Chapter II: 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