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SOUTH RONALDSAY
South
Ronaldsay is another island where very strong men live.
It has a temple, near to the sea
shore, where there is a very hard stone, commonly called a grey
whin, six feet in length, in breadth four, on which is impressed
the figures of the two naked feet, which no workman could have made*.
Old men relate that a Frenchman,
who being expelled from the country, for a place of safety, went
on board a ship, when a great tempest arose and they were in peril,
and suffered shipwreck, he at length jumping upon the back of a
monster, vowed, humbly praying to God, that if he was safely carried
to land, in memory thereof he would build a church to the Virgin
Mary.
His prayer being heard, he was drawn
safe to the shore by the support of the monster. The monster was
afterwards changed into a stone of its own colour; he himself placed
it in that church, where it remains as above described.
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