[Supplementary Note.—The Bishop's words are as follows:—
"Istas insulas primitus Peti et Pape inhabitabant. Horum alteri scilicet Peti parvo superantes pigmeos statura in structuris urbium vespere et mane mira operantes, meredie vero cunctis viribus prorsus destituti in subterraneis domunculis pre timore latuerunt."—From his treatise De Orcadibus Insulis, reprinted in the "Bannatyne Miscellany," 1855, p. 33.]
[52] Testimony of Tradition, pp. 58-60, 65, 67-74, 79-80.
[53] Pennant's Second Tour in Scotland; Pinkerton's Voyages, London, 1809, p. 368.
[54] Linguæ Romanæ, Dictionarium, Luculentum Novum.
[55] Du Chaillu: Land of the Midnight Sun, vol. ii. pp. 421-2. This also is one of the articles of belief in Shetland, with regard to the trows, as the trolls are there called.
[56] Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. of Scot. (First Series), vol. iii. pp. 127-144; vol. vii. pp. 153-195.
[57] The Past in the Present, Edinburgh, 1880, pp. 58-72.
[58] The Past in the Present, p. 59.
[59] Reproduced by permission of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.