Image: Scottish armed merchantman under attack
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Description: A Scottish armed merchantman attacked by a ship from Hanseatic Hamburg. Detail from Carta marina. The Complaynt of Scotlande (1549) gives the following onomatopœiac rendition of the sounds made by these ships in battle, "...I hard the cannons and gunnis mak mony hiddeus crak, duf, duf, duf, duf ... the falcons cryit tirduf, tirduf, tirduf, tirduf, ... than the smal artailye cryit tik tak, tik tak, tik tak ..."
Title: Scottish armed merchantman under attack
Credit: Scanned from The Story Of Scotland, First Press and Scottish Daily Record Group, 1999-2000
Author: Olaus Magnus
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