Scottish Ogham Translations

Ogham Stone from St Ninian’s Isle, Shetland, Scotland 600's CE

(December 7, 2024) Edge of a stone showing ogham from St Ninian’s Isle, Shetland, Scotland. 600's CE, S-SHE-004

Translation Using Ballymote Letter Assignments With Runic Akkadian Letters (Ogham Text 7)

Read right to left. Verbs are italic bold. Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration

ᚓᚄ ᚋ ᚓᚊ ᚊᚅ ᚐᚅ ᚐᚋᚋᚑᚃᚃᚓᚎ -]
EŠu Mu ESu. Su Nu ANu A. Ṭa'u Ṣu Ṣu EBu

In English

Confused fertility-fluids are being filtered. Su's revelations are considering that. The near-realm's activity can activate the sky-shell.

Previous Standard Translation Provided by David Stifter

B!ES / MEQQ // NANNAMMOVVESᵀ

‘of … son of *Nanamoguist’

David Stifter is claiming that regional differences in ogham exist between local island regions. For example the ogham of this example is Pictish which explains its difference from the others to form the letters to the word "son of."

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Rodney’s Stone (Enhanced 3-D Scan) 800's CE

(December 9, 2024) Rodney's Stone is a 2 meter high stone now located close on the approach way to Brodie Castle, near Forres, Moray, Scotland. It was found in 1781 while laying the foundations for a new church in Dyke and Moy. It ogham inscription is found in the lower right corner of this image and along its side. It is the longest in Scotland. The center part shown below is translated as a name (again, names are a linguistic cheat as they can cluster any set of letters).

S-MOR-001

]ᚓᚇᚇᚐᚏᚏᚅᚑᚅᚅ[

-]EDDARRNONN[-

‘…Ethernan…’

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Rodney’s Stone Pagan Side Ogham

(December 9, 2024) The other side of the stone is the Pagan side and it also had Ogham.

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney%27s_Stone
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Rodney’s Stone Pagan Side (Enhanced 3-D Scan)

(December 9, 2024) The bottom barbell contains paired Druid spirals. The tails of the various creatures also contain Druid spirals. At the center top is a symbol for the night sky with its 7 planets and the crescent moon. The other symbols represent various other spiritual power classes.

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