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Published Date: 26 December 2007
There is indeed a comparison to be made between the Lewis Chessmen and the Elgin Marbles. If it is right for the Marbles to be returned to Greece where they were created, then the Chessmen should be returned to Norway.
They are, despite your editorial claim (24 December) "most definitely" not Scottish. They were lost here. If they were originally bound, as claimed by historians, for Ireland, then that country has a stronger moral claim than Scotland.

It is an interesting criteria of ownership you use that they have been here "long enough for them to be considered ours".

If they had arrived here, like the Elgin Marbles, in the early 19th century (and they were unknown to anyone before then) would that be long enough for Scotland to claim ownership?

R J RITCHIE

Cecil Street

Stirling



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  • Last Updated: 25 December 2007 8:47 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Aqwes,

Edinburgh 26/12/2007 01:47:42
We don't know if they were lost here or hidden here, and never returned to. Maybe we should just pop them in the post to Dublin and let the letter-carriers sort it all out.
2

Spotter,

26/12/2007 02:26:52
what a barking letter!!
3

Dollar Tim,

Dollar 26/12/2007 09:30:21
2# I concur.
4

McNasty,

Edinburgh 26/12/2007 09:31:27
R J RITCHIE

Scotland needs more friends like you, like a hole in the head.
5

d.j.,

26/12/2007 11:02:59
How does R J Ritchie know they came from Norway, could they not have been sculptured in the Western Isles. What evidence does R J Ritchie have to say they were going anywhere or belong to anyone other than a person from the local area. After all the Northmen and women lived in these islands for some considerable time.

Finally, what information is to be found in the local oral tradition regarding such items which stretches back at least 1500 years.

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