<bron100.htm> [Bronze Age Text]
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Dyad Tree Ogam
When
written vertically, dyad ogam forms as a tree-shaped figure where the
left-handed branches carry the signs of the h-series (left-hand finger ogam),
and the right-hand branches take the signs of the b-series (right-hand finger
ogam). This style, evidently of great
antiquity, appears on coinage of the Thracian Norse-Irish and is especially
conspicuous in the Takhelne inscriptions of British Columbia. The upper
diagram is taken from the Book of Ballymote and is identified to the
left by the scribe in Middle Irish Script as "ogam dyad" (Fell
1982). |
