Ogham script in modern times
The Ogham script in modern times exemplarily describes the use of the Ogham characters in the last centuries up to the most recent times - that is, long after the heyday of Ogham use from around 400 to 700 AD. Also over the many centuries The knowledge and knowledge of the Ogham script and its application has been preserved up to our time in Ireland .
Ogham usage in the 18th and 19th centuries
Altar stone
A portable altar stone with Ogham inscription dates from around 1800 AD , originally from County Limerick and now on display in the National Museum of Ireland . Along the edges of this altar stone, the name and profession of the owner, namely FATHER LAURENCE HARTNETT PARISH PRIEST OF CROOM (Father Laurence Hartnett, Parish Priest of Croom) are carved in clear Ogham letters.
Owner names on wagons
The Irish scientist and writer Robert Lloyd Praeger (1865–1953) reports the following incident: “In the early centuries of the Christian era, the Ogham alphabet appeared - an interesting but clumsy way of writing. It was only in use for a few centuries because the almost simultaneous introduction of the Latin script soon supplanted it. But it remained in the knowledge of the people for a long time. This shows the amazing occurrence that in the early 19th century a farmer named Collins, who lived near the Old Head of Kinsale, was prosecuted by the police for not having his name properly written on his wagon. But the name was there - in Ogham. It is recorded ... that Pastor Daniel O'Sullivan obtained his release. But the judge recommended that he add a translation to the drawbar of the car in order to avoid problems in the future. "
Mount Callan Stone
The Mount Callan Stone was made around 1780 AD. Its discovery and the discussion about its authenticity were the immediate trigger and the beginning of scientific research into the other Ogham stones.
Ahenny stone
The Ahenny Stone , a tombstone erected in 1802 for a 17-year-old girl, has an Ogham inscription that was no longer typical as a tombstone inscription in the 19th century.
Recent Ogham inscriptions
Ogham alphabet in Ramelton
All 20 Ogham letters with a translation of the individual characters into Latin letters are a recent design on a so-called Art Bench. It is a limestone bench . It is located in Dave Gallaher Park in Ramelton , County Donegal , Ireland.
Ogham stone in Lifford
An Ogham stone was only recently set up in Lifford, County Donegal , Ireland . The characters are to be read from bottom to top.
- Transmission:
- DONEGAL CO CL (for "Donegal County Council")
- Translation:
- "Donegal County Council"
Name in Ogham on slate
The first name COURTNEY is carved into a slate from 2011. Since Y is absent from the Ogham alphabet, it has been replaced with I. The reading direction is from top to bottom.
Ogham sign on book covers
Ogham characters can also be found on many book covers these days, for example on the front cover of the English-language novel "Ogam Revisited" by Adam Dumphey. In the plot, an Ogham inscription on a rock changes a man's life. The book was published in 2007 in Bloomington (Indiana) , USA.
Ogham symbols can also be found on the front cover of the English book “The Poet's Ogam. A Living Magical Tradition ”. This book by the Irish author John-Paul Patton was published in Belfast in 2010 . The Ogham letters are read from bottom to top. They have no word meaning; only all characters with five lines of the four character groups are shown. Transmission: IRQN
Two Forfeda and thirteen other Ogham characters are depicted on the front cover of a Russian book by the author Vladimir Leonovich Amfiteatrov. The Forfeda are additional Ogham characters developed later, which were not formed until the 7th century, i.e. after the heyday of Ogham use, and were used almost exclusively in manuscripts. Transmission of the characters from bottom to top: HABU AE (also CH and X) Z (left); AOIEQ (center); BNG UI (right). The book was published in Moscow in 2013 .
The Ogham letters for BLVSHDTCAOUE (bottom to top) are on the front cover of the English book "Pheryllt II" by Joshua Free. The book was published in 2016 in Greenwood Village / Colorado , USA.
Examples of Ogham characters on books
"Ogam Revisited" - 2007
"The Poet's Ogam" - 2010
"Pheryllt II" - 2016
literature
- Dumphey, Adam: Ogam Revisited, Bloomington / Indiana 2007
- Ferguson, Samuel: On the Ogham-Inscribed Stone on Callan Mountain, Co. Clare, in: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Polite Literature and Antiquities 1 (1879), pp. 160–171. JSTOR 20489945
- Free, Joshua: Pheryllt II, Greenwood Village / Colorado 2016
- Haughton, Brian: History's Mysteries. People, Places and Oddities Lost in the Sands of Time, Pompton Plains / New Jersey 2010
- de hÓir, Siobhán: The Mount Callan Ogham Stone and Its Context , in: NMAJ (North Munster Antiquarian Journal) 25 (1983), pp. 43–57
- Patton, John-Paul: The Poet's Ogam. A Living Magical Tradition, Belfast 2010
- Praeger, Robert Lloyd: The Way That I Went, Wilton / Cork 2014
- Raftery, Barry: A Late Ogham Inscription from Co. Tipperary, in: JRSAI (Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland) 99/2 (1969), pp. 161-164. JSTOR 25509718
- Ziegler, Sabine: The language of the old Irish Ogam inscriptions. Historical Linguistics, Supplement 36, Göttingen 1994
References and comments
- ↑ Ziegler, p. 1
- ^ Raftery, p. 163 and Diocesan Heritage Project Croom Parish. Altar stone
- ^ Praeger, p. 17