Excerpt from Historical Tales of the Wars of Scotland, and of the Border Raids, Forays, and Conflicts, Vol. 2 They were felt on the Caledonian shores some years after. Wards. They made the Hebrides deplore their barbarities throughout the ninth century, while they burned the reli gious houses which the pious hands of the Columbans [the disciples of St Columba] had built. In a.d. 839, the Vi hingt landed among the Picts. Uen their King hastened to defend his people. A bloody conflict ensued, and the gallant Uen fell in defending his country against those fe rocious invaders; with him also fell his only brother Bran, and many of the Pictish chiefs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.