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

The following submissions were registered by the SCA College of Arms, August 2012:

Belle Cerise. Name (see RETURNS for device).

The byname was not dated on the Letter of Intent. Green Staff was able to find the byname between 1366 and 1372.

Edric the Unsteady. Blanket permission to conflict with name.

The submitter allows the registration of any name not identical to his registered name.

Edric the Unsteady. Blanket permission to conflict with device. Argent, a lymphad sails furled and oars in action sable, pennoned and in dexter chief an estoile gules, all within a bordure sable.

Edric grants permission to conflict for all armory which is not identical to his device.

Edric the Unsteady. Blanket permission to conflict with badge. Argent, an estoile gyronny of six gules and sable within a bordure sable.

Edric grants permission to conflict for all armory which is not identical to his badge.

Edric the Unsteady. Blanket permission to conflict with badge. Argent, a cross conjoined to a bend sinister within a bordure gules.

Edric grants permission to conflict for all armory which is not identical to his badge.

Edric the Unsteady. Blanket permission to conflict with badge. Vert, a cockatrice erect maintaining in its upraised dexter claw a needle palewise, point to chief, within a bordure engrailed Or.

Edric grants permission to conflict for all armory which is not identical to his badge.

Erik the Relentless. Blanket permission to conflict with device. Purpure chapé ployé, a standing seraph argent.

Erik grants permission to conflict for all armory which is at least one countable step (DC) from his device.

Jocelyn Playndeamours. Name.

Appearing on the Letter of Intent as Jocelyn Payndeamours, the forms and documentation have Jocelyn Playndeamours; we have restored the name to its submitted form.

John the Idiota. Reblazon of device. Gules, a woolly spider monkey rampant grasping with its upraised tail a pouch Or.

Blazoned when registered in August 1982 as Gules, a woolly spider monkey rampant proper grasping with its upraised tail a pouch Or, the monkey is primarily Or.

Lionet de la Rose Blanche. Reblazon of device. Argent, a triquetra azure fretted with a triangle inverted voided gules.

Blazoned when registered in March 1989 as Argent, a triquetra azure within and fretted with a triangle inverted gules, the triangle is voided.

Raylene of the Whispering Woods. Blanket permission to conflict with name.

Raylene's heir allows the registration of any name not identical to her registered name.

Raylene of the Whispering Woods. Blanket permission to conflict with device. Per bend vert and argent, a bend engrailed between a hare salient and two frogs sejant, a bordure engrailed, all counterchanged.

Raylene's heir grants permission to conflict for all armory that is not identical to her device.

Simon the Christian. Reblazon of device. Argent, in pale a sun azure charged with a mullet argent and a fox couchant sable.

Blazoned when registered in June 1971 as Argent, a fox couchant sable beneath a mullet argent upon a sun azure, the fox and the sun are co-primary charges.

Sveinbi{o,}rn Halbiornson. Name.

Submitted as Sveinbi{o,}rn Hallbi{o,}rnson, the submitter allows minor changes but also requested that his byname not be changed to Hallbjarnarson if at all possible. This instruction overrules the minor changes request.

Halbiorn is a Swedish masculine name. It is found as a header form in the SMP; it is dated as Halbyornn to 1523-4. Other compounds using these elements are found from Norse times through to the 16th century. Given other bynames formed from names ending in -bjorn, Halbiornson is a plausible byname, though Halbiornsson would be more typical. Halbiornsson is also found in Norwegian (Lind s.n. Hallbiorn). We have changed the name to Halbiornson to meet the submitter's request.

This combination of elements is registerable under the Standards for Evaluation; the elements are from a single naming group and are dated to within 500 years of one another. Therefore it can be registered. The combination is not registerable under the Rules for Submissions; it has a step from period practice for the lingual mix of Old Norse and Swedish or Norwegian and a second for a gap of more than 300 years between the elements.

Victoria of the Vales of Barnsdale. Augmentation of arms. Or, an insect-winged naked woman passant, wings chased, azure, and for augmentation on a canton sable in pale a coronet and a sunburst Or clouded argent.

The submitter is a viscountess and thus entitled to the display of a coronet.



The following submissions are returned by the College of Arms for further work, August 2012:

Belle Cerise. Device. Gules, on a bend cotised argent a branch of three pink cherry blossoms throughout proper.

This device is returned for redraw, for violating section VII.7.a of the Rules for Submissions which requires that "Elements must be recognizable solely from their appearance." This is repeated in section A2C2 of the Standards for Evaluation which states "Elements must be drawn to be identifiable." These cherry blossoms proper are not identifiable as such. The depiction shows three pink flowers with leaves, spaced evenly along a branch. Both the common wild cherry and sour cherry varieties found in Europe have white flowers, not pink, and are typically borne in clusters. Without evidence that pink variants existed in period, they are not registerable.

Donngal de Buchanan. Badge. Vert, a bird volant bendwise within a bordure engrailed Or charged in chief with the phrase "We do it because" and in base with "we can" sable.

Blazoned on the Letter of Intent as a raven, the bird is not identifiable as a raven. With the turned-down beak and large rounded head, it looks more like a popinjay. We have thus reblazoned it as a generic bird.

This badge is returned for redraw, for using writing in a non-medieval hand. Precedent says:

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, the phrasing here is written in modern block-print capital letters, and so must be returned.

The submitter may wish to know that a more period style of placing the motto would be to have it run all the way around the bordure, with the letters turning as the bordure turns, but the placement here itself is registerable.

Vallaulfr Rurikson. Removal of joint owner Cécile de Brétigny for badge. Per pale indented azure and argent, a wolf argent and a unicorn gules combatant, both gorged and chained Or.

This removal of the joint owner from this badge is returned because no paperwork was received: a violation of section IV.C of the Administrative Handbook, which requires complete paperwork. While a submission form is not necessary for this type of action, we do require some sort of statement from the submitter about what action they wish to have taken.

Also note that while the request for removal of the joint owner came from Cécile, for administrative reasons we must list it under the primary owner's name. The primary owner's permission is not needed to remove the secondary owner at the request of the secondary owner.
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