Part I.—the Story of the Past.

Prehistoric Orkney, 9

The Beginnings of our History, 18

The Norsemen and their Sagas, 23

The Beginning of the Earldom, 32

The Dark Century, 40

Earl Thorfinn and Earl Rognvald, 54

The Slaying of Earl Magnus, 59

The Founding of St. Magnus Cathedral, 67

The Jorsalafarers, 74

Sweyn Asleifson, the Last of the Vikings, 90

The Decay of the Earldom and the End of the Western Kingdom, 97

The Annexation to Scotland, 105

Udal and Feudal, 110

The Stewart Earls, 115

The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, 120