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On the last day of September Sir Piers de Currie, Kenric, and Allan now Sir Allan Redmain, for the knighthood of Scotland was hereditary were walking over from Ascog, when, looking towards the seaboard between Arran and the Cumbraes, they observed a great fleet of ships, with many flags flying from their masts, making across the Clyde. A hundred and fifty war galleys there were in all.
We had reached Largs, on the coast of Ayrshire, and saw the Isle of Bute, the Cumbraes, and the lofty summits of Arran, rise out of the Firth of Clyde, in beautiful succession. At this time steamboats were unknown.
He waged war against the Norsemen of the Western Isles, and he made conquest of Bute, Arran, and Gigha, with the Cumbraes and other smaller isles that still remain in the hands of the Scots, for he was a most powerful warrior, and it was said that no man ever crossed swords with him but to be slain. His enemies fell before him like ripe grain in the swath of the mower's sickle. And his sword "
He had no standing army. He had never been engaged in any warlike affair. He sent word to the Norse king signifying that he would be content to retain the mainland of Scotland and the islands inclosed by it Arran, Bute, and the two Cumbraes and it appears that he was willing to have given up to Norway the whole of the isles of the Hebrides.
Bute, Arran, and the Cumbraes had been conquered; the rich county of Lennox one of the most fruitful in Scotland had been laid waste, and on the outer coasts of the mainland the Norsemen had planted their banner on many a well-built castle.
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