Stone Circle at Stennis, from the cvii westward Pictish Tower of Mousa (Moseyarborg), cix Shetland Norse Sword found at Gorton, Morayshire cxvi Scabbard-Point found in a Norse Grave in cxvii Westray, Orkney Bronze Tortoise Brooch found in a Norse cxxi Grave in Caithness Comb found in a Norse Grave in Westray, cxxii Orkney ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SYLLABUS OF INTRODUCTION. Pages I. Early Population of the Orkneys—Monuments and ix-xi. Structural Remains—Saxon Invasion in the 5th century—The Orkneys under Pictish rule—Dalriad Invasion in the 6th century—Wasting of the Orkneys by the Pictish King Bruide. II. Visitation of the Islands by Irish xi-xxi. Clerics—Dicuil’s Account of Iceland, the Faroes, Shetland and Orkney—Irish Christian Settlers driven away by the Northern Robbers—Indications of the early Christianity of the Islands—Bells and Christian Monuments of an early Age found in the Islands—Art of their early Sculptured Stones—Symbols of the Sculptured Monuments of the Scottish Mainland: their probable Period—Indications of an early Christianity in the Norse Topography of the Islands. III. Earliest Notices of Northmen on British Shores: xxi-xxiii. their first Inroads on the Irish Coasts; they plunder Iona—Establishment of a Norse Kingdom at Armagh—Olaf the White, King of Dublin—Harald Harfagri’s Expedition to the Orkneys—Subjugation of Orkney, Shetland, the Hebrides, and Man.