Viking ship

And now, it seemed they would do so again.

because incoming on the river were Viking ships.

Their commander was Cedric Keogh himself.

If you actually were to be standing by the banks of the Barrow and witnessing the sight of what would have been a royal fleet coming up the Barrow, launching itself and landing, which must have struck terror into anybody's heart if they saw these things, because they knew that absolute vengeance and bloodshed was heading their direction.

The Dublin warriors set sail in their ships.

This wasn't the last army Ireland sent to invade England, but it was the last one to have any chance of success.

The Viking ships joined up with fleets from Strathclyde in Scotland, creating a huge armada.

The records that we have suggest the fleet could have been over 600 ships, which would have been massive by the standards of the time.