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7ᵗʰ c.
S-SHE-004 (St Ninian’s Isle, Shetland, Scotland)
]ᚁᚓᚄᚋᚓᚊᚊᚅᚐᚅᚐᚋᚋᚑᚃᚃᚓᚎ
-]B!ES MEQQ NANNAMMOVVESᵀ
‘of … son of *Nanamoguist’
Despite, or because of, its spread over all the islands, there are many subtle and not so subtle regional differences to the use of ogam. We already met the…
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7ᵗʰ c.
S-SHE-004 (St Ninian’s Isle, Shetland, Scotland)
]ᚁᚓᚄᚋᚓᚊᚊᚅᚐᚅᚐᚋᚋᚑᚃᚃᚓᚎ
-]B!ES MEQQ NANNAMMOVVESᵀ
‘of … son of *Nanamoguist’
Despite, or because of, its spread over all the islands, there are many subtle and not so subtle regional differences to the use of ogam. We already met the…
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Comments
Scottish stones are special in many respects. One is the use of the Pictish instead of the Irish language, but others are special letter forms (see @babelstone.co.uk’s https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2013/06/ogham-stones-of-scotland.html) and the use of ogam on…
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St Ninian’s Isle in Shetland is rich in archaelogical finds (https://canmore.org.uk/site/587/st-ninians-isle), including three ogam stones (two of which are lost).
This inscription is Pictish. As argued in https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/ogham-of-the-month/ (October 2023), MEQQ could represent…
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🖼️: © National Museum of Scotland (Cat. No. IB 112)
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