Part IV.—Legend and Lay.

The Old Gods, 383

A Vanishing Island, 391

Helen Waters: a Legend of Sule Skerry, 396

A Legend of Boray Island, 403

Songs of the Gods: The Challenge of Thor, 408 Tegner’s Drapa, 409

The Song of Harold Harfager, 412

King Hacon’s Last Battle, 414

The Death of Haco, 416

The Old Man of Hoy, 420

Orkney, 422

Scenes from “The Buccaneer”: Night; Morning, 430

To Orkney, 432

The Temple of Nature, 433

Appendices.

Appendix I.—Chronology of Orcadian History to the End of the Earldom, with Related Contemporary Events, 435

Appendix II.—Norse Words in Orkney Place-Names, 439

Appendix III.—List of Birds found in Orkney, 441

Appendix IV.—Books for Further Study, 443

THE ORKNEY BOOK.