Anglesey (Druid Isle) Runestones 100-700 CE

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Anglesey is located on the northern tip of Wales. The texts on this page would all seem to date to around 600 CE because they all use Latin letters. This also indicates that Druids repopulated Anglesey after the Romans lost control of Wales.

Druid History of Anglesey

(October 25, 2025) Anglesey became a famous Druid center when it became the last stand of the Druids against the Romans prior to them going underground. It was first conquered by Roman general Suetonius Paulinus in 61 CE. In 77-78 CE, Roman general Gnaeus Julius Agricola reconquered it ending the Boudican revolt.

The only Roman source for the island's two invasions is the Roman historian Tacitus. His last work The Annals, written as a history of the Roman Empire from Tiberius until Nero, mentions the first invasion by Suetonius Paulinus. The second invasion is detailed in Tacitus's work The Life of Gnaeus Julius Agricola, which was written to record and extol the life and accomplishments of his father-in-law. Tacitus may have used first-hand accounts from Agricola, who had been present with the Roman forces on both occasions.

Anglesey was recorded in Latin as Mona (and is still known as Môn in modern Welsh), after its conquest. Archaeologists have located a fort dated shortly after the first conquest near Cemlyn Bay; a trading settlement on the shore of the Menai Strait; and a village of huts huddled together on a hill for defence. In the last decades of Roman rule in Britain several military forts were built on the northern and western coasts to defend the island against Irish sea raiders.

Early Celtic Christian churches and monasteries on Anglesey include Penmon Priory founded by St. Seiriol in the 500's CE. Aberffraw, on the southwest coast, was the capital of the Gwynedd princes between 600's and 1200's. Highly exposed to invasion from the sea, the island was attacked by Irish, Saxon, Viking, and Norman venturers.

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_conquest_of_Anglesey

Everything after the middle of the H was lost when the stone was broken in two.

Llanol Runestone 318, Anglesey Wales

(October 24, 2025) Macalister reports that this stone was found lying prostrate just inside and to the left of the gate leading through a field to the farm of Llanol. R. Humphreys (in Gough's Camden) reports it as being broken in two and it was further damaged in the eighteenth century. Lewis Morris writes that it had been about 8' long, but was broken by a tenant, "upon which act he was suddenly struck with ye pleurisie as a present judgment."

When Rhys visited the stone about 1878 it was in use as a gatepost, and holes for the bolts, etc. , were drilled in its face.

The stone is now 4′ 3″ × 1′ 9″ × 0' 11.” The remains of the inscription is pocked on the face of the stone and so far remains in good condition.

Translation in Druid Akkadian (Northern Text 64)

(read left to right. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Vowels 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)
Letter style is Insular Mini (Anglo-Saxon) from letter chart: North European Runic LineageDictionary used: Latest Runic Akkadian dictionary

ETu Ta'u Ru. IṬu Ya Ḫu. IKu Ya AKu ITu

In English

The boundary is pasturing the eagle-vultures. Don't make-sticky Hu. Don't irrigate the emotion-owl's omens.

Comment: Eagle-vultures edit the connections of the life network normally under the direction of the crescent moon goddess Ayu who is a life power. This text is claiming that the motion/emotion powers are inhibiting the flow of fertility-fluids (life powers) through those channels. The sun and storm god Hu represents the direct manifestations those fertility fluids (rain, sunlight, sun heat). Emotion owls are the agents of emotion magic.

Previous Attempted Translation

ETTORIGI HIC IACET

No English translation provided

References

Macalister, R A Stewart. 1945. Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum CelticarumVolume 1, page 306. Online at: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Corpus_Inscriptionum_Insularum_Celticaru/4jgaAAAAYAAJ?hl=en

Bodfeddan Runestone 319

(October 24, 2025) Macalister reports that this stone was found standing, apparently on its original site, in a field on the eastern side of the road passing by the farm of Bodfeddan, between 2 and 3 miles north-east of Ty Croes railway station. The inscription is on the northern face. It was cut with a chisel and is slightly pocked and is worn, but otherwise is in good condition.

Its dimensions are 6′ 6″ × 2′ 2″ × 2' 0".

Translation in Druid Akkadian (Northern Text 65)

(read left to right. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Vowels 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)
Letter style is LatinDictionary used: Latest Runic Akkadian dictionary

Ku Wa Ne'u. Ku Wa Su - Ḫu IKu Ya AKu ITu

In English

Involvement will curse emotional-effects. Involvement will curse Su. - Hu is not irrigating the emotion-owl's omens.

Comment: Involvement is the mixing of the life power class of powers with the motion/emotion class of powers. This is generally controversial because another group thinks the two powers should remain separated. Astrology magic is associated with the dark new moon Su. This sort of magic uses emotion magic to enhance similar life powers to those being cursed in order to shift fate. So this text is saying that involvement with the life powers curses the motion power class.

Previous Attempted Translation

CVNOGVS HIC IACIT

No English translation provided

References

Macalister, R A Stewart. 1945. Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum CelticarumVolume 1, page 306. Online at: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Corpus_Inscriptionum_Insularum_Celticaru/4jgaAAAAYAAJ?hl=en

By ignoring most grammar rules this text can also be translated in Latin. Because this translation is very loose it is not as likely as the Druid Akkadian translation.

Possible Translation in Latin

culi dori
iacit
et orgu vite
ni ulieri
secudi
filius

In English

The food-preparations for the Dorians
are being cast.
Also the life rituals
are not for others
following
the son (Christ)

Comment: The "Dorians" are mentioned in Greek texts as far back as the Illiad. They have always been assumed to be a Greek ethnic or language dialect group being identified with the Cretans, Spartans, and Corinthians. If this translation is correct, the term may instead refer to those who follows some sort of Druid religious tradition.

Llangefni Runestone 320

(October 26, 2025) Macalister reports that this stone was found in 1847 lying in the churchyard S.E. of the church. Afterwards it was carried onto the church porch, where it was laid down in a dark corner on the floor. It is now clamped against the east wall of the porch so that light from the open doorway can fall on the inscription.

Its dimensions are 4′ 3″ × 2' 8" x 0' 6"

Possible Translation in Druid Akkadian (Northern Text 66)

(read left to right. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Vowels 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)
Letter style is Latin.Dictionary used: Latest Runic Akkadian dictionary

Ku Wa LeYu. Di'u Ru Ya
Yu A Ku ITu
ETu 'Ru Gi U UYu. Tu E
Nu IWa Lu Ya E ReYu.
Su EKu UNu. Du Ya
Ṣu ILu Ya USu

In English

Involvement is cursing the fate-plan. The divine-motion-powers are not eagle-vultures.
Is not that involvement being foreshadowed?
The boundary is controlling the energy and the fate-curses. Astrology magic is being disabled.
Revealing the redirection (of life network channels) will not reduce the ineffectiveness of the shepherd-priests
Su is starving the resistance, not manifesting-life.
Activity (by astrology magic) is not elevating tradition.

Comment: Astrology-magic is being disabled by involving the life-powers with the motion powers. Eagle-vultures are a life power because they edit the connections of the life network. Rituals affecting them will not affect the motion power of astrology magic.

Previous Attempted Translation

CVLIDORI
IACIT
ET ORVVITE
MVLIERI
SECVNDI
FILIVS

No English translation provided

References

Macalister, R A Stewart. 1945. Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum CelticarumVolume 1, page 307. Online at: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Corpus_Inscriptionum_Insularum_Celticaru/4jgaAAAAYAAJ?hl=en

Llangeinwen Rune Plate 322

(October 24, 2025) Macalister reports that these inscriptions were lead castings attached to a lead coffin found on the lands of Rhyddgaer, in a field which was being cleared for ploughing. They had been riveted to the coffin, the holes for which are apparent.

The sides of the coffin measured 3′ 3″ × 0' 11" × 0' 0", the end measured 2' 2" by the same depth and thickness. A molding runs round the edges, and the inscriptions are on the sides.

The letters on the castings are mirror images indicating the letters were made normally in a sand mold prior to the lead being poured into it.

Translation in Druid Akkadian (Northern Text 67)

(read left to right. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Vowels 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)
Letter style is LatinDictionary used: Latest Runic Akkadian dictionary

Ku AMu U Le'u ReYu Su [Ḫ]....
Ku AMu U Le'u ReYu Su. Ḫu'u I....

In English

Involve the Reed-boat (Ayu) with the fate-plan of the shepherd-priests of Su .....
Involve the Reed-boat (Ayu) with the fate-plan of the shepherd-priests of Su. The astrological-owls .....

Comment: The crescent moon goddess Ayu is a life power while the dark new moon god Su is a motion powers. Shepherd priests do astrology-magic.

Previous Attempted Translation

CVNOGVS HIC IACIT

No English translation provided

References

Macalister, R A Stewart. 1945. Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum CelticarumVolume 1, page 306. Online at: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Corpus_Inscriptionum_Insularum_Celticaru/4jgaAAAAYAAJ?hl=en

Penrhos Lligwy Runestone 326

(October 25, 2025) Macalister reports that this stone used to be in the churchyard but is now in the chancel , against the inner face of the north wall.

The stone is conglomerate being 5' 0" x 2' 8" x 0' 8" on one edge, 0' 3" on the other.

Translation in Druid Akkadian (Northern Text 68)

(read left to right. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Vowels 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)
Letter style is LatinDictionary used: Latest Runic Akkadian dictionary

Ḫu IKu Ya AKu ITu
Mu A Ku. Ku UDu EKu. Ku E. Tu Ya

In English

Hu is not irrigating the emotion-owl's omens.
Fertility-fluids can affect involvement. Involvement can craft starvation. Involvement is being ineffective. Don't do astrology magic.

Comment: Involvement is the controversial issue of having the divine power classes (motion/emotion and life classes) work together. The sun and storm god Hu belongs to the life class while the emotion owls belong to the motion/emotion class.

Previous Attempted Translation

HIC IACIT MACCV-DECCETI

No English translation provided

References

Macalister, R A Stewart. 1945. Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum CelticarumVolume 1, page 314. Online at: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Corpus_Inscriptionum_Insularum_Celticaru/4jgaAAAAYAAJ?hl=en

Like other Anglesey texts, this long text is all about a drought being blamed on ineffective astrology magic. The drought is so bad that they are eating grass. Astrology magic is used to shift fate. It is a fundamental defense against dark arts type of magic using emotion magic to amplify similar activities in order to shift fate away from the activity being harmed.

Llantrisaint Runestone 325

October 25, 2025) Macalister reports that this stone was discovered on the farm of Ty'n Rossydd. It had been transported there from a ruined and now apparently vanished structure called Capel Bronwen, in the parish of Llangwyllog. At the farm it served successively the purpose of a cattle rubbing-post, a gate-post, and a wood-chopping block, with very detrimental consequences for the inscription. Sometime before 1870 it was removed to Trescawen House, Llangwyllog, the residence of the proprietor of the site. It now stands at the side of a wooded pathway in the demesne.

It measures 4' 7½″ × 3′ 0″ × 0' 91/2"

Translation in Druid Akkadian (Northern Text 69)

(read left to right. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Vowels 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)
Letter style is LatinDictionary used: Latest Runic Akkadian dictionary

... Ya U A
Su AWu Ku Tu. Yu SaSu Ya
Mu AMu U LeYu ERu
ḪeYa Ku Ya AKu ITu Pu Wa E
Ṣu U ITu IDu Gi A Tu
ISu Su Ka'u Nu IWu ŠuBu
U'u Tu. ISu IṢu A Nu. Wu Lu USu
Bu ISu A Ku ERu Di'u. Su EWu ASu
Se'u Pu AWu. LaYu Nu Ya AWu Ba'u Ka'u
Ku Nu A Tu. Ya'u Nu E. E Ta'u. M Nu Ya
UNu Ku IWu. IWu Nu A Bu. Pu Wa A E
Pu ARu ENu. Tu UNu EŠu. EMu Pu Lu
Ru ETu Ma'u. Ru IDu USu. Du Ya Su
Ku IPu Lu INu. A AKu Su APu Ya ENu
Tu Ya A E
AWu Re'u E
Lu APu IDu IBu Wa
Su

In English

... and that
Su's emotion-powers should be involved with astrology-magic. Should we not be eating grass?
Fertility-fluids of the Reed-boat (Ayu) and the plans-of-fate are being harbored.
Respect does not involve the emotion-owl's omens opening ineffective fate-curses.
Activity (from astrology magic) and omens are channeling the energy affecting these astrology-magic-powers.
The Woman of Su (Selu/Selene) is prodding the fate-revelations redirecting satiation.
Cursed is astrology-magic. The Woman's scarcity is affecting those fate-revelation-powers. Fate-curses are reducing tradition.
Nourishments for the Woman's emotion-owls are harboring the divine-motion-powers. Su is shifting-attention to fate-shifting.
Inhibition is opening the fate-curses. The plan-of-fate is not revealing the emotion powers nesting prodding.
Involvement reveals these astrology-magic-powers. Yahu's (Y') revelations are disabled. Disable the pasture (starry night sky). Fertility-fluids are not being reveled.
Resistance will involve redirection. Redirection will reveal its nourishment-powers. Openings fate-curse that disabling.
Openings will control the reassignments. Astrology-magic can resist the confusion. The Supervisor's (Hu) openings are lacking.
Eagle-vulture's boundary is being pushed-away. The eagle-vultures are channeling in the customary-way. Don't manifest Su.
Involvement will free-up the lack of the Moon-eye (Su). Those emotion-owls of Su will not veil the reassignment.
Don't do astrology-magic to affect the disabling.
The emotion-powers of the shepherd-priests (who do astrology-magic) are being disabled
Lack of the veil is channeling the enemy's curses of
Su

Comment: The dark new moon god Su is associated with astrology-magic which is an emotion magic used to shift fate. Su and thus astrology magic have been cursed.

Previous Attempted Translation

[ ... ]IVA SANCTISSIMA MVLIER HIC IACIT
QV[A]E FVIT AMATISSima CONIVX BIVOTIS FAMVLVS D[EJI
SACERDOS ET VASSO PAVLINI ANDOCO GNATIONE
ET OMNIVM CIVIVM ADQVAE (= atque) PARENTVM
EXEMPL[A]R ET MORIBVS DISCIPLINA AC SAPIENTIAE.
On the edge: AVRO E[T] LAPIDIBVS.

No English translation provided

References

Macalister, R A Stewart. 1945. Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum CelticarumVolume 1, page 311. Online at: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Corpus_Inscriptionum_Insularum_Celticaru/4jgaAAAAYAAJ?hl=en

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