Re: CHAT of oghams & runes (was Celtic alphabet? )
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 11, 2002, 20:24 |
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Raymond Brown wrote:
>
>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}
When I sent the above, it was a lower-case ash, copied from your mail ...
what does this "æ" get thru like? (sent as lower-case ash)
Andreas
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