Re: Pictish? ogham inscriptions

From: CG
Message: 24968
Date: 2003-08-05

> "Dr Richard Cox, a lecturer in the University of Aberdeen's
> Department of Celtic claims that the ogham inscriptions found in
> Orkney as well as in other parts of Scotland, were actually written
> in Old Norse, the Scandinavian language of the Vikings.
> His discovery, published for the first time in 1999 went against
the
> research community which had long believed the inscriptions to be
an
> ancient form of Gaelic or a long forgotten Pictish language."
>
> Does anyone here know more about the matter?


I believe that few involved in Celtic studies take this book, or its
underlying hypothesis, very seriously.

- Chris Gwinn