Crossword-Solution: OGHAM 5 letters, 29 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

These two recent cases are beyond all doubt, but I have not had convincing evidence of the case where some unintelligible signs drawn by an unlettered man were pronounced by an expert to be in the Ogham or early Celtic character.

They might even refer to the ogham wands on which the first words of their tasks and the opening lines of poems were cut; and it is likely that, being new to these things, they would talk of them to a youngster, and, thinking that his wits could be no better than their own, they might have explained to him how ogham was written.

Let those precious old symbols be called Ogham, or by any other name--there must have been something of the kind.

Curry thinks that the Ogham characters, so often mentioned in the most ancient Irish books, were used in Erin long before the introduction of Christianity there.

Fedelma took the ring off her own finger and put it on the finger of the King of Ireland’s Son, and she wrote upon the ground in Ogham letters, “The King of the Land of Mist.” “If it be not you who wakens me, love,” she said, “may it be that I never waken.” “Come, daughter of the Enchanter,” said the King of the Land of Mist.