Lord Of The Isles (Coronet Books) - Plot & Excerpts
“Speak up, man,” he shouted. “I can hear only a word in three!” “Then quieten your Irish savages!” the other exclaimed. “This is beyond bearing!” “My Irish savages have bought your freedom and welfare, MacInnes. And you did nothing to earn it. Mind it! They deserve their amusement.” The older man frowned. “Living under the Vikings is hard . . . I say, living under Vikings is hard, desperate,” MacInnes of Killundine declared. “If you have not been after suffering it you cannot understand. There was nothing that I could do . . .” “So say all here. Yet if all had united, or most, and taken your courage in your own hands, you could have driven out these Norsemen. For you much outnumber them.” “It is not so easy . . .” “I did it, in three days. With two hundred Irish. How many men are there able to bear sword, in Morvern? Fifteen hundred? Two thousand?” “But they are not at one—not at one, I say. MacCormick and MacIan are enemies of MacInnes, see you.
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