The study presents a chronotope of linguistic changes that took place within Welsh and English speech communities (4th-8th c.). It encompasses the adaptation of runic, ogham and Latin scripts, whereas inscriptions are treated as designed text occurrences with well-planned content distribution and intentional placing in the public space.
Jacek Mianowski is Assistant Professor at the Kazimierz Wielki University (Bydgoszcz), Poland. His areas of academic research include anthropological linguistics, ethnography of communication, Viking Age studies, the emergence and evolution of writing systems.