Early Basque / stars of colour

Given the interesting record of Basque philology, I wouldn’t be surprised if the early Basque fragments found at Iruña-Veleia (near Vitoria-Gasteiz) turned out to be fakes. The inscription urdin isar, blue/greyish star, certainly leaves me curious. Off-hand I can think of no pre-C18th texts in any Western European language that refer to stars by their colour, unless they are of (Zoroastrian) gold. I believe the star of David didn’t become blue until the nineteenth century. (Did you know that the Trinidad and Tobago police use the Magen David as their emblem?)

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