It would be fascinating if Pictish crosses had anything relevant, but I doubt it -- not that I know much about Picts myself, but archaologists keen on Viking Age material have so often discussed the Anglo-Saxon art that can be linked to it, that I'm sure if there were Pictish stuff they would know about it too.
Jacqueline
--- On Sat, 15/11/08, Caduceus Books <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Caduceus Books <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Havamal
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> Date: Saturday, 15 November, 2008, 1:31 PM
> Greetings!
>
> An interesting thread, that has moved on, in a very good
> way, from the
> original issue.
>
> >Nine days he hung on the rootless tree
> >For evil were that folk, and good was he.
> >A bloody wound was in his side –
> >Made by a lance – which would not hide.
> >Nine long nights in the nipping rime
> >Hung he there with his naked limb.
>
> That 19th Century folksong has relevant information to this
> cross
> fertilisation is a surprise, especially as it is so late.
>
> Might Pictish crosses have relevant iconography? I
> don't know, I just
> wonder.
>
> http://web.ukonline.co.uk/cj.tolley/ctm/ctm-gosforth.htm
>
> With my best wishes
>
> Ben
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