Note 28 — Chapter IV · A STRING OF QUAINT BEADS FROM MANY LANDS.
Reading edition
This combination of sacred fish and geese is not peculiar to the sculptured stones of Scotland. In Montfaucon’s Antiquities, vol. ii. there is a very curious engraving of an Egyptian (wearing on his head a triple emblem) embracing a stone altar, to which six geese and two fishes are bound with cords.