Irish Druids and old Irish religions / by James Bonwick.

  • James Bonwick
Date:
1894
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    to be crowned, and placed it in the most sovereign beautiful place in Ireland, called to this day the Royal Place ; and P'ergus, son of Ferchar, brought the Royal Stone before received, and placed it where it is now, the Abbey of Scone.” The Royal Place was Fordun's Themor^ and Blind Harry’s Canrnor or Teamor; i. e. Tara. Baldred Bisset, early in the fourteenth century, had an- other version ; saying, “ The daughter of Pharaoh, King of Egypt, with an armed band, and a large fleet, goes to Ireland, and there being joined by a body of Irish, she sails to Scotland, taking with her the royal seat, which he, the King of England, with other insignia of the Kingdom of Scotland, carried with him, by violence, to England.” This Bisset sought to gain the Pope’s good offices for its restoration to Scone by our Edward I. The Irish story in the Leabhar Gabhala, or Book of Conquests, mentions the bringing to I reland,Falias in Scotland, of the Lia Fail, by the Tuath de Danaans. Upon this, W. F. Skene has stated—“The two legends at all events are quite antagonistic to each other, and there is one historic fact certain as to each. First, the Lia Fail, or Irish Stone, did not leave Tara, but was still there in the eleventh century ; and secondly, the Scotch one was not in Argyle during the existence of the Irish colony of the Dalriada, nor was used in the inauguration of their kings.” Wintownis Chronikel, written in St. Serfs monastery, of Inch, Loch Leven, about 1420, has this account— “A gret Stane this Kynge than had That for this Kynge’s Sete was made ; And haldyne was a great Jowale Wytht in the kynryk of Spayne hale. This King bad this Simon (Tree) ta That Stane, and in-tyl Yrland ga, And wyn that land and occupy And halde that Stane perpetually. And make it his Sege thare As thai of Spayne did it of arc.