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Folklore
| The armies of the Saxon King Edmond and the Scottish King Malcolm joined forces to fight Dunmail, the King of Cumberland in AD 945, and won. It is said that Edmond himself killed Dunmail at the place where the cairn now stands. He ordered his prisoners to collect rocks to pile on Dunmail's body, thus forming the cairn. As Dunmail lay dying he shouted, "My crown - bear it away; never let the Saxon flaunt it." A few of his warriors fought their way through the Saxons and bore his crown up the fell to Grisedale Tarn, where they threw it into the depths. They said, "Till Dunmail come again to lead us." Every year the warriors return to the tarn, retrieve the crown, and carry it down to the cairn on Dunmail Raise. They hit their spears on the top of the cairn, and a voice issues from inside, saying "Not yet, not yet; wait awhile my warriors." The other legend of the cairn is that when two armies were about to join in battle each soldier from both sides placed a stone on the spot. Those who survived returned and removed a stone. And I thought it was Bronze Age. |
Posted by The Eternal4th December 2005ce Edited 5th December 2005ce
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