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Rude stone monuments in all countries : their age and uses (1872)

Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 · London, J. Murray · leaf 298

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cross to his wife,Arnbjorg. From their names, both evidently of Scandinavianorigin. The inscription on the side of the second runs thus: MaiLumkun erected this cross to his foster-father Malmor, orMai Muru. 4 Both names of undoubted Gaelic derivation, thus 1 Proceedings Soc. Ant. Scot. iv. p.119 et… … Cross in Isle of Man, bearingRunic Inscription. showing that at that age at least any ethnographic theory thatwould give these stones exclusively to either race can hardlybe maintained. The two races seemthen to have followed the fashionof the flay as they did in rudertimes. Except in the instance…

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