Historical and genealogical essay upon the family and surname of Buchanan

FAMILY OF BUCHANAtf. 149
keeping the field, were reputed victors, and as such,
were addressed next day for peace by the Danes,
which was concluded upon very honourable terms
to the Scots.
It is recorded, that for a long time after the bat-
tle of Luncarty, all Danes and Norvegians, who re-
ceived the honour of knighthood, were solemnly
sworn upon all occasions to revenge their country-
men's blood upon the Scots : but that after this last
battle fought by king Malcolm, there was a curse
imprecated upon all such of those nations as should
attempt to invade the cursed Scots; which impre-
cation, it seems, took effect in the Danes their two
last invasions of Scotland, by Sueno, and Acho,
kings of Norway, in the reign of king Duncan the
I. and Alexander the II. of Scotland : the first of
these Norvegian kings getting off only so many as
manned one ship, and the other scarcely what could
man four, of their two numerous armies. So that
the Danes, who were a terror and scourge to most
of the neighbouring nations', reaped no other ad-
vantage by their frequent invasions of Scotland,
than that the same, upon very good grounds, should
be termed Danorum Tumulus, The grave of the
Danes.
The reason which partly induced me to insist at
such a length upon the Danes their wars in Scot-
land, and conquests in other parts, was, to illus-
trate the Scots their heroic valour and bravery, so
conspicuously superior to that of any of their neigh-
bouring nations of these times, to the conviction of
all, who industriously, if not maliciously, endea-
vour to derogate in any degree therefrom. For
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