Fearna, Weem of, 136-7.

Fens Fiord, Bergen, 7n.

Fians, or Feens, or Feinne of Gaelic lore:
The Land of the F's, 45.
The Well of the F's, 43.
The Hillock of the F's, 130.
Other F. localities, 46, 49, 51, 52.
Dr. Skene's belief as to the historical position of the F's, 46.
F's preceded the Milesians in Ireland, 46, 51.
F. Confederacy not restricted to Ireland, but included the following divisions:—
F's of England and Wales; of Northern and Central Scotland; and of Lochlin, understood to be the Rhine-Elbe region, 47-51.
Irish F's divisible into:—
F's of Connaught and West; F's of Leinster; and F's of Eastern Ulster, 76, 93.
F's referred to in Scotland in Perthshire (Glenlyon, Glenal-main-with-Glenshee, and Glenshee or Blackwater)  77, 94-95.
Outer Hebrides and part of West Highlands specially the Land of the F., 45.
(?) Referred to in Ayrshire, 85.
F's exacted tribute from Irish kings, 47.
Their ancient rights of hunting and of free-quarters, 94.
Overthrow of F's at Battle of Gawra, 47.
Vanished glory of the F's, 75-76, 130.
Fin, their chief, court dwarf to the king of the "big men," 56.
F's as the drudges and serfs of another race, 75.
F's inhabited "Pechts' houses," 76-77.
F's as builders of stone forts, 75-76.
F's regarded as dwarfs, 65.
F's associated with Dananns, Fir Sidhe, or Fairies, 51, 81-84.
F's regarded as Cruithne or Picts, 51-2, 54.
Their assumed identity with historical and traditional Finns, 44-50, 54-5, 65.
Their magic identified with that of the Finns, 54.
Their "great-antlered deer," 95.
Their darts, 54-5.
Their swiftness of foot, 177.
A descendant of the F., 44.

Fierna, or Fierin, King of the Sidhfir of Munster, 93, 127.
His "hillock" near Limerick, 93, 145.

Fin, Finn, or Fionn, a chief of the Feens of Gaelic tradition:
Grandson of a Finland woman, 49-50.
Described as going in his skin-boat to the Kingdom of the Big
Men, where he became the court dwarf, 55-6.
A dwarf in a Scotch poem of ante 1600, styled a grandson of F., 65.
His stone fort on Cuailgne, 75-6, 93.
His "castles" in Glenlyon, Perthshire, 77.

Finland.
Alleged to be the home of the Orkney Finnmen (6), of the grandmother of "Fin" (49)-(50), of the Fomorians (50)n.

Finn, a chief of the dwarfs of Sylt tradition, 87, 112-113.
Chambered mound of Denghoog said to have been his dwelling, 87, 112-113.

Finnmen of Orkney:
Used to fish in Orkney waters in 17th century, 5-6.
Their seal-skin boats described, 6.
The great speed of these skin-boats, 5-6.
Specimens of their boats at Burray and Edinburgh, 6, 10, 11n, 17n.
F's said to have come from Finland, 6.
Regarded as "barbarous men" by Edinburgh physicians of 1696, 10, 30-31.
"The Dart he makes use of for killing fish," 6.

Finns of Shetland tradition:
Their "sea-skins or seal-skins," 1.
The great speed of these "skins," 4-5.
F's said to have come from Norway, and also from "Shool Skerry," 2-4.
Sea-rovers or pirates, 3, 34-35.
Magicians, soothsayers, and doctors, 1-5.
Inter-married with Shetlanders, 1-4, 34-35.
Descendants of such marriages "lucky," and proud of their descent, 1, 2, 5.
Cattle of the F's, 4.
F's regarded as dwarfs, 56, 92.
Dancing on the sands "every ninth night," 3 (cf. Fairies, 14, 111n.)
Identified with Feens, 43-44, 54, 65.

Finns and Lapps:
Their territory formerly greater than now, 35.
Inter-marriages with non-Finnish races, 39-42.
A semi-Finn lord of Orkney, 40-41.
F. or L. type in modern Britain, 37-38.
F's of Lofoten neighbourhood in 12th century, 21, 39.
Boats made by them, 21.
Skiffs of modern L's, 22n.
Swedish-F. settlement in Pennsylvania, U.S. in 17th century, 36-37.
"Lapp" natives of North America in 10th century, Appendix B.
F's or L's as magicians, "selling winds," etc., 16, 41, 53, 91-92.
Identified with Fairies, 96-97;
with Feens, 50;
with Dwarfs, 129n and Appendix B.

Fions, etc. on the Continent:
Fions of Brittany (dwarfs who lived with the fairies), 85.
Feins, 85n.

Fir-Bolg, or Firbolgs.
Cruachan rath re-built by a race of F., 68n, 125n, 136, 152n.

Fitty Hill, Westray. (See Westray.)

Forteviot, Perthshire, 69.

Forth, River.
Chambered mounds of Forth valley, ascertained and reputed, 114, 119, 151-154.


Gabhra, or Gawra, Battle of, 47-50.

Gaels. (See Milesians.)

Gairloch, Ross-shire.
Tombuidhe Ghearrloch, 112;
Big and Little "Cathairs" of G., 118;
Sitheanan Dubha, 118.

Galloway:
probable Finns in G., 25;
Picts commonly called "Galloway-men," 69-70n;
last stronghold of Picts in G., 99;
stronghold of Fairies in G., 99.

Garbhcrioch:
translated as "the rough bounds," and defined as the country between Loch Linnhe and the Hebrides, formed a portion of the "Land of the Feens," 45.
Called also Garbh-chnochan, 118.

Germany. (See under Lochlin.)

Gillesbierg, Denmark: reputed chambered mound, 155n.

Glac-an-t-Shithein, Nether Lochaber, 147n.

Glasgow Cathedral, said to have been built by the Pechts, 72.

Glenlyon, Perthshire, a home of the Feens, 77.

Glen Odhar, Sutherlandshire:
its fairy herds believed to have been reindeer, 97.

Glenshee and Glen Almain, West Perthshire, a home of the Feens, 77.

Glenshee, East Perthshire, a favourite hunting-ground of the Feens, 94.

Glen-na-Shirich, Nether Lochaber, a glen of the Fairies, 147n.

Gobban, Goblin, Gubbin, etc., 113, 144n, 162n.

Gobban Saor (The Noble Smith), 84, 132-3;
his chambered mound, 132.

Goblin Hall, East Lothian, 143.

Goblin Knowe (Cnoc nam Bocan), Perthshire, 151-152.

Goblins of Greenland, 144n.

Gowanree.
An enslaved tribe of Firbolgic origin, 68n, 125n, 136, 152n.

Green, the colour of the Fairies or Dwarfs, 97;
of the Feens, 97-8;
of the Pechts, 99.

Gruids, near Lairg, Sutherlandshire;
reputed chambered mound at, 116-117.

Gruinard, Ross-shire:
resort of 17th-century pirates, 30.

Gubbins of Dartmoor, 161-2;
their swiftness of foot, 177.

Gultebierg, Denmark:
a reputed chambered mound, 155n.

Gurnett Point, Massachusetts:
reputed chambered mound near, Appendix B.

Gwylliaid Cochion Mowddwy, an underground race in Wales, 160-1;
"their swiftness and agility," 177.

Gypnissen, or Dwarf-women of the Netherlands, 86.


Hadeland, Norway, ruled by a semi-Finn, 40-42.

Hadrian's Wall said to have been built by the Picts, 67.

Hairy Men. (See Shaggy Men, Ainos, etc.)

Halfdan Haleg, a semi-Finn noble:
was lord of Orkney for some months: slain at North Ronaldshay, 40-41.

Hallowmas.
A Feen date, 94.
A Fairy date, 98.

Hebrides:
Outer H. regarded as part of the "Land of the Feens," 45.
Some parts of H. thickly wooded in 16th century, 105n.
Raids made by Lewismen on Orkney and Shetland in 15th century, 33-35.
Certain Hebrideans not properly subjects of British monarch in 1608, 26-32.
Some of the Hebrideans styled "savages" by James I. 28, and by Skyemen 29;
and these, or others, referred to as "robbers" or "pirates" by a 17th-century writer 29-30.
Chessmen of walrus ivory found in H., 32, 158n.
Wigwams of Jura islanders in 1772, 24.
"The Harrisian physiognomy" and stature, 24.

Hill-men, how-folk, bergmannetjes, hog-boys, shag-boys, etc., 85n, 107, 111-113.

"Hottentot," builders of Corstorphine church, 70.


Iberians:
used skin-boats, 19-20;
Iberian type in modern Britain, 38.

Inverness, 146-149.


Jura, island of; wigwams of islanders, 24.


Kaempe Viser, 105.

Kayaks. (See Skin-boats.)

Kempies or Champions, 43.

Kenilworth, Warwickshire;
underground dwarfs of, 142-3.

Kettlester, Shetland;
remembered as a dwarf abode, 59.

Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire;
group of Weems, Pechts' Houses, or Fairy Halls at K., 101.

Kirkcudbright:
"in terra Pictorum," 69n.
(See also Galloway.)

Knowth (Cnoghbha), County Meath;
chambered mound, 84, 132-4, 137, 140, 151n.

Kundebye, Denmark;
reputed chambered mound at, 155n.


Lapps. (See Finns and Lapps.)

Leinster:
Feens of, 81-2;
Fairies of, 81-2, 92.

Leum-an-t'-Shithiche, 147n.

Limerick:
Knockfierin, 93, 145.

Lincolnshire;
shag-boys, fairies and red-caps in, 107n.

Lochlin or Lochlan;
believed to denote the territory between the Rhine and the Elbe, but also applied to Scandinavia, 49.

Lofoten;
Finns or Lapps of L. neighbourhood in 12th century, 21, 39.


Maes-how, Orkney. (See Mounds.)

Magic:
of the Shetland Finns, 1-5, 14;
of the Norwegian Finns or Lapps, 16, 41, 53;
of Manx women, 16;
of Picts, 53;
of Eskimos, 53, 63;
of traditional dwarfs, 91, 106.

Man, Isle of:
Inter-marriages of land-folk and sea-folk, 15;
witches selling winds to sailors, 16;
traditional description of departure of fairies, 17.

Mandans of Upper Missouri;
skin-boats of, 18.

Mangelbierg, Denmark. (See Mounds.)

Mer-men and Mer-women. (See Sea-Folk.)

Migvie, Aberdeenshire;
Weem, Pecht's House, or Fairy Hall at, 101.

Milesians:
A name given to the Gaelic-speaking race, 46, 51;
conquered the "Cruithne" or "Pechts" of Scotland in the ninth century, 51;
conquered the "Dananns" of Ireland at an earlier period, as described in tradition, 125-126;
the possession of a dwarf restricted in Ireland and Gaelic-Scotland to families of Milesian descent, 141-142, 144.

Mounds.
Chambered M's of the Pechts described, 61-2, 64;
of the Eskimos, 62-3;
of both, 77-8.
The sithean, sithbhrog, etc., 78-79.
The "Pelasgic arch" of the chambered mound, 62, 78n.

Mounds ascertained to be chambered:
Brugh of the Boyne, county Meath, 84, 111, 119-133, 153.
Dowth mound, County Meath, 84, 111, 119, 132-3, 137.
Maes-how, Orkney, 106-110, 113, 114, 121, 153.
Mound on Wideford Hill, Orkney, 62.
Coldoch "broch," Perthshire, 119, 149-151, 153.
Ashbury, Berkshire, 132n.
Denghoog, Sylt, 87, 112-113, 122.
Eskimo Mounds in Labrador and Greenland, 62-4, 155.
Mycenæ "treasure house," 153.

Mounds reputed to be chambered:
In the British Isles:—
"Some small hillocks" in Evie, Orkney, 111n.
"Tomhan" near Lairg, Sutherlandshire, 116-117.