Celtibeŕ

@celtiber.eurosky.social

Mapping Idubeda, an EU demographic desert. Trained in Europe & East Asia on architecture, urbanism & land planning. Since ‘99 genealogy & linguistics in my ancestors’ melting pot valley.

Syriac wotd ܒܪܐ /barrå/ "outdoors, outside, the wild" (ܠܒܪ /l-ḇar/ "out, outside" [adv]) as in IO 9 f 410va 20-23 ܗܐ ܓܝܪ ܓܡܠܐ ܘܐܪܢܒܐ ܘܥܪܒܐ ܪܟܝܟܝܢ ܣܥܪ̈ܝܗܘܢ. ܘܐܪܝܐ ܘܚܙܝܪ ܒܪܐ ܩܫܐ ܣܥܪܗܘܢ transcr. ⬇️ "…since camels, rabbits, and sheep have soft hair, while lions and wild boars have stiff hair"

Syriac wotd ܓܘܚܟܐ /guḥkå/ laughter, joke as in IO 9 f 410va 3-6 ܘܫܐܠܢܝ ܥܠܝܡܐ ܡܛܠ ܥܠܬܐ ܕܓܘܚܟܐ ܕܝܠܝ ܕܬܢܝܬ ܠܗ ܗܘ ܡܐ ܕܓܕܫܢܝ ܒܗܝ ܩܪܝܬܐ. transcr. ⬇️ "The guy I'd told what had happened to me in the village asked me the reason for my laughter."

Four lines of handwritten Syriac in vocalized East Syriac script, black ink

By the late 13th cent. Fethard was prosperous enough to seek royal funding to enclose the town. A murage grant of 1292 raised money through taxes on goods sold in the town, including wine, hides, timber, fish and grain. The walls enclosed an oval area of c. 7.5 hectares and stretched for c. 1.1km.

Fig 2. Fethard c. 1250 to c. 1700
Black and white text map showing the medieval town overlaid on a modern Ordnance Survey baseMap 7 Part of Fethard, 1708 by Redmond Grace. Redrawn by Tadhg O'Keeffe, original scale 1:5040 enlarged by approximately one quarter