Sela nan Dal Riata

Sela nan Dál Riata = Old Irish: "Mark of Dál Riata"

I might include this as a piece of apocrypha surrounding my "Brave Kin" (Original Character for Disney/Pixar's Brave), "Murchadh".

The Gaels of Scotland originally came from Ireland in the 5th Century A.D., in the form of an Irish Gaelic tribal over-kingdom named "Dál Riata" ("Riata's Share"; "Riata" was believed to be the tribe's founding ancestor). Fergus Mór mac Eirc (the founding ancestor of Clan Ferguson) was their King at the time. But before him, it was his older brother, Loarn mac Eirc (the founding ancestor of Clan MacLaren, of whom has a similar tartan to Clan Ferguson, save for the fact that the white stripe in the Ferguson of Atholl tartan is changed to yellow in the MacLaren tartan). Upon Loarn's passing later on, Fergus Mór ascended the throne of Dál Riata. Dál Riata is also known in Scottish Gaelic as Dalriada.

Long before St. Patrick brought the gift of writing to the Irish (about the only good thing he did for them), the Irish did not have any real form of written language. Except for "Ogham".
Ogham, also known as the "Tree Alphabet", was a cipher used originally to write in the "Primitive Irish" language (now extinct). It's since been used for Old Irish, Middle Irish, Modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Latin, and even Old Norse. It could and can be used for different languages because it's a "cipher", rather than a phonetic or syllabic alphabet. I.e., each character represents a "letter", rather than a sound or syllable. Some characters in Ogham can be used for multiple letters. E.g.: the character "uath" can be used for "h", or "y".

However, originally, the Irish didn't know about "parchment". So they first started by carving it into stone, or wood. With wood, they'd carve it directly into the wood face. With stone, they carved it, in vertical succession, along the corner edge of stones. Originally, there was no stemline. But with the gift of writing on parchment, the stemline was added.

Originally, there were four groups of characters, or "aicme", with five characters each. But with the additions of new sounds as their language evolved, a fifth group of six characters called the "forfeda" was added. Additionally, the "feathers" on the ends of lines were added to mark the beginning and ends of sentences.

This image is in "sigil form": opened with a feather at the bottom, but no feather at the top, and with a stemline, but in vertical succession, read bottom to top. It reads "Dal Riata".

The mentioned apocrypha is that my Brave Kin, Murchadh, may or may not have a hidden mark (tattoo) on him in this form.