November 1981 Letter of Acceptances and Returns

ACCEPTANCES November 30, 1981 XVI

Kingdom of Ansteorra

Aislinn O'Neill. Sable, a pallet raguly couped Or, involved of a pothos ivy vine separating in chief into four descending branches proper, overall a hind statant argent, gorged of one of the branches. (Scindapsus sp.)

NOTE: You cannot have both Tara and O'Neill, so I have omitted the Tara. (Tara was the mountain from which the O'Neills ruled Ireland. Thus the combination is too much.)

Astrid Helvegr von Eulenwald. Per chevron inverted abased vert and argent, in chief a Great Horned Owl rising to sinister guardant proper. (Bubo virginianus)

Duncan Carruthers. Change of device. Gules, a cross formy within seven plates in annulo, all within a bordure argent.

NOTE: His former device becomes a badge.

Elzasif Ironhand. Argent, a gauntlet reversed sable grasping three gillyflowers gules, slipped and leaved vert, within a bordure gules.

Eric Thorgrimsson. Name approval only.

NOTE: "Son of Thorgrimr" becomes Thorgrimsson, not Thorgrimson.

Franz von Corgymonde. Per fess purpure and Or, a bar counterchanged between a sword bendwise sinister proper enfiled of an annulet argent and a double-headed eagle displayed sable maintaining in its talons a serpent vert.

NOTE: Only triple-headed eagles are restricted.

Isolde Dione Euves d'Argent. Per pale Or and azure, a pair of flaunches, each charged with a fleur-de-lys counterchanged.

Kalin the Wanderer. Name approval only.

Rudolf von Tarnenheim. Sable, a compass star throughout gyronny of sixteen argent and sable, fimbriated argent, within a bordure Or.

Selva of the Treeless Plain. Badge. Vert, a stump eradicated proper within an annulet Or.

Siobhan flic an Baihrd. Vairy en pointe vert and argent, on a chief vert a sprig of three oak leaves and two acorns argent.

NOTE: "Mac an" means "son of." You want "nic an" for "daughter of."

Stargate, Barony of. Badge for Order of the Misty Star. Sable, on a triangle wavy argent a mullet of three greater and six lesser points sable.

Valdek the Eudorian. Name approval only.

Vlad Ravna Starkraven. Change of name; formerly Vlad Ravna.

William Blackfox. Badge reblazon. Per fess arched argent and azure, a fox's head sable, erased gules, gorged of a collar Or.

NOTE: This means the erased area below the collar is gules.

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

Kingdom of Atenveldt

Albray Katerine Isabelle du Serpent. Name approval only.

NOTE: The correct Old German feminine form of the name is Albray, not Albra. It means "elf counsel," and is the equivalent of Aelfreda.

Alistar of Brienne. Per bend sinister argent and azure, a maunch within a bordure counterchanged.

Avery of Kempsford. Name approval only.

Faustina von Schwarzwald. Badge. Argent, on a pale between six fir trees sable a bat close inverted Or pendant from a decrescent argent.

NOTE: By default the fir trees are in two columns of three trees each on either side of the pale.

Janez Perč. Barry wavy of eight azure and argent, a perch haurient embowed Or pierced by a spear inverted bendwise sinister sable.

Jerimia von Braun. Reblazon, Azure, two domestic cats sejant respectant, tails sufflexed and crossed in saltire, Or.

Lucie de Villebrayant Boniface. Per pale argent and gules, a pallet ermine between a domino mask, its ribbons pendant, sable, and a lucy haurient argent.

Londinium ad Rubrum Flumen, Shire of. Per fess azure and gules, a triple-arched bridge and in chief a laurel wreath argent

between two piles in point Or.

NOTE: Appeal accepted. The proper preposition to use here for a location is "ad." This takes the accusative case, which gives you Rubrum Flumen.

Kingdom of Caid

Adrian Buchanon. Per pale wavy azure and gules, a pallet wavy between a tower argent, portalled to sinister, and a siege tower proper.

Alexander le Bonhomme. Name change; formerly Alexandre de Bonne Chance. Badge. In bend a fleur-de-lys and another inverted, both palewise, vert.

Andregor Starseeker von Morgenwind. Name change; formerly Andregor Perlaine v.M. Badge for House Morgenwind. Per fess purpure and vert, issuant from the line of division a demi-mullet of twelve points Or and in base an ale keg proper.

Aonarrach faol Maguire O'Bryne. Vert, a saltire gules, fimbriated, surmounted by an estoile of eight points pierced, all within a bordure Or, pellety.

Candace of Dragonstower. Name change; formerly Jaelithe of D.

Eden of Summerhawk. Per bend sinister argent and vert, a Celtic cross within and surmounting shamrocks palewise in annulo counterchanged, and in chief a hawk migrant palewise sable.

Etienne de Valance. Gules, a cross crosslet fitchy argent surmounted in base by a wyvern statant Or, backed vert, and in dexter chief a fleur-de-lys Or.

NOTE: The sinister arm of the cross should show on the other side of the wyvern's wings.

Heinrich Palantine. Sable, a unicorn's head couped argent, collared of a chain Or, within a bordure embattled argent.

Herrel of Smael Nest. Name change; formerly H. of Small Nest. Badge.

Per pale vert and argent, a sword inverted within an orle counterchanged.

NOTE: One is an orle and two or more are tressures, by SCA convention.

Kaarna of the Amethyst. Tierced per pall argent, purpure, and Or, two thistles proper, three annulets interlaced argent, and a triskelion arrondi purpure, one and two.

Kathren of Sandesward. Argent, a quail martletted to sinister reguardant sable, a mount vert, and on a chief wavy azure in dexter a sun Or.

Mairi-Kathleen nicLauren. Badge. Azure, mullety of four points, a butterfly winged unicorn salient to sinister argent.

Mirwen Havenwood. Per pale Or and azure, an oak tree eradicated per pale vert and argent.

Sebastian Blackwood. Badge. Ermine, an acorn proper, a dragon segreant vert and an oakbranch fesswise proper.

Wilihelm Heimirich von Donnerkeil. Badge for Haus Katzensprung. Per pale argent and azure, a lily between in chevron inverted two lightning flashes conjoined, all within a bordure embattled counterchanged.

Kingdom of the East

Elaina de Sinistre. Name correction.

Kingdom of the Middle

Alarick Gerard von Goldenlöwen. Azure, a lion and a panther rampant addorsed Or and argent and in chief a sun Or.

NOTE: The proper German translation for "of the Golden Lion" is "von Goldenldwen," not "von Löwengild."

Anastasya Vasilyevna Katayeva. Per bend sinister argent and azure, in bend three gouttes palewise counterchanged.

Ann de Fountain of Seldom Rest. Tierced in point purpure, gules, and vert, a fountain between a selle, a dome, and a rest Or.

Bartholomew of Barakas. Azure, a cross conjoined with a saltire vert, fimbriated Or.

NOTE: Draw the fimbriation wider.

Bridget of Perth. Argent, an arrow inverted sable within a chaplet of violets proper. (Viola odorata)

Denys O Caergwen. Azure, a flowering leek within an orle of flowering leeks proper.

NOTE: The correct Welsh translation for "of/from" is O. As the leeks are both argent and vert, they have just enough contrast to be legal.

Evan Aethelwald. Name approval only.

Genevieve de Montmorency. Gules, on a pale invected Or a sprig of Montmorency cherry fructed and leaved proper. (Prunus ceranus)

Girolamo Olandesse da Firenze. Gules, in pale three trumpets fesswise between three fleurs-de-lys Or.

Isolde de Saxelby. Or, issuant from sinister a pink, slipped and leaved, bendwise proper between two piles inverted bendwise sable.

Jararvellir, Barony of. Azure, on a fess between two catfish counter-naiant Or a laurel wreath vert.

Jararvellir, Barony of. (badge for Order of the Golden Tate) A goutte de sang charged with a kernel of wheat Or.

NOTE: A tate is a kernel of wheat.

Juan Macías de Alarcón. Or, a bend gules, cotissed, overall on a sun sable an annulet Or.

Middle, Kingdom of the. Lincoln Herald--title approved.

Morgain Rohais Kenedeor. Sable, a lion and a panther rampant addorsed Or and argent, in chief a plate between two mullets of eight points argent.

NOTE: A moon in her plenitude has a face.

Patricia Fiona MacFarland. Name approval only.

Kingdom of Caid

Jetana the Harper. Name approval only.

NOTE: Magus is Latin, not Arabic. To be the daughter of the Zoroastrian priest (a magus), you would be "bint al-Gabar." Document al-Magus as an Arabic nickname for Vikings. I have passed the name without the patronymic.

Keradawc an Cai. badge. Sable, a pheon within three scimitars in annulo argent.

Kingdom of the West

Antonio de Gregorio. Name change; formerly Anthony of Hollymount.

Anne of Foxwold. Name approval only.

Erold of Lithostone, called Blackhand. Name change.

NOTE: You may not have a name consisting only of one word. I have therefore added Blackhand to the currently registered name, as a nickname. Normally we do not register nicknames but since he was knighted with the name, I will allow it.

Brian of Foxwold. Argent, a fox passant reguardant sable and a chief invected vert.

Caradwen of Lynxcairne. Per bend sinister rayonny azure and gules, a horned pegasus salient to sinister argent, armed, unguled, winged and crined Or.

NOTE: Caradwen is her mundane given name.

Carl of the Crossbow. Name approval only.

Cealmhain Realt Dubh. Name change; formerly Kelwyn Darkstar. Badge. Argent, vêtu-ployé sable.

NOTE: Realt Dubh is correct, but Celvyn is not, so I have used the correct form. Vêtu is drawn with straight lines and looks like a lozenge throughout. To make something convex like this, one adds the word ployé. As this is a badge, it needs only one point of difference from mundane arms and mon, and therefore does not conflict with the Japanese mon which is the counterchange. In mon color doesn't count, just light on dark or dark on light.

Demian O'Boirne. Azure, a fess between two seals counter-dormant argent.

NOTE: Draw the seals in the correct heraldic form for dormant.

Dominique de Royé. Per pale Or and sable, three chevronels braced and in chief four mascies conjoined throughout counterchanged.

NOTE: The word "du" means "of the (masculine thing)." You cannot be "du Royé" unless you come from a place called "Le Royé." Therefore, I have changed it to "de."

Frederick of Holland. Badge. In fess two ovoid annulets conjunct at the smaller ends argent.

NOTE: Appeal on badge accepted. The correct term for two annulets conjoined in this manner is conjunct (Parker, p. 12). I will change the blazon of the arms accordingly.

Greid o'the Wastes. Badge for House Eider Or. Vert, a delf pierced within a bordure dovetailed Or.

NOTE: Registered to Greid with citation under Jannette of the Square Circle.

Jannette of the Square Circle. Badge for House Eider Or. For blazon see Greid o' the Wastes.

James Cameron. Argent, a pall vert, in chief a bear's pawprint sable.

Loryna Gillander. Gules, a bend sinister engrailed argent between on a plate a leopard's head cabossed sable and a compass-star argent.

Megan Silverstar. Badge. Vert, a chevron throughout and in base a mullet of eight points argent.

Robin McCarren. Vert, a sword inverted sable, fimbriated Or, within a bordure sable, fimbriated Or.

Roger the Goliard. Azure, seated in an increscent moon Or a nude maiden holding a veil proper, within an orle Or.

Rutker van Schiedam. Vert, a sea-lion erect Or, and on a chief engrailed azure, fimbriated argent, a sun Or.

NOTE: Previous submission was a badge.

Theodric of Skane. Vert, masoned argent, a compass star and a chief arched Or.

Trelaine of the Emerald Isle. Quarterly sable and vert, a cross patty throughout between in bend a unicorn's head and a mullet, both palewise, all within a bordure argent.

William of Hoghton. Badge for Hoghton Towers. Sable, two towers joined by a bridge Or.

Yerek the Inert. Sable, a mullet of four points voided argent.

NOTE: This just squeaks by the mon of the City of Morioka (counterchange plus central lines is 11/2 points).

Ysabeth of Weemyss. Name approval only.

END OF ACCEPTANCES

Kingdom of Ansteorra

Ariel Glaenfayre. Or, three bendlets gemel, overall on a lozenge purpure a unicorn lodged reguardant argent atop a mount vert, semy of flowers argent.

NOTE: Name rejected. Device rejected. Ariel was a fairy. This could be looked upon as Ariel Glen-fairy, i.e., Ariel, the fairy of the glen. Thus the combination implies non-mortal status. The device has what looks like an augmentation or lozenge of pretence. There is no such thing as a mount proper in SCA heraldry. It is vert. This gives us color on color when placed on the purpure.

Benjan Bjordson. Gules, a pile between an inescutcheon fracted and a balance bendwise sinister atop a sword inverted Or.

NOTE: Name rejected. Please document Bjordson. If it derives from Bjordr, then it would be Bjordsson. If it derives from Bjord, then it would be Bjordarson. We find no reference for Bjord. Benjan does not look consistent with period Norse usage. Try Beni or Bengeirr, which were real Norse names. The device seems acceptable.

Conor Diarmuid MacRuis na Connouchta. Azure, a sprig of elder palewise between in fess two swords all within eight mullets

of six points in annulo.

NOTE: Name rejected. Document the name. In Gaelic, "of Connacht" is "O Chonnacht." Connouchta is misspelled, and is the nominative plural with definite article (feminine gender). This is wrong. You might try "Connachtacht," which means "native of Connacht." You have a surname, a patronymic, and a place name. It is highly unusual for a Gaelic persona to have all three.

The device is rather busy. It has eleven charges! I suggest you reduce the number of mullets to four (or at most six) or eliminate the swords.

Duncan Carruthers. Name change to Allemandus Draconis. Name change rejected.

NOTE: There is no given name. You have two surnames. Please add a given name.

Eric Thorgrimsson. Sable, within the odal rune Or, voided gules, a peregrine falcon rising affronty proper. (Falco peregrinus)

NOTE: Device rejected. Letters, numbers, runes, and other such abstract symbols may not be used in a device, although they can be used in badges. (In any event, the odal rune is not solid, and thus this is not an odal rune voided, which would look like one rune inside another.) This rule was decided by the College to be the rule for SCA usage. Whether or not runes actually were used occasionally in period in European arms is irrelevant. We will not use them. Our basis is English heraldry, which did not use them.

Kalin the Wanderer. Argent, on a bend sinister between a compass star of twelve points purpure and a mullet of six points vert three mullets Or.

NOTE: Device rejected. The use of three different kinds of mullet in three different tinctures is, to the best of our knowledge, not period style. I will accept two colors and two kinds. Use two compass stars purpure or two mullets of six points vert, or vice versa. The period style would have been: Argent, on a bend sinister between two mullets azure three mullets argent.

Panseldror of the Blue Glacier. Azure, on a pile argent between two lightning flashes Or a double-bitted axe gules.

NOTE: Name rejected. Panseldror does not seem consistent with period naming usage. Inasmuch as this name is derived from Pencil-drawer, it counts as a joke name, which is not allowed. The device seems acceptable.

Trithian Elvinstar. Azure, a crescent gules, fimbriated argent, overall a demi-pegasus courant affronty, wings displayed, Or, in chief between the horns of the crescent a compass star argent.

NOTE: The name is not consistent with period name practices. Please document Trithian. Elvinstar would not have been used as a sobriquet. You could use Silverstar. If you intend to refer to a specific star, like Polaris, this is against the rules, which do not allow the use of the names of heavenly bodies. The device is not consistent with period heraldic style. This sort of thing just wasn't done. It looks like a modern book illustration or logo. Please redraw this in a period style. I suggest you omit the crescent and just have the compass star and a pegasus affronty. A demi-pegasus affronty is out of period. Or you could have the crescent and the compass star both in chief' with the pegasus below.

Valdek the Eudorian. Azure, a chess board gules and sable fimbriated, charged in base with a pawn argent.

NOTE: Device rejected. You cannot have a division into more than four parts that consists of only colors or only metals. Make the chessboard vert and argent. Then you won't have to fimbriate the board. The pawn as drawn is out of period. This shape was invented in 1846 and marketed in 1851. Please redraw the device with a period style pawn.

Kingdom of Atenveldt

Miranda the Seamstress. Sable, in the first quarter three needles inverted conjoined in pile bendwise argent.

NOTE: Appeal denied. All devices must be consistent with period heraldic style. This is not. It is off-center and fills only part of the shield, which was not done. I suggest having the three needles in pall or in pall inverted, or having two in chevron and one palewise, or having two in chevron inverted and one palewise inverted. These are all period style and do not seem to conflict.

Kingdom of Caid

Albray Katerine Isabelle du Serpent. Per bend purpure and argent, a moon in her plenitude and a quetzalcoatl glissant, head to base, counterchanged.

NOTE: Device rejected. Please document the drawing of the quetzalcoatl. Send us a photocopy of the drawing in a book. Otherwise, it seems acceptable.

Avery of Kempsford. Or, in pale enhanced a sword fesswise between two swords fesswise reversed proper fimbriated sable, overall on a pale endorsed azure three roses Or.

NOTE: Device rejected. This is too complicated. Having an ordinary covering other charges is highly unusual. Having swords proper on Or has no contrast, even fimbriated. The swords are enhanced to chief, which is unusual. Simplify the device. I suggest: Or, on a pale between two swords azure three roses Or.

Dianalys Lefey. Per bend sinister sable and azure, on a bend sinister gules between two double-bitted axes a death's head argent.

NOTE: Device rejected. This is color on color. We do not tierce of three colors in this fashion. Only tierced per pall and tierced per pall inverted are allowed to be of three colors. Name rejected. You may not combine two languages in a single word for a given name. Try using Diana Alys le Fay, or else document Lefey.

Megwyn of Glendwry. Argent, a unicorn-headed dragon segreant vert, armed and orbed Or, tail to base entwined about a garb proper.

NOTE: Conflicts with Minimoto Akataro: Argent, a dragon segreant vert holding in the dexter forepaw a Latin cross trefly Or. The garb proper on argent has very little contrast, as it is essentially Or on argent.

Jetana the Harper. Per bend sinister embattled argent and sable, a torteau charged with a martel hammer bendwise sable fimbriated and a harp argent.

NOTE: Device rejected. You cannot place the badge of Abbey L.E.N.G. on a device, as that would be an augmentation, which only the King can bestow. Try using just the hammer without the roundel.

Renlee Dav of Jarrard's Hold. Argent, a fret gules, overall on a base embattled sable three spear points inverted argent.

NOTE: The name is not consistent with period naming practices. Parents were not named for their children, and combining name elements like this is not correct. Why not just be Diane of Jarrard's Hold? The device conflicts with: Blake of Langham: Argent, a fret gules (Papworth, p. 877). The addition of a charged base is insufficient difference, and is unusual. I suggest a fret between four spear heads,and a chief embattled.

Schirleah the Chaste. Vert, bezanty, a hart courant argent.

NOTE: The device conflicts with Buckerell: Sable, bezanty, a buck in full course argent (Papworth, p. 59). Shirley is a place name and was a surname only until 1849, when Charlotte Brontë used it as a given name for her heroine, who was from Shirley. Thus Shirley or Schirleah is out of period as a given name. This information is from Wythycombe's The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, p. 254 (Rule's Name Your Baby entry on Shirley and Schirleah is wrong).

Kingdom of the Middle

Evan Aethelwald. Badge for House Aethelwald. Azure, a sword, pommeled of a mullet of eight points, argent.

NOTE: Conflicts with Bouchard: Azure, a sword argent (Rietstaap).

Lèvanna de Rothschelde. Azure, a mullet of eight points between three sprigs of lilac argent, slipped and leaved proper.

NOTE: Conflicts with Ogard, Azure, an estoile of eight points argent. The lilac sprigs cannot be seen, they are so tiny. The central charge is halfway between a mullet and an estoile. Document the Egyptian name Lèvanna comes from.

Ohthere Herjolfsson. Argent, chapé Or, in saltire a hammer and a pair of tongs inverted and in base a forge pot sable, enflamed gules.

NOTE: This is metal on metal. What you have is not per chevron enhanced, but chapé, which is like per chevron throughout, but is a pair of charges. Thus the dexter and sinister points Or on an argent field are metal on metal. Try using azure instead of Or. I find Óttarr, but not Ohthere. Please document the name.

Patricia Fiona MacFarland. Pean, a pegasus salient, dexter hind leg upraised, argent, winged and unguled on the sinister forehoof and the dexter hindhoof gules, shackled on the sinister forehoof and dexter hindhoof, connected with a broken chain argent.

NOTE: Device rejected. This is not a heraldic position. Having the hooves different color is out of period. The dexter wing cannot be seen. Redraw the device in a correct heraldic manner and resubmit.

Vladimir Bohdan Blahuciak. Per chevron azure and Or, in chief two domestic cats passant guardant Or, each maintaining in dexter forepaw a passion cross, sinister forepaw resting on a crescent inverted argent, and in base a passion cross atop a crescent inverted azure.

NOTE: Document Bohdan. The device is much too complicated. Eliminate the crosses and crescents inverted from the cats, or all the crescents inverted.

Kingdom of the West

Anne of Foxwold. Vert, on a fess wavy argent a fox dormant to sinister sable.

NOTE: Conflicts with Scheldewaert: Vert, a fess wavy argent (Rietstaap).

Carl of the Crossbow. Azure, a crossbow Or.

NOTE: Conflicts with Vreem: Azure, a crossbow Or (Rietstaap).

Byvin Kagnarson. Azure, on a triangle Or a double-headed axe head argent, fimbriated gules.

NOTE: Document Kagnar as a Norse given name. You could use Ragnarr, which is cited by the Icelandic Landnamabok, in which case it would be Ragnarsson. The device seems acceptable

Ysabeth of Weemyss. Sable, a winged goat volant courant within two vires Or.

NOTE: Conflicts with Albizzi: Sable, two vires Or (Rietstaap). Vires are concentric annulets. Thus you have one annulet, two vires, three vires, etc..

END OF REJECTIONS

SUPPLEMENTARY LETTER OF ACCEPTANCES November 30, 1981 XVI

These are approved names for branches whose arms were previously rejected, but whose names were otherwise acceptable.

Kingdom of the East

Ashantal, Shire of. Name approval only.

Fennbrycg, Canton of. Name approval only.

Mountain Freehold, Shire of. Name approval only.

Kingdom of Meridies

Glaedenfeld, Shire of. Name approval only.

South Keep, Shire of. Name approval only.

Troll Fen, Shire of. Name approval only.

Kingdom of the Middle

Afon Araf, Canton of. Name approval only.

Batavia, Shire of (formerly V'tavia). Azure, a dragonfly tergiant displayed within a laurel wreath Or, bound in base by a ribbon ermine with two stalks of wheat dependent therefrom Or.

Far Reaches, Shire of. Name approval only.

Illiton, Shire of. Name approval only.

Swordcliff, Shire of. Name approval only.

Three Hills, Canton of the. Name approval only.

Three Rivers, Barony of. Name approval only.

Kingdom of the West

Perilous Visions, Shire of. Azure, a peregrine falcon's head erased to sinister proper within a laurel wreath argent. (Falco peregrinus)

St. Katherine, College of. Name approval only.

Silver Desert, Province of. Name approval only.

END OF ACCEPTANCES

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

Your servant,

Master Wilhelm von Schlüssel

Laurel King of Arms