{"id":94971,"date":"2023-03-17T06:52:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T10:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/?p=94971"},"modified":"2023-03-17T06:53:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T10:53:18","slug":"owego-is-the-irish-language-pronunciation-of-ahwaga-as-named-by-st-brendan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2023\/03\/17\/owego-is-the-irish-language-pronunciation-of-ahwaga-as-named-by-st-brendan\/","title":{"rendered":"O\u2019Wego is the Irish language pronunciation of Ahwaga, as named by St. Brendan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">All properly educated Irish children know that St. Brendan (Brendan of Clonfert, christened &#8216;<i>Broen-finn<\/i>&#8216;, 484 &#8211; 577) discovered America on one of his legendary voyages almost one thousand years before Columbus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">His Curagh (a small frame boat wrapped in hide or canvas) was blown off course, landing him on the American shore &#8211; likely near the Chesapeake Bay. Seventeenth century maps show <i>O\u2019Wegy<\/i> at the confluence of the Susquehanna and \u201c<i>O\u2019Wegy<\/i>\u201d Creek, the furthest point of Bredan\u2019s ascent of the Susquehanna River. Brendan would have spoken the Irish language and Latin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>O\u2019wegy<\/i> is a likely Irish language pronunciation of Onondaga place designation \u201cAhwaga.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">(This article is based on close reading of absolutely reliable Wiki sources and revelations found in the pints of Guinness poured at the Dugan Pub on Front Street in O\u2019Wego.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_94972\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/owego\/files\/2023\/03\/Irish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94972\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94972\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/owego\/files\/2023\/03\/Irish.jpg\" alt=\"O\u2019Wego is the Irish language pronunciation of Ahwaga, as named by St. Brendan\" width=\"800\" height=\"1138\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/owego\/files\/2023\/03\/Irish.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/owego\/files\/2023\/03\/Irish-211x300.jpg 211w, http:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/owego\/files\/2023\/03\/Irish-720x1024.jpg 720w, http:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/owego\/files\/2023\/03\/Irish-768x1092.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credit: Unknown mediaeval scribe &#8211; University of Applied Sciences, Augsburg, Germany, Public Domain, <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=1603556\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=1603556<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All properly educated Irish children know that St. Brendan (Brendan of Clonfert, christened &#8216;Broen-finn&#8216;, 484 &#8211; 577) discovered America on one of his legendary voyages&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":94972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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