Historical and genealogical essay upon the family and surname of Buchanan

FAMILY OF BUCHANAN. 14-7
the Bald, a very martial prince, yet after a tedious
and bloody war, he was obliged to yield to Rollo
the province of Neustria to be possessed by him
and his army, the name of which, after obtaining,
he changed into Normandy, anno 866. The seventh
in descent from Rollo was duke William of Nor-
mandy, who, in the year 1066, with a potent army
invaded England, and at Hastings engaged in bat-
tle with the English king, Harold, who, with fifty-
six thousand six hundred and fifty-three of his
English soldiers, was killed : and duke William,
by that one battle, having entirely conquered Eng-
land, was afterwards termed William the Con-
queror.
The Danes being desirous to try their fortune
once more in Scotland, to retrieve the loss lately
sustained by them therein, invaded that kingdom
the second time, under the command of Hago and
Helricus, in the reign of king Indulfus \ but with
no better success than at first, being beat back into
their ships, and obliged to sail off for England.
Notwithstanding of these reiterated losses, they
with a more numerous army than in any former
time, invaded Scotland the third time, in the reign
of king Kenneth the III. and year 988. The Scot-
tish king with his army engaged in battle with the
Danes at Luncarty, within few miles of Perth, in
which the left wing of the Scottish army was defeat-
ed ; which one Hay, with his two sons observing,
who were ploughing at the time near the place of
battle, pulled the beams off their ploughs, and en-
tered a strait pass through which the Scots were
flying, and beat down promiscuously all who came
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