Myths and legends ; the Celtic race . stone. Again, in a brochure by Dr. Oscar Mpntelius on the rock-sculptures of O ^.^^^^ Sweden * we find a reproduction (also LcJ given in Du Chaillus Viking Age ) ^^^ of a rude rock-carving showing a number of ships with men on board. Solar Ship from Loc, . - ^ J - mariaker, Brittany and the circle quartered by a cross— i^After Ferguson)unmistakably a solar emblem—just above one of them. Thatthese ships (which, likethe Irish example, areoften so summarily re-^ presented as to be meresymbols which no onecould identifiy as a shipSolar Ship from Hallande, Swed
Myths and legends ; the Celtic race . stone. Again, in a brochure by Dr. Oscar Mpntelius on the rock-sculptures of O ^.^^^^ Sweden * we find a reproduction (also LcJ given in Du Chaillus Viking Age ) ^^^ of a rude rock-carving showing a number of ships with men on board. Solar Ship from Loc, . - ^ J - mariaker, Brittany and the circle quartered by a cross— i^After Ferguson)unmistakably a solar emblem—just above one of them. Thatthese ships (which, likethe Irish example, areoften so summarily re-^ presented as to be meresymbols which no onecould identifiy as a shipSolar Ship from Hallande, Sweden ^ere the clue not given{After Montelius) ^^ ^^y^^^ ^^j ^^^^ elaborate representations) were drawn so frequently inconjunction with the solar disk merely for amusementor for a purely decorative object seems to me most 1 Proc. Royal Irish Acad., vol. viii. 1863, p. 400, and G. Coffey,op. cit. p. 30. * Les Sculptures de Rochers de la Suide, read at the PrehistoricCongress, Stockholm, 1874 ; and sec G. Coffey, op, cit, p. 60,7».
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