These holy men wrought many signs and wonders in the midst of the Picts; but at length, desiring a habitation of their own, they expelled the demons and wild beasts from the Island of May, and there made a place of prayer. They gave themselves up to devotion until the Danes, after devastating all Britannia, which is now called Anglia, landed on the island, when the holy confessors of God opposed them with the spiritual weapons of heavenly warfare. The enemy, not brooking their zealous preaching and their increasing confession of the most glorious name of Christ, rushed with their swords on the Blessed Adrian, the victim of the Lord, and crowned him with a glorious martyrdom. And in order that, concerning them, the words of the prophet should be verified anew, where the disconsolate Rachel is said to have bewailed her children, those most cruel executioners fell upon the holy and heavenly multitude who persevered in confessing Christ, and who, like sheep, fell under their swords in the Isle of May, where the martyrs of God, who, in this life, loved to serve him together, in death were not separated. There was one spirit in them and one faith. In that Isle of May there was anciently erected a monastery of well-hewn stone, which was destroyed by the Angles. But the church remains to this day, much visited for its miracles by the people, and women who go thither in the hope of offspring are not disappointed. There is also a famous cemetery, where the bodies of the martyrs repose. Such is the account of the Breviary.[206] The date ascribed to the event narrated in it is the fourth day of March, in the year 875. In his _Cronykil of Scotland_ Andrew Wyntoun sums up the legend in the following lines: "This Constantyne than regnand, Oure the Scottis in Scotland, Saynt Adriane wyth hys cumpany Came off the land off Hyrkany, And arrywyd in to Fyffe, Quhare that thai chesyd to led thar lyff. At the Kyng than askyd thai Leve to preche the Crystyn fay. That he granted wyth gud will, And thaire lykyng to fulfille, And [leif] to dwell in to his land, Quhare thai couth ches it mayst plesand. Than Adriane wyth hys cumpany Togydder come tyl Caplaweby. Thare sum in to the Ile off May Chesyd to byde to thare euday. * * * * * Hwb, Haldane, and Hyngare Off Denmark this tyme cummyn ware In Scotland wyth gret multitude, And wyth thare powere it oure-yhude (over-ran). In hethynes all levyd thai; And in dispyte off Crystyn fay In to the land thai slwe mony, And put to dede by martyry. And upon Haly Thurysday Saynt Adriane thai slwe in May Wyth mony off hys cumpany; In to that haly Ile thai ly."[207]