Note 176 — Chapter VII · THE VIKINGS AND THE CELTIC CHURCH.
Reading edition
War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill, p. 13.
Cf. also Three Fragments of Annals, p. 146: “In a battle fought between the Irish and the Norsemen the latter were driven to a small place surrounded by a wall. The druid Hona went up on the wall, and with his mouth open began to pray to the gods and to exercise his magic; he ordered the people to worship the gods…”