I know I’m a white girl, because that would he a sick tattoo.
Also, I found a cool article: https://anglandicus.blogspot.com/2014/12/massive-scribal-hangovers-one-ninth.html?m=1
Apparently, they complained a lot while scribing. It’s also unknown if the language was purposefully made to be hard for Romans to understand, or if it’s a unique alphabet created to better represent their language. Cool concept.
Broke: tribal tattoos
Woke: scribal tattoosWhere do scrotal tattoos sit on the political compass?
Not at all – get your damn balls off my compass!
Apparently I am also a white girl.
We are all basic on this blessed day.
I heard Kari Byron refer to a tattoo on the small of a man’s back a “Champ Stamp” and was reminded why I had a gigantic crush on her.
Champ Stamp has been officially added to my list of possible band names.
Fr all I could think was what a gorgeous language.
Irish (and the related Manx and Scottish Gaelic languages) do still exist, although they do deviate quite a bit from Old Irish
Wait. Hold on. 9th century? No way monks where scribing scratches in 800s CE? Learn me. Serious question.
Edit. Turns out I don’t know nothing about medieval language and script. Any other examples of this type of thing in other cultures?
They weren’t scratches, it was a language. Think of it as Monks writing in 800s CE and it sounds completely reasonable.
Ogham was invented over 1500 years ago and is found in the Republic of Ireland and across the four nations of Britain, and the Isle of Man. Ogham is an alphabet that appears on monumental inscriptions and occasionally portable objects dating from the 4th century AD onwards, and in a handful of manuscripts dating from the 9th century onwards.
(Irish and Scottish Researchers to Investigate Ancient Ogham Script | Maynooth University, 2025)
As the Christians started arriving sometime shortly prior to 431, they were also around to use the language.
Irish and Scottish researchers to investigate ancient Ogham script | Maynooth University. (2025). Maynoothuniversity.ie. https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/early-irish-sean-ghaeilge/news/irish-and-scottish-researchers-investigate-ancient-ogham-script
