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

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

Calontir acceptances

Alexandra Vazquez de Granada. Device change. Azure, a bend sinister argent engouled of two gray wolf’s heads proper.

The wolf’s heads are considered argent for purposes of conflict, which we ask Morsulus to note in the O&A.

The submitter’s prior device, Azure, a bend sinister engouled of two wolf’s heads argent, is retained as a badge.

Alfwine Godegamen. Name and device. Vert, an owl displayed Or, a bordure parted bordurewise indented Or and azure.

Nice Middle English name!

Azalais des Montagnes. Device. Per chevron sable and vert, a chevron argent between a sun in splendor and a harp Or.

This device was pended on the December 2024 LoAR to draw it with a higher line of division and a thicker chevron.

Cecily de la Warde. Badge. Gules, a horse statant contourny argent pelletty.

Colin de Vire. Reblazon of device. Per pale vert and sable, two mullets of eight points and a pair of deer’s attires conjoined argent.

Blazoned when registered in September 2001 as Per pale vert and sable, two mullets of eight points and a deer’s attires argent, we are clarifying that there are two deer’s attires.

Eadweard Boise the Wright. Reblazon of badge. Argent, an impala’s head couped gules within a pair of impala’s horns conjoined azure.

Blazoned when registered in September 2004 as Argent, an impala’s head couped gules within two impala’s horns conjoined at the base azure, we are clarifying the orientation of the impala’s horns. Since they face opposite directions, they are a pair of horns.

Furia Cincinnata. Name and device. Or, a natural sea-tortoise gules and a base engrailed azure.

Ginevra Brandini. Device. Per pale argent and azure, a mullet of eight points counterchanged, on a chief vert a sheaf of three stalks of wheat, heads to sinister Or.

Gotfrid von Lübeck. Name.

Günther Klaus von Stuttgart. Reblazon of device. Or, a pair of stag’s attires conjoined and a bordure sable.

Blazoned when registered in October 2005 as Or, a stag’s attires and a bordure sable, we are clarifying that there are two stag’s attires.

Hirsch Ross Eichmann. Reblazon of device. Or, an oak tree fructed proper and on a chief gules three pairs of stag’s attires conjoined Or.

Blazoned when registered in April 1997 as Or, a oak tree fructed proper and on a chief gules three stag’s attires Or, we are clarifying that the tertiary charges are pairs of stag’s attires.

Hirsch Ross Eichmann. Reblazon of augmentation. Or, an oak tree fructed proper and on a chief gules three pairs of stag’s attires conjoined Or, for augmentation on a golpe conjoined in base to the tree a cross of Calatrava Or.

Blazoned when registered in May 2024 as Or, an oak tree fructed proper and on a chief gules three stag’s attires Or, for augmentation on a golpe conjoined in base to the tree a cross of Calatrava Or, we are clarifying that the tertiary charges are pairs of stag’s attires.

Iacob Geck. Device. Or, atop a Roman dining couch vert a badger statant sable marked argent.

Jörg Kratz. Reblazon of device. Argent, a bend embattled vert between a pair of stag’s attires conjoined and a bow bendwise sable.

Blazoned when registered in October 1984 as Argent, a bend embattled vert between a stag’s attires and a bow bent and stringed bendwise sable, we are clarifying that there are two stag’s attires. The bow is not bent. Bows are strung by default so that need not be blazoned.

Joscelyn Gloriette de Saint James. Reblazon of badge. (Fieldless) On a cross fleury quadrate gules in saltire a bishop’s crozier reversed and a key, wards to base Or.

Blazoned when registered in May 2010 as (Fieldless) On a cross fleury quadrate gules in saltire a bishop’s crozier and a key, wards to base Or, we are clarifying the orientation of the crozier. A crozier is palewise, hook opening to dexter by default. The opening here is to sinister so the crozier is reversed.

Joscelyn Gloriette de Saint James. Reblazon of device. Argent, on a cross fleury quadrate gules in saltire a bishop’s crozier reversed and a key, wards to base Or.

Blazoned when registered in May 2010 as Argent, on a cross fleury quadrate gules in saltire a bishop’s crozier and a key, wards to base Or, we are clarifying the orientation of the crozier. A crozier is palewise, hook opening to dexter by default. The opening here is to sinister so the crozier is reversed.

Kristyan Elsabet von Gutberg. Reblazon of device. Vert, a chevron rompu argent ermined vert between two stags salient respectant and a pair of deer’s antlers argent.

Blazoned when registered in February 1989 as Vert, a chevron rompu argent, ermined vert, between two stags salient respectant and two deer antlers argent, we are clarifying the orientation of the deer’s antlers. Since they face opposite directions, they are a pair of antlers.

Laurencia Sartore. Name and device. Per bend barry wavy azure and argent and vert, a moth Or marked sable and a drop-spindle bendwise argent.

Łukasz Lanckoroński. Name and device. Per chevron sable and azure, three suns Or and a unicorn rampant argent horned and crined Or.

Commenters were unable to document the {n’} in the byname to period orthography. Fortunately, after the close of commentary, Jeanne-Marie Palimpsest was able to document the submitted spelling to 1633, in the book “Przywileie y Constitvcie Seymowe”, published in Krakow of that year. Thus, we are able to accept the name as submitted.

Raibeart mac Fhionguine. Reblazon of device. Argent, on an oak leaf vert between a pair of stag’s attires conjoined sable a torque inverted argent.

Blazoned when registered in July 2001 as Argent, on an oak leaf vert within a stag’s attire sable a torque inverted argent, we are clarifying that there are two stag’s attires.

Ralph Mac Cookin. Name and device. Or, a squirrel and in chief two acorns sable.

Rayne Swyfte. Name and device. Sable, a chess king Or and a ford proper.

Nice name for late 16th century England!

This device does not conflict with the device of Robert of Glasgow, Sable, a single headed chess knight contourny Or. Precedent [Meadhbh of Calafia, 04/2005, A-Caid] gives an SC between a chess knight and both a chess rook and a chess pawn. We are expanding this precedent to include the chess king, which means the submitted device is substantially different from Robert’s. We decline to rule at this time on the potential difference between other chess pieces.

Roderick Aikyn. Device. Per bend Or and azure, an eagle rising gules and an F-clef Or.

This device was pended on the December 2024 LoAR to redraw the stems of the F-clef.

The F-clef used in this armory is a period form, used most prominently in works printed by Ottaviano Petrucci in the early 16th century such as “Frottole libro secondo”, 1504, https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Frottole_Libro/SuYfLROpe6MC.

Rónán Meade. Reblazon of badge. (Fieldless) In bend a Lacy knot gules sustained by a hedgehog rampant azure.

Blazoned when registered in October 2003 as (Fieldless) A hedgehog rampant azure sustaining to dexter chief a Lacy knot gules, we are clarifying that the Lacy knot and hedgehog are co-primary charges.

Trahaearn Mwyndeg. Name and device. Vairy en pointe vert and Or, a dog rampant contourny sable within a bordure gules.

Ulrich von Drackenstein. Name.

Villa Frumentaria, Shire of. Badge. (Fieldless) On a tower vert a stalk of wheat leaved Or.

Villa Frumentaria, Shire of. Badge. Per bend sinister Or and vert, a tower and a sheaf of wheat counterchanged.

Calontir returns

None.

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

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

CALONTIR acceptances

Aoibheann inghean Cearan. Device. Per pale indented purpure and vert, a raven contourny argent.

Constance Warwick of Wynandermere. Augmentation of arms. Per chevron fleury at the point argent and azure, two roses azure seeded Or and a cross patonce argent, and for augmentation above the cross a chalice Or.

Artist’s note: Please draw the fleury point larger.

Edric Grenewode. Name.

Nice early 13th century English name!

Galen MacColmáin. Heraldic will.

Upon the submitter’s death, they will grant permission to conflict for any name that is not identical to their name, Galen MacColmáin.

They also will grant permission to conflict for all armory that is not identical to their device, Per chevron sable and vert, a chevron between three mullets and a sheaf of arrows inverted argent.

They also will release their badge, Vert, a sheaf of arrows inverted argent.

Jeanne-Marie Dubois. Augmentation of arms. Erminois, a chevron azure between three roses proper, and for augmentation on the chevron a harp Or.

Roger Warwick. Device change. Per saltire gules and ermine, on a saltire sable a rose argent barbed and seeded proper.

The submitter’s prior device, Argent, a palm tree couped sable and two roses proper one and two, on a point pointed fleury gules a rose argent barbed and seeded proper, is released.

Séamus Cearrbhach mac Cearan. Name and device. Per pale argent and azure, two chevronels sable.

Cearan is the submitter’s father’s registered SCA name.

Nice device!

Vincenzo Casciaiolus. Name and device. Gules, a frame saw, a base dovetailed Or.

The submitter has permission to conflict with the device of Alonso Giovanni da Livorno, Gules, a frame saw, a chief invected Or.

Nice cant on a byname meaning “maker of boxes or chests”!

Ximena Echeberria. Alternate name Gwendolyn Thomasdaughter.

CALONTIR returns

Kitsumi Hisamoto. Device. Per pale sable and Or, a bladed katabami counterchanged Or and gules.

This device is returned for conflict with the device of Maryan Blacke of York, Per pale sable and Or, a trefoil counterchanged, and with the device of Deirdre ingean Dhomhnaill, Per pale sable and Or, a trillium inverted gules barbed vert. In each both cases there is a DC for changing the tincture of the primary charge, but none for the difference between types of three-petaled flowers.

In the return of this submitter’s previous submission we called the primary charge “a katabami, a stylized wood sorrel leaf found in Japanese kamon”. This is only partially correct. Further research has shown that an unmodified katabami does not have the swords between the petals. This particular depiction in Japanese is called tsurigi katabami, “Sword Wood Sorrel”, which we will blazon as bladed katabami, similar to how we blazon bladed sharp flowers, another Japanese charge. The “blades” are a decorative detail not worth difference.

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

The January Letter of Acceptances and Returns was published this morning. Here are the results for Calontir.

CALONTIR acceptances

Angharad de Painscastle. Reblazon of badge. (Fieldless) Issuant from a tower argent charged with a goutte de sang a demi-horse sable.

Blazoned when registered in November 2012 as (Fieldless) In pale a demi-horse sable issuant from a tower argent charged with a goutte de sang, we are clarifying the charge groups. The tower is the sole primary charge; the demi-horse is a secondary charge.

Debora de ffrogenhole. Device. Per bend sinister wavy azure and Or, a sun Or and a frog sejant vert.

This device was pended on the October 2024 LoAR to redraw the frog.

Nice cant!

Einarr Grímsson. Heraldic will.

Upon their death, the submitter releases their alternate name, Einarr gráfeldr, and their badges, (Fieldless) A boar rampant contourny argent and Quarterly Or and sable, a boar’s head erased argent within a bordure counterchanged.

They also will grant permission to any future submitter to register armory that is not identical to their registered device, Quarterly Or and sable, a boar rampant argent within a bordure counterchanged.

Eleanor Deyeson. Badge. Sable, an escarbuncle Or within eyes in annulo Or irised gules.

Padraic MacLochlan o Loingsigh. Reblazon of device. Per chevron embattled argent and gules, a natural dolphin naiant sable and a pen argent.

Blazoned when registered in July 1988 as Per chevron embattled argent and gules, a natural dolphin naiant embowed sable and a quill palewise argent, we are clarifying the charge in base is a pen, not a quill of yarn. The pen is in its default orientation, palewise, nib to base. Embowing is expected for a dolphin so need not be included in the blazon.

Taisiia Sazhina Vasiliskova. Name change from Chiara di Paxiti.

The submitter’s prior name, Chiara di Paxiti, is retained as an alternate.

The Kingdom of Calontir had no Returns or Pends this month.

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

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

Calontir.

CALONTIR acceptances

Aelesia de Mortaine. Badge. (Fieldless) A hen argent mulletty azure.

Amma H{o,}ldr. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Artair de Bruis of Bristol. Device. Per fess gules and sable, on a bezant a dragon gules.

This device was pended on the September 2024 LoAR to redraw the dragon in an identifiable segreant posture.

Asgeirr Hrafnhauss. Reblazon of device. Argent, in pale a double-bitted axe bendwise sinister sustained by a sinister clenched gauntlet aversant bendwise azure, on a chief sable a skull argent.

Blazoned when registered in July of 2016 as Argent, a sinister clenched gauntlet bendwise aversant sustaining a double-bitted axe bendwise sinister azure, on a chief sable a skull argent, we are clarifying that the gauntlet and axe are co-primary charges.

Astriðr Birnudóttir. Badge. Vert, a mole statant argent between in pale two shovels fesswise Or.

As our last registration of a mole was over 30 years ago, we take this opportunity to redocument the charge. Moles are a not infrequent charge in period armory, with examples found in English, Scottish, French, and German sources.

Shovels, and spades, default to palewise, blade to base. When fesswise the blade is to sinister.

Azalais des Montagnes. Name (see PENDS for device).

The submitter requested authenticity for Occitan or 14th century Old French. Submitted as Azalaïs des Montagnes, no documentation was provided for the period usage of a diaeresis above the i. We have thus removed the diaeresis for registration, registering Azalais des Montagnes. As corrected, this name fulfils the submitter’s authenticity request.

Beal Serich. Name and device. Quarterly sable and azure, a mascle ployé Or.

Berakha bat Mira v’Shlomo. Device. Azure, on a pomegranate gules irradiated Or a crescent pendant, a bordure argent.

Calvius Atrox. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Nice Imperial Roman name!

Deanna of Cúm an Iolair. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Per pale gules and Or, three cherry blossoms counterchanged.

Nice device!

Submitted under the name Amawari Mitsumi.

Helias Basilou. Name and device. Gules, a bend sinister argent between a sun in his splendor and a bunch of grapes slipped and leaved Or.

Submitted as Helias Basiliou, this name is not constructed correctly. The patronymic byname was intended to be constructed using the Classical Greek rules found in “A Simple Guide to Classical Greek Names” by Ursula George; however, the name Basilius is Latin and not Greek. When provided options, the submitter chose the patronymic byname Basilou, based on the given name Basilas. Accordingly, we have made this change for registration. See the Cover Letter for further information.

Additionally, the given name Helias is a feminine given name. The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names lists two “twin” given names Elias and Helias, where the only difference is whether the initial vowel, in this case, eta, has a rough breathing or a smooth breathing attached to it, leading to two different transliterations. The rough breathing version is transliterated as the feminine name Helias, while the smooth breathing version is transliterated as the masculine name Elias. This distinction however, was not noted in the no-photocopy article used by the submitter (“Common Names of the Aristocracy in the Roman Empire During the 6th and 7th Centuries” by Bardas Xiphias), thus we are giving the submitter the benefit of the doubt, and registering this as if it were a masculine name.

Hilde Immler. Name.

Jarmarr gullbra. Name and device. Per pale gules and argent, two chevronels counterchanged.

Appearing on the Letter of Intent as Jarmarr gullbrá, the name must use or omit accents consistently. The submitter elected to drop the accent in the byname and we have therefore change the name to Jarmarr gullbra for registration.

Nice device!

Johan Sachs. Device. Vert chaussé paly azure and Or, a tortoise rampant and in chief a seax fesswise reversed Or.

Markolf Volkhart von Thüringen. Device change. Quarterly argent and gules, four crosses formy counterchanged, overall a lizard rampant vert.

The submitter’s prior device, Quarterly argent and Or, a bend gules, overall a cross formy sable, is retained as a badge.

Nordman Myshkovich. Name reconsideration from Nordman Mischkovich.

Appearing on the Letter of Intent as Mischkovich, this spelling was in error, the result of typos. The submitter intended the byname to be Myshkovich. As the submitter’s desired spelling is found in Wickenden, we are happy to grant this timely request for reconsideration and restore the name to the intended form.

Óttarr Surtsson. Badge. Per pale embattled Or and purpure, an eye vert irised purpure.

Roderick Aikyn. Name (see PENDS for device).

Roderick de Graham. Reblazon of device. Or, a bend counter-ermine between a bow with an arrow nocked and a lion gules.

Blazoned when registered in January of 2003 as Or, a bend counter-ermine between a bow nocked with an arrow and a lion rampant gules, we are correcting the blazon of the bow and arrow. As noted on the June 2024 Cover Letter, arrows are nocked, not bows. As lions are rampant by default, we have dropped the posture from the blazon.

Saito Takauji. Alternate name Matsudaira Takauji.

CALONTIR returns

Amawari Mitsumi. Name.

This name is returned as the combination of an Okinawan byname with a Japanese jitsumei cannot be documented. Commenters mentioned that during our time period, while Okinawa and Japan had contact, the Okinawan language was (and still is) a separate entity, not mutually intelligible with Japanese. If the lingual mix of Okinawan and Japanese in a single name could be documented, then this name would be registerable. However, no such documentation was provided. Thus, there are three possibilities that would aid in registering this name — document the name entirely in Okinawan, document the name entirely in Japanese, or provide documentation to support the Japanese and Okinawan lingual mix.

We thank Yamanouchi Eidou for their detailed discussion about the difference between Japanese and Okinawan.

The submitter’s device is registered under the holding name Deanna of Cúm an Iolair.

Amma H{o,}ldr. Device. Sable, a phoenix facing sinister between in fess a sword and an open book Or.

This device is returned for conflict with the device of Sean Michael MacIntyre, Sable, a phoenix Or issuant from flames proper between a pair of flaunches rayonny Or. There is a DC for changing the type of the secondary charge group. There is not a DC for changing half the tincture of the flames, which are themselves half the charge, nor for changing the direction the head of the phoenix is facing.

Calvius Atrox. Device. Vert, a dog rampant contourny Or.

This device is returned for conflict with the device of Wahriia of Saint Christina the Astonishing, Vert, a thylacine rampant to sinister Or marked sable. When registering Wahriia’s device in June of 2024 we noted: “Though not canines, [thylacines] are considered as such for the purposes of conflict”, so there is no heraldic difference between the two devices.

CALONTIR pends

Azalais des Montagnes. Device. Per chevron sable and vert, a chevron argent between a sun in splendor and a harp Or.

This device is pended to redraw it with a higher line of division and a thicker chevron. As submitted it more resembles a point pointed fimbriated than a divided field with a chevron.

This was item 5 on the Calontir letter of September 3, 2024.

Roderick Aikyn. Device. Per bend Or and azure, an eagle rising gules and an F-clef Or.

This device is pended to redraw the stems of the F-clef. As submitted they are nearly invisible, rendering the charge unidentifiable.

The F-clef used in this armory is a period form, used most prominently in works printed by Ottaviano Petrucci in the early 16th century such as “Frottole libro secondo”, 1504, https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Frottole_Libro/SuYfLROpe6MC.

This was item 16 on the Calontir letter of September 3, 2024.

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

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

CALONTIR acceptances

Ægileif Gunnólfsdóttir. Name and device. Per pale vert and Or, two hens statant counter-statant azure.

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

Ailbhe ingen Dalláin. Name.

Nice 11th century Irish Gaelic name!

Bróðir Bragason. Name and device. Per bend sinister vert and azure, a lyre Or.

The question was raised during commentary regarding whether this name was a claim to powers with the byname being a reference to the semi-divine figure Bragi skald hinn gamli Boddason. We uphold the precedent of June 2018 which states that at least three human historical figures have used the given name Bragi, and thus this name is not a claim to powers under SENA PN4C.

Cúanu mac Tairdelbaig. Name and device. Argent, a bat-winged frog sejant vert, on a chief azure three mushrooms argent.

Estrella del Valle. Name and device. Per chevron inverted purpure and vert, in chief a mullet Or.

This device does not conflict with the badge of Thorvald Rodericksson, (Fieldless) A mullet of eight points concave voided and interlaced Or. There is a DC for adding a field, and a DC for removing the voiding and interlacing.

We direct Palimpsest to update SENA Appendix M1g to note that there is a DC between a mullet (of any number of points) and a mullet (of any number of points) voided and interlaced.

Foteine Yfantissa. Device. Per bend enarched Or and paly sable and Or, a bend enarched and in sinister chief a lowercase letter lambda sable.

Artist’s note: please draw fewer and wider traits in the paly section of the field.

Gaston de Rohan. Name.

Nice 15th century French name!

Iacob Geck. Name.

Judith Armstrong. Name change from Judith Warrenne.

Nice 16th century English name!

The submitter’s prior name, Judith Warrenne, is retained as an alternate.

Liriel Correll of Tuatha Keep. Reblazon of badge. (Fieldless) On a step-cut gemstone vert, a ginkgo leaf Or.

Blazoned when registered in December of 1990 as (Fieldless) On a step-cut gemstone vert, a ginko leaf Or, we are reblazoning to use the more common spelling of ginkgo.

Lukas Brierley. Alternate name Lukas the Tailor.

Nice name for English from the late 12th through late 14th centuries!

Milka Barabanshchikova. Name.

Submitted as Milka Barabanshchikov_, we have changed this to Milka Barabanshchikova per the submitter’s wish for a feminine name. Additionally, the Slavic languages tend to be gendered, and require gender agreement across a name. See the Cover Letter for further details.

Orlando Dangerus. Name.

Reese Bacon. Name.

Nice English name from the 1580s!

Sven Fálkason. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Takeda Kiyoteru. Name and device. Purpure, four dice bendwise in cross within an annulet Or.

Thorin of Kvalsund. Reblazon of device. Sable, two narwhals counter-naiant naiant embowed in annulo and on a chief argent three ravens sable.

Blazoned when registered in December of 1994 as Sable, two narwhals naiant in annulo and on a chief argent three ravens sable, we are clarifying the orientation and arrangement of the narwhals.

Þorkatla in skygna. Device. Argent, in pale three bluebell flowers one and two azure and a mountain of three peaks sable.

CALONTIR returns

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

This device is returned due to the lack of identifiability of the breast. In the defining registration of the human breast, it was ruled:

A human breast is an allowed charge that has one clear difference (CD) from a roundel. It must have gouttes, and the gouttes must be visible. This means that they need some contrast with the breast but need not have good contrast. [Tetchubah of Greenlake, 01/2008, R-Caid]

This precedent was partially overturned in the April 2021 acceptance of the device of Helayne Sesardo da Venezia, removing the requirement that the gouttes have some contrast with the breast. However, the requirement that the gouttes be visible still stands. As the gouttes in this depiction are argent, and lie nearly entirely on an argent section of the field, they are not visible.

We would pend this to redraw the gouttes entirely on the breast, but examination of the two known period examples of this charge show that in both cases the gouttes are drawn to lie on the background, not the breast, and we will not redraw an element deliberately in a non-period style.

To summarize: the gouttes distilled from human breasts should lie mainly on the background, and require some contrast with that background but not with the breast itself.

Rolanda de Lyndhurst. Device change. Vert, a goose volant contourny maintaining a quill of yarn argent threaded purpure.

This device is returned for violation of SENA A3B4a: “Charges must have good contrast with the background on which they are placed”. Full quills of yarn take their tincture from the thread, so the quill in this submission is considered purpure, which has poor contrast against the vert field.

On resubmission the quill should be drawn larger to improve identifiability.

Sven Fálkason. Device. Per chevron throughout vert and argent, a four-panel Norse cap vert.

This device is returned for conflict with the badge of the West Kingdom’s Falconer’s Guild, (Fieldless) A falcon’s hood vert. An examination of the emblazons shows the only obvious difference between the hat in the submitted armory and the hood in the West’s badge is a plume atop the falcon’s hood. As the plume is not a requirement for a falcon’s hood, and doesn’t appear in many falcon’s hoods found in period armory, this is not enough of a difference to be worth a DC, leaving only a single DC for adding a field.

This device is also returned for lack of documentation for the four-panel Norse cap. Submitters and consulting heralds are reminded that charges that have not been registered before (and charges that have not been registered in a decade or more) should be documented as part of the submission.

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

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

CALONTIR acceptances

Anne Renarde. Device. Azure, a sun in splendor per pale Or and argent between three mullets Or.

Antonio Arias de Valencia. Name and device. Or, on a pile indented sable between in base two lions sejant respectant gules an estoile argent.

Nice late 15th century Spanish name!

There is a step from core practice for piles which extend between 75% and 85% the length of the shield. We direct Palimpsest to add this to SENA Appendix G2.

Cecilia Lovelace. Name.

Nice 14th century English name!

Debora de ffrogenhole. Name (see PENDS for device).

Submitted as Debora de Ffrogenhole, we have changed this to Debora de ffrogenhole, with the submitter’s permission, for registration. Per https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2020/01/two-fs-a-capital-idea/ certain medieval English legal hands (i.e., semi-standard forms of writing) did not use the capital ‘F’ as part of their script. In these hands, the initial ‘f’ was doubled to represent the capital ‘F’. Thus, the byname here can be written as either de Frogenhole or as de ffrogenhole, as a simple matter of orthography. The submitter expressed a preference for the double-f form which is what we have registered here.

Going forward, we will register either the double lowercase-f version of such names or the single, uppercase-f version of those same names, as these are functionally the same name. We will not, however, register versions with the Ff form, as functionally that would translate to fff using those scripts.

Decimus Hostilius Agathon. Name and device. Per bend sinister vert and Or, a sun Or and a crocodile rampant vert maintaining a spear proper steeled argent.

The submitter requested authenticity for 3rd century Roman. Unfortunately, as the Ancient Western Roman civilization spanned from 753 BCE to 476 CE, we do not know which 3rd century this authenticity request refers to. As naming practices changed significantly between the 3rd century BCE and the 3rd century CE, we cannot say whether this name meets the submitter’s authenticity request.

Elizabeth Daundelyon. Device. Per chevron gules and azure, in base a dandelion in profile slipped and leaved Or.

This device does not presume upon the mon of the Emperor of Japan: (Tinctureless) A sixteen-petalled chrysanthemum. There is a DC for adding the field, and a DC between a multi-petaled flower affronty and one in profile.

Nice cant!

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

Ignatius Rufus. Name and device. Or, a cockatrice wings displayed and an orle embattled grady on the outer edge sable.

Commenters questioned whether we allow orles with complex lines, particularly with the complex line on only one edge. There are precedents disallowing certain complex lines on orles – bottony/trefly in the case of Katerina Saunfayle in January 2015 and issuing acorns leaved in the case of Margaret Hepburn of Ardrossan – but in both of those decisions the issue appears to be the lack of documentation for the complex line itself, rather than its use specifically on an orle. John Guillim, in his 1611 A Display of Heraldrie, cites examples of both an orle engrailed and an orle engrailed on its inner edge. We see no reason a complex line could not be applied to the outer edge instead, so will allow orles with complex line on either or both edges, provided identifiability is maintained.

Iuliana Brewhous. Name and device. Vert, a barrel palewise and on a chief enarched Or a bearded axe fesswise reversed blade to base purpure.

Jehanne Bening. Name change from Siobhán le Blake.

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

The submitter’s prior name, Siobhán le Blake, is retained as an alternate.

Johan Sachs. Name.

Johanne of Fisher Gate. Badge. Gules, in bend three Bourchier knots bendwise sinister Or.

Nice badge!

Kjaran Hr{oe}reksson. Name change from Cearan Mac Brendan (see RETURNS for badge).

The submitter’s prior name, Cearan Mac Brendan, is retained as an alternate.

Solveig Briansdottir. Name.

This name is clear both visually and aurally of the registered name Sólveig Brúnsdóttir, registered in August 2018. The change of Brúnsdóttir to Briansdóttir introduces a change in two letters and the addition of a syllable in the byname, thus clearing this name of conflict under PN3C2 and 4.

CALONTIR returns

Kjaran Hr{oe}reksson. Badge. (Fieldless) A tricorporate wolf argent, each body maintaining an ax proper, within and conjoined to three lightning bolts in annulo azure.

This badge is returned for using three charges in an in annulo arrangement. Per the August 2019 Cover Letter:
Likewise, three charges cannot be arranged “in annulo” as their placement can be more accurately described as “one and two” or the default for three charges, “two and one.”

Though these lightning bolts are arranged two and one, there is no way to blazon their orientations, or the fact that they are bent into circular arcs, without blazoning them as in annulo.

There is a step from core practice for the use of lightning bolts outside of a thunderbolt.

CALONTIR pends

Debora de ffrogenhole. Device. Per bend sinister wavy azure and Or, a sun Or and a frog sejant vert.

This device is pended to redraw the frog. As submitted, the frog appears to be missing its front legs.

This was item 4 on the Calontir letter of July 5, 2024.

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.