"they did marvels in the morning and in the evening, in building

towns, but at mid-day they entirely lost all their strength, and lurked,
through fear, in underground houses
It later states:
But in due coursecertain piratesset out with a great
fleetand stripped these races of their ancient settlements,
destroyed them wholly, and subdued the islands to themselves

- The Historia Norwegiae on Viking extermination of the Picts