- 1Epigraph
- 2Preface
- 3Part I — The Story of the Past
- 4The Beginnings of Our History
- 5The Norsemen and Their Sagas
- 6The Beginning of the Earldom
- 7The Dark Century
- 8Earl Thorfinn and Earl Rognvald
- 9The Slaying of Earl Magnus
- 10The Founding of St. Magnus Cathedral
- 11The Jorsalafarers
- 12Sweyn Asleifson, the Last of the Vikings
- 13The Decay of the Earldom and the End of the Western Kingdom
- 14The Annexation to Scotland
- 15Udal and Feudal
- 16The Stewart Earls
- 17The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- 18Part II — The Isles and the Folk
- 19Round the Mainland
- 20Sketches by Hugh Miller
- 21The Cathedral of St. Magnus
- 22A Road in Orcady
- 23A Loch in Orcady
- 24Among the Kelpers
- 25A Whale-Hunt in Orkney
- 26Articles Made of Straw
- 27The Weather of Orkney
- 28The Place-Names of Orkney
- 29Part III — Nature Lore
- 30A Peat-Moss
- 31Some Common Weeds
- 32Home Life on the Rocks
- 33The Birds of Sule Skerry
- 34Common Seaweeds
- 35Crabs
- 36Hoppers and Sholties
- 37Sea-Anemones
- 38Part IV — Legend and Lay
- 39A Vanishing Island
- 40Helen Waters: A Legend of Sule Skerry
- 41A Legend of Boray Island.
- 42Songs of the Gods
- 43The Song of Harold Harfager
- 44King Hacon’s Last Battle
- 45The Death of Haco
- 46The Old Man of Hoy
- 47Orkney
- 48Scenes From “The Buccaneer”
- 49To Orkney
- 50The Temple of Nature
- 51Appendix I — Chronology of Orcadian History to the End of the Earld…
- 52Appendix II. — Norse Words in Orkney Place-Names
- 531 — Land Features
- 542 — Fresh Water — 3 — Shore Features
- 554 — Sea Features
- 565 — Farms and Houses
- 576 — Miscellaneous
- 58Appendix III. — List of Birds Found in Orkney
- 59Appendix IV. — Books for Further Study
- 60Archæology and Early History
- 61Norse Mythology
- 62Later History
- 63Descriptive
- 64Geology
- 65Botany
- 66Zoology
- 67Fiction, Poetry, etc.
The Orkney Book
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