CONTENTS.

[INTRODUCTION.]

[SECTION I.]

Scandinavia’s greatest Memorials.—Those of Denmark and Norway at Sea.—Of Sweden on Land.—The Influence of Climate

[SECTION II.]

The Great Memorials of Sweden in their Relation to those of Denmark and Norway.—Danish-Norwegian Memorials in the British Isles

[THE DANES IN ENGLAND.]

[SECTION I.]

Nature of the Country.—Earlier Inhabitants: Britons, Romans, and Anglo-Saxons

[SECTION II.]

The Danish Expeditions.—The Danish Conquest

[SECTION III.]

The Thames.—London

[SECTION IV.]

Watlinga-Stræt.—South England.—Legends about the Danes.—The Graves of Canute the Great and Hardicanute

[SECTION V.]

The Wash.—The Five Burghs.—The Humber.—York.—Northumberland.—Stamford Bridge

[SECTION VI.]

Danish-Norwegian Memorials in the North of England.—Coins.—The Raven.—The Danish Flag

[SECTION VII.]

Danish-Norwegian Names of Places

[SECTION VIII.]

Resemblance of the People to the Danes and Norwegians.—Proper Names.—Popular Language.—Songs and Legends

[SECTION IX.]

The Outrages of the Danes.—The Danes and Normans.—Influence of the Danes in England

[SECTION X.]

Commerce and Navigation

[SECTION XI.]

Art and Literature

[SECTION XII.]

Ecclesiastical and Secular Aristocracy

[SECTION XIII.]

The Danelag.—Holmgang, or Duel.—Jury.—The Feeling of Freedom

[SECTION XIV.]

General View.—Anglo-Saxon and Danish-Norman England.—Sympathies for Denmark.—The Dane in England

[THE NORWEGIANS IN SCOTLAND.]

[SECTION I.]

Nature of Scotland.—The Highlands and Lowlands.—Population.—Original Inhabitants

[SECTION II.]

The Anglo-Saxons.—The Danes and Norwegians.—Effects of their Expeditions

[SECTION III.]

The Lowlands.—Population.—Language.—Norwegian-Danish Names of Places

[SECTION IV.]

Traditions concerning “the Danes.”—The Southern and Northern Lowlands.—Danish Memorials.—Burghead

[SECTION V.]

The Orkneys and Shetland Isles.—Natural Features.—Population.—Oppression

[SECTION VI.]

Shetland.—The People.—Songs.—Sword-Dance.—Language.—Names of Places.—Tingwall.—Burg of Mousa.—Tumuli.—Bauta Stones

[SECTION VII.]

The Orkneys.—“Þingavöllr.”—Monuments of the Olden Time.—Kirkwall.—St. Magnus Church

[SECTION VIII.]

Pentland Firth.—The Highlands.—Caithness.—Sutherland.—Dingwall.—Fear of the Danes

[SECTION IX.]

The Hebrides.—The Northern Isles.—Lewis and Harris (Næs).—Skye.—Ossian’s Songs.—Iona

[SECTION X.]

The Sudreyjar, or Southern Isles.—Cantire.—Islay.—Man.—Names of Places.—Runic Stones.—Kings.—Battle of Largs.—“Lords of the Isles.”—Tynwald in Man

[THE NORWEGIANS IN IRELAND.]

[SECTION I.]

Nature and Population of Ireland.—The “Danish” Conquests.—Traditions about the “Danes.”—Political Movements

[SECTION II.]

Irish and Scandinavian Records.—Finn Lochlannoch.—Dubh-Lochlannoch.—The Names of the Provinces

[SECTION III.]

Norwegian Kings.—Limerick.—Cork.—Waterford.—Reginald’s Tower.—Dublin.—Thengmotha.—Oxmantown

[SECTION IV.]

Norwegian Names of Places.—Near Dublin.—Norwegian Burial—Places.—Norwegian Weapons and Ornaments

[SECTION V.]

Ancient Irish Christianity and Civilization.—Trade.—No Irish, but Norwegian Coins.—Sigtryg Silkeskjæg.—Norwegian Coiners

[SECTION VI.]

The Battle of Clontarf.—Power of the Ostmen after the Battle.—Their Churches and Bishops.—Their Land and Sea Forces.—The English Conquest.—Remains of the Ostmen.—Their Importance for Ireland

[SECTION VII.]

Conclusion.—Warlike and Peaceful Colonizations Resemblances and Differences.—Before and Now

[Appendix I. Document of Edward I.]

[Appendix II. Coinage of the Norwegians in Dublin]