Katherine S. Forsyth is a Scottish historian who specializes in the history and culture ofCeltic-speaking peoples during the 1st millennium AD, in particular thePicts. She is currently a professor inCeltic and Gaelic at theUniversity of Glasgow inScotland. She graduated from theUniversity of Cambridge andHarvard University.^[1]

Forsyth is an expert in theOgham script, and has provided readings for a number ofOgham inscriptions, including theBuckquoy spindle-whorl and theLunnasting stone.^[2] Forsyth has reinterpreted a number of Pictish Ogham stone inscriptions that were previously thought to be written in an unknown pre-Indo-European language, and has argued that the Picts spoke aBrythonic language.^[3]

• 1995. "The ogham-inscribed spindle-whorl from Buckquoy: evidence for the Irish language in pre-Viking Orkney?". InProceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 125: 677–696.
• 1995. "Language in Pictland: spoken and written". In Nicoll, E.H. and Forsyth, K. (eds.),A Pictish Panorama: the story of the Picts. Pinkfoot Press.ISBN 1-874012-10-5
• 1995. "Some thoughts on Pictish symbols as a formal writing system". In Henderson, I. and Henry, D. (eds.),The Worm, the Germ and the Thorn: Pictish and Related Studies Presented to Isabel Henderson. Pinkfoot Press.ISBN 1-874012-17-2
• 1997.Language in Pictland: the case against 'non-Indo-European Pictish. Studia Hameliana, 2. Utrecht: De Keltiche DraakISBN 90-802785-5-6
• 2001. Okasha, E. and Forsyth, K.,Early Christian inscriptions of Munster: a corpus of the inscribed stones. Cork: Cork University Press.ISBN 978-1-85918-170-6
• 2005. "HIC MEMORIA PERPETUA: the inscribed stones of sub-Roman southern Scotland". In: Foster, S.M. and Cross, M. (eds.)Able Minds and Practised Hands: Scotland's Early Medieval Sculpture in the Twenty-First Century. Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph Series (23). Society for Medieval Archaeology.ISBN 978-1-904350-74-3
• 2007. "An ogham-inscribed plaque from Bornais, South Uist". In Ballin-Smith, B., Taylor, S. and Williams, G. (eds.),West over Sea: Studies in Scandinavian Sea-Borne Expansion and Settlement Before 1300. Leiden: Brill.ISBN 978-90-04-15893-1
• 2008. Forsyth, K. (ed.),Studies on the Book of Deer. Dublin: Four Courts Press.ISBN 978-1-85182-569-1
• 2011. Barrowman, R.C. and Forsyth, K., "An Ogham-Inscribed Slab from St Ninian’s Isle, Found in 1876". InThe Chapel and Burial Ground on St Ninian’s Isle, Shetland. Excavations Past and Present. Society for Medieval Archaeology.

• Forsyth, Katherine (1997),Language in Pictland: the case against 'non-Indo-European Pictish', vol. 2, Utrecht: De Keltiche Draak,ISBN 9789080278554, retrieved21 April 2022
• Forsyth, Katherine (1996),"The ogham-inscribed spindle whorl from Buckquoy: Evidence for the Irish language in pre-Viking Orkney?"(PDF),Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland,125:677–696,doi:10.9750/PSAS.125.677.696, retrieved24 July 2015

• Katherine Forsyth's page at the University of Glasgow

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