From Gunnar Thorisson, Vert Hawk Herald:

CALONTIR acceptances

•  Adalyde bint Yunus al-Zarqa’. Name. This name combines a Catalan given name and Arabic byname. This is an acceptable lingual mix under Appendix C of SENA.
•  Aleksandr Yaroslavovich Vyetcikov. Augmentation of arms. Sable, a pall of chain Or between three bezants, and for augmentation on the bezant in chief a pellet charged with a cross of Calatrava Or.
• Ástríðr Bersadóttir. Name and device. Per pale vert and azure, two domestic cats sejant addorsed, tails entwined Or. Submitted as Ástriðr Bersadóttir, accents must be used consistently throughout the entire name. Therefore, we have changed the name to Ástríðr Bersadóttir to add the second accent to the given name.
  This device is not in conflict with the device of Ailitha ingen Chathail: Per bend sinister wavy azure and vert, a cat sejant and a cat sejant contourny Or. There is a DC for changing the field, and a DC for the position of the cats, Ailitha’s cats being in bend. Although the position of the cats has changed with the field division, it is not a forced change (i.e. the cats could have been in fess on Ailitha’s device or in bend in the current submission).
• Damhán Ó Conghalaigh. Name and device. Argent, on a saltire sable five escallops palewise argent.
  Submitted as Damhan Ó Conghalaigh, accents must be used consistently throughout the entire name. Therefore, we have changed the name to Damhán Ó Conghalaigh to add the accent to the given name. The submitter preferred this form to Damhan O Conghalaigh (without any accents), which is also registerable.
  Nice device!
• Da’ud ibn Ibrahim al-Sisari. Name (see RETURNS for device).
• Einarr Grímsson. Badge. (Fieldless) A boar rampant contourny argent.
  Nice badge!
• Elizabeth nic Dhiarmid. Augmentation of arms. Azure, a hawk close and on a chief Or two roses gules, barbed and seeded proper, and for augmentation the hawk maintaining an escutcheon purpure charged with a cross of Calatrava within a bordure Or. Purpure, a cross of Calatrava and a bordure Or was registered by Calontir in Feb 2008 to be their standard augmentation.
• Erich Hlodowechssun fon Hocheichhallu. Augmentation of arms. Or, an oak tree eradicated gules fructed Or within a bordure engrailed sable semy of annulets Or, and for augmentation, in base on a golpe a cross of Calatrava Or. Purpure, a cross of Calatrava and a bordure Or was registered by Calontir in Feb 2008 to be their standard augmentation.
• Gwendolyn A’Brook. Badge. (Fieldless) A lobster Or sustaining in chief a county coronet sable.
  The submitter is a countess and thus entitled to display a county coronet.
• Isengrim sleggja. Release of device. Or, on a chevron gules two cross-peen hammers, heads to center argent, in base a double horned anvil sable.
• Már í Miklagarði. Name and device. Quarterly gules and argent, four ravens in annulo counterchanged.
  Submitted as Már i Miklagarði, the submitter requested authenticity for a “10th century name appropriate to a member of Varangian Guard”. Accents must be used consistently throughout the entire name. Therefore, we have changed the name to Már í Miklagarði to add the accent to the preposition í (“from/of”).
  Both the given name and byname are found in the Landnámabók, so are plausible for a settler in Iceland around the 10th century. As the Varangian Guard included men from Iceland prior to the 12th century, the name may meet the submitter’s request for authenticity, but we do not know for sure.
  There is a step from period practice for the use of charges in annulo not in their default palewise orientation.
• Mell MacAlpin. Name and device. Or, a dragon’s head couped and on a chief gules, a lightning bolt Or.
  There is a step from period practice for the use of a lightning bolt not as part of a thunderbolt.
• Ragnheiðr Refsdóttir. Name and device. Sable, a fox courant and on a chief Or three increscents sable.
• Róise ní Ullacháin. Augmentation of arms. Per bend sinister azure and argent, a bell argent and a rose inverted azure barbed, seeded, slipped, and leaved vert, a bordure gules, and for augmentation, in sinister chief on an escutcheon purpure a cross of Calatrava and a bordure Or. Purpure, a cross of Calatrava and a bordure Or was registered by Calontir in Feb 2008 to be their standard augmentation.
• Siobhan MacKee. Name change from Siobhan MacAoidh (see RETURNS for device).
  This name combines a Gaelic given name and Anglicized Irish byname. This is an acceptable lingual mix under Appendix C of SENA.
  The submitter’s previous name, Siobhan MacAoidh, is released.
• Solange de Grimfells. Name.
  Grimfells is the registered name of an SCA branch. P1B2f of SENA states:
  Name phrases may be created from the registered forms of SCA branches. Only the exact registered form of the branch name may be used, and they are registered in the lingua Anglica form, ‘of Branchname’.
  Translated forms will not be registered under this allowance, even if it matches the intended origin of the submission or of the branch.
  We note that SENA supersedes the Rules for Submission and earlier precedents that allowed the use of de with English branch names. We would change the byname to of Grimfells, but the submitter does not allow changes. However, if we can document the branch name independently as a plausible place name in English, then the submitter does not need to rely on the branch name allowance.
  Several Middle English place names can be found in Watts that support Grim- + toponym, where Grim- is usually derived from the name Grimr or Grim and potentially does not use a genitive form: Grynthorp, Grymsted(e), and Grym(e)stan(e), found s.nn. Grimesthorpe, East Grimstead and Grimstone. The term fell is a toponym meaning “A hill or mountain; also, an upland waste or pasture; a moor or down” (Middle English Dictionary). Examples of plural toponyms or toponymic bynames in the same source include de Stanes, Atte stunnes, del Quitstones, Le Stones, Upstones, Le Wasshyngstones, Smerhilles, Amtehelles, Les haythes, Hillemedwe havedes, and Merehades.
  Therefore, a place name constructed from Grim- and -fells is plausible in Middle English (although Grimesfell is a more likely construction), and we can register the byname de Grimfells without using the branch name allowance.
  This name combines a French given name and English byname. This is an acceptable lingual mix under Appendix C of SENA.
• Tamar bat Avraham. Name and device. Azure, a squirrel dormant argent maintaining a date Or.
  Please advise the submitter to draw the date larger to improve its identifiability.
• Tola Rufusdóhtor. Name.
• Xorazne Artsruni. Name and device. Per saltire argent and Or, a sun in splendor and an orle gules.

CALONTIR returns

• Da’ud ibn Ibrahim al-Sisari. Device. Gyronny vert and azure, a senmurv contourny Or.
  This device is returned for using a field gyronny of two colors. SENA A3B3d states “Elements not already mentioned must have good contrast between their parts. These include fields or charges evenly divided into four parts other than quarterly or per saltire, fields or charges evenly divided into more than four parts of two different tinctures, and fields or charges unevenly divided into multiple parts of two different tinctures; all of these must have good contrast between adjacent parts of the field.” Thus gyronny of two colors, or two metals, is not allowed.
• Siobhan MacKee. Device change. Vert, in pall three rabbits courant contourny in annulo conjoined by the ears, and a bordure engrailed argent.
  This device is returned for conflict with the device of Eoin Cerd: Vert, in pall three rabbits courant conjoined by the ears argent. There is only one DC for adding a bordure.
  However, it is clear of the badge for Karl Braden von Sobernheim, Vert, three hares courant in annulo and a bordure argent, with a DC for adding the bordure and another for the orientation of the hare: Karl’s hares have the feet inward while Siobhan’s rabbits have the feet outward.

Did you know that there are over 4,000 people listed in the Calontir Order of Precedence? Over 2,000 of those folks have multiple awards. While the keepers of the OP strive for accuracy, with the sheer number of entries over the course of the Kingdom’s existence there are bound to be errors or omissions. Maybe your name has changed or you have moved to another group. We are interested in any information that increases the accuracy of our OP. The link to the OP is: http://op.calontir.org/.

This is my quarterly entreaty to all Gentles of Calontir to check their OP record and report any errors or omissions. Email me at OPClerk@calontir.org with your proposed changes. I strive to make changes within 48 hours of receipt of your email.

HL Eynon Llangenydd
Blue Hawk Herald/Calontir OP Clerk
OPClerk@calontir.org

From the Calonlist:

from Gunnar Thorisson, Vert Hawk Herald

CALONTIR acceptances
* Agamemnon of Forgotten Sea. Holding name and device. Checky argent and sable, a sun Or eclipsed sable and a bordure Or.
Submitted under the name Agamemnon Platolithidae, the name was returned in November 2014.
* Aldred Ketcham. Device. Per chevron argent and vert, a tower counterchanged between in fess two swords vert.

* Alexandria de Bois d’Arc. Blanket permission to conflict with name and device. Purpure, an ark and a chief invected argent.
The submitter allows registration of any name that is not identical to her registered name. The submitter also allows registration of any armory that is not identical to her device.
* Amon Attwood. Name and device (see RETURNS for badge). Argent, a boar statant and in base a flame issuant from base proper, a bordure vert.
Nice late 16th century English name!
* Brian Robert MacDougall. Name and device. Per fess rayonny azure and gules, a sword reversed fracted in chevron proper and a sheaf of arrows inverted Or.
This low-contrast complex line of division remains identifiable but would benefit from fewer and larger rays.
* Caitilín ingen Áengusa. Name.

* Eadward de Byron. Name and device. Vert, on a chevron between three horse’s heads couped contourny Or four fleurs-de-lys palewise vert.
Nice 13th century English name!
* Elzebeth van Rostock. Name.
Submitted as Elzebeth von Rostock, the submitter requested authenticity for a 12th-13th century German name.
Rostock is a Low German place name, so is incompatible with the High German von. We have changed the byname to the attested van Rostock so that it is wholly in Low German in order to partially meet her request for authenticity.
Although van Rostock is found in the submitter’s desired time period, the given name could not be dated earlier than the late 14th century. Therefore, we cannot fully meet the submitter’s request for authenticity, but the name is registerable.
* Emme Ziegler. Badge. (Fieldless) On a fox dormant gardant proper a fleur-de-lys Or.

* Eynon ab Iohannes Mal. Name (see RETURNS for device).
The submitter requested authenticity for a 14th century Welsh name. All elements in this name were documented to the 13th century, so we do not know if it meets the submitter’s request.
* Felicia Maria Stanborough. Name and device. Per bend argent and sable, a spiderwort flower gules and a cross crosslet Or within a bordure counterchanged.
The submitter requested authenticity for a 15th-early 16th century English name. All of the elements are documented to c.1540-1560, so this name meets the submitter’s request.
There is a step from period practice for the use of the New World spiderwort flower.
* Gangulfr Hagnason. Name and device. Argent, a brown bear statant erect proper between flaunches vert, each charged with an hourglass argent.

* Gawain of Miskbridge. Acceptance of transfer of Heraldic title Green Anchor Herald from Society of Creative Anachronism.
The acceptance of this heraldic title was pended on the July 2014 Letter of Acceptances and Returns to allow Laurel to include the transfer on a Letter of Intent. As this administrative action has been done, we are able to complete the transfer of this title.
* Gwenne Margareta Melinnith. Name and device. Quarterly argent and gules, a cross crosslet quarterly sable and argent, in sinister canton a daisy proper.
Please advise the submitter to draw the flower with a higher petals/seeding ratio so it’s easier to recognize as a daisy.
* Hans Krieger. Device. Vert, on a cross argent a cross of four ermine spots sable.
The submitter has permission to conflict with the device of Moire Gray: Vert, on a cross argent an artist’s paint brush inverted sable.
* Jacqueline Storme. Device. Argent, a dragonfly sable and a bordure per pale azure and gules.

* Jorunn Eydisardottir. Device. Vert, a tub Or and a ford proper.
This is the defining instance of a tub. Batonvert notes “The charge dates from at least 1340, in the arms of Wasserburg [Zurich Roll]; we have an example drawn as in this submission, with the two raised bits, dated to 1550 in the arms of Mastellizi [BSB Cod.Icon 269].”
* Leopold Heinrich Rovekar. Name.
Submitted as Leopold Heinrich vom Rovekar, the submitter requested authenticity for a 15th century German/Prussian name. Leopold was dated in the Letter of Intent to the 12th century. It is also found in 16th century Germany in the FamilySearch Historical Records. Heinrich is found in the 15th and 16th centuries, and Rovekar is dated to the 16th century. Therefore, the name is authentic to the 16th century, but not the 15th.
Rovekar is a German descriptive byname meaning “rob or plunder the pot” [Bahlow, s.n. Rof(f)ka(h)r]. Evidence that it is the name of a place name was not found, so it cannot be preceded by the locative preposition vom. Although the submission form stated that major changes were not allowed, kingdom confirmed that the submitter authorized the removal of vom. We are happy to make this change in order to register this name.
* Magnús Þorgrimsson. Name and device. Per chevron argent and sable, two ravens addorsed and a valknut counterchanged.
This name does not conflict with the registered Magnus Thorfinnsson. One syllable has been substantially changed (grim versus finn) under PN3C2 of SENA.
There is a step from period practice for the use of a valknut.
* Mairi Rose. Release of badge. Argent, on a golpe between flaunches vert, a triquetra argent.

* Myghal Stanborough. Device change. Or, a wingless Cornish sea-chough sable, tailed and beaked gules, a bordure sable bezanty.
His previous device, Or, an anvil reversed sable between three torteaux, is released.
* Myghal Stanborough. Badge. (Fieldless) A wingless Cornish sea-chough sable, tailed and beaked gules.

* Phillipa Lloyd de Tarifa. Reblazon of device. Per chevron gules and counter-ermine, two horses salient respectant and a dolphin hauriant embowed argent.
Registered in March 1985 as Gules, on a pile inverted throughout counter-ermine between two horses salient respectant, a dolphin hauriant embowed argent, it is in fact a per chevron line of division and not a pile inverted.
* Phillipa Lloyd de Tarifa. Reblazon of badge. Per chevron gules and counter-ermine, a horse’s head couped argent.
Registered in December 1988 as Gules, a pile inverted throughout counter-ermine, overall a horse’s head couped argent, it is in fact a per chevron line of division and not a pile inverted.
* Saito Takauji. Blanket permission to conflict with name and device. Or, on a pale sable three cherry blossoms Or.
The submitter allows the registration of any name that is not identical to his registered name. The submitter also allows the registration of any armory that is not identical to his registered armory.
* Søren atte Raven. Household name House of the Wolf and Raven and badge. Per pale embattled sable and argent, a wolf and a raven respectant counterchanged.

* Tanaka Ujimori. Name and device. Per chevron raguly argent and vert, three serpents nowed counterchanged.
Nice 16th century Japanese name!
Please advise the submitter to draw a steeper per chevron line with a more pronounced angle of the raguly notches.
* Ulfvaldr Folkmarsson. Device. Gules, a tricorporate wolf within an orle argent.
The July 2013 Letter of Acceptances and Returns noted:
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, July 2013, Middle-A]
* Verctissa neptis Venutii. Device. Argent, a closed book palewise azure and a base embattled vert.
Please advise the submitter to draw fewer and larger embattlements.
* Vimundr Sialfason. Badge. (Fieldless) A wolf rampant gules within and conjoined to a serpent in annulo vorant of its tail Or.

* Vincent de Vere. Badge. Sable, a harp Or within a bordure parted bordurewise vert and Or.

CALONTIR returns
* Amon Attwood. Badge. (Fieldless) A rabbit attired and courant argent maintaining a tankard vert.
This badge submission is returned for multiple conflicts. It is in conflict with the device of Matilda Bosville de Bella Aqua, Per fess embattled gules and argent ermined azure, in chief a coney courant argent and the device of Aldyth Trefaldwyn, Per fess rayonny purpure and Or, in chief a hare courant argent. In both case there is only a DC for fieldless versus fielded design. Neither the maintained tankard nor the attire provide an additional DC.
* Eynon ab Iohannes Mal. Device. Azure, a demi-lamb argent issuant from an anvil, maintaining in its mouth a sword inverted Or, a chief Or crusilly azure.
This is returned for lack of documentation for the depictions of the anvil and the sword used. On resubmission, the submitter should use depictions previously documented or provide documentation for the types of anvil and sword used here.

HL Konstantia Kaloethina –  Gold Falcon Herald and HL Eynon Llangenydd – Blue Hawk Herald have requested folks to take a look at their OP entries for accuracy. If you find an error or omission,  please email OPClerk@Calontir.org with the necessary information to make corrections. If you have already emailed, but not received a reply, please resend your email.