[488] The term Runic knot, as thus applied to the interlaced ornament, is a ridiculous misnomer, which, if it has any meaning, must signify the Alphabet knot!
[489] Guide to Northern Archæology, pp. 43, 70.
[490] Archæol. Scot. vol. iii. p. 99. It is engraved in a superior style in Archæologia, vol. xxii. Plate XXXV.
[491] Chron. Sax. edit Gibs. p. 83, quoted by H. Ellis, Esq., Archæol. vol. xxii. p. 292.
[492] Minutes of S.A. Scot., April 22, 1833.
[493] MS. Soc. Antiq. Scot., read May 1, 1787.
[494] Primeval Antiquities, p. 64.
[495] Collect. de Reb. Hiber. No. xiii. p. 70.
[496] Archæol. Journal, vol. iii. p. 35.
[497] Illustrations of Northern Antiquities, p. 354.