[563] Regist. Episc. Moraviensis, p. 456.
[564] It is not impossible that the latter name may have originally referred to the Runes on its beautiful monument. The probability, however, is lessened by the earlier forms of the name, as Ryval and Ruthwald. The reader of chartularies cannot have overlooked the endless variations of local names.
[565] Primeval Antiquities of Denmark, p. 55.
[566] Hibbert's Shetland, pp. 531, 547.
[567] Journal of Archæol. Asso. vol. i. p. 48.
[568] Ecclesiastical Notes of the Isle of Man, &c., p. 46.
[569] Camden's Britannia; Gibson's Ed. p. 1458; Gough's Ed. vol. iv. p. 510; Archæol. Scot. vol. ii. pp. 490, 505; Archæol. Journal, vol. ii. p. 75; Ecclesiol. Notes, p. 24, &c.
[570] Sinclair's Statistical Account, vol. xiii. p. 350. A local correspondent informs me that the inscription is now quite illegible.
[571] Archæologia, vol. xxviii. p. 327.
[572] Report of R. S. of Northern Antiquaries to Brit, and Amer. Mems., 1836, pp. 88,89.