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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| 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 | [Continued from page 132] (Site of) Battle of Cruden (Continued) "Lord of the earth and seas. This same Canute landed, at the head of his formidable army, in Buchan whither King Malcolm, to prevent the ordinary devastations comitted by the barbarous enemy, marched with all imaginable expedition, but thought not fit, with his new-raised forces, to hazard a decisive battle. He contented himself to harass the invaders by brisk and frequent Skirmishes, and to intercept the means of their subsistence, hoping thereby to fatigue and starve them into a necessity of returning to their ships. But this did not content the minds of his impetuous subjects. They were likely to mutiny against him, and swore they would fight of themselves, unless he would unless he would instantly lead them on to death or victory. Thus the King, though Contrary to his first design, was willingly Constrained to humour the ardour of his men. He sought out, and found the enemy as desirous, because of the scarcity of provisions, to fight as himself. The battle was, as the former ones, most terrible - most of the nobility and officers on both sides being killed. The Scots had the victory; but it was such as occasioned more grief than joy in the Camp. They did not pursue the flying Danes, for two reasons; the first, they Could not for lassitude and weariness, their spirits being spent in the heat of action; the second, because so few of the vanquished survived, that it was scarcely worth while to overtake the remainder. The night succeeding the battle, both parties - for they could no longer be called armies, their numbers being so vastly diminished - lay sad and melancholy at some distance from one another, and the next day's light presented them with the most dismal spectacle their eyes had ever beheld - the confused carcasses of almost all their numbers. This blunted the edge of their resentment, and their inclinations turned in an instant from war to peace. By this time many of the Danes and Norvegians had become Christians, and among these Canute himself, so that the priests and religious, whom by [Continued on page 134] |
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[Page] 133Parish of Cruden
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