Friday, March 14, 2014

Bérla Féini The Ancient Secret Language of the Druids ?


Have you ever wondered if  "Bérla Féini" could be related to or a derivative / decedent of perhaps the first and true secret language of the very very ancient Druids?

Does it not seem reasonable that a group as secretive as the ancient Druids, that  appear to have  forbidden  the written recordings of their beliefs science art and magick,  would also use a secret Dead Language to pass on their knowledge.

What secrets could one gleam from  "Bérla Féini" that may  reveal far more about the Druids, than just ancient Ériu Civil Laws?

How can we recover it?
Who if any speak it now?


TDK / The Druid King

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Bérla Féini   [Bairla-faina]   :


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The laws were written in the oldest dialect of the Irish language, called Bérla Féini [Bairla-faina], which even at the time was so difficult that persons about to become brehons had to be specially instructed in it. Even the authors of the Commentaries and Glosses who wrote hundreds of years ago, and were themselves learned brehons, were often quite at fault in their attempts to explain the archaic text: and their words show that they were fully conscious of the difficulty. It will then be readily understood that the task of translating these laws was a very difficult one, rendered all the more so by the number of technical terms and phrases, many of which are to this day obscure, as well as by the peculiar style, which is very elliptical and abrupt—often incomplete sentences, or mere catch-words of rules not written down in full, but held in memory by the experts of the time. Another circumstance that greatly adds to the difficulty of deciphering these MSS. is the confused way in which the Commentaries and glosses are written in, mainly with the object of economising the expensive vellum.<<

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A Smaller Social History of Ancient Ireland 1906



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3 comments:

  1. Berla (Language) na (of) Feni - (the same word as Fianna, the warrior) 

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  2. Okay so where would one learn this language?? or can you even at this time?

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    1. Sadly I have no idea, I expect somewhere a few still know it but do not share with the World.

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