King Magnus Barelegs of Norway led a great naval expedition to reassert Norwegian sovereignty over the Western and Northern Isles. He ravaged the Hebrides, Kintyre and even the Isle of Man. King Edgar of Scotland, too weak to resist, formally ceded all islands to Norway by treaty -- Magnus famously had himself pulled across the Kintyre peninsula in a longship, with the helm in his hand, claiming the peninsula counted as an island under the treaty. The cession would not be reversed until the Treaty of Perth in 1266.
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