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

The March 2026 Letter of Acceptances and Returns has been published. Here are the results for Calontir.

CALONTIR acceptances

Brighid ingen Donngaile. Badge. Or, a pink flamingo proper.

Dorcas Whitecap. Badge. Per chevron gules and sable, a tree stump snagged Or.

Dragoncina di Cecco. Device. Gules, on a chevron between three goose’s feet inverted argent two stalks of wheat gules.

Elspeth Modlen ferch Dafydd. Device change. Per bend sinister gules and azure, three spoons hanging from a bar couped Or.

This ‘hanging spoons’ motif is found in the St. Gallen Armorial, p323 https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/csg/1084/323. We will consider the bar to be a secondary charge conjoined to the primary spoons.

The submitter’s prior device, Or, a torteau charged with a sea-horse erect Or, in base a ford proper, is released.

Katherine Renée la Cousturière. Name and device. Per bend sinister argent and purpure, a domestic cat sejant guardant sable and two threaded needles in saltire argent.

Natasha Aldredesdohtor. Name and device. Papellony sable and Or, a bend purpure, overall a unicorn passant contourny argent.

Submitted as Natasha Aldredsdohtor, the patronymic byname was not correctly formed. Old English given names ending in red form the genitive by adding es to the end, not simply s. We have therefore changed this to Natasha Aldredesdohtor for registration.

Natasha is the submitter’s legal given name.

Nikita Pavlovich. Device. Per fess sable and azure, a sun argent eclipsed sable and a bear rampant argent.

Olivera Woll. Device. Argent, an olive tree and on a chief embattled vert three open books argent.

Nice cant!

Rónán mac Diarmata. Name and device. Sable, a rainbow bendwise throughout proper, in sinister chief a sea-lion argent.

Nice Middle Irish Gaelic name!

CALONTIR returns
None.

CALONTIR pends

Devis in le Breres. Device. Per pale vert and sable, three lozenges conjoined in pale between two sprigs of blackberry, a bordure argent.

This device is pended to redraw the lozenges larger so that they are clearly the primary charges. Lozenges conjoined in pale are equivalent to a pale fusily and thus must be the primary charge in this design. The sprigs and bordure may be drawn smaller to accomplish this aim.

Nice cant!

This was item 2 on the Calontir letter of December 4, 2025.

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

The February 2026 Letter of Acceptances and Returns has been published. Here are the results for Calontir.

CALONTIR acceptances

Danik Guskin. Name and device. Per fess azure and vert, a goose reguardant argent.

Nice cant on Gus, Russian for goose!

Fulk de Barenton. Name (see RETURNS for device).

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

Ívarr inn rauði. Badge. (Fieldless) A valknut purpure.

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

Johanna Tehrani. Name change from Giovanna Canzoniere da Firenze.

Submitted as Johanna al Tehrani, this Persian name was not formed correctly. Tehrani is a locative both in Persian and Arabic. For a Persian byname derived from this element, we need to omit the Arablic definite article al (‘the’). For Arabic we need to feminize the byname al-Tehrani to al-Tehraniyya. Therefore, with the submitter’s permission, we have changed this to the Persian byname Johanna __ Tehrani. Arabic Bible translations gloss the Hebrew given name, Johanna as Yuwanna. If the submitter is interested in the fully Arabic form of the name Yuwanna al-Terhaniyya, they may submit a request for reconsideration.

Johanna is the submitter’s legal given name.

The submitter’s prior name, Giovanna Canzoniere da Firenze, is retained as an alternate.

Kassiani Zaridina. Device. Vert, a sea-horse contourny Or tailed argent.

Ketill Emerickson. Name change from Ketill Steinarsson.

Submitted using the Existing Registration Allowance for the given name, the submitter need not rely on that, as Ketill can be dated to 1338 Norway.

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

The submitter’s prior name, Ketill Steinarsson, is released.

Kunigund von Lichtenstein. Name and device. Pean, on a pile throughout argent a tyger rampant purpure.

Magge Magnus. Augmentation of arms. Purpure, on a bend between two hummingbirds hovering argent three butterflies bendwise sinister purpure and for augmentation the center butterfly replaced with a fireball palewise proper.

Meriilda of Yorkshire. Alternate name Ulpia Martialis Secunda.

Nathaniel Lennox. Badge. Vert platy, a beaker and on a chief Or three lemons vert.

Nikolai Gornostai Spiach’ev. Badge. (Fieldless) A sea-dodo azure tailed vert.

As this is the first submission of a dodo in over thirty years we take this opportunity to redocument the charge. The dodo is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius. The birds were described by Portuguese sailors in 1507 and were extinct by 1681.

Usuki Atsutada. Name.

CALONTIR returns

Fulk de Barenton. Device. Argent, an icosahedral die vert.

This device is returned for conflict with the badge of the Principality of Nordmark, (Fieldless) A hexagonal gemstone vert. There is a DC for fieldlessness, but both charges are essentially diapered hexagons, without sufficient visual difference between them for a DC.

We direct Morsulus to cross reference these charges with each other in the O and A.

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

The January 2026 Letter of Acceptances and Returns has been published. Here are the results for Calontir.

CALONTIR acceptances

Aleit de la Thomme. Device change. Vert, a lion dormant to sinister crowned of a pearled coronet and a chief enarched argent.

The submitter has been granted a court barony and is thus entitled to display a coronet.

Use of the disallowed dormant posture is permitted for this submitter under the Existing Registration Allowance.

The submitter’s prior device, Vert, a lion dormant to sinister and a chief enarched argent, is retained as a badge.

Aleit de la Thomme. Badge. (Fieldless) A tau cross vert estencely argent.

Aleit de la Thomme. Badge. Vert estencely, a tau cross argent.

Baldric Zenck. Name.

Cain Belmont. Device. Gyronny of six sable and Or, a skeletal hand argent couped at the wrist irradiated vert.

Since it is skeletal, the charge depicted is not the restricted Hand of Glory.

Caoilfhionn of Oak Heart. Name and device. Sable, a four-lobed quadrate cornice and on a chief Or a domestic cat couchant guardant sable.

Oak Heart is the registered name of an SCA branch.

Caoilfhionn of Oak Heart. Badge. (Fieldless) A domestic cat couchant guardant within and conjoined to a four-lobed quadrate cornice sable.

Edric Grenewode. Device. Per bend sinister vert and argent, a badger rampant sable marked argent.

John Everingham. Name and device. Or, a bordure vert semy of martlets Or.

Nice name for 1576 England!

Nice device!

John Kildare of Mag Mor. Name.

Mag Mor is the registered name of an SCA branch.

John Kildare is the submitter’s legal name.

Karl Torgrimsson. Name change from Charles von Strausberg.

The submitter’s prior name, Charles von Strausberg, is retained as an alternate.

Mekety Nakhthor. Badge. (Fieldless) An Eye of Horus argent.

Despite being a hieroglyph, this armory does not violate SENA GP2A, which prohibits armory consisting solely of abstract symbols, as we treat an Eye of Horus as an eye rather than as an abstract symbol for purposes of style [Ja’far al-Asad, 06/2024, A-Trimaris]. Symbols will not be considered to violate this restriction where they are determined to be more easily interpreted by the layperson as representations of non-abstract charges than as writing.

An Eye of Horus is disjoint by definition, and may be used in fieldless designs.

Solveig Briansdottir. Device. Per bend sinister Or and argent, a crocus purpure slipped and leaved vert and a maple leaf gules.

Vintila Viteazul. Name.

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

The December 2025 Letter of Acceptances and Returns has been published. Here are the results for Calontir.

CALONTIR acceptances

Attikos Drakontos. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Submitted as Atticus Drakontos, commenters raised the issue of presumption with the well-known Athenian lawmaker Drako of Athens, who codified Athens’ first legal code. Atticus is listed in the LGPN as both a given name and as a locative byname meaning of Athens. The patronymic byname, Drakontos, means son of Drako. Therefore, as this name is saying that Attikos is Drako’s son, and not that this person is Drako of Athens, this name is clear of presumption. Additionally, commenters were able to document the entirely Greek rendition of the given name — Attikos, versus the Latinized form, Atticus, that was submitted. Therefore, with the submitter’s permission, we have made this change for registration.

Brigida von München. Heraldic title Monkshood Herald.

Devis in le Breres. Name.

Ealasaid Eliot. Name.

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

Eawynn ben Broccáin. Name change from Eawynn ingen Broccáin.

Submitted as Eawynn bean Broccáin, the relationship marker bean comes from Middle and Late Irish, while the given name spelling Broccáin is an Old Irish spelling. As each name phrase must be in a single language, we have changed this to the Old Irish spelling ben for registration.

The submitter’s prior name, Eawynn ingen Broccáin, is released.

Helias Basilou. Badge. (Fieldless) On a sun purpure the minuscule Greek letter eta Or.

Helmut der Adler. Badge. (Fieldless) An eagle maintaining in its feet a glaive purpure.

Nice cant!

I’na Yukime. Blanket permission to conflict with name.

The submitter grants permission to conflict with any name that is not identical to their registered name.

I’na Yukime. Blanket permission to conflict with device. Per pale Or and purpure, within a torii gate in saltire two artist’s paintbrushes inverted counterchanged.

The submitter grants permission to conflict for all armory which is not identical to their device.

Jakob Knüttler. Name and device. Per bend sinister raguly azure and argent, a club argent and a mastiff sejant sable.

Nice 14th century German name!

Jóhann Steinarsson. Badge. Vert, a fess compony sable and argent between a foot couped argent and a mullet Or.

This was submitted as a badge for Walker Herald. Precedent says:

“Submitted as a badge for Mistle Thrush Herald, we can’t associate a badge with a heraldic title. Submitters are not allowed to register armory for officers that fall under the auspices of Society-level officers that have registered badges. As the College of Arms has a badge for heralds, Vert, two straight trumpets in saltire, bells to chief Or, badges for subsidiary offices, including Heralds Extraordinary, may not be registered. The sole exception to this rule is for tinctureless seals for principal heralds of kingdoms, under SENA A3A2. [Dorcas Whitecap, 08/2025, R-Calontir]”

Therefore, we are unable to make this association.

The default foot is a human foot, which we direct Palimpsest to add to Table 8 of the Glossary of Terms.

Kolfinna Hálfgrímsdóttir. Name and device. Sable, a sun between in pale two otters courant Or.

The submitter has permission to conflict with the device of Wolfgang Grothe de Verron, Sable, a mullet of eight points between two scarpes Or.

This device does not conflict with the device of Ayloara de Meddestane, Sable, in base a sun in its splendour, flaunches Or. There is a DC for changing the type of secondary charges. There is also a DC for the placement on the field of the primary charge; in period heraldry primary charges with flaunches default to being central, so Ayloara’s sun is not forced to base.

Lyleth Whitrose. Device. Argent, a squirrel rampant maintaining a sword sable, on a chief azure three roses argent.

Nice cant!

Magdalene von Osnabrück. Name and device. Gules, a crescent pendant argent surmounted by an arrow fracted in chevron inverted Or.

Sadb ingen uí Cherbaill. Badge for Iji no Hitomi. Gules, on a hexagon argent a hanakaku gules.

This is 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, equal in width and height; as opposed to hanabishi, a similar flower that is lozenge-shaped, taller than it is wide.

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

Wilhelmus Ostfrieslandter. Name and device. Per bend argent and Or, a hedgehog rampant proper its quills impaling grapes purpure and a penguin azure bellied argent.

CALONTIR returns

Attikos Drakontos. Device. Sable, a chevron Or surmounted by a scythe blade argent.

This device is returned for conflict with the device of Ragnarr ulfheðinn, Sable, a chevron Or, overall a fleur de lys argent. There is a single DC for changing the type of the overall charge.

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

The November 2025 Letter of Acceptances and Returns has been published. Here are the results for Calontir.

CALONTIR acceptances

Antonio Arias de Valencia. Alternate name Styrbjorn Ormsson.

Arabella Isidora del Sol. Name and device. Argent, on a sun gules a phoenix Or, a bordure compony Or and azure.

Nice cant!

Balli i Ubbaholl. Name and device. Per pale Or and sable, on a bend a dragon passant counterchanged.

Balli i Ubbaholl. Badge. (Fieldless) A brown squirrel proper winged maintaining a valknut Or.

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

Deirdre inghean Cormaic. Name and device. Azure, a willow tree argent and an orle argent lozengy azure.

Edmund Parsy. Name and device. Azure, a pall argent semy of hearts palewise gules.

Gabhan mac Aedain. Reblazon of device. Per fess argent and sable, in base a wyvern erect with one foot raised, wings displayed, and tail nowed argent.

Blazoned when registered in July of 1988 as Per fess argent and sable, in base a wyvern passant, wings displayed and tail nowed erect, argent, we are clarifying the posture of the wyvern. Its body is oriented vertically so it is erect. We are also taking this opportunity to update the blazon using current, standard defaults and terminology.

Issabell Saint Charles. Device change. Or, four fleurs-de-lys in cross bases to center, in chief a coronet flory azure, a bordure azure semy-de-lys argent.

Submitted as a ducal coronet, the coronet in this submission is drawn as a coronet flory (which is not reserved for ducal rank) so we have blazoned it as such.

The submitter is a royal peer of ducal rank and thus entitled to display a coronet.

The submitter’s prior device, Azure, a bell argent, a bordure Or semy-de-lis azure, is retained as a badge.

Istvan of Mag Mor. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Mag Mor is the registered name of an SCA branch.

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

The submitter’s prior device, Or, on a fess azure cotised sable between three roses azure barbed, seeded, slipped and leaved proper three flames Or, is retained as a badge.

Jane Augusta Sinclair. Badge. Azure, an elephant rampant proper within a four-lobed quadrate cornice Or.

For conflict purposes the elephant is argent, which we ask Morsulus to note in the O&A.

Jóhann Steinarsson. Heraldic title Walker Herald.

Ketill Karlsson. Device change. Or, a wyvern erect with one leg raised contourny sable, a bordure indented gules.

This device does not conflict with the device of Vīryavān ca Tūṣṇīṃ, Or, a monster composed of the foreparts a lion and the hindquarters of a dragon sejant contourny gules winged sable, a bordure indented gules. There is a DC for changing the tincture of half the primary charge, and another for the difference between Vīryavān’s monster and a wyvern.

The submitter’s prior device, Per fess sable and Or, a roundel and a wolf rampant counterchanged, is retained as a badge.

Kolfinna Valdísardóttir. Name and device. Per pale purpure and sable, a chevron fracted Or.

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

Marcus Octavius Valentinus. Name.

Matthias Worcestershire. Badge. Azure, in fess two mascles interlaced, overall a fess Or.

Miyazaki Atsutaka. Badge for Thomas Foulmoth. Per fess vert and gules, a moth argent charged with in fess two mullets voided and interlaced sable and a cockatrice argent.

Morwenna ferch Dafydd. Reblazon of device. Argent semy of dandelions in profile Or slipped and leaved vert, a wooden A-frame plumb-line proper.

Blazoned when registered in August of 2025 as Argent semy of dandelion plants, a wooden A-frame plumb-line proper, the strewn charges are dandelions in profile slipped and leaved, not dandelion plants, which would have multiple stems and flowers.

Rayna Stensdottir. Name.

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

Ubbe Hrœreksson. Blanket permission to conflict with name.

The submitter grants blanket permission to conflict with any name that is not identical to their name.

Ubbe Hrœreksson. Blanket permission to conflict with household name Ubbah{o,}ll.

The submitter grants blanket permission to conflict with any name that is not identical to their household name.

Ubbe Hrœreksson. Blanket permission to conflict with device. Vert, in cross a plate between four wolf’s heads couped contourny argent.

The submitter grants blanket permission to conflict for any armory that is not identical to their device.

Ubbe Hrœreksson. Blanket permission to conflict with badge. Vert, in bend sinister two wolf’s heads couped contourny argent.

The submitter grants blanket permission to conflict for any armory that is not identical to their badge.

Véný Andríðardóttir. Name (see PENDS for device).

Submitted as Véný Andríðsdóttir, the patronymic byname was not correctly formed. The old Norse genitive for the masculine given name Andriðr is Andriðar. We have therefore changed this name to Véný Andríðardóttir for registration.

William of Friedrichsburg. Reblazon of device. Per fess Or and vert, two wyverns sejant respectant, each with one foot raised gules, a bordure embattled counterchanged.

Blazoned when registered in September of 1993 as Per fess Or and vert, two wyverns passant respectant gules within a bordure embattled counterchanged, we are clarifying the posture of the wyverns. Their bodies are oriented on an angle, with their weight balanced on their unraised feet and tails, so they are sejant.

CALONTIR returns

Istvan of Mag Mor. Device. Argent, on a pale azure between two roses gules a comet argent.

This device is returned for conflict with the device of Douglass Elisabeth Montgomery, Argent, on a pale azure between two roses proper, a unicorn rampant argent. There is a single DC for changing the type of tertiary charge.

CALONTIR pends

Véný Andríðsdóttir. Device. Azure, in pale a domestic cat courant and a fleur-de-lys per pale Or and argent.

This device is pended to redraw it with a larger fleur-de-lys. As submitted the fleur-de-lys is significantly smaller than the cat such that it appears to be a secondary charge.

This was item 21 on the Calontir letter of August 5, 2025.

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

The October 2025 Letter of Acceptances and Returns has been published. Here are the results for Calontir.

CALONTIR acceptances

Aia Gold-Bearer. Badge. (Fieldless) Within and conjoined to the blade of a sickle inverted Or a sprig of mistletoe vert fructed argent.

Aia Gold-Bearer. Badge. Gules, a skull per pale sable and argent, a bordure embattled argent.

Aveline de Morton. Name and device. Per pale invected vert and argent semy-de-lys vert, a weeping willow tree eradicated argent and a brown stoat rampant proper.

Artist’s note: Please draw fewer and larger fleurs-de-lys.

Cadwgan Sadilgos. Name and device. Per bend engrailed gules and sable, a goose rising wings displayed and a jester’s bauble bendwise Or.

Chiaretta da Chachavo. Device. Per bend flory counter-flory vert and Or, a rabbit rampant maintaining an artist’s paintbrush argent and a lily gules slipped and leaved vert.

Corotica of Ansteorra. Name.

Ansteorra is the registered name of an SCA branch.

Éadaoin inghean Chionaodha. Alternate name Emeludt Kühl and badge. (Fieldless) On a chemise Or a harpy vert.

As it has been over a decade since the last registration of a chemise we take this opportunity to redocument the charge. A chemise is a period charge, found in the arms of Mondunno in the 16th C Grand armorial colorié (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 5232), f. 541v.

Submitters and consulting heralds are reminded that charges that have not been registered in a decade (and charges that have never been registered before) should be documented as part of the submission.

Erik inn grái Haraldsson. Device change. Sable, a bear’s head erased argent between an increscent, a decrescent and a crescent pendant Or.

This device conflicts with the badge of Hroerekr Steinbjarnarson, Sable, a bear’s head erased argent muzzled gules crowned of a county coronet Or, with a DC for adding the crescents but no difference for removing the muzzle or crown. However, Hroerekr Steinbjarnarson has provided permission to conflict, allowing this device to be registered.

Kitsumi Hisamoto. Device. Sable, on a tortoise-shell plate sable marked, a bladed katabami Or.

This is the defining instance of a bladed katabami in Society armory. This is a period Japanese heraldic charge representing a wood sorrel leaf with blades between the lobes. A bladed katabami is considered to be equivalent to a three-petaled flower for the purposes of conflict.

Oleg Veleslavich. Device. Or, a pale azure, overall a bear’s head cabossed proper.

Sem’iyye bint Tahir al-Hindi. Alternate name Eufemia Lotharsdochter and badge. Per bend sable and argent, in bend six woodlice bendwise sinister two, two, and two counterchanged.

This is the defining instance of woodlice in Society armory. Woodlice may be a period charge; the arms of Lässe, in Wappenbuch der Arlberg-Bruderschaft, p. 751 include a charge that certainly look like woodlice. Even if they aren’t, woodlice lived in areas where humans lived in period, so are acceptable as a constructed charge under SENA A2B2b.

The arrangement of two rows of charges in bend is unusual, but is attested in the period example. Without evidence that this arrangement was considered different from it in period, it will be considered equivalent to six charges in their default arrangement on either side of a divided field. We decline to rule at this time as to the registerability of this arrangement on an undivided field.

Sven Fálkason. Device. Per chevron throughout vert and argent, a pomme.

Tatiana Nikonovna Besprozvannyja. Badge. (Fieldless) On a cushion erminois a domestic cat couchant guardant azure.

Zacharias Wolff. Device. Vert, a wolf courant Or vested of a helmet and cuirass argent and on a chief Or a torteau.

Nice cant!

There were no CALONTIR returns this month.

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

The September 2025 Letter of Acceptances and Returns has been published. Here are the results for Calontir.

CALONTIR acceptances

Bawdwyn Kaye. Alternate name Violetta Ilaria della Bianca.

Bjarki Vikarsson. Badge. (Fieldless) On a flame gules a wolf’s head cabossed argent.

Bróðir Bragason. Badge. (Fieldless) A bat-winged skull Or.

The submitter has permission to conflict with the badge of Giuseppe Francesco da Borgia, Per saltire gules and sable, a cherub Or.

Casilda de Carcassonne. Name and device. Per fess sable and argent, in saltire five roundels counterchanged.

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

Elína Jakobsdóttir. Name.

Submitted as Elina Jakobsdóttir, accents must be used consistently across a name. The given name is documented in Geirr Bassi as Elína, while the given name as submitted is Elina. After consulting with the submitter, we have changed this name to Elína Jakobsdóttir for registration.

Kolla K{o,}ttr. Name.

Marguerita of Three Rivers. Name and device. Per pale azure and vert, a gorgon’s head within a bordure argent.

Three Rivers is the registered name on an SCA branch.

Nahama Pahavesi. Name change from Adelaide Dewy.

Nahama is the submitter’s legal given name.

It should be noted that the attestation for the submitter’s legal name did not meet the requirements for attestation as outlined in AH IV.C.2. However, based on concern for keeping PII confidential, several other submissions that do not follow the exact requirement, and prior precedent, we direct Palimpsest to open a Rules Letter to modify AH IV.C.2 with updated wording that is consistent with current practice. See the Cover Letter for more information.

The submitter’s prior name, Adelaide Dewy, is released.

Nesscia inghean Chearnaigh. Alternate name Penba Nisa.

Ragnar Markusson. Name and device. Per pale and per chevron gules and argent, a raven sable.

Nice 14th century Swedish name!

Sarra the Brave. Name and device. Azure semy of sheep statant to sinister, on a chief argent a drop spindle azure.

The byname the Brave is a lingua Societatis translation of the Middle English le Belde, dated to 1317/1318.

Tanneke Groenlaken. Alternate name Heynryck Groenlaken.

Vercingetorix of the Treveri. Name.

Submitted as Vercingetorix of __ Treveri, as the Treveri were a tribe of people, rather than referring to a geographical area, the definite article should be used in constructing the ethnonymic byname, making this name Vercingetorix of the Treveri.

However, commenters raised concerns as to whether the name Vercingetorix, meaning “High Warrior King”, was a given name, a title, or an epithet used for the specific person, Vercingetorix, who led the Gaulish revolt against Rome circa 51 BCE. There is evidence to suggest that all of the name elements were used in Celtic and Gaulish personal names (https://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/personalnames/search.php?s_element=uer-, https://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/personalnames/search.php?s_element=king(et)o-, and https://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/personalnames/search.php?s_element=ri:go- ), suggesting that use of all the elements in a single name is plausible. Further, Tangwystyl’s article “A Consideration of Pictish Names” (https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/pictnames/pict2.html) argues that Vercingetorix is a reasonable Pictish name.

Academic scholarship remains divided as to whether this was an epithet or simply the chieftain’s given name. Additionally, unlike, say Boudiccia, where we have later examples of women named as such, we have no other examples of men named Vercingetorix. Whether this is due to a lack of data, or due to the name actually being an epithet, is unknown.

If this is a title or epithet, then an enthnonymic byname would be an unmistakable claim to rank. At this point in time, we are giving the submitter the benefit of the doubt, and registering this name.

However, going forward, given the singular example of the name, the name meaning “high warrior king”, the probability of appearing to claim an unearned rank is high. Therefore, we will treat this name much like the given name Regina as discussed in SENA PN4B1. That is to say we will not register Vercingetorix as a given name when combined with a locative or a ethnonymic, but will with other forms of byname. We direct Palimpsest to add a note to the standard source errata article indicating that while the name is mentioned in “A Consideration of Pictish Names”, it will be treated similarly to the given name Regina.

We thank Derelei filia Uoret for her invaluable discussion on Celtic and Gaulish onomastics.

Vladimir Karlsson. Name change from Sata Takezou.

This name combines a Russian given name with a Norse byname, an acceptable lingual mix per SENA Appendix C.

The submitter’s prior name, Sata Takezou, is retained as an alternate.

Zaneta Baseggio and Amon Attwood. Joint household name Sign of the Mug and Key.

CALONTIR returns

Vercingetorix of the Treveri. Device. Vert chaussé, a tree blasted and eradicated Or.

This device is returned for conflict with the device of Unna Rose, Vert chaussé, a tree eradicated Or its trunk transfixed by an arrow fesswise argent. There is a single DC for removing the arrow.

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

The August 2025 Letter of Acceptances and Returns has been published. Here are the results for Calontir.

CALONTIR acceptances

Avraham ben David haKuzari. Alternate name Avraham d’Ariege.

Submitted as Avraham d’Ariége, the documentation provided does not support the use of the acute accent. We have therefore changed this to the documented Avraham d’Ariege for registration.

Epikrat{e-}s Skyrios. Name change from Ulfgeirr Þórkelsson and badge. (Fieldless) A card-pique checky gules and argent.

Nice classical Greek name!

The submitter’s prior name, Ulfgeirr Þórkelsson, is retained as an alternate.

Frithuswith inghean Ui Cremthainn. Badge. Purpure, a needle bendwise inverted argent.

Gerald of Ipsley. Heraldic title Loggerhead Herald.

We could not document the term Loggerhead as a heraldic charge meaning “leopard’s face” to period. The only references we could find to this are in the modern blazon of the Arms of Shrewsbury. Fortunately, commenters were able to document the word loggerhead to period as the name of various birds and sea-creatures, any of which could be heraldic charges. Also, in these cases, loggerhead is the modern English name for these birds and sea-creatures, and can be used under the lingua Societatis allowance. Therefore, we are able to give the submitter the benefit of the doubt and register this heraldic title.

Gerald of Ipsley. Badge. (Fieldless) A wave azure.

The wave depicted in this submission is found in the period mon of Saito Dosan. As a charge clearly attested to period, the form in this submission is registerable without a step from core practice.

The semi-circular depiction of wave found in modern Japanese heraldry, which was registered to Rhys of Anglesey in March 2023 (reblazoned elsewhere on this letter), was registered as a step from core practice, since it could not be confirmed to be period. Without evidence that this style of wave is period, it will no longer be registerable.

We see no compelling reason to distinguish in blazon between Japanese waves and the western crested wave that has been unregisterable since February 1983.

Jochi Kara. Name and device. Or, a monkey’s head cabossed per pale sable and vert.

Michele dei Medici. Reblazon of device. Per pale gules and azure, on a chevron between three skimmers argent two rapiers in chevron, the dexter azure and the sinister gules.

Reblazoned in January 2019 as Per pale gules and azure, on a chevron between three ladles in profile argent two rapiers in chevron, the dexter azure and the sinister gules, we are clarifying that the secondary charges are skimmers. The skimmers are in their default orientation. See the Cover Letter for further details.

Michele dei Medici. Reblazon of badge. Per fess gules and azure, a skimmer and a rapier both fesswise reversed argent.

Blazoned when registered in January 2019 as Per fess gules and azure, a ladle in profile and a rapier both fesswise reversed argent, we are clarifying that the primary charge is a skimmer. A skimmer is in profile by default. See the Cover Letter for further detail.

Morwenna ferch Dafydd. Name change from Victoria de Reuthbenden and device. Argent semy of dandelion plants, a wooden A-frame plumb-line proper.

The submitter’s prior name, Victoria de Reuthbenden, is released.

The plumb-line in this submission resembles one found in the grey period Insignia Gentilia, item 163, https://dpul.princeton.edu/catalog/db78tk026.  (see plate 49)

Nyx Shemon. Name and device. Per chevron argent and sable, a chevron ployé gules and in chief a pheon and a threaded needle sable.

The byname was submitted under the Legal Name Allowance, however, the submitter need not rely on that, as the byname Shemon is documentable to 1578 England.

Nice late 16th century English name!

Onami Ryome. Reblazon of device. Sable, between two waves in annulo conjoined at the base a dragonfly argent.

Reblazoned January 2025 as Sable, between two Japanese waves in annulo conjoined at the base a dragonfly argent, the style of the wave and the number of crests are unblazonable artistic details.

Roise inghean ui Ruaidhri. Device change. Gules, on a fess rayonny argent between two needles fesswise Or three roses proper.

The submitter’s prior device, Gules, on a fess rayonny argent between two arrows fesswise reversed Or three roses proper, is released.

Rose of Wolfscairn. Name and device. Quarterly argent and azure, in saltire a rose purpure slipped and leaved vert and an arrow inverted argent, on a chief embattled vert three pine trees argent.

Wolfscairn was submitted under the Branch Name Allowance; however, Elisabetta Makejoye was able to construct it as an Early Modern English locative, meaning that we do not need to use the Branch Name Allowance here.

Rowena Gordon Dunlop. Name and device. Azure, on a saltire between in pale two stag’s heads couped argent a unicorn’s head couped azure.

Rowena is the submitter’s legal middle name. As a given name by type, it may be used as a given name.

Viktor von Rosswald. Name.

von Rosswald is the Society byname of the submitter’s legal parent and is used here under the Existing Registration Allowance.

Zacharias Wolff. Name.

Nice name for 1497 Nürnberg, Germany!

CALONTIR returns

Dorcas Whitecap. Badge. (Fieldless) A tree stump proper.

This badge is returned for conflict with the badge of Lorn Mac Ewen, (Fieldless) The trunk of a tree couped sprouting three slips proper. There is a DC for fieldlessness, but nothing for removing the small branches on Lorn’s badge, which are an artistic detail not worth difference.

Submitted as a badge for Mistle Thrush Herald, we can’t associate a badge with a heraldic title. Submitters are not allowed to register armory for officers that fall under the auspices of Society-level officers that have registered badges. As the College of Arms has a badge for heralds, Vert, two straight trumpets in saltire, bells to chief Or, badges for subsidiary offices, including Heralds Extraordinary, may not be registered. The sole exception to this rule is for tinctureless seals for principal heralds of kingdoms, under SENA A3A2.

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

The July 2025 Letter of Acceptances and Returns has been published. Here are the results for Calontir.

CALONTIR acceptances

Amawara Mitsumi. Name change from holding name Deanna of Cúm an Iolair.

Amma Hǫldr. Device. Sable, a phoenix facing sinister Or between in fess a sword and an open book argent.

Aurora Valentina da Firenze. Name and device. Azure, a swan argent and on a chief Or two roses proper.

Nice southern Italian 16th century name!

Calontir, Kingdom of. Badge for Kingdom of Calontir Scribes’ Guild. (Fieldless) A wing terminating in a human hand Or maintaining a pen purpure.

Kingdom of Calontir Scribes’ Guild is a generic identifier.

Calvius Atrox. Device. Vert, a dog rampant contourny maintaining a chalice, an orle of chain Or.

The submitter is a knight and thus entitled to display an orle of chain.

Caspar von Görlitz. Device. Or, a bear statant erect maintaining a lyre, a point pointed sable.

Gyða glóra. Badge. (Fieldless) A crested titmouse azure, face and breast argent, gorged of a pearled coronet Or.

The submitter has permission to 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.

This is the defining instance of a crested titmouse in Society armory. Species of titmice with crests are found across North America, Europe, and Asia in areas inhabited by humans in period and are therefore registerable per SENA A2B2b.

The submitter has a court barony and is thus entitled to display a coronet.

Jacquetta Pomeroy. Name and device. Or, a dog sejant with one forepaw raised sable collared between three apples gules leaved vert.

Nice cant!

Jamette de la Roche. Device. Per chevron azure and Or, two seeblätter Or and a dog passant sable.

Kassiani Zaridina. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Maol Ruanaidh Mac Cana. Name change from Áine inghean Mhic Con.

The submitter’s prior name, Áine inghean Mhic Con, is retained as an alternate.

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

This device was pended on the April 2025 LoAR to redraw it with more estoiles.

William Forbees. Name and device. Purpure, in cross four bees Or.

Nice canting device!

CALONTIR returns

Kassiani Zaridina. Device. Vert, a sea-horse contourny Or.

This device is returned for conflict with the Kingdom of Atlantia’s badge for the Queen’s Champion, (Fieldless) A sea horse to sinister Or gorged of a chaplet of roses gules. There is a DC for adding the field, but no DC for removing a charge gorging the neck of a whole beast.

Nikita Pavlovich. Device. Per fess sable and azure, a sun Or eclipsed sable and in pale four bears passant argent.

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”. The arrangement of the bears must be blazoned separately from the arrangement of the primary charge group as a whole, as the blazon Per fess sable and azure, in pale a sun Or eclipsed sable and four bears passant argent implies that the five primary charges are evenly distributed across the field, rather than the bears being solely on the azure portion of the field.

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.