#Ogham fews found on tree branches mac

Tresim ruamna is the sloe according to fact. It is it which is boiled through the urine into the white gold so as to make it red.

Straif, sloe, according to fact for in the sloe red for dyeing the things is stronger, for it is it that makes the pale silver become azure, making it genuine (?) silver. Tresim ruamna, strongest of red, that is str with him in Ogham. Hence for that letter in Ogham owing to the complete identity of the name between them Luth legha, a physician’s strength that is broom, ng, because it is strength with the physicians, and there is an affinity between cath, battle, and getal, broom. When it is in the blade, sweeter than any grass is that grass, to wit, the cornfield. Millsin feraib, sweeter than grasses, that is gort, ivy, g, with him owing to the identity of the name with the cornfield. Tresim fedma, strongest of effort, that is muin, vine, m, with him, i.e., owing to identity of name with muin, back of man or ox, for it is they that are the strongest in existence as regards effort. Clithar boiscell, again, i.e., lunatics or hinds: quert, an apple tree, q, with reference to its letter. Clithar boscell, again, that is an apple tree: or boscell, that is, hinds, to wit, they are light. Trian, t, another thing the meaning of that today.Ĭainin fedaib, fairest of trees, that is hazel, c, owing to its beauty in woods.Ĭlithar mbaiscaill, shelter of a hind, i.e., a fold: to wit, boscell, lunatic, that is bas-ceall, death sense, it is then his sense comes to him when he goes to his death. Conal cuan said of the Ogham h, owing to the affinity of the name, for they are a thorn, in the same way.Īrdam dossaibh, highest of bushes, that is dur, oak, d, with respect to its wood in the forest. A checking of peace with him is that from the ash of the weaver’s beam.Ĭonal cuan, pack of wolves, that is uath, thorn h, for a terror to any one is a pack of wolves. Li’ n-aimbi’, again, to wit, that is sail, willow, s with him, and hence it was put for the Ogham letter.Ĭosdad sida, checking of peace, that is nin, ash, n: it is the maw of a weaver’s beam as applied to wood: a sign of peace is that. Li’ n-aimbi’, hue of the lifeless, i.e., hue of one dead, to wit, am for denial, so that he is not living but is dead. Airenach Fian, i.e., shield, that is fern, f, with him. Li sula, delight of eye, that is luis, quicken tree, l, to wit, the flame.Īirinach Fian, i.e., shield of warrior-bands, i.e., shield for fern, f, with him owing to their redness in the same respect: or because the alder, the material of the shield was from fernae given to the Ogham letter which has taken a name from it. Feocus foltchain for b, for these are two aspects of the birch, and it was hence put for the Ogham letter which has taken a name from it.

( trees highlighted for ease of reading)įeocus foltchain, faded trunk and fair hair, that is for birch, b, in the Word Ogham, because names which Morann gave of himself to the Ogham letters, these are they which take the effect of letters in the Word Ogham.

#Ogham fews found on tree branches mac

Here first is the Word Ogham of Morann Mac Main. That of the warrior Cuchulain is only found in 16th and 17th century manuscripts. Those of the poet and judge Morann Mac Main and mythological figure Oenghus (Mac ind Oic) can be found in The Scholar’s Primer ( Auraicept na n-Éces), The Ogam Tract ( In Lebor Ogaim) and the famous Book of Ballymote. The ‘Word Oghams’ or Briatharogaim’s are our original sources for the meanings behind the Ogham fews.