Orkney and Shetland Folk 872-1350

"Orkney and Shetland Folk 872-1350" by Alfred Wintle Johnston is a study made to describe the mixed races which inhabited Orkney and Shetland from the foundation of the Norse earldom, in 872, until the end of the rule of the Gaelic earls, circa 1350. Besides the archæological and topographical proof of the continued residence of the Picts in Orkney and Shetland, there is much more reliable evidence of anthropology, in the existence of a large strain of the small and dark race in both Orkney and Shetland, representing the aboriginal race, the later prisoners of raids and the later settlers from Scotland. Allowance must also be made for thralls brought from Norway.