ogam
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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This he accomplished by means of four wands of yew inscribed with ogam characters.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various
Cuchulainn cut an oak before them there, and wrote an ogam in its side.
From The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (Tain Bo Cualnge) : An Old Irish Prose-Epic by Faraday, L. Winifred
His grave is dug then and his stone planted; his name is written in ogam; his lament is celebrated.
From The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (Tain Bo Cualnge) : An Old Irish Prose-Epic by Faraday, L. Winifred
And yon ogam on its side, Find, ye druids, in due form, Who has set it upright there?
From The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge by Dunn, Joseph
They give the withe into the hands of Fergus Mac Roich; he read the ogam that was on it.
From The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (Tain Bo Cualnge) : An Old Irish Prose-Epic by Faraday, L. Winifred
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