June 5, 1980 XIV

LETTER OF ACCEPTANCES AND REJECTIONS

ACCEPTANCES BY KINGDOM

Kingdom of Ansteorra

Bjornsborg, Barony of. Change of Arms. Azure, two bears passant erect addorsed reguardant argent, each maintaining a berdiche proper, in base a laurel wreath Or.

Jan {w~} Orzeldom. Per pale gules and argent, in pale a chevronel couped per pale and two crosses patty counterchanged.

Kemreth Danil. Badge for House Thornwell. Sable, a fountain encircled by a thornbrush couped Or.

Michael Searider. Per fess azure and vert, a barrulet engrailed counter-invected Or, overall a sea-horse erect argent, saddled and bridled gules, crined Or.

Richard ap Morgan. Per bend sinister azure and Or, in dexter chief three scarpes wavy argent, overall a gyrfalcon erect gules maintaining in its dexter talon a sprig of mistletoe proper. (Falco gyrfalco) (Viscum album)

Star Principal Herald. Seal. In pale a mullet of five greater and five lesser points and in base a crown dancetty and a swallowtailed scroll crescentwise bearing the inscription "constare," overall in saltire two straight trumpets, bells in chief.

Sula von Pferdenthal. Badge for Caer Oncia. Gules, a leopard passant with barbed tail ermine.

Note: If she wants it called an ounce-dragon she will have to provide documentation. What is this a name change from?

Willow de Wisp. Per pale vert and Or, a willow tree eradicated sable, fimbriated Or, leaved counterchanged.

Note: Will of the Wisp grants Willow the right to use such a similar name.

Kingdom of Atenveldt

Bruce the Long-Winded. Sable, two arrows in saltire surmounted by a third palewise, all inverted, and in base a long bow fesswise Or.

Denis of the Titans. Badge for Monsters of Monster Hall. Per fess vert and argent, issuant from dexter chief a cubit arm gules grasping a Sauvage's head proper, crined sable, embrued gules.

Denis of the Titans. Badge for Ladies Auxiliary of the Monsters. Per fess vert and argent, issuant from dexter chief a lady's arm proper within a maunch gules, grasping a Sauvage's head proper, crined sable, embrued gules.

Derdriu Aelfsang. Purpure, on a pile fesswise reversed throughout argent three mascles braced in triquetra purpure.

Note: Do not use continental terms if you can blazon it with English terms.

Gareth of Bloodwine Gorge. Sable, in saltire a pen Or, quilled argent, surmounted by a sword inverted proper, all within an annulet knotted in chief by a ligature not argent.

Note: Appeal accepted. The ligature knot is period and reasonable for a surgeon to register.

Iathus of Scara. Ermine, a cog wheel gules.

Note: Marvelously simple. This is true heraldry.

Keridwen Gwenmarch. Purpure, a horse's head caboshed argent, crined, between in pall three escallops inverted Or.

Kitare no-Kami Satoko Hinoki no Kiyowara. Gules, three cypress saplings of three branches, one and two, within an annulet argent.

Note: A good mon and excellent documentation.

Margaret of Griffin Tower. Argent, guttée de sang, a griffin's head erased sable, beaked and orbed gules, within a bordure sable.

Michael Gerard Curtememoire. Potenty argent and sable, a pall gules.

Note: A single fur and an ordinary that doesn't conflict! Congratulations!

Neala Fitz Norman. Vert, in pale a triquetra and a triquetra inverted braced argent.

Orin of the Argent Lions. Purpure, a pallet between two lions rampant addorsed argent.

Rahlahn of Nyne Mulberry. Per saltire gules and vert, in saltire through the nombril point seven mulberry trees between in fess two of the same argent, issuant from chief a demi-sun Or.

Kingdom of Caid

Amber Creissant a' l' Étoile. Or, issuant from a maunch vert a hand proper holding a pomme charged with an estoille of four greater and four lesser points Or.

Joscelyn Fitzharry of Gillyflower. Name alteration.

Note: Please send me a copy of her file. It is missing.

Starkhafn, Shire of. Per bend sable and checky argent and azure, in sinister chief a flame of fire proper within a laurel wreath argent.

Tyra Stewart of Moray. Azure, a fanged, bat-winged green tree python (Condropython viridis) erect, gorged of a collar trailing three links argent.

Kingdom of Meridies

Regan Lowry the Loner. Gyronny of twelve sable and azure, a mascle and on a chief argent a unicorn courant reguardant sable.

Note: Appeal accepted.

Kingdom of the West

Aliste von Falkenhof. Tierced in point Or, argent, and purpure, a stag counter-lodged reguardant gules, a threaded needle bendwise sinister sable, and a hawk's lure Or.

Aliste von Falkenhof. Badge. Or, in bend a stag counter-lodged fesswise reguardant gules and a threaded needle bendwise sinister sable.

André Lessarde. A legless bee displayed barry sable and Or, winged Or.

Black Taylor of Lochaber. Argent, a sewing needle palewise within on a mascle sable in cross four plates.

Ella du Vergne. Gules, fretty and interlaced o eight endorses Or, overall a European Black Alder Tree couped proper. (Alnus glutinus).

Elvina Effynewoode. Argent, an osprey volant, wings displayed, proper grasping in both talons four ribbons, within a bordure wavy azure.

Lawrence Gryphon Huzar Warszawarski. Per chevron throughout gules and argent, in base a griffin counter-sejant coward reguardant, wings elevated and addorsed, the sinister talon resting on a roundel sable, a chief rayonny counterchanged.

Däwyd Suomalainen von Markheim. Badge for the Order of the Elephant. Sable, an elephant statant bearing on its back a tower Or.

Hirsch von Henford. Per bend sinister argent and vert, a flaming sword inverted bendwise sinister proper between in bend sinister enhanced a tragedy mask and a comedy mask azure, featured Or, and in sinister base a stag's head erased Or.

Library of the S.C.A.. Change of Name. Per pale sable and Or, a vair bell throughout counterchanged.

Merewyn de Lyonesse. Change. Azure, a unicorn counter-couchant argent, collared gules, armed and crined Or, between three estoiles argent, all within a bordure compony vert and Or.

Ned Stoat Coyle. Vert, a sailfin sculpin naiant proper. (Nautichthys oculofasiatus).

Note: What, no stoat?

Richard Coney Tighe. Azure, a rabbit sejant erect proper playing a harp Or, between three mullet argent.

Robert of Glossip. Vert, a bend sinister Or, overall a woolly mammoth salient proper, within a bordure Or. (Mammonteus primigenius).

Vladimir ap Gwynne. Name change and device change. Argent, a sun sable, on a chief gules a demi-lion erect issuant argent.

Note: This was passed at the conclave but left out of the ordinary.

Ysabel del Norte. Gules, in fess two peacocks statant reguardant addorsed, in chief a mullet, all within on a bordure argent an orle of grape vines fructed proper.

REJECTED SUBMISSIONS BY KINGDOM

Kingdom of Ansteorra

Tanasan Dimrithil. Sable, a bend argent, overall a Bowen's knot saltire-wise counterchanged.

This conflicts with Adington: Sable, a bend argent. The counterchanging leaves the lines of the bend intact, thereby leaving the bend as the major charge, so there is only one point of difference.

Kingdom of Atenveldt

Constantine Peradan. Sable, a garden rose slipped and leaved argent.

This conflicts with Corwyn of Amber, Argent, a garden rose slipped and leaved sable, from Roger Zelazny's Amber series.

Irminsul the Improbable. Per pale embattled Or and gules, to dexter a winged unicorn rampant and to sinister in pale three of the same, counterchanged.

The device is fine, but the Irminsul is a famous thing, and cannot be used as a given name, unless she can provide documentation showing that it was used as a given name in our period.

Kingdom of the West

Meghan Shandygaff. Vert, a fret argent, overall a pewter tankard proper, within a bordure Or. Your device is acceptable, but the word shandygaff was coined in 1853, and is thus out of period. Please choose a different surname.

End of Acceptances and Rejections.

Pray believe, my Lords and my Ladies, that I remain

Your Servant,

Wilhelm von Schlüssel, OL, OP

Laurel King of Arms.