The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . remarkable memorialstone found in 1824 on the Island of Kingiktorsoak, Greenland,under the parallel of 73°, proving the zeal with which the old Scan-dinavian colonists pushed their adventurous course even to the ex-treme north of the inhospitable region of Greenland. It is intro-duced here chiefly to shew the complicated and much more intricatecharacter of Scandinavian inscriptions of a later and well ascertainedperiod; the era of the colonisation of Greenland being sufiicientlyestablished as a historical fact. Mr. C. C. Rafn finds in the co
The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . remarkable memorialstone found in 1824 on the Island of Kingiktorsoak, Greenland,under the parallel of 73°, proving the zeal with which the old Scan-dinavian colonists pushed their adventurous course even to the ex-treme north of the inhospitable region of Greenland. It is intro-duced here chiefly to shew the complicated and much more intricatecharacter of Scandinavian inscriptions of a later and well ascertainedperiod; the era of the colonisation of Greenland being sufiicientlyestablished as a historical fact. Mr. C. C. Rafn finds in the conclud-ing Runes the date 1135. During the recent repairs executed onSt. Magnus Cathedral at Kirkwall, some singularly interesting dis- > rrinieval Auti<|iiitkS of Denmark, p. A). - Hibbcrts Shetland, , -547. SCOTO-SCANDINAVIAN KELICS. 537 coveries were made connected with the period of its earliest Scandi-navian bishops. A tomb was opened accidentally in the choir of thecathedral, which from the inscription accompanying- it appears to. Greenland Runic luscriplion. have been the place to which the remains of William, according toTorfa3Us, first resident Bishop of Orkney, were translated, after theelongation of the cathedral, towards the close of the twelfth with the bones were interred a leaden plate inscribed in thecommon Church letters of the period :—|^ . Hetjuiescit. SSEllIiamuS .^ . fdlClS . tncntorte. On the reverse of the plate are the words,pnutS CptS . Further excavations in the east end of the choir, andclose to the presumed site of the high altar, led to the discovery of twocurious pieces of sculpture, in has relief, representing St. Olaf andSt. Magnus. These, however, as well as the tomb of Bishop Tulloch,with crosier, paten, and chalice inclosed, and other discoveries madeat the same period, belong to a later era than that of Runic litera-ture, and are only referred to now as suggesting the possibility ofstill earlier relics of the
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