Hist_.lib.iv.c.26.

"From that time the hopes and strength of the English crown began to waver and retrograde, for the Picts recovered their own lands," &c.

The Annals of the Four Masters mention a mortality among cattle throughout the whole world, and a severe frost, which followed this invasion: "The sea between Ireland and Scotland was frozen, so that there was a communication between them on the ice."-- vol.ii.

p.291.They also mention the mission of Adamnan to "Saxon land." [194] _Galls_ .-- Gall was a generic name for foreigners.

The Danes were Finn Galls, or White Foreigners, and Dubh Galls, or Black Foreigners.
The former were supposed to have been the inhabitants of Norway; the latter, of Jutland.