Byrhtferth’s Ogham enigma
Posted in history & archaeology, language on Dec 26th, 2008
This Babelstone post on Byrhtferth’s Ogham Enigma is fascinating, detailed, and includes great images. It probably comes as a surprise to most people to find out that the earliest extant manuscript to include any text written in the Ogham script is an early 12th century English manuscript copy of a work by the late Anglo-Saxon [...]