[Footnote 133: The _Scots Magazine_ for 1780, p. 697. See also Smellie's _Account of the Institution and Progress of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland_ (1782), p. 8.] [Footnote 134: Rowlands' _Mona Antiqua Restaurata_, second edition, p. 313. The inscription is printed in italics by Rowland. I have printed this and some of the following readings in small Roman capitals, in order to assimilate them all the more with each other.] [Footnote 135: _Philosophical Transactions_, vol. xxii. p. 790.] [Footnote 136: _Historical Inquiries concerning the Roman Monuments and Antiquities in Scotland_, p. 50.] [Footnote 137: _The History of Edinburgh_, p. 508.] [Footnote 138: _Tour in Scotland_ in 1772, Part ii. p. 237. When describing his ride from Kirkliston to Edinburgh, he observes: "On the right hand, at a small distance from our road are some rude stones. On one called the _Cat-stean_, a compound of Celtic and Saxon, signifying the Stone of Battle, is this inscription: IN HOC TUMULO JACET VETA F. VICTI; supposed in memory of a person slain there."] [Footnote 139: Camden's _Britannia_, edited by Richard Gough, vol. iii. p. 317. Mr. Gough cites also as Mr. Wilkie's reading, "IN HOC TUM, JAC. CONSTANTIE VICT."] [Footnote 140: In the VETTA of this line the cross bar in A is wanting, from the stone between the upright bars being chipped or weathered out.] [Footnote 141: _Archaeologia Cambrensis_ (for 1848), vol. iii. p. 107.] [Footnote 142: See his "Chronicon," in the _Monumenta Historica Britannica_, pp. 502 and 505. Nouns, and names ending thus in "r," preceded by a vowel, were often written without the penultimate vowel, particularly in the Scandinavian branches of the Teutonic language; as Baldr for Balder and Baldur; Folkvangr for Folkvangar; Surtr for Surtur and Surtar, etc. (See the Glossary to the prose Edda in Bohn's edition of Mallet's _Northern Antiquities_, and Kemble's _Saxons in England_, pp. 346, 363, etc.) For genealogical lists full of proper names ending in "r" with the elision of the preceding vowel, see the long tables of Scandinavian and Orcadian pedigrees printed at the end of the work on the pre-Columbian discovery of America, _Antiquitates Americanae_, etc., which was published at Copenhagen in 1837 by the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries. In the first table of genealogies giving the pedigree of Thorfinn, the son of Sigurd, of the Orkney dynasty, etc., we have, among other names--Olafr, Grismr, Ingjaldr, Oleifr (_Rex Dublini_); Thorsteinn Raudr (_partis Scotiae Rex_); Dungadr (_Earl of Katanesi_); Arfidr, Havadr, Thorfinnr, etc. (_Earls of Orkney_); etc. etc.] [Footnote 143: _Inscriptions Chretiennes de la Gaule, anterieures au VIII. Siecle._ See Plates Nos. 10, 11, 15, 16, 24, 25, etc.]