Scandinavian-Britain

MAN AND THE ISLES 243and St. Kilda. A howe known as the Carnan-a-Bhairraich, in Oronsay, was explored in 1891, andfound to contain brooches, beads, a ring, a knife anda net-sinker, beside boat-rivets ;it seems as though the"man from Barra" was buried in his boat with hiswife possibly a case of "suttee," which was notunknown. At Kiloran Bay in Colonsay, Mr. MacNeill,in 1882, found a ship-burial with sword, axe, shieldboss,cauldron, etc., and a pair of scales and stycas ofthe archbishop of York, 831-854; also a horse'sskeleton of which the hind leg had been cut beforeinterment (Saga-book of Viking Club, v., p. 172).It was not more than a generation later that Orlyg,who had been brought up in the Hebrides by bishopPatrick, set forth to Iceland "with wood for buildinga church, and a plenarium and an iron bell, a goldenpenny and consecrated earth to be put under thecorner pillars. The bishop told him to land wheretwo mountains rose out of the sea,. . . and therebuild a church and consecrate it to St. Columba "(Landndma, i. 12). From this it is evident that evenin the ninth century the Vikings in the Hebrideswere already beginning to be Christianised, thoughimperfectly : for at Esjuberg, in Iceland, Orlyg andhis family, when the church was built, seem to haveworshipped, not Christ, but Columba.