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Re: CHAT of oghams & runes (was Celtic alphabet? )

From:Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Thursday, April 11, 2002, 19:37
At 3:08 pm -0400 10/4/02, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>Ray wrote:
[snip]
>> >>The arguments put forward to support the theory are, in brief: >>1. Both scripts were used for magical purposes as well as just writing. >>2. The Old Germanic runes were divided into four 'rows of eight' (Êttir); > >That should be three _Êttir_ - there were only 24 runes!
Yes, sorry - it should be three (the Old English did add a 4th, but that was much later). The first symbol when I wrote the email was the a-e ligature (Old English 'ash'), not the upper case E with a hat on it! {sigh}
>>the letters of the oghamic script were similarly divided into four >>'families' (aiccme) [tho in the case of the oghams each 'family' was >>composed of five members, not eight]*. > >Is four _aiccme_ correct, or should it be three?
Checking again, Arntz remarked on _three_ aiccme of consonants. But in fact, the five vowels form another aiccme - so there are four in the oghamic script. Ray. ====================== XRICTOC ANESTH ======================