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The handle http://hdl.handle.net/1887/20979 holds various files of this Leiden University dissertation.

Author: Griffiths, Alan Title: A family of names : Rune-names and Ogam-names and their relation to alphabet letter-names Issue Date: 2013-06-18

A FAMILY OF NAMES:

Rune-names and Ogam-names

and Their Relation to Alphabet Letter-names

Proefschrift

ter verkrijging van

de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden, op gezag van Rector Magnificus prof. mr. C. J. J. M. Stolker,

volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties

te verdedigen op dinsdag18 juni 2013

klokke 15.00 uur

door

Alan Griffiths

geboren te Beckenham, V. K.

in 1938 Promotiecommissie:

Promotores: Prof. dr. R. H. Bremmer (Universiteit Leiden)

Prof. dr. P. C. H. Schrijver (Universiteit Utrecht)

Overige leden: Prof. H. Gzella (Universiteit Leiden)

Prof. dr. A. Quak (Universiteit Leiden)

Dr. A. Blom (University of Oxford)

Copyright © 2013, Alan Griffiths. Alle rechten voorbehouden.

Illustrations on cover: 1. Anglo-Saxon runes, Insular letter equivalents and names from the (now destroyed) manuscript British Library, Cotton B. x, as listed beside George Hickes’s copy of the Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem in the 1705 edition of his Linguarum Vett. Septentrionalium Thesaurus Grammatico-Criticus et Archaeologicus. 2. The names of the ogam characters as listed at the end of The Book of Ogams in the fourteenth- or fifteenth-century Book of Ballymote manuscript, Royal Irish Academy 23P12/536, fol. 312 (s. xiv–xv), reproduced as no. 27 in Calder’s edition of the Auraicept na nÉces [The Scholars’ Primer], 1917: 302.

A FAMILY OF NAMES:

Rune-names and Ogam-names and Their Relation to Alphabet Letter-names

by

Alan Griffiths

VOLUME 1

Texts

A. Below left: Anglo-Saxon runes, Insular letter equivalents and names from the (now destroyed) manuscript British Library, Cotton B. x, as listed beside George Hickes’s copy of the Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem in the 1705 edition of his Linguarum Vett. Septentrionalium Thesaurus Grammatico-Criticus et Archaeologicus.

B. Above: Ogam characters in the traditional Beithe-luis sequence; the characters would typically have been carved along the edge of a standing stone, here represented by a vertical line represent. The righthand set of characters, representing diphthongs, was a later addition to the original set of twenty. The sound equivalent Gw in the middle set is that suggested by Damian McManus, ‘Irish letter-names and their kennings’, Ériu 39, 1988: 127–68.

C. Below: The names of the ogam characters as listed at the end of The Book of Ogams in the fourteenth- or fifteenth-century Book of Ballymote manuscript, Royal Irish Academy 23P12/536, fol. 312 (s. xiv–xv), reproduced as no. 27 in Calder’s edition of the Auraicept nanÉces [The Scholars’ Primer], 1917: 302.

beithi luis fernn soil ninn h dur tindi coll quert

muin gort ngedar straif ruis ailm onn ur edad

idad ea oi ui ia æ

Examples of Anglo-Saxon runes and rune-names and the Irish ogam signary and ogam-names

FRONTISPIECE A FAMILY OF NAMES:

Rune-names and Ogam-names and Their Relation to Alphabet Letter-names

VOLUME 1

Texts