ogham script in a sentence
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- Beginning with R . A . S . Macalister in 1938, several writers have speculated that the 5th century Irish Ogham script, with its quinary alphabet system, was derived from a finger alphabet that predates even Bede.
- The Ogham script, an Early Medieval alphabet, was mostly used in early Christian times in Ireland and Scotland ( but also in Wales and England ), and was only used for ceremonial purposes such as inscriptions on gravestones.
- Although early Gaels in Ireland and parts of modern Wales used the Ogham script to record short inscriptions ( largely personal names ), more sophisticated literacy was not introduced to Celtic areas that had not been conquered by Rome until the advent of Christianity.
- It contains a heritage centre dedicated to St Kilian, who was born in Mullagh c 640 and was martyred in W�rzburg in Franconia in northern Bavaria, Germany, in circa 689 . The centre also has an exhibition related to ogham script and the development of illuminated manuscripts.
- This theory was first suggested by the scholars R . Thurneysen and J . Vendry�s, who proposed that the ogham script was inspired by a pre-existing system of counting based around the numbers five and twenty, which was then adapted to an alphabet form by the first ogamists.
- {{ cquote | This moreover is the first thing that was written by Ogham, [ illustration of seven b's, in Ogham script ] i . e . ( the birch ) b was written, and to convey a warning to Ethliu it was written respecting his wife lest she should be carried away from him into faeryland, to wit, seven b s in one switch of birch : Thy wife will be seven times carried away from thee into faeryland or into another country, unless birch guard her.