HAAGEN, old soldier, 156, 372

Halcro, Claud, 123; his story of the
tailor, 130; song, 'Mary,' 132; story of
Dryden, 143; song, 'Harold Harfager,'
153; mediates between Cleveland and
Mordaunt, 193; frames the fortune-
telling rhymes, 220; his fortune told,
224; meets Minna in distress, 252; in
the hut, 314; recognised by Bunce,
382; quotes Dryden, 387; cool recep-
tion of Bunce, 421
'Halcyon,' frigate, 369
Harfra. See Stourburgh
'Harold Harfager,' song, 153
Hawkins, pirate boatswain, 359, 419
Helyer of Swartaster, 233

Hospitality in Zetland, 5, 134, 172
Hoy, Isle of, 202, 356; Hill of, 202, 459

INTRODUCTION, Author's, vii
'It was a ship,' 384

JARLSHOF, 2

'Jolly Mariner of Canton,' 141

KIRKWALL, Earl's Palace, 326; fair, 331;
magistrates, 366; St. Magnus's cathe-
dral, 399

Kraken, sea-monster, 15

LAING, Malcolm, xii
Lambmas lads, 341, 465
Law-ting, 202, 459
Lindsay, Lady Ann, 463

'Love wakes and weeps,' 249
Luggie, the warlock, 815, 464

MACRAWS, 295, 464
Mainland of Zetland, 1

'Mark me, for the word I speak,' 302
Marriage, reflections on, 137
'Mary,' song, 132

Maskers, at Burgh-Westra, 160
'Menseful maiden, ne'er should rise,'

255

Mertoun, Basil, 3; rents Jarlshof, 6;
anger against Swertha, 10; questions
Mordaunt, 65; climbs Sumburgh Head,
68; aroused by Mordaunt's absence,
262; his relations with Norna, 274; last
interview with her, 436; offers his life
for his son's, 442; end of, 445
Mertoun, Mordaunt, advises Swertha, 12;
his education, 13; relations to Minna
and Brenda, 22; resolves to go home,
24; forces his way into Stourburgh, 43;
awakens Swertha, 64; questioned by
his father, 65; accompanies his father
up Sumburgh Head, 68; rescues Cleve-
land, 74; reproves Swertha, 83; visits
Cleveland, 85; hears unwelcome news,
93; warned by Norna, 101; joins the
Yellowleys, 111; cold reception at
Burgh-Westra, 121, 125; explanations
from Brenda, 163; rescued by Cleve-
land, 180; dispute as to the box, 191;
alarm at his prolonged absence, 261;
Norna's communication to him, 351;
restored to favour with Magnus Troil,
422; rescues the sisters, 429; story of
his birth, 438; marriage, 447
Millie, Bessie, 454

Montrose, in Zetland, 156, 456
'Mother darksome, mother dread,' 222,
224, 225, 227

'Mother, speak, and do not tarry,' 228
Mousa Castle, 463

NORNA of Fitful Head, at Stourburgh,
50; stills the tempest, 57; at the wreck,
78; warns Mordaunt, 101; in the sisters'
chamber, 198; her tale, 201; tells
fortunes, 220; song in St. Ringan's,
272; interview with Mertoun, 274;
Magnus Troil's account of her, 282; her
abode, 288; visited by the Troils, 294;
her spell over Minna, 298; throws out
the provisions, 307; claims Mordaunt
as her son, 351; separates Minna and
Cleveland, 401; helps Cleveland to
escape, 405; interview with Mertoun,
436; last days of, 446; her spells, 464;
Author on, 465, x

Norse fragments, 15, 451; Norse rovers,
143, 153

ODIN, promise of, 240, 462, 466

Olaus Magnus, his book, 306; quoted,
456

Oramus to St. Ronald, 62, 454

Orkney, grouse in, 331, 464; birds of
prey, 356, 465

PACOLET. See Strumpfer, Nick
Peghts, or Picts, 452

Snailsfoot, Bryce, at Stourburgh, 50;
refuses help to the half-drowned man,
76; gives Mordaunt news of Burgh-
Westra, 94; carries news to Burgh-
Westra, 184; sells his wares there,
189; at Kirkwall fair, 341; beaten by
Cleveland, 346

'Song of Harold Harfager,' 153
'Song of the Reim-kennar,' 57
Stennis, Standing Stones of, 411, 466
'Stern eagle of the far north-west,' 57
Stewart, Patrick, Earl of Orkney, 11
Stourburgh, or Harfra, 26, 28, 39
Strumpfer, Nick, the dwarf, 283, 291;
carries the letter to the fisherman's hut,
322

Sumburgh Head, 1; the roost of, 1, 71;
Erick's Steps on, 74
Superstitions of Zetlanders, 15
Swartaster, helyer of, 233
Swertha, the housekeeper, 10; acts on
Mordaunt's advice, 12; awakened by
him, 64; goes down to the wreck, 80;
defends herself, 82; gossips with the
Ranzelman, 108; anxiety about Mor-
daunt, 261; instructions to the Ranzel-
man, 265

Sword-dance, 157, 456

'THE infant loves the rattle's noise,'
224

'The sun is rising dimly red,' 153
'The thought of the aged,' 222
Thimblethwaite, Tim, Halcro's story of,
130

'Thou so needful, yet so dread,' 299
'Thou that over billows dark,' 300
Torfæus, Orcades, cited, 463

Torfe, Provost, of Kirkwall, 367; selects
Triptolemus as hostage, 373; receives
Minna and Brenda, 396, 403; interview
with Captain Weatherport, 441

Troil, Brenda, 18; cool reception of Mor-
daunt, 124; seeks an explanation with
him, 162; her relations with Minna,
196; night-visit by Norna to her, 198;
talk with Minna, 209; her fortune told,
227; visit to Norna's abode, 288; in the
fisherman's hut, 319; in the pirates'
hands, 381; sent ashore, 392; persuades
Mordaunt to let herself and Minna
pass, 425; her marriage, 447

Troil, Erland, 201

Troil, Magnus, 3, 5; welcomes his guests,
120; coldness to Mordaunt, 121; scorn
of Triptolemus's improvements, 144; at
the whale-hunt, 175; his fortune told,
222; journeys to Norna's abode, 280;
his account of her, 282; at her home,
294; finds shelter in the hut, 314;
boarded by the pirates, 380; set at
liberty, 412; takes Mordaunt into favour
again, 422

Troil, Minna, 18; cold reception of Mor-
daunt, 124; attentions from Cleveland,
158; relations with Brenda, 196; night-
visit from Norna, 198; talk with Brenda,
209; her fortune told, 228; meeting
with Cleveland, 233; promises him the
troth of Odin, 240; serenaded, 249;
alarmed, 251; blood discovered on her
feet, 257; her peculiar state, 278; under
Norna's spell, 298; in the fisherman's
hut, 322; in the pirates' hands, 381;
takes the pistol, 391; sent ashore, 392
visits Cleveland in the cathedral, 399
at Stennis, 426; her high resignation, 448
Troil, Rolfe, 201

Trold, 205. See also Trows
Tronda, Yellowley's servant, 50
Trows, or Drows, 102, 455
Tusser, 36, 453

UDALLERS of Zetland, 7, 451
'Untouch'd by love,' 227, 228
Urry, Sir John, 156, 456

VAUGHAN. See Mertoun, Basil
Vikings, ancient, 143, 153

WALLACE, Description of Islands of Orkney,
quoted, 460

Ward Hill of Hoy, 202, 460
Weatherport, Captain, 441
Wells and waves, 410, 466

Whale-hunt, 173; whaling customs, 222,
462

Wild-fowl, 25; catching of, 14

Winds, Norna's invocations to, 57, 300;
sale of, 70, 454

Wreck, in the roost, 71; Zetlanders' ideas
regarding, 81, 455

YELLOWLEY, Barbara, 32; her parsimony,
37, 41; takes Norna's coin, 60; goes
to Burgh-Westra, 111; welcomed by
Magnus Troil, 121; at Burgh-Westra,
135; at the whale-hunt, 174
Yellowley, Jasper, 29
Yellowley, Triptolemus, birth of, 30;
education, 33; settled in Zetland, 38;
inhospitality of, 41; personal appear
ance, 45; astonished by Norna, 60; his
ideas of agricultural reform, 115; thrown
by the pony, 117; welcomed by Magnus
Troil, 121; his improvements, 144;
made to sing, 170; at the whale-hunt,

174; in the fisherman's hut, 314; dis-
covery of the treasure, 317; selected as
hostage, 373; escapes, 376; last days
of, 447

ZETLAND, Mainland of, 1; hospitality, 5,
134, 172; tempest in, 27; administration
of, 38, 453; Green Loch in, 100; ponies,
113; corn-mills, 116, 455; Armada in,
226, 462; fishermen's wives, 231, 462;
white-fishery, 231; Pictish burgh, 288,
463; coins found in, 318, 464; wells
and waves of, 410, 466