Scandinavian-Britain

242 SCANDINAVIAN BRITAINsubsequent generations when the Irish or Englishword for "priest" was learnt.When they became Christianised they set up gravemonumentshere or elsewhere. At Kilbar in Barrais a cross with Scandinavian runes ;another from St.Mannock's in Bute has, in runes, "Krus thine (let?)Guthle(if)," raised to the memory of one unknown.But as Galloway settlers were perhaps taken to Whithornfor burial, so the chiefs of the Isles were buriedat lona. Most of the monuments preserved there areeither much earlier or much later than the periodwhen distinctively Scandinavian ornament was givento these carvings, but there is one stone (figured byW. G. Collingwood in the Saga-book of the VikingClub, iii., p. 305) formerly in the chapel of St. Oranbut now kept in the Cathedral, which is differentfrom all the rest. On one side it bears the usualScandinavian dragon with irregular interlacing; onthe other a ship with its crew and a smith with hishammer, anvil and pincers. The resemblance of thisto Manx crosses suggests that it may have been thetombstone of a king of Man.Minor antiquities of the Viking Age are not infrequentin the Hebrides and neighbouring parts ofScotland. The Hunterston brooch found near Largswith runic inscriptions perhaps of the tenth century,and other penannular brooches, are described in Dr.Anderson's Scotland in Early Christian Times (ii.Pairs of "tortoise" brooches have been found inI slay and Tiree, and examples in Barra and Sanday ;weapons in interments at Islay, Mull, Barra, Sandayi).