Bibliography

Katherine
Forsyth
s. xx–xxi

13 publications between 1995 and 2021 indexed
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Works authored

Okasha, Elisabeth, and Katherine Forsyth, Early Christian inscriptions of Munster: a corpus of the inscribed stones, Cork: Cork University Press, 2001.
Forsyth, Katherine, Language in Pictland: the case against ‘non-Indo-European Pictish’, Studia Hameliana, 2, Utrecht: Stichting Uitgeverij de Keltische Draak, 1997.
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Theses

Forsyth, Katherine, “The Ogham inscriptions of Scotland: an edited corpus”, PhD thesis, Harvard University, 1996.

Websites

Forsyth, Katherine, Deborah Hayden, Megan Kasten, David Stifter, and Nora White, OG[H]AM: harnessing digital technologies to transform understanding of ogham writing, from the 4th century to the 21st, Online: University of Glasgow, 2021–present. URL: <https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk>. 

Website and blog for the research project OG[H]AM: harnessing digital technologies to transform understanding of ogham writing, from the 4th century to the 21st century (2021–2024). The team includes Katherine Forsyth and David Stifter (principal investigators), Deborah Hayden (co-investigator), Nora White and Megan Kasten (post-doctoral researchers), Luca Guarienti (digital officer) and Clara Scholz (student intern). The website features blogs by team members as well as guest blogs by other researchers, including Karen Murad and Chantal Kobel.

Website and blog for the research project OG[H]AM: harnessing digital technologies to transform understanding of ogham writing, from the 4th century to the 21st century (2021–2024). The team includes Katherine Forsyth and David Stifter (principal investigators), Deborah Hayden (co-investigator), Nora White and Megan Kasten (post-doctoral researchers), Luca Guarienti (digital officer) and Clara Scholz (student intern). The website features blogs by team members as well as guest blogs by other researchers, including Karen Murad and Chantal Kobel.

Works edited

Higgitt, John, Katherine Forsyth, and David N. Parsons (eds), Roman, runes and ogham: medieval inscriptions in the Insular world and on the Continent, Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2001.

Contributions to journals

Forsyth, Katherine, “Protecting a Pict?”, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 149 (2020): 249–276.  
abstract:
A detailed discussion of the inscription on the silver chape (NMS FC 282) discovered in 1958 as part of a large hoard of silver from the major early medieval ecclesiastical site on St Ninian’s Isle, Shetland (NGR: HU 3685 2090). Previous interpretations and a range of parallels are explored. A new interpretation of the inscription is proposed: that it contains a Pictish male personal name, Resad. This has implications for previous arguments in favour of an Anglo-Saxon origin for the metalwork. Features of the lettering previously interpreted as errors are instead argued to indicate familiarity with the type of cursive writing used on wax-tablets, rather than bookhand. It is argued that the inscription was designed and manufactured by a single literate artisan, possibly in an ecclesiastical workshop.
abstract:
A detailed discussion of the inscription on the silver chape (NMS FC 282) discovered in 1958 as part of a large hoard of silver from the major early medieval ecclesiastical site on St Ninian’s Isle, Shetland (NGR: HU 3685 2090). Previous interpretations and a range of parallels are explored. A new interpretation of the inscription is proposed: that it contains a Pictish male personal name, Resad. This has implications for previous arguments in favour of an Anglo-Saxon origin for the metalwork. Features of the lettering previously interpreted as errors are instead argued to indicate familiarity with the type of cursive writing used on wax-tablets, rather than bookhand. It is argued that the inscription was designed and manufactured by a single literate artisan, possibly in an ecclesiastical workshop.
Forsyth, Katherine, “The ogham-inscribed spindle-whorl from Buckquoy: evidence for the Irish language in pre-Viking Orkney?”, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 125 (1995): 677–696.

Contributions to edited collections or authored works

Broun, Dauvit, Thomas Owen Clancy, and Katherine Forsyth, “The property records: text and translation”, in: Katherine Forsythe (ed.), Studies on the Book of Deer, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. 131–144.
Forsyth, Katherine, “The stones of Deer”, in: Katherine Forsythe (ed.), Studies on the Book of Deer, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. 398–438.
Forsyth, Katherine, “An Ogham-inscribed plaque from Bornais, South Uist”, in: Beverley Ballin Smith, Simon Taylor, and Gareth Williams (eds), West over sea: studies in Scandinavian sea-borne expansion and settlement before 1300: a Festschrift in honour of Dr. Barbara E. Crawford, 31, Leiden: Brill, 2007. 461–477.
Forsyth, Katherine, and John T. Koch [appendix], “Evidence of a lost Pictish source in the Historia regum Anglorum of Symeon of Durham”, in: Simon Taylor (ed.), Kings, clerics and chronicles in Scotland, 500–1297: essays in honour of Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000. 19–34.
Forsyth, Katherine, “Literacy in Pictland”, in: Huw Pryce (ed.), Literacy in medieval Celtic societies, 33, Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 39–61.
Forsyth, Katherine, “The inscriptions on the Dupplin Cross”, in: Cormac Bourke (ed.), From the Isles of the North: early medieval art in Ireland and Britain. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Insular Art held in the Ulster Museum, Belfast, 7-11 April 1994, Belfast: H.M.S.O., 1995. 237–244.