It was an English and not a Scandinavian fleet that for fifty years to come held mastery in the English and the Irish Channels.

With Eadred's victory in fact the struggle seemed to have reached its close.

Stray pirate boats still hung off headland and coast; stray wikings still shoved out in springtide to gather booty.

But for nearly half-a-century to come no great pirate fleet made its way to the west, or landed on the shores of Britain.

The energies of the northmen were in fact absorbed through these years in the political changes of Scandinavia itself.