Murrough Defeats the Danes, 994

Ye people of great Murrough’s band,
Unstayed by wood or moorland,
Panic seized the Danish hordes
Before your sunbright standards;
Their noses drip with snow in flight
O’er Aughty in the twilight.


Source: O'Connor, Frank (tr); Kings, Lords, & Commons: An
Anthology from the Irish; 1962; London; Macmillan & Co; p.47