberry leaflets as a singular strawberry leaf.

Mjǫll Úlfarsdóttir. Release of device. Quarterly wavy vert and azure, a square weaver’s tablet lozengewise and on a chief argent a stick shuttle purpure.

Mjǫll Úlfarsdóttir. Change of badge to device. Gyronny arrondi gules and argent, a wolf sejant forepaw raised within a bordure azure.

Titus Salvius Bassus. Name and device. Per chevron azure and purpure, in cross four scorpions inverted Or.

Nice Roman name for the late 1st or early 2nd century CE!

Violet Sinclair. Badge. (Fieldless) A seeblatt purpure winged Or within and conjoined to a four-lobed quadrate cornice gules.

Violet Sinclair. Badge. Or, on a natural rainbow bendwise throughout proper three seeblätter palewise argent.

Though rainbows bendwise throughout are not bends, which would have the seeblätter default to bendwise, we feel it is clearest to be explicit about their orientation. As noted on the May 2024 Cover Letter, this has a complexity count of six, as the natural rainbow is treated as having three tinctures: gules, Or, and either vert or azure.

Zaneta Baseggio. Badge. (Fieldless) A goat-headed cock bendy sable and argent.

CALONTIR returns

Eleanor Deyeson. Badge. Azure, on a fess engrailed on the upper edge and invected on the lower edge argent, a sprig of laurel fesswise proper.

This badge is returned for using two different complex lines on an ordinary, as precedent states that “using two different complex lines on an ordinary is not registerable.” [Mara Palmer, R-Meridies, August 2012 LoAR] This precedent was upheld in the return of the badge for the Kingdom of Trimaris’s Order of Seawall in April 2015.

Eleanor Deyeson. Badge. Or goutty de sang, on an escarbuncle sable an eye argent irised gules.

This badge is returned for lack of identifiability of the primary charge. The center of a properly drawn escarbuncle doesn’t have room for a tertiary charge; this escarbuncle has been modified to make room for the eye in such a way that it becomes unrecognizable.

Greetings, Calontir!

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

The March Letter of Acceptances and Returns was published on Friday, May 3rd. Here are the results for Calontir:

CALONTIR acceptances

Georgette Durning. Device. Purpure, a tyger sejant contourny argent.

This device does not conflict with the badge of Temair ingen Muiredaich, Purpure, a fox sejant contourny argent within a bordure ermine nor with the badge of Yuri Murasaki, Purpure, a fox sejant to sinister maintaining a lily affronty slipped and leaved argent. In each case there is a DC for removing the secondary charge, and there is at least a DC between a fox and a tyger.

This device also does not conflict with the device of Sabine d’Orliens, Purpure, a cat sejant contourny argent in chief three fleurs-de-lys Or, the device of Isabella Hawke, Purpure, a natural panther sejant contourny between three hawk’s legs erased à la quise belled and jessed argent, or the device of Siobhán ingen Tigernaich, Purpure, a natural tiger sejant contourny argent marked sable within a dragon involved in annulo head to chief Or. In each case there is a DC for removing the secondary charge group, and another DC for changing a feline to a tyger.

Havarr Refskegg. Device. Per pale wavy vert and argent, a stag’s attire palewise and an oak leaf counterchanged.

A stag’s attire defaults to fesswise with its stump to dexter. When palewise, it defaults to having its stump to base. We ask Palimpsest to add this information to Table 5 of the Glossary of Terms.

Helenos ben Simon. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Lucius Aternius Calidus. Name and device. Gyronny sable and Or, a torch gules and a serpent entwined argent.

Oddný Óttarsdóttir. Name change from Kenda Óttarsdóttir and device. Quarterly gules and sable, two otters statant counter-statant Or.

The submitter’s prior name, Kenda Óttarsdóttir, is released.

Nice cant!

Oddný Óttarsdóttir. Badge. (Fieldless) A sea-otter Or maintaining a drinking horn argent.

Nice cant!

Oddný Óttarsdóttir. Badge. Per chevron sable and gules, two ravens volant in chevron respectant argent and a boar rampant contourny Or.

Richard Wolfwood. Name and device. Or, a Bowen knot crosswise sable braced with an annulet vert.

This device does not conflict with the badge of Dianora Lizabetta di Cellini, (Fieldless) A Lacy knot within and conjoined to an annulet vert. Though by precedent [Úna inghean Shéamuis, 07/2004, A-Middle] there is no difference between a Lacy knot and a Bowen knot crosswise braced with an annulet, there is a DC for fieldlessness, a DC for changing the tincture of at least half of the primary charge, and a DC for removing the secondary annulet from Dianora’s badge.

This device also does not conflict with the device of Edana O’Donnelly, Or, a Donnelly knot sable. There is an SC for type between a Donnelly knot and a Bowen knot.

This device also does not conflict with the device of Elisabetta Camilla di Raffaello, Or, a knot of two hearts voided and braced to form a single cord azure. There is a DC for the tincture of the primary charge, and at least a DC between a knot of two hearts voided and braced to form a single cord and a Bowen knot.

Þióðrikr Ulfsbani. Name reconsideration from Þeodric Ulfsbani.

When we registered the name Þeodric Ulfsbani, we offered this form to the submitter. We are happy to accept this request for reconsideration!

Verena Näherin. Badge. (Fieldless) A winged dog passant maintaining in its mouth by the chain a morning star flail Or.

Submitted as a morningstar, there has been some confusion in terminology in our blazons, as a morningstar is actually a word for what we typically blazon as a spiked mace: a rigid weapon with no chain. The chained weapon is more accurately referred to as a type of flail. Going forward we will blazon this weapon as a morning star flail. Existing armory is reblazoned elsewhere on this letter.

Our last registration of this type of weapon was in 2015, so we take this opportunity to re-document this charge. The morning star flail appears to have been quite rare in period warfare, but examples can be found in period artwork, such as in the early 15th C “Livre des Merveilles du Monde” (BnF, Français 2810), ff. 245v and 253r.

CALONTIR returns

Helenos ben Simon. Device. Sable, on a sun Or an eye azure irised argent.

This device is returned for conflict with the badge of Leon de Asturias for House Cinqfoil, Sable, a cinquefoil azure en soleil Or. An examination of Leon’s badge shows it to be equivalent to Sable, on a sun Or a cinquefoil azure, so there is a single DC for changing the type of the tertiary charge.

In service,
Dorcas Saker

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

Greetings, Calontir!

The February Letter of Acceptances and Returns was published on Friday, April 12th. Here are the results for Calontir:

CALONTIR acceptances

Adalyde Heloyz la Cantora. Device change. Gyronny of twelve Or and azure, a peacock in his pride argent within a four-lobed quadrate cornice gules.

The submitter’s prior device, Gyronny of twelve Or and azure, a peacock in his pride argent and on a base sable a moon in her plenitude Or, is released.

Anne Renarde. Name change from Anne Renaud (see RETURNS for device).

Nice 14th century French name from Picardy! The submitter’s previous name, Anne Renaud, is released.

Dagný ingen Murchada. Name change from Eleanor of Shrewsbury.

This name combines an Old Norse given name with an Irish Gaelic byname, an acceptable lingual mix per SENA Appendix C. The submitter’s prior name, Eleanor of Shrewsbury, is released.

Elizabeth Hathaway. Device. Vert, an owl and on a chief argent three rue sprigs vert. Halfdan inn auðgi Ívarsson. Name.

Ivan Povarnin. Name and device. Vert, a frog rampant within an annulet of icosahedral dice Or. Submitted as twelve icosahedral dice, twelve is too many charges to enumerate in blazon when arranged in such a way that the number can’t be recognized at a glance.

Jean Jolivet. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Nice 15th century name from Paris, France!

Mór Hoistlair. Device change. Quarterly vert and sable, a wolf passant atop a snake glissant argent.

The submitter’s prior device, Quarterly vert and sable, in pale a wolf couchant and an eagle maintaining in each foot an olive branch argent, is retained as a badge.

Thomas Bacon. Reblazon of device. Purpure, between in fess two pens a hand maintaining a torch, in chief five mullets in fess Or.

Blazon when registered in March of 1989 as Purpure, a hand maintaining a torch palewise between in fess two quill pens palewise, in chief five mullets in fess, all Or, we are clarifying the charge groups. The pens are the primary charges, the torch and hand are secondary charges.

Þorkatla in skygna. Name.

Nice 9th-11th century Old Norse name from Iceland!
Ysabel de la Oya. Badge. Argent goutty de sang, a cross of Santiago sable.

CALONTIR returns

Anne Renarde. Device. Azure, on a sun in splendor between three mullets Or an increscent moon argent.
This device is returned for having a low contrast tertiary charge, in violation of SENA A3B4a.

Submitted as a moon in her plenitude irradiated Or waxing crescent argent, we have no evidence for moons in their plenitude with the faces divided this way, so we must consider the argent increscent as a tertiary charge which has poor contrast with the Or charge it lies upon.

Even if we were to allow a moon divided this way, the primary charge is effectively a roundel irradiated, which is a sun by definition. And since the primary charge is more than half Or, considered this way the device would conflict with the device of Wendryn Townsend, Azure, a sun in glory Or, and with the device of Paul of Sunriver, Azure, a compass star Or, with a single DC in both cases for adding the secondary mullets.

Jean Jolivet. Device. Argent, on a pale vert between two lilies of the valley vert flowered argent three hummingbirds hovering argent.

This device is returned for the lack of contrast between the flower blossoms and the field, in violation of SENA A3B4b. Despite lilies of the valley taking their tincture from the slip and leaves for contrast and conflict purposes, the flowers are an identifying feature which is too important for identifiability to have no contrast with the field.