Ogham Trees

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Ailm

The first in a series I have done on the Ogham trees. Each tree is named after a letter in this case, ailm, which is A, or the tree known modernly as scots pine, in modern Irish its called Péine Albanach, I wrote a longer write up on it which can be found here:

http://liniocht.blogspot.com/2010/05/ailm.html

Das Kitty

Beautiful!

subedei

thanks alot! I am glad to see others are interested in this stuff

subedei

As stated in the last tree I did about the old Irish alphabet called Ogham, each letter was named after a tree, B is called "Beith", the old Irish for Birch and it is shown in the bottom left corner in the above image (its the long T like shape), a long line would stretch the entire word with lines going from it or over it to create letters.

More info here:

http://liniocht.blogspot.com/2010/07/beith.html

thebullkf

fantastic.

subedei

cheers thanks thebullkf, appreciate the support And for the rest for the likes

thebaldsoprano

subedei wrote: »

http://liniocht.blogspot.com/2010/07/beith.html

The stuff on your 3d blog is very cool as well!

subedei

Thanks man! Cheers for popping into the 3d blog too

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Coll

As stated in the above two posts, the earliest Irish alphabet, Ogham, had each of its letters named after a tree, this one is named Coll which is 'C' in Ogham and also means Hazel, which is native to Ireland. Called Corylus avellana in latin, Collen in Welsh, and Collos in Gaulish. You can see the latter two have similarities to the Irish Coll, most likely both the Welsh and the Irish is from the Gaulish originally. Coll is said to mean 'fair wood', in modern Irish it can also be called 'Coill', while 'Coillte' means forest or woods.

More info here:

http://liniocht.blogspot.com/2010/08/coll.html

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Dair

As mentioned above, each letter in the first Irish Alphabet, called Ogham, was named after a tree. This tree is the common Oak, which is the letter 'd' in Ogham, its name is "Dair". In latin it is known as "Quercus Robur", quercus meaning "oak", Robur, meaning "strength or hard timber". In English it is known as the common oak or Pedunculate oak, in modern Irish dair Ghallda, which translates roughly as "strange oak", in Scots-Gaelic it's "darach", in Manx "daragh", as you can see Scots-Gaelic, Manx and Irish/Gaeilge are from the same branch of Celtic Languages.

More info here:

http://liniocht.blogspot.com/2010/09/dair.html

PeggyvB

Just lovely!

Blackjack

Lovely stuff.
Looking forward to E already!.

thebullkf

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cheers thanks thebullkf, appreciate the support And for the rest for the likes

welcome;)



beautiful stuff. i'm getting a Tattoo of my son's name in Ogham....

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@blackjack and PeggyvB and all the likes, thanks a million!

@thebulkf thats awesome man, I have a friend who did the same thing with his sons name, looks great, there is something really beautiful about ogham, with its simplicity.

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Eadhadh/ Edhadh is the letter E in the Ogham Alphabet, as mentioned above that each letter in Ogham is named after a native Irish tree, this is believed to have been invented as a Oral teaching aid before the introduction of the established Latin Alphabet. In the case of this image, Eadhadh is Aspen, which is the tree that is drawn above. On the left of the tree, the top letter, the line with dots on it, is E or Eadhadh in Ogham. the one below is E from a 7th century Irish alphabet, the one below that, is E from an 11th century Irish text and the finally the bottom E is from a 16th century Gaelic script..... [more here]

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Cheers for the thanks Cork_girl and Das Kitty, I appreciate the continued support!

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As with the previous 5 trees which you can see here, Ogham is the earliest Irish alphabet we know of, each letter of its alphabet named after a tree. This one called Fearn/Fern, means alder tree and is the letter F. Each one of these trees is a native Irish tree going back thousands of years, this alder is specifically known as Black Alder, in Latin it is Alnus Glutinosa and in modern Irish it is Fearnóg (meaning young Alder). The line with three horizontal lines on the upper left of the image is the letter Fearn or F in Ogham, on the opposite side there are three F's, the topmost is from the 7th century Gaelic script, the one below is from an 11th century Gaelic Script and the last is from a 16th century Corcaigh (cork) Gaelic script....... [more here]

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"Creeping where no life is seen,
A rare old plant is the ivy green."

Charles Dickens

As with the previous Trees I have done, each letter in the ogham alphabet was named after a tree or even what we would regard as a shrub or plants now. Above is Gort, or 'G', which is Ivy. The line with the two diagonal slashes is G in Ogham script, the 3 G's beside it are an insular development of this letter in the later Gaelic script in Ireland, the topmost is from the 7th century Gaelic script, the one below is from an 11th century Gaelic Script and the last is from a 16th century Corcaigh (cork) Gaelic script. Gort is said to mean originally "field" similar to welsh garth "garden" and latin "hortus", from the proto indo European gher or ghort, meaning to "enclose or enclosure"......[more here]