Scandinavian-Britain

246 SCANDINAVIAN BRITAINless certainly in the ship in the Factor's Cave atWemyss (see Mr. J. Patrick's article in The Reliquary,Jan. 1906), and in monuments commonly calledDanish, such as "Sueno's Pillar," at Forres. In this.Mr. Romilly Allen found an arrangementof knotscharacteristically Scandinavian, as at Aspatria (Cumberland),Braddan (I. o.M.) and Clonmacnois otherwisethis elaborate shaft is unlike Norse, but;likePictish work ;it is one of those monuments in whichtwo influences meet, and itmay help towards the truedating of the mysterious Pictish ifstyle this stoneproves to be of the Viking Age. At Forres we are onthe border of country long held by the Norse ; Burgheadwas a Viking stronghold, and there we find a" hart and hound" stone in their style (No. 7, in Mr.Romilly Allen's Early Christian Monuments of Scotland; No. TI also might be Viking work). Goingnorth we reach the Scandinavian relics of Caithness ;the"rune-inscribed Ingulf" cross at Thurso iscomparatively late.Leaving out, therefore, o.;am stones without ornamentand difficult to date, we have a series ofOrkney and Shetland monuments, some bearingogams, which fall into line with Manx and Scottishwork of the late tenth to the twelfth centuries.The conclusion seems to be that the age ofsculpture in Orkney and Shetland was rather afterthan before the year 1000; that most of the relicsare those of re-introduced Christianity. It may bethat the faith lingered, but it was not dominantbefore Olaf Tryggvason forcibly converted jarl Sigurd