Description
This is a description of a Celtic design cutting board made from rubber wood and engraved with 4 Celtic dogs. It is a practical and decorative gift for those with Irish or Celtic connections. The board is available in two sizes and can be used for chopping and serving food. The Celtic hounds symbolize hunting, healing, and the Otherworld in Celtic legends and were traditionally guardians of roads and crossways. The word for "hound" in Irish comes from Proto-Celtic and Proto-Indo-European roots.
This rubber wood cutting board has an engraving of 4 intertwined Celtic dogs. It makes a practical and very decorative gift for anybody with an Irish or Celtic connection. Made from solid rubber wood, treated with bees wax from my own bees and available in two sizes, either 350x240mm (13.5x9.5") or 300x200mm(11.5x7.5") If you like to preserve the design on the front of the board you can chop on the back and use the front for serving food. A little bit of history about the design: The Celtic hounds were a breed of dogs in Gaelic Ireland described in Irish legend. They may have corresponded to Greyhound, Scottish Deerhound, Irish Wolfhound, or ancestors of all of these breeds. Celtic Hounds symbolize hunting, healing, and the Otherworld in Celtic legends. Hounds were the traditional guardian animals of roads and crossways and are believed to protect and guide lost souls in the Otherworld The Irish word c* (pronounced [ku?]) for "hound" derives from the Primitive Irish cuna, which is from Proto-Celtic *ku ("dog", "wolf"), which in turn derives from Proto-Indo-European *?w?, "dog.