ACCEPTANCES APRIL 19, 1982 XVI

KINGDOM OF ANSTEORRA

Bran de Tintreak. Badge for Clan Reul. Azure, a thistle slipped and leaved argent within a bordure sable fimbriated and charged with eight tongues of flame argent, each enfiled by a ring Or.

NOTE: Badge for Clan Reul transferred from Vishaldyne of Stackeryd to Bran de Tintreak.

Brioughna Dae Arioughna. Name approval only (see REJECTIONS for device).

Gwendylon of the Copper Beeches. Vert, ermined, three birch leaves within a bordure Or.

Lasguaard Aglanar the Red Fox. Name change from Lasguard.

NOTE: The voided fox's head passed on August 9, 1981, was a badge.

Liesl Bethany des Herbstliedes. Argent, a chevron rompú purpure and in base a Blackeyed Susan slipped and leaved proper within a bordure purpure. (Rudbeckia hirta)

NOTE: Lied is neuter, so "of the Autumn Song" becomes "des Herbstliedes."

Mairghread Maire Draigdaimhalachd. Name change from Margaret Meri Dragonfriend.

Maolcholm Burnes. Name change from Alexis Geoffrey Burnes.

NOTE: Maolcholm is the proper spelling. Patronymics are formed with Mac and the father's given name, not his surname. Burnes is a surname, and so does not use Mac. I have therefore dropped the Mac.

Morgur the Wise of Acre. Name change from Morgur the Wise,

NOTE: See REJECTIONS for device.

Morven MacNiall. Per saltire gules and argent, on a mullet of four points throughout sable a sword argent.

Robert Victor Gerard. Name only (see REJECTIONS for device).

Sabia Gunnhild Hunang. Gules, a Celtic hawk statant close reguardant Or.

NOTE: Patronymics are formed with the father's given name. Honey is your father's surname, so I have changed Hunangsdottir to Hunang.

Thomas Red Hawke. Badge. Azure, a pair of red-tailed hawk wings displayed in lure proper, overall a base embattled gules, fimbriated argent. (Buteo jamaicensis)

Wiesenfeuer, Shire of. Sable, a laurel wreath vert enflamed Or and a base of flame proper.

William Thomas Dark of Montrose. Name change from Tanasan Dimrithil. Argent, an otter erect guardant proper maintaining an escallop inverted gules. (Lutra lutra)

Winnifred Aurelia von Hirschberg. Per chevron enhanced azure and vert, a chevronel enhanced and in base a hart statant to sinister at gaze argent.

KINGDOM OF AN TIR

Bjorn Isenkrammenhandler. Azure, a hammer and a sword in saltire and on a chief argent three Clouded Leopard's heads cabossed proper. (Panthera nebulosa)

Elspeth Gunn of Strathmore. Per pale sable and argent, two wyverns passant respectant within an orle counterchanged.

Elspeth Gunn of Strathmore. Badge. Sable, a wyvern passant to sinister within an annulet argent.

Gabrielle Lucie de Noves. Vert, in fess two cranes in their vigilance and in base a bar wavy argent.

Garth of the Highlands. Name approval only (see REJECTIONS for device).

Hrothbeorht the Wanderer. Azure, in pale a Latin cross Or charged with a sword inverted sable and an African lion couchant proper within a bordure Or. (Panthera lee)

NOTE: Draw the lion as it properly is, i.e., a yellowish tan, not brown.

James Addison the Lame. Badge. Per bend azure and argent, in sinister chief a dove's head erased argent.

Martin of the Wold. Sable, on flaunches enhanced Or an increscent and a decrescent sable and in base a sun eclipsed Or.

NOTE: Draw the enhanced flaunches correctly, bowing out in smooth arcs, not straight as drawn. As drawn, it looks like a tree trunk throughout.

Mary van Wrinck. Azure, a lamb statant guardant and a chief invected argent.

Mary van Wrinck. Badge. Azure, a bendlet between a dove's head erased and a lamb statant affronty argent.

Morgwa the Unknown. Sable, mullety, a martlet volant bendwise Or.

Robbin Greybeard. Or, a Great Cormorant volant bendwise sinister proper and three salmon naiant argent. (Phalacrocorax carbo)

NOTE: Draw the salmon in a proper two-and-one arrangement.

Sian Morwenna Meredith. Azure, in pale a mullet of six points Or, a gray granite tower proper, and a base alternate vair.

NOTE: Alternate vair is a German variation of vair wherein each vair bell is divided per pale. In order for the pattern to be visible at a distance, Sian should draw the vair bells larger, i.e., use fewer rows with larger bells.

Wealdsmere, Shire of. Or, an oak tree fructed, between in chief a laurel wreath between two oak trees fructed and a ford proper.

An Tir, Kingdom of. Title for Vox Leonis Herald.

An Tir, Kingdom of. Name for Order of the Goutte de Sang.

An Tir, Kingdom of. Name for Order of the Jambe de Lion.

NOTE: Because it is idiomatic, the proper use is de Lion, not du Lion.

KINGDOM OF ATLANTIA

Alderet de Marjolet. Name change from Alderet le Marjolet). Argent, on a pile sable an opinicus rampant Or.

NOTE: Device appeal OK. Guillaume au Serpente d'Or's device was passed back in 1979, when we only required 1 point of difference from mundane arms. The rules have been changed and now we require 1 1/2 points. As a special case, I grant a specific exception to this rule and pass Alderet's device so he and his brother Guillaume may have similar arms. (Had they not been brothers, I would not have allowed this.)

Armand Vozon d'Angoumois. Badge. Azure, a halberd palewise argent.

Buckston-on-Eno, Canton of. Name change from Buckston-upon-Eno.

Hilary of Keer. Name change from Hilary of Ker.

John Emeris of Ellenar. Name change from John Emeris of Caer Rannog.

Katherina-Theresia von Franke-Hessian. Per bend sinister gules and argent, two escarbuncles counterchanged.

NOTE: Name approved as a hardship case.

Minowara Kiritsubo. Badge. Argent, a pellet clasped per pall by three dragon's talons conjoined gules, armed Or.

NOTE: This was previously registered as a device and is now being changed to a badge.

Reagan of the White Dawn. Badge. Azure, a songbird migrant bendwise, maintaining in its beak a fusa, Or.

NOTE: This was formerly a device and is now being changed to a badge.

Robin of Mannefeld. Blazon correction for badge for House of the Sheltered Rose. Within a cupping-glass inverted argent fimbriated sable, a rose purpure, barbed and seeded proper.

Rorik Fredericsson. Name change from Fredericksson.

Rosamunde von Muenstern. Badge. Name change from Rosamonde and badge. Purpure, a saltorel pointed surmounted by a cross pointed argent within a chain of hexagonal links in mascle, the four corner links quadrilateral, Or.

NOTE: This was formerly a device and is now being changed to a badge.

Styrbjørg Ulfethnar. Seal and name change from Styrbjørg Ulfethnar Brynwulf. . . called Elf-Bolt. Formerly seal for Kraken Pursuivant; now personal seal of S.U. A kraken environed of an annulet. (Octopus vulgaris)

NOTE: Seal for Kraken P. changed to personal seal since Kraken has been re-assigned to Vuong Manh. (If Vuong Manh is now using this, let us know.)

Vuong Manh. Blazon correction. Gules, on a hide Or a roundel enflamed and depicted as a t'ai ch'i vert.

Tir-y-Don, Barony of. Name change from Parish of Tir-y-Don.

Trey of Bedford. Sable, a lion rampant to sinister reguardant between in bend two crosses potent palewise, all within a bordure embattled Or.

NOTE: Appeal OK. Trey is not a proper Latin name; however, we will accept it as a compatible made-up name.

KINGDOM OF CAID

Albra Katerine Isabelle du Serpent. (name change; `formerly Albray K.I. du S.)

Alejandro de Salamanca. Ermine, a demi-salamander rampant gules issuant from a base enflamed Or.

Alexander Graylorn. Sable, a dragon segreant, incensed of icy breath, and a chief rayonny argent.

NOTE: The dragon's breath has icicles hanging down.

Altavia, Canton of. Argent, a fret sable and on a chief vert a laurel wreath argent.

Amelliana die Weisse aus Siena. Name approval only (see REJECTIONS for device).

Camber Eben. Per pale azure and gules, a pale per fess Or and argent, overall a sword fesswise proper.

NOTE: Camber is his mundane given name.

Charles of Dublin. Badge. Or, a castle triple-towered azure within three dragons passant in orle grasping each other's tails gules.

Chenan of Grey Oaks. Name change from Chenon of G.O.

Cuillean Lodbrog Houndstooth. Per bend sinister sable and gules, a bend sinister argent between two roses counter changed, barbed, seeded, and fimbriated argent.

NOTE: Cuehlain is not a proper variant of Cuillean, so I have used the latter. The other allowable variants are: Cullan, Culan, Cullain, Culann, Culain, Cillean, or Cilean. If you want one of these, let us know and we will change the name. Draw the fimbriation of the roses wider.

Dreiburgen, Barony. Badge. Per chevron throughout argent and azure, a tower argent within a bordure embattled azure.

NOTE: This badge, passed in March, was not for the Order of the Tower of Dreiburgen, but is just a baronial badge.

Elizabeth Tremayne of Silverleaf. Vert, semé of thistles slipped and leaved, on a bend argent a peacock tail feather proper.

Guy de Coldrake. Sable, an eagle-winged wyvern displayed head to sinister, argent, charged on the breast with a decrescent sable, and in base two decrescents argent.

Islyle le Gannoker de Gavain. Vert, chapé ployé argent, an axe bendwise vert charged on the blade with a mullet Or, a chalice vert, banded Or, and a unicorn couchant argent, armed and gorged of a collar Or.

Kaarna of the Amethyst. Badge. Or, on a triskelion arrondi purpure three annulets interlaced argent.

NOTE: She says that Kaarna (Cärnä) is the Swedish name from which Kären, her mundane name, is derived.

Manfried von Falkenmond. Name change from Manfred v.F.

Miranda Douglas of Schiehallion. Name approval only (see REJECTIONS for device).

Morgana of the Shadowed Keep. Argent, a dragon dormant, head to sinister, vert, on a chief embattled sable a unicorn's head couped to sinister argent, armed and crined Or.

Pasqual Cabarruvias de la Vara. Name approval only (see REJECTIONS for device).

Rhyance ap Llewellyn. Badge for Caer Llewellyn. Azure, in pale a harp seal pup couchant guardant to sinister proper resting on a bar argent and in base a bottlenose dolphin embowed proper. (Pagophilus greenlandicus) (Tursiops truncatus)

NOTE: The badge passed in March is for Caer Llewellyn, his household.

Sieglinde von der Hohenwüste. Badge. Per fess wavy Or and azure, a longship proper, sailed gules, and a tree eradicated argent.

NOTE: I am rejecting the name of the household due to lack of documentation on Ekhamn. Please send in the translation of Ekhamn with a citation for the source of the translation. Even better would be a photocopy of the page.

Thomas of Whitelow. Per bend sinister sable and vert, a wingless dragon argent involved about a great sword and on a chief arched Or three caltrops vert.

Wilihelm Heimirich von Donnerkeil. Badge. Gules, a thunderbolt within on a bordure embattled argent a tressure sable.

Yaroslav the Persistent. Name approval only for House Pounder (see REJECTIONS for badge).

KINGDOM OF THE EAST

Angelica de Boullounger. Vert, a unicorn's horn couped bendwise argent.

NOTE: I have found that the unicorn's horn is not an apothecary symbol and therefore it is not reserved.

Carolingia, Barony of. Badge blazon correction. Azure, a pall wavy couped Or.

Jehanne l'Enragee. Blazon correction. Per fess engrailed Or and azure, an orca embowed proper and a griffin sejant within an annulet argent. (Orcinus orca).

Komura Shimitsu. Name change from Shimitsu Komura.

Olwen of Trereen Dinas. Name change from Olwen of Dinas Trereen.

KINGDOM OF THE MIDDLE

Guillaume de Copé. Name only.

Menken Brechen. Blazon correction. Per bend sinister gules and checky sable and argent, in dexter chief in pale a fleur-de-lys and three billets fesswise argent.

KINGDOM OF THE WEST

Alail Horsefriend. Per chevron vert and pean, a horse rampant to sinister argent, crined Or.

Anne of Ockham. Azure, a sea lion passant, its tail reflexed over its head, within a tressure argent.

NOTE: In accordance with many urgings, I will allow a single tressure (a diminutive of an orle) to be used.

Benahan of Lusitania. Vert, three bulls passant Or, each charged on the shoulder with a heart gules, within a bordure Or.

Cormac of the Bow. Per pale ermine and erminois, on a pale gules between two shamrocks vert a bow and an arrow inverted in saltire Or.

Cynagua, Principality of. Quarterly argent and Or, a swan rousant, wings elevated and addorsed, sable, maintaining in its sinister foot a laurel wreath vert.

Dionysia die Reisende. Azure, fretty Or, a bay horse courant proper.

NOTE: Appeal OK. Fretty is now considered a treatment of the field. Genus and species need not be given for a common species like the horse. Instead, one specifies the breed or coloration. In this case it is a bay.

Eileen Montgomery. Per bend sinister Or and azure, a bell within a bordure counterchanged.

Fahrquar Finley Fahrquarson. Gules, a lion dormant within an orle of hearts Or.

NOTE to Morgenstern: his address is c/o John Lindquist, 3573 Terrace Way, Apt. 33, Lafayette, CA 94549.)

Imric Snowspear. Per bend sinister argent and purpure, in bend three mullets of four points palewise within a bordure counterchanged.

NOTE: Draw all three mullets the same size.

Jeanette of Briarrose. Azure, on a pale between six roses in annulo Or a white heath tree couped proper. (Erica arborea)

Laura Leontyne. Vert, a lion dormant proper between in pale two fleurs-de-lys, within a bordure Or.

Margarete von Duroc. Argent, a winged pig passant bendwise, wings addorsed, sable and a chief engrailed gules.

Mario l'Arciere. Argent, in saltire two arrows inverted sable, overall a sea-lion erect vert.

NOTE: The proper form is "l'Arciere," although "Arciere" by itself is also correct.

Sunsetshire. Per fess gules and vert, a demi-sun issuant from the line of division within a laurel wreath Or.

NOTE: In accordance with period practice, I have combined the two words. You realize that you have a sister shire in the Shire of Dawnfield in the East (Mechanicsville, PA).

West, Kingdom of. Badge for College of Scribes. Azure, a mute swan's head couped proper maintaining in its beak a quill pen bendwise argent, within a bordure invected Or. (Cygnus olor)

Wolf Federweiß. Name appeal OK; formerly Wolf Weißfeder.

Wolf Peacemaker. Or, a pile bendwise sinister throughout between two pheons gules.

Yvonne of Gad. Name change from Yvonne de la Hippocampus. Sable, a quatrefoil argent, seeded vert, and on a bordure argent a serpent biting its tail clockwise, its body looped at each corner of the shield, vert.

REJECTIONS APRIL 19, 1982 XVI

KINGDOM OF ANSTEORRA

Alexandra Tatiana Feodorovna of Novgorod. Badge. Argent, a heron-headed phoenix of fire vulning itself gules rising from flames Or issuant to chief from a pellet.

NOTE: Badge rejected. This is not a Russian firebird, which looks more like a peacock. This is like a pelican-phoenix in its piety. It is too reminiscent of the badge of the Order of the Pelican.

Brioughna Dae Arioughna. Argent, on a pile engrailed azure a plate charged with a trident azure.

NOTE: Device conflicts with Dallyson: Argent, on a pile engrailed azure three crescents argent.

Morgur the Wise of Acre. Per bend azure and gules, a hawk stooping argent and a tower Or.

NOTE: Device is too close to Dove of Hoghton: Per bend sable and Or, a dove volant bendwise and a tower counterchanged. If you would like to ask her permission, write to her c/o Robin Rolls, 6174 Bernhard, Richmond, CA 94805.

Robert Victor Gerard. Azure, on a bend sinister sable fimbriated three fleurs-de-lys Or, overall a chief ermine.

NOTE: The device is rejected because the chief appears to be an augmentation of Brittany. Try moving the chief up off the bend sinister in the usual manner. Chiefs overall were generally only used for augmentations.

KINGDOM OF AN TIR

Garth of the Highlands. Argent, ermined azure, a lightning flash bendwise Or, overall a lion rampant sable, and on a chief azure a Latin cross argent.

NOTE: Device rejected. The lightning flash Or on an argent field is metal on metal. Adding a powdering of azure ermine spots does not make the field a fur. Try removing the lightning flash.

KINGDOM OF ATLANTIA

Maeve of Caernarvon. Badge for Minowara Fujiko. The shin character tō (East)

NOTE: Mon withdrawn at Maeve's request.

KINGDOM OF CAID

Ameliana die Weisse aus Siena. Argent, a carnation gules, slipped and leaved vert, surmounted by a recorder proper.

NOTE: Device rejected. Resubmit and this time put the blazon in the LoI so the CoA can comment on it. Is the recorder brown or black?

Miranda Douglas of Schiehallion. Vert, a demi-pegasus affronté head to sinister, mane enflamed, wings concealing the sinister leg seraphically, the dexter foreleg in front of the sinister wing, argent, and on a base enhanced embattled vert, fimbriated, two thistles leaning outwards argent.

NOTE: Rejected. The device is not in period style. We do not use thin lines. Heraldic thistles are straight. The demi-pegasus should be put into a standard heraldic position.

Pasqual Cabarruvias de la Vara. Gules, on a pile throughout argent between two lightning flashes Or a mushroom gules.

NOTE: Device rejected. Resubmit with the blazon in the LoI so the CoA can comment.

Rhyance ap Llewellyn. Sable, a winged lion sejant affronté wings displayed, chased and in chief a Celtic cross chased argent.

NOTE: Device rejected. The device doesn't have sufficient contrast. The College of Arms has decided not to allow complex voiding or chasing because of the lack of contrast.

Susanna da Braun. Azure, a bend between an Easter lily reversed, slipped and leaved, and a unicorn rampant argent.

NOTE: Name rejected. Articles and their nouns must be in the same language. Either use von Braun or Braun or else translate Braun into Italian. Be sure you are using a correct translation of what you really want. (In Italian, brown or brunette is Bruna.) The device looks OK.

Yaroslav the Persistent. Badge for House Pounder, Gules, a phoenix displayed, head to sinister, rising from flames Or.

NOTE: Badge conflicts with the 39th U.S. Field Artillery Battalion: Gules, issuant from base a phoenix Or from flames proper.

END OF REJECTIONS

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

Wilhelm von Schlüssel

Laurel King of Arms