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.

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.