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

Greetings, Calontir!

The May Letter of Acceptances and Returns was published on Sunday, July 7th.  Here are the results for Calontir.  Most of these submissions were the result of the Krist Kinder consultation table.

CALONTIR acceptances

Alcione de Louens. Name and device. Per chevron throughout purpure and azure, two plates and a seahorse argent.

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

The submitter has permission to conflict with the device of Úlfkell Hrafnhauss, Per chevron purpure and azure, two plates and a vulture displayed argent.

Andreas Seljukroctonis. Heraldic title Argyroglossa Herald.

Submitted as Argyraglossa Herald, this title is not constructed correctly. The substantive element Argyraglossa was intended to be ancient Greek for ‘silver tongue’. However, the Greek construction is not correct. Ancient Greek uses a standard compounding form to construct compounds using the word ‘silver’, Argyro-, which does not change gender to match whatever noun or adjective it is modifying. Therefore, even though the noun for tongue, glossa, is feminine, the compounding form ‘silver’ does not change gender to match it. This results in the compound word argyroglossa ‘silver tongue’. As changing a vowel is the smallest change we can make to register this name, we have done so.

Berakha bat Mira v’Shlomo. Badge. (Fieldless) On a pomegranate gules a crescent pendant argent.

The pomegranate in this badge has no visible seeding. This is a rare variation found in period armory.

Brynki Fálkason. Name change from Brynjólfr Fálkason.

The name element Fálkason is already registered to the submitter and used here via the Existing Registration Allowance.

The submitter’s prior name, Brynjólfr Fálkason, is retained as an alternate.

Cadfael Shotwell. Name and device. Or, a fountain between in cross four holly leaves, stems to center, fructed proper.

Shotwell is the submitter’s legal surname; however, they need not rely on the legal name allowance. Shotwell is a plausible Middle English constructed byname based on the family name Shot and the toponym -well.

Caspar von Görlitz. Name.

Nice 15th century German name!

Develin Ó Sirideáin. Device. Per bend sinister vert and gules, a triskelion of spirals and a lion Or.

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

Dmitrii Zinonovich. Device. Argent, a double-headed eagle sable maintaining a warhammer fesswise within a bordure azure.

Dýrfinna Tonnudóttir. Reblazon of badge. (Fieldless) On a flame purpure an ananas argent.

Blazoned when registered in August of 2023 as (Fieldless) On a flame purpure a New World pineapple argent, we are removing the term New World from our blazons. Ananas is a widely used term globally for what we today call a pineapple. See the Cover Letter for details.

Eleanor Deyeson. Badge. Argent, in pale three escallops between flaunches azure.

This badge does not conflict with the device of Johannes Piper, Argent, three seeblätter in pale between flaunches azure. There is an SC between seeblätter and escallops.

Elisabetta da Bolzano. Name and device. Vert, an increscent and on a bordure Or three ivy leaves vert.

Submitted as Elisabetta of Three Rivers, the submitter requested a byname meaning “of Three Rivers” in Italian, or a city known to be on three rivers in a compatible regional naming group with Italian. The city of Bolzano meets this criteria, as it is located at the confluence of the Torrente-Talfer, Isarco-Eisack, and Adige rivers. Heralds at the Pelican meeting found evidence of this city during our period in Vita del B. Henrico de Bolzano, a book published in 1600 (https://books.google.com/books?id=n0s8AAAAcAAJ). SENA Appendix A says that locative bynames in Italian can be formed with the articles da, de and di. The submitter expressed a preference for da Bolzano. We are happy to make this change for registration.

Gabrielle des Chats Noirs. Device. Or, on a bend sinister azure between two natural panthers passant respectant sable three annulets argent.

Nice cant!

Gamla-Nereiðr. Name and device. Or, a ladybug bendwise and in canton a violet purpure seeded Or.

Hirsch Ross Eichmann. Augmentation of arms. 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.

Hrafnhildr ingean Cormaic. Name.

This name combines an Old West Norse given name from Iceland with an Irish Gaelic byname, an acceptable lingual mix per SENA Appendix C.

Hrafnhildr ingean Cormaic. Household name Strays House.

Hrafnkell Festargarmr. Name and device. Per fess sable and gules, a raven volant to sinister wings addorsed and a wolf passant argent.

Nice 11th century Icelandic name!

Isibel Helsingr. Device. Argent, a winged unicorn rampant contourny sable crined and armed gules, in canton a decrescent azure.

Jamette de la Roche. Name.

Joachim Courtenay der Marxbruder. Device. Per fess indented gules and lozengy sable and argent, a sword fesswise argent and a bull rampant gules.

Artist’s note: Please draw the lozengy with fewer repeats. Most period depictions of lozengy had somewhere between 3 and 6 repeats across the width of the shield.

Juan Pablo Villalobos. Name change from Jean Pierre d’Armand and device. Gules, a wolf passant and on a chief argent two pairs of rapiers in saltire sable.

Nice 16th century Spanish name!

The submitter’s prior name, Jean Pierre d’Armand, is released.

Nice cant!

Lugaid mac Erca. Device. Per chevron azure and argent, a mullet of eight points and a coracle counterchanged.

Magdalena vander Meere. Augmentation of arms. Argent, a mermaid, in her vanity and sinister facing, on a chief gules, three escallops argent, and for augmentation balanced on the mermaid’s tail a golpe charged with a cross of Calatrava Or.

Nadyha Helming. Badge. Sable, in pale a rainbow proper and a cock Or, on a chief argent in fess four cucumbers palewise vert.

This badge has a complexity of nine, which is allowed for designs that include rainbows.

Nesscia inghean Chearnaigh. Heraldic will.

Upon the submitter’s death, all names and/or armory registered to them are to be released.

Nordman Mischkovich. Name and device. Purpure, a phoenix and on a chief raguly argent three nails gules.

Submitted as Norðmaðr Mischkovich, this name is in violation of SENA PN1B1 which says in part, “A registerable name phrase must follow the rules of grammar and structure for a single time and place.” As submitted, the Danish given name (dated to 1065-1075) and the Russian byname (dated to 1552) are roughly 490 years apart. Elements in a name that is a mix between compatible regional naming groups must be dated no more than 300 years apart. ffride Morelle found evidence of the Danish byname Nordmanson dated to 1422, giving us the expected given name Nordman in a time and place compatible with the byname Mischkovich. We have therefore made this change for registration.

The submitter requested authenticity for 6th century Rus-Byzantine. This name does not meet that request. It combines a 15th century Danish given name with a 16th century Russian byname. While this lingual mix is registerable per SENA Appendix C, such names are not considered authentic.

Olivera Woll. Name.

Riberlin Halderman. Name and device. Per bend Or and purpure, a lady’s slipper orchid counterchanged.

Sancha Lestrange. Badge. (Fieldless) A rat sejant erect reguardant vert ermined Or sustaining a wand sable.

Submitted as simply a staff, the maintained charge is not our default staff, which is a simple, smooth pole, but rather has a rough, natural outline (though not rough enough to be considered a ragged staff). We have instead blazoned this as a wand, which implies a more natural-looking stick.

Valeriano di Rossi. Badge. (Fieldless) A chevron inverted couped gules, overall an hourglass Or.

Submitted as an hourglass Or, sanded sable, the tincture, and even the presence, of sand in an hourglass is an unblazoned artistic detail.

Zilia Silvani. Name and device. Gules, in bend a rose slipped and leaved inverted argent seeded Or and a frauenadler close contourny reguardant argent armed and crined Or.

Zoran Dvorak. Name change from April Dvorak.

The name element Dvorak is currently registered to the submitter and used here under the Existing Registration Allowance.

The submitter’s prior name, April Dvorak, is released.

CALONTIR returns

Ása lúfa. Badge. (Fieldless) A pair of smith’s tongs sable surmounting in chief a flame proper.

This badge is returned for an undocumented style of enflaming. Precedent says:

Heraldic enflaming generally surrounds the enflamed charge with small tongues of flame issuant from the charge’s entire perimeter. In this submission, the depiction of the “enflam[ing] to chief” effectively fimbriates the top half of the wheel with flame, rather than issuing small tongues of flame from the top portion of the wheel. Such fimbriation of flame is not registerable: “The flames here act only as a very complex fimbriation, which has been previously disallowed” (LoAR of May 1995, p. 14). [Shih Tan Po, 01/2004, R-Middle]

Similarly, the tongs in this submission are not enflamed, but rather the top portion (everything above the pivot) is effectively surrounded by, or lying on, a single flame.

This badge is also returned for enflaming only part of a charge. The same precedent continues:

In this submission, only part of the wheel is enflamed, not the entire wheel. Usually, an entire charge must be enflamed, although at times the SCA has allowed a clearly separable portion of a charge to be enflamed (such as enflaming only the blade of a sword). It was the opinion of the College that it is not appropriate to only enflame the top of a wheel. Thus, even if the enflaming were redrawn so that it did not appear to be fimbriation of flame, this submission has a stylistic problem. Without supporting documentation, this motif may not be registered.

The top section of a pair of smith’s tongs is not ‘a clearly separable portion’ of the tongs.

Tongs, pincers, and pliers are palewise handles to base and closed by default.

Eleanor Deyeson. Badge. (Fieldless) A dove volant bendwise Or, tailfeathers enflamed proper.

This badge is returned for an undocumented style of enflaming. Precedent says:

In this submission, only part of the wheel is enflamed, not the entire wheel. Usually, an entire charge must be enflamed, although at times the SCA has allowed a clearly separable portion of a charge to be enflamed (such as enflaming only the blade of a sword). It was the opinion of the College that it is not appropriate to only enflame the top of a wheel. Thus, even if the enflaming were redrawn so that it did not appear to be fimbriation of flame, this submission has a stylistic problem. Without supporting documentation, this motif may not be registered. [Shih Tan Po, 01/2004, R-Middle]

We do not consider a bird’s tail to be a “clearly separable portion” for the purposes of this precedent, and, absent period examples, we will not register animate charges with only a single limb or extremity enflamed.

This badge is also returned for conflict with the device of Marina Teresa Caminante, Gules, a swallow volant bendwise Or. In the acceptance of the badge of Caitríona le Fox on the January 2024 LoAR, we established a two-part test to determine if flames are worth difference: they should be large enough to count as secondary charges, and their arrangement should be able to be explicitly blazoned. As the exact arrangement and orientation of the flames here can’t be unambiguously blazoned, they are not worth difference, leaving only a single DC for fieldlessness against Marina’s device.

Gyða glóra. Badge. (Fieldless) A tufted titmouse azure, face and breast argent.

This badge is returned for conflict with the badge of Merlyn Elzebeth von Preßela, (Fieldless) A merlin azure and with the device of Reginleif Ragnarsdottir, Or chape gules, a raven azure. The bird in this submission is azure with argent markings, giving no difference for tincture. This bird, the merlin, and the raven are all regular-shaped birds. Birds within a single category may be considered to have a DC between them if they were different in period armory; no evidence was presented that a tufted titmouse was known in period armory. Barring that, there would need to be significant visual difference between the birds; commenters agreed that the tuft on the head is not significant enough to be worth difference. This leaves only a single DC for fieldlessness against both of these pieces of armory.

This badge does not conflict with the badge of Lyrel-Phillipa of Eden’s Hall, Azure, a martlet voided argent. As noted in the February 2023 acceptance of the badge of Sefa Randsdóttir, “For conflict purposes the mar[t]let [in Lyrel-Phillipa’s badge] is azure”, so we are comparing two azure regular-shaped birds. On the July 2020 acceptance of the device of Vrsula Fey, Wreath partially overturned an older precedent and granted a DC between martlets close and ravens close. Due to a lack of evidence that martlets were ever used interchangeably with other birds in period armory, we extend this precedent to granting a DC between martlets close and all other regular-shaped (and non-martletted) birds close.

If registered, this would have been the defining instance of the tufted titmouse in Society armory. This bird’s year-round range covers the entire eastern half of the United States, so it existed in the same areas and times as humans and is therefore registerable.

Jane Fox of Foxhall. Badge. Sable, a fox rampant contourny maintaining a cloud argent.

This badge is returned for conflict with the device of Dorcas Dorcadas, Sable, a three-headed hound rampant contourny, one head reguardant, argent. There is a DC for adding the maintained cloud, but no difference for the number of heads.

The submitted blazon was issuant from its mouth a cloud. In the submitted emblazon, the cloud appears to be held in a forepaw next to the mouth, rather than issuing from the mouth. If this is redesigned and resubmitted, the question of whether clouds or other things issuing from the mouth of a beast or monster would be worth difference should be addressed.

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

This device is returned for multiple reasons. First, it is returned for violation of SENA A3b3b, which states: “Elements divided per pall or per pall inverted must have one part that has good contrast with the other two parts. No two parts may share a background tincture, but a part may share a tincture with another part which is multiply divided as long as identifiability is maintained.” The katabami is divided into three parts, two of which are Or.

Had this been registered, it would have been the defining instance of a katabami, a stylized wood sorrel leaf found in Japanese kamon. Despite being a leaf, this charge is treated as a few-petaled flower affronty for the purposes of conflict due to its stylization.

Under that interpretation, this device conflicts with the device of Cealmhain Realt Dubh, Tierced per pall argent, sable and gules, in chief rose branch fesswise, flowered of a single rose, slipped and leaved sable. There is no difference for changing the tincture of one third of the field. Examination of Cealmhain’s blazon shows the charge in chief to be effectively a rose slipped and leaved. The katabami is equivalent to a few-petaled flower affronty, which gets no difference from a rose. There is no difference for the placement of Cealmhain’s rose in chief, as this is forced by the tinctures of the field. This leaves only a single DC for the change in tincture of the primary charge.

This device is also returned for conflict with the Kingdom of Caid’s badge for Legion of Courtesy, (Fieldless) A rose Or barbed and seeded vert, and with the badge of Ragna Dzintara of Amberhall, (Fieldless) A rue flower Or slipped and leaved vert [Ruta graeveolens]. The katabami is over half Or, so there is a single DC against both of these pieces of armory for adding a field.

This device does not conflict with the badge of Dananir bint Zang al Tabib, (Fieldless) A tiger lily affronty proper. There is a DC for adding a field, and a DC for the tincture of the primary charge – Dananir’s lily is effectively gules, which we request Morsulus to note in the O&A. Palimpsest is directed to note that tiger lilies proper conflict with gules in Table 4 of the Glossary of Terms.

Lugaid Mac Scannlán. Name change from Lugaid mac Erca.

The submitter has withdrawn this name change.

Saito Takauji. Badge. Sable, a bend erminois between two coronets Or pearled argent.

This badge is returned for the use of a charge, the coronet, which is reserved for Royal Peers and the Court Baronage. Precedent says:

Just as a sitting king/queen/prince/princess cannot put a coronet on their arms until after they have attained the rank of count/ess or viscount/ess, since, while it is rare, there have been cases of royalty who have not completed their reign, neither can a territorial baron/ess, unless they are already a court baron/ess, use a coronet, since they have not attained a permament barional rank.” [Tsivia bas Tamara of Amberview, 05/1999, A-Middle]

The submitter is currently a landed Baron, and kingdom argued that, as Calontir Kingdom Law stipulates that landed Barons are made Barons of the Court upon stepping down, the submitter should be allowed to register this charge. In the interests of fairness, we will not make an exception to Society-wide rules based on individual kingdoms’ laws, and we uphold the 1999 precedent. The submitter is welcome to resubmit this badge once they are entitled to use a coronet.

CALONTIR pends

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

This badge is pended to redraw the sun in a period style. As submitted, the sun more closely resembles a roundel engrailed, which is not a registerable charge.