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[Bronze Age Text]
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(CLICK to Enlarge) 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). |
