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204 SCOTTISH ANNALS
up with his line and hurled himself, fierce as a lion, upon the
opposing wing ; and after scattering that part of the southern
army like a spider's web, slaying all who opposed him advanced
beyond the royal banner. And thinking that the rest of the
army would follow him, to remove from the foe their refuge
in flight he attacked those stationed with the horses, routed
and dispersed them, and compelled them to flee as far as two
furlongs. l At this wonderful onslaught therefore the unarmed
folk fled in terror.
But by the fiction of a certain prudent man, who raised aloft
the head of one of the killed and cried that the king was slain,
they were brought back and attacked their opponents more
eagerly than ever.
Then the Galwegians could sustain no longer the shower
of arrows, the swords of the knights and took to ;
flight after
two of their leaders had been slain, Ulgric and Donald. Moreover
the column of the men of Lothian scarcely awaited the
first attack, but immediately dispersed.
Then the king leapt from his horse, and with the nobles who
were with him advanced against the enemy.
JOHN or HEXHAM, IN S. OF D., VOL. II, p. 294.
King [David] thought it the due of his promise to conquer
or die, for the oath which he had sworn, and the whole of
England with him, to the heirs of king Henry.
And so the Scots and the Picts held out with difficulty from
2 the first hour when the struggle commenced to the third for
;
they saw themselves pierced and transfixed with the arrows,
and overwhelmed and distressed. And they all slipped away
from the field, casting their baggage from them. In derision of
this affair that place is called Bagmoor. 3
English and Normans who lived in his father's household. But even on
horseback they could by no means long hold out against the mail-clad knights
who stood firm on foot and were massed immovably. And they were compelled
to flee, with broken spears and wounded horses, though they had
fought gloriously." Cf. Hoved., i, 195. M.P., Chr. Maj., ii, 169 ; H.A., i, 260,
1 stadia.
2 Cf. R. of H., in Chr. of Ste., etc., iii, 164 :
" Therefore on the [22nd
August] . . . between prime and terce the conflict of this battle was begun
and ended. For immediately in the first encounter innumerable Picts were
slain, and the rest threw away their arms and took to dishonourable flight."
"
Cf. J. of W., in Fl. of W., ii, 111 : And in the first moment of encounter
they made an end and gained the victory ; the Scots yielding to
them, and either falling at once or fleeing in the greatest fear."
"
W. of N., in Chr. of Ste., etc., i, 34 : But the battle was not kept up
long, since little or nothing was done there with the sword. For the men
of light armour, when arrows pierced them from afar, soon turned their
backs, and left the field to us with victory."
3 For the opprobrium of the defeat cf. M.P., H.A., i, 260.