2 adjectives to describe hillman

The 2/3rd Gurkhas seized a welcomed opportunity, and as the light was failing the shrill, sharp notes of these gallant hillmen and the deep-throated roar of the 1/5th Somersets told that a weighty bayonet charge had got home, and that the keys of the enemy position had been won.

And like the deer He sped to find if foemen had come near Fierce, swarthy hillmen, waiting at the fords For combat eager, or red Viking hordes From out the Northern isles ...

2 adjectives to describe  hillman