[Footnote 42: Hibbert's "Description of the Shetland Islands," Edinburgh, 1822, pp. 444-451. With regard to the "Dwarfie Stone" of Hoy, the following references may be given:--"Jo. Ben," 1529, at p. 449 of Barry's "History of the Orkney Islands," 2nd ed., London, 1808; and other writers subsequent to 1529. These speak of this stone as the abode of a "giant." Sir Walter Scott (_The Pirate_, Note P.) and many others invariably say "a dwarf." Note also J.F. Campbell (_W.H. Tales_, p. xcix): "The Highland giants were not so big, but that their conquerors wore their clothes." Also the dwarf in Ramsay's "Evergreen" who says that he was engendered "of giants' kind."] [Footnote 43: _Dean of Lismore's Book_, p. lxxvi.; _Celt. Scot._, vol. i. p. 131; vol. iii. chap. iii.; &c.] [Footnote 44: _Celt. Scot._ iii. 106-7.] [Footnote 45: In this tale, the phonetic spelling _ben-ce_ shows the unusual aspirated form _bean-shithe_. She is elsewhere spoken of as the Lady of Innse Uaine, and her son is the hero of the tale _Gille nan Cochla-Craicinn_.] [Footnote 46: According to a clergyman of the seventeenth century, the Hebrides and a part of the Western Highlands constituted "the country of the Fians," (_Testimony of Tradition_, p. 45.)] [Footnote 47: Miss Dempster: "The Folk-Lore of Sutherlandshire," Folk-Lore Journal, vol. vi. 1888, p. 174.] [Footnote 48: _Proc. of the Soc. of Antiq. of Scot._, vol. vii. p. 294.] [Footnote 49: _Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot._, vol. vii. pp. 165 and 192.] [Footnote 50: "They are plainly no other than the Peihts, Picts, or Piks ... the Scandinavian writers generally call the Piks Peti, or Pets: one of them uses the term Petia, instead of Pictland (Saxo-Gram.); and, besides, the frith that divides Orkney from Caithness is usually denominated Petland Fiord in the Icelandic Sagas or histories." (Barry's _Orkney_, p. 115.)] [Footnote 51: _Proc. of the Soc. of Antiq. of Scot._, vol. iii. p. 141: also vol. vii. p. 191. This quotation is made by the late Captain Thomas, R.N., a sound archæologist; but I have to add that in the document of 1443, as given in Barry's _Orkney_ (2nd ed., London, 1808, pp. 401-419), while I find the statement as to the two native races, I find nothing about the stature or habits of the Picts. Captain Thomas twice quotes his statement, and as at one place he refers, not to the Bishop of 1443, but (vol. iii. p. 141) to "the Earl of Orkney's chaplain, writing about 1460," it is possible he had two manuscripts of the fifteenth century in view. [SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE.--The Bishop's words are as follows:-- "_Istas insulas primitus Peti et Pape inhabitabant. Horum alteri scilicet Peti parvo superantes pigmeos statura in structuris urbium vespere et mane mira operantes, meredie vero cunctis viribus prorsus destituti in subterraneis domunculis pre timore latuerunt._"--From his treatise _De Orcadibus Insulis_, reprinted in the "Bannatyne Miscellany," 1855, p. 33.]]