Phelim and Fergus cried to them to forbear, for we were friends, but they did not heed them, and passed, to reach the shore below us as they might.

We did not watch them.
For now the Irish had borne down the defence amidships, where the run of the gunwales was lowest.

The sheer weight of them as they clambered, one over the other, on board, listed the ship over, and made the boarding easier for those who followed.

The wild Danish war shout rose once or twice, and then it was drowned by the Irish yell.

After that there was a sudden silence, for the fighting was over.
Then the victors leapt out of the ship and went ashore as swiftly as they had come, and the forest hid them.