<Dd> On Ederchaillis' shore--The Book of Highland Minstrelsy, 1846, pp. 256 - 258 </Dd> <P> Island burial was a practice also adopted on Tanera Mòr and on Inishail, while in Atholl, coffins were made wolf - proof by building them out of five flagstones . Wolves likely became extinct in the Scottish Lowlands during the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries, when immense tracts of forest were cleared . James I passed a law in 1427 requiring three wolf hunts a year between 25 April and 1 August, coinciding with the wolf's cubbing season . Scottish wolf populations reached a peak during the second half of the 16th century . Mary, Queen of Scots is known to have hunted wolves in the forest of Atholl in 1563 . </P> <P> The wolves later caused such damage to the cattle herds of Sutherland that in 1577, James VI made it compulsory to hunt wolves three times a year . Stories of the killing of the alleged last wolf of Scotland vary . Official records indicate that the last Scottish wolf was killed by Sir Ewen Cameron in 1680 in Killiecrankie (Perthshire), but there are reports that wolves survived in Scotland up until the 18th century, and a tale even exists of one being seen as late as 1888 . </P> <P> In the Welsh tale of Gelert, Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd, killed his faithful dog Gelert after finding him covered in blood which he presumed belonged to his baby son . Only later does he discover that his son is still alive, and that the blood belonged to a wolf which Gelert killed in defence of the young prince . In Welsh mythology, both St. Ciwa the "Wolf Girl" and Bairre (an ancestor of Amergin Glúingel) are said to have been suckled by wolves . </P>

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