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Does someone contest the order of the ogham letters?

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Does someone contest the order of the ogham letters?

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This page is located at http://www.armory.com/~mortoj/magick/druidry/oorder.html (as of January 2, 1999) ORDER OF OGHAM LETTERS There are two different orders of the Ogham letters. The older is known as the B.L.N. [Beth-Luis-Nion] version, the more recent as the B.L.F. [Beith-Luis-Fern] version. Robert Graves devotes two chapters in his White Goddess to this question of order. It is strongly suggested that the book be obtained and read. The following two quotes are from the book and are just to serve as a memory jog; not a full explanation! “What complicates the case is that the ancient Irish word for ‘alphabet’ is ‘Beth-Luis-Nion’ which suggests that the order of the letters in the Ogham alphabet was orginally B.L.N. though it had become B.L.F. before the ban on inscriptions was lifted.” p. 116 “But is not the answer to our question to be found in the ‘Battle of the Trees’? What distinguishes the BLFSN from the BLNFS is that the letter N, ‘Nion’ the ash, the sacred tree of the God Gwy

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