CONTENTS.

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[Preface][v]

[CHAPTER I.]

Shetland Finns—Orkney Finnmen—Finn Localities—Kayaks and Kayak-men—An Orkney Kayak of 1696[1]-[11]

[CHAPTER II.]

"Zee-Woners"—Piratical Mer-folk—Landsmen and Mermen— Iberian Skin-boats—Boats made by Norway Finns—"Marine People" of the Hebrides—Probable Finns in Galloway[12]-[25]

[CHAPTER III.]

"Inhabitants of the Isles of this Kingdom"—The Isles in the Seventeenth Century—"Barbarous Men"[26]-[32]

[CHAPTER IV.]

Homes of the Finns—Norwegian Suzerainty[33]-[38]

[CHAPTER V.]

Finnish Influence in Norway[39]-[42]

[CHAPTER VI.]

The Feinne—The Battle of Gawra—The Feenic Confederacy[43]-[50]

[CHAPTER VII.]

Feens or Cruithné—Fin in the Kingdom of the Big Men— Dwarfish Tyrants[51]-[57]

[CHAPTER VIII.]

Pechts or Dwarfs—Pechts' Houses—Earth-Houses in Greenland—"Interlude of the Droichs"[58]-[65]

[CHAPTER IX.]

How the Pechts Built—Pecht-lands—The Builders of Corstorphine Church—"Unco wee bodies, but terrible strang"[66]-[74]

[CHAPTER X.]

Strongholds of the Feens—The Broch and the Sith-Bhrog[75]-[79]

[CHAPTER XI.]

Fians and Fairies—Tenth-Century Fairies—Continental Fians and Fairies—Finn and his Dwarf in Sylt[80]-[88]

[CHAPTER XII.]

Witchcraft of the Trollmen—The King of the Sidhtir of Munster—The "Great-Beamed Deer" of the Feens—Reindeer in Scotland in the Twelfth Century—Pechts and Fairies[89]-[100]

[CHAPTER XIII.]

Hollow Hillocks—The Settler and the Mound-Dwellers— "Hog-Boys"—Maes-How—Interior of the Chambered Mound—A Dwarf's House in Sylt—The Little People in Scotland—Fairy Mounds[101]-[118]

[CHAPTER XIV.]

The Brugh of the Boyne—The Brugh as Described in 1724—Gaels versus Dananns—Dananns, Fir Sidhe, or Fairies—Cruithne=Feinne—Inmates of the Brugh— Plunder of the Boyne Hillocks in 861—Sith Eamhna— Tales of Adventures in "Weems"—The Dowth Mound[119]-[140]

[CHAPTER XV.]

Goblin Halls—The Castle Hill of Clunie—Tomnahurich, Inverness—The Palace of the King of the Pechts—Pecht Localities—The Fairy Knowe of Aberfoyle—Chambered Mounds[141]-[155]

[CHAPTER XVI.]

Scott's "Rob Roy"—Shaggy Men—Red Fairies of Wales— Brownies and Forest-Men—The Ainos—A Hairy Race—Modern "Pechts"—Cave-Men—Dwarf-Tribes and Reindeer—Pÿgmei Vulgo Screlinger Dicti[156]-[175]

[CHAPTER XVII.]

Platycnemic Men—Ur-uisg=Mailleachan[176]-[180]

[Appendix A.]The Brugh of the Boyne[181]-[189]

[Appendix B.]The Skrælings[190]-[193]

[Index][195]-[205]