Posted on 04/06/2022 8:39:04 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists in Scotland shed "genuine tears" upon discovering a stone covered with geometric carvings that the Picts, the Indigenous people of the region, designed about 1,500 years ago.
The team unexpectedly found the 5.5-foot-long (1.7 meters) carved stone while doing a geophysical survey in Aberlemno, a village with Pictish roots. The stone has several geometric shapes showing abstract Pictish symbols, such as triple ovals, a comb and mirror, a crescent and double discs. Some of the carved symbols overlap, suggesting that they were carved in different time periods, the researchers said.
It's unclear what all of the symbols mean, but the "best guess is that they are a naming system representing Pictish names," Gordon Noble, excavation leader and a professor of archaeology at the University of Aberdeen, told Live Science in an email...
The new finding is one of only about 200 such stones known to archaeologists. Other stones with Pictish symbols are also from Aberlemno, which is known for its unique standing stones, including a slab that may depict scenes from the Battle of Nechtansmere, a Pictish victory over the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria in 685 A.D. that is tied to the creation of what would become Scotland.
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MAGA!
Classic indeed. I hadn’t listened to that track for 20 years. Wow.
So at the very end, is it “And the Wind Cried Mary”? That’s what I’ve always heard....
That was the consensus. A great follow up to “A saucer full secrets”.
It’s been deciphered.
You only have 9 years to live due to global warming!
“Epstein didn’t kill himself”
“What, Me Worry?”
Agreed on the “Wind Cried Mary”
It was definitely a flashback, probably around ‘83 or ‘84 for me.
LOL, Now I want to go back and listen to the whole album...
Actually old english took *very* few loanwords from provincial latin nor from p-celtic - the germans mainly displaced and enslaved romano-british except in the areas they did not conquer. the only notable celtic words to get into old english were iirc some geographic features (crag? hard to remember now). many romano-celtic (or earlier) place-names were replaced as well, so complete was the language replacement.
As far as I can tell p-celtic (welsh cornish bretonish) may have taken some, pont is one that comes to mind (bridge) but I never researched the issue in detail. aur (gold) maybe too but that is also in germanic (Ore) as the word itself is ancient, predating the languages in question by far enough to have a common root in IE.
where old english started getting a bunch of words of latin origin is the norman conquest, some through church latin but a lot more from old french.
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