Fingal, next in rank to Failbhe Fion, took the command, and determined to avenge his admiral.

Meeting the Danish ruler in the combat, he seized Sitric round the neck, and flung himself with his foe into the sea, where both perished.

Seagdor and Connall, two captains of Irish ships, imitated this example--threw themselves upon Tor and Magnus, Sitric's brothers, and jumped with them overboard, when all were drowned.

These desperate deeds paralysed the energy of the Danes, and the Irish gained a complete victory in Dundalk bay.
"The Irish fleet having thus expelled the pirates from their coast, came into harbour, where they were received with acclamations of joy by all who witnessed their bravery.

Such is a summary of Keating's poetic account of this day's achievements; and there are extant fuller accounts in various pieces of native poetry, especially one entitled 'The Pursuit after Callaghan of Cashel, by the Chief of Munster, after he had been entrapped by the Danes.'" The year 948 has generally been assigned as that of the conversion of the Danes to Christianity; but, whatever the precise period may have been, the conversion was rather of a doubtful character as we hear of their burning churches, plundering shrines, and slaughtering ecclesiastics with apparently as little remorse as ever.