Chessmen should be returned to Norway
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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