ABSTRACT
Stepping through the door of the old parish church of Latheron, Caithness, gifted to the Clan Gunn Society in 1974, its museum since 1985, one is confronted by a somewhat moth-eaten, but still impressive stag’s head hunting trophy. Below it, placed in front of a length of Gunn tartan, a board on which is printed two quotes. The first is taken from William Morris’s introduction to his 1888 translation of the Norse Volsunga Saga:
It would seem fitting for a Northern folk, deriving the greater and better part of their speech, laws and customs from a Northern root, that the North should be to them, if not a holy land, yet at least a place more to be regarded than any part of the world beside, that howsoever their knowledge widened of other men, the faith and deeds of their forefathers would never lack interest for them, but would always be kept in remembrance.
