10.

The wide-extended Bute was won from the forlorn wearers[71]
of rings by the renowned and invincible troops of the
promoter of conquest,--they wielded the two-edged sword--the
foes of our Ruler dropt, and the Raven from his
fields of slaughter, winged his flight for the Hebrides.

The Norwegians who had been in Bute went to Scotland, where they
burned many houses, and several towns. Rudri, proceeding a great way,
did all the mischief that he could, as is here described.

11.

The habitations of men, the dwellings of the wretched,
flamed. Fire, the devourer of halls, glowed in their
granaries. The hapless throwers of the dart[72] fell near
the swan-frequented plain,[73] while south from our floating
pines[74] marched a host of warriors.

While King Haco was in the Hebrides, deputies came to him from Ireland
intimating that the Irish[75] Ostmen would submit to his power, if he
would secure them from the encroachments of the English, who
possessed all the best towns along the sea-coast. King Haco
accordingly sent Sigurd the Hebridian, with some fast-sailing vessels,
to examine on what terms the Irish invited him thither.

After this King Haco sailed south before the Mull of Kintire with all
his fleet, and anchored for some time in Arran-sound. Then, there came
often Predicant, or Barefooted friars, from the Scottish Monarch, to