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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.
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(Site of) Battle of Cruden (Continued)
"by reason of their character, both nations respected, had an opportunity of mediating a a peace; which being so necessary, was concluded in the following terms :- 1st. That the Danes and Norvegians should withdraw their persons and effects from Scotland, and within a set time evacuate those places they had in Murray and Buchan.
2nd. That during the lives of both Kings, Malcolm and Sueno, neither of the nations should attempt hostility against the other; nor be assisting to such as would.
3rd. That the field of battle should be consecrated after the rites then in use, and made a cemetery or burying-place for the dead.
4th. That the Danes, as well as Scots, should be decently interred.
Malcolm and Canute swore to the observation of these articles, and both performed their respective obligations. Canute, with all his Countrymen, left Scotland, and Malcolm not only caused to bury the dead bodies of the Danes with honour and decency, but also commanded a chapel to be built on the spot, which, to perpetuate the memory of the thing, he dedicated to Olaus, the tutelar Saint or patron of both Denmark and Norway, (Note B) Some vestiges of that old Chapel were to be seen in the days of Boethius; but it being in a great measure overlaid and drowned by the sands, which, on that coast, the winds frequently raise, and are blown in a tempestuous manner over houses and fields, another was erected in a more convenient place, and is still to be seen; as are also the huge and almost gigantic bones of those who fell in the battle of Croju Dane, or Crudane (for so is the village near to which it was fought called to this very day), that is, the death or Slaughter of the Danes. (See note C.)
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Ph. [Parish] of Cruden

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