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and St. Kilda. A howe known as the Carnan-a-
Bhairraich, in Oronsay, was explored in 1891, and
found to contain brooches, beads, a ring, a knife and
a net-sinker, beside boat-rivets ; it seems as though the
"man from Barra" was buried in his boat with his
wife – possibly a case of "suttee," which was not
unknown. At Kiloran Bay in Colonsay, Mr. MacNeill,
in 1882, found a ship-burial with sword, axe, shield-boss,
cauldron, etc., and a pair of scales and stycas of
the archbishop of York, 831-854; also a horse’s
skeleton of which the hind leg had been cut before
interment (Saga-book of Viking Club, v., p. 172).
It was not more than a generation later that Örlyg,
who had been brought up in the Hebrides by bishop
Patrick, set forth to Iceland "with wood for building
a church, and a plenarium and an iron bell, a golden
penny and consecrated earth to be put under the
corner pillars. The bishop told him to land where
two mountains rose out of the sea, . . . and there
build a church and consecrate it to St. Columba"
(Landnáma, i. 12). From this it is evident that even
in the ninth century the Vikings in the Hebrides
were already beginning to be Christianised, though
imperfectly : for at Esjuberg, in Iceland, Örlyg and
his family, when the church was built, seem to have
worshipped, not Christ, but Columba.
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