Devised by a famous Welsh poet, the Bardic alphabet called Coelbren has always seemed to hold great promise. But as long as nobody knew how to use the system for divination, it remained simply a relic of a bygone era. In The Coelbren Alphabet, John Michael Greer reveals the secr…
Devised by a famous Welsh poet, the Bardic alphabet called Coelbren has always seemed to hold great promise. But as long as nobody knew how to use the system for divination, it remained simply a relic of a bygone era. In this book John Michael Greer reveals the secrets of this e…
Why were runes invented? What did the Germanic peoples of southern Scandinavia speak during the first centuries CE? Can the earliest runic inscriptions be used to learn something about their dialects, and can we extract other information from their study as a corpus? The Early R…
Introduction -- State of the question -- From fairy tales to modern linguistics : two centuries of Germanic dialectology -- Concluding remarks -- PART I. EARLY DIALECTAL FORMS IN NORTH WEST GERMANIC. Runic names ending in -o, a West Germanic feature? (the bogs : Vimose, Illerup …
Why were runes invented? What did the Germanic peoples of southern Scandinavia speak during the first centuries CE? Can the earliest runic inscriptions be used to learn something about their dialects, and can we extract other information from their study as a corpus? & ltI>The E…