Coelbren y Beirdd
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The Coelbren y Beirdd is a script created in the late eighteenth century by the Welsh antiquarian and literary forger Edward Williams, best known as Iolo Morganwg.
Table of letters in Celtic Researches (1804) by Edward Davies (1756–1831)
Painting of Dewi Wyn o Eifion (1784–1841) with the title written in Coelbren y Beirdd
Ogham
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Ogham is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the early Irish language, and later the Old Irish language. It was also used much less frequently to record the Pictish language in what is
Coelbren y Beirdd
…the majority, including all of Lewys Morgannwg's sources, were lost. Numerous scholars, such as Glyn Cothi Lewis, concluded that the script was a hoax. Ogham Coelbren y Beirdd at the University of Wales…
An inscription found in 1975 in Ratass Church, Tralee, County Kerry
Carving of ogham letters into a stone pillar – illustration by Stephen Reid (1873–1948), in: Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. Rolleston (1857–1920), published 1911, p. 288
Fol. 170r of the Book of Ballymote (1390), the Auraicept na n-Éces explaining the ogham script
Mug with ogham letters: the four series (aicmi) of the 20 original letters and the five most important supplementary letters (forfeda)