The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain

Phonology and Chronology, C. 400-1200
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0903-1
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 224 mm x 149 mm, Gewicht: 674 g

This is the first comprehensive linguistic study for 50 years of the stones from western Britain and Brittany, inscribed in the Roman and Irish Ogam alphabets.

- First comprehensive study for 50 years of the stones from western Britain and Brittany, inscribed in the Roman and Irish Ogam alphabets.

- Provides a linguistic analysis of the 370 Brittonic and Irish inscriptions.

- Presents new phonological evidence for the dating of the inscriptions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sims-Williams, Patrick

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures ix

Preface xi

1 Introduction 1

2 Brittonic Phonology (1-98) 21

3 Brittonic Chronology 238

4 Irish Phonology (1-43) 296

5 Irish Chronology 322

6 Conclusion and List of Proposed Dates 351

Appendices

Abbreviations and Bibliography 396

Index of Forms Discussed 421

Index of Other Forms Mentioned 439

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Sims-Williams is Professor of Celtic Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author of ‘Religion and Literature in Western England, 600-800’ (1990) and ‘Britain and Early Christian Europe’ (1995). He is also the co-editor of ‘Ptolemy: Towards a Linguistic Atlas of the Earliest Celtic Place-Names of Europe’ (2000), and the editor of Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies.