Katherine Forsyth

The Ogham alphabet

Katherine Stuart Forsyth (* 1967 ) is a Scottish historian who specializes in the history and culture of the Celtic peoples in the 1st millennium AD, particularly the Picts. She is currently a professor of Celtic and Gaelic at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.

Forsyth is an expert on the Ogham script . Her descriptions of the Bornais bone plate , the Buckquoy hand spindle and the Lunnasting stone are well known . She advocates the thesis that the Picts used a British language , while the prevailing opinion up to now was that the Ogham script shows a pre-Indo-European substratum .

She began her studies at the University of Cambridge and earned a PhD in Celtic Language and Literature from Harvard University . After studying at the University of Oxford and University College London , she began teaching at the University of Glasgow in 1998 .

Publications

• The ogham-inscribed spindle-whorl from Buckquoy: evidence for the Irish language in pre-Viking Orkney? . In: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. 125, 1995, pp. 677-696.
• Language in Pictland: spoken and written. In: EH Nicoll, K. Forsyth (eds.): A Pictish Panorama: the story of the Picts . Pinkfoot Press, 1995, ISBN 1-874012-10-5 .
• Some thoughts on Pictish symbols as a formal writing system. In: I. Henderson, D. Henry (Eds.): The Worm, the Germ and the Thorn: Pictish and Related Studies Presented to Isabel Henderson . Pinkfoot Press, 1995, ISBN 1-874012-17-2 .
• E. Okasha, K. Forsyth: Early Christian inscriptions of Munster: a corpus of the inscribed stones. Cork University Press, Cork 2001, ISBN 1-85918-170-8 .
• HIC MEMORIA PERPETUA: the inscribed stones of sub-Roman southern Scotland. In: SM Foster, M. Cross (Eds.): Able Minds and Practiced Hands: Scotland's Early Medieval Sculpture in the Twenty-First Century . Society for Medieval Archeology Monograph Series (23). Society for Medieval Archeology, 2005, ISBN 1-904350-74-7 .
• An ogham-inscribed plaque from Bornais, South Uist. In: B. Ballin-Smith, S. Taylor, G. Williams (Eds.): West over Sea: Studies in Scandinavian Sea-Borne Expansion and Settlement Before 1300. Brill, Leiden 2007, ISBN 978-90-04-15893- 1 .
• K. Forsyth (Ed.): Studies on the Book of Deer. Four Courts Press, Dublin 2008, ISBN 978-1-85182-569-1 .
• RC Barrowman, K. Forsyth: An Ogham-Inscribed Slab from St Ninian's Isle, Found in 1876. In: The Chapel and Burial Ground on St Ninian's Isle, Shetland. Excavations past and present. Society for Medieval Archeology, 2011.

Web links

• Photo of Katherine Forsyth and a short résumé
• Katherine Forsyth's web site at the University of Glasgow

proof

1. ↑ Brian Smith: The Picts and the Martyrs: Did Vikings kill the native population of Orkney and Shetland
2. ^ Smithsonianjourneys.org