Chapter 3
It happened that the men of Lochlann came on an expedition
against Ireland. A monstrous fleet rounded the bluffs of Ben Edair,
and the Danes landed there, to prepare an attack which would render
them masters of the country. Fionn and the Fianna-Finn marched
against them. He did not like the men of Lochlann at any time, but
this time he moved against them in wrath, for not only were they
attacking Ireland, but they had come between him and the deepest
joy his life had known.
It was a hard fight, but a short one. The Lochlannachs were
driven back to their ships, and within a week the only Danes
remaining in Ireland were those that had been buried there.
That finished, he left the victorious Fianna and returned
swiftly to the plain of Allen, for he could not bear to be
