The Lia Fail, or Stone of Destiny was said to roar under each King of Ireland on his being chosen. It was in destiny, says Hector Boetius in his History of Scotland, that a king of the Scotic nation should reign wherever this stone was kept. Feargus the Great, son of Earc, having proposed to style himself king of Scotland, sent to his brother Muir-cheartach for the stone that he might sit on it for the purpose of being proclaimed King of ... Read More