Muiredach, abbé de Monasterboice, 890-923 AD.; sa vie et ses environs . f 3 ^^ Fig. 24.—Le Zodiac. {D'un dnniiiig par l'auteur.) a traité le sujet très librement, et l'a mêlé avec des idées que weare ne peut plus reconstruire. / o MUIREDACH Suivant nous venons aux panneaux sur la tige de la Croix. Au fond de la première face se trouvent deux animaux (peut-être des lions) qui jouent ou combattent entre eux [13] ; au-dessus de qui sont quatre panneaux, chacun enfermé dans un cadre ropeborder, que nous pouvons prendre dans l'ordre, en commençant par le plus bas. Le premier [17] est un double panneau, contenant deux scènes. Sur la gauche h

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Muiredach, abbot of Monasterboice, 890-923 AD.; his life and surroundings . f3 ^^ Fig. 24.—The Zodiac. {From a dnniiiig by the Author.) treated the subject very freely, and mingled it with ideas which weare no longer able to reconstruct. / o MUIREDACH Next we come to the panels on the stem of the Cross. At the bottomof the first face are two animals (perhaps lions) playing or fighting withone another [13] ; above which are four panels, each enclosed in a ropeborder, which we may take in order, beginning with the lowermost. The first [17] is a double panel, containing two scenes. At the left-hand side are Adam and Eve, standing under the forbidden tree, whichis heavily laden with fruit. Round the tree is coiled the serpent, whispering into the ear of Eve, who is handing the apple to her husband.. Fig. 25.—Panels [17, i8j. (Photograph by Mr. H. S. Crawford.) This is the commonest of all the scenes sculptured on the high crosses.It occurs on most of the crosses that have figure subjects, though, strangeto say, it is not found among the numerous panels on the taller cross atMonasterboice. It is fitting that this scene should begin the series : thestory gives the explanation once for all of how sin entered the world, andthe reason for the necessity of the scheme of redemption of which theCross tells the story. The figures of Cain and Abel follow naturally. As in Adam all die, so the first murder is the natural pendant of the first sin. The scene is MONASTER BO ICE 7 i much less common than that of Adam and Eve ; but the two are once moregrouped together in one panel on one of the crosses at Kells. Cain isrepresented as a middle-aged man with a beard, who grasps Abel, picturedas a beardless youth, and buries his cleaver in his head. The panel next above [i8] represents the duel of

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