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PeterL wrote:
> Bruce > wrote in news:5NqdnZ9V4p_-
> :
>
>> PeterL wrote:
>>> So, not much information is about to find out *why* it was built, but
>>> having the sun strike the back wall........... during the
> solstice....
>>> where's the alter?
>> No altar as such. There are many theories as to why it was built. You
>> may find Sigurd Towrie's website <www.orkneyjar.com> of some interest,
>> especially page <www.orkneyjar.com/history/maeshowe/acoustics.htm>
>
> Thanks, will check it out when I have a couple of spare hours!!!
>
>
>> And Golgotha monastery on Papa Stronsay is not the first, see my
> website
>> for links.
>
> Yep, been looking at the photos of the digs, especially where they
> unearthed the 'alter'.
>
> Oh, and the 'graves'.
>
> I find it *intensely* interesting that there is a pub in Reykjavik,
> Iceland, named after a guy (Gaukur) who was killed by the ancestor of a
> dude who carved some graffiti in Maeshowes' walls 200 years after his
> ancestors death!! *And* with the axe that belonged to the defeated
> Gaukur!!
>
>
>
> BTW, where abouts in the tomb is the rune graffiti??

The Viking graffiti covers the interior walls of Maeshowe. More runic
graffiti is on a standing stone at Brodgar
(And it's "altar" not "alter" <g>)
--
Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney
<www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont>
(Remove teeth to reply)
"Some days you are the pigeon. Some days you are the statue"