At all events, she did not return to help.
"This affair is off our hands," said Hakon.

"Best not meddle therewith, even if we could.

It is a great fight." So it was, for the Danes fought well.

The sides of the ship were high above the wading men, and the spears flashed out between the war boards, and the axe and sword were at work across the gunwales.
Yet the Irish never fell back from their swarming attack, and their cries never ceased.

One or two wounded men floated, paddling with their hands, down past us, and hurled curses and defiance at us also.