The Conflict of Embo
About the year of God 1259, the Danes and Norwegians did land
at the ferry of Unes, with a resolution to invade Sutherland and the neighbouring
provinces, against whom William, Earl of Sutherland, made resistance, and encountered with
them betwixt the town of Dornoch and the ferry at Unes, at a place called Embo.
After a sharp conflict the Danes were overthrown, their
general slain, with many others, and the rest chased to their ships; in memory of which a
monument of stone was there erected, which was called Righ-Chrois, that is, the king's or
general's cross, which together with divers burials, is there to be seen at this day. |
