The White Galls, or Norwegians, had long been masters of the situation.

The Black Galls fought with them for three days and nights, and were finally victorious.

They take the ships they have captured to Dublin, and deprive the Lochlanns (Black Galls) of all the spoil they had so cruelly and unjustly acquired from the "shrines and sanctuaries of the saints of Erinn;" which the annalist naturally considers a judgment on them for their sins.

They make another struggle, and gain the victory.

But the Banish general, Horm, advises his men to put themselves under the protection of St.Patrick, and to promise the saint "honorable alms for gaining victory and triumph" over enemies who had plundered his churches.