Fórum vestan Fengiar vitia, So at bragnar mer Bleydi kendu Unz á Skydu Scatnar fundu, Brædr baulharda, Oc at bana urdu.
We went west Spoil to seek, Yet beroes me But timid thought, Until in Sky Soldiers we found, Brothers in valour, And wrought their doom.
XIX. Ila was long the residence of the Kings of the isles. The Hebridian princes, being surrounded by a variety of powerful, and rival monarchs, found it necessary to espouse the interests of those, who had the means of compulsion in their hands. Hence Ila often experienced the severity of the contending parties. A poet describes the proceedings of Magnus Barfot, in the following manner.
Rauk um Il þa er iöku Alvaldz menn a brennur
Ila reeked wide while spread Our Sovereign’s men the flames.
A. D. 1263. Haco took Ila, but, afterwards, restored it to Angus of the isles, as appears from the Raven’s-ode.
