Eastern Results from the October 2019 Letter of Acceptances and Returns
(For those who aren’t familiar with the heraldic process, Violet Mosaic is now posting the East Kingdom-level decisions to the Gazette, but after a submission passes through the East, it needs to go through a second level of review at the Society level. These are the FINAL Society-level decisions on submissions from the East, reflecting what has actually been registered or returned. – Mistress Alys Mackyntoich, Heraldry Editor)
The Society College of Arms runs on monthly cycles and letters. Each month, the College processes name and armory submissions from all of the Kingdoms. Final decisions on submissions are made at the monthly meetings of the Pelican Queen of Arms (names) and the Wreath King of Arms (armory). Pelican and Wreath then write up their decisions in a Letter of Acceptances and Return (LoAR). After review and proofreading, LoARs generally are released two months after the meeting where the decisions are made.
An “acceptance” indicates that the item(s) listed are now registered with the Society. A “return” indicates that the item is returned to the submitter for additional work. Most items are registered without comments. Sometimes, the LoAR will address specific issues about the name or armory or will praise the submitter/herald on putting together a very nice historically accurate item.
The following results are from the October 2019 Wreath and Pelican meetings.
EAST acceptances
Ageirr the Lucky. Name and device. Or, two foxes salient respectant gules, in base a sheaf of five arrows sable.
Artist’s note: Please draw all charges larger.
Alastar Tucker. Name.
The spelling Alastar appears in the Gaelic Annals of Loch Cé, referring to events in the 16th century.
This name combines a Gaelic given name with an English surname, an acceptable lingual mix under Appendix C.
Alienor Salton. Badge. Per pale purpure and Or.
Nice badge! The submitter has permission for her badge to conflict with the badge of Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin, Per pale vert and Or.
Amalie von Hohensee. Name and device. Azure, three seeblätter one and two, a trimount argent.
Artist’s note: Please draw the seeblätter larger.
Arngeirr Refskegg. Name and device. Per chevron argent and azure, two pairs of spears in saltire sable and a hummingbird hovering to sinister argent.
Nice 9th-10th century Icelandic name!
There is a step from period practice for the use of a New World hummingbird.
Bregowine of Horseheath. Device. Azure, a horse’s head couped argent crined gules and a chief Or.
Cathain Reiter. Name and device. Gules, a bow bendwise drawn and with a threaded needle nocked Or.
There is a step from period practice for loading a bow with an item other than an arrow.
Cathain Reiter. Badge. (Fieldless) A bow bendwise drawn and with a threaded needle nocked Or.
There is a step from period practice for loading a bow with an item other than an arrow.
Corotica Senebelenae. Name and device. Per chevron gules and sable, a wolf courant and a wheat stalk leaved argent.
Submitted as Corotica merkka Senebelenae, the marker merkka is not appropriate for this name. We were unable to find firm support for the form merkka or merka as a vernacular Brythonic marker. Moreover, the rest of the name is Latin and would not have used a vernacular patronymic/matronymic marker in any event. As the submitter allows all changes but specifically does not want the Latin marker filia, we have registered the name with an unmarked matronymic (an attested pattern for Latinized British names) in the form Corotica _ Senebelenae.
Dirkin MacWard. Device. Per pale vert and Or, a ram-headed torc counterchanged argent and sable.
Artist’s note: Please draw the heads of the rams attached to the body of the torc.
Eleanor de Astlye. Badge. Vert, three bees Or, in chief a hazel branch fesswise argent.
This badge was pended for redraw on the June 2019 LoAR.
Note: This depiction of a hazel branch is from the submitter’s device, and is allowed under the Existing Registration Allowance.
Elspet Catto. Name and device. Pean, two weasels combatant maintaining between them a wheel argent.
Gregor von Medehem. Device. Quarterly sable and gules, in bend two stags trippant argent.
This submission has permission to conflict with the device of Magdalena von Regensburg, Quarterly vert and argent, two hinds trippant argent.
Hildibrandr loðinkinni. Device. Per bend vert and sable, a beaver rampant vorant of a fish Or.
This device was pended for redraw on the June 2019 LoAR.
Kelsey Macpharlane. Device. Azure, a calamarie and on a chief argent a thistle vert headed purpure.
This device was pended for redraw on the June 2019 LoAR.
Lavinia du Bois. Device. Sable, on a bezant a pantheon rampant sable mullety, in base a hand Or.
Lavinia du Bois. Badge (see RETURNS for other badge). Sable, on a hand Or a brown bear’s head erased proper muzzled argent.
Mari Clock van Hoorne. Badge. (Fieldless) An owl argent crowned with a coronet Or pearled argent and maintaining in its talons a card-pique sable.
The submitter is a court baroness and is thus entitled to display a coronet.
Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin. Badge. Per pale vert and Or.
Nice badge! The submitter has permission for his badge to conflict with the badge of Aliener Salton, Per pale purpure and Or.
Østgarðr, Crown Province of. Order name Order of the Sea-Urchin of Østgarðr (see RETURNS for badge).
Submitted as Order of The Sea-Urchin of Østgarðr, we do not capitalize the articles in order names. Therefore, we have changed the name to Order of the Sea-Urchin of Østgarðr to use our standard style.
Østgarðr is the registered name of an SCA branch.
Rhode Kephalaina. Badge. (Fieldless) A calamarie per pale vert and purpure.
This badge was pended for redraw on the June 2019 LoAR.
Rudolf Siege. Device. Per pale azure and gules, on a cogwheel Or a dragon sable.
Shiklah al-Zarqa’. Name.
The submitter requested authenticity for an unspecified time, place or culture. Shiklah is a 9th century Arabic given name. However, we were unable to put a precise date on the Arabic epithet al-Zarqa’, although it appears as a name in literature from the Abbasid Caliphate (750-1258 C.E.). Thus, we cannot say for certain whether this name is authentic for 9th century Arabic, but it may well be.
Þorn hálftr{o,}ll. Name.
Tomislaus Kievich. Device. Gules, a man statant affronty arms upraised sustaining in chief a Viking longship hull Or.
This device was pended for redraw on the June 2019 LoAR.
Unna Rose. Name.
Rose is the submitter’s legal surname.
Vigthorn Rose. Name.
Rose is the submitter’s legal surname.
Vindiorix Ordovix. Name change from Finn the Black.
Submitted as Vindiorix Ordowik, the byname did not use the same transliteration conventions as the given name. PN2D requires names to use a single consistent transliteration system. As the submitter allows all changes, we have corrected the name to Vindiorix Ordovix for registration.
The submitter’s previous name, Finn the Black, is retained as an alternate name.
EAST returns
Angelina Capasso. Device change. Per pale gules and Or, a domestic cat rampant to sinister maintaining a daisy slipped argent and a domestic cat rampant sable maintaining a daisy slipped gules.
The December 2007 precedent ruling that identical maintained charges do not contribute to the appearance of marshalling is overturned (see the Cover Letter for complete details). Therefore, this device is returned for violation of SENA A6F2d, which states that “When any section of such a field contains…multiple charges of different types…, it creates the appearance of marshalling.” In this design, there are domestic cats and daisies on both sections of the field, which runs afoul of this rule.
Lavinia du Bois. Badge. Argent, on a fan of peacock feathers proper eyed gules a camel statant Or and in base a crescent azure.
This badge is returned for lack of documentation. No evidence was provided and none could be found for this form of a fan of feathers in period.
Ntisa Knarrarbringa. Name.
Submitted as Ntisa Knarrarbringa, the given name is not registerable because it is a runic form of an Old Norse name. Under SENA PN2D, only transliterated forms put into Latin script can be registered. The transliterated form of this name is Ádísa. However, the submitter did not like Ádísa or any of the other options offered to her. At her request, we are returning the name.
Østgarðr, Crown Province of. Badge for Order of the Sea-Urchin of Østgarðr. (Fieldless) A sea-urchin affronty argent tailed azure.
This device is returned for lack of documentation of the posture. No evidence was provided for sea-monsters created from quadrupeds in an affronty posture. The submitter cited the January 2018 Cover Letter, which limited affronty quadrupedal postures to sejant erect affronty, used as a step from period practice for all creatures other than lions, and asked whether this ban extended to sea-creatures. Absent evidence for the practice in period, sea-creatures based on quadrupeds should not be depicted affronty, but instead appear in profile.
Were sea-creatures affronty allowable, there would still be an issue of identifiability that would need to be addressed. The limbs of the sea-urchin appear entirely within the silhouette of the body, and submitters struggled to identify the creature other than as a “puff-ball.”
Roy de Basillon. Name.
This name must be returned for presumption under PN4B1. Roy is a period variant spelling of the French title Roi or “king.” PN4B1 states that “[g]iven names that are identical to titles and forms of address may be registered in contexts that make it clear that they are given names and not titles.” Because Roy is followed by a locative byname, this name can be read as a claim to be the King of a place named Basillon. Therefore, the name is presumptuous and cannot be registered.