Re: [tied] Pictish Ogham=Old Norse?

>Can anyone give me a proper reference to this work? Also to any other works
>(especially articles, since books are easier to track down) claiming the
>inscriptions are Celtic, non-Indo-European etc. I am more interested in
>careful scientific work on this subject rather than the more wild and wacky
>stuff that this area sometimes attracts.

Try Katherine Forsyth, "Language in Pictland", where it is convincibngly
reasserted that Pictish is simply a northern dialect of Brittonic with an
odd orthography (which happens to be the concensus now amongst Celticists, I
believe).

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http://www.cs.kun.nl/~bsmelik/keltische_draak/fondslijst/Pictland/pictland.html

- Chris Gwinn


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