CONTENTS.
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Prefacev
CHAPTER I.
Shetland Finns—Orkney Finnmen—Finn Localities—Kayaks and Kayak-men—An Orkney Kayak of 16961-11
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 Galloway12-25
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 Suzerainty33-38
CHAPTER V.
Finnish Influence in Norway39-42
CHAPTER VI.
The Feinne—The Battle of Gawra—The Feenic Confederacy43-50
CHAPTER VII.
Feens or Cruithné—Fin in the Kingdom of the Big Men— Dwarfish Tyrants51-57
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-Bhrog75-79
CHAPTER XI.
Fians and Fairies—Tenth-Century Fairies—Continental Fians and Fairies—Finn and his Dwarf in Sylt80-88
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 Fairies89-100
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 Mounds101-118
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 Mound119-140
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 Mounds141-155
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 Dicti156-175
CHAPTER XVII.
Platycnemic Men—Ur-uisg=Mailleachan176-180
Appendix A.—The Brugh of the Boyne181-189
Appendix B.—The Skrælings190-193
Index195-205