CONTENTS

Cast of Characters

1. The Necklace

2. The Need-Fire Ceremony

3. Wassail

4. The Slave Girl

5. The Farseeing Charm

6. The Light from Far Away

7. Giles’s Secret

8. The Lost Child

9. Brother Aiden

10. The Pilgrimage

11. The Lady in the Fountain

12. St. Oswald’s Head

13. Small Demon Possession

14. The Earthquake

15. Din Guardi

16. King Yffi

17. The Half-Fallen Angels

18. The Hollow Road

19. The Knucker Hole

20. The Enchanted Forest

21. The Girl in the Moss

22. Thorgil’s Saga

23. The Bugaboo

24. A Proposal of Marriage

25. Frog Spawn Omelet

26. The Maelstrom

27. Hazel

28. St. Columba

29. Betrayal

30. Elfland

31. The Dark River

32. Lucy

33. The Prisoners

34. The Wild Hunt

35. The Bard’s Message

36. Secret Allies

37. The Tithe of Hell

38. Freedom

39. The Forest of Lorn

40. The Midgard Serpent

41. The Vision

42. Yarthkins

43. The Kelpies

44. Ethne

45. Glamour

46. Unlife

47. The Last of Din Guardi

48. The Gifts of the Lady

49. St. Filian’s Welcome

50. Homeward Bound

Appendix

Religion

St. Filian’s Well

Din Guardi

Symbols Carved by Thorgil’s Shipmates

Pictish Symbols

Sources