the same. The King then said, that, if they would enter into articles
with him, he would reconcile them with the King of Scotland. On this
they took an oath to King Haco, and delivered hostages. The King laid
a fine of a thousand head of cattle on their estates. Angus yielded up
Ila also to the King; and the King returned Ila to Angus, upon the
same terms that the other Barons in the Hebrides enjoyed their lands;
this is recorded in the Ravens-ode.

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Our Sovereign, sage in Council, the imposer of tribute, and
brandisher of the keen Falchion directed his long galleys
thro' the Hebrides. He bestowed Ila, taken by his troops, on
the valiant Angus the generous distributor of the beauteous
ornaments of the hand.[66]

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Our dareful King that rules the monsters of the deep,[67]
struck excessive terror into all the regions of the western
ocean. Princes bowed their heads in subjection to the
cleaver of the battered helm; he often dismissed the
suppliants in peace, and dispelled their apprehensions of
the wasteful tribes.

South in Kintire there was a Castle held by a Knight who came to wait
on King Haco, and surrendered the fortress into his hands. The King
conferred this Castle upon Guthorm Backa-kolf.

We must next speak of that detachment of the Army, which the King had