. Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected. Part of the edge of a hollowed stone, found about 1S30 under the ruinsat the east end of the chapel on the island in Loch Fionnlagain, thechief place of the JLicDonalds in Islay. The inside of the chapel wasa place of burial, and this looks like a holy-water font. It is the style which is to be found in wooden Nor-wegian churches, said to be as old as a. d. 1100, and WEST HIGHLAND STORIES. 4OI which is characteristic of more modern N^orwegiaucarving, on knife handles, powder-horns, wooden chests,and such like articles. A glance at the f
. Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected. Part of the edge of a hollowed stone, found about 1S30 under the ruinsat the east end of the chapel on the island in Loch Fionnlagain, thechief place of the JLicDonalds in Islay. The inside of the chapel wasa place of burial, and this looks like a holy-water font. It is the style which is to be found in wooden Nor-wegian churches, said to be as old as a. d. 1100, and WEST HIGHLAND STORIES. 4OI which is characteristic of more modern N^orwegiaucarving, on knife handles, powder-horns, wooden chests,and such like articles. A glance at the followingwoodcut will shew what is End of a powder-bom, carved by a peasant in Gulbrandsdal, Norway,about 1850. Similar designs are common in Norwegian cai-vings, a wooden church as old as 1100, according to the dates upon it. Ihave never seen a so-called Runic knot in Scandinavia Like tliose whichare common in Scotland.* Celtic art then appears to be of Eastern origin, likeCeltic nations and languages, and like Gaelicpopular tales. The well-known superstitious observances connectedwith Halloween have been referred to Eastern solarworship.^^ The Eeverend James Robertson, minister ofCallander, described them in 1791, and alluded to thestone circles of Scotland as to Druidical temples. Hetells that in his day, in hamlets, a fire was lighted atsundown, made entirely of ferns gathered on neighbours assembled, and each, according toseniority, placed a marked stone at the edge of the * Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, , p. 223. Other ceremonies are descrihed iu ArmstronsgD
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