But at last it yielded to the stronger hand of the Danes, whose efforts increased with their peril; and those pent within could sally out with ease.

Then Frode bade the trumpet strike in, to summon the band that had been posted in ambush; and these, roused by the note of the clanging bugle, caught the enemy in their own trap; for the King of the Britons, with countless hosts of his men, was utterly destroyed.

Thus the band helped Frode doubly, being both the salvation of his men and the destruction of his enemies.
Meantime the renown of the Danish bravery spread far, and moved the Irish to strew iron calthrops on the ground, in order to make their land harder to invade, and forbid access to their shores.

Now the Irish use armour which is light and easy to procure.

They crop the hair close with razors, and shave all the hair off the back of the head, that they may not be seized by it when they run away.