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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Site of BATTLE between the Scots and Danes A.D. 1014 [Ardendraught] (Site of) Battle of Cruden
(Site of) Battle of Cruden
(Site of) Battle of Cruden
Revd Dr. [Reverend Doctor] Pratt. Cruden
Alexander Murray. Nethermill
Keith Forbes. Chapel Hill.
032 On the links and adjoining Country, west of the Bay of Cruden, it is supposed, that the last Battle between the Danes, and Scots was fought. The battle is known sometimes by the name of the battle of Cruden and sometimes by the battle of Ardendraught, it having received that name from the lands (of Ardendraught) where the principal part of the fighting took place. "The contest is said to have extended " from the Bay of Cruden, to the den of Ardendraught in the north east corner of the parish of Ellon. To quote the Revd [Reverend] Doctor Pratt., "It was in the vicinity of this bay (Cruden) that the Danes during the reign of Malcolm II., in the beginning of the eleventh century, (note A) fought their final battle against the Scots, and were completely discomfited. The Contest is said to have extended about four miles to the interior, on the south side of the water; and along the whole range, about half a mile in breadth, relics and warlike instruments have occasionally been found. The hottest part of the engagement is supposed to have been on the level plain skirting the the bay." Dr. [Doctor] Abercromby, in his Martial Achievements of the Scots Nation, gives the following account of this Sanguinary Conflict : " Sueno was heartily vexed at the repeated losses he had sustained in Scotland; but his great spirit was not to be curbed by adversity. He once more resolved to fit out a powerful flat, and to raise a new army in to the prosecution of the Scottish war; and to show he was in earnest, he gave the Command of both to his own son Canute, that afterwards mighty King of England, Denmark Norway and part of Swedland; a King so fortunate and so great that his flatterers styled him Lord"
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