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Ogham (also ogam and ogom, [4] / ˈ ɒ ɡ əm / OG-əm, [5] Modern Irish: [ˈoː(ə)mˠ]; Middle Irish: ogum, ogom, later ogam [ˈɔɣəmˠ] [6] [7]) is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the early Irish language (in the "orthodox" inscriptions, 4th to 6th centuries AD), and later the Old Irish language (scholastic ogham, 6th to 9th centuries).
Ogham itself is an Early Medieval form of alphabet or cipher, sometimes also known as the "Celtic Tree Alphabet". A number of different numbering schemes are used. The most common is after R. A. S. Macalister 's Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum ( CIIC ).
No. 73 Ogam Airenach/ Shield Ogham: rothogam roigni roscadhaig, the "wheel ogham of Roigne Roscadach" No. 74 Rothogam Roigni Roscadhaig/Wheel Ogham of Roigne Roscadach: The name Roigne Roscadach means 'Choicest Rhetoric' so again there is a link with poetry. This ogham looks like a wooden wheel or shield, with the letter c repeated to look like ...
The five "aicme" forfeda are glossed in the manuscripts Auraicept na n-Éces ('The Scholars' Primer), De dúilib feda ('Elements of the Letters') and In Lebor Ogaim ('The Book of Ogam'), by several Bríatharogaim ("word oghams"), or two word kennings, which explain the meanings of the names of the letters of the Ogham alphabet.
In early Irish literature, a Bríatharogam ("word ogham", plural Bríatharogaim) is a two-word kenning which explains the meanings of the names of the letters of the Ogham alphabet. Three variant lists of bríatharogaim or "word-oghams" have been preserved, dating to the Old Irish period. They are as follows: Bríatharogam Morainn mac Moín
The majority of ogham inscriptions are memorials, consisting of the name of the deceased in the genitive case, followed by MAQI, MAQQI, "[the stone] of the son" (Modern Irish mic), and the name of his father, or AVI, AVVI, "[the stone] of the grandson", (Modern Irish uí) and the name of his grandfather, e.g. DALAGNI MAQI DALI, "[the stone] of ...
The Silchester Ogham stone is a pillar stone discovered at the Roman town on Calleva Atrebatum in Silchester, Hampshire during excavations in 1893. [1] Thus far it remains the only one of its kind found in England, and the only ogham inscription in England east of Cornwall and Devon .
Comét lachta, guarding of milk, to wit, that is the Ogham [called] Fern, f, from alder of the forests, for it is it that guards the milk, for of it are made the vessels containing the milk. [3] The "redness alike" here refers to a property of alder wood that when cut turns from white to blood-red, another reason the tree's association with ...