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Atenveldt Submissions (excerpted from the S.C.A. College of Arms' Letters of Acceptance and Return)

The following submissions have been registered by the S.C.A. College of Arms, March 2012:

Adela O Hearne. Name and device. Azure chape ployé, a phoenix and in chief a heart argent.


Anna Sophie von Creutznach. Name.

Submitted as Anna Sophie von Kreuznach, the byname was not dated to period. The only period spelling commenters were able to find was Creutznach. We have changed it to that spelling in order to register the name.


Ariya Arkadova. Reblazon of device. Vairy Or and sable, a calamarie gules.

Blazoned when registered in August 1992 as Vairy Or and sable, a kraken gules., we are reblazoning the kraken as a calamarie in order to use a period term for the creature.


Iona Putnika. Reblazon of device. Or, a polypus and a gore vert.

Blazoned when registered in April 2004 as Or, an octopus and a gore vert., we are reblazoning the octopus as a polypus in order to use a period term for the creature.


Johnny Rooke. Reblazon of device. Per fess gules and sable, a polypus and two demi-skeletons respectant arms extended and crossed in saltire argent.

Blazoned when registered in March 2006 as Per fess gules and sable, an octopus and two demi-skeletons respectant arms extended and crossed in saltire argent., we are reblazoning the octopus as a polypus in order to use a period term for the creature.


Orin the Late. Reblazon of badge. (Fieldless) On a calamarie gules a goutte d'eau.

Blazoned when registered in September 1991 as (Fieldless) A kraken gules charged with a goutte d'eau., we are reblazoning the kraken as a calamarie in order to use a period term for the creature.


Robert Redbowe. Name.


Romanus Rodrigo. Reblazon of badge. (Fieldless) A polypus azure charged with a caltrap argent.

Blazoned when registered in August 2007 as (Fieldless) An octopus azure charged with a caltrap argent., we are reblazoning the octopus as a polypus in order to use a period term for the creature.


Rylan MacLean. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Rylan is the submitter's legal middle name; it is both a surname and given name in type, and could be registered as either. While MacClean or MacClane are more common period spellings of this byname, multiple citations, including Maclein 1586 and Maclane 1545 (both from Black s.n. MacLean), make it clear that MacLean is a plausible late period spelling of the byname. The submitter requested authenticity for Scottish language and culture; as the given name is the submitter's legal name, we cannot meet that authenticity request.


Sæunn kerling. Reblazon of device. Argent, a calamarie purpure and a chief rayonny azure.

Blazoned when registered in March 2005 as Argent, a kraken purpure and a chief rayonny azure., we are reblazoning the kraken as a calamarie in order to use a period term for the creature.


Thomas of Atenveldt. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Per pale sable and argent all semy of anvils, on a bend sinister four reremice palewise counterchanged.

Please advise the submitter that the anvils should be shifted slightly on the field so that they are less obscured by the other charges and more readily identifiable. Submitted under the name Seelos Massmann.


Twin Moons, Barony of. Badge. Azure, on a pall inverted bretessed between in chief two increscents argent a spiked mace azure.


Yashka the Nomad. Reblazon of device. Argent, a calamarie inverted winged gules.

Blazoned when registered in July 2009 as Argent, a kraken inverted winged gules., we are reblazoning the kraken as a calamarie in order to use a period term for the creature.


The following submissions were returned by the College of Arms for further work, March 2012:


Énán Mac Cormaicc. Device. Per pale argent and vert, the uppercase Greek letter phi sable between in chief a triskele and a tankard counterchanged.

We can do no better than to quote the previous return of this exact device in June 2011: We require letters, when used as charges, to be drawn in a medieval hand: This badge must be returned for the use of non-period charges: the capital letters H and S are modern sans-serif letters, with lines of equal width. Medieval letters, both in calligraphy and in carving, had different widths for the different strokes; and while there are some examples of sans-serif letters from ancient times, the majority of medieval letters were serifed. The letters used here are obtrusively modern in style. [Garrick of Shadowdale, R-02-2008]

Similarly, Greek letters should be drawn in a style that matches period hands.

While the depiction of the uppercase Greek letter phi is greatly improved over the previous version, no documentation was provided to prove it matches a period hand; instead it looks like a modern typeface. Please suggest the submitter take a look at the sample page from Lectionary 1, a Greek manuscript of the New Testament dating to the 10th Century, found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectionary_1, for a similar-shaped depiction that he may prefer.


Rylan MacLean. Device. Quarterly gules and argent, on a sun eclipsed counterchanged a fleur-de-lys Or.

This device is returned for violating section VIII.1.c.ii of the Rules for Submissions, which requires that "All charges should be placed either directly on the field or entirely on other charges that lie on the field." Per precedent, "Eclipsing the sun has long been considered the equivalent of adding a tertiary charge" [Yaasamiin al-Raqqasa al-'Ala'iyiyya,­ R-Artemisia, Nov 2004 LoAR], which makes the fleur-de-lys a fourth layer, and thus unregisterable.


Seelos Massmann. Name.

As submitted, this name consists of two bynames and no given name; we require all submissions to include a given name and at least one byname. The submitter may want to consider adding a given name like Johannes, making the name Johannes Seelos Massman.

His device was registered under the holding name Thomas of Atenveldt.
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