CHAPTER XVII.

Platycnemic Men--_Ur-uisg_=_Mailleachan_ 176-180

Appendix A.--_The Brugh of the Boyne_ 181-189

Appendix B.--_The Skrælings_ 190-193

Index 195-205

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE BRUGH OF THE BOYNE, NEW GRANGE, COUNTY MEATH _Frontispiece._

KAYAKKER IN HIGH SEA _To face page_ 12

WIGWAMS OF THE JURA ISLANDERS IN 1772 " 24

MAES-HOW, ORKNEY " " 108

SECTIONAL VIEW AND GROUND PLAN OF MAES-HOW " 108

THE INTERIOR OF THE "HOW" " 109

SECTIONAL VIEW OF THE BRUGH OF THE BOYNE " " 120

DOORWAY OF THE BRUGH " 121

ENLARGED SECTIONAL VIEW OF PASSAGE AND CHAMBER, BRUGH OF THE BOYNE " " 122

GROUND PLANS OF PASSAGE AND CHAMBER, BRUGH OF THE BOYNE (From Drawings of 1724 and 1889) " " 124

EASTERN RECESS OF CENTRAL CHAMBER, BRUGH OF THE BOYNE " " 126

DOWTH (_Uaimh Feirt Bodan os Dubath_), COUNTY MEATH " " 136

PLAN OF DOWTH " 137

PLAN OF PASSAGE AND CHAMBER AT DOWTH " 138

BEE-HIVE CHAMBER, DOWTH " 139

KNOWTH (_Uaimh Cnoghbhai_), COUNTY MEATH " " 140

THE DWARFS OF GERMAN FOLK-LORE " " 164

AN AINO PATRIARCH " 168

AINO OF 1804 " 170

A "GOOD FAIRY" OF TRADITION " 173

THE

TESTIMONY OF TRADITION.