[730] Æthelred Riev. _De Bello Stand._ (Twysden, _X. Scriptt._), col. 342. His account of the quarrel for precedence and its consequences makes one think of the Macdonalds at Culloden. Ric. Hexh. (Raine, p. 92), says the “Picti” were in the van; Joh. Hexh. (_ib._ p. 119), calls them “Scotti”--both meaning simply what at a later time would have been called “wild Highlanders,” _i.e._ in this case men of Galloway. Hen. Hunt. puts the Lothian men in front, but he is clearly wrong. [731] Æthelred Riev. (as above), cols. 342, 343. [732] _Ib._ col. 345. Hen. Hunt., l. viii. c. 9 (Arnold, pp. 263, 264), who, however, turns the Galwegians into men of Lothian; see above, note 2{730}. [733] Æthelred Riev. as above. [734] Æthelred Riev. _De Bello Stand._ (Twysden, _X. Scriptt._), col. 346. Hen. Hunt., l. viii. c. 9 (Arnold, p. 264). [735] “Regale vexillum, quod ad similitudinem draconis figuratum facile agnoscebatur.” Æthelred Riev. as above. Had S. Margaret’s son adopted the old royal standard of her West-Saxon forefathers? [736] Æthelred Riev. and Hen. Hunt., as above. The two accounts do not seem to tally at first sight, but they are easily reconciled. [737] Æthelred Riev. as above. Cf. Flor. Worc. Contin. (Thorpe), vol. ii. p. 112. [738] Hen. Hunt. as above. Ric. Hexh. (Raine), p. 93. [739] Flor. Worc. Contin. as above. [740] Joh. Hexh. (Raine), p. 120. Serlo (Twysden, _X. Scriptt._), cols. 331, 332. According to this last, the scattered eatables consisted chiefly of bread, cheese and horseflesh, which, as well as other flesh, the Scots ate indifferently raw or cooked.--There is yet one other curious version of the Scottish rout and its cause: “Archiepiscopus cum militibus regis latenter occurrens super Cotowne more juxta Northallerton, fieri jussit in viis subterraneis quædam instrumenta sonos horribiles reddentia, quæ Anglicè dicuntur _petronces_; quibus resonantibus, feræ et cætera armenta quæ procedebant exercitum prædicti David regis in adjutorium, timore strepitûs perterriti, in exercitum David ferociter resiliebant.” (MS. _Life of Abp. Thurstan_, quoted by Mr. Raine, _Priory of Hexh._, vol. i. p. 92, note _t_). The primate’s share in the victory was so strongly felt at the time that in the Ann. Cicestr. a. 1138 (Liebermann, _Geschichtsquellen_, p. 95), the battle appears as “Bellum inter archiepiscopum Eboracensem et David.” [741] Ric. Hexh. (Raine), p. 93. Joh. Hexh. (_ibid._), p. 120. [742] Ric. Hexh. (Raine), p. 100. Joh. Hexh. (_ibid._), p. 118.