Ogham, The Iona Scribes Story
Next Sunday Sessions Live - Sunday 24th January, at 2pm Irish Time Watch here Live! ... or watch the archive later (click pic to set reminder) Ogham, The Iona Scribes Story when the ghaels met the picts, and the scribes used their language. My first connection with Ogham symbols was during the 50s before I was a teen, and as a 60s teen dabbled with Ogham Divination as a 'toy. It was not until I met my stone mason boss on Iona, Attie McKechnie, during the 70s, that I learned a deeper story of the Ogham language and have been passionate about it since. Attie was a mason's apprentice during the 1930s when Iona Abbey was being restored. He was a very fluent Gàidhlig speaker and extremely passionate about the language and it's origins. Attie aslo had a huge passionate interest in the way early medieval scribes used and change the old Scottish language. Through him I learned the tree language connections and how that found a system of scribing. Quite amazi