(to Æthelmearc acceptances) (to Æthelmearc returns)
This heraldic title is formed from an order name registered to the Kingdom as permitted in SENA NPN3E.
The submitter's previous name, Aoife Ruadh inghean uí Cnáimhsighe, is released.
Cold Keep is the registered name of an SCA branch.
Nice late 14th century English name!
Nice 16th century English name!
Submitted as Dagrún stjarna Ulriksdottir, Old Norse names must consistently use or remove accents throughout. As the accent appears on the given name, we have added it to the byname to achieve this consistency.
The submitter's previous name, Dagrún stjarna, is retained as an alternate.
Sergeantry of Dragon's Laire is a generic identifier.
Nice late period Florentine name!
Commenters questioned how early the pattern of triple given names in Italy is attested. "Names from 15th and 16th Century Pisa" by Juliana de Luna (https://heraldry.sca.org/kwhss/2014/Juliana_de_Luna/Names_from_15th_and_16th_Century_Pisa.pdf) documents this pattern as early as the 1460s. Palimpsest is requested to update SENA Appendix A to reflect this.
Nice late period Venetian name!
The submitter's previous device, Azure, in pale a garb and an ass rampant Or, is released.
Nice 16th century English name!
Nice 16th century French name from Lallaing!
Nice badge!
Nice 16th century Anglicized Irish name!
There is a step from core practice for the use of a compass star.
Nice 16th century English name!
(to An Tir acceptances) (to An Tir returns)
There is a step from core practice for the use of a hexagon.
There is a step from core practice for the use of a hexagon.
(to Ansteorra acceptances) (to Ansteorra returns)
Submitted as Order of Couriers of Radiance, this order name was not constructed correctly. The Letter of Intent asserted that this order name was intended to be named for a group of people delivering a virtue, but this is not an attested pattern for order names. The profession of courier existed throughout our period; in English, the concept of "courier service" as a compound word dates to the middle of the 15th century. However, this alone does not justify its use as a profession for purposes of an Order name, per previous precedent, which requires that orders can only be named after a group of person if they are either a heraldic charge (known by a distinctive manner of dress, as a fool or a monk), or a legendary group of people like the Grail-Templars. [Forgotten Sea, Barony of, 2/2018, A-Calontir]. Lillia Crampette found evidence of a messenger (bote) carrying a letter and a spear in the civic arms of Lauffen am Neckar, Germany (a place that was overseen by Frankish earls in the late 11th to early 13th C, and occupied by France at least once in the gray period). In addition, Iago Frankley found another example in the arms of Botzheimer from Austria dated to 1602. This evidence of a heraldic charge with a distinctive manner of dress makes a messenger or courier a profession that can be used in an order name. Further, Brunissende Qui s'y frotte s'y pique was able to find evidence of a river called Radiance in French. Therefore, we have changed this name to Ordre des Courriers de Radiance in order to register it. This order name follows the attested period pattern of orders named for groups of people + placename.
This device was pended for redraw on the July 2022 LoAR to make the estoile and unicorn's head more clearly co-primary. Quarterstaff provided new artwork which the submitter approved.
This wheel and the sable variant accepted elsewhere on this letter are the defining instances of a rimless wheel in Society armory. It is found in the Florentine arms of Bonsi, Azure, a rimless wheel Or, depicted in Insigna Florentinorum, BSB Cod. Icon. 277 [S.1.] Italien, 1550-1555 [BSB HssCod, Icon. 277], f.36r (http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00001424/image_79).
This is not in conflict with László Rózsa, Per fess azure and gules, a wheel Or. There is a DC for fieldlessness. As both a wheel and a rimless wheel are period charges, we will grant a DC between them.
Nor is this in conflict with the badge for Kál-Bárðr Gellir, (Fieldless) A cogwheel Or. There is a DC for fieldlessness and at least a DC between a cogwheel and a rimless wheel.
Nice badge!
This wheel and the Or variant accepted elsewhere on this letter are the defining instances of a rimless wheel in Society armory. It is found in the Florentine arms of Bonsi, Azure, a rimless wheel Or, depicted in Insigna Florentinorum, BSB Cod. Icon. 277 [S.1.] Italien, 1550-1555 [BSB HssCod, Icon. 277], f.36r (http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00001424/image_79).
This is not in conflict with the badge for Beatrix Elizabeth de Lara, Per pall inverted azure, sable and argent, in base a Catherine wheel sable. There is a DC for removing the field and at least a DC between a Catherine wheel and a rimless wheel.
Nice badge!
(to Atenveldt acceptances) (to Atenveldt returns)
Nice 16th century English name!
Nice badge!
There is a step from core practice for the use of lightning bolts outside of the context of a thunderbolt.
(to Avacal acceptances) (to Avacal returns)
This badge conflicts with the device of Togashi Kih{o-}, Sable, on a bezant a lozenge ployé throughout sable, with only one DC for changing the type of tertiary charge. However, Kih{o-} grants permission to conflict for all armory that does not contain a lozenge ployé.
This does not conflict with the device for Gwynaeth Math o Ddylluan, Sable, a bezant charged with a raven on a branch bendwise all sable. The branch is large enough to be in the same charge group as the raven, therefore there is a DC for the number of tertiary charges and another for their type.
The submitter requested the use of the named motif, cross of Caid.
(to Caid acceptances) (to Caid returns)
Nice 13th-14th century English name!
Nice cant!
This is an appeal of the original February 1991 return for using a surname as a given name. At the time, precedent required that "the use of surnames as given names should be limited to surnames actually shown to have been used as given names in period." This precedent was overturned in April 2010, when a more general pattern of late period surnames in England being used as given names was established, and so we may joyfully register this name.
Nice 15th century Irish Gaelic name!
Nice badge!
This name combines a Turkish given name and an Arabic byname, an acceptable lingual mix post-1100 per SENA Appendix C.
The submitter's previous name, Miakushka Loshkina, is released.
Submitted as Týki Mikaelson, this byname is not constructed correctly. The patronymic byname formed from the Old Norse given name Mikael is Mikaelsson. We have made this change for registration.
The Roman cognomen Zoe is found in several inscriptions cataloged in the Epigraphic Database Heidelberg as documented by Gwen Recorder.
Nice Imperial Roman name!
For conflict checking purposes, the rat is half sable and half purpure. Morsulus has been asked to note this in the O&A.
(to Calontir acceptances) (to Calontir returns)
Submitted as laiva Aarnimetsän Ankka, designators in non-personal names should be capitalized. As laiva 'ship' is the designator here, we have capitalized it for registration.
This household name is based on the attested pattern for naming ships. While most ship's crews were known as Company of X, the OED sv ship, n.1, shows the meaning of "ship's company or crew" dated to the 14th century. Therefore, this designator is acceptable for a household name based on a ship name either as lingua Societatis in places Swedish and Finnish are spoken or in period Finnish and Swedish ship names.
Commenters questioned whether or not using the registered branch name Aarnimetsä in a personal household name based on this pattern was a violation of SENA NPN3D. In this case, it is not. Many private ships across Europe in our period were named for the ports they sailed from or the place that they were built. We therefore rule that household names based on ship names are exempted from the standards for affiliation conflict set out in SENA NPN3D, and they may use registered names of branches without the name unmistakably implying ownership by that branch.
We direct Palimpsest to open a Rules Letter updating SENA with this exception, and to add Ship and Laiva to the approved list of designators in SENA Appendix E4.
The submitter's previous device, Quarterly Or and purpure, a horse courant to sinister counterchanged, is released.
Nice device!
(to Drachenwald acceptances) (to Drachenwald returns)
This is the defining instance of a tent hook in Society armory, found in the arms of Jorg Stier von Wofeldorff as depicted in Vigil Waber's Neustifter Wappenbuch, plate 54 (https://manuscripta.at/diglit/IT5000-sn5/0058), blazoned In Silber gekreuzte schwarze Zelthaken ("On silver, crossed black tent-hooks").
Nice badge!
The submitter's previous badge, Gules, a cross formy between four trilliums argent, is released.
(to Ealdormere acceptances) (to Ealdormere returns)
We wish to thank Alisoun Metron Ariston for her research into the Doric dialect of Greek, allowing us to register this name as submitted.
There is a step from core practice for the use of animate charges in annulo not in their default orientation.
(to East acceptances) (to East returns)
Submitted as Katla D{o.}rruðardottir, this name is not constructed correctly. The Old Norse given name D{o.}rruðr becomes Darruðar- in the genitive (possessive) case, making the patronymic form Darruðardóttir. We have made this change for registration.
No documentation was provided for the given name Liv that was compatible with the late period English byname Toote. However, Lillia Crampette was able to find evidence of the English surname Live in the second half of the 16th century. The terminal e on English names is variable; therefore the spelling Liv is a plausible variant. Accordingly, we can use this as a given name per SENA Appendix A, and this name may be registered as submitted.
Axemoor is the registered name of an SCA branch.
This device does not conflict with the badge of Katrei Grünenberg, (Fieldless) A pantheon rampant argent, mullety purpure. There is an SC for the difference between a panther and a pantheon.
Nice device!
(to Gleann Abhann acceptances) (to Gleann Abhann returns)
There is a step from core practice for the use of a pawprint.
Nice 16th century Spanish name!
Nice device!
The submitter's previous device, Argent, a raven contourny, on a chief sable three bells Or, is retained as a badge.
The submitter's previous device, Per pall argent, gules and azure, a mullet azure and two columbines argent, a bordure embattled Or, is retained as a badge.
The submitter's previous name, Peter du Gant Noir, is retained as an alternate.
(to Lochac acceptances) (to Lochac returns)
This does not conflict with the device for Brice Armbruster, Argent, a crossbow azure. There is a DC for removing the field and another for the type of bow.
There is no longer a step from core practice for the use of a Persian double-bow.
Nice badge!
(to Middle acceptances) (to Middle returns)
There is a step from core practice for the use of modern, trapezoidal shaped apples.
(to Outlands acceptances) (to Outlands returns)
Vakkerfjell is the registered name of an SCA branch.
Nice device!
Submitted as Aodh An Ard Mac An Gobhann, this name was not constructed correctly. When presented with several options, the submitter chose the form Aodh_ Ard Mac An Gobhann. We are happy to make this change for registration.
Submitted as Arnóra Ulfsdotter, this name is not constructed correctly for Old Norse. The Old Norse patronymic formed from the given name Úlfr is Úlfsdóttir. We have made these changes for registration.
The submitter might be interested to know that the form of this name appropriate for later period Sweden and Norway is Arnora Ulfsdotter. If they are interested in this form, they may make a request for reconsideration.
Commenters questioned whether or not the given name Fraye created the appearance of using a form of address as a given name. It does not. The Spanish title fray 'friar' was never used for women; it appears exclusively as a masculine title in our period. As this name is feminine, it is not possible for Fraye to be seen as a title here. Therefore, this name may be registered as submitted.
There is a step from core practice for the use of a chief doubly enarched.
Submitted under the name Ceara inghean Alcan.
Vakkerfjell is the registered name of an SCA branch.
Though Miranda was documented as the submitter's legal given name, they need not rely on the legal name allowance; Juliana Siren was able to document the name Miranda in "Names from 14th century Périgueux" by Aryanhwy merch Catmael (https://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/french/perigueux.html).
Vakkerfjell is the registered name of an SCA branch.
Nice 10th century Irish Gaelic name!
Nice device!
The submitter might be interested to know that the spelling Bjornsson is attested from the end of the 14th century onward. The earlier period attested spelling is Bjarnarson. If they are interested in the name Tryggr Bjarnarson, they may make a request for reconsideration.
(to West acceptances) (to West returns)
- Explicit littera accipiendorum -
This badge is returned per SENA Appendix I, with the spider being barely overall. Given the nature of the charges in question, we do not consider this a good candidate for a pend for redraw.
(to Æthelmearc acceptances) (to Æthelmearc returns)
This device is returned for conflict with the device of Marija Kotok, Gules, a Ukrainian trident head and a bordure argent, with only a single DC for the change in tincture of the primary charge.
(to An Tir acceptances) (to An Tir returns)
None.
(to Ansteorra acceptances) (to Ansteorra returns)
This device is return for lack of documentation for counterchanging a non-ordinary over a pile. SENA A3F4 which says: "Central ordinaries may be counterchanged over other simple ordinaries, as there are a few examples of patterns like Argent, a pile sable, overall a chevron counterchanged in late period England. Any other counterchanging of charges over other charges must similarly be attested to be registered."
(to Atenveldt acceptances) (to Atenveldt returns)
None.
(to Avacal acceptances) (to Avacal returns)
This submission is returned for conflict with the non-SCA arms of Granada, Argent, a pomegranate Or slipped and leaved vert and with the badge of Allaine de Beaumont of Glastonbury, (Fieldless) A pomegranate slipped and leaved Or. While a change in posture would normally grant a DC in orientable charges, the difference it might provide to a pomegranate is not worth a DC. There are two things here that would contribute to the orientability of the pomegranate: the slip and leaves, and the seeding of the fruit itself. While common depictions of the fruit show a definite orientation to the seeding, we note that this is merely an artistic detail: it need not be palewise, as seen in depictions found in Fontana, Giacomo: Insegne di vari prencipi et case illustri d'Italia, 1605 Italian (Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, alfa. t. 4. 12), f. 9r, and in Livre d'armoiries d'Anthoine de Brouilly, 1569 French (Paris, BnF, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. Ms-5027), f. 46v. As such, we consider the pomegranate fruit not to be orientable, and it would be necessary in that case to consider the slip and leaves. Existing precedent for roses -- themselves an unorientable charge -- states that while we might blazon the orientation of any slip and leaves, it does not grant difference: "The rose is blazoned as bendwise because of the orientation of the slip and leaves. These are equivalent to maintained charges and thus neither require good contrast with the field nor contribute to difference. No difference is granted for the orientation of a rose, though an orientation may be blazoned when the rose is slipped." [Lucia Magna, 03/2008, A-An Tir]
The combination of these factors lead us to grant no DC for orientation of a pomegranate slipped and leaved.
This device is returned for lack of documentation of the posture of the butterfly. In the June 2019 LoAR, reaffirmed in December 2019, we stated:
Finally, this design must be returned for use of a disallowed posture for butterflies. In the February 2015 return of the badge of Cillene O Caollaidhe, which used a butterfly rising, wings addorsed, it was ruled, "This device is returned for redraw for using a butterfly in a posture that wasn't documented as a period posture for insects."
This butterfly likewise has addorsed wings.
(to Caid acceptances) (to Caid returns)
This badge is returned per the August 2015 Cover Letter: "A held or conjoined charge which is not identifiable will render the design unregisterable. A charge may be rendered unidentifiable through the usual methods, including reduction in size, poor contrast, etc..." [emphasis added]. As the held acorn has poor contrast with the field, this design is unregisterable.
This badge may also be returnable per SENA A3D1a which says, "Having identical types of charges in multiple charge groups on the field blurs the distinction between charge groups. Thus, it is not allowed, except for cotises and endorses around an ordinary." This design has acorns in two different charge groups on the field, in violation of this rule.
We decline at this time to consider whether SENA A3D1a also applies to closely associated charges, i.e. having a squirrel maintain an acorn while also having secondary acorns on the field. On resubmission, documentation should be provided to address this question.
(to Calontir acceptances) (to Calontir returns)
None.
(to Drachenwald acceptances) (to Drachenwald returns)
None.
(to Ealdormere acceptances) (to Ealdormere returns)
None.
(to East acceptances) (to East returns)
None.
(to Gleann Abhann acceptances) (to Gleann Abhann returns)
None.
(to Lochac acceptances) (to Lochac returns)
This device is returned for conflict with the non-SCA flag for Burkina Faso, Per fess gules and vert, a mullet Or. There is a DC for changes to the field; however, per SENA Appendix M there is no difference granted between mullets of any number of points. On resubmission, it should be noted that per the October 2013 Cover Letter, both regular mullets elongated palewise and compass stars elongated to base require documentation showing the practice in period armory. While we have not made an explicit decision regarding compass stars elongated both to chief as well to base, the submission should include documentation to address that question, which is raised in this design.
There is a step from core practice for the use of a compass star.
(to Middle acceptances) (to Middle returns)
None.
(to Outlands acceptances) (to Outlands returns)
This device is returned for poor contrast between the wooden torch and the field.
This name is returned for a violation of SENA PN1B1, which says in part, "A registerable name phrase...may not mix languages unless that mixing of languages within a name phrase is attested as a period practice." This name combines the Gaelic relationship marker inghean with the Spanish byname Alcan. This lingual mix is not permitted in SENA Appendix C, nor was any documentation provided that would allow us to register such mixes. Lacking such evidence, we must return this name.
The submitter's device is registered under the holding name Jennifer of Oertha.
(to West acceptances) (to West returns)
- Explicit littera renuntiationum -
- Explicit -
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