[46] What we in England term cromlechs, the French more correctly call dolmens.
[47] The building up of part of the circle round a cairn was probably to block the way of the spirit in the direction of the village occupied by the living.
[48] Bull. de la Soc. d’anthropologie de Paris, t. ix., p. 198.
[49] Reinsberg Düringsfeld. “Trad. et Legendes de la Belgique,” 1870, T. II., p. 239.
[50] Journal of the British Archæological Association, vol. xxxviii., 1882.
[51] They are found, for instance, on tombstones near Inverness.
[52] The majority of these vessels, which abound in the West of England, were unquestionably measures of corn. But all were not so; those that have rounded hollows like cups, and not square cut, were for holy water.
[53] “Heimskringla,” Saga III., c. 8.
Transcriber’s Notes:
Variations in spelling and hyphenation remain as in the original unless noted below.