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I was wondering if the Irish, or their ancestors, ever used single-charcter runes or symbols to identify traits, things and creatures, such as wolves, loyalty, and swords?

Any help is welcome.

Thank you,
-Netic

Netic wrote:I was wondering if the Irish, or their ancestors, ever used single-charcter runes or symbols to identify traits, things and creatures, such as wolves, loyalty, and swords?

Any help is welcome.

Thank you,
-Netic

No, the Irish didn't. I think that's more of a Norse thing.

Redwolf

I am not at all well up on this area- but surely ogham one of the worlds earliest written scripts -would be regarded as single character.


Whether it fits into the Rune Category -I dont know. But i woulfd be surprised if not

pól

Ok, thnak you very much for your help.

-Netic

Pól wrote:I am not at all well up on this area- but surely ogham one of the worlds earliest written scripts -would be regarded as single character.


Whether it fits into the Rune Category -I dont know. But i woulfd be surprised if not

pól

I don't think so, because the lines and curls of Ogham actually represent sounds...it's like a phonetic alphabet. You could write the word "wolf" in Ogham and say that what you've produced means "wolf," but it would be no different from writing it out in English or Cyrillic letters (well, it would be shaped differently, but you know what I mean). What he's talking about are specific symbols or glyphs that stand for particular concepts...like a single symbol that has the meaning of "wolf" or "sword" (more like runes, or Chinese characters).

Redwolf

Thanks indeed Redwolf.


ya learn something new every day!

pól

Runes origin(s) and symbols

http://www.sunnyway.com/runes/origins.html

Ogham orgin and symbols

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ogham.htm

An interesting representation of runes where some scholars have theorized that this alternate system of representing letters with vertical and horizontal lines has some kind of connection to Ogham

http://www.ancientscripts.com/futhark.html