The Norwegian account of Hacos expedition against Scotland, A.D. MCCLXIII | Page 6

of them
well provided both with men and arms.
While King Haco remained at Kiararey he divided his forces, and sent
fifty ships south to the Mull of Kintire[62] to plunder. The captains
appointed over them were King Dugal, Magnus King of Man, Bryniolf
Johnson, Ronald Urka, Andrew Pott, Ogmund Krækidants, Vigleic
Priestson. He also ordered five ships for Bute; these were under the
command of Erlend Red, Andrew Nicolson, Simon Stutt, Ivar Ungi
Eyfari, and Gutthorm the Hebridian, each in his own ship.
King Haco sailed afterwards south to Gudey[63] before Kintire where
he anchored. There King John met him; he came in the ship with
Bishop Thorgil. King Haco desired him to follow his banner as he
should do. But King John excused himself. He said he had sworn an
oath to the Scottish King, and held of him more lands than of the
Norwegian Monarch; he therefore entreated King Haco to dispose of all
those estates which he had conferred upon him. King Haco kept him
with him some time, and endeavoured to incline his mind to fidelity.
Many laid imputations to his charge. King Haco indeed had before
received bad accounts of him from the Hebrides; for John Langlife-son
came to the King, while he was sailing west from Shetland, and told
him the news that John King of the Hebrides, breaking his faith, had
turned to the Scottish Monarch. King Haco, however, would not
believe this till he had found it so.
During King Haco's stay at Gudey an Abbot of a monastery of
Greyfriars waited on him, begging protection for their dwelling, and
Holy Church: and this the King granted them in writing.
Friar Simon had lain sick for some time. He died at Gudey. His corpse

was afterwards carried up to Kintire where the Greyfriars interred him
in their Church. They spread a fringed pall over his grave, and called
him a Saint.
About this time men came from King Dugal, and said that the Lords of
Kintire, Margad,[64] and Angus,[65] (also proprietor of Ila), were
willing to surrender the lands which they held to King Haco; and to
order their dependants to join him. The King answered, that he would
not lay waste the peninsula, if they submitted on the following day
before noon; if not he gave them to understand he would ravage it. The
messengers returned. Next morning Margad came and gave up every
thing into the King's power; a little after Angus arrived and likewise did
the same. The King then said, that, if they would enter into articles with
him, he would reconcile them with the King of Scotland. On this they
took an oath to King Haco, and delivered hostages. The King laid a fine
of a thousand head of cattle on their estates. Angus yielded up Ila also
to the King; and the King returned Ila to Angus, upon the same terms
that the other Barons in the Hebrides enjoyed their lands; this is
recorded in the Ravens-ode.
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Our Sovereign, sage in Council, the imposer of tribute, and brandisher
of the keen Falchion directed his long galleys thro' the Hebrides. He
bestowed Ila, taken by his troops, on the valiant Angus the generous
distributor of the beauteous ornaments of the hand.[66]
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Our dareful King that rules the monsters of the deep,[67] struck
excessive terror into all the regions of the western ocean. Princes
bowed their heads in subjection to the cleaver of the battered helm; he
often dismissed the suppliants in peace, and dispelled their
apprehensions of the wasteful tribes.
South in Kintire there was a Castle held by a Knight who came to wait
on King Haco, and surrendered the fortress into his hands. The King
conferred this Castle upon Guthorm Backa-kolf.

We must next speak of that detachment of the Army, which the King
had sent towards the Mull of Kintire to pillage. The Norwegians made
a descent there. They burnt the hamlets that were before them, and took
all the effects that they could find. They killed some of the inhabitants;
the rest fled where they could. But, when they were proceeding to the
greater villages, letters arrived from King Haco forbidding them to
plunder. Afterwards they sailed for Gudey to rejoin King Haco, as is
here said.
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The openers of gushing wounds, undaunted of soul, proceeded in the
paths[68] of the famed Getis,[69] from the south round Kintire. Our
heroes, rousers of the thundering tempest of swords, glutted the swift,
sable-clad birds of prey in Scotland.
The wind was not favourable, King Haco, however, made Andrew Pott
go before him south to Bute, with some small vessels, to join those he
had already sent thither. News was soon received that they had won a
fortress, the garrison of which had capitulated,