The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain: Phonology and Chronology, C. 400-1200

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.

Author: Patrick Sims-Williams
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 03/21/2003
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.61lbs
Size: 8.96h x 5.90w x 1.09d
ISBN: 9781405109031

About the Author
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.