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Title: Not worth it.
Review: First, from the product description here at Amazon:"His next effort is expected to be the translation of the 1200-year-old Aurai'cept na n' ees, the operations manual of the Benedectine monks. It was writte in codified Basque shorthand and promises to be very time-consuming."This is nonsense. The 'Aurai'cept na n' ees' [sic], or more properly the 'Auraicept na n-Éces', is a 7th century Irish text, and most certainly not written in Basque. The 'Auraicept na n-Éces' is a grammar text with some valuable parts dealing with old Irish ogham.Second, the book itself: more nonsense. It is nothing but strongly revisionist history that M. Gimbutas would have adored during the last ten years of her career. I would put it nearly on a par with the Oera Linda hoax, except that the author of this text seems genuinely serious about what is being written.Reviewing it in any more depth than this would be a waste of time.
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